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Office 365 – The Adoption Resources center, your one shop for adoption documentation

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / June 6, 2019 / Microsoft Teams, O365, OdB, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, SPO, Teams, Yammer

A new central location for regrouping all adoption documentation for Office 365 services is now live at https://aka.ms/microsoftadoption You can find there the latest and updated adoption documentation for Office 365 services, like Microsoft Office 365 Adoption Guide, the new security and compliance toolkit or Teams governance. Start enjoying this location for your adoption journey

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OneDrive for Business – A new capability is coming for OneDrive client to allow B2B libraries and folders

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / May 15, 2019 / B2B, O365, OdB, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, SharePoint Online

Starting June 17, 2019, the OneDrive client will allow B2B (Business to Business) – see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/b2b-sync – libraries and folders. This means end-users will be able to use OneDrive client to synchronize content from other organization they have been invited to. In addition, the ADMX (group policy definition) file for OneDrive has been updated to

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OneDrive – End-user can now request support from Microsoft from the client

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / May 7, 2019 / O365, OdB, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business

The latest version of the OneDrive client (19.043.0304.0007) includes the capability for your end-user to request support from Microsoft directly. Using the More.. menu, accessible by right-clicking on the OneDrive icon in the systray, they can now open a support request to get assistance from Microsoft using the Get help As administrator you can disable

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OneDrive for Business – Automatic file rename with invalid characters

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / April 25, 2019 / Invalid Characters, OdB, ODfB, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, SPO

As you know there are quite few unsupported characters in file or folder names for synching with OneDrive for Business (see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-onedrive-onedrive-for-business-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa) This is often a major problem with end-users. Well, the good news is Microsoft is pushing a OneDrive update to automatically help with these unsupported/invalid characters by renaming it for you. This new

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OneDrive – Per-machine installation is now available in preview

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / March 25, 2019 / O365, OdB, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, SPO

As you now, the OneDrive client is installed and running under the user profile. A preview is now available to get the client installed under the Program Files (x86) (for x64 OS version) and Program Files (for x86 OS version). This means you can now get OneDrive client installed on a per-machine instead of per-user;

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OneDrive for Business – Files On-Demand is getting available on Mac

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / January 3, 2019 / Files On-Demand, Mac, O365, OdB, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business

The Files On-Demand capability is now coming on Mac devices with the incoming OneDrive for Business client update for Mac. The Files On-Demand allows you to synchronize your OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online content without having to download the complete content. To take advantage of this new capability for Mac users, you need to

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OneDrive for Business – An update is on his way to improve UPN change impact

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / December 21, 2018 / O365, OdB, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, UPN Change

As you may be already aware, OneDrive for Business is using the user principal name (UPN) to provision the personal space, and as such the UPN is also used in the URL for accessing it (like https://mytenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/user_upndomain) As such, any change of the UPN’s user has an impact on OneDrive for Business and can broke

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Office 365 – New user deletion process for cloud user objects

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / August 6, 2018 / Departed User, Exchange Online, ExO, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, User Management

If you do not use the directory synchronization (Azure AD Connect) to manage your user accounts in Office 365 (creation, update, deletion), this is for you. The user account deletion process has been updated in Office 365 to give the opportunity to define what to do with licenses and data. The next time (please keep

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