We all know (or should know) the restrictions with SharePoint and SharePoint Online when it comes to supported characters in folders or files name. Microsoft is releasing the pressure by rolling out an update which will allow the use of # and % characters in file and folder names – not yet for document library.
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You can now set a retention policy on Office 365 Groups to comply with your retention policies; as you can already do it on Exchange mailboxes or SharePoint sites. NOTE it can take up to 1 day to get the policy applied To set a retention policy on Office 365 Groups, logon to the Security
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Microsoft is currently deploying an update which will copy all sent items sent as/on behalf of user principal to the principal Sent Items folder as it is the case for some time for shared mailbox. To manage this feature, you need to use PowerShell to connect to Exchange Online and update the MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled or MessageCopyForSendOnBehalfEnabled
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If you have an Office 365 Groups being deleted – either by admin actions or group owner – you can recover the deleted group for a 30 days period. To recover a deleted Office 365 Groups, you need to use Azure Active Directory PowerShell v2 Preview (available here https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/AzureAD/2.0.0.98) Install AAD PowerShell v2 Preview Open
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The preview of limited access for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business is now available. This functionality will help you to limit data leaked from SPO or OneDrive for Business by restricting access to the service from unmanaged device using browser access only – meaning users accessing SPO and/or OneDrive for Business using a BYOD
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UPDATED 30/03/2017 – Adding notification email notifying the activation of the feature Starting April 19th, a new feature will be available to eliminate frictions caused by duplicate synched attributes. This feature called Duplicate Attribute Resiliency will authorize objects synchronization and provisioning on Office 365 even if there is a duplicate UPN or ProxyAddresses.
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Starting April 13th, direct reports Office 365 Groups will be automatically created for managers. If managers do not have permission or if you have turned off the ability to create Office 365 Groups, these direct reports groups will not be created. If you want to disable this auto provisioning, you need to turn off the
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If you are an early customer of Office 365, you probably are using the public website. As you are (or should be) aware, public website are no longer offered with Office 365 and existing public sites are going to be deleted. That said you can postpone this deletion until March 31, 2018 – giving you
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This has been a long waited and requested feature: being able to automatically assigned licenses to user based on their group membership. Good news, this is now available in preview To try the preview you will need to have an Azure EMS trial but when it will become generally available it will be included with
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Setting up a meeting is always a challenge with some people, they are always busy Sometime ago I wrote a post about FindTime, an add-on for Outlook or Outlook on the Web (OWA). Now, Microsoft has integrated a similar feature in Exchange Online. When you create a new meeting request when using Outlook on the
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