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Office 365 / OneDrive for Business – Disable the new experience for everyone

As you may know, Microsoft has announced some improvements on OneDrive for Business – such as a new synchronization client and a new web UI (see https://blog.onedrive.com/meet-the-new-onedrive-for-business/) If you have enabled First Preview for your tenant (all organization or selected users) you may already have the new web UI available as per below Each user […]

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Office 365 – OneDrive for Business Unified client preview

Some time ago, Microsoft has announced that the OneDrive for Business client which is included in Office 2013/2016 will be unified with the OneDrive consumer client which is included with Windows. After a long wait, announcement has been made that the public preview was here – see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2015/10/01/office-365-sharepoint-office-onedrive-for-business-client-is-being-updated-finally/ So, I have received the notification to

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Office 365 / SharePoint / Office – OneDrive for Business client is being updated… finally

It has been a pain in the ass for such long time, this announcement is a great news; now, just need to see if it will really answers all​ the negative side of OneDrive for Business client. As you may be aware, Microsoft has announced earlier that OneDrive for Business will more closer to what we

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Windows 10 / Office 365 / SharePoint– SharePoint does not like Edge

As you know, Microsoft has released about a week ago his new client operating system, Windows 10, which includes a new web browser called Edge. You have to be aware that Edge and SharePoint do not like each others. Many of the features available on SharePoint (both On Premises and Online) are not available with

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Restrict file synchronization from domain joined only

As you may know, you can synchronize your content store in SharePoint or SharePoint Online to your local client to keep it available while offline (thanks to the OneDrive for Business client). With SharePoint Online, you can now restrict this feature to only domain joined client; this will help you to ensure sensitive data is

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – External Sharing can now be accepted only by the original email address which invited

An update is currently being deployed on SharePoint which will allows IT administrator to restrict external sharing to be validated only by the original email which sent the invitation. To enable this, you must connect to your SharePoint tenant using PowerShell and set the RequireAcceptingAccountMatchInvitedAccount to TRUE (by default this is set to FALSE) To

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Office 365 – Some important updates for Offfice 365 services (Exchange, MDM and SharePoint)

In case you did not notice these incoming important changes for Office 365 services – covering Exchange Online, Mobile Device Management and SharePoint Online. Some of them may have end-users impact like these two: Exchange Online: access to Outlook Web Access will be redirected for some users to outlook.office.com instead of outlook.office365.com Mobile Device Management:

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – More space available for SharePoint sites

After announcing that there will be no need to be worried about storage quota (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2015/04/03/office-365-sharepoint-online-no-need-to-be-worry-of-site-storage-quotas/) and an almost unlimited storage space for OneDrive for Business, now Microsoft is announcing a huge increase for SharePoint Online sites. It used to be 10 Gb + 500 Mb per licensed user, now it will be 1 To

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SharePoint 2013 – Web Browser Mobile getting mobile view access error

I have been getting this issue for some time now and finally took time to take a look on it. Here is the case: I have upgraded my SharePoint platform from 2010 to 2013 by deploying a full new server and performing the data migration using the database detach/attach method as I don’t have any

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – No need to be worry of site storage quotas

This has always been a pain for SharePoint Online administrators: setting up correct storage quotas when creating a new site (to get the longest time before being asked to extend) AND indeed extending the quotas when the site start reaching his limited storage. This is (or will be soon) no longer a pain as Microsoft

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