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SharePoint Online – You can now define sharing link expiration on per site basis

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As you may already know, you can define an expiration time (between 1 to 720 days) for anyone sharing link (aka anonymous link) from the SharePoint Administration portal   This setting applies to all SharePoint Online site without any exception. Well, this is changing as now you can set a ‘custom’ expiration time for specific […]

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SharePoint Online – Better integration with Azure AD B2B (preview)

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You already know that you can share content stored in SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive for Business with external users member of another organization – this called B2B (Business to Business sharing. Well, this capability is going to get better as next time (after you enable it) a user shares content in B2B mode, a guest

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

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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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SharePoint / Teams – Self-Recovery feature on SharePoint and Teams

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After providing ability to restore OneDrive for Business files (we are not talking about the recycle bin here), Microsoft is now providing the same feature for SharePoint Online library and Microsoft Teams. This feature will be relevant in situation like when you suspect your files have been corrupted and/or infected by malware (let say like

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OneDrive for Business – Automatic file rename with invalid characters

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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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SharePoint Online – You can now use PowerShell for your migration

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You may be already aware that Microsoft has provided a migration tool for SharePoint Online to help you migrate your SharePoint On-Premises or file servers to SharePoint Online (you can take a look there https://t.co/fiamXncZYo and https://t.co/j4dLOzS9De). Now, an updated version (2.0.99.0) of the migration tool now includes PowerShell command to help you in your

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SharePoint Online – Page Diagnostics Tool Chrome Extension

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A new diagnostic component for Office 365 and SharePoint Online administrators is now available. This tool is a Chrome Extension – which can be installed from here or from the Chrome web store. The Page Diagnostics Tool is going to help you potential issues with ‘classic’ SharePoint Online pages, like latency, page load time… You

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SharePoint Online–Update in external sharing

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To keep SharePoint external files (or folders) sharing secure while improving the end-user experience, an update is being deployed (roll out completion scheduled for end of June) to change the ‘one-time password’ functionality for external users which are also hosted on another Office 365 tenant. With this update, they will no longer need a one-time

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WordPress – Few details about my migration from SharePoint blog to WordPress

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As announced few days ago, I have decided to move on from SharePoint 2016 for hosting my blog. Now, my blog is running on WordPress using SQL Server as database server, and not MySQL (even if this is still installed anyway). As promised when I have announced the migration, here are few details about my

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