SharePoint

SharePoint Online – OneDrive Announcements from Ignite

The following has been announced at the Ignite Conference for OneDrive: Coming on October 17th, Files On Demand. This feature was already announced as part of some Windows 10 Preview build. We now have an official date of delivery Silent Synch Auto Account Configuration, using Azure ADAL (Azure Active Directory Authentication Library), will support automatic […]

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SharePoint Online – Setting default permissions when sharing

An update is currently on his way (deployment starting September 2017 to be completed by end of October) which will allow Office 365 administrators to setup a default permission when end-users are sharing SharePoint Online/OneDrive for Business content. There has been already an updated to define the default sharing link type (direct, internal, anonymous), this

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SharePoint Online – Excel Surveys is being replaced by Forms for Excel

As you know, sometime ago Microsoft has launched a new Office 365 to create forms simply called Forms. Now, Forms is taking over and is now replacing Excel Surveys on SharePoint Online, and more specifically on OneDrive for Business. Excel Surveys is now Forms for Excel and you will be redirected to the Forms page

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Office 365 – Shared status indicator in OneDrive for Business

An update is being deployed to add a shared status indication in OneDrive for Business. When the update will be deployed on your tenant, your end-users will see when a folder on their OneDrive for Business has been shared. The following icon will be shown in the navigation bar And when clicking on it, they

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SharePoint Online – Easily getting back to Modern Experience

As you may know, SharePoint Online now has 2 end-user experience: Modern Classic Until then it was easy to from Modern to Classic experience but it was a little bit less easy to get back from Classic to Modern Now, it is becoming easier; an update is being deployed to provided a shortcut to get

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SharePoint Online – The ‘Sync’ button will now use the new OneDrive sync client

Starting mi-August, the synchronization option available on SharePoint Online library will be updated to use the new OneDrive sync client. Currently the ‘Sync’ button is still pointing to the previous OneDrive for Business sync client. If your users are still using the old sync client at this time, the next time they will be upgraded

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SharePoint Online – A new tenant setting to block downloading infected file

I noticed a new setting available at the tenant level in SharePoint Online called “DisallowInfectedFileDownload”; you can check thanks to the Get-SPOTenant PS command The setting name is quite self explanatory – the idea is to block downloading any infected file from SharePoint Online. For once I disagree with the default value set by Microsoft

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OneDrive – Files on Demand is getting back

You may don’t know what means ‘files on demand’ with the OneDrive/OneDrive for Business client. This is the functionality which used to be available with the OneDrive client back in the Windows 8.x years. This feature allows you to not synchronize a folder/file in your client but was still displayed in the Windows Explorer. This

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SharePoint Online – Speed up the authentication process

When a user is accessing a SharePoint Online, he is first redirected to Azure AD for authentication. If the company is using ADFS to manage authentication, Azure AD then redirected to the ADFS server for authentication. This can lead to slow authentication process for end-user (external users when sharing content with them). With SharePoint Online

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SharePoint Online – Support for # and % characters is going to be rolled out

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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