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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 – The new experience administration portal is becoming the default admin portal for SharePoint Online

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As you may be aware a new SharePoint Online (SPO) administration portal has been on preview for quite some time now. This new administration portal experience for SPO is now going to become the default administration portal for SharePoint Online. You will still have the ability (for some time??) to switch back to the previous

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OneDrive – Per-machine installation is now available in preview

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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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SharePoint Online – New settings available through the administration portal

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With the new SharePoint Online administration portal comes new settings being available through the administration portal; some where already available but only through PowerShell. All these settings are only available through the new SharePoint Online administration portal. Define a default time zone You can now define a default time zone, different from the ‘Microsoft default’

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Office 365 – The new SharePoint Online administration portal is becoming the default experience

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As you may already know, a new SharePoint Online administration portal has been underway for quite some time now. This new administration portal is now becoming the default SharePoint Online administration experience over the next few months, with tenant with 50 users or less being targeted first (expected roll out start schedule for March 2019).

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OneDrive for Business – Files mass deletion notification is coming in OneDrive for Business client

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You may already know that you can have notification when a files mass deletion occurs (thanks to the Security & Compliance alert). Well, this is going to get better as this alert is being sent only after the mass deletion has been executed and is being sent to administrators. OneDrive for Business client is going

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Office 365 – 3DES cipher support is being retired by Feb 28, 2019

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As Microsoft has announced it was moving to TLS 1.2, the 3DES cipher support is going to be removed by February 28, 2019. If you are not sure if this cipher is still being used by your organization to connect and access Office 365 services you can go to the Secure Score website (http://securescore.microsoft.com) and

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SharePoint Online – Sharing link with download blocked

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An update is currently being deployed (complete roll out schedule for end of January 2019)  to allow SharePoint Online users to share link to document while blocking the download. This feature will let you share content stored on SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business while blocking the download; the shared content will be only accessible

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Office 365 – Microsoft is NO LONGER enforcing TLS 1.2

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As you may have been aware as there has been quite lot of communication, Microsoft was planning to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support for Office 365 services. Well, it seems this is longer the plan as per the updated KB 4057306 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4057306/preparing-for-tls-1-2-in-office-365) – as per the extract below: Note This doesn’t mean Office 365

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Office 365 – Reminder to move to TLS 1.2

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UPDATE Oct 26th, 2018 – Microsoft is delaying the enforcement http://bit.ly/2D5uv3p A quick reminder as the date is fast approaching: you must have moved to TLS 1.2 before October 31, 2018 It has been announced about a year ago (October 2017), all client-server and browser based communication with Office 365 services will use TLS 1.2

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