https://admin.onedrive.com
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References and Credits
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Category: Internet Explorer
Office 365 News – OneDrive for Business now supports 10GB files and much more
Short story: The OneDrive for Business improvements are here!
This was promised to us a long time ago, and it has now finally come to be. At the same time, the 20.000 file limit from before has also been removed (Improved)
Here is the proof:
The file was in addition, uploaded using the new OneDrive sync client!
(Dropped the file in the local cache and let the sync do its stuff)
- The OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync Client is available for Windows 7, 8 and 10 (8.1 support will be added in the first quarter of 2016) and Mac OS X 10.9 and above.
- Storage, rolling out is an increase from 1TB to 5TB, upon request, more will be made available until unlimited is achieved? (Valid for: Enterprise E3, E4 and E5, Government E3, E4 and E5, Education, OneDrive for Business Plan 2 and SharePoint Online Plan 2)
- 10GB filesize limit
- No more 20.000 file limit
- !! With this first release of several, the Next Generation Sync Client supports OneDrive for Business only, but we will add support for SharePoint document libraries in future releases. (This is the best news in a long time)
- In the interim, if customers require sync for both OneDrive for Business and SharePoint document libraries, the Next Generation Sync Client is designed to work side-by-side with the existing sync client.
- the OneDrive for iOS app will support offline storage. You can selectively flag files for local availability and open them when disconnected
- For developers: https://dev.onedrive.com/ (OneDrive developer portal)
References:
Read the official story on the Office 365 blog about the (then upcoming) news here:
OneDrive for Business update on storage plans and Next Generation Sync Client
https://blogs.office.com/2015/12/16/onedrive-for-business-update-on-storage-plans-and-next-generation-sync-client/
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SharePoint Online – Missing Web Parts with custom script disabled
Missing Web Parts with custom script disabled…
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The Custom Script setting (Default disabled)
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As I have posted about before, during the end of 2014, beginning of 2015, a new security feature in SharePoint Online has been rolled out. The feature in itself is a great security feature if that is what you want.
Missing example:
Expected webparts:
Note: changes to this setting might take up to 24 hours to take effect.
In my previous post on this setting, I listed the missing features, however this is not all that will go missing. In addition, quite a few webparts will be gone from your SharePoint Online environment. This may or may not be expected by you and your users/editors/developers…
Below is the list of webparts that you will not find with the Custom script setting off/disabled.
| Web part category | Web part |
| Blog | Blog Archives
Blog Notifications Blog Tools |
| Business Data | Business Data Actions
Business Data Item Business Data Item Builder Business Data List Business Data Related List Excel Web Access Indicator Details Status List Visio Web Access |
| Community | About This Community
Join My Membership Tools What’s Happening |
| Content Rollup | Categories
Project Summary Relevant Documents RSS Viewer Site Aggregator Sites in Category Term Property Timeline WSRP Viewer XML Viewer |
| Document Sets | Document Set Contents
Document Set Properties |
| Forms | HTML Form Web Part |
| Media and Content | Content Editor
Script Editor Silverlight Web Part |
| Search | Refinement
Search Box Search Navigation Search Results |
| Search-Driven Content | Catalog-Item Reuse |
| Social Collaboration | Contact Details
Note Board Organization Browser Site Feed Tag Cloud User Tasks |
Find Microsofts support article on the setting here:
Turn scripting capabilities on and off (Microsoft support article)
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-scripting-capabilities-on-and-off-1f2c515f-5d7e-448a-9fd7-835da935584f?ui=en-US&
The complete list of settings affected and webparts missing: Save Site as Template, Save document library as template, Solution Gallery, Web Designer Galleries, Theme Gallery, Help Settings, Sandbox solutions, the Blog Archives, Blog Notifications, Blog tools Blog Webparts, the Business Data Actions, Business Data Item, Business Data Item Builder, Business Data List, Business Data Related List, Excel Web Access, Indicator Details, Status List, Visio Web Access Business Data Webparts, the About This Community, Join, My Membership, Tools, What’s Happening Community Webarts, the Categories, Project Summary, Relevant Documents, RSS Viewer, Site Aggregator, Sites in Category, Term Property, Timeline, WSRP Viewer, XML Viewer Content Rollup Webparts, the Document Set Contents, Document Set Properties Document Sets Webparts, the HTML Form Webpart, the Content Editor, Script Editor, Silverlight Webpart Media and Content Webparts, the Refinement, Search Box, Search Navigation, Search Results Search Webparts, the Catalog-Item Reuse Search-Driven Content Webparts and the Contact Details, Note Board, Organization Browser, Site Feed, Tag Cloud, User Tasks Social Collaboration Webparts.
References and Credits
None at this time…
Credits & many thanks to
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Sweet app launcher custom tiles now available in Office 365
Really nice this, long awaited…
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Add shortcuts straight to your external website, to your portal, your teamsite of choice or project-web portal, now all in the Office 365 admin GUI, no hazzle.
Follow these simple steps:
1. Go to the Office 365 admin portal (https://portal.office.com/admin/default.aspx)
2. In the top left corner, click on your organization name link.
3. Next, select option no.3 – Custom tiles.
4. Click on the rather large plus sign to create a custom tile. Add a Name, URL, Description and a image URL (Pre-uploaded to a SharePoint asset lib?)
5. Repeat until you have your tiles.
6. Allow some delay for timer jobs to run, things to happen in the background, this may take a while.
7. Go to your App launcher, My Apps.
8. Your custom tiles will be located at the bottom of the list.
9. Click on the ‘dots’ and select ‘Pin to launcher’ – this will make them show up in your personal App Launcher.
10. Viola!
Pretty good huh?
References and Credits
Only me this time…I actually found this one out all by myself! Never seen it in the Office blogs, never looked for it either.
Credits & many thanks to
My team, my collegues and all of you!!
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Right-click is here for SharePoint Online AND OneDrive for Business
Yeey! right-click is here for SharePoint Online AND OneDrive for Business (but…)
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Recently, right-click functionality was introduced in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business both, it really is a great feature that simplifies the lives of all users.
I will show in Pictures what I mean, no more ‘three dots’ or select and then ‘three dots’ again. Now, with right-click, we can easily access the properties and functions to manage a file or folder simply by right-clicking on it. (I assume though, that the dots and More will be left in Place, not all devices have a right button…)
So, here is what its all about, right-click and you can now access:
Open in Word, Open in Word Online, Download, Share, Rename, Delete, Move or Copy, Version History, Properties, Check out, Follow, Workflows, Shared with and Compliance details.
This is how it looks:
1. Right-click in OneDrive for Business
2. Right-click in SharePoint Online
4. Caveat no 1 – Right-click breaks with Managed Metadata columns in view *
5. Caveat no 2 – Copy shortcut is gone
* Right-click does work with Content types, site columns with non Managed metadata datatypes and views with multiple columns
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1. Right-click in OneDrive for Business
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2. Right-click in SharePoint Online
3. Right-click on Multiselect
4. Caveat no 1 – Right-click breaks with Managed Metadata columns in view
Yes, add an Managed Metadata column is fine, but if you show it in a view, right-click breaks and goes back to IE default.
In the example below I created and added a column actually named Managed Metadata…
When the Managed Metadata based column is added to the view, right-click breaks.
5. Caveat no 2 – Copy shortcut is gone
This may not seem like a big deal…but for admins, developers or designers, this is a bit cumbersome. You often want to get the URL from a resource file (js, css or similar) and now you can’t. Type it in folks….
Thats it. The news is out.
References and Credits
Only me this time…
Credits & many thanks to
My team, my collegues and Mattias Gutke! A good friend!
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Office 365 – DTD is prohibited in this document issue
Got trouble Connection PowerShell to SharePoint online? This could be the resolution to your troubles.
I had this myself, or we had it in our Company tenant. This is what the issue was and this is how I fixed it:
When trying to connect to PowerShell for SharePoint Online, using the Connect-SPOService command, we got a error that did not tell us anything.
The error is:
Connect-SPOService : For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this document. To enable DTD processing set DtdProcessing property on XmlReaderSettings to Parse and pass the settings into XmlReader.Create method.
Well, its almost a joke right…
When searching the web for information on this particular, I struck zero…all I could find related to the ISP and the default search provider something. I quickly dismissed them as unrelated.
Then after some time had passed, I found a similar issue, this seemed related and it was a connectivity issue same as mine (If I still had the link I would give credit to where credit is due). This fellow had resolved the issue by adding a missing DNS record.
This made me think, since our tenant has existed since way Before Office 365 existed (BPOS) perheps we were also missing some of the required DNS records?
I checked with my collegues, and apparently we were missing the record as well.
So, if you ever see or get the ‘DTD prohibited’ issue, remember to check the DNS for the following record:
Type: CNAME
Alias: MSOID
Target: clientconfig.microsoftonline-p.net
Info: Used by Office 365 to direct authentication to the correct identity platform More Information
After I added this to DNS, Connect-SPOService works just fine!
| Microsoft’s official explaination on the DNS record: What’s the purpose of the additional Office 365 CNAME record? If Office 365 manages your domain’s DNS records,, Office 365 sets up this CNAME record for you. If you are managing DNS records for your domain at your DNS host, to create this record, you create this record yourself by following the instructions for your DNS host. |
References and Credits‘
Nope, not this time…Credits & many thanks to To all of you.
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Office 365 News – Move and Copy files and folders in OneDrive for Business
Now, finally, we can move and copy files within our OneDrive for Business web GUI
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Some time, early 2015, Microsoft introduced the ability to move/copy files in OneDrive for Business. This has been one of the major obstacles for using OneDrive for Business as a E1 user without the Office applications installed locally. Or rather, as a Online only user no matter what license. As a long time SHarePoint user and technician, this is a long awaited feature in SHarePoint as well, so now I’m keeping my fingers crossed for this ‘simple’ little feature to appear there as well. (I do not for one second think that this has been easy to implement at all) In addition, the function is quick!
Want to see how it looks and works?
The following table lists the tested and verified behaviour of the Copy/Move functionality in OneDrive for Business:
| Action | Behavior | Notes |
| Move File(s) | Moves the selected file(s) to the designated target container Retains metadata Retains sharing | Does not overwrite if filename exists, reports back error |
| Move Folder(s) | Moves the selected folder(s) to the designated target container Recreates a new copy of the folder Retains sharing | Does not overwrite if filename exists, reports back error |
| Copy File(s) | Copies the selected file(s) to the designated target container Recreates a new copy of the file(s) with new metadata Does not retain sharing | Does not overwrite if filename exists, reports back error |
| Copy Folder(s) | Copies the selected folder(s) to the designated target container Recreates a new copy of the folder with new metadata Does not retain sharing | Does not overwrite if filename exists, reports back error |
| Copy or Move in SharePoint | N/A – ‘Send to’ a predetermined location is the closest we get in SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online | N/A |
How it looks in reality:
Move or Copy a single file
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Now, we all hope for the same in SharePoint! Until it comes, we all to this ‘simple’ feature say: FINALLY!
References and Credits
None at this time…
Credits & many thanks to
Everyone!‘
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Office 365 guide series – Function to resolve a users OneDrive for Business URL
Hi SharePoint Online PowerShellers!
This time I will give you a Quick but great function to use if you are working with OneDrive for Business:
Function to resolve a users OneDrive for Business URL
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Simple solution, great to have, unbelievably efficient…
Ok, this is perhaps my shortest post ever…I’ll just explain real Quick.
OneDrive for Business gets it URL from the tenantname and the users UserPrincipalName. Creating this every time can be troublesome…
This is what I use, a function I created last summer when I was tired of doing them one at the time…
It works even with users that have a different domain in the UPN than what is the tenant name.
This is it:
Function GetODfBURL($UserPrincipalName, $TenantName) # Creates a correct ODfB URL from email and TenantName/OrgName, returns URL as a String { # ConStructing OneDrive personal URL from the UPN/Email address $StrUser = $UserPrincipalName $pos= $StrUser.IndexOf("@") $len = $StrUser.Length -1 $StrUser = $StrUser.SubString(0, $pos) $StrUser = $StrUser -replace "\.", "_" $Orgpos = $pos + 1 $Orglen = $len - $pos $StrOrg = $UserPrincipalName.SubString($Orgpos, $Orglen) $StrOrgNamePos = $StrOrg.IndexOf(".") $StrOrgName = $StrOrg.SubString(0, $StrOrgNamePos) $StrOrgSuffixPos = $StrOrgNamePos +1 $StrOrgNameLen = $StrOrg.Length - $StrOrgSuffixPos $StrOrgSuffix = $StrOrg.SubString($StrOrgSuffixPos, $StrOrgNameLen) $StrOrg = $StrOrg -replace "\.", "_" $PersonalOrgURL = "https://" + $TenantName + "-my.sharepoint.com/personal/" $SiteUrl= $PersonalOrgURL + $StrUser $SiteUrl= $SiteUrl+ "_" + $StrOrg return $SiteUrl } $ODfBURL = GetODfBURL "thomas.balkestahl@blksthl.se" "blksthl"
This will give the URL: https://blksthl-my.sharepoint.com/personal/thomas_balkestahl_blksthl_se
Thats it. Use it or not 🙂
References and Credits
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Nope, not this time…
Credits & many thanks to
To all of you.
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Office 365 News – New document now supports Content types in SharePoint Online
‘new document’ now supports Content types in SharePoint Online
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Thank you Microsoft, Content types just got user friendly and easy to use and promote!
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Before yesterday, I knew that the ‘new document’ button in a document library became useless when you enabled Content types in a document library. This has for me and many of my customers been a huge drawback since the ‘new document’ button was still there, in plain view and for the regular user, what they were meant to use.
This old behavious was that when you pressed on ‘new document’ in a document library with multiple content types, you got the upload document dialog.
Old behaviour
What I was so glad to discover yesterday, during a live demo at a customer, that this has been fixed now in SPO! Instead of the upload dialog, I could now get this:
Fixed!
One down!
Next step, make content types available to Office Online…(They still seem to require the Office Applications installed on the client, nothing for E1 users or less in other words…)
I would also like the new folder option back with the content types 🙂
References and Credits
None at this time…
Credits & many thanks to
Cramo, this is where I did the demo when this change presented itself to me! A pleasure to work with you guys!
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Office 365 News – Unannounced Microsoft change to SharePoint Online access
Microsoft recently made a change to the way users can access SharePoint Online, this may affect many thousands of customers without them knowing…
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It has been disclosed to me that Microsoft has implemented a change on all Office 365 tenants to the way an unlicensed user can access SharePoint Online services…in a bad way…
Previously, the behaviour was that if you did not give a user a the SharePoint license in Office 365, the user could not access SharePoint.
This is the expected behaviour and this is how most companies restricted access to SharePoint Before they were ready to offer the service to their organizations.
This is no more, or at least not the current behaviour…Microsft has ‘temporarily’ made a change that allows ALL users, with a license or not to have access to all SharePoint Services.
The imidiate affect may be that your organization sleeps safely in the belief that SHarePoint may not be accessed, except by you in IT or by a limited number of individuals, meanwhile, the users go crazy and start using SharePoint in ways you never intended…
Well, this is something I don’t like, I would like this change to be limited to the ones who specifically asked for it, and if you needed it, you could request it, not the other way around.
| Note 1: If you find that you do not want this behaviour, you want access only to your licensed users. Open a Service Request with Microsoft and ask them to change it back, they will help you then. |
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The reason given by Microsoft representatives is this: ‘Microsoft recognizes assigning licenses to users that are synced to the O365 services is cumbersome for larger tenants, to alleviate this pain point; a temporary change has been released to SharePoint Online that will allow users to access SharePoint Online even without license.’
References and Credits
None at this time…
Credits & many thanks to
Pihlen!
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