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A while back, I was made aware of an interesting issue, namely the fact that OneDrive for Business users can disable indexing for their own drives, effectively disabling functionalities such as eDiscovery or DLP. This of course is yet another issue that stems from the fact that users are Site …
Continue readingAnother Office 365 compliance issue swept under the rug
An year has passed since we got the Files restore feature for OneDrive for Business. Initially announced back at Ignite 2017, it took Microsoft several months to release it in the beginning of 2018. While there were some rough edges, the feature worked as advertised and is very helpful in …
Continue readingFiles restore is finally available for SharePoint Online libraries
So Ignite is over and now it’s time to catch up on all the cool new Office 365 and Azure AD features announced or showcased. One such cool feature is the ability to configure custom idle session timeout window for SharePoint Online, as showcased in this session: https://youtu.be/1vnGXvjOm98?t=911 To configure …
Continue readingEnforcing idle session timeout restrictions in SharePoint Online
In March 2015, Microsoft announced the deprecation of the public website feature in SharePoint Online. New tenants were no longer able to create public-facing site collections, and existing ones were given two years grace period to move the website to a different solution. Two years passed by, and the due …
Continue readingPostpone the deletion of your SharePoint Online Public website
Starting the new year with another recap, this time a list of important settings to control user access and external sharing in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Many new features in those areas were announced at Ignite and some of them have already made it to the service. For …
Continue readingOneDrive Admin Center and improved user access controls in Office 365