Files restore is finally available for SharePoint Online libraries

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 …

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How Microsoft stores Windows Activity history and Cloud clipboard data inside your Office 365 mailbox

Over the past few years Microsoft has been releasing more and more cloud-enabled features and integrations for Windows 10. Activity history is one such feature, designed to synchronize information about apps and services you use, browsing data, media files played and more, across all your devices. Activity history in turn …

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NonIPMRoot items returned in searches in Exchange Online

Everyone with some experience with Exchange knows that there’s a lot more to a mailbox than what we see in clients such as Outlook or OWA. The RecoverableItems subtree is one such example, storing items placed on hold, audit items, calendar logs and versioning, etc. Generally speaking, email clients work …

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More on entries from other tenants visible in the Unified Audit log

An year ago, I blogged about some suspicious events in the Office 365 Unified Audit log, that seemed to correspond to some “Unknown” principal. The culprit turned out to be users clicking on sample links to files/sites hosted in my tenant’s SPO instance, which I’ve posted on various blog sites …

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