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Crowdstrike Fallout, OneDrive Changes, and Planner Gets Copilot: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E24

Steve Goodman — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

On this week's episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, Steve and Paul discuss the Crowdstrike outage, important changes coming to OneDrive for Business, Copilot for Planner Preview, and more!

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Practical Graph: Create a Files Report for a OneDrive for Business Account

Tony Redmond — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

This article explains how to use PowerShell to create a report listing the files from a OneDrive for Business account. Because so many Microsoft 365 apps store their files in OneDrive (and other apps too), OneDrive can become a form of dumping ground for data. Seeing file information in the report allows account owners to clean up their digital debris.

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Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Microsoft 365 Backup

Paul Robichaux — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000

If you’re interested in protecting your SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, or Exchange Online data, it is useful to understand how Microsoft 365 Backup works and what the software can and cannot do. In this article, Paul Robichaux walks through how to set up and test the preview version of Microsoft 365 Backup.

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Is OneDrive for Business the New PST?

Tony Redmond — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Years ago, we worried about ex-employees taking PSTs full of email away when they left an organization. OneDrive for Business is a more current concern because of its ability to synchronize large quantities of information to local workstations.

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Using Adaptive Scopes with Retention Policies for SharePoint Online Sites

Tony Redmond — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:21:01 +0000

Adaptive scopes are a new way to target locations for Microsoft 365 retention policies. Previously, we covered how to use scopes to find users and groups. Now, we move to describe how to use adaptive scopes to find SharePoint Online sites and OneDrive for Business accounts. The process is not quite as easy as it is to create scopes for users and groups, but once you understand how to add custom properties to sites, you're home free and easy. That is, if you have the necessary Office 365 E5 licenses to use adaptive scopes...

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Ignite 2021 is Next Week. Here’s What I Anticipate for Microsoft 365

Tony Redmond — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:59:00 +0000

Microsoft Ignite 2021 happens (virtually) on Nov 2-4. There are tons of sessions scheduled and in this post we consider some important Microsoft 365 topics that we hope Microsoft will cover to help technologists plan tenant development over the coming year. Above all, we're looking forward to being able to attend conferences like Ignite in person so that we can learn from experts from inside and outside Microsoft.

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New Expiring Access Policy to Control Guest Access to SharePoint Online Sites

Tony Redmond — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Microsoft has introduced a new feature to control how long guests have access to content shared with them in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. You can configure a tenant-wide policy and then tune the policy for specific sites. The new control does not affect guest access gained through membership of Microsoft 365 Groups. Here's what you need to know about SharePoint Online's guest expiration policy

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Renaming the SharePoint Online URL for an Office 365 Tenant

Mike Weaver — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 05:34:00 +0000

Just because you can rename your SharePoint Online URL, should you? Mike Weaver points out five major considerations you should seriously take into account if your organization is thinking about pursuing this course of action.

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How to Co-author Office Documents Protected by Sensitivity Labels

Tony Redmond — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:48:32 +0000

Microsoft has released a preview of co-authoring for protected (encrypted) Office documents using the desktop apps. While it might seem straightforward to enable co-authoring (and the online apps have been able to do this for over a year), making it work for the Office desktop apps requires a complex mix of Office, SharePoint Online, the OneDrive sync client, and sensitivity labels. Once everything lines up, it works beautifully, even if you can't take a screenshot to prove that it works.

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OneDrive Gets a New Warning and Microsoft Clarifies that 250 GB File Size Limit

Tony Redmond — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 13:57:20 +0000

Microsoft has introduced a first file delete warning in the OneDrive sync client. The new warning is flagged after a user deletes a file in a synchronized location and continues until they turn the warning off. The idea is that people might not realize how the OneDrive recycle bin works. Also in the OneDrive world, Microsoft confirmed that OneDrive for Business supports the 250 GB limit for file uploads some six weeks after the feature was originally announced with some confusion if it applied to business users. Now it does, so all is well.

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