In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we covered editing Office 365 Group email addresses, deleting your stored data in FindTime, new theme option for SharePoint, and more! 04:44 New feature: Edit the email address of an Office 365 Group – Read announcement MC146221 — Previously we weren't able to change the email address of an Office 365 Group. This caused several problems – one of which being that you cannot remove a custom domain that one of your Office 365 Groups was using. 7:28 Users now have the ability to delete their FindTime data – Read announcement MC146273 — In keeping with all the changes allowing you to control your…
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Set the default open behavior for browser enabled documents
I was recently asked how to configure documents that are in a SharePoint document library to open in their native application on the client computer instead of the browser. This question came from a user in SharePoint Online, but the answer is the same for those using SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. There is a feature at the site collection level and a setting on every document library that you use to decide how documents get opened. I searched for an official Microsoft document detailing how this can be accomplished, but I could only find a post from 2014 that said it was for Office Web Apps – a…
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365 Message Center Show #57 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover new audit features in Exchange, adding tagging in Advanced eDiscovery, new insights for anti-phishing, and more! 02:47 Updated feature: Audit features in Exchange – Read announcement MC145014 — Logging will be turned on for you and if you want to turn it off, you will need to do so by running Set-OrganizationConfig -AuditDisabled $true 05:47 New Feature: Advanced eDiscovery: Search – Read announcement MC145200 — Adding tagging easily so that you can get what you need and not just a huge collection of info you don't need 06:57 New feature: Enhanced anti-phishing capabilities for Office 365 Advanced Threat – Read announcement MC145205 — New insights…
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365 Message Center Show #56 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover planned maintenance for Yammer, TLS changes, changes to Shared with me, MAJOR updated to SharePoint and OneDrive forced versioning, and our experience with the OneDrive ‘Known Folder Move'. 03:30 Planned maintenance: Yammer will be temporarily offline – Read announcement MC144352 — Azure is having scheduled maintenance and so Yammer will be down. 05:16 Reminder: We are moving to TLS 1.2 for encryption – Read announcement MC144908 — Just a reminder that you need to move to using TLS 1.2 and fix any apps that are still using TLS 1.0 or 1.1. The deadline has been extended until October 21, 2018. 7:45 Unexpected file…
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365 Message Center Show #55 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover conditional access for Office.com, LinkedIn data being shown inside Outlook for Windows and iOS, enhanced view of files you have shared in OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online modern page approvals, and automatically logging people out of SharePoint and OneDrive for Business sessions. 03:40 Office.com Conditional Access Policy behavior – Read announcement MC143889 — Clarification and fixing how office.com access works when using an access policy in Office 365. 08:03 Organization Allowed Accounts Intune Policy now in OneDrive on Android – Read announcement MC144063 **Will need Intune in your tenant — Locking down who can use OneDrive in your organization coming to Andoid…
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Managing SharePoint Access Requests
During a recent intranet deployment project, a client asked what would happen if she clicked the ‘Accept' link on the SharePoint access request email she received from one of her coworkers. She was a bit surprised by my answer and after that conversation, I thought it would be good to do a quick video explaining the process. What permissions do users get if you accept their access request? How are those users managed on the SharePoint site and is there a best practice for managing access requests? Watch the video below to find out!
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365 Message Center Show #54 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover the Message Center Reader role, changes in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange Web Services. Check out the time stamped links below. 02:49 Updated site usage page in SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC143535 — Updates to what usage information we are getting from SharePoint Online. We covered this one pretty well, so check out the video. 10:00 Known Folder Move is now available for OneDrive for Business – Read announcement MC143579 — This update is great for helping your users utilize OneDrive – if not forcing them – without their need to start saving in a different place. 14:35 Multi-Factor Authentication and self-service password…
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365 Message Center Show #53 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we discuss major changes in SharePoint, Teams, and Office. Check out the time stamped links below. 03:30 Monthly feature updates for Office 2016 for Office 365 – Read announcement MC142651 — Our monthly update for Office – some exciting stuff, including being able to title your slides with a pen in PowerPoint. 08:26 Office 365 Threat Intelligence Threat Trackers – Read announcement MC143221 — New capabilities for analyzing trends and patterns in your organization. 13:02 Office 365 System Requirements for Client Connectivity – Read announcement MC143230 — Older versions of Office (including Office 2016) will not be able to connect to Office 365 – SharePoint…
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365 Message Center Show #52 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we discuss the impact of changes made to sharing and email branding options in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online, controlling your email domain and sender rewriting scheme, auditing Exchange mailbox actions, the changes to the amount of storage in SharePoint Online, and Outlook add-in deployment. > 03:06 Changes to external sharing in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC142082 > 06:19 Branding of sharing emails for OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC142154 > 10:27 Sender rewriting scheme for auto-forwarded and relayed emails in Exchange – Read announcement MC142243 > 13:44 New Exchange mailbox actions to audit – Read announcement MC142244 > 15:10 SharePoint…
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How to share SharePoint Online sites with external users
I created a new SharePoint Online Communications site recently and I wanted to share it with someone outside my organization. Unfortunately, when I tried to share the site with them, I received an error! The error, “Your organization's policies don't allow you to share with these users. Go to External Sharing in the Office 365 admin center to enable it.“, is pretty straightforward and to the point: external sharing is turned off for Office 365 and I need to enable it….or is the error wrong?!? Check out my video below where I show the issue and how to enable external sharing in SharePoint Online.
