4 New Features to Know About in OneDrive

OneDrive for Business is an integral part of Office 365 and provides anywhere access and sharing for all of your files. The enhancements to OneDrive are occuring at a very quick pace and here are a few of the ones that you should know about.

by Drew Madelung Aug 13, 2017

First look at Communication Sites in SharePoint Online

Communication Sites in SharePoint Online are now rolling out to a tenant near you. This is one of the larger releases from the SharePoint team recently and has been a point of focus since the Virtual Summit earlier this year.

by Drew Madelung Jun 28, 2017

View When You Deleted an Office 365 Group

Introduction The ability for soft-delete and restore of an Office 365 Group has recently been released. I put together some information about that in my previous post here. Before this restoration was possible, when you deleted an Office 365 Group it was fully gone. Now we have the ability to view Groups that have been […]

by Drew Madelung May 9, 2017

5 Common Mistakes When Performing a SharePoint Migration

Even if you've ever performed a SharePoint migration before, this isn't something you should do without proper planning and consideration. There are many things that should be taken into consideration and many mistakes that need to be avoided. Fundamentally, however, they all come down to one thing: planning.

by Drew Madelung Apr 4, 2017

Recovering a Deleted Office 365 Group via PowerShell

Introduction Ever since Office 365 Groups were released which feels like many moons ago now, when it was deleted, it was unrecoverable. So if you either on purpose or accidentally deleted an Office 365 Group you lost all your data. You lost your SharePoint site, Planner data, Outlook mailbox…all of it. There was a checkbox that […]

by Drew Madelung Mar 29, 2017

Automatically Created Office 365 Groups Based on Direct Reports Coming Soon – (Now Limited Release)

UPDATE 3/21/2017 from Microsoft Microsoft has released a new update to this roll out stating: **We listened to your concerns and have decided to limit the rollout of this feature to a smaller set of customers (notified via MC94808) whom we will work with directly to ensure feedback is considered, and the feature has a […]

by Drew Madelung Mar 20, 2017

Managing Office 365 Groups Using Azure AD Powershell V2

Introduction Azure AD PowerShell is an incredibly useful tool for management. V2 was released as GA (general availability) in Dec 2016. This means that you could begin to utilize the new cmdlets in your production environment. There is currently not dual functionality from the V1 MSOL cmdlets so both will still need to be used […]

by Drew Madelung Feb 27, 2017

A Look at the New OneDrive for Business Admin Center

The new OneDrive for Business Admin center that was announced at Microsoft Ignite 2016 hit preview in December of 2016 for first release tenants. This post will walk through what this admin center includes while it is in preview and where it will be useful.

by Drew Madelung Jan 10, 2017

SharePoint Summit 2016 - Indiana

Thanks to all who made it out through the snow to our SharePoint Summit 2016 event in Indiana last week. We had a very engaging audience with a lot of good questions! Here is a link to the presentation.

by Drew Madelung Dec 19, 2016

Getting Started with Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2016

SharePoint 2016 went RTM (release to manufacturing) on May 14th 2016. This was only a short 6 months ago but Microsoft has already released its first Feature Pack to bring some of the new cloud features back to our on-premises servers.

by Drew Madelung Nov 14, 2016

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