When it comes to sharing content with external parties in SharePoint Online, setting up sharing can be done easily. But what if you want to get some details on who shared which content with which external party, for example for compliance or audit reasons? The good news is that this kind of information can be retrieved quite easily from Office 365, and you can even set up alerts to be Details
Office 365 Advent Calendar – 18 Adding a Web Part to a SharePoint Online Page with PowerShell
Scenario You’ve got a Web Part which you want to add to one, but more likely multiple web part pages in a SharePoint Online Site. Or maybe even on multiple pages across multiple sites. You could do this manually, but adding the same web part with the same configuration over and over again may not be a productive use of it. Let’s make use of PowerShell to do this! Code Details
Office 365 Advent Calendar – 17 Overview of the new OneDrive for Business Admin Portal
At the Microsoft Ignite conference in September, it was announced that OneDrive for Business would get its own Admin Portal in Office 365. Yesterday, Microsoft finally made it available, even though it’s in Preview at the moment. See the official announcement here, and access it at https://admin.onedrive.com. So what does it include? Some existing settings, such as configuring your sharing settings, as well as new settings like the possibility to restrict Details
Office 365 Advent Calendar – 16 Adoption Guide for Office 365
Having access to a technology is not enough, the users and the company should see some benefits from it in order to achieve some value out of this investment. This is something that is often forgotten when we work with SharePoint or Office 365 – the wonderful new feature that was just released might not be useful to your employees at all, and trying to force it on them will Details
Office 365 Advent Calendar – 15 Activating Publishing Features on SharePoint Online Sites with PowerShell
Scenario Activating SharePoint’s Publishing features can easily be done on a single site collection or site. But what if you need to activate Publishing on a hierarchy of subsites, or across multiple site collections? Code Once again, we’re using the PnP PowerShell cmdlets. First some basics. The ‘main’ feature to activate is the PublishingSite feature on the Site Collection level. After you connected to a site collection (Connect-PnPOnline), you can activate it as Details
Office 365 Advent Calendar – 14 Exporting SharePoint Online List/Library Details
Well, this is a bit embarrassing. Yesterday, for the first time, I didn’t verify if my scheduled blog post got published properly. And yesterday, also for the first time, it didn’t get published. I made a small scheduling mistake (it’s not 2017 yet…), so the 14th December post comes a day late: Scenario From time to time you may need an overview of all lists and libraries in your site Details
Office 365 Advent Calendar – 13 Useful Office 365 Sessions from Microsoft Ignite
End of September, the Microsoft Ignite conference took place in Atlanta with hundreds of sessions across a huge rang of Microsoft products. The great news is that these sessions are available on demand for anyone to view! If you’re interested in taking them offline, have a look at the Ignite 2016 Slidedeck and Video downloader script. Today, I’ll share with you some of my favourite sessions: Drive productivity with OneDrive and Details
Office 365 Advent Calendar – 12 Get External Sharing Details for SharePoint Online Sites
Scenario SharePoint Online allows you to share your content with external parties – that is, if sharing is allowed on the tenant level as well as on the site collection level. But if you allow external sharing on the tenant level, how can you easily see for which site collection you have which kind of external sharing level enabled? Code Today’s script doesn’t make use of the PnP PowerShell cmdlets, Details
Office 365 Advent Calendar – 11 Adding sample items with random data to a SharePoint Online List
Scenario Sometimes you want to create some random sample data to be used in a SharePoint Online list. For example, in yesterday’s post I was using a list with some data which I entered manually, but I thought afterwards that I could’ve scripted it to create many more items in my demo list. Today, I show you how you can easily fill a list in SharePoint Online with as many Details
Office 365 Advent Calendar – 10 SmartFilters and Grouping in SharePoint Online Modern Lists
Microsoft has just started rolling out a new feature called Smart Filters to SharePoint Online tenants with First Release enabled, all tenants will see it in January. Smart Filters are available in Modern Lists, and allow you to filter from a sidebar pane to easily and quickly find items you’re looking for. What’s the difference to the existing filtering functionality on columns? Smart Filters are not just shown for a Details