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Microsoft released several updates for Office 365 this month and if you missed any of the new, we have you covered.
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The new Request Files feature in OneDrive for Business is great for users but comes with no admin controls. You can block the feature completely with a kludge and use Office 365 audit records to know when people are requesting files. However, Microsoft could make the feature so much better by extending some existing controls to make requesting files work better and more securely.
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The OneDrive for Business Request Files feature is a quick and simple way for users to ask others to upload files to a target folder using a special sharing link. Request files is now available within Office 365. The process is straightforward and might even help to stop people sending some attachments around in email.
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Office 365 has experienced great success since its launch in June 2011, but it’s also had its share of failures as well. This article considers the most important technical advances in Office 365 and the most important parts of the ecosystem as well as some places where things didn’t go quite so well as either Microsoft or tenants would have liked.
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Designers working with Microsoft Forms can now include a file upload question type in their questionnaires, surveys, and other forms. It’s a small but valuable change to Forms. Depending on the form type, the uploaded files are stored in OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online.
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OneDrive is getting two useful new features: file requests and save for later. But there’s a catch: it’s only available for business users.
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OneDrive for Business is responsible for how sharing works within Office 365. Big strides are being made to achieving consistency across all the Office 365 apps and new some tricks are coming along too, like being able to link to a PowerPoint slide, requesting people to upload files to a folder, or using the URL in a browser as a link. All good stuff.
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Office 365 applications now create many guest accounts in Azure Active Directory. You can see what accounts exist, but it’s more difficult to discover who created the accounts – or why they were created. Fortunately, the Office 365 audit log holds a lot of useful data that can be interrogated to find some answers and PowerShell is a great tool for slicing and dicing audit data. See what you think of the answers I’ve come up with.
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It’s hard to find and fix every legacy on-premises setting. In the case of OneDrive for Business, it allows users to stop their site appearing in search results. That doesn’t sound too bad, but blocking search affects many other Office 365 features and it’s a good example of how a legacy setting can have a big influence in the cloud. Fortunately Microsoft agrees and they’re going to fix the problem. We don’t know when or how the fix will come, but when it does, users won’t be able to disable eDiscovery for their OneDrive for Business site.
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SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business are making increasing use of Azure B2B Collaboration for sharing, which means that Office 365 tenants will have more guest user accounts. Using Azure B2B Collaboration is a reasonable approach because it’s secure and works well, but it does mean that tenant admins have some extra work to do to keep an eye on those guest accounts.
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