Recently Microsoft announced a new feature – “Manage ownerless Microsoft 365 groups and teams“. Very nice. A long awaited functionality. Question: Why it is important? Answer: Because many other “governance” activities (e.g. retention policies) rely on site/team ownership. I.e., before we notify site owner that the site is going to be deleted due to inactivity …
Scenario Your organization use Microsoft 365. You are implementing or configuring an Intranet Portal. Search plays an important role here – you want search be relevant to the context – i.e. Official Results – if a user searches something on a company’s intranet portal – user expect “official” results, not a something from somebody’s OneDrive …
Enterprise Intranet Portal – Home Site and Search Scope and Relevance Read More »
OneDrive sites are just personal sites. OneDrive site is created when a user start working with Office 365 and deleted after user left company. Though personal sites are not deleted immediately – there is a procedure – please refer to Microsoft: OneDrive retention and deletion – still OneDrive is tied to a user, not company. …
Natural language search Based on Turing deep learning model – when search engine understands user’s intentions instead of blindly search with keywords – already in Outlook and Teams, tbd: everywhere (that’s why we do not have synonyms in Microsoft search) Image search tbd: before the end of year 2021 Search for chat messages Teams messages, …
There is some confusion between terms “Site Design” vs “Site Template” vs “Web Template” vs “Site Script” vs “Custom Scripts”. WIP…
Guest access As per Microsoft Teams Admin Center: “Guest access in Teams lets people outside your organization access teams and channels. When you turn on Guest Access, you can turn on or off features guest users can or can’t use. Make sure to follow the steps in this checklist to set up the prerequisites and …
Guest Access vs External Access vs External Sharing in Teams and SharePoint Read More »
The is a discrepancy found in Microsoft 365 SharePoint external sharing configuration. Let say, a sharing policy is configured at tenant level that restricts external sharing with “New and existing guests” and limits external sharing by domain: But that is not enough. A site collection must be allowed to be shared also: And when …
SharePoint Online External Sharing Misconfiguration Read More »
Scenario You have an invite that came from “no-reply@sharepointonline.com” with the text similar to “Here’s the site that John shared with you. Go to Project ApolloFollow this site to get updates in your newsfeed.” Everything looks OK, you know the person inviting you and the name of the project makes sense to you as you already …
Policy that prevents access from people in the domain you’re currently signed in to Read More »
Topics discussed in this article: ACS – Azure Access Control service on SharePoint; Azure AD app-only model vs SharePoint app-only authentication model ; set-spotenant -DisableCustomAppAuthentication $false; set-spotenant -DisableCustomAppAuthentication $true Certificate-based authentication vs Secret-based authentication Disable SharePoint-Apps only principal What if you disable SharePoint-Apps only principal (i.e. ‘set-spotenant -DisableCustomAppAuthentication $true’ )? Here are our test results …
Azure App, ACS, SP-App only and Disable Custom App Authentication Read More »
As a SharePoint engineer and as a Microsoft Partner, I would like to have SharePoint Syntex available – so I could try and test it, and develop my own solutions based on Syntex, and be ready to offer SharePoint Syntex to my clients. I would also like my clients try SharePoint Syntex in their environment …
