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Users who are are using Office Mix to create and share interactive online videos based on PowerPoint presentations, got an email last week that Microsoft is retiring the service on May 1, 2018. If you are one of the affected users, please continue with this article. Microsoft will bring the best features of Office Mix directly into PowerPoint, Microsoft Stream, and Microsoft Forms for Office 365 subscribers on Windows PCs without any additional add-in. As the service becomes obsolete, this also means that Microsoft will delete every Office Mix content from their server. In order to avoid losing your data saved into Office Mix workspace, you need to migrate them to Microsoft Stream, or download it into your OneDrive workspace. Everything you need to know about the migration, and the future of these features, are collected into this MS help article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Migrate-your-content-from-Office-Mix-c1c04f84-a7bb-4602-9645-258017155258?ui=en-US&rs=en-U...

Symptom : A user at our tenant is not able to share files with external users. This issue is occurring for the Office Group, when the user tries to share a folder from the "Documents", with an external user, the following message appears "Sharing to external users is not supported". However when a colleague shares a document with the same external user account, the sharing is successful. The affected user has created a new Office group and tried to share a document with an external user, however the same message appeared. In the Office Admin Center, Security & Privacy, the tenant has the following settings: Let users add new guests to the organization - on Let users share SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business content with people outside the organization - on Users can share with - new and existing external users (sign-in required) In the SharePoint Admin center: Allow users to invite and share with authenticated external users Let onl...

Sign in to Office 365 with your tenant administrator account Navigate to Settings > Organization profile Next to Manage custom themes for your organization , click or tap Edit Change the theme elements with below settings Custom logo : Select the McAfee image and upload with a resolution of 200 x 50 pixels, no larger than 10 KB. This appears in the top navigation bar on every page URL for a clickable logo : Enter the URL for the clickable logo, starting with http:// or https://. This is optional Prevent users from overriding theme : Check this box to disable theming at the user level so that everyone in the McAfee sees the same suite bar. Accent colour : set colour code e.g. C01818 Nav bar background colour : Set colour code e.g. C01818 Text and icons : set colour code e.g. FFFFF Click Save Rollback steps Sign in to Office 365 with your tenant administrator account Navigate to Settings > Organization profile Next to Manage custom themes...

Here is the good news from Microsoft Visual Studio Team to every MSDN Visual Studio Enterprise subscriber, have full access to Pluralsight’s entire course catalog and technology learning platform, including Code School for 12 months. Dive into courses, learning paths and assessments on mobile, Web, DevOps and much more! After 12 months, you’ll have access to 40 hand-selected courses. Here are the steps to activate Open https://my.visualstudio.com  Login with your subscription credentials On landing page (Benefit page), you will find Pluralsight under Education Click Activate, to activate your free subscription for 12 months You will be landed to Pluralsight offering page, fill your details to subscribe   Pluralsight validate your offer code and activate 12 months free subscription (Offer code is automatically validate in background with Pluralsight and MS) Now, you will receive an email from pluralsight on your free subscription and create / reset your credie...

As you know that the SharePoint is most popular content Management System, it supports office web apps (All MS Office file types) except Visio files. For Visio files, MS has introduced Visio Web Access web part to show the Visio file to a SharePoint page and this works fantastic. Visio Online  Microsoft has now onboard Visio Online as a part of Office Web Apps (All Office 365 users can test in their environment as this in free of cost with their license) Now It’s time to upgrade your existing solution of Visio file in SharePoint web part to Visio online and it also improve the performance of page load that has vision diagram. Visio Online does not impact Visio Web Access Web Part. If you have SharePoint pages in which VWA Web Part has an embedded Visio diagram, they will continue to work. With Visio Online, you have additional capabilities to do the following: Embed a Visio diagram in "Document" Web Part in Modern team site pages. Build mashup solutions using V...

Introduction One of the big news with the arrival of SharePoint Server 2016 was the ability to patch your machines without any end-user side disturbance. Many of us - including myself - had understood that the new topology design called "MinRole" was necessary and a prerequisite to use ZDP.  NO! To my surprise I have seen a section - a superb article elsewhere - on how to patch the SharePoint farm without any break. Let me explain… With SharePoint Server 2013 Downtime is caused during patching SharePoint Server binary during installation and during execution of the Product Configuration Wizard. During the IIS Server process is ground and / or recycles and hotfix installation can take hours - and I mean 5H, by the time - because each installation of an MSP recycle the SharePoint services and is for this reason exactly why the SharePoint patching is super painful. Russ Maxwell explains everything in detail here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/russmax/2013/04/01/...

With the amount of great sessions at Ignite this year, there is no way you could have attended all, and even if they are posted on Channel9 and Youtube, you might want to download them to be able to view them offline! That is why Vlad Catrinescu (SharePoint MVP) created this PowerShell Script so everyone can easily download Microsoft Ignite Videos AND slides whether they were present at Ignite or not! Here are the features: Downloads all the Microsoft Ignite 2016 Sessions and Slides and description in a text file Groups them by folders Makes sure no errors come up due to Illegal File names If you stop the script and restart in the middle, it will start where it left off and not from beginning Filter by keywords in the session title Ability to choose from HD videos, or lower quality How to use: First, make sure to change the $downloadlocation variable. By default it saves it all in C:\Ignite To download all sessions just run the script! (1TB of content in High Defi...