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Overview While deployment of apps / add-ins or SPFx solutions to SharePoint Online App Catalog, this solution will be available to all of collections in your tenant as it is centrally deployed. This may lead to a lot of confusion when you are working with a lot of solutions in your Tenant, as all of solutions is available to all site collections as it is deployed centrally in Tenant app catalog. To overcome this problem, Microsoft has introduces Site Collection App Catalog.With the introduction of site collection app catalogs, tenant administrators can enable app catalog on the specific sites. Once enabled, site collection administrators can deploy SharePoint add-ins and SPFx solutions that will be available only in that particular site collection. The following schema illustrates using site collection app catalogs Use below script to Enable / disable site collection app catalog To Enable Site Collection App Catalog $siteUrl = "https://yourdomain-admin.sharepoint...

OneDrive is a part of Office 365. This cloud service from Microsoft allows you to access data anywhere, anytime. One Drive for Business has numerous advantages for businesses as it makes it easy to access documents, speeds up the sharing of data, and facilitates collaboration within different departments of the organization. OneDrive for Business has helped many business organizations to grow many folds by ensuring better document management and collaboration. Migrate Windows File Server data to Office 365 Here is the brief procedure to migrate Windows file system data to Office 365 – Sign in to Office 365 account Click the App Launcher icon at the top left-hand side Click the Office 365 icon Click Upload and Open Browse the desired files and click Open Files get uploaded After the successful upload, the file will automatically open There are two other methods too which you can use to upload data – SharePoint Migration tool It is a free tool which y...

Overview When we are working with Office 365 in our organization, some time there is requirement to connect on premise AD to get feed and update it. In this article, I’m explaining a case; export data from AD only for specific (custom) attribute and update it in SharePoint user profile. Requirement We are working on Office 365 and in user profile we have created some additional custom attribute. By default, Office 365 supports sync only default properties with AD. To sync additional custom properties, we have to write custom sync engine. Microsoft has released API to sync additional attributes. Solution Microsoft has released Bulk update custom user profile properties for SharePoint Online APIs to direct sync custom attributes from JSON feed file. To achieve solution, below are the steps Create and upload JSON feed file Feed output of step 1, to Microsoft Bulk User Import API Check the status of an import job Create and upload a JSON feed file It’s the im...

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...

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