Idle session timeout is a feature that kicks off after a period of inactivity, first displaying a warning prompt and then signing the user out of SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. This feature was announced at Ignite 2017 and is in preview tenants at the time of this post and scheduled to be rolled
SharePoint Online column formatting was announced at Ignite and is now available in production. The column formatting feature allows SharePoint site owners to control the display of fields in a SharePoint view including conditional formatting, applying formatting based on a date range, creating clickable actions, some visualizations (such as a status bar), and the use
Azure Logic Apps allow you to create workflows and processes inside your Azure environment. Logic Apps are part of the ‘serverless’ compute solutions for Azure. This means that you just pay for Azure Logic apps as you use and run them. Of course, they actually do run on servers but they are close to the
Azure Runbooks are part of Azure Automation, they are written in PowerShell and run in Azure. Azure Runbooks are typically used to automate a process done by an administrator. They can accomplish anything that you can do in PowerShell. And you can automate tasks done inside or outside of Azure, in my case I will
Back in April a new feature for SharePoint Online and OneDrive was announced, support for the special characters # and % in file and folder names. This post from Bill Baer provides some background on the announcement. As I’m writing this post in August 2017, many production Office 365 tenants have this capability. However, the
The following article from Microsoft provides some details on how to restrict who can create an Office 365 Group using PowerShell. Control who can create Office 365 Groups Every time a user creates an Office 365 group, a SharePoint site collection is provisioned. Depending on how your organization is managing SharePoint Online, you may wish
In this post I will cover the process of auditing all of your SharePoint Online sites with an Azure Function. SharePoint standards are important so that you can set a consistent use of SharePoint within your organization. This ultimately makes your SharePoint environment easier to manage and reduces support and project costs. In a previous
Microsoft Flow is a cloud based workflow system. It can connect and work with many systems including SharePoint Online. Microsoft Flow is also designed as a no-code based system suitable for use by power users, business analysts, and others. It allows for the creation of custom approval workflows, notifications, and the automation of other tasks
