Friday, August 28, 2020

19 new posts across 8 Microsoft websites since Tuesday, August 25, 2020

OneDrive Blog

Sync Up – a OneDrive podcast : Episode 12, “Back to school with OneDrive”

Sync Up is your monthly podcast hosted by the OneDrive team taking you behind the scenes of OneDrive, shedding light on how OneDrive connects you to all your files in Microsoft 365 so you can share an…

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

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SharePoint Blog

Microsoft 365 & SharePoint PnP Weekly - Episode 93

In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Ayça Baş, Cloud Advocate from Microsoft concentrat…

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

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Agile IT management of your SharePoint-powered intelligent intranet

Business changes at a faster pace today more than ever before. The agility of IT to be both proactive and reactive in the face of change is a must. Adapt, or fade out. This affects everything and mus…

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

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WFM Certificate renewal process for SharePoint 2013\2016

Below is a Sample for 1 Node WFM farm using WFM/SB certificate generation key – resetting expired certificate process:In order to reset generation key for WFM and SB the following steps needs to be do…

Thursday, August 27, 2020

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OOB Approval workflows are missing on SharePoint online site

SharePoint OOB Approval workflows are missing on SharePoint online site even after activating\reactivating the “Workflows” site collection feature. Missing workflow templates: Publishing ApprovalAppro…

Thursday, August 27, 2020

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Effect on SharePoint sites that use ADFS/SAML and Forms Based Authentication in Chrome version 80+

Issue :You are using Google Chrome 80, and when you have ADFS/SAML or FBA configured site, you notice that intermittently, users logging in fails and goes into a login loop.The following error is rece…

Thursday, August 27, 2020

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Troubleshooting Explorer view and mapped drives to SharePoint

OverviewDistributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) is an extension of the HTTP protocol that allows the user to interact with and manipulate files stored on a web server. The Windows implementation of…

Thursday, August 27, 2020

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“Sorry, this document can’t be opened for editing” error creating a document in Office Web Apps

Problem: You receive a “Sorry, this document can’t be opened for editing” error when you try to create or edit an Office document in Office Web Apps. Issue 1:In some situations, users that are members…

Thursday, August 27, 2020

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SharePoint provider hosted add-ins stop working in Safari 13.1 browser

The ProblemWhen using the new Safari 13.1 browser with Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), 3rd party cookies are not allowed by default to remove the ability for websites to track you using cookies…

Thursday, August 27, 2020

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Patching Distributed Cache for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016

Is your SharePoint 2013 or 2016 farms Distributed Cache services Healthy? If not you might need to patch. One way to validate your Distributed Cache service is healthy is to pull some ULS logs from on…

Monday, August 03, 2020

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Update file metadata with Rest API using ValidateUpdateListItem in SharePoint on-premises

This post is a contribution from Aaron Mio, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Lately. I came across an issue of using REST API ValidateUpdateListItem() to update listitem metadat…

Thursday, August 27, 2020

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How to Troubleshoot Issues Modernizing SharePoint Online

Administrators may have started to notice our diagnostics starting to render within the M365 Admin Center support portal for certain text queries as early as December 2018. Please refer to our previou…

Thursday, August 27, 2020

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Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 93

In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Ayça Baş, Cloud Advocate from Microsoft concentrat…

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft 365 saves you time and effort with transcription and voice commands in Word

New enhancements in Office apps allow you to harness the power of your voice to spend less time and energy creating your best work, so can focus on what matters most. The post Microsoft 365 saves you …

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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From Tasks in Microsoft Teams to whiteboarding during remote meetings—here’s what’s new to Microsoft

This month, we’re releasing new features in Microsoft Teams to help users automate more of their workflow, ideate on digital whiteboards more easily, help improve readability while browsing the web, a…

Thursday, August 27, 2020

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Power BI Blog

Release update for Sept 2020 release of Power BI Report Server

In October 2018, we committed to you three releases of Power BI Report Server each year, to be shipped in January, May, and September. We did this to provide transparency around the release timing an…

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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Microsoft EDU - IT Pros

Disruptions and opportunities: Navigating hybrid education

When COVID-19 disrupted traditional classroom instruction and forced system and school leaders, IT professionals, educators, faculty, and students to pivot to remote learning, it also prompted re-exam…

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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Education Blog

Save teachers and students time and effort with new transcription capabilities in Word

Save teachers and students time and effort with new transcription capabilities in Word By Mike Tholfsen Educators and students are actively spending time and energy adapting to virtual learning while …

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

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Education Blog - Tech Community

14 updates for Immersive Reader: General availability on Azure, a Code.org partnership and lots more

General Availability of Immersive Reader as an Azure Cognitive ServicesJust a few years ago, the Immersive Reader was a bold idea in a Microsoft Hackathon focused on using the latest science and resea…

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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