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How SharePoint Online Intelligent Versioning Interacts with Retention Policies and Labels
Intelligent versioning recently appeared in SharePoint Online. The purpose is to save storage by removing unnecessary versions. But retention policies and labels can stop the removal of versions. This article explains what happens when SharePoint Online attempts to trim (remove) unwanted versions of files under the control of retention policies and labels. https://office365itpros.com/2024/11/13/intelligent-versioning-spo/Use Audit Data to Improve Finding Inactive Copilot Users
A previous article explained how Microsoft 365 usage report data can highlight inactive Copilot users. If we add audit data to the mix, the analysis becomes much richer because we can see exactly what use people make of different Copilot apps, like Word, Chat, Outlook, and so on. Better data means better decisions! https://practical365.com/inactive-copilot-users/Update #9 for Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell eBook
The Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell eBook is now at update #9. The latest update spans 300 pages of content covering how to use PowerShell with the Microsoft 365 workloads, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams, Planner, and Entra ID. There’s no other book that includes so many worked-out examples of how to get things done with PowerShell and Microsoft 365. https://office365itpros.com/2025/02/18/automating-microsoft-365-with-powershell9/
Sharepoint Sync-On-Demand & Application.Path
A few years back I traced some weird VBA Macro code behavior in Excel back to a SharePoint feature called "Sync-On-Demand". When Sync-On-Demand is turned on, the VBA code "Application.Path" no longer returns the actual file location, and starts returning a SharePoint site. It does these without any warning and as far as I can tell there is no documentation about this. This broke my companies primary management software until I traced it down and turned off Sync-On-Demand for my remote users. As of this week, the Sync-On-Demand option is not only gone from the Settings, but it seems to be secretly turned back on in the background as well. If we weren't inspecting values after the code crashed, we would not even know this is happening. This means that right now anyone who is using SharePoint and thinks they are opening a local file, is actually opening a web location without even being told about it in any visible way. And it's being done through some sort of background hackery. It's shady as F. We have opened a support ticket but so far they don't even seem to know they have done this and are pointing to new settings locations, but those do not yet exist for us. Is there anyone here with knowledge of this issue and some way for us to turn the sneaky Sync-On-Demand off as of today? The new help docs provided to us show a Conext Menu option available from an Explorer window, but that option does not exist for us. Does anyone know a way to get the file location of whatever Excel file is running a VBA Macros? Application.Path is supposed to be that, but I need a new way that actually works to return the actual harddrive path location, not the SharePoint location.
Force update to targeted release for Teams?
We have a number of people on the M365 targeted release option and they've been getting the updates including Teams for a while ⬇️ We also added some more people over 72 hours (3 days) ago to the targeted release option in the M365 admin center but they still don't have the Teams update They've signed out of the Teams desktop app and then signed in again to try and move things along but no change How long should this take? Is there a way of making this happen quicker? Thanks
DKIM verification broken on Outlook 365/Exchange because of tampered HTML
Hi Outlook365/Exchange team, I'm doing end-to-end DKIM verification on my outlook.com inbox. I notice that all HTML messages are DKIM invalid. The reason is that the outlook MUA tampers with the HTML, breaking the DKIM cryptographic signature. Reference: https://github.com/lieser/dkim_verifier/issues/300#issuecomment-1824874545 How to fix this such that we can do proper end-to-end DKIM integrity verification? Thanks a lot! --Martin
Migrating Data from SharePoint Space to Mesh
I just found out that SharePoint Space is being depreciated. The replacement is Mesh for 3D call environments.... So I have SharePoint Space that I would like to preserve. It's for employees to tour office spaces virtually and it took a long time to make. I have a few questions. Is Mesh standalone or included in MS 365? Is there an extra charge? Is there a simple way to migrate Sharepoint Space data to Mesh? Are there other alternatives besides Mesh? Thank youMails from my organisation comes to Junk-E-Mail
Hello, one user receives emails from inside the Organisation marked as a Junk-Email. Not all and not every time. I have no idea from what it depends. Nevertheless it should not happen inside my Organisation. I cannot mark the whole domain as a safe (eg.: *@companyname.com) sender, because I get an error that is not possible to do inside the Organisation. Even if I mark only one email Address as a "safe" sometimes it goes to a Junk folder In Exchange I also created a Email rule with SCL set to "0". I red somewhere that in Exchange 2016 is possible to set "-1". But in MS365 it seems that is not possible. I have compared Email headers of a "normal" email and of a "junk" and they look fine. The SPF also looks OK.
