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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? ThanksSharepoint 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.
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.EntraExporter Tool Exports Details of an Entra ID Tenant
The EntraExporter toolis a PowerShell module that generates details of objects in an Entra ID tenant configuration (like groups, policies, and users) and creates JSON files. It’s a great way to capture point-in-time information about Entra ID (Azure AD) configuration. Although you can’t replay the captured data to recreate objects, having all the information available is a great start if you need to restore or replay anything. https://office365itpros.com/2023/08/24/entraexporter-tool/Copilot’s Solution to Fix Grammar and Spellings
Microsoft 365 Copilot will soon introduce a feature to fix spelling and grammar errors with one click. At least, that’s the promise when Microsoft delivers the new feature in late April 2025. It seems like a good idea to do everything with a single pass to generate error-free text that the user can accept or reject. Quite how well this works in practice remains to be seen. https://office365itpros.com/2025/04/25/fix-grammar-and-spelling-errors/Power Automate Flow moving Attachments in Email to MS List - can it get a Email as an attachment?
Created a Flow to get Emails from Outlook using Graph API to extract all metadata into columns in a MS List including attachments of the Email into a column in the MS List with the name as a hyperlink in the same site as the list; but when there is another Email as an attachment it does not come into the MS List. Is there such a limitation in MS Flow where it cannot get the Email attached in an Email as an Attachment?OneNote Section renaming issues - VERY annoying
While renaming a Section, OneNote seems to have some sort of short timeout timer where if you don't start typing quickly enough, or don't hit enter soon enough after finishing, it completely bails on the renaming operation and reverts back to the previous name. The timer seems to be shorter when creating a new section. Hitting the "+" pops up a new section with the section label in edit mode. If you don't type something quickly enough (< 3 seconds) - it exits edit mode and leaves the label as "Section X". For section renaming, if you double-click on the section tab label, the label switches to "edit" mode and the full label is highlighted. If you wait too long to start typing, it either exits edit mode by itself or waits until you type something (anything) and exits edit mode completely ignoring what you typed. If you do type something but don't finish immediately by hitting enter, the timer expires and any keyboard input after the timer expires causes edit mode to exit and the new label you typed to be ignored. It seems this might be intentional (Ill-conceived) behavior - attempting to prevent inadvertent renaming of sections if someone accidentally presses keyboard keys or puts something on their keyboard that causes inadvertent keyboard presses. If that's the case it's an exceeding clumsy attempt and needs to be rethought. The current behavior in this regard is very annoying. If the desire is to ignore inadvertent section renaming, a study needs to be done to understand the characteristics of accidental keypresses. I'd be willing to bet that rapid same-character sequences that result from the same key being pressed and held are much more indicative of inadvertent input than the total time taken to start or finish a renaming operation after edit mode is entered. You could also create an additional hurdle to enter edit mode e.g. eliminating the doubleclick option and only allow right-click followed by drop drown menu selection. Has anyone else experienced this? Has Microsoft ever commented on this issue.New Landing Pages for Word, Excel and PowerPoint (rant)
So I found out this week that MS is piloting new landing pages for the core Office apps (again). Instead of loading in the M365 Home page, they now load in an entirely new page. Why was this necessary? We've already been here before and MS spent years moving everything to the Home app. The dust has finally settled and things are working great. Why move things out again?
