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Apr 06, 2017

New support for # and % in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

In the upcoming weeks, we’ll be shipping support for # and % as supported characters in file and folder names across document libraries in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. This will allo...

OneDrive for Business

David Bishop

Brass Contributor

Apr 18, 2017

Great news. I enabled this, this morning and it looks like it's working for us.

Peter Longley
Iron Contributor
Apr 19, 2017
How did you do it?

I just want to make sure as support have been no help for me so far and all that happens for me is that when I run the Get-SPOTenant/Set-SPOTenant it says that is not a recognized name of a cmdlet
- Peter Longley
  Iron Contributor
  Apr 19, 2017
  Scrap that I found on the comments on the article the following script seems to work just need to give it some time.
  
  $adminUPN="xxxx@xxxxxxxx.com"
  $orgName="tenantnameinsharepointURL"
  $userCredential = Get-Credential -UserName $adminUPN -Message "Type the password."
  Connect-SPOService -Url https://tenantnameinsharepointURL-admin.sharepoint.com
  Set-SPOTenant -SpecialCharactersStateInFileFolderNames Allowed
  - jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Apr 19, 2017
    Yeap, it needs some time what it's normal because you are modifying a tenant setting :-)