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Re: Edit PDF in sharepoint online
For those hoping to see Acrobat at least be able to browse SharePoint so that you can open from/save to, there's a fundamental problem with that: Acrobat still doesn't support modern authentication, believe it or not: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/926557-adobe-acrobat-for-sharepoint-onedrive/suggestions/45249598-add-support-for-modern-authentication So, if you "Apps that don't use modern authentication" blocked in your SPO Admin settings, as you should (but many probably still don't), when you go to add a SharePoint site to Acrobat it'll just sit there and not do it, leaving you confused. It's a sad state of affairs.6.6KViews0likes0CommentsUpdates are suddenly twice the size
Starting with 16.0.13707.20008 (ProPlus, Win10 Preview) earlier this month, build updates involve much more downloading than they ever had before in my years of updating Insider builds. By the time this week's update rolled around (the third time in a row this has happened), I took the time to measure what was downloaded: around 3.4GB. That's basically the entire client, as if I'd installed from scratch. What happened to differential updating? I happen to have a way to see what the bandwidth was historically: roughly half, consistently. I tested on another PC (last week's build to this week's, as always): also about twice what it should be. The "Host Process for Windows Services," which is what does the downloading, just isn't as efficient as it used to be, but why?600Views0likes0CommentsRe: Outlook Insider not starting
David Overton Yes, by coincidence I was going to try another Windows profile today (and still will). Sounds like that will work, which does make some sense given the evidence, but it's hard to connect that with the Registry hack that I mentioned, which is extremely Office specific. I can't even imagine what it could be about Windows suddenly that Office is objecting to, but it must be something. (Previously, I had tried doing the other thing you mentioned: removing the registered account in Windows Settings, as a logical step before creating a new Outlook profile, but that wasn't the answer.) It sounds like the problem started for you with a Dev build upgrade. That's something that I was never sure about here, since I did a Dev build upgrade and 15321 in very close proximity to each other. I've yet to find any mention of the issue in Feedback Hub, and you would think that someone would have mentioned it there even if it's not really a Windows problem but more a Windows ricochet. I won't be doing a Windows clean install, that's for sure (you're more ambitious than I).2.4KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Outlook Insider not starting
David Overton xyzxyzxyz With a workaround as a stopgap (see above), I'm starting to wonder why I see this problem with some and not others when everyone is using an Exchange account. Do you have any ideas? Could the version of Windows be involved? What are you running? It does happen that the one having the issue is on Win11 Dev (25xxx) while the one who doesn't is on Win11 22H2 (22621), but I find it hard to believe that's it. It might also be something about the Exchange account, as there are countless variables there, but we've tried multiple ones (in different profiles) and that so far hasn't been the answer. It remains consistent one way or the other: always a problem or never one.2.5KViews0likes2CommentsRe: Outlook Insider not starting
16.0.15330.20004 is now out, but it takes a while for "Experiments" to return so I don't know if it's fixed or not. Someone who never deleted Experiments would know. Update: Looks like the problem is still there. Upon further testing, at least here it relates specifically to 1.28 here: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentConfigs\Ecs\outlook\ConfigContextData I would suggest just deleting 1.28, if you have it.2.5KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Outlook Insider not starting
David Overton It's a bug in this "Experiments" section, some of which have been known to cause problems before and which you can delete. Note that it comes back upon restarting Outlook the first or second time, so you'll need to do this again until it's fixed in an upcoming build. You may see one or two things go away when doing this, like the "Coming Soon" toggle as well as the new-style left-side navigator, but who cares. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentConfigs2.6KViews0likes4CommentsRe: Remove "Add shortcut to OneDrive" from Sharepoint Sites
What does "while the feature is in Public Preview" imply? Isn't it out of Public Preview now? I thought that's what the "generally available" post in December was about. I just hope that this isn't a command designed to expire at some point, because that wouldn't make any sense.70KViews0likes0CommentsFiles Restore feature for synced SP libraries?
The Files Restore feature became available in 2018, but as far as I can see looking here and in the roadmap, there's been nothing said (other than that it's not available and there's nothing to share at this time) regarding this feature and SharePoint libs. Does anyone know if it's been called off, assuming it was ever on? Not that it's impossible to recover those files without Files Restore, but it would be nice to have.783Views0likes0CommentsRe: How do you know you have the latest Teams Desktop version
You don't. MS's system for getting the latest version is a joke. Checking for updates within Teams is inconsistent from person to person and is badly broken (Skype gets this right, ironically). MS's own sites for downloading manually feed different versions, some laughably old. You just have to gather information from places like here and other forums to know what might be the latest. The latest known version that was actually deliberately released, at least that I've seen, is: https://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/production-windows-x64/1.3.00.34662/Teams_windows_x64.exe From Dec 11.96KViews0likes4CommentsRe: Teams Public Preview update
Do you mean the check box for it isn't there in Settings (I still have it) or that in reality you don't get the experience in a call (untested here)? BTW, in reference to earlier posts, the other thread indicated that Developer also being checked is a bug and that it's being worked on, though there's no ETA.Re: OWA - Skype for business functionality still showing
ChristianBergstrom What are you saying is should be? We're on Islands for now, and it's unclear to me in that case which OWA should pick. I know which one it does pick: SfB. No mention of Teams both when creating a meeting or with the little chat icon at the top of OWA. If there's a setting for OWA's preference when in Islands, I haven't run across it.1.9KViews0likes2CommentsFlow save failing on popular template due to obscure date format issue
In using https://us.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/galleries/public/templates/0bc115a00d6911e78c2e9d11ef1d0c12/copy-specific-category-of-appointments-from-office-365-to-google-calendar I'm getting this error merely by saving, without making anything but necessary changes (i.e. Calendar IDs): Flow save failed with code 'OpenApiOperationParameterValidationFailed' and message 'Input parameter 'newEvent' validation failed in workflow operation 'Create_an_event': The parameter with value '"@triggerOutputs()?['body/Start']"' in path 'newEvent/start' with type/format 'String/date-no-tz' is not convertible to type/format 'String/date-time'.'. It ties to body/Start, which in code form is: triggerOutputs()?['body/Start'] What is wrong with that? I saw one post recommending replacing it with this (as well as the body/end version for End time), which a) Shouldn't be necessary to do for a popular template from MS, and b) Translates the items into UTC, which is unwanted. convertToUtc(triggerOutputs()?['body/start'], 'Eastern Standard Time') I did realize eventually that you can get around the UTC problem by using this (again, and the corresponding body/end one for End time), but it's pretty stupid: convertToUtc(triggerOutputs()?['body/start'], 'GMT Standard Time')Re: O365 E1 and iOS mobile Basic Editing
E1, and most other plans that might not have had it before, should have mobile edit by now. Despite mention of the "next few months" below (that would mean that existing customers on E1 should have been upgraded by summer 2018 at the latest), we still don't have it (Non-profit E1). Getting anyone to understand this and/or fix it is close to impossible, however. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-you-can-do-in-the-office-apps-on-an-android-ios-or-windows-mobile-device-with-an-office-365-subscription-9ef8b63a-05fd-4f9c-bac5-29da046833ea https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2018/04/30/new-to-microsoft-365-in-april-tools-for-the-modern-workplace https://support.office.com/en-us/article/microsoft-announces-mobile-editing-availability-for-more-subscribers-be2cc9ae-113a-417f-8d34-b445ea49658a5.8KViews2likes3Comments
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