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Jasper Oosterveld compares the Modern SharePoint experience to the Classic SharePoint experience.

Jasper Oosterveld compares the Modern SharePoint experience to the Classic SharePoint experience.

Teams is one of Microsoft’s hubs for teamwork within Office 365. People work with documents all the time and the documents are in SharePoint Online libraries. However, Teams imposes its own view of documents and omits some of the functionality available through the SharePoint browser interface. This doesn’t seem to matter very much, except in the case of data governance.

Microsoft has been caught scanning for malware in password-protected zip files stored on SharePoint Online. Andrew Brandt, a security researcher who uses Microsoft’s cloud services to save copies of malware in password-protected zip files shared his surprise after Microsoft had flagged some of his files that had been uploaded into a SharePoint directory as malware. …

When organizations decide to migrate data from on-premises file servers or other platforms to SharePoint on-premises or SharePoint Online, they need to determine how tagging and classifying content should work. In this article, we’ll explain how you can use Sharepoint managed metadata to control how users add metadata to content across SharePoint sites in an…

Big Files and Differential Sync Some excitement was generated, at least inside Microsoft, for the January 12 announcement that SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business now support uploads of files sized up to 250 GB. This is an increase from the previous 100 GB maximum announced in July 2020. The new capability is designed to…

Great to Protect Content Until Access is Needed The growing popularity of sensitivity labels is goodness if you simply look at the desirability of protecting confidential information. However, the presence of a larger percentage of encrypted data within Office 365 creates some addition management challenges. As I have noted during several conference talks, the only…

Helping Investigators Understand What Happened In March, Microsoft eventually released the MailItemsAccessed “crucial audit event” for accounts holding Office 365 E5 licenses (other suitable licenses include Microsoft 365 E5 or the Microsoft 365 E5 compliance). Crucial events are deemed to be of higher value to investigators or others who need to understand exactly what happened…

Stream to Use SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Microsoft announced Stream 2.0, a major refresh of the Stream video portal, in the What’s New for Microsoft Stream and Video in Microsoft 365 session at the virtual Ignite 2020 conference. The big news is that Stream is moving its video storage from the Stream Azure-based…

Teams is now the center of the SharePoint world and it is working to become the center of the Power Platform universe.