A new feature that's recently popped up in the SharePoint admin center allows you to manage storage limits for individual user's Personal Site, now called SkyDrive Pro. SkyDrive Pro is an awesome utility that gives you greater storage and sharing capabilities, while allowing you to sync a SharePoint library on your computer. Like it's free … Continue reading Set SkyDrive Pro storage limits
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Turn on External sharing in Office 365
External Sharing must be enabled or configured in two places before people can start sharing sites, documents, lists or libraries. The first place is under settings in the SharePoint admin center: Under External sharing, choose the level of access you'd like to enable, and whether or not you want to have anonymous access: Now select … Continue reading Turn on External sharing in Office 365
Share a document library with external users
External user sharing Office 365 allows you to share your content with external users either at the site level, or the folder/document level, and this process is documented nicely here. Where things get tricky is if you need to share a document library or a list with external users, but not give them access to … Continue reading Share a document library with external users
Office 365 Password Reset (self-service options)
Option 1: "I know my password, but want to change it" The 2010 version (wave 14) of Office 365 didn't have a self service option for end users to change their passwords, and required them to send an email to their administrators if they wanted to make a change. Thankfully, the 2013 update of Office … Continue reading Office 365 Password Reset (self-service options)
Office 365: Naming Your Tenant
When setting up your account in Office 365, it's important to consider what you want to name your tenant before you make your account live. "Tenant," you ask? If you're not familiar with this term, think of it this way: Office 365 is a multi-tenant cloud, which basically means that the one huge cloud domain … Continue reading Office 365: Naming Your Tenant
Set IE10 to open in Desktop mode
In Windows 8, when Internet Explorer is set as your default browser, its default option is to open as a full screen App. There are several ways you can get around this: Navigate to C:Program Files (x86)Internet Explorer and open iexplore.exe, and pin it to your task bar. Internet Explorer will open as normal … Continue reading Set IE10 to open in Desktop mode
Exclaimer Outlook Photos
Outlook Photos by Exclaimer is a great (free!) utility for adding photos to your Exchange users and distribution groups, allowing you to put faces to names and greatly improving the social aspects that Outlook 2010 has built in (It's also a great way of super-imposing mustaches on all your users in preparation for Movember :D). … Continue reading Exclaimer Outlook Photos
Windows 8 Freezing Constantly?
I’ve been running Windows 8 in BootCamp on my iMac ever since the Consumer Preview was released (loving it!), but it wasn’t until I installed the Release Preview on my MacBook Pro that I ran into the dreaded and mysterious freezing problem. With no explanation and no warning, Windows would just lock up, forcing me … Continue reading Windows 8 Freezing Constantly?
How to Map a Drive Letter to a SharePoint Library
Sean wrote an interesting how-to that sparked a bit of discussion between him and I on SharePoint best practices - primarily because I love being able to map a drive letter to a network resource in order to make finding what I want easier, and wanted to know why it wasn't best practice. Here's the … Continue reading How to Map a Drive Letter to a SharePoint Library
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