Todorovic Dragan

Senior Consultant - SharePoint & Office 365

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Aug.20

01.10.2014? New Office 365 plans will be available

On October 1, 2014, Microsoft will release three new Office 365 plans tailored to meet the needs of small and midsized businesses (SMBs), ranging from 1 to approximately 250 employees.

The new plans are:

Office 365 Business – The full Office applications – Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Publisher, with 1TB of OneDrive for Business cloud storage to access, edit and share your documents across your Windows PC, Mac, iPad, Windows tablet and smartphone.
Office 365 Business Essentials – The core cloud services for running your business – business class email and calendaring, Office Online, online meetings, IM, video conferencing, cloud storage and file sharing and much more.
Office 365 Business Premium – Get everything from both the Office 365 Business and Business Essentials plans.

This new lineup will replace our current plans for SMBs over time – Small Business, Small Business Premium and Midsize Business (more on that below). The current Enterprise plans will remain the same.

Aug.19

Dragan Todorovic 0 SharePoint,Office365

How to disable Sync Button for SharePoint Document libraries

By default, OneDrive for Business is used to sync the documents of a SharePoint document library down to local computer for offline access. Any user that has access to the document library has the option to Sync one or more libraries. In some cases company rights and policies request to disable this option for all users. If you log into your SharePoint site, and click on a document library, you should see a Sync button on the top right corner.

If you want to hide that button, or just disable in global settings, you need to click the gear in the top right and go to Site Settings. Choose link that says Search and offline availability.

You will see a line that says Offline Client Availability, and set the the option to no, then hit OK

That’s it.

Aug.15

Dragan Todorovic 0 Office365

Uptime table

Availability %	Downtime per year	Downtime per month	Downtime per week
90%	36.5 days	72 hours	16.8 hours
95%	18.25 days	36 hours	8.4 hours
97%	10.96 days	21.6 hours	5.04 hours
98%	7.30 days	14.4 hours	3.36 hours
99%	3.65 days	7.20 hours	1.68 hours
99.5%	1.83 days	3.60 hours	50.4 minutes
99.8%	17.52 hours	86.23 minutes	20.16 minutes
99.9%	8.76 hours	43.8 minutes	10.1 minutes
99.95%	4.38 hours	21.56 minutes	5.04 minutes
99.99%	52.56 minutes	4.32 minutes	1.01 minutes
99.995%	26.28 minutes	2.16 minutes	30.24 seconds
99.999%	5.26 minutes	25.9 seconds	6.05 seconds
99.9999%	31.5 seconds	2.59 seconds	0.605 seconds
99.99999%	3.15 seconds	0.259 seconds	0.0605 seconds

Aug.04

Dragan Todorovic 0 Office365,Tools

Unlicenced O365 product with red bar notification?

You have activated O365 paid licences, but after some time red bar notification is present in all Office applications? Let me explain the easiest way to fix that problem:

Close all Microsoft Office applications
Run Word as “Administrator” (right-click and choose Run as admin)
Navigate to File > Account > User Info and choose “Sign out”, then “Sign In” again
Restart Word

Jul.31

Dragan Todorovic 0 SharePoint,Office365

How to wrap menu items in SharePoint 2013 global navigation?

This is a quick post to show the code snippet I used to wrap the global navigation items in SharePoint 2013. You can also use custom CSS code in order to get some space between navigation lines and items. First, open default masterpage of your site collection and find the following:

<SharePoint:AspMenu
   ID="TopNavigationMenu"
   Runat="server"
   EnableViewState="false"
   DataSourceID="topSiteMap"
   AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,navigation_accesskey%>"
   UseSimpleRendering="true"
   UseSeparateCss="false"
   Orientation="Horizontal"
   StaticDisplayLevels="2"
   AdjustForShowStartingNode="true"
   MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="2"
   SkipLinkText="" />

and replace with the code below:

<SharePoint:AspMenu
   ID="TopNavigationMenu"
   Runat="server"
   EnableViewState="false"
   DataSourceID="topSiteMap"
   AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,navigation_accesskey%>"
   UseSimpleRendering="false"
   UseSeparateCss="false"
   Orientation="Horizontal"
   StaticDisplayLevels="2"
   AdjustForShowStartingNode="true"
   MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="2"
   SkipLinkText=""
   ItemWrap="true"
   RenderingMode="List" 
   cssClass="mycss"/>

As you can see, the only diference is:

ItemWrap="true"
RenderingMode="List"
cssClass="mycss"

Create custom CSS file with the following content:

.mycss .level1
{
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 20px;
}
.mycss .level2
{
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 20px;
}
.mycss .level3
{
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 20px;
}

Jul.21

Dragan Todorovic 0 Office365

Office 365 Uptime Stats

Jul.04

Dragan Todorovic 0 Office365,CERTIFICATES

How Office 365 manages DNS records for mail service?

When you set up Office 365, you might have a choice between managing your own DNS records at your DNS hosting provider and having Office 365 create and manage the DNS records for your domain. I definitely recommend letting your existing hosting provider or domain registrar to manage your records, because in case you decide to host MX records outside of Office 365 , it will not be possible. Simply, you can’t change your DNS records to host email outside of Office 365.

Jul.03

Dragan Todorovic 0 Office365,CERTIFICATES

Enable XML attachments on Exchange Online

Right click on the PowerShell Console icon and chose the option: Run as administrator.
To change the Execution policy open the Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell and type the command:
```
Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted
```
For creating the remote connection we will need to use a set of three PowerShell commands. Each command perform different task and include variable that serve as a “container” for information such as: user credentials, URL etc. Execute the following command:
```
$cred = Get-Credential
```
```
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection
```
```
Import-PSSession $Session
```
A pop out windows will appear. Type your credentials by using the UPN (user Principal name) format. User should have global administrator rights in the office 365 environment. To view all the allowed file type, you can use this command:
```
(get-OwaMailboxPolicy OwaMailboxPolicy-Default).AllowedFileTypes
```

To allow a specific file type (such as .xml file), use this command:

Set-OwaMailboxPolicy OwaMailboxPolicy-Default -AllowedFileTypes  @{add= '.xml'} Get-OwaMailboxPolicy | Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -BlockedFileTypes @{Remove = ".xml"}
Get-OwaMailboxPolicy | Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -AllowedFileTypes @{Add = ".xml"}
Get-OwaMailboxPolicy | Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -BlockedMimeTypes @{Remove = "text/xml", "application/xml”}
Get-OwaMailboxPolicy | Set-OwaMailboxPolicy –AllowedMimeTypes @{Add = "text/xml", "application/xml”}

Disconnect the remote connection with the following command:
```
Remove-PSSession $Session
```

Jul.01

Dragan Todorovic 0 Office365,CERTIFICATES

530 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated

Exchange Online implementation for new customers also includes local Outlook settings in order to send/receive messages from desktop application. Few days ago, users have reported the following error: “530 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated” during account setup in Outlook 2010/2013.

This kind of issue is cause by incorrect SMTP authentication setting.

From the File menu, select “Info” and choose “Account Settings”
Select your account and click the “Change” button above.Click the “More Settings…” button in the bottom-right corner of the E-Mail Accounts window.
In the Internet Email Settings window, click the “Outgoing Server” tab.
Ensure that the box next to “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” is checked and “use same settings as my incoming mail server” is selected.

Jun.24

Dragan Todorovic 0 SharePoint,Office365

You need a more recent version of SharePoint Designer in SPD 2013?

If you try to open sharepoint site in SharePoint designer you may get following error: “Server error: The version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation running on the server is more recent than the version of SharePoint Designer that you are using. You need a more recent version of SharePoint Designer.”

Solution: In SPD go to Account > Switch Account and type in the credentials of the site you are trying to open (it defaults to your Microsoft Login)

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