Office 365

Export Search Results for entire Office365 tenant to CSV

Posted by on June 21, 2020 at 10:25 am

I needed to perform a search of our entire tenant for a few key terms and then produce a CSV of all the search results. I was not able to find anything on the web which produced this result. The best thing I could find was a PowerShell script for searching a single site collection […]

Hide “Download” option on documents right-click menu

Posted by on May 30, 2020 at 10:15 am

Do you want to prevent people from downloading a copy of a document or spreadsheet from SharePoint? I’ve shown you previously how to hide the Download to Excel button in the ribbon. This is the next step in the evolution of keeping your users dialed back. Hover over any document or spreadsheet for an elipsis […]

Remove Left-Hand Nav on a List Form

Posted by on April 8, 2020 at 3:04 pm

Today I was asked to remove the left-hand navigation on the New Item form for a list in Office365. The form was opening in full-page mode, rather than the “modal dialog” format (aka “LightBox”) and was showing the site navigation on the left. The site owner did not want this. This should also work on […]

Adjust / Modify Column Width in an Office365 List

Posted by on August 2, 2019 at 2:41 pm

Previously, I wrote about how to adjust the column width of a list in SharePoint 2010. However, none of that advice works in SharePoint Online. There is a ton of crazy information out on the web and most all of it is useless. I found this one suggestion by Vadivelu B. on a Microsoft forum to be just […]

Import Excel file into an Existing List

Posted by on January 29, 2019 at 8:57 am

SharePoint offers the basic feature of importing a spreadsheet which will then become a brand new list. If any updates are made to the spreadsheet, you will either have to: manually key in the updates to the list -or- copy and paste the updates to the list using the DataSheet View or QuickEdit (depending on […]

SharePoint Online (Office365) Starter Kit

Posted by on June 19, 2018 at 10:31 pm

There is now a “starter kit” available for your Office 365 SharePoint tenant (aka SharePoint Online or “SPO”). It’s not just a site template but rather, it’s an entire solution featuring Modern page templates (not Classic), 17 custom web parts, 7 SharePoint framework extensions, and several other components – all customizable and ready-to-go.  Plus, it’s […]

Enable the Audit Log in Office 365

Posted by on August 2, 2017 at 3:48 pm

The Audit Log in Office 365 is disabled, by default, presumably to save disk space. To enable the audit log in your tenant, in the Office 365 Admin Portal browse to the Security & Compliance Admin Center -> Search & investigation -> Audit log search. Click Start recording user and admin activities then click Turn On. Or you […]

Azure AD V2 PowerShell Module Released

Posted by on March 22, 2017 at 11:20 am

For you Office 365 subscribers, as of today, the Azure Active Directory version 2 PowerShell module can be downloaded from the below site which also contains a full list of the cmdlets available. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azuread/v2/azureactivedirectory  

PowerShell Command Builder for SharePoint

Posted by on June 16, 2016 at 9:23 am

In case you weren’t aware, Microsoft has provided a free, online PowerShell Command Builder utility: https://www.microsoft.com/resources/TechNet/en-us/Office/media/WindowsPowerShell/WindowsPowerShellCommandBuilder.html I recommend that you bookmark it and refer to it whenever you need to double-check the commands in your scripts.  You may want to download the Getting Started Guide. Make sure that the first thing you do is to select the appropriate […]