Purview Priority Cleanup is growing its capabilities to be able to process files stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Public preview begins in mid-August, and the solution should be generally available at the end of September 2025. Removing files without regard for retention holds is much more complicated than removing mailbox items. The question is who needs this feature and how will it be used?| Office 365 for IT Pros
Microsoft's service description for OneDrive for Business promises unlimited OneDrive storage for Office 365 E3 and E5.| Office 365 for IT Pros
Retention policies and retention labels have been around for about 8 years. Some of the older retention settings might use file created dates to remove items. No doubt basing retention on creation dates made perfect sense at the time, but experience shows that maybe basing retention on the last modified date can be better. All explored here together with a script to update retention labels in OneDrive.| Office 365 for IT Pros
Microsoft 365 Copilot users can generate audio overviews from Word and PDF files and Teams meeting recordings stored in OneDrive for Business. Copilot creates a transcript from the file and uses the Azure Audio Stack to generate an audio stream (that can be saved to an MP3 file). Sounds good, and the feature works well. At least, until it meets the DLP policy for Microsoft 365 Copilot.| Office 365 for IT Pros
In July, Microsoft plans to introduce an app consent policy to stop users granting access to third-party apps to their files and sites. Letting users grant unsupervised consent to third-party apps to access files stored in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online is a bad idea. There are certainly apps out there that need such access, but requiring one-time administrator approval is no hardship.| Office 365 for IT Pros
After July 1, 2025, any sharing links generated with one-time passcodes (OTP) will stop working. Only links based on Entra ID B2B Collaboration will work. Users who lose access to content shared from SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business will have to contact the original sharer to ask them to generate a new sharing link. Sounds like a recipe for confusion, which is what might happen.| Office 365 for IT Pros
This week's Microsoft layoffs provide a timely reminder to review how to retain and secure ex-employee data. OneDrive for Business might be the biggest challenge because of the variety of application data that now ends up in user OneDrive accounts. Agents and Flows are also an area of concern, as are objects like apps, phone numbers, and recurring meetings.| Office 365 for IT Pros
Litigation holds were great when introduced with Exchange 2010. Fifteen years on, better methods exist to preserve user information, like eDiscovery holds. It might seem unnatural to move from litigation holds to eDiscovery cases, but this approach allows the preservation of both mailbox and OneDrive content for as long as necessary. Retention policies can serve the same purpose, so choice exists for modern preservation.| Office 365 for IT Pros
Understanding SharePoint Online storage used to be easy. Then applications like Loop arrived. Other influences like retention and archive can affect storage too| Office 365 for IT Pros
It used to be hard to create a report about the storage used by OneDrive for Business sites in an Microsoft 365 tenant. Now it's just a few lines of PowerShell.| Office 365 for IT Pros
Microsoft has extended their permissions model for working with files, list items and lists within the Graph API. The newly introduced Files.SelectedOperations.Selected, ListItems.SelectedOperations.Selected and Lists.SelectedOperations.Selected scopes are available in both delegate and application permission flavors and allow you to granularly control application access! At the same time, they use the same model the Sites.Selected permissions used, so you can easily adopt them.| Blog
Many phishing attempts use the “someone has shared a files with you”-notification email as their template. I would say they are used for two main reasons: They are common and/or expecte…| Microsoft Security Solutions