Office 365 / ADFS vulnerability

Companies are protecting Office 365 with ADFS or Conditional Access. This protection is done to ensure that users can access SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business only from controlled areas. SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business unfortunately are using very long living authentication cookies, which the users or malicious code can send to other machines like private machines. From there

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Mass file upload to Office 365 – updated

The latest release of the free sync tool for Office 365 and SharePoint on-premises has been updated. The tool can be downloaded here: https://fiechter.eu/onedrivebackup/ The latest update covers: Filename length check and alerts Path length check and alerts CSV export of errors Minor bug fixes in the processing engine The source used for the path verification rules: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2933738/restrictions-and-limitations-when-you-sync-sharepoint-libraries-to-your-computer-through-onedrive-for-business

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SharePoint multi file upload / download – update

The online services API’s of SharePoint and Office 365 are not as reliable as expected. Especially when transferring large number of files a lot of issues occurred. This is addressed by a new error handling and retry mechanic. In addition more detailed logging and exception handling has been built in. The free software can be downloaded from here: https://fiechter.eu/onedrivebackup

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Office 365 DNS wildcard / domain entry

After changing my name servers to Office 365, I figured out that the http://fiechter.eu or https://fiechter.eu stopped working. The solution is very simple, adding an A record with an @ as hostname. This will ensure that all lookups on the domain name will be resolved. Unfortunately this doesn’t cover subdomain, e.g. *.fiechter.eu. Microsoft doesn’t have a solution for this. In this case you need to use another name server.

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Bulk Upload to SharePoint 2013 / 2016 / Online

Download: https://fiechter.eu/onedrivebackup/ The free upload tool for SharePoint 2013, 2016, Online supports bulk upload with preserving key metadata like change dates. It removes unsupported characters and runs a pre-upload check to make sure the upload runs as smooth as possible. The latest version has also improvements in regards to loading indications and following integration. In addition it has a general send to target for windows explorer, so

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Windows Explorer Send To SharePoint or OneDrive for Business

You always wanted to comfortably upload your files to SharePoint libraries? The free latest version of the OneDriveBackup tool makes it possible. It allows to directly connect the Send to buttons in Windows Explorer with a SharePoint or OneDrive library. This can be achieved by: Download and start the tool Select a random source, click Next Select a destination library on SharePoint 2013, 2016, Online or

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