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
Read moreThis getting started post is a step by step manual to upgrade an existing light switch for remote control and enable the triggering through a mobile app. It creates also a great foundation to add more devices, sensors and other gadgets afterwards. In addition, the chosen solution includes a rule engine which gives the opportunity to trigger the switches based
Read moreA new free tool that allows bulk copy or backups from Google Drive repositories. It’s very simple to use and allows to copy large amount of files without being forced to sync them. Free download: https://fiechter.eu/onedrivebackup/ The tool takes also care of handling the creation and modification date as much as Google allows to-do it. Meaning by uploading a file the
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreAfter 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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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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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
Read moreAfter a longtime of inactivity, I took the time to update the Plain365 code to support the latest Google Analytics java scripts. Now, it should be possible to push Google Analytics to SharePoint Online, SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016 sites. The free tool is available under https://fiechter.eu/p365/
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The upload of my picture library to OneDrive for Business didn’t worked as smooth as expected. Most probably I took simply more pictures than anyone building the sync client could ever expect. To address upload issues with very large files and large number of files, I developed and released a client as free software which will take care of those
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