Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Companies currently using Search ADP, Australia Department of Defence, Bayer, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Deloitte, Ford Motor Company, Green Mountain Coffee, Pfizer, Rio Tinto, The Procter & Gamble Company, U.S. Army, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Reference BAInsight

2013

SharePoint Search 2013 - TechNet
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/tothesharepoint/tag/sharepoint-search-2013/

Problems Crawling the non-Default zone *Explained
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint_strategery/2014/07/08/problems-crawling-the-non-default-zone-explained/

Search Unleashed Series (Fast Search – SharePoint 2013)
Search Architecture with SharePoint 2013
Crawling content with Sharepoint 2013 Search
Notes on securing data with Sharepoint 2013 Search
How to tell that a Continuous Crawl is actually working
Certain types of Icons are not being displayed in search results with Sharepoint 2013

Compare Content Query Web Part vs. Content Search Web Part
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/When-to-use-the-Content-Query-Web-Part-or-the-Content-Search-Web-Part-in-SharePoint-346a0f48-38de-409b-8a58-3bdca1768929

Note that the number of threads in 2013 changes with the number of cores http://blogs.technet.com/b/searchguys/archive/2013/02/19/content-processing-performance-scaling.aspx

Also here is good diagram of overlap in continuous crawls
http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2012/09/14/how-can-i-achieve-the-best-freshness-of-search-results-introducing-continuous-crawls-for-sharepoint.aspx

Lowest value is one minute for continuous crawl
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219802.aspx

Rock your Search Performance on SharePoint Dev Environments
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/24596.rock-your-search-performance-on-sharepoint-development-environments-in-10-steps.aspx

Running SharePoint 2013 search within a limited RAM footprint
http://reality-tech.com/2014/02/03/running-sharepoint-2013-search-within-a-limited-ram-footprint/

Performance Issues
http://platinumdogs.me/2014/01/07/controlling-search-noderunner-memory-usage-in-sharepoint-2013/

Custom entity extraction in SharePoint 2013
http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2013/01/08/no-metadata-no-problem-custom-entity-extraction-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx

Troubleshooting Tool
https://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/

Foundation
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sharepoint-online-search-service-description.aspx
https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/itpro/pages/search-in-sharepoint-2013-foundation-versus-full-blown-server.aspx

Reset Index from Microsoft

Solution

To solve the issue follow these steps:

Stop the Timer Service
Clear the configuration cache
1. Find in \ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config the folder where the file cache.ini exists
2. Delete every file from this folder EXCEPT cache.ini
3. Open cache.ini, delete the content and put ’1′ (without the quotes) in it and save the file
Restart the Timer Service
Index reset
Full crawl

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jamesway/2011/05/23/sharepoint-2010-clearing-the-configuration-cache/

Reset Index Additional Reference http://www.itidea.nl/index.php/search-has-encountered-a-problem-that-prevents-results-from-being-returned/

Export/Import Managed Properties via Powershell
http://blog.riccardocelesti.it/exportimport-managed-properties-via-powershell/

Check these TechNet articles:

Good article on intro to ….
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2013/06/06/search-2013-search-architecture-part-1-intro.aspx

Test Lab Guide: Configure a highly available SharePoint Server 2013 Search topology
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn271768.aspx

Changes from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742(v=office.15)#section4

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deprecated features
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742(v=office.15)

Search technical reference for SharePoint Server 2013
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219574(v=office.15).aspx

Administer search in SharePoint Server 2013
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee792877(v=office.15).aspx

Architectures - Download
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30383
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30464

Scale Search Performance
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219628.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16002.sharepoint-2013-capacity-planning-sizing-and-high-availability-for-search-in-spc172.aspx

More Articles from the web:

Great articles from BAInsight.
http://www.bainsight.com/pages/sharepoint-search-2013.aspx

SharePoint 2013 Search – FAST Integration
http://www.matdesmarais.com/2012/07/sharepoint-2013-search-fast-integration/

What happens with FAST in SharePoint 2013
http://nbsharepointtalk.blogspot.se/2012/07/whats-new-within-sharepoint-2013-search_24.html

Check out more cool new features in SharePoint 2013
http://www.surfray.com/blog/2012/07/16/new-features-in-sharepoint-2013/

Document Preview
http://www.surfray.com/blog/2012/07/16/document-preview-in-sharepoint-2013/

SEO is built in 2013
http://blog.mastykarz.nl/search-engine-optimization-sharepoint-2013/

Office 365 Search

General Search – Start Here
https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2012/07/sharepoint-2013-search.html

Create an Enterprise Search Web Part for Modern Pages
http://www.carlosmontilla.com/single-post/2017/12/05/Create-an-Enterprise-Search-Web-Part-for-Modern-Pages

Title or Not to Title–That is the question

Strange search results in Office 365

The first line in the file was my title … not the name of the file … but what is title in your organization? Is title the filename or a special title column. No problem since search was engineered to solve this issue.

By design … you can change in your search scheme by modifying the title managed property

Just move your “title” up.

Do you have the same issue with author? No problem since author handled like title, so you can just move it on up.

Works for new document … but old documents are not effected until full crawl. Note that the crawl schedule will effect your results
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/meamcs/2013/02/18/sharepoint-20102013-search-incremental-crawl-vs-full-crawl/

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Web Parts

Office 365

OneNote – Page View Web Part

Add notebook page using the page viewer web part
Right click section in OneNote … then add that url to your page viewer web part.

Quick Link Web Part
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-the-quick-links-web-part-e1df7561-209d-4362-96d4-469f85ab2a82

Using web parts on SharePoint pages
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/using-web-parts-on-sharepoint-pages-336e8e92-3e2d-4298-ae01-d404bbe751e0#bkmk_availableparts

New Modern Web Parts Full List
https://wonderlaura.com/2016/10/17/new-modern-web-parts-full-list/

Web Part Basics

SharePoint Web Part 2010
https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2012/09/web-part-basics.html

Great Source from Laura
https://wonderlaura.com/?s=web+part

SharePoint

SharePoint 2013 – OOTB Web Parts
https://wonderlaura.com/2014/02/12/sharepoint-2013-out-of-box-web-parts/

Content Editor Web Part
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Content-Editor-Web-Part-C1350FF6-934C-4C2E-8E53-1EC3B548A0DC

Connected Web Parts
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Connect-data-in-Web-Parts-c9a84132-44be-4abb-94d1-d69cfdc052db

Change Connected Web Part Icon (Custom Code)
https://sharepointlibrarian.com/2016/10/12/replace-double-arrow-icon/

More from the Cloud Engineer

CSS for Admins
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2016/01/css-for-sharepoint-admins.html

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Office 365 - Hidden or Secret URLs

Office 365 (11.16.2018)

Office 365 User Portal

http://portal.office.com/

Office 365 or Microsoft 365

Admin Center Links

Admin Portal Home
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/homepage
Usage
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/reportsUsage
Users
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/users
Groups – Office 365 Groups
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/groups
Service Health
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/servicehealth

Delve

https://delve.office.com/

OneDrive Admin Center

https://admin.onedrive.com/

Teams

https://teams.microsoft.com

SharePoint Admin Portal

Office 365 - SharePoint - Hidden or Secret URLs

Microsoft hides many URLs that can be valuable to any SharePoint or M365 administrator. However note as always that you should test all the following links in your test or dev environment. So here is a list of very informative URLs "hidden" in SharePoint. Just substitute your site collection URL for http://intranet.contoso.com, http://siteurl, or http://yourservername/sites/yoursite/

New Portal
https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx

SharePoint

SharePoint Home

https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx

SharePoint Admin Center

https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/SiteCollections.aspx

Classic

New – Preview

Top Level Site

https://company.sharepoint.com/SitePages/Home.aspx

Content Type Hub

https://company.sharepoint.com//sites/contentTypeHub/_layouts/15/mngctype.aspx

Create List and Library

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/create.aspx

People and Groups Set Up

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/permsetup.aspx

Office 365 Group - Site Collection Permissions

https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<group>/_layouts/15/people.aspx

https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<group>/_layouts/15/user.aspx

Search – Classic

https://company.sharepoint.com/search

Site Content and Structure

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/sitemanager.aspx

Site Settings

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/settings.aspx

Slide Library (Manual link required) * broken

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/slnew.aspx?FeatureId={0be49fe9-9bc9-409d-abf9-702753bd878d}&ListTemplate=2100

Note requires older browser add-on

User Information List

https://company.sharepoint.com/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx
https://company.sharepoint.com/_catalogs/users/detail.aspx
https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0

Web Analytics Report – Summary

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/usage.aspx

Web Part Maintenance Page

Classic
https://company.sharepoint.com?contents=1
Just add ? contents=1 after any page.

Modern
append ?maintenancemode=true to the end of the URL for the page. For example:
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/teams/SitePages/Home.aspx?maintenancemode=true

Modern Site Web Part Maintenancemode Reference
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/open-and-use-the-web-part-maintenance-page-eff9ce22-d04a-44dd-ae83-ac29a5e396c2

Appendix – Careful

Permissions

https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<group>/_layouts/15/people.aspx

https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<group>/_layouts/15/user.aspx

Monday, November 19, 2018

Office 365 Admin

Office 365 - SharePoint - Hidden or Secret URLs
https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2012/05/hidden-urls.html

Site Usage Report
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/activity-reports/sharepoint-site-usage

Microsoft 365 Admin Center Links

Home
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/homepage
Usage
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/reportsUsage
Users
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/users
Groups
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/groups

Office 365 Branding

Office 365

Branding

Site Designs and Site Scripts (2018.5)
https://laurakokkarinen.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-sharepoint-site-designs-and-site-scripts/

Themes (2019.2)
https://laurakokkarinen.com/how-to-create-a-multicolored-theme-for-a-modern-sharepoint-online-site/

Theming Web Part (2019.3)
https://n8d.at/blog/panthema-web-part-is-now-release-know-your-sharepoint-theme-colours/

Branding SharePoint: The New Normal
https://bob1german.com/2018/09/04/branding-sharepoint-the-new-normal/
Repost
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Branding-SharePoint-The-New-Normal/ba-p/241855

Theme Generator
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric#/styles/themegenerator

Classic vs Modern

Is It Time to Give Up SharePoint Classic Sites?
http://www.markrackley.net/2018/01/30/is-it-time-to-give-up-sharepoint-classic-sites/

How and When to Adopt the Modern UI in SharePoint – 2 Part Series
https://nathanwellsblog.com/2017/07/23/how-and-when-to-adopt-the-modern-ui-in-sharepoint-part-12/

https://nathanwellsblog.com/2017/09/01/how-and-when-to-adopt-the-modern-ui-in-sharepoint-part-22/

List and Site Templates

Save list as template on modern team site not available in SharePoint Online
https://sharepoint-specialist.nu/save-list-as-template-on-modern-team-site-not-available-in-sharepoint-online-e85c25a12943

Save Modern Team Site as a template & provision using Classic Team Site method (visible in SP Admin)
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Save-Modern-Team-Site-as-a-template-amp-provision-using-Classic/td-p/95307

Create and use site templates
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-and-use-site-templates-60371b0f-00e0-4c49-a844-34759ebdd989

“Just to be clear. Using save-site-as-a-template with modern team sites or publishing sites is NOT supported. You can always find ways with tenant admin permissions to achieve things, but the fact that it's doable does not mean it's supported.

Any sites created with the template which has been produced with this method can have unexpected issues in the future, so provided steps should never be used.”

Best regards,
Vesa Juvonen, Senior Program Manager, SharePoint Engineering, Microsoft.

Office 365 Videos

Office 365

GitHub

Library

http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2017/05/github.html

Outage

October 21 post-incident analysis

https://blog.github.com/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analysis/

Office 365 PowerShell

More on PowerShell 101

https://powershell101.blogspot.com/2013/09/office-365-powershell.html

Legacy Info

Training

PowerShell for Office 365 administrators (5/2017)
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/PowerShell-for-Office-365-administrators-40fdcbd4-c34f-42ab-8678-8b3751137ef1?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Admin

Useful PowerShell cmdlets to administer Office 365 Groups:
https://vigneshsharepointthoughts.com/2018/05/16/useful-powershell-cmdlets-to-administer-office-365-groups/

Azure Active Directory PowerShell Version 2 (5/2017)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-adv2?view=azureadps-2.0

A SharePoint REST API Tester with an AJAX and Workflow Writer
http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-sharepoint-rest-api-tester-with-ajax.html

Managing SharePoint Online Files with PowerShell
https://www.petri.com/managing-sharepoint-online-files-powershell

Using PowerShell to Specify License Plans in Office 365
http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=664

PowerShell script to upload user profile images to Office 365
http://www.techmikael.com/2016/09/powershell-script-to-upload-user.html

Friday, November 16, 2018

Office 365 Glossary and How To Guide

11.16.2018

Sites

Office 365 or SharePoint - Hidden or Secret URLs
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2012/05/hidden-urls.html

Users

Add User
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/add-users/add-new-employee

Data Migration
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/introducing-the-sharepoint-migration-tool

Password Reset
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/add-users/let-users-reset-passwords

Quick Help: Types of Users
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/misc/types-of-users

Remove User
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/add-users/remove-former-employee

User Views
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/add-users/create-edit-or-delete-a-custom-user-view

Monday, November 12, 2018

PowerApps and Flow

More from the Cloud Engineer

Flow and SharePoint

https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2019/04/flow-and-sharepoint.html

PowerApps and SharePoint

https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2019/04/powerapps-and-sharepoint.html

News

FLOW

Rich Text Editing
https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/rich-text-editing/

Examples using Flow and SharePoint
https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2019/04/flow-and-sharepoint.html

POWERAPPS

Formula reference for PowerApps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/formula-reference

Delegation - Filter on a Boolean in PowerApps
https://www.dontpapanic.com/blog/?p=572

Links

Flow Community
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community/ct-p/FlowCommunity

Microsoft Flow Blog
https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/

Microsoft Flow Templates
https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/

Limits and Configuration in Microsoft Flow
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/limits-and-config

Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/JayanthiP4/getting-started-with-microsoft-flow?next_slideshow=2

Videos

PowerApps PDF Generator using Microsoft Flow PDF Converter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rfAQe1kK8M

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Office 365 News

Welcome …
This page serves as a news collection of both new and historic

Updates

https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2018/11/office-365-updates.html

Outage Information

https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2018/09/cloud-outage-information.html

9/4/2018 – Office 365 and Azure Major Outage – subnet issues

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Latest Updates

Weekly List of Office 365 Updates
http://www.nuno-silva.net/
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Logon

https://login.microsoftonline.com

Availability

http://trustoffice365.com/

Office 365 for administrators

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn127064(v=office.18).aspx

Software Boundaries and Limits

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/SharePoint-Online-software-boundaries-and-limits-8f34ff47-b749-408b-abc0-b605e1f6d498

Office 32 vs 64 bit

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Choose-between-the-64-bit-or-32-bit-version-of-Office-2dee7807-8f95-4d0c-b5fe-6c6f49b8d261

Drive Mapping – Local Drive to Office 365
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2017/02/mapping-sharepoint-as-network-drive.html
SPFx

SharePoint Framework reaches general availability …” build and deploy engaging web parts today”
https://blogs.office.com/2017/02/23/sharepoint-framework-reaches-general-availability-build-and-deploy-engaging-web-parts-today/

Export Term Store

Export Term Store Example 1
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/264a32a9-f874-4242-a0c5-8fc68e23228c/export-term-store-to-csv-from-sharepoint-online?forum=sharepointdevelopment
Export Term Store Example 2
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/33712.sharepoint-online-taxonomy-output-terms-up-to-6-level-with-powershell-and-csom.aspx
Export Term Store Example 3
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/sharepoint-online-office-365-exporting-all-the-terms-fro/

Solutions

Create a Simple SharePoint 2013 Employee Directory on Office365
http://sympmarc.com/series/create-a-simple-sharepoint-2013-employee-directory-on-office365/
Teams Training Videos
https://www.successwithteams.com/Academy

Historical Icons

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Features News and Tools

New Communication SItes
https://blogs.office.com/2017/06/27/sharepoint-communication-sites-begin-rollout-to-office-365-customers/
Troubleshooting
New - https://diagnostics.outlook.com/#/
Old - https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/
DNS
http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2015/09/office-365-dns-settings-in-a-hybrid-environment.htm https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uktechnet/2015/04/10/dns-the-key-to-a-successful-office-365-migration/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rmilne/2015/04/29/office-365-autodiscover-lookup-process/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rmilne/2016/07/14/office-365-exchange-hybrid-deployments-busting-the-autodiscover-myth/
PowerShell
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2016/09/office-365-powershell.html
Updates
https://blogs.office.com/office365updates/
Migration
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/21c53734-ba8f-47f7-b160-5c1a6b3fb238/sharepoint-2010-to-office-365-migration
Backups
http://www.lieben.nu/liebensraum/onedrivemapper/
http://office365drivemap.codeplex.com/
http://www.thinkscape.com/Map-Network-Drives-To-Office-365-OneDrive/
AADSS – The New DirSync Tool
Old Office 365 multitenant support https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/educloud/2013/08/02/multi-forest-and-multi-tenant-scenarios-with-office-365/
New Azure AD Connect - Multiple forests, single Azure AD tenant
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/connect/active-directory-aadconnect-topologies
Azure AD Connect download
https://connect.microsoft.com/site1164/downloads
History of DirSync
http://blog.kloud.com.au/2014/10/14/a-history-of-dirsync-and-the-new-azure-ad-sync-services-tool/
Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services
http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2014/09/18/new-office-365-directory-synchronization-tool-shipped-called-azure-active-directory-synchronization-services.aspx
Integrating your on-premises identities with Azure Active Directory Connect
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnect/
Azure Active Directory Connect - AADC Prerequisites
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnect-prerequisites/

Upgrade from DirSync
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnect-dirsync-upgrade-get-started/
Trust
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/business/office-365-trust-center-cloud-computing-security-FX103030390.aspx
Hybrid Options
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj838715(v=office.15).aspx
Great Article – On-premises vs. Cloud
http://blog.jackfrostdesign.com/2013/12/11/if-your-feet-arent-on-the-ground-your-head-should-be-in-the-clouds/

Technorati Tags: o365

Known Issues
Install Beta for PowerShell (workaround)
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/46a38822-28a4-4abb-b747-96f7db2a2676/cannot-install-azure-active-directory-module-for-windows-powershell-mossia-is-not-installed
Customer Pros and Cons
ProsNo Hardware or Datacenter
Automatic Updates
Mobile Access without VPN
Cons
No Server Side Control
No Control on List/Library View Size
Support
Office 365 Service Descriptions
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819284.aspx
Office 365 Planning Guides
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/sharepoint-online-planning-guide-for-office-365-enterprise-and-midsize-HA101988931.aspx
SharePoint Online Roadmap - Sites and document sharing within Office 365.
http://community.office365.com/en-us/wikis/sharepoint/default.aspx
Support Wiki
http://community.office365.com/en-us/wikis/default.aspx
News
Azure Sales Top $1 Billion
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/microsoft-azure-sales-top-1-billion-challenging-amazon.html
More from The Cloud EngineerFeature Compare
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2012/03/feature-comparison-across-sharepoint.html
Issues
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2011/11/office-365-issues.html
Team Sites
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2011/11/team-sites-in-office-365.html
Configuration
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2012/07/office-365-configuration.html

From the rest of the web
Demos
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/showcase/channelDetails.aspx?channelid=office365
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/showcase/Search.aspx?phrase=Sharepoint+Online
Help Online
http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/ff637592.aspx
http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-smallbusinesses/ff637563.aspx
SharePoint Online for Office 365: Developer Guide
www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17069&mnui=5
For information about Office 365: Office 365 connectivity limits To learn more about Internet bandwidth, port and protocol considerations for Office 365 plans, see Office 365 Ports and Protocols. SharePoint feature availability To learn more about SharePoint feature availability and the SharePoint Online service in Office 365, see SharePoint Online Service Descriptions. SharePoint Online search limits To learn more about the search limits for SharePoint Online, see Search limits for SharePoint Online. OneDrive for Business restrictions and limits To learn more about restrictions and limits when using the OneDrive for Business (Groove.exe) sync client, see Restrictions and limitations when you sync SharePoint libraries to your computer through OneDrive for Business. To learn more about restrictions and limits when using the OneDrive for Business Next Generation (OneDrive.exe) sync client, see Restrictions and limitations when you sync OneDrive for Business libraries through OneDrive for Business. To determine which OneDrive for Business sync client you are using, see Which OneDrive sync client am I using? Mobile devices To learn more about opening a SharePoint Online site from a mobile device, see Use a mobile device to work with SharePoint Online sites. File types To learn about file types that you can't add to a list, see Types of files that cannot be added to a list or library. Online URLs To learn about SharePoint Online addresses, see SharePoint Online URLs and IP Addresses. Site languages To learn how to set language for your sites, see Change your language and region settings. Planning and deploying SharePoint Online

Change storage space Change storage space for your subscription. Important: You can’t buy additional storage for a trial subscription.

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

SharePoint Features Comparison

News

ShareGate Nintex Hyperfish Survey (Online and On-Prem)
https://en.share-gate.com/global-sharepoint-industry-study

2019

SharePoint 2019 is now RTM
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Announcing-General-Availability-of-SharePoint-Server-2019/ba-p/272546

New and improved features in SharePoint Server 2019
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/what-s-new/new-and-improved-features-in-sharepoint-server-2019
What's deprecated or removed from SharePoint Server 2019
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/what-s-new/what-s-deprecated-or-removed-from-sharepoint-server-2019

2016

Feature availability across SharePoint on-premises plans
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/SharePoint-2016-Feature-1746745d

Standard vs Enterprise

SharePoint 2016 Licensing

SharePoint 2016 licensing
https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-licensing-overview
SharePoint 2013 vs 2016
https://www.cloudappsportal.com/sharepoint/sharepoint-2016-2013/

2013

2013 - Service Applications
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12512.sharepoint-2013-service-applications.aspxSince many links have change please use the following:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140205120238/https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819267.aspx
2013 - What's New – Changes from 2010 to 2013
https://web.archive.org/web/20170222121421/https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742(v=office.15)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742(v=office.15)
2013 - What's Gone
https://web.archive.org/web/20160508183009/https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742(v=office.15).aspx#section1
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742%28v=office.15%29.aspx#section1
2013 - Discontinued Features
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2012/09/sharepoint-2013-discontinued-features.html
2013 vs Office 365
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sanjaynarang/archive/2013/01/20/sharepoint-2013-2010-2007-feature-comparison.aspx

2010

Compare SharePoint Versions
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2013/02/versions.html

Compare SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2012/03/feature-comparison-across-sharepoint.html

2007

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678862(v=office.12).aspx

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Office 365 - SharePoint - Hidden or Secret URLs

Microsoft hides many URLs that can be valuable to any SharePoint or O365 administrator. However note as always that you should test all the following links in your test or dev environment.

So here is a list of very informative URLs "hidden" in SharePoint.
Just substitute your site collection URL for http://intranet.contoso.com, http://siteurl, or http://yourservername/sites/yoursite/

Office 365 (11.16.2018)

More from the cloud engineer

http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2018/11/office-365-hidden-or-secret-urls.html

SharePoint

Site Content and Structure

http://intranet.contoso.com/_layouts/sitemanager.aspx

User Information List

http://intranet.contoso.com/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx
http://intranet.contoso.com/_catalogs/users/detail.aspx
http://intranet.contoso.com/_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0

Logon As Different User

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2752600

Start Internet Explorer by using the Run as different user option, and then go to the SharePoint site.
Note: The Run as different user option is visible if you hold the Shift key when you right-click a program icon.
Access the SharePoint site by using the the URL as http://siteurl/_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true
Firefox Multi User Add-On such as multifox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multifox/

Miss the Old List and Library Interface?

http://yourservername/sites/yoursite/_layouts/create.aspx

Slide Library (Manual link required)

Use this link http://yourserver/sites/yoursite/_layouts/15/slnew.aspx?FeatureId={0be49fe9-9bc9-409d-abf9-702753bd878d}&ListTemplate=2100
Thx Mike http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2012/11/finding-missing-sharepoint-2013-slide.html

Site-Collection > Web Analytics Report - Summary

http://intranet.contoso.com/_layouts/usage.aspx

Taxonomy

http://yoursite/Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList

User Profile (Hybrid)

http://mysites.contoso.com/person.aspx?NoRedirect=Yes

User Profile Photos
http://userprofielurl/User%20Photos/Forms/AllItems.aspx

Not Hidden - Important URLs

Site Collection Administration > Storage Metrics (new to SP1)
http://intranet.contoso.com/_layouts/stor.aspx

People and Groups Set Up

http://intranet.contoso.com/_layouts/15/permsetup.aspx

Web Part Maintenance Page

http://intranet.contoso.com?contents=1

Just add ? contents=1 after any page.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Open-and-use-the-Web-Part-Maintenance-Page-eff9ce22-d04a-44dd-ae83-ac29a5e396c2

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

SMTP - SharePoint and Office 365

2019

Finally – SMTP Authentication included with SharePoint 2019
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mikelee/2018/07/25/finally-smtp-authentication-included-with-sharepoint-2019/

2013

Configure incoming e-mail settings - Error File Not Found?
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/5f6d864d-c2f7-4a1c-a86b-36bbf2890175/configure-incoming-email-settings-error-file-not-found?forum=sharepointadminprevious

Office 365

Configuring outgoing email settings for SharePoint with Exchange Online aka office365
http://blogs.technet.com/b/yashgoel-msft/archive/2014/03/06/configuring-outgoing-email-settings-for-sharepoint-with-exchange-online-aka-office365.aspx

How to Allow a Multi-function Device or Application to Send E-mail through Office 365 Using SMTP
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn554323(v=exchg.150).aspx

How to configure Internet Information Server (IIS) for relay with Office 365
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn592151(v=exchg.150).aspx

http://www.sharepointanalysthq.com/2014/07/sending-email-from-sharepoint-on-premises-via-office-365/

Thursday, September 6, 2018

SharePoint Online Administration

2018

Updates

New Menu Edit Functionality - Sept-2018
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Announcing-new-file-template-management-for-document-library/ba-p/238374

Tools

Cleaning Up Orphaned SharePoint Online Sites
http://blog.ciaops.com/2018/07/cleaning-up-orphaned-sharepoint-online.html

Checking SharePoint External Users PowerShell Script
http://blog.ciaops.com/2018/07/checking-sharepoint-external-users.html

Search Property Migration
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/how-to-migrate-sharepoint-search-properties-from-one-tenant-to-another-using-cso/

SharePoint "Modern" user interface experience scanner
https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Tools/tree/master/Solutions/SharePoint.UIExperience.Scanner

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Social

@randelhall

@_cloudengineer

Paper.li

http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2018/09/papers.html

Paper.li–Daily Papers

Windows Server Daily News

https://paper.li/JeffHicks/1344023878#/

The SharePoint Daily

https://paper.li/e-1502300375#/

Cyber Certification And Standards

https://paper.li/noidentity29/1516129649#/

The Cyber Identity

https://paper.li/noidentity29/1516127778

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Cloud Outage Information

Office 365 Outage Information

https://status.office365.com/

Currenthttps://istheservicedown.com/problems/office-365
Historyhttps://istheservicedown.com/problems/office-365/history

http://downdetector.com/
http://downdetector.com/status/office-365

9/4/2018
Worldwide Maphttp://downdetector.com/status/office-365/map/
Comments and status via socialhttp://downdetector.com/status/office-365

History

9/4/2018 – Office 365 and Azure Major Outage – subnet issues

Rumors via comments

Source http://downdetector.com/status/office-365

Source https://status.office365.com/

Lightning Strike Map 9-3 to 9-4 2018 https://www.lightningmaps.org