Category: Announcements

Dangerous SharePoint on-Prem Security Attacks!

ATTENTION! Active attacks on SharePoint on-Premise Server customers! Microsoft issued a warning over the last weekend about two dangerous security vulnerabilities in on-prem instances of SharePoint. It allows attackers to remotely execute their own code on vulnerable instances. According to Microsoft, the following versions are affected: SharePoint Server 2016, 2019 und die Subscription Edition. SharePoint … Continue reading Dangerous SharePoint on-Prem Security Attacks! →

SharePoint Online OTP Authentication gets out-of-support on July 1st, 2025

returning from vacation I noticed a recent announcement and change so hence here Just a quick one... Starting July 1, OTP-based sharing links will no longer work for external users. Organizations using SharePoint and OneDrive with Entra B2B must reshare content via guest access. External users will need to register with multi-factor authentication (MFA). Microsoft … Continue reading SharePoint Online OTP Authentication gets out-of-support on July 1st, 2025 →

End of support reminder for SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 on-Premises

Action required!! The end of support for SharePoint Server 2016 and SharePoint Server 2019 is qickly approaching and you will have just one year left to migrate to the M365 Onlien version or upgrade to the currently "last avaible on-Premise Version: SharePoint Server Subscription, aka "SharePoint SE" By July 2026, Microsoft will permanently end support for SharePoint On-Premises Versions 2016 AND … Continue reading End of support reminder for SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 on-Premises →

Microsoft is locking “unlicensed OneDrive Accounts”

Starting January 27, 2025, OneDrive accounts that are unlicensed for more than 93 days will be inaccessible to admins and users. That typically happens, when an account becomes "unlicensed".i.e. an Administrator removes the license or the user's Entra ID gets deleted. These accounts are automatically archived and can still be viewed through the admin tools, … Continue reading Microsoft is locking “unlicensed OneDrive Accounts” →

InfoPath is dead… and now?

This post is intended for those who are still using InfoPath and not quite prepared to switch or move to new solutions. End of Support:  InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Online will be retired in 2026! The Call to action: If you are still not yet in plannings, you should definitely start to do so! … Continue reading InfoPath is dead… and now? →

IE11 Hard block for Sharepoint and OneDrive in January 2023

As communicated via your tenant admin center in message MC278815 (August '21) Microsoft 365 apps and services ended providing support for Internet Explorer 11 in August, 2021. Beginning mid-January, 2023, access to SharePoint Online and OneDrive from Internet Explorer 11 will be hard blocked for all users. Users should access these services through a modern … Continue reading IE11 Hard block for Sharepoint and OneDrive in January 2023 →

Want to learn more about Microsoft Lists?

Microsoft is delivering five free public virtual workshops (May 10-14, 2021). Each delivery is three hours long, offered across multiple time zones (AMER, LATAM, India, EMEA, and APAC). Registration is open: https://aka.ms/MSLists/workshop #AddToCalendar "Go further with Microsoft Lists" See how Lists evolve from SharePoint lists to empower individuals and teams to create, share and track … Continue reading Want to learn more about Microsoft Lists? →

Reminder: SharePoint 2010 Workflows retirement

As posted in my earlier post "SharePoint 2010 workflow retirement", this is a reminder! As communicated in MC217999 (July '20), with the continued investment in Power Automate as the universal solution to workflow, Microsoft is retiring SharePoint 2010 workflows. NEW:A retirement announcement banner has been introduced on multiple workflow pages: "Starting November 1, 2020 6:00:00 … Continue reading Reminder: SharePoint 2010 Workflows retirement →

Migrate your content into Microsoft 365

A few days ago, Mark Kashman - Microsoft published a great post here about the various migration tools and services from Micrsofot and 3rd party migration partners along with a infographic poster This is collectively the broadest set of offerings to assist your migration into Microsoft 365 – from assessment, to planning and onboarding. Migration Manager – … Continue reading Migrate your content into Microsoft 365 →

SharePoint 2010 workflow retirement, August 1st – 2020

SharePoint 2010 workflows will be retired starting August 2020. To mitigate the impact for customers using SharePoint 2010 workflows, we recommend migrating to Power Automate or other supported solutions. SharePoint 2013 workflows will be retired in the future as well. We currently do not have a timeline when this will occur.

SharePoint classic blogs are being retired

In mid december 2019, a message center Notification turned up in the tenant admin portal, telling you the "Retirement of SharePoint classic and Delve blogs".See Message Center ID: MC197403 The SharePoint classic blogs and Delve blogs are being retired. Existing SharePoint classic blogs will continue to work as expected, including the ability to create new … Continue reading SharePoint classic blogs are being retired →

Microsoft acquires Mover to simplify and speed file migration to Microsoft 365

On Oct 21, 2019 , Jeff Teper - CVP Office, SharePoint and OneDrive announced the acquisition of Mover.io, a leading cloud migration provider with admin-led and self-service offerings.  See more here: Microsoft acquires Mover to simplify and speed file migration to Microsoft 365 With the addition of Mover.io to the Microsoft 365 family, Microsoft will complement the work … Continue reading Microsoft acquires Mover to simplify and speed file migration to Microsoft 365 →

Google Chrome Beta version 78 causes users being unable to sign-in

Summary The upcoming Beta release of the Google Chrome browser (build 78 released on 9/19/2019) will feature a breaking change in how cookies are handled that will severely impact many open standards based applications and services, including Microsoft cloud services, resulting in users being unable to sign-in to services and user sessions being left active … Continue reading Google Chrome Beta version 78 causes users being unable to sign-in →

Basic Authentication Retirement for legacy protocols in Exchange Online

  NEW Message Center Announcement on your Tennant Admin pages!!MC191153, Plan For Change, Published date: Sep 20, 2019View this message in the Office 365 message center   Beginning October 13, 2020, we will retire Basic Authentication for EWS, EAS, IMAP, POP and RPS to access Exchange Online. Note: this change does not impact SMTP AUTH. … Continue reading Basic Authentication Retirement for legacy protocols in Exchange Online →

Page Diagnostics tool for SharePoint Online Version 2

You may probably remember the earlier version of the Page Diagnostics tool for SharePoint Online. it was about  how you can use the Page Diagnostic tool to analyze your classic publishing pages and pages on classic team sites, against a subset of recommended practices in SharePoint Online. There is now a fresh release of the … Continue reading Page Diagnostics tool for SharePoint Online Version 2 →

Random News Flash December 2016

Here is a summary of some news, Announcements and other interesting stuff, send out "randomly"  December 2016 flash Supportability Office 2007 End of Support remainder:Starting October 10th 2017 "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" (aka MOSS 2007) will enter final end of support!That means, after this date there is no more support for this product and … Continue reading Random News Flash December 2016 →

To all my Fans and subscribers…

UPDATE [2015-12-12] The BLOG migration has finished and I'm now on the new platform! Notice: A redirection should automatically bring you to the new location but just in case: OLD URL:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/steve_chen NEW URL: http://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/steve_chen   --- hello all, due to an upcoming change in the TechNet Blog systems, my blog and posts will be soon … Continue reading To all my Fans and subscribers… →

SharePoint 2016 news!

Bill Baer (Microsoft) disclosed at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago the initial investments made in installation and deployment of SharePoint Server 2016.  Some of the key points are: System Requirements Deployments Operating System Requirements .NET Framework versions SharePoint Prerequisites to be installed Database Server Requirements  MinRoles (v1) Overview …and many more… - please find the full … Continue reading SharePoint 2016 news! →

Random News Flash April 2015

Here is a summary of some news, Announcements and other interesting stuff. send out "randomly"    Supportability Support for SharePoint 2013 RTM has endedStarting April 14th only SharePoint 2013 farms with SP1 are supported. SharePoint 2013 servers/farms without SP1 are no longer supported and hotfixes released beginning with April 2015 cannot be installed on SharePoint … Continue reading Random News Flash April 2015 →

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-001 impacts SharePoint

Yesterday, the “Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-001” has been published. It contains among others also security updates for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2837625) 64-Bit Edition Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2837577) Please note, that if these updates are deployed via WSUS to your SharePoint Servers, … Continue reading Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-001 impacts SharePoint →

Random News Flash August 2013

Here is a random summary of some news, Announcements and other interesting stuff. I'll try to send out "randomly" some more News flashes as they come up   Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 Product Guide (PDF Download) Microsoft has started releasing Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 to hardware partners. Approx. with October 18th, 2013, Windows 8.1 … Continue reading Random News Flash August 2013 →

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Preview is out!

  Related posts:        - This Post - almost RTM - Search Service Issue - Sharepoint RTM - Setup and Install                                 Today, I’m proud to let you know some of the great news! This year, Microsoft is going to launch a lot of amazing products! So the first previews of some of … Continue reading Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Preview is out! →

SharePoint Supportability flash July 2012

This is just a short summary of some supportability news, notes and remainders related to SharePoint. Support Lifecycle Reminder for SharePoint 2010 RTM Starting July 10, 2012, mainstream support will end for SharePoint 2010 RTM. This means that customers should attempt to be at least at SP1 if they wish to receive mainstream support from … Continue reading SharePoint Supportability flash July 2012 →

SharePoint Supportability flash May 2012

This is just a summary of some supportability news and flashes related to SharePoint, as recent as per May 2012.   Updated Browser Support Matrix Until this month, the Plan Browser Support matrix document on TechNet was a common edit point for TechNet writers because of the constantly changing browser versions. With many browsers moving … Continue reading SharePoint Supportability flash May 2012 →

Current service pack announcements Oct. 2011

Hello, This is for your comfort, to inform and notify about the latest service pack announcements. Office 2007 and MOSS 2007 (Office SharePoint Server 2007): Now available!  Office 2007 and MOSS 2007 Service Pack 3 (likely the final last)    NOTE!  -Although the SP3 will be deployed by automatic updates and WSUS servers, it is … Continue reading Current service pack announcements Oct. 2011 →

SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Command Builder

just wanna’ make you aware of a new “feature”,   the  Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Command Builder  ,-) It’s a nice, comfort tool to help you to interact directly with SharePoint-based web applications, site collections, sites, lists, and much more. Here is a "screenshot:   The Windows PowerShell Command Builder for SharePoint 2010 Products and Office … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Command Builder →

ARCast.TV – Building an Integrated Office Solution Using Word, OpenXML and SharePoint 2010

ARCast.TV - Building an Integrated Office Solution Using Word, OpenXML and SharePoint 2010 At TechEd 2010, Jawa Buddhavarapu and Murali Bala shared with Zhiming Xue “Dr. Z” their experience of building an integrated Office solution at Westat using Microsoft Word, OpenXML and SharePoint 2010. Check out this interview to find out: Why they choose Office … Continue reading ARCast.TV – Building an Integrated Office Solution Using Word, OpenXML and SharePoint 2010 →