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Url Length Limit when uploading SharePoint 2013 Online/OneDrive for Business

There is a maximum 256 character limit in SharePoint for REST URLs - reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/LIbrary/dn292556.aspx However URL parameters are not included in the length-...
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Does the Microsoft Graph support driveItem change notifications for SharePoint Online?

I just implemented such a feature for our webapp accessing a customer's SharePoint site. So to make the process for anyone searching for this a bit less painful than it was for me, here's a quick ...
4 votes

The library has too many items

As Hardik states 5,000 items is the maximum number of items you can sync on a team site document library. This is a limitation of the sync tool. Typical workarounds involve splitting out your files ...
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Dynamic link in left navigation menu

Yes, the Links in the QuickLaunch are static, but... You can make a link to a static Redirect Page (or Custom APSX Page), where you extract the link to OneDrive and redirect to it with window....
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How to delete orphaned profile in SharePoint Online?

To check what's the URL of the personal site of a user. Follow below steps Login to SharePoint admin center Go to User profiles > Manage User Profiles > Search for your user Go to edit profile page. ...
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How can a user sync all document libraries in their team site to OneDrive?

You could map a drive to the SharePoint site, then the entirety of the site becomes available in Windows Explorer in a single connection. You also then don't have the entirety of your SharePoint site ...
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Workflow in OneDrive for business

You cannot create Workflow for Onedrive but if you want workflow like functionality then you can try Microsoft Flow. There are various triggers/events which you can define for initiating your Flow (...
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How it enable check-in /check out in OneDrive business

With SharePoint and OneDrive for business, if you Sync a document library from a site, AND enable Check-in/Check-out on that document library - When you try open the file from your PC in the OneDrive ...
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Office365: Scripting One Drive for Business with PowerShell

In one of the most recent updates to the SharePoint Online Management shell, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588, they introduced a new commandlet called Request-...
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REST call to move a file/folder to another location

You can use the next code: $(function() { SP.SOD.executeFunc('sp.js', 'SP.ClientContext', CopyFile); }); function CopyFile(){ var oUrl = _spPageContextInfo....
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Guide for on-premise SP 2013 & OneDrive

OneDrive for Business is supposed to run in the Cloud of Office 365, and you really can’t configure OneDrive and sites links without a subscription. When you navigate to “Configure OneDrive and Sites ...
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BreakRoleInheritance and Inherit Permissions ListItem

Using listItem.BreakRoleInheritance(false, false); to break inheritance for Folder1 is correct, if you want to have unique permissions set from this level on. But if you want Folder2 to inherit from ...
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The library has too many items

Note: There are limitations related to syncing libraries to your computer with OneDrive for Business: You can sync up to 20,000 items in your OneDrive for Business library, including folders and ...
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API calls limit for Office365 REST APIs (Sharepoint/OneDrive)

There are now throttling limits for Office 365 REST APIs. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn889829.aspx Throttling can be triggered if you exceed 1 request per second continuously....
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SharePoint Vs OneDrive

Once a person's license is removed, after 30 days (configurable) their OneDrive will be deleted from the environment. If the user has a manager listed, they will receive an email informing them about ...
3 votes

User able to access SharePoint even without license

The users are likely members of an AD, from where they get the permissions despite excluding them individually from the Office tools. Have a look at your AD on one of the users part of your ...
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Sharepoint Online Storage limit - 25TB or 1TB?

The 25TB is the technical limit for SharePoint Online site collections. The 1TB you are referring to is what space you are given by default in a SharePoint Online subscription. If you wish to add ...
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Is there such a thing as a "Shared OneDrive" (for Business)?

You've probably hearing a workaround solution on it, where a folder is being shared to people or probably an account where the password shared by different people. But in the product design, there's ...
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How to upload a file using REST and C#

Better later then never, apparently you should not convert byte array into string via Encoding: string strData = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data); and then convert it back: byte[] bytes = ...
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How can I set “IsSiteAdmin” property true for a user via Webservice/REST API for Sharepoint?

Here is an example of how to do it using CSOM: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mimorr/archive/2014/01/22/adding-site-collection-admin-in-csom-in-a-sharepoint-2013-app.aspx If you setup this example, and then ...
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Cannot find an overload for "Load" and the argument count: "1"

I ran into this same thing and was able to get this to work by replacing the commented out lines with the others. # Add-Type -Path ([System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft....
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How do I disable the Minimal Download Strategy for OneDrive for Business for all users?

As far as I know, MDS is a web-scoped feature, automatically enabled upon site creation. Assuming you can't have feature staplers (maybe app stapling) in Office 365, the only way to disable MDS is ...
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Recover/restore deleted user

I found this answer with similar context which says: It would be hard to restore deleted users instead you will have to restore the whole profile database. I would highly recommend laying a complete ...
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Show OneDrive documents shared with me in a cumulated way

In your OneDrive for Business site, there is a link called Shared with Me, that lists all files that have been shared with you from other people's OneDrives.
2 votes

OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online team site?

OneDrive for Business is for employees personal working files. Think of this like working out of My Documents on your workstation. You make the move to OneDrive for Business to work out of the cloud ...
2 votes

SharePoint Vs OneDrive

When an employee account deleted, The OneDrive Clean Up Job runs, and the user profile is marked for deletion. The profile will be preserved in the database in a deleted state. The default retention ...
2 votes

Publish files to (other) users OneDrive for Business

Have you tried connecting to SharePoint online using "SharePoint Online Administrator" Account? You can then use your scripts to create folder, upload file etc. Obviously, it is a big risk. You may ...
2 votes

User able to access SharePoint even without license

Not assigning a license to an individual user will not physically prevent them from accessing a SharePoint site What you have to do is to manage the permissions for the SharePoint Online sites. ...

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