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Pssst…want some free GBs in your OneDrive for Business?

One of the common beliefs with Office 365 is that OneDrive for Business storage for most plans (typically Business plans) is limited to 1TB per user. Well, I’m here to tell you that the limit for most tenants is in fact 5TB per user. Don’t believe me? Well, read on and be AMAZED!

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You can see from the above that the user has the standard 1TB storage for the OneDrive for Business.

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The ‘normal’ way that you set the amount of storage each user gets for their OneDrive for Business is via the Storage option in the OneDrive Admin console as you can see above.

Now, if you visit the link just below that setting you will see the following:

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Here’s the full link:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/set-the-default-storage-space-for-onedrive-users-cec51d07-d7e0-42a3-b794-9c00ad0f0083?ui=en-US&rs=en-AU&ad=AU

Thus, if you have more than 5 users (and perhaps less) you can get 5TB per user OneDrive for Business.

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These days, I prefer to do most of my administration using PowerShell. The above script will set the new limit for all users provisioned with OneDrive for Business from this point on to have 5TB of space in their OneDrive for Business.

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To increase any existing users OneDrive for Business up to the 5TB limit you’ll need to run the above script for each user. You’ll need to replace the URL with each users individual OneDrive for Business URL.

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After doing this, if you now look at the users OneDrive for Business storage quota, you’ll see it is now 5TB!

Magic eh? And you thought I couldn’t give you free GB’s out of thin air! Shame on you.

Enterprise State Roaming

Microsoft 365 allows you to implement Enterprise State Roaming which is the ability to sync select Windows desktop settings across various machines. This is really handy if you work with different Windows 10 machines and want you information across all of them.

You enable Enterprise State Roaming in Azure AD and then all you need to have is Windows 10 Pro machines joined directly to Azure AD. This video tutorial will show you how to set up Enterprise State Roaming and how it works.

Need to Know podcast–Episode 181

This week I talk to the Microsoft 365 Senior Product Marketing Manager in Australia Nico Charritton all about the latest updates to Microsoft 365 Business. We talk about the Microsoft 365 Business product and how it can benefits businesses, especially when it comes to increasing their security. Brenton and I also bring you the latest updates from the Microsoft Cloud and also information about the latest Windows updates we have seen roll our recently. Plenty to stay tuned for and we thank you for listening.

Take a listen and let us know what you think –feedback@needtoknow.cloud

You can listen directly to this episode at

https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-181-nico-charritton/

Subscribe via iTunes at:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/ciaops-need-to-know-podcasts/id406891445?mt=2

The podcast is also available on Stitcher at:

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ciaops/need-to-know-podcast?refid=stpr

Don’t forget to give the show a rating as well as send us any feedback or suggestions you may have for the show.

Resources

@contactbrenton

@directorcia

Nico

What is Microsoft 365 Business?

Introducing Microsoft 365 Business

Microsoft 365 Business get serious

Microsoft 365 Business new features

Microsoft 365 Business documentation

Microsoft demos

What’s new in 1803

Google Assistant demo

SharePoint Migration Tool V2 now available

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection

Per disk metrics for managed and unmanaged disks

Introduction to Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is one of the recent offerings rolled into Microsoft 365 Business. See:

Microsoft 365 Business new feature comparison

I feel that ATP should be a mandatory add on for all Office 365 SKUs that don’t already include it. It is very cheap but really helps protect users from bad stuff coming in via emails.

One thing that many people fail to realise about ATP (and many other O365 security features in fact) is that you need to enable it or set up policies to control what you want the service to do. These generally aren’t there by default, so simply adding a license isn’t good enough. You actually need to go in and configure the policies.

The above video gives you and overview of how to set these policies and what options they involve. You’ll also see ATP in action protecting a mailbox from malware. This should give you a goo introduction to Office 365 ATP.

Learn how ATP will make you and your business safer.

Saving custom columns widths with SharePoint Online

*** September 2019 : It appears that the configurations mentioned here no longer work unfortunately.

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One of the great things about SharePoint Online is that you can create custom columns for just about every element in a site. The information that SharePoint Online displays to you can be customised using “Views”. You can configure multiple “Views” inside a List or Library to show exactly the information you want, as you can see above.

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You can also adjust the width of any column by simply dragging it out like you do in something such as Excel. Just go to the boundary of the column heading and drag the column width out as shown above.

The issue was that when you return to this layout after the current session (i.e. closed the browser and logged in again later), the column width would revert back to the default width. Frustrating.

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Also, if another user looked at the same location they would again, only see the default widths, even though you changed it in your session.

So, any column changes made were not persistent between sessions or globally available. Frustrating.

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However, if you take a close look at the “View” pull down in the top right of the page you will notice something.

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You should see that once you change a column width on the page a * appears after the “View” name.

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Again, make a change to the column width and a little * will appear. This is telling you that the “View” has changed is different from the default. This is kinda the same when you edit documents. It indicates that the contents have changed and you SHOULD save these changes for them to be retained!

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If you therefore select the “View” pull down there will be an option to Save view as.

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If you then Save the “View”, using the same name as before, you are overviewing the old display with the new layout i.e. with different column widths.

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If another user now navigates to the page they will see the columns widths that you set! i.e. saving the “View” after adjusting the columns sets these columns width for all users! Yes Martha, we have achieved the global configuration for column widths in SharePoint Online! Yeah!

In summary then, adjust the column widths to the size you want and then save the “View” to make those widths available to all users globally.

CIAOPS Need to Know Azure Webinar–May 2018

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This month I’ll take a look at Azure Storage and all the options that are available around that service. There’ll also be news, updates and Q and A. I hope to see you there.

May Azure Webinar Registrations

The details are:

CIAOPS Need to Know Azure Webinar – May 2018
Friday 25th of May 2017
2pm – 3pm Sydney Time

All sessions are recorded and posted to the CIAOPS Academy.

There of course will also be open Q and A so make sure you bring your questions for me and I’ll do my best to answer them.

The CIAOPS Need to Know Webinars are free to attend but if you want to receive the recording of the session you need to sign up as a CIAOPS patron which you can do here:

http://www.ciaopspatron.com

or purchase them individually at:

http://www.ciaopsacademy.com/

Also feel free at any stage to email me directly via director@ciaops.com with your webinar topic suggestions.

I’d also appreciate you sharing information about this webinar with anyone you feel may benefit from the session.