Report on items shared with Everyone or Everyone Except External Users in SharePoint Online

In this article, we take a look at the recently introduced Content shared with ‘Everyone’ group and Content shared with ‘Everyone except external users’ group reports in SharePoint Online. We show you how to generate and view the reports with both the UI or PowerShell, walk you over on fixing encoding-related issues that still plague the built-in methods and even discuss how to generate your own version of the reprots. …

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First look at the SharePoint API usage report

A quick look at the recently introduced SharePoint API usage report. While the report seems to complement the already available Graph API usage one, it gets its own endpoint and even a settings to control its data collection. The latter point is not clearly explained in the documentation, so hopefully this article helps you get started with the report. …

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More robust external sharing controls now available for SPO/ODFB DLP policies

As part of MC1338823 (Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – Block external domain or user access for SharePoint and OneDrive), Microsoft is rolling out new and more granular external sharing controls. In this article we take a look at how to configure the new actions and how the end user experience looks like in the ongoing public preview. …

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SharePoint Online PowerShell module adds support for certificate-based authentication

In a welcome, albeit long-awaited, development, Microsoft has finally added support for certificate-based authentication (or CBA) for the SharePoint Online PowerShell module. The news was published as part of the MC1188595 message center post, which unfortunately is a bit light on the details. So let me fill in the gaps …

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