Cloud Trails

Trails from and around SharePoint Online

How to delete a problematic External User account from a SharePoint Online site Users List.

As this issue keeps showing up again and again in support requests, I thought it is worth mentioning...

Author: Hélio de Andrade Date: 12/26/2016

Sometimes the site Administrator is unable to change the Regional Settings of site collection.

Whenever the admin tries to change the regional settings for a site collection, a message appears...

Author: Hélio de Andrade Date: 12/26/2016

How To Obtain The List Of Security Groups (With Its Members) Of A SharePoint Online Site

As a best practice, it is highly recommended but in practice to keep an updated Security Book where...

Author: Hélio de Andrade Date: 12/26/2016

Transfer Or Migrate Data To SharePoint Online From Your Local File Share Or On-Premises SharePoint Using SharePoint Online Management Shell or The AzCopy Command-Line Utility

For a long time users have asked how to Transfer Or Migrate Data onto SharePoint Online From Your...

Author: Hélio de Andrade Date: 12/11/2016

How to recover the contents of a personal site of a deleted user account, which was also deleted.

Issue Description: In SharePoint Online: After deleting the user account, the personal site...

Author: Hélio de Andrade Date: 10/07/2016

How to delete a problematic External User account from a SharePoint Online site Users List.

As this issue keeps showing up again and again in support requests, I thought it is worth mentioning...

Author: Hélio de Andrade Date: 03/26/2015

UsageDetails.aspx is empty?

There are still too many users asking this question, so I will attempt to give the short and long...

Author: Hélio de Andrade Date: 07/12/2013

What is the permissions model used by SharePoint Online?

I have noticed a lot of confusion around SharePoint Online security, its accounts and permissions. I...

Author: Hélio de Andrade Date: 03/05/2013

Site Sharing with External Users

This feature has evolved quickly, from being limited to 50 external users that could do very little...

Author: Hélio de Andrade Date: 02/08/2013

The just announced Azure AD sign in experience

It was just announced but I already heard that some folks did not understand that they will need to...

Author: Hélio de Andrade Date: 02/06/2013