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Activity Reports in The Office 365 Admin Center

It is important to asses the usage of Office 365 services by your employees well, in order to determine who needs extra quotas or who don’t need an Office 365 license. Here are some useful tips and information about activity reports in the Office 365 Admin Center.

Different Stages in The App Installation

Learn about the different stages in the app installation permissions request flow, and how to approve or deny requests for installing an app. You can also learn how to view the pending app requests, and steps to make the app available after approval.

SharePoint design principles

This week’s SharePoint tips gives you information about creating a site design and some of the main characteristics of the SharePoint design principles. You can also get some useful tips on authoring pages in a SharePoint Site.

Create A Distribution List in The Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Distribution Lists Make It Easier to Send Messages to A Group or Category of People. Learn How to Create A Distribution List in The Microsoft 365 Admin Center, And Steps to Add A User or Contact to A Distribution List.

Techniques to Customize a SharePoint Site

Knowing how to make your SharePoint Online 2019 site look different is important. This week, we would like to talk about different techniques to customize a SharePoint Site.

Customize the Office 365 Theme

You can customize the Office 365 theme from the admin center effortlessly. You need admin rights to change the default theme that determines how the top navigation bar for everyone in the organization is displayed.

Get Started with A Plan in Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Planner enables you to create a plan, assign tasks, make teams and a lot more things in just simple steps. This week we would like to give you tips to get started with a plan in Microsoft Planner and to add tasks to a plan.

Get Started with Microsoft Planner

Last week we shared tips to get started with Microsoft Planner. Now let’s give you more insight to utilize plans more effectively. Learn how to add people to a plan and steps to assign tasks to those people.

Share Office 365 Sites with External Users

Sharing documents, files, and other content with people within and outside your organization is an important process. You can share Office 365 sites with external users to make collaboration smooth.

How to Share Your Calendar in Outlook

The benefits of sharing a calendar in Outlook will surely impress your team. It enhances your team’s efficiency and communication. You can balance assignments and events, along with saving time.

How to Share Files & Folders in SharePoint

How to share SharePoint files/folders

  • Click on the file/folder you want to share and select Share.
  • Choose the appropriate option from the dropdown list to define the kind of permission you wish to provide.
  • Click on Apply after making the changes and enter the usernames along with a message.
  • Click on Send when you are ready to send the link.

Steps to see with whom a SharePoint file/folder is shared

  • Select the file and click on the Information icon in the upper right.
  • From the Details pane, select Manage access and click on the Links Giving Access section in the Manage Access panel.
  • Click on the ellipsis to view the users who have access to the link.
  • The Direct Access section displays users with direct access to the file.

Tips to stop sharing or change permissions of SharePoint files.

  • Choose the file or folder you wish to change permissions and select Information.
  • Select Manage Access option from the Details pane.
  • Choose Stop Sharing to stop sharing the file entirely.
  • Delete the sharing link by choosing x after clicking on the ellipsis near the link.
  • Go to Direct Access section to change permissions or stop sharing with anyone on that list.

How to get a link to a file or folder

  • Select Copy link to copy the link automatically to the clipboard.
  • Click on the dropdown and choose appropriate options.
  • You can select the users for whom you want this link to work.
  • Click Apply when finished making the changes.
  • You can now paste the link anywhere applicable.

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Troubleshooting Shared Calendars in Outlook

Tips to solve issues with edit/sync Outlook.com shared calendars after migration

  • Ensure that your calendars and email sync correctly.
  • For that, you need to reconnect your Outlook.com account to Outlook for Windows.
  • To do that you can create a new Outlook profile and add your Outlook.com account.
  • Once it is done, delete your old Outlook.com profile.

Tips to solve issues with editing a shared calendar in Outlook 2016

  • You cannot use Outlook on Windows to edit Shared calendars with your Outlook.com account.
  • This applies even if you have reconnected your Outlook.com account to Outlook.
  • Outlook 2016 for Windows possibly allows editing shared calendars.
  • You can edit a shared calendar by going online to your own Outlook.com calendar.

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