Set a SharePoint user’s password to never expired

If you have company requirements to set some individual user passwords to never expire, you need to use Windows PowerShell. You can’t do this in the Office 365 admin center or interface, but you can do it o Windows PowerShell Microsoft Online Service

Below steps are required once on your computer, not every time you connect. However, you’ll likely need to install newer versions of the software periodically.

Step 1: Install Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant

1. Install the 64-bit version of the Microsoft Online Services Sign-in Assistant: Microsoft Online Services Sign-in Assistant for IT Professionals RTW.
2. Install the Microsoft Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell with these steps:
   • Open an elevated Windows PowerShell command prompt (run Windows PowerShell as an administrator).
   • Run the Install-Module AzureADPreview command.
   • If prompted to install the NuGet provider, type Y and press ENTER.
   • If prompted to install the module from PSGallery, type Y and press ENTER.

Install-Module AzureADPreview

Step 2: Connect to Azure AD for your Office 365

1. If you haven’t already, open a Windows PowerShell window on your computer (it doesn’t matter if it’s a normal Windows PowerShell window, or one you opened by selecting Run as administrator).
2. Run the following command:
   Connect-MsolService
   

   Sign in to connect Microsoft Service Online

3. In the Sign in to your account page that opens, sign in with your Office 365 admin account
4. Run the following command to set the password of one user to never expire:
   Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName <email_account> -PasswordNeverExpires $true

When you’re successful, the PowerShell prompt appears for the next command. It doesn’t display anything like “done” or “success.”

You can also find out whether a user’s password is set to never expire by following command

Get-MSOLUser -UserPrincipalName <email_account> | Select PasswordNeverExpires

SharePoint Online can not edit with SharePoint Designer

This is a normal case in SharePoint inside Office 365. If you have a new tenancy and you can’t edit the root site collection in SharePoint designer, that’s because editing that root site collection is disabled by default.

Using Docker in SharePoint Framework development

Nowaday more and more customer are choosing Office365 and SharePoint Online to host for their enterprise solution, Microsoft just announced about how to use Docker within the SharePoint Framework solution development. Docker provides you an easy way to run multiple different configurations for your SharePoint Framework development by providing isolation with virtualization.

New SharePoint team site for SharePoint Online

A SharePoint team site connects you and your team to the content, information, and apps you rely on every day. For example, you can use a team site to store and collaborate on files or to create and manage lists of information. On a team site home page, you can view links to important team files, apps, and web pages and see recent site activity in the activity feed.

Microsoft Updates Office 365 Web Experience

If you’re a browser-based user of Office 365 you’ll see some changes. Microsoft has given the online version of their productivity suite a spruce up, refreshing the application launcher and improving the search tool. There’s a also a task-based tool that suggests which tool to use to best complete a particular job

The changes, which are being rolled out progressively o ver the next couple of months, don’t change the apps themselves – that happen quite frequently – but rather how you get to things. It started with a new URL – http://www.office.com

SharePoint mobile App for iOS iPhone, iPad

After releasing of a series of Office apps for iOS such as Office365 Administration, PowerBI, Delve, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneDrive,…, As announced at the “Future of SharePoint” event on May 4th from Microsoft about they are working on the new SharePoint mobile app. On 21-Jun-2016, Office365 administrators got a official inform message about SharePoint mobile App for iOS release. With this app, Now you can untether and take your intranet with you in your pocket. Stay connected to important content, sites, portals and people from across your intranet while on the go. In the mean time, Microsoft is also working on Android and Windows Universal versions, which we expect to release before the end of this year. Below is some quick review about this product.

Avaialble for download
From 21-Jun-2016, the new SharePoint mobile app is available in the Apple App Store. It’s free download with your iCloud account.

Cloud and Onpremise support
After download, You can install the SharePoint mobile app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod. You can then sign in with SharePoint Online or SharePoint on-premises (2103 & 2016 version support) from the welcome screen.

Both SharePoint online and SharePoint Onpremise supported. 

The Sites tab
From this tab, SharePoint app list all sites that you visit frequently and sites you’re following. This sites come from different site collections. If you click on a site to see recent activity, recent files and the site’s assets (documents, lists, subsites, pages and more). If your webpage is not support to transfer to mobile view, you may got the unsupport message or you can change to desktop view by click on tool box menu at bottom.

Access project site and check for all project document with mobile reable PDF and Office files. Vietnamese language was fully supported and display correctly.

You can also access left menu navigation and click on List menu to see all deployed applications as well as site content.

Check for all deployed applications and site content

All SharePoint data were displayed as list view event if that application is standard list, Calendar, customized list, Links, or Tasks,… look like below

Calendar with events were displayed as list view.

The Links tab
This tab list all sites which based on your permission or allowed for everyone in your company. If you are using Office365, this site come from available SharePoint site collection that created by SharePoint admin. For Office 365, I as expected for applications associated with subscription as such Microsoft Delve, Office 365 Video,… but I can not find them from list tab.

Not much data for links and resources link SharePoint app – Links tab

The People tab
As a staff directory phonebook, but list tab only listed for people that you are working with such as your members, your supervisor or colleagues. By tap on a contact, you can see their personal info like Fullname, Jobtitle, Phone, Email,…

People contact list and personal detail info

From the first look, this release of SharePoint mobile iOS app works well with Office 365 SharePoint Online. For SharePoint onpremise, administrator should improve functionality to make it compatible with SharePoint mobile app like resources as well as People directory. I didn’t test this app with SharePoint 2016. But from my point of view, this app bring to SharePoint users a good concept. While Microsoft improve this app and develop for Android and WinMobile, you can try to use it and give Microsoft your idea and feedbacks via:
User Voice: https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SharePoint
Or you can email to me for helping on bring your idea to MVP community and Microsoft Product team.
Hoang Nhut NGUYEN
Skype: hoangnhut.nguyen
Email: nhutcmos@gmail.com

New UX for SharePoint Online Document Library

Office 365 users can now get started on the OneDrive experience on SharePoint Document Libraries.. This functionality was  launched into Office 365 libraries last week. The new menus for document are really what users have been seeing for years in their OneDrive and drives uniformity on SharePoint 2016. This new UI has been tested on OneDrive for Business and allows us to get a glimpse of the future plan for SharePoint.

Right now this function is optional to all business subscription, the new document library is actually turned offon  almost every sites automatically. Users can chose to utilize it in their respective groups then decide to revert it back or not after testing it it out. The new Office 365 menu sneak peek is available by clicking the “Check it out” button. Users can press the x to close it or check it out.