Newsletter Archives

• How we automated the Win7 ESU-purchase process

  Posted on February 10, 2020 at 01:05 CST by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  SMALL BUSINESS

  By Amy Babinchak

  At Harbor Computer Services, we specialize in providing IT services to small businesses with between one and 100 computer users.

  An important part of those services is helping customers modernize their business processes by effectively using applications and tools provided with their Microsoft 365 subscription. Often, this entails automating repetitive office tasks — an approach we also apply in our own business. Here’s an example.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.6.0 (2020-02-10).

  Small Business Computing, Windows 7, Windows Patches/Security AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Cloud services, MS Forms, SharePoint, Win7 ESU

• Install the Patch Tuesday .NET security-only patch KB 4457916 and you clobber SharePoint Workflows

  Posted on September 17, 2018 at 10:06 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I haven’t seen this bug show up in other .NET patches just yet, but it’d be worthwhile keeping your eye out for it.

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4457916, NET, SharePoint

• Minimum Versioning Coming Soon to SharePoint Online & OneDrive for Business Libraries

  Posted on August 16, 2018 at 23:21 CDT by Kirsty • Comment in the Forums

  Modified in Office 365 Roadmap on August 14, 2018:

  Versioning settings in OneDrive for Business, Groups and team sites in SharePoint Online
  All SharePoint and OneDrive libraries will be set to retain a minimum of one hundred major versions. Existing libraries that have versioning enabled but are set to retain fewer than one hundred major versions will be updated to retain the new minimum. Libraries already set to retain one hundred or more major versions will not be affected, including those with the default setting of five hundred. With these changes, the Document Library Settings page will no longer support the ability to disable versioning or configure it to retain fewer than one hundred versions.

  Again, there are reports of customers pushing back on Microsoft’s changes, and Microsoft have advised that organisations will be able to avoid this change on “Office 365 Tenants”, if they act before September 30th – “Otherwise, we will roll out the versioning setting update to your tenant in October 2018.”. This workaround involves a SharePoint Online Management Shell cmdlet, using version 16.0.7918.1200 or better.

  Full details are on Microsoft Tech Community

  Microsoft News, Office News Office 365, Office 365 roadmap, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Versioning

• Microsoft yanks SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1, KB 2817429

  Posted on April 7, 2014 at 20:05 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you or your company is running SharePoint 2013, you might want to get the word out.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows Patches/Security SharePoint