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Requirement: See who has viewed a document in SharePoint Online. How to see who viewed a document in SharePoint? Yes! We can track who has viewed a file in SharePoint online with this nifty feature, “SharePoint Viewers”. To see who has viewed a document in SharePoint, do the following: Go to Site…
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Requirement: Open documents in browser in SharePoint Online. How to Force Documents open in Browser instead of the Client Application? The “Open Documents in Client Applications by Default” feature and the library settings “Opening Documents in the Browser” decides whether a document should be opened in the web browser or in a…
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Requirement: Download files in SharePoint document library from a CSV file to local disk. PowerShell Script to Download Documents from SharePoint : My CSV has “URL” and “FileName” columns in it, and here is the PowerShell to download SharePoint documents from a CSV file to a local disk or network drive. The…
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Requirement: Get file size in SharePoint Online using PowerShell How to Get the File Size in SharePoint Online? To get the size of a file, you can follow these approaches: Edit the list view of the document library and include the “File Size” column in it Go to the “Storage Metrics” page,…
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Requirement: Force download a file instead of opening in SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online: URL to Document Download Instead of Open Documents linked in SharePoint Online pages, navigation menu, lists, etc. opens in the browser (or in client application!) directly either in Read-only mode or in Edit mode, based on user permissions. What…
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Requirement: Upload large files to SharePoint Online using PowerShell PowerShell to Upload a large file to SharePoint Online If you try to upload files with > 250 MB file size to SharePoint Online using CSOM Files.Add method, or PnP PowerShell Add-PnPFile methods you’ll end up in errors: “The remote server returned an…
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Requirement: Add file size column to SharePoint Online How to Show File Size in SharePoint Online? You can add the “File Size” column to any list view of the SharePoint Online document library to get the size of each file. Just follow these steps to add the file size column to SharePoint…
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Microsoft Office Excel files stored in deep Folder, sub-folder structures with long names often result in an error when they exceed the maximum file URL length of 218 characters as in my other article SharePoint Online: URL Length Limitation of 218 Characters in Excel Files. So, we wanted to proactively scan the…
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Requirement: Copy files from OneDrive to SharePoint Online. How to Copy Files from OneDrive for Business Site to SharePoint Online? To copy files from OneDrive to SharePoint Online, do the following: Navigate to the OneDrive for Business site >> Select the files and folders to copy and click on the “Copy to”…
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Requirement: Upload files from a CSV to SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online: How to Import Files from a CSV using PowerShell? We have got a CSV file with a list of files pointing to a network file share. We wanted to import all files from a CSV file to the SharePoint Online site….
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