Tag: files

Using Microsoft Migration Manager to Migrate Content to SharePoint Online and OneDrive

August 15, 2024November 5, 2024Brian Alderman

Microsoft SharePoint Online includes a free and simple migration GUI, Migration Manager, to assist you in your migration from SharePoint on-premises sites, file shares, and cloud-based document storage centers to Microsoft 365. The Migration Manager, which is located in the SharePoint Online Admin Center, can perform migrations to SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams from: File shares Cloud-based document centers and Microsoft Stream Box Dropbox Google Workspace Egnyte Stream (Classic) content to Stream (on SharePoint) SharePoint Server on-premises using SPMT (can be downloaded from Migration Manager) 2010 OOB (Out-Of-Box) workflows to Power Automate SharePoint Designer 2010 and 2013 workflows to Power Automate SharePoint Server 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019 SharePoint Foundation… Read More

Blocked File Types Prevent use of Site Templates

May 20, 2015June 3, 2018Brian Alderman

Recently, I discovered I wasn’t able to create a new SharePoint 2010 site using the out-of-box (OOB) team site template in my portal Web application. However, when I tried to create a site using the blank site template, the site was created successfully. After digging deeper into the odd behavior I was experiencing, I discovered that I had previously blocked some file types for my portal Web application and one of those file types that I had blocked was the .png file type. Knowing a blocked file type prevents a file from being uploaded, and even downloaded, in SharePoint I decided to check to try to determine which file types… Read More