Category Archives: OneDrive for Business

Office 365, OneDrive for Business, Powershell, Sharepoint Online

O365AntiCryptoLocker, restores the previous version of your files in Sharepoint Online or Onedrive for Business

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Note: O365Undo is also free and can probably help you fix your crytolocker problem more precisely as it is the next version of O365AntiCryptoLocker

O365AntiCryptoLocker

At OGD we sometimes have to deal with users that got infected with CryptoLockers and have both automated and controlled systems in place to prevent damage or restore data to any fileshares. An infection on Sharepoint Online or Onedrive has not yet happened, but eventually it of course will and I like to fix things before they break.

As Sharepoint Online and Onedrive for Business natively use versioning on files, you basically have no real risk of losing data to Cryptolockers, your RPO (Restore Point Objective) is 0. However, restoring the previous versions of files is quite a lot of work if done manually, so your RTO (Restore Time Objective) could be weeks or more.

Unless of course, you use Powershell. I’ve written a script that will restore the most current previous version of any file in a given Document Library.

Download: O365AntiCryptoLocker

Example usage for a Onedrive site:

.\O365AntiCryptoLocker.ps1 -siteURL "https://o365mig-my.sharepoint.com/personal/test1_o365mig_onmicrosoft_com" -login "mylogin" -password "mypassword" -libraryTitle "Documents"

Or for a Sharepoint Online Site:

.\O365AntiCryptoLocker.ps1 -siteURL "https://o365mig.sharepoint.com/site1" -login "mylogin" -password "mypassword" -libraryTitle "Documents"

You’ll need the Sharepoint Client Components installed, and you’ll have to have sufficient permissions on the library and its files.

 

Automation, O365Migrator, Office 365, OneDrive for Business, Powershell, Sharepoint Online

O365Migrator v0.9 released!

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Version 0.9 of O365Migrator is now available as a free download.

What was changed?

  • Differential transfer: upload only changed/new files. (does not process renames, moves and deletes yet!)
  • Subfolder targeting: upload to a specific subfolder instead of the root if specified
  • Better library name detection when admin and user have different language settings

You can find the new version here.

O365Migrator, Office 365, OneDrive for Business

Migrating files and folders to Onedrive for Business and Sharepoint Online without user interaction part 2

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This is the second post in a series about moving to Onedrive for Business and/or Sharepoint Online from traditional fileshares and/or homedirectories, in bulk, without user interaction.

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  1. Making your data compliant with Office 365 standards, and keeping it that way
  2. Moving the data (in bulk)
  3. User and endpoint transitioning

Many of my employer’s clients are transitioning to a Cloud First IT model. Think triple A, work anywhere, anytime, anyplace.

In the previous post, we’ve talked about requirements, making your data compliant and essentially preparing your environment for migration. Now that you’ve done that, your data should be in a more or less consistent state, it’s time to move it to the cloud!

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