Category Archives: Sharepoint Online

Automation, Office 365, Powershell, Sharepoint Online

Finding files in Sharepoint Online or Teams that exceed 218 path length

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Update: new version of this script with GUI here 🙂

A well known issue when migrating to Office 365 (Sharepoint, Teams and Onedrive) is path length.

Recently, Microsoft increased the maximum path length in Sharepoint Online from 256 to 400 characters (total length of the URL). This causes issues when you use Office, because Office 2013, 2016 and 2019 do not support paths over 218 characters in length.*

To help you proactively identify files that exceed this limit I wrote a PowerShell script you can run:

  • it can filter based on file type
  • automatically finds and processes all sharepoint sites in your tenant
  • automatically finds and processes all team sites in your tenant
  • it can handle multi-factor authentication

Find get-filesWithLongPathsInOffice365.ps1 on GitLab

It leans heavily on the great work done by the community around OfficePnP, all credits to the community for providing so much quality code for free!

*longer paths may still work, this is not a hard limit
Office 365, OneDrive for Business, OneDriveMapper, Sharepoint Online

OnedriveMapper v3.10 released!

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Version 3.10 of OneDriveMapper has been released!

  • handle the new tile / prompt that appears in IE login mode where Microsoft no longer always redirects to the portal
  • Progress bar color is now a configurable option (cloud/non cloud)
  • alphabetic ordering of configs (cloud only)
  • Fixed auto update loop issue where auto update would break itself for subsequent updates.
  • When restarting self (switching auth mode or auto updating) properly hide the console if this was set

Important Auto Update Instructions

If you were using Auto-Update, DO NOT do so for this version. Use the MSI to replace the old version (see last fixed issue).

New Azure AD Signin experience

As some may have read, Microsoft is previewing a potentially disruptive change without advance notice. My tenants don’t yet display the new behavior so I cannot test if OnedriveMapper will be affected. I haven’t heard of any issues yet 🙂

Get the new version here