At present, when a Team or SharePoint site is created it is using the same URL alignment which does not make sense. For example: (user tenant/sites/site name) is what is occurring within our farm. We have access to use "sites" or "team" but when a Team site is created, the URL defaults to (user tenant/sites/site name) instead of being created with (user tenant/teams/site name) Because both Team and SharePoint are using the same URL setup, it is making support a headache because SharePoint Admins do not have access to Team sites. If teams was used in the URL for Team site and sites used strictly for SharePoint site, the overall support and ticketing process would be improved greatly!

Hi, I have a strange issue occurring on all of our SharePoint 2016 farms. A user has brought it to my attention that when he copies plain text from a SharePoint 2016 site (Highlighting the text then copying it) then pastes it into Excel 2016, a credential prompt window appears. It works in Chrome and Firefox, but not in IE11 or Edge! This does work in Microsoft Word,Publisher etc, but not in Excel.

We also have a SharePoint 2013 farm, this works without any issue. there is just something different when copying from SP2016 to Excel 2016.

I've tried pretty much everything to sort this on IE11, Trusted sites, Local Intranet, compatibility view, disabling add-ons. Everything that others have suggested on other forums, I've tried. Whats the difference between copy paste on Word 2016 and Excel 2016?

I've also posted this on the SharePoint MSDN forum, another user has been able to reproduce this problem - https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/943507d6-5ac6-4ffc-9766-bc3719eb4988/credential-prompt-when-copying-pasting-plain-text-from-sharepoint-to-excel?forum=SP2016&prof=required

Thanks.

It would be great if there were a possibility to clone user Permissions in a Site Collection or a single Site (SPWeb). The operation should take a username of an existing user and a new user and just add the new users to all groups the existing user is member of in the site and add the same permissions to all scopes that the existing user has access to. This should be fairly simple since all permissions are stored in a single sql table.

At the moment the only way to clone a users permissions is to enumerate all webs, lists, items and folders with unique permissions and create new roleassignments for all those items.

As pages are upgraded to the modern UI experience, such as the SharePoint landing page that rolled out recently – and more importantly the related search pages – there is currently little notification, and no way to control these pages such that they default to either the classic experience or the modern experience. The customization story doesn’t exist for these pages yet, nor are these pages feature complete from the classic experience. Not having a clear picture on when other pages are rolling out, nor having control over whether we would like to use the modern experience by default or not, is a major concern. This results in a loss of functionality as well as compliance issues, such as the inability to surface functionality enhancement customizations, corporate branding, and policy customizations required in our regulated industry. Having more notification of the roll-out of the modern UI experience on additional pages as they are built, as well as the ability to control the roll-out (such as what exists for the modern lists and libraries) is desired and required.

Re-provisioning the Search Service Application is not a solution.

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Today when a user wants access to a resource, the admin receives an email with their request. If the admin then denies the user's request, the user is sent an email from SharePoint. As an admin, I like to send my own email stating why, and maybe where to go instead. Or I may structure permissions differently than what would happen if I just clicked "Accept". So I don't want SharePoint to automatically send this email. How about a checkmark I can uncheck when I deny the permissions? Admins need this level of control to prevent a confusing user experience!