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| commerce | Manage License Requests | https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/microsoft-365-docs/commits/public/microsoft-365/commerce/licenses/manage-license-requests.md | If your organization has its own request process, you can use it instead. You cr 1. In the Microsoft 365 admin center, select the **Navigation menu**, then select **Billing** > <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=842264" target="_blank">Licenses</a>. 2. On the **Licenses** page, select the **Requests** tab.-3. Select **Use your existing request process instead**. +3. Select **Connect your request process**. 4. In the **Use your request process** pane, select the **Use my organization's request process** check box. 5. In the **Message** box, type the message you want users to see when they request a license. If you want to also include a link to your organizations policy or other documentation, enter the URL in the **Link to documentation (optional)** text box. 6. Select **Save**. When you return to the **Requests** list, you see the message **You're using you 1. In the admin center, select the **Navigation menu**, then select **Billing** > <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=842264" target="_blank">Licenses</a>. 2. On the **Licenses** page, select the **Requests** tab.-3. Select **Use your existing request process instead**. +3. Select **Connect your request process**. 4. In the **Use your request process** pane, clear the **Use my organization's request process** check box. 5. Select **Save**. When you return to the **Requests** list, you see the message **You're using you 1. In the admin center, select the **Navigation menu**, then select **Billing** > <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=842264" target="_blank">Licenses</a>. 2. On the **Licenses** page, select the **Requests** tab. 3. Select the row that contains the request you want to review. The details pane shows details about which users want licenses to the product.- - To deny the entire request, select **Don't approve**, and in the dialog box, select **Don't approve**. - - To deny some users but approve others, select the X by the name of the users that you want to remove. Their names are moved under **Do not assign to these users**. -4. If you have more than one product, under **Select a product**, select the one that you want to use to assign licenses for. -5. To deny users access to certain apps and services, expand **Turn apps and services on or off**, then clear the check boxes for the ones that you want to exclude. -6. At the bottom of the pane, type an optional message in the text box. -7. When you're finished, select **Approve**. The details pane shows the details of the request. -8. Close the details pane. Users receive an email that says their request was approved or denied. +4. You can assign licenses to each user through the default **Assign license to each of the approved people** option. + - To approve the entire request, select **Submit**. + - To approve some users and reject others, select the **X** next to the names of the users you want to remove. The names of the rejected users are moved to the **Reject for the following people** section. + - To deny the entire request, select the **X** next to the name under the **Approve for the following people** section. Users whose requests were denied appear under the **Reject for the following people** section. +5. If you have more than one product, under **Select a product**, select the one that you want to use to assign licenses for. + - To deny users access to certain apps and services, expand **Turn apps and services on or off**, then clear the check boxes for the ones that you want to exclude. +6. To assign licenses based on group membership, select **Assign license by adding the approved individuals to the following security group**. + - A grayed-out option typically signifies that the security groups are either unlicensed or not yet configured. + - For more information about how to assign licenses to a security group, see [Assign licenses to users by group membership using the Microsoft 365 admin center](/entra/identity/users/licensing-admin-center) + - When multiple security groups are available, select the one to which you want to assign licenses. +7. In the text box at the bottom of the pane, type a message (optional). The user receives an email containing either the default message or your customized message. +8. When you're finished, select **Submit**. The details pane shows the details of the request. +9. Close the details pane. Users receive an email that says their request was approved or denied. ## Share a license request by email If you donΓÇÖt have the authority within your organization to make decisions abo 3. Select the **Share request** tab, then select a request to share. 4. In the request pane, select **Share request**. 5. In the **Share license request details** pane, type an email address, then select the recipient name.- > [!NOTE] - > You can select more than one recipient, but if the email that you entered doesnΓÇÖt resolve into a user name, you canΓÇÖt share the request. + > [!NOTE] + > You can select more than one recipient, but if the email that you entered doesnΓÇÖt resolve into a user name, you canΓÇÖt share the request. 6. To personalize the email, select the **Include a personalized message** check box. Type a **Subject** and **Message** in the corresponding fields. 7. When youΓÇÖre finished, select **Share request**. |
| enterprise | Contoso Infra Needs | https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/microsoft-365-docs/commits/public/microsoft-365/enterprise/contoso-infra-needs.md | f1.keywords: - NOCSH Previously updated : 09/13/2018 Last updated : 05/17/2024 audience: ITPro +- must-keep description: Understand the basic structure of the Contoso on-premises IT infrastructure and how the company's business needs are met by Microsoft 365 for enterprise. Contoso is transitioning from an on-premises, centralized IT infrastructure to a Contoso uses a mostly centralized on-premises IT infrastructure, with application datacenters in the Paris headquarters. -Here is the headquarters office with application datacenters, a DMZ, and the internet. +Here's the headquarters office with application datacenters, a DMZ, and the internet.  -The on-premises application datacenters host: +The on-premises application datacenters host: - Custom line-of-business applications that use SQL Server and other Linux databases. - A set of legacy SharePoint servers. In the Contoso headquarters DMZ, different sets of servers provide: Contoso business needs fall into five main categories: -**Productivity** +### Productivity - Make collaboration easier Contoso business needs fall into five main categories: Take advantage of the latest visual learning and idea development methods, including inking and 3D visualization. -**Security** +### Security - Identity and access management Contoso business needs fall into five main categories: Monitor security posture and detect and respond to threats in real time. -**Remote and mobile access and business partners** +### Remote and mobile access and business partners - Improve security for remote and mobile workers Contoso business needs fall into five main categories: Replace an aging and expensive partner extranet with a cloud-based solution that uses federated authentication. -**Compliance** +### Compliance - Adhere to regional regulatory requirements Ensure compliance with industry and regional regulations for data storage, encryption, data privacy, and personal data regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the Europe Union. -**Management** +### Management - Lower IT overhead for managing software running on client PCs and devices Contoso business needs fall into five main categories: The Contoso IT department determined the following mapping of business needs to Microsoft 365 E5 features prior to deployment: - | Category | Business need | Microsoft 365 for enterprise products or features | |:-|:--|:--| | Productivity | | | |
| enterprise | Introduction To Performance Tuning For Sharepoint Online | https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/microsoft-365-docs/commits/public/microsoft-365/enterprise/introduction-to-performance-tuning-for-sharepoint-online.md | Title: "Introduction to performance tuning for SharePoint" Previously updated : 6/22/2018 Last updated : 05/17/2024 audience: Admin +- must-keep f1.keywords: - CSH description: "This article explains what specific aspects you need to consider w This article explains what specific aspects you need to consider when designing pages for best performance in SharePoint. -## SharePoint metrics +## SharePoint performance metrics The following broad metrics for SharePoint provide real-world data about performance: The following broad metrics for SharePoint provide real-world data about perform - The number of round-trips required per page -- The issues with the service+- Issues with the SharePoint service -- The other things that cause performance degradation+- Other factors that cause performance degradation -### Conclusions reached because of the data +### Conclusions reached from the data -The data tells us: +General benchmarking data tells us: - Most of the pages perform well on SharePoint. -- Non-customized pages load quickly.+- Noncustomized pages load more quickly. -- OneDrive for Business, team sites and system pages, such as _layouts, etc., are all quick to load.+- OneDrive, team sites and system pages, such as _layouts, etc., are all quick to load. - The slowest 1% of SharePoint pages take more than 5,000 milliseconds to load. -One simple benchmark test you can use would be to measure performance by comparing the load time of your own portal against the load time of the OneDrive for Business home page as it uses few customized features. This step is often the first step Support asks you to complete when troubleshooting network performance issues. +One simple benchmark test you can use would be to measure performance by comparing the load time of your own portal against the load time of the OneDrive home page as it uses few customized features. This step is often the first step Support asks you to complete when troubleshooting network performance issues. ## Use a standard user account when checking performance -A Site Collection Administrator, Site Owner, Editor, or Contributor belong to another security groups, have more permissions, and therefore have extra elements that SharePoint loads on a page. +A site admin, Site Owner, Editor, or Contributor belong to another security groups, have more permissions, and therefore have extra elements that SharePoint loads on a page. -This scenario is applicable to SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint but in an on-premises scenario the differences can't be as easily noticed as in SharePoint. +This scenario is applicable to SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint in Microsoft 365, but in an on-premises scenario the differences can't be as easily noticed as in SharePoint in Microsoft 365. In order to correctly evaluate how a page performs for users, you should use a standard user account to avoid loading the authoring controls and extra traffic related to security groups. Within these three connections, there are typically five reasons that cause 95% ### Server connection -Many of the issues that affect performance with SharePoint on-premises also apply to SharePoint. +Many of the issues that affect performance with SharePoint on-premises also apply to SharePoint in Microsoft 365. -As you would expect, you have far more control over how servers perform with on-premises SharePoint. With SharePoint, things are a little different. The more work you make a server do, the longer it takes to render a page. With SharePoint, the biggest culprits in this respect are complex pages with multiple web parts. +As you would expect, you have far more control over how servers perform with on-premises SharePoint. With SharePoint in Microsoft 365, things are a little different. The more work you make a server do, the longer it takes to render a page. The biggest culprits in this respect are complex pages with multiple web parts. SharePoint Server on-premises  -SharePoint +SharePoint in Microsoft 365  -With SharePoint, certain page requests might actually end up calling multiple servers. You could end up with a matrix of requests between servers for an individual request. These interactions are expensive from a page load perspective and make things slow. +With SharePoint on-premises, certain page requests might actually end up calling multiple servers. You could end up with a matrix of requests between servers for an individual request. These interactions are expensive from a page load perspective and make things slow. Examples of these server-to-server interactions are: The other thing that can slow down server interactions is cache misses. Unlike o With on-premises SharePoint that doesn't make use of a WAN, you can use a high-speed connection between datacenter and end users. Generally, things are easy to manage from a network perspective. -With SharePoint, there are a few more factors to consider; for example: +With SharePoint in Microsoft 365, there are a few more factors to consider; for example: - The Microsoft network Regardless of which version of SharePoint (and which network) you're using, thin - Large physical distance to the server -One feature that you can use in SharePoint is the Microsoft CDN (Content Delivery Network). A CDN is basically a distributed collection of servers deployed across multiple datacenters. With a CDN, content on pages can be hosted on a server close to the client even if the client is far away from the originating SharePoint Server. Microsoft will be using this feature more in the future to store local instances of pages that can't be customized, for example the SharePoint admin home page. For more information about CDNs, see [Content delivery networks](content-delivery-networks.md). +One feature that you can use in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 is the Microsoft 365 CDN (Content Delivery Network). A CDN is basically a distributed collection of servers deployed across multiple datacenters. With a CDN, content on pages can be hosted on a server close to the client even if the client is far away from the originating SharePoint server. Microsoft will be using this feature more in the future to store local instances of pages that can't be customized, for example the SharePoint admin home page. For more information about CDNs, see [Content delivery networks](content-delivery-networks.md). Something that you need to be aware of but have no control over is the connection speed of your ISP. A simple speed test tool tells you the connection speed. Something that you need to be aware of but have no control over is the connectio There are a few factors to consider with web browsers from a performance perspective. -Visiting complex pages affects performance. Most browsers only have a small cache (around 90 MB), while the average web page is typically around 1.6 MB, which doesn't take long to get used up. +Visiting complex pages affects performance. Most browsers only have a small default cache size (around 90 MB), while the average web page is typically around 1.6 MB, which doesn't take long to get used up. -Bandwidth can also be an issue. For example, if a user is watching videos in another session, it affects the performance of your SharePoint page. While you can't prevent users from streaming media, you can control the way a page loads for users. +Bandwidth can also be an issue. For example, if a user is watching videos in another session, it can affect the performance of your SharePoint page. While you can't prevent users from streaming media, you can control the way a page loads for users. Check out the following articles for different SharePoint page customization techniques and other best practices to help you achieve optimal performance. |
| enterprise | Microsoft 365 Isolation In Microsoft 365 | https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/microsoft-365-docs/commits/public/microsoft-365/enterprise/microsoft-365-isolation-in-microsoft-365.md | Title: "Isolation and Access Control in Microsoft 365" Previously updated : 08/10/2020 Last updated : 05/17/2024 audience: ITPro +- must-keep f1.keywords: - NOCSH description: "Summary: An explanation of isolation and access control within the various applications of Microsoft 365." description: "Summary: An explanation of isolation and access control within the # Isolation and Access Control in Microsoft 365 Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365 use a highly complex data model that includes tens of services, hundreds of entities, thousands of relationships, and tens of thousands of attributes. At a high level, Microsoft Entra ID and the service directories are the containers of tenants and recipients kept in sync using state-based replication protocols. In addition to the directory information held within Microsoft Entra ID, each of the service workloads have their own directory services infrastructure.- +  Within this model, thereΓÇÖs no single source of directory data. Specific systems own individual pieces of data, but no single system holds all the data. Microsoft 365 services cooperate with Microsoft Entra ID in this data model. Microsoft Entra ID is the "system of truth" for shared data, which is typically small and static data used by every service. The federated model used within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID provides the shared view of the data. SharePoint stores encrypted file content in Microsoft Azure blobs. Each SharePoi ## Teams -Your Teams data is stored differently, depending on the content type. +Your Teams data is stored differently, depending on the content type. Check out the [Ignite breakout session on Microsoft Teams architecture](https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Microsoft-Ignite-Orlando-2017/BRK3071) for an in-depth discussion. |
| enterprise | Microsoft 365 Teams Monitoring | https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/microsoft-365-docs/commits/public/microsoft-365/enterprise/microsoft-365-teams-monitoring.md | Title: "Microsoft 365 Teams monitoring" Previously updated : 03/25/2023 Last updated : 05/17/2024 audience: Admin +- must-keep f1.keywords: - NOCSH |
| enterprise | Modern Image Optimization | https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/microsoft-365-docs/commits/public/microsoft-365/enterprise/modern-image-optimization.md | Title: "Optimize images in SharePoint modern site pages" + Title: "Optimize images in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 modern site pages" Previously updated : 03/11/2020 Last updated : 05/17/2024 audience: ITPro +- must-keep f1.keywords: - CSH -description: Learn how to use the tools included in SharePoint to optimize images in SharePoint modern site pages. +description: Learn how to use tools for SharePoint in Microsoft 365 to optimize images in SharePoint modern site pages. -# Optimize images in SharePoint modern site pages +# Optimize images in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 modern site pages -This article will help you understand how to optimize images in SharePoint modern site pages. +This article will help you understand how to optimize images in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 modern site pages. For information about optimizing images in classic publishing sites, see [Image optimization for SharePoint](image-optimization-for-sharepoint-online.md). For information about optimizing images in classic publishing sites, see [Image ## Use the Page Diagnostics for SharePoint tool to analyze image optimization -The Page Diagnostics for SharePoint tool is a browser extension for the new Microsoft Edge (https://www.microsoft.com/edge) and Chrome browsers that analyzes both SharePoint modern portal and classic publishing site pages. The tool provides a report for each analyzed page showing how the page performs against a defined set of performance criteria. To install and learn about the Page Diagnostics for SharePoint tool, visit [Use the Page Diagnostics tool for SharePoint](page-diagnostics-for-spo.md). +The Page Diagnostics for SharePoint tool is a browser extension for the new Microsoft Edge (https://www.microsoft.com/edge) and Chrome browsers that analyzes both SharePoint modern portal and classic publishing site pages for SharePoint in Microsoft 365. The tool provides a report for each analyzed page showing how the page performs against a defined set of performance criteria. To install and learn about the Page Diagnostics for SharePoint tool, visit [Use the Page Diagnostics tool for SharePoint](page-diagnostics-for-spo.md). >[!NOTE]->The Page Diagnostics tool only works for SharePoint, and cannot be used on a SharePoint system page. +>The Page Diagnostics tool only works for SharePoint in Microsoft 365, and cannot be used on a SharePoint system page. When you analyze a SharePoint modern site with the Page Diagnostics for SharePoint tool, you can see information about large images in the _Diagnostic tests_ pane. Before you make page revisions to remediate performance issues, make a note of t [Content delivery networks](content-delivery-networks.md) -[Use the Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) with SharePoint](use-microsoft-365-cdn-with-spo.md) +[Use the Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) with SharePoint](use-microsoft-365-cdn-with-spo.md) |
| enterprise | Sync Users Multi Tenant Orgs | https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/microsoft-365-docs/commits/public/microsoft-365/enterprise/sync-users-multi-tenant-orgs.md | To synchronize identities to other tenants in a multitenant organization 1. On the **Organization profile** tab, select **Multitenant collaboration**. 1. Select **Share users**. 1. Select **Select users to share**.-1. Choose the security group that you created, and then select **Save**. +1. Select **Save**. 1. Select **Yes** to confirm. This creates a cross-tenant synchronization configuration in Microsoft Entra ID for each tenant in your multitenant organization. The synchronization configurations are named *MTO_Sync_\<TenantID\>*. To change which users are synchronized to other tenants 1. On the **Organization profile** tab, select **Multitenant collaboration**. 1. Select **Share users**. 1. Select **Edit shared users**.-1. Update the users and groups that you want to sync to other tenants and then select **Save**. +1. Update the users that you want to sync to other tenants and then select **Save**. 1. Select **Yes** to confirm. This procedure updates the *MTO_Sync_\<TenantID\>* synchronization configurations in Microsoft Entra ID for each tenant in your multitenant organization. |