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User Guide for Classic M-Files Desktop and M-Files Admin
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User Guide for Classic M-Files Desktop and
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  • Introduction
  • Daily use
  • System administration
  • FAQ
Index
  1. Home
  2. System administration

    This section, intended mainly for M-Files system administrators, explains how to manage, maintain, and configure the M-Files system.

  3. Configuring M-Files
  4. Customizing vault behavior
  5. Microsoft 365 native experiences
  • System administration

    This section, intended mainly for M-Files system administrators, explains how to manage, maintain, and configure the M-Files system.

    • Setting up and maintaining M-Files
    • Configuring M-Files
      • Editing the vault metadata structure
      • Users and user groups
      • Configuring workflows
      • Named access control lists
      • Installing and managing vault applications
      • Using the configurations editor
      • Editing notification settings in M-Files Admin
      • Setting up web and mobile access to M-Files
      • Publishing vault content with classic M-Files Web
      • Reporting and data export
      • Event handlers and scripts
      • Intelligent Metadata Layer
      • Customizing vault behavior
        • Microsoft 365 native experiences
          • Enabling Microsoft 365 storage
        • Setting up Microsoft 365 storage and native experiences
        • Enabling co-authoring for Microsoft Office documents
        • Setting the initial state of the task area
        • Hiding properties in the Classic M-Files Desktop
        • Disabling the comment dialog for assignments
        • Setting a primary file type for multi-file documents
        • Setting character limit for inserted properties
        • Enabling automatic updates for metadata fields
        • Configuring public links
        • Disabling sharing with anyone with the link
        • Configuration Options for the "Send and Save to M-Files" Button
        • Disabling the reference direction setting for grouping levels
        • Enabling phonic and fuzzy searches
        • Setting up synonym search
        • Disabling the search for inflected forms
        • Disabling the sorting of search results by their relevance
        • Configuring search facets
        • Configuring automatic updates with registry settings
        • Specifying PDF conversion limitations for indexing and file preview
        • Defining file types for indexing
        • Configuring mappings between incoming connections and vaults
        • Specifying vault-specific locale settings
        • Preventing linked documents from being removed
        • Settings for vault performance measurement
        • Setting M-Files services to use a managed service account
        • Enabling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
        • Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) with M-Files Mobile

Microsoft 365 native experiences

When you enable Microsoft 365 storage in a vault, all M-Files documents are saved in SharePoint Embedded (SPE) containers and many Microsoft features become available natively with M-Files content.

For more information, refer to Microsoft 365 Storage and Native Experiences FAQ in M-Files Support Portal.

In this section

  • Enabling Microsoft 365 storage
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