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Limiting executable code

Limiting executable code

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Limiting executable code

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- [Illustrator] Here's something that you might not have thought about yet. What file types will you need to manage in your document libraries? Are any of those executable files? Files which can run as a process? Think.exefiles or .bat. There's quite a long list although mostly just developers work with them. Depending on your business, it may be absolutely critical to store and manage these files. The problem here is that they could also be used to launch an attack on your system. Microsoft used to automatically block more than 150 different file types from upload to SharePoint. Although it's possible to block files in the modern on-premise version of SharePoint, it's now a manual operation and out of the box there are no blocked file types in the online version or in OneDrive. Google, Dropbox, Hightail none of them automatically block file types either. The good news is that this all usually happens at the…

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