SharePoint: PowerShell support for brand fonts deletion

🚨 The Signal: SharePoint now supports PowerShell deletion of brand font files. This enables administrators to remove unapproved or unlicensed fonts, reducing potential legal and security risks associated with unauthorized intellectual property or malicious font files.

The Impact

SharePoint administrators are affected by this change, which reduces the risk of unauthorized or malicious font file usage.

  • SharePoint Admins: Can remove unapproved fonts, reducing licensing and brand risks.
  • Security Teams: Gain a tool to eliminate potentially malicious font files from SharePoint.
  • Legal Teams: Benefit from reduced risk of intellectual property infringement via unauthorized fonts.

The Action

  1. Identify unapproved or unlicensed font files in SharePoint Brand Fonts library.
  2. Connect to SharePoint Online PowerShell: Connect-SPOService -Url https://<yourtenant>-admin.sharepoint.com
  3. List font files: Get-SPOFontFile
  4. Remove specific font file: Remove-SPOFontFile -Identity <FontFileName.woff2>
  5. Verify deletion: Get-SPOFontFile

Domain: SharePoint · Impact: medium · Workload: SharePoint