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Provisioning an Office 365 group with an approval flow and Azure functions-part 3

This article describes the workflow for the group provisioning process by using the Azure function from part two in combination with PowerApps, SharePoint Online and Flow to enable a good user experience. Technically, we already have the toolset with the ProvisionGroup function. Now let’s create the rest.

Provisioning an Office 365 group with an approval flow and Azure functions-part 1

Office 365 groups span over various Office 365 services and provide a great way for collaborating. By default, every user can create an Office 365 group. While self-service is a good thing and many businesses adopted into that direction, some companies still prefer the controlled approach. In real world environments, organizations usually want to restrict the group provisioning so that IT can control the wild growth of groups. This article series shows how to create an Office 365 group with an attached approval process with SharePoint Online, Flow and Azure functions. See how this works here!

Why we moved away from Exchange distribution groups to Office 365 groups

A very simple use case let us give up our Distribution lists. This article discusses why and how we did it and delivers tips how to improve your experience with Office 365 groups.
How can you replace old” distribution groups from a synced environment with new” Office 365 groups? And how to add, delete or modify email addresses to an Office 365 group? This article shows the steps.

Welcome to atwork365.com

In IT, Office 365 evolved to a standard for collaboration and Software-as-a-Service products within the Microsoft world. We at atwork are delivering highly qualified architecture, guidance and solutions based on Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure. So, we wanted to point out this fact and are marketing our brand with the domain name atwork365.com in future.

How user profile synchronization works in Office 365 services

Office 365 users often ask about user profiles in various Office 365 services and where to change what. Since the Office 365 products do have a history, there are different places where user profile data is stored and how specific properties are synchronized. So, we at atwork thought that it makes sense to inform about the current user profile status in Office 365 with this article.

Office 365 Sicherheit - Advanced Security Management

Mit Office 365 sind Sie sicher unterwegs. Heute stelle ich Advanced Security Management vor, eine auf Office 365 reduzierte Variante von Cloud App Security. Advanced Security Management in office 365 hilft Ihnen dabei, proaktiv Änderungen in Ihrem office 365 Tenant zu monitoren, zu erkennen und darauf zu reagieren.

Customer Lockbox einfach erklärt

Office 365 bietet eine Reihe an Sicherheitsfunktionen, die einem Unternehmen helfen, die Unternehmenskommunikation sicher zu gestalten. In einer neuen Videoreihe zu Office 365 security auf Channel 9 in den Office 365 News stelle ich dazu einige vor. In 20 Minuten zeige ich dabei die Funktionsweise von Customer Lockbox. Customer Lockbox fügt eine zusätzliche Kontrollmöglichkeit ein.

Management capabilities for Office 365 Groups

By default, in Office 365 all users can create an Office 365 group. As IT Administrator you can restrict that users can create Office 365 groups. If you want to have a more granular control to define which users shall be able to create a group that’s more effort. See here, how this works.