Pay your CoE with Azure - for special use cases only Monday, October 10, 2022 6:00 AM Toni Pohl The Center of Excellence (CoE), also known as the Microsoft Power Platform CoE Starter Kit, is a toolkit to gain insights into the use of the Microsoft Power Platform in an Microsoft 365 organization. While the installation has recently become a bit technically easier, a corresponding Power Platform license is also required for operation. Well, not every company owns or acquires the required license. We show how these license requirements can be solved with Azure temporary - for special use cases - and what are the benefits and the disadvantages of the PAYG billing. Cloud | English | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | PowerApps | Governance | Tools Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
How to backup and restore a flow with another flow Monday, August 29, 2022 5:00 AM Toni Pohl Did you know that you can backup and restore a flow (or multiple flows) with another flow in Power Automate? This is very helpful for backing up and restoring important flows in the company. Well, I knew the mechanism. Now I've tested it myself and found that this process is undocumented and I've only found examples that didn't work. Reason enough to develop the process to work and describe it with all workarounds. Here is the guide for real world application. Cloud | English | Flow | Governance | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | Serverless | SharePoint | Tools Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Governance Toolkit 365-Turn off obfuscation Monday, June 20, 2022 2:00 PM Toni Pohl The Governance Toolkit 365 (GT365) provides many insights from a Microsoft 365 tenant, like users, guests, teams, activities, Power Apps and Flows, Power BI reports and much more. If reports don't show names, IDs, or other details, you'll need to turn off the obfuscation feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Here“s how. Cloud | English | Governance | Microsoft365 | Office365 | atwork | GT365 Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Identify guest users and their status with Graph Wednesday, January 5, 2022 7:00 PM Martina Grom Working with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory as an identity and management system becomes more and more important. Like Active Directory, Azure AD grows throughout time with guest accounts, cloud accounts and synchronized accounts. From a governance and lifecycle point of view - and also for security reasons - it is therefore important to clean up Azure AD from time to time. The cleanup process supports a healthy lifecycle management. In this article we describe how to quickly identify guest users in your own Azure AD with on-board resources. Azure | Cloud | Developer | English | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Graph | Governance Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
The quick way to work with SharePoint Lists and permissions Friday, December 31, 2021 2:00 PM Toni Pohl SharePoint (or Microsoft) lists provide a good storage for not too extensive structured data. Sometimes administrators want to restrict access to certain items or lines. This approach shows how you, as an administrator, can do this without using item permissions, but with simpler and easier-to-manage views and permissions. Blog | Cloud | English | Governance | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | SharePoint Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
The Post Pandemic Hybrid Workspace with Martina Grom Wednesday, August 11, 2021 10:00 AM Mercedes.Orasch Richard Campbell, creator and host for Runas Radio, spoke with Martina Grom, CEO atwork, in an online conversation about hybrid workspaces, governance challenges of Microsoft 365 hybrid workers, and the migration into the Cloud during the pandemic. In this article, we summarized for you the critical insights from the marvelous 30 minutes conversation. Governance | Office365 | Migration | Microsoft365 | Microsoft Teams Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Power Platform Environments and Governance Tips Monday, July 5, 2021 8:00 AM Toni Pohl The Microsoft Power Platform enables individual solutions to be developed and business processes to be easily automated. When it comes to controlling the solutions, it is important to establish an IT governance in the organization. There are many areas and details about it. For this reason, I've put together a summary here with some news and helpful tips. Cloud | English | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | PowerApps | Power Platform | Governance | App | Business Intelligence Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
When to use what Azure monitoring service Sunday, March 7, 2021 7:00 AM Martina Grom The well-known Scott Hanselman has been producing the recurring Azure Friday series for a long time. Last Friday, Scott interviewed Azure Barry (Barry Luijbregts) about "What to use for monitoring your applications in Azure". Barry did a great overview about the main monitoring services. See the recording and a kind of summary transcript here. Azure | App | Cloud | Developer | English | Governance | Microsoft | Serverless | Tools | Visual Studio Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Dataverse for Teams-Governance Aspects Monday, December 14, 2020 12:00 PM PH Microsoft Dataverse for Teams provides a great method to build Power Apps directly in Teams, but there are some Governance aspects that should be considered. PowerApps | Governance | English Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (2) | Post RSS mehr
Austria is getting its own Microsoft data centers Tuesday, October 20, 2020 11:00 AM Toni Pohl Today, Microsoft announced "the Microsoft cloud in Austria, for Austria". The Austrian data center region will join Microsoft's global cloud and provide Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure and Dynamics 365 services. Azure | Cloud | English | Governance | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | atwork Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr
Get Administrator roles and Privileged Identity Management roles of an Azure AD tenant Thursday, July 16, 2020 5:00 AM Toni Pohl To ensure the security of your Microsoft 365 client, we recommend implementing an appropriate governance and security strategy. An effective measure is to determine the current administrators and their permissions. In this article, we want to identify administrators with permanent roles and administrators who can use roles with Privileged Identity Management (PIM). PIM provides just-in-time privileged access to Azure AD and Azure resources. See how to find all Administrators, including PIM, here. Azure | Cloud | Developer | English | Governance | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | PowerShell | Security | Tools Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (1) | Post RSS mehr
Watch the sessions of #GalacticSummit Friday, June 19, 2020 7:00 AM Martina Grom Galactic Summit was THE Microsoft 365 online conference that happened on June 2nd and June 9th, 2020 on USS Defiant, USS Voyager, USS Enterprise, USS Discovery and La Sirena with over 8000 attendees. You can now watch the sessions online! Cloud | English | Event | Microsoft | MVP | Microsoft365 | Office365 | PowerShell | Governance | Security | atwork Mediumlink | Permalink | Comments (0) | Post RSS mehr