Your computer is still bound to your company’s local domain? How old school. Well, here’s a step-by-step guide how to join Azure Active Directory (AAD Join) with Windows 10. You must be administrator on your local computer, Your existing use profile (C:\Users[account name]) will continue to exist, but anyway, it’s a good idea to backup your local data if needed. Usually such “local” data should be synchronized to the cloud anyway, so it’s easy to restore (for example with OneDrive). ...

In many of my Office 365 projects customer want to limit the self-service of Office 365 groups creation. Gladly, this is possible in Office 365, with the definition that just specific users are able to create Office 365 groups. Since the launch of Microsoft Teams in March 2017 customers asked me several times if this policy also affect the creation of Microsoft teams? Well, let’s take a look. In a previous blog post, we described how to setup Office 365 Groups policies, check out Management capabilities for Office 365 Groups. Since Microsoft Teams depend on Office 365 groups, we document this scenario step-by-step. ...

We enjoyed being part of aOSDay Dublin on March 15th, 2017, organized by the aOS Community. We had very interesting sessions from Securing Office 365 services, modern app development, groups, connectors to MyAnalytics and Office 365 toolsets. The agenda and speakers are available in a Sway at docs.com. Organizer Patrick Guimonet did the welcome and a session. Tony Redmond delivered a keynote and teached some basic Irish expressions. There were two tracks with 10 sessions, we of atwork had two sessions: ...

Today, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2017 in a two day worldwide online event. Now you can download the latest version of Visual Studio at www.visualstudio.com! There have been local community events (see here). I joined the usergroup event at the Microsoft office in Vienna today. See some snapshots here. Have a look at www.visualstudio.com to see what’s new in Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Online! I stumbled about this article at Petri.com – check this out before installing Visual Studio 2017: Visual Studio 2017 Is Not Supported on All Versions of Windows 10 and at Visual Studio 2017 Product Family System Requirements ...

Office 365 Groups spannen sich über mehrere Office 365 Services und stellen gemeinsame Arbeitsbereiche für Teammitglieder dar. Ende Februar hat AvePoint ein Webinar mit den Experten Ragnar Heil (Microsoft), Robert Mulsow (AvePoint) und Martina Grom (atwork) produziert. Hier gehts zum Webinar “Office 365 Groups: Sie fragen, unsere Experten antworten”. Ganz nach dem Motto “Sie fragen, unsere Experten antworten” standen Ragnar Heil (Microsoft Partner Channel Lead DACH), Robert Mulsow (AvePoint Director Technical Solutions Professionals DACH, NORDICS, BeNeLux) und Martina Grom (atwork CEO, Microsoft MVP und Regional Director) Rede und Antwort. ...

The cloud train started some years ago. Today, it’s no longer the question “IF you will use the cloud, but WHEN you will use the cloud”. That’s the direction IT is going. See my top five reasons why your organization and your IT can benefit from using cloud services. The following reasons are my personal ones and I am focused on the Microsoft cloud services. I am working with Office 365 and Azure a lot since the beginning. So here’s my top 5 list for using PUBLIC cloud services: ...

Since the beginning, Delegate365 developed to an extensive cloud solution for Microsoft Office 365. This article delivers a short overview about the components of Delegate365 in the Microsoft Cloud. The following graphics shows the involved Azure services that are used in D365. Delegate365 is using Platform-as-a-Service components that are maintenance-free. In detail, Delegate365 consists of the following Azure services. Web App – this hosts the Delegeate365 portal website. Jobs – these are tasks that run automatically in the background, currently these are the Synchronization Job, the License Aggregator Job, the Log Sink Job and the Sync Notifications. ...

Some hours ago, a security vulnerability became public regarding services of Cloudfare. Read this article “Cloudbleed” and strengthen your IT-security! “Cloudfare Inc. is a U.S. company that provides a content delivery network, Internet security services and distributed domain name server services, sitting between the visitor and the Cloudflare user’s hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites.” see Wikipedia. A lot of Internet companies are using Cloudfare for the distribution of their content. ...

At the end of last year, Delegate365 version 6 was announced. We added a bunch of features and before updating all tenants, we wanted to improve some functionality. So it took some time to develop and test new features. Now it’s time to update all existing Delegate365 tenants to the latest version 6.1. See the most relevant news at a glance here! Important: Some customers are already using Delegate365 version 6. All D365 tenants will be upgraded to version 6.1 in the next days. All customers will also receive an email notification about the exact upgrade time. If you have any reservation against the D365 tenant upgrade time please contact us at support@atwork.at. ...

Join the Microsoft Visual Studio Team and the worldwide communities celebrating the brand new Visual Studio 2017 release on March 7th and 8th! The announcements and the new features will be published in a live event during these two days. See the details at launch.visualstudio.com. “Visual Studio 2017 is coming on March 7. We’re excited to announce that Visual Studio 2017 will be available for download on Tuesday, March 7, 2017! Join us at 8:00 AM PST on March 7 for a two-day online event celebrating the launch of our latest version as well as 20 years of Visual Studio.” ...