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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. ...

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. The goal Administrators often want users to see only certain records or only their own records from a larger list. Technically, it is possible to set permissions for specific users per item (see below). On the other hand, setting item permissions is not a good solution in every use case. If a SharePoint list is filled by a given user or by a task, and specific people shall see only their data in a list, depending on their department, or similar organizational information, setting item permissions can be elaborate in terms of effort. ...

I had to export email messages from a specific folder in my Outlook mailbox to a CSV file for further processing. Nothing special, just a quick export. I noticed that Outlook allows messages to be exported, but the date of the message is missing in the export file! Really? So here is a workaround to quickly export email messages using Graph PowerShell. Why PowerShell Of course there are many ways to export emails. Unfortunately, the Outlook method is unsatisfactory. When opening the File menu in Outlook for the desktop, there is an “Open & Export” menu which has an Import/Export function. Well, the wizard allows to export messages to a CSV or to a PST file. ...

Another challenging year is coming to an end. We would like to wish happy holidays and a happy new year to all of you. Once more, we say thank you for the good cooperation in 2021 and are looking forward to a healthy and successful 2022! As in previous years, this Christmas we are supporting a selected project with a donation. atwork is closed from December 24th, 2021 to January 9th, 2022. Our on-call duty and our support will be able to be contacted during the holidays. Our entire team will be back for you from January 10, 2022. ...

Microsoft announced the retirement of the Microsoft Service Communications API (Msg MC299902). Therefore, we changed the service health components in Delegate365 to use the successor API functions with immediate effect and to get more data. A new setup of Delegate365 is required. See the details here. The Service health module in Delegate365 shows, what´s happening in a specific Microsoft 365 tenant at a glance to all authorized users. Contrary to the required authorizations in M365, this is not necessary in Delegate365. All admins can view the service health and the message center posts. ...

It’s a wrap! The European Collab Summit and Cloud Summit (www.collabsummit.eu) are sister conferences and are the major community-driven technology conferences focusing on digital transformation, the Cloud, and modern workplace. This year, after being remote for almost two years, the atwork-team attended the conference as speakers and attendees (of course in compliance with the COVID-19 safety concept), and we had a blast! The conference took place from 11/29 – 12/2 at Messe Düsseldorf, Germany, with excellent experts who informed about topics, such as Microsoft 365, Azure, Artificial Intelligence, SharePoint, Microsoft Viva, Teams, Yammer, and Business Apps & Power Platform. This focus is further strengthened by the partnership with Microsoft Teams as a Premium Technology Partner. ### ESC 2021 in a nutshell ...

The Cloud Hub Teams app is a business application that provides data from your Microsoft 365 tenant, the Message Center and the Incident Center, as well as the status and history of global Azure services. Since Microsoft recently announced the discontinuation of the Microsoft Service Communications API, all organizations using the Cloud Hub Teams app have to renew their app permissions once in order to be able to use the successor API functions. See how it works here. ...

In this article, we will show you how to set up document templates for Microsoft Teams channels. You can create custom document content types and assign custom Word/Excel or PowerPoint templates to specific Teams channels, which the Microsoft Teams members can use. Let’s go! Go to the Microsoft Teams team and choose a specific channel Navigate to the “Files” section Choose “Open in SharePoint” and you will be navigated to the SharePoint page of the Teams channel ...

One thing is for sure - every day is a great day to learn something new from Microsoft Teams’ MVPs. Within the latest episode, “Microsoft Teams’ Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs)- Learn from the experts”, you can learn from MVPs in the fields of planning, deploying, adopting, managing, and securing Teams. Stephen Rose (@stephenlrose), Senior Marketing Manager at Microsoft Teams and host of the “Inside Microsoft Teams” series, invited several experts around the world share their favorite tips and tricks on Microsoft Teams. ...

I recently wanted to share a Microsoft Power BI report with other users who only have the “Power BI (Free)” license. Well, with a “Power BI Pro” license, a report can be shared with other users. But I noticed that there are stumbling blocks when it comes to licensing. Here are my findings. First of all, I’m not a licensing expert (and don’t want to be one). However, I would like to ensure that as many users as possible can consume Power BI reports. With this goal in mind, I would like to share my experiences here. ...