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Microsoft enabled a new feature for Microsoft Teams: Dataverse (former Common Data Services –CDS) for Teams. It empowers Teams Owner to create PowerApps directly in Teams without any additional storage space for its data (e.g. a SharePoint List) To achieve that every “Power App enabled Team” gets its own Power App Environment. But there are some things to consider: Power Platform Admins can NOT control the creation of Teams (Dataverse) Environments – the only way is to disable the Teams App “Power Apps” via Teams App Policies ...

Today, there was a free live event on the Collab Global CON4 platform about IT Governance in Microsoft Teams. Tune in to the Governance Live Discussion with Dux Raymond Sy and Martina Grom - Good Governance Precedes Great Adoption. Live Discussion: How to Make It Easy For People to Do the Right Thing in Microsoft Teams. (Good Governance Precedes Great Adoption) Hear the two talk about why Teams governance is important and see examples of how processes can be improved. ...

This quote from Immanuel Kant made my day: “Many things have a price, some have a dignity.”

Cloud architecture diagrams need to look good. Get the new Azure architecture icons v3 here! Open docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/icons, agree to the terms and download the file Azure_Public_Service_Icons_V3.zip. Check out the pretty new Azure icons for your cloud diagrams!

Letzten Freitag wurde ein Beitrag im ORF Ö1 Radio im Technologie-Magazin “Matrix” zum Thema “Wo unsere Daten wohnen - Vom (Computer-) Leben in der Rechnerwolke” mit unserer Cloud-Expertin Martina Grom gesendet. Hier geht es zur Aufzeichung. Die Journalistin Sarah Kriesche wirft in dem Beitrag einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Cloud-Geschäfts und lud dazu unsere Geschäftsführerin und Microsoft Cloud-Expertin Martina Grom von atwork ein. Weitere Gäste waren Werner Illsinger, Präsident der Digital Society und Thomas Dullien, Geschäftsführer von optimyze. ...

Today´s a quick tip: Check out the free Microsoft eBook “Roadmap to Digital Infinity” - How to become an Intelligence Driven Organization! Roadmap to Digital Infinity This is a short eBook with 19 pages that “will show you how to take the next steps on your digital journey.” It covers topics from Intelligence Driven Organization to the Digital Feedback Loop and the the core solution. It’s a beautifully designed eBook. I like the statements like “Change is the new normal” and a statement from Ralph Haupter, President, Microsoft EMEA: “One thing we can count on: combining human ingenuity with innovation will be essential, not optional”. In addition, the data analysis helps to put an organization in a test and learning culture. New ideas can be developed, started and improved with much more confidence. ...

Sometimes it is useful to convert data in documents to another format. There are various tools for this. My favorite conversion tool is Pandoc. Pandoc supports a few dozen file formats, from Word to Markdown and many more. See how to convert a document with Pandoc here. Download the Pandoc tool Pandoc is a cost free and universal document converter, available for all platforms. You can download the command line tool from https://pandoc.org/installing.html. ...

The next version of Delegate365 is here. Delegate365 v9.2 follows the last update v9.1. This update includes a bunch of helpful features and improvements such as SharePoint sites management, Group OU improvements, report improvements, a new message trace job and more. See a description of the new features here. License bars on the dashboard, for users and quotas: The license information is now visually improved for Portal Administrators. A license bar per license (SKU) shows how many licenses are in use and how many are available in total. The same applies to a user’s licenses… …and license quotas. The new display enables a quick view of the licenses. ...

Delegate365 provides a toolbox for easy management of a Microsoft 365 tenant. Management ranges from Exchange Online to Azure AD, SharePoint Online, Reporting and Intune. Delegate365 communicates with the Microsoft 365 services via apps and Modern Authentication, wherever possible. However, a service account had to be used for some Exchange features and the multi-factor authentication management. This will change with the next versions. Some M365 background information So far, some Microsoft services such as Exchange Online (EXO) could only be reached with Basic Authentication, while other (new) services such as Microsoft Graph can be used with an app. Basic Authentication relies on sending usernames and passwords with every request increasing risk of attackers capturing users´ credentials. Therefore, Microsoft recommends that you stop using Basic Authentication. Basic Authentication is superseded by *Modern Authentication *based on OAuth 2.0 that is supported for the new Microsoft 365 services. ...

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. Microsoft’s Austrian data center region supports companies in complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union and will offer companies on-site access to the entire range of Microsoft cloud services. Microsoft also announced a new Center of Digital Excellence to modernize the IT infrastructure of public services and to promote industrial innovations in Austria. ...