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SharePoint MVP Benjamin Niaulin (sharegate.com/blog) asked some of his colleagues about their opinions and thoughts of Microsoft Office 365. Our Office 365 expert Martina Grom was among them. Here´s the result: 20 MVPs Share Their Thoughts on Office 365 …a lot of well known experts in the IT industry! Here´s Martina´s statement: Martina Grom from atwork Martina is head of consulting and project development. @magrom Which feature(s) of Office 365 you think will have the biggest impact in 2015? And why? Office 365 has so many features, that’s really hard to decide. Let’s name some of them which I think are important: ...

Heute, am 8. März, ist weltweiter “Tag der Frau” (siehe WIkipedia). Eine gute Gelegenheit, das Interview “IT-Expertinnen im Interview – Was Frauen in der Technik heute beschäftigt” mit unserer Geschäftsführerin Martina Grom (atwork.at) und Österreichs Digital Champion Meral Akin-Hecke (werdedigital.at) zu veröffentlichen. Das Interview führte Johanna Kriks von textlust.at. IT-Expertinnen im Interview Was Frauen in der Technik heute beschäftigt: Martina Grom und Meral Akin-Hecke zeigen, wie unterschiedlich Karrierepfade in der IT für Frauen aussehen können. Was sie sich für die Zukunft wünschen, haben wir in einem Interview erfragt. ...

Martina and I just returned from the Microsoft Community Open Day event in Munich. The name can be misleading for people outside of Microsoft, because COD is actually a closed event for members of the Microsoft community leaders in the MVP Program and the CLIP Program within a region. Here community leaders and members can inform about news and do a lot of networking. In our case we both belong to the german speaking D-A-CH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). COD usually takes place somewhere in the corresponding region, last year in Berlin, this year in Munich, at the Microsoft Office. [Additionally there´s the yearly Global MVP summit for ALL MVP´s at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond…] ...

Gestern fand bei Microsoft Österreich die Veranstaltung “So sicher ist die Cloud – Datenschutz und Datensicherheit in der Microsoft Cloud” statt. Hochkarätige Dozenten informierten über Datensicherheit und gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen in der Cloud. Vortragende waren unter anderem Rechtsanwalt Stephan Winklbauer, Microsoft-Österreich-CTO Harald Leitenmüller, Software-Architect Rainer Stropek und Office 365 Expertin Martina Grom von atwork. Das Auditorium war knallvoll. Nach der Vormittagspause lichteten sich die Reihen ein wenig. Auf jeden Fall ist Datensicherheit in der Cloud für Kunden und Partner ein sehr relevantes Thema. ...

Es geht dahin: Microsoft hat die neue OneDrive API veröffentlicht, mit welcher Developer OneDrive in eigene Apps integrieren können. Diese ist für alle größeren Plattformen wie Web, Windows, iOS und Android verfügbar. Mit der neuen RESTful API können so Daten aus und in den Microsoft Cloud Speicher eines Benutzers gelesen und geschrieben werden. Hier geht es zur Ankündigung im blog.onedrive.com: The new OneDrive API Der Download ist auf GitHub verfügbar: Introducing the new OneDrive API ...

Microsoft Band SDK Preview is available! For the details see here: https://developer.microsoftband.com/ “The Microsoft Band SDK Preview gives developers access to the sensors available on the band, as well as the ability to create and send notifications to tiles. Enhance and extend the experience of your applications to your customers’ wrists. More at https://developer.microsoftband.com/.” see https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Band/1.3.10219-preview It´s cool that there´s a NuGet package for the Microsoft Band SDK. Simply run the following command in the Package Manager Console: ...

As announced here D365 version 3.2 has support of security groups. This also includes management of “mail enabled security groups”. The differences between “mail enabled security group” and “distribution group” are explained in TechNet, here´s a quick definition: Mail-enabled security group: A mail-enabled security group is an Active Directory universal security group object that can be used to assign access permissions to resources in Active Directory and can also be used to distribute messages. ...

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Do you want to change the design of your SharePoint site easily? This is just a quick introduction how to customize a SharePoint 2013 Site (SP on premises or Office 365) with custom CSS. With custom branding you can completely change the design of a SharePoint site, like in this sample of a Contoso SPO site. The steps to accomplish custom branding with CSS are: You need to be a site administrator (to activate the features and have full access to the site) The default site settings show not many options for *Look and Feel. *My demo site starts with the URL https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/design1 so the URL for the Site Settings is similar like here: https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/design1/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/_layouts/15/settings.aspx So first open Site Collection Administration / Site collection features. The page Site Settings : Site Collection Features follows, the URL goes like here: https://[tenant]sharepoint.com/sites/design1/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/_layouts/15/ManageFeatures.aspx?Scope=Site Active the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature: This usually can take some minutes… When this is done the feature looks like here: No go back to Site Settings and open *Site Actions / Manage site features. (Alternatively you can simply delete the ?Scope=Site parameter from the Site Collection feature URL) 6. Now active the SharePoint Server Publishing feature in the Site: After the activation the feature looks like here: 7. When going back to the Site Settings the result is that the Look and Feel group includes more options. 8. We are almost done. Now it´s possible to open the *Master page *settings. https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/design1/_layouts/15/ChangeSiteMasterPage.aspx In here the Master Page for this site can be selected. The important part is the *Alternate CSS URL *below. 9. When opening the Alternate CSS URL group you can specify your own customized CSS file. 10. When clicking Browse you can upload your own CSS file and then select it (as shown above). In this sample the path to the CSS file goes like /sites/design1/Style Library/mystyle.css ...

SharePoint 2013 is in the market since more than two years by now. And SharePoint 2016 is about to come soon. Beside all the standard features the SharePoint framework can be extended with custom solutions to automate processes within the system. In 2013 we have a new App Model which solves a lot of issues we had with custom solutions in the previous versions of SharePoint. In this article I want to point out why using the App Model is a good idea and why I recommend using it. But let´s have a look into that step by step. We start with the types of solutions developers can build on top of SharePoint. ...