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A particularly 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 2020 and are looking forward to a hopefully healthy and successful 2021! This year for Christmas, we support the project UNICEF Österreich: für jedes Kind. atwork will be closed from December 24th, 2020 to January 6th, 2021. 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 7, 2021. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

This July, the Microsoft MVP Award Program renewed the MVP award to our four MVP-colleagues at atwork. We are honored to receive this award for our community work! Martina Grom received heir 10th MVP award for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, Toni Pohl his 8th MVP award for Microsoft Azure and Office Development, Sigi Jagott his 8th MVP award for Microsoft 365, and Dominik Höfling his 3rd MVP award for Microsoft 365. We are all honored and proud to receive the MVP award for another year! The MVP Award is Microsoft´s way of thanking outstanding community leaders based on their actions to share knowledge and technology in all possible ways, from speaking engagements to supporting others in communities. See more abut the MVP program at mvp.microsoft.com and learn about the award categories and view all current MVPs world-wide here. ...

Delegate365 supports working with guest users. Guest users or external users are users that are invited to the company tenant by email. Once they accept the invitation, they get access to corporate resources. For example, a guest user can be a member of a Microsoft team or collaborate in Planner or in a SharePoint site or similar. See some samples here. Invite a guest user In Delegate365, admins can invite a guest user by clicking on the “Invite guest user” icon next to the “+” icon (new user). If you don´t see this icon, ask your Delegate365 Portal Admin to enable that feature in the permission policies. ...

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! Thanks to the organizers Adis, Margit, Spencer, Elena and Fitz, the sponsors and speakers of #GalacticSummit for this great and free online event! See all sessions at www.collabsummit.space. Find our sessions here: Best practices to use Microsoft 365 for crisis communication requirements, Martina Grom ...

In June, our managing director Martina Grom had the pleasure of speaking to the renowned Microsoft journalist Mary Jo Foley in a podcast interview. Listen to the podcast in the MJF chat! Mary Jo Foley is a technology writer, author, podcaster and news editor. She regularly writes news, articles, and reviews for Microsoft’s strategy, products and technology. Martina is founder and CEO of atwork and a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP and a long-time community advocate and specialist in Microsoft 365, Azure, and security. The interview was all about best practices for Microsoft Teams in a world where more and more are working remotely. ...