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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. ...

Delegate365 v9.2 brings a new feature for auto-assigning existing SharePoint site to an OU. This follows the same principle as auto-assigning groups. See it here. Note: To use the SharePoint Online management feature, ensure you have configured the SPO access for Delegate365 as described at Delegate365 changelog 9.1-SharePoint Online. The following scenario describes how to use the new SPO site auto assign. A scenario In this demo tenant, there are some SharePoint Online sites with a prefix in their site name: There are two sites starting with “New York”, one site with “Paris” and three sites starting with “Seattle”. All site names are separated with an underscore between OU name and the following site name, as here in screenshot of the SharePoint admin center (open it with your tenant-name and a Admin at https://[yourtenant]-admin.sharepoint.com/). ...

Delegate365 allows the separation of a single Microsoft 365 tenant with the OU concept. Every admin only sees and manages his own objects. Group OU´s allow administrators to add users from other organizational units to their managed groups without having access to manage those users. Until now, when using Group OUs, the domains had to be added to the administrators. That has now been changed with this version. Note: Article Delegate365 changelog version 8.0-Group OU’s also describes the basic concept of Group OU´s in Delegate365. This article describes the modification that the user´s domain must no longer be assigned to an administrator. ...

Microsoft 356 helps you communicate from anywhere. Today, the Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon online event starts and I show different services like the quick to use crisis communication SharePoint site the Microsoft Health Care Bot service and more. Check out the Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon and see how to start with these two services here. Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon You can still join the free 36-hour Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon online event and attend hundreds of interesting sessions, see the schedule. We from atwork will present the following sessions: ...

How are you managing working from home during the pandemic? Listen to Richard Campbell’s podcast from runasradio.com and our Martina Grom. Richard talks to Martina about the challenges around maintaining security and productivity with entire workforces doing their jobs from home with Microsoft 365 and governance tools. Open the podcast “Office 365 Governance for Work From Home with Martina Grom” at https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/690. Martina mentions a bunch of tools as well as our Governance Toolkit 365. The tool runs as Software-as-a-Service and offers insights into your Microsoft 365 tenant, Power BI dashboards, newsletters, an API with custom workflows and a Bot with Teams integration. Check it out. ...

With the many new functions in the latest version, Delegate365 has received even more updates in version 9.1. See more new features such as the new user sync property StateOrProvince, the notification license names lookups and logs and guest user modifications here. See an overview of all updates at Delegate365 changelog 9.1-many new features. The following features have been added to Delegate365 v9.1 including all existing versions: New user sync property StateOrProvince: In Administration / Sync rules, in the User section, there is a new property StateOrProvince available. This new property allows that all users with an OU name in that user property can be automatically assigned to the OU, in the same way as with the other user properties. Note: In general, it is recommended to use the Sync with security group feature from an organizational perspective if possible. See more at Sync with Security Group. ...