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In addition to all the great features in Office 365, governance plays an important role, especially for large organizations. Richard Campbell, runasradio.com, interviewed Martina Grom recently about governance and tools in Office 365. The interview is available as podcast here. In this podcast, Richard chats with Martina about the various aspects of Office 365 that affect the way users collaborate with each other and get work done. There are bunch of great tools inside and outside of Office 365 to enable Governance. Check out the latest Office 365 Governance podcast with Martina Grom at runasradio.com. ...

Delegate365 v8.4 brings a bunch of new features and improvements. Office 365 Groups management allows to teamify existing groups and to control all Teams settings including policy settings. The Sync Job can send warnings if many objects are deleted, Shared Mailboxes and Resource Mailboxes licenses can be removed, Reports can be directly downloaded, Room Lists are available, License Orders can be exported and much more. See a description of the new features here. ...

The Microsoft MVP Award Program honors IT Professionals and Developers who support the Microsoft community and share their knowledge. The program´s renewal cycle is every year on July 1st. So, today it was a busy day on Twitter and the #MVPBuzz hashtag. We at atwork are proud and pleased that our MVP’s have been renewed for their community contributions for 2019-2020! 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. An MVP is awarded for contributions over the previous year for community work. See more abut the MVP program at mvp.microsoft.com and learn about the award categories here and view all current MVPs here. ...

Yesterday, the Insider Dev Tour 2019 took place in our home town Vienna, organized from the community for the community. About 60 attendees joined us at this beautiful summer day in the Microsoft Office in Vienna. See some snapshots from the #InsiderDevTour event in our Sway here. Many thanks to the team and to Gerwald Oberleitner, Martina Grom, Thomy Gölles, Christoph Wille, Stefan Bauer, Martin A. Ullrich, Shehata Haroun, Andi Pollak, Christian Nagel and Christian Waha, Bernadette Welly and Georg Binder! Our special thanks to Gerwald Oberleitner from Microsoft for delivering the keynote and to our colleague Martin A. Ullrich for the organization support and for jumping in into the 2nd session! ...

End of May the European Collaboration Summit 2019 took place in Germany. My MVP colleague Michael Greth (see also sharepointsendung.de) did a short interview with me about Microsoft Graph and my session “Develop Intelligent Apps for the Modern Workplace”. Watch it here. The interview is about Microsoft Graph and the use of Adaptive Cards and is in German. Watch the 6 minute talk on LinkedIn at Linkedin.com: ECS 2019 - Community Talk mit Toni Pohl über Microsoft Graph und Adaptive Cards … ...

At atwork, diversity and inclusion are in our daily life. Everyone should be treated equally and with respect. These are the foundations of our modern society. This year, Euro Pride takes place in our home town Vienna. We want to show our sympathy by adapting our atwork logo on the website and in our blog to the rainbow colors. We support pride and the LGBTIQ community with the motto “Join us. March with us. Together & Proud.” ...

The European Collaboration Summit (ECS), also known as #collabsummit, is the largest community-driven conference in the world with a focus on modern workplace technologies and digital transformation. Experts from around the world informed about topics such as Microsoft 365, Azure, SharePoint, AWS, business apps and more. We were happy to be part of that great event in May 2019 in Wiesbaden, Germany. See some impressions here. ECS took place from Monday, 27 May to Wednesday, 29 May 2019 at the Rhein Main Congress Center (RMCC) in Wiesbaden, Germany. On Monday, the workshops started for more than 800 attendees, followed by two full conference days with more than 2,000 attendees. Wow! See this amazing photo(s and the cool closing video) from Aleksandar Draskovic – thx! ...

Last week, the SharePoint Conference returned to Las Vegas! #SPC19 took place from May 21 - 23, 2019 at the brand-new MGM Grand conference center, Las Vegas, Nevada. The event informed about the latest news in SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Microsoft 365 and Azure. We from atwork were proud to deliver a full day workshop about Security and Governance in Microsoft 365 and some sessions. See some impressions of SPC19 here! As in the last year, at the first “reborn” SharePoint Conference in Vegas, SPC19 was organized by SharePoint Conference with Microsoft as a Diamond sponsor. Jeff Teper, Corporate Microsoft Vice President Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive and Stream, and his team delivered the SPC keynote about “The intelligent workplace”. You can watch it on demand at the SharePoint Virtual Summit site at aka.ms/spc/summit. ...

The next version of Delegate365 v8.3 is here. This major version brings some new features as “Sync with security group”, bulk assignments, list export, improved OU management, and many further features and fixes. See the details here. Upgrading from Delegate365 version 8.2 does not require running a new setup. Upgrading from any other Delegate365 version, requires to (Re)run the setup. New Sync Rule “Sync with security group”: This new feature in Administration / Sync rules allows to remove users from an OU automatically based on their security group membership. See how this works in detail at Sync with Group. We hope this new sync feature helps improving your users organization based on security group memberships in Delegate365. ...

At Microsoft Ignite conference last September, we demoed an approach for a self-built Office 365 Groups Governance Toolkit. Since Microsoft 365 is an evergreen service and continues to evolve, today we have more group settings available and we extend our provisioning function to work with group naming policies as well. See here how this can be accomplished by including new Graph requests. Foreword You can find the previous articles of our governance story at Provisioning an Office 365 group with an approval flow and Azure functions-part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and part 6 and the source code at martinagrom/Ignite2018GroupsGovernanceToolkit. ...