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The Office 365 Summit took place in Amsterdam these days (from 12 to 13th February). Office 365 summit is a free event to get in touch with Microsoft experts about the SaaS Microsoft cloud services around Office. The summit “Office 365 Summit is traveling around the world and delivering technical and sales training direct from the source with Microsoft experts. These two day workshops provide deep technical and sales readiness on all our productivity workloads for IT Professional, Developers, Sales, Adoption and Education.”, see the details on https://summit.office.com/events/office-365-summit-amsterdam. ...

With D365 version 3.2 there comes full support of security groups with two new modules: security groups for managing these groups and memberships and the new administration / assign security groups module for assigning existing security groups to a particular OU. The security groups list works in the same way as all other lists in D365: new security groups can be created, deleted, members can be added and deleted and the OU assignment of a group can be changed. The search helps for getting access to the desired groups quickly. ...

We are very happy and also proud that our CEO, Martina Grom, was awarded as Microsoft Regional Directory (RD) shortly! There’s a lot going on over at Microsoft these days. The RD program is designed to honor world-wide technology leaders who are an active part of the community and who have impact in sharing knowledge around the globe. See the new RD-website https://msrd.io/ for mission statements. The Microsoft RD program exists since 1993 (for an older description see also wikipedia.org). ...

We are proud to announce that we have reached a set of new competencies in the Microsoft Partner Program. atwork now owns five gold and two silver competencies in the Microsoft Partner Network. atwork in Microsoft Partner Program We are highly specialized in Microsoft technologies and are very successful in delivering consulting and software solutions to our customers and partners. So it´s great that our technical skillset is also represented in our new partner logo. Voila, here it is! ...

Delegate365 provides a user self service password reset (SSPR) function since version 2.1. If an user forgot his Office 365 password – and the admins allowed that function – he can self reset his password easily with D365. The SSPR feature comes automatically with Delegate365 at no additional costs. In contrast there´s Azure Active Directory in three editions (Free, Basic and Premium) where SSPR starts with the premium and basic features, see Self-service password reset for users in Azure Active Directory Editions. ...

In Office 365 IT Admins can define Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for their users to secure access for all or special user accounts. The good news is that Delegate365 supports the usage of MFA for the login process by default. MFA works exactly in the same way as usual. MFA consists of usually two factors: Something you know (typically a password) Something you have (a trusted device that is not easily duplicated, like a phone) ...

Delegate365 version 3.1 brings improvements and new features. As already announced in Delegate365 version 3.1 outlook we have some new modules and an unified user interface. Here´s a list of the main changes. New: Unassign users in the administrator menu: With this new module users who are already assigned to an OU can be unassigned. This module is only available for portal admins and works exactly in the same way as the assign users module: Search the users, mark them and click the “Unassign” button. ...

Anfang Januar fand die Office 365 Konferenz (office365konferenz.net) in Köln statt. Ergänzend zu unseren Artikeln hier im Blog (siehe Wrap-up Office 365 Konferenz in Köln, Office 365 Konferenz Interviews und #office365konf on Twitter) hier ein paar Zahlen zum Event. Die Veranstaltung war mit insgesamt 130 Teilnehmern an beiden Tagen ausgebucht. 26 Sprecher (davon 16 Microsoft MVP´s) hielten 25 Sessions plus Keynote und eine FAQ-Runde. Die Konferenzbewertungen waren durch die Bank sehr gut. Das größte Manko war, dass die Location für die Teilnehmeranzahl teilweise zu eng war – das werden wir beim nächsten Event besser planen. ...

Delegate365 is continuously improving. We were busy and implemented new features and optimized some code in the Delegate365 solution. So, in the next version we will have some improvements, here´s a first outlook: We have completely rewritten the logging operations and are now using a new event store for protocoling detailed actions of operations. This means with version 3.1 the event sourcing is made step by step and saves all changed fields with old and new values. Starting with v3.1 all operations in D365 are protocolled step by step. Additionally we are developing an additional protocol source which delivers an overview and is good readable for humans. ...

In large organizations it´s often useful to create an own Exchange administrator for performing tasks against the Exchange API´s, f.e. with PowerShell or with third party tools like our Delegate365 solution. Here´s how to create an Exchange Admin in Office 365. There are two ways to accomplish this task: The easy way is to simply create (or use) a gobal administrator in Office 365. This user gets all rights in all services of Office 365 (AAD, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync) automatically. The second way – if your want to have an own Exchange administrator - is described here. Login in as global admin First, open the Office 365 portal https://portal.office.com with a global admin account to get full rights in that Office 365 tenant. ...