Today´s world offers a lot of ways to communicate. One one hand there are tools (or “Apps”) for nearly everything and on the other side users can get confused sometimes too choose the right way or the correct tool to reach the desired group(s). Our Office 365 expert Martina Grom took a look into the current tools in the Microsoft cloud world to bring light into the dark and wrote an overview article in the Yammer Blog: ...
As announced in our version 3.3 article we added another feature in the new module “assign licenses”. Now this list also shows all already assigned plans for each user. There´s a new column “AssignedPlans” showing the plans of the displayed users. So this list can be used for setting and also for reporting multiple user licenses of OU´s. For doing that we had to implement an additional caching layer which is now filled by the automatic sync process. ...
The current version of Delegate365 is version 3.3. In that version we have some new features available as well as some minor bugfixes. Let´s start with these: Bugfixes Sync licenses: It seems that there was a change in delivering the licenses information of users by Microsoft. If the Office 365 licenses of an user were changed, the license and the active plans stay unchanged. In D365 the synchronization could not update the license data correctly because it relied on that data. We found that now only the disabled plans information delivered by the interface is correct. The sync and getting and setting the licenses function has been updated to use the disabled plans data. So this version fixes all license information updates. Since the Sync functions automatically runs periodically (usually all 4 hours), there´s no need to do anything manually. Anyway, admins can click the Sync button anytime to ensure that all data in the D365 tenant are updated. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...