How to use Office 365 MFA in Delegate365

How to use Office 365 MFA in Delegate365

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) ...

February 6, 2015 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Delegate365 changelog version 3.1

Delegate365 changelog version 3.1

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. ...

January 28, 2015 · 4 min · Toni Pohl
Statistiken zur Office 365 Konferenz in Köln

Statistiken zur Office 365 Konferenz in Köln

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. ...

January 24, 2015 · 2 min · Toni Pohl

Delegate365 version 3.1 outlook

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. ...

January 22, 2015 · 3 min · Toni Pohl
How to setup an Exchange Admin in Office 365 and use this account in Delegate365

How to setup an Exchange Admin in Office 365 and use this account in Delegate365

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. ...

January 17, 2015 · 5 min · Toni Pohl
Office 365 Konferenz Interviews

Office 365 Konferenz Interviews

Bei der Office 365 Konferenz in Köln (siehe auch Artikel hier) haben die beiden MVP´s Kerstin und Karsten Rachfahl kurze Video-Interviews mit fast allen Sprechern geführt. Die ersten gibt es bereits auf dem Video-Kanal der Rachfahl-IT anzusehen! Hier die Links zu den ersten Interviews: Videointerview mit Martina Grom zu Yammer und Office 365 Videointerview mit Toni Pohl zu Mastering Office 365 Development Videointerview mit Adis Jugo zur Cloud Software Architektur Videointerview mit Christian Glessner zu Berlin Burger International ...

January 14, 2015 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Wrap-up Office 365 Konferenz in Köln

Wrap-up Office 365 Konferenz in Köln

Von 9. bis 10. Januar fand die Office 365 Konferenz (office365konferenz.net) in Köln statt. Die Veranstaltung war mit etwa 120 Teilnehmern ausgebucht. Die Konferenz An diesem Event waren einige Punkte besonders erwähnenswert: Die Office 365 Konferenz war die erste größere deutschsprachige Veranstaltung ganz zum Thema Microsoft Office 365. Veranstalter waren Mitglieder der Microsoft MVP Community, die das Event organisierten. Es gab hochkarätige Sprecher. Mit 16 MVPs, Spezialisten von Microsoft und Partnern aus der Praxis gab es qualitativ hochwertige und technische Vorträge mit einem guten Themen-Mix mit 25 Sessions. ...

January 12, 2015 · 9 min · Toni Pohl
office365konf on Twitter

office365konf on Twitter

Unsere Office 365 Konferenz (office365konferenz.net) in Köln ist schon wieder vorbei. Hier einige Zahlen aus Twitter von der letzten Woche. Filter und Zeitraum Die folgenden Auswertungen wurden für den offiziellen Konferenz-Hashtag #office365konf erstellt. Andere Tweets sind hier nicht berücksichtigt – auch wenn wir doch viele weitere Twitter-Nachrichten (eben ohne Konferenz-Hashtag) gesehen haben. Die Daten zeigen den Zeitraum vom So., 4. bis zum So., 11.01.2015 etwa 16:00. Tweets und Plattform Insgesamt wurden in der letzten Woche 458 Nachrichten von 82 Personen getwittert. 57% davon waren Retweets. (Grafiken zum Vergrößern anklicken.) ...

January 11, 2015 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
5th MVP Award for Martina Grom

5th MVP Award for Martina Grom

We are very happy to announce that Martina Grom, CEO of atwork, was awarded for the 5th year in a row with the Microsoft MVP Award for Office 365! “Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs are exceptional community leaders who actively share their high-quality, real-world deep technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft. They are committed to helping others get the most out of their experience with Microsoft products and technologies. Microsoft has recognized exceptional, independent community leaders who share their passion, technical expertise, and real-world knowledge of Microsoft products with others.” ...

January 1, 2015 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Self-service password reset for users in Azure Active Directory Editions

Self-service password reset for users in Azure Active Directory Editions

Since Microsoft´s Azure Active Directory (AAD) is constantly evolving it´s interesting to see the current status of features. Right now we want to point out the functionality of Azure Active Directory Editions in MSDN by December 10, 2014. AAD comes in three flavors: Free, Basic and Premium (see also here). Companies are often interested in relieving their IT with features like “Self-service password reset for users” (SSPR). In that MSDN article we see the support for the SSPR-feature for users in the three Azure Active Directory Editions: ...

December 31, 2014 · 2 min · Toni Pohl