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As reported in most media, we would like to inform you about a global outage caused by a erroneous software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike today, on July 19th. This Endpoint security solution is used in many organizations, from hospitals to tech companies, education, airports and many other industries. Crowdstrike rolled out an update to its customers that caused Windows 10 computers to crash, see the CrowdStrike Statement on Falcon Content Update for Windows Hosts. The affected computers no longer start correctly, but instead produce a Windows BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). Such computers are getting stuck at the “Recovery” screen. See how to resolve this if your Windows computer is affected by the CrowdStrike update. ...

Microsoft is rolling out the new Teams v2 client. This is now a Single Page Application (SPA), which means generated deep links no longer work. Unfortunately, this also affects the GT365 solution 09 and 11, e.g. to open the settings of a team and the management of members with a button. Here you can find out why this is the case and what workarounds are possible. This means that a direct link like https://teams.microsoft.com/v2/#/teamDashboard/[team-name]/[team-.id]/td.members now always leads to https://teams.microsoft.com/v2/ and the user ends up in the chat area. This is undesirable, but unfortunately cannot be changed because Microsoft no longer supports direct links in the Teams v2 client due to the new SPA architecture. For Governance Toolkit 365 customers, see also the news entry in the GT365 admin portal. ...

Im Podcast “Konstante Veränderung” sprechen Daniel Hager, Christian Keimel, und Andrej Salnik von Microsoft Österreich mit Peter Hödl von atwork über die Rolle eines Enterprise Architekten und die Integration von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in moderne Arbeitsumgebungen. KV019 - Was macht ein Enterprise Architekt und wie funktionieren LLMs mit Peter Hödl ~ Konstante Veränderung Podcast Kurzzusammenfassung Peter Hödl von atwork ist seit vielen Jahren als Enterprise Architekten in der IT tätig und informiert in dem Podcast neben seinem Werdegang und seinen Jobs über die Integration von Artificial Intelligence (AI bzw. KI) in moderne Arbeitsumgebungen. ...

Im Podcast “Konstante Veränderung” diskutierten Andrej Salnik, Christian Keimel, Daniel Hager und Peter Hödl über das innovative Projekt “AI for Good”, das von atwork entwickelt wird. AI for Good bzw. “Sign Language Recognition Project” (slrproject.ai) ist ein Projekt zur Erkennung der österreichischen Gebärdensprache. KV020 - AI for Good ~ Konstante Veränderung Podcast Kurzzusammenfassung AI for Good ist ein Projekt von atwork zur Erkennung der österreichischen Gebärdensprache. Ziel dieses Projekts ist es, ein AI-Modell zu entwickeln, das die österreichische Gebärdensprache erkennt und in Online-Meetings als Text einblendet. Dieses Vorhaben erfordert umfangreiche Forschungsarbeit, Tests mit künstlicher Intelligenz und viel Fachwissen. ...

Back in 2022 I started to celebrate Women’s history month, which happens each year in March by highlighting women in technology that inspired me. March 8th is celebrated worldwide as Women’s day. At the end of March in 2022 it was clear that I wanted to continue the series because we are many. And I want all of them to shine, because every women makes an impact in the industry. Each of these women has made significant contributions to the tech industry, breaking barriers and paving the way for future generations. ...

In December and January some features and fixes have been added to Delegate v9.7. In this update, administrators can allow or block sharing settings of SharePoint sites to comply with company policies. Global Sharing settings: In the SharePoint Admin Center, Global Administrators can control the sharing settings for their Microsoft 365 tenant (see more at Manage sharing settings for SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365). These settings apply to the entire organization in SharePoint and OneDrive. The screenshot below shows a typical setting for organizations that allow external and anonymous sharing to certain SharePoint sites, but want to restrict sharing from the OneDrive personal space. ...

2023 was the year when we finally overcame the pandemic that affected many aspects of our lives. We resumed our normal activities while also applying the lessons we learned from a challenging situation, where we had to limit our travel, social interactions, and work remotely. From a business perspective, the year was very rewarding for us. Our company, atwork, received the Innovation award 2023 from Microsoft Austria for our AI4Good project, which uses AI to assist with sign language communication in various scenarios. ...

Merry Christmas to all our friends, partners, and customers! As we approach the end of 2023, we would like to take a moment to express our gratitude for your continued support and trust in our projects. We are proud to have you as our partners and customers, and we look forward to continuing our journey together in the coming year. This year has been a remarkable one for us, with several successful projects that have helped us grow and learn. We are grateful for the opportunity to work with many of you and contribute to your success. We hope that our projects have made your life easier and more efficient. ...

The current version of Delegate365 v9.7 comes with some improvements. See the details here. SMTP Authentication in Users / Mailbox settings: A new switch SMTP Authentication has been added to the Mailbox settings of a User. This allows, see Enable or disable authenticated client SMTP submission (SMTP AUTH) in Exchange Online. Usually, Microsoft recommends to disable SMTP AUTH in your Exchange Online organization and to enable it only for the accounts (mailboxes) that still require it. If security defaults is enabled in your organization, SMTP AUTH is already disabled in Exchange Online. However, admins can modify this setting in the Mailbox features section. The SMTP Authentication dropdown allows to set the setting to* On, Off, *and Organization settings. which means that the settings for the user are inherited from the organization´s transportation rules settings. This setting corresponds to the setting in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, under Users / Active Users / Select a user / Manage Email Apps / Authenticated SMTP switch or with PowerShell. In PowerShell, this setting is set with Set-TransportConfig and Set-CASMailbox with an attribute named SmtpClientAuthenticationDisabled, where the organization settings are equal to $null, On means $false, and Off means $true. This is simplified in Delegate365 to be more understandable. ...

Congratulations to the atwork team behind the Sign Language Project (SLRproject.ai) for winning the Microsoft Austria Partner Innovation Award 2023! The project aims to develop a machine learning model that can automatically translate Sign Language into text and transmit this text into various communication programs, such as Microsoft Teams. It is an innovative development and research project for sign language recognition with Azure Artificial Intelligence Services (Azure AI). The SLR project is a remarkable example of how technology can have a positive impact on society using modern AI technology. We congratulate the project initiator Peter Hödl, who started this project around two years ago and continues to work hard together with the team to create an integrable solution. ...