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Microsoft plans live in Office 365 Groups. Here you can find a basic 101 about working with plans as a user and managing plans as an administrator. We look at the use, the administration, the permissions and the lifecycle of plans and the background here. During the evolution of Microsoft 365, services have been added and extended. When Microsoft Planner is included in your Office 365 subscription, it’s automatically turned on for everyone in your organization. To clarify the current status when working with Microsoft Planner, briefly read the main functions here. We assume, Planner is enabled in the organization and the users have a Planner license, see more about that administrative topic at the end. We start with the perspective of the user. ...

The SharePoint Conference (SPC) returns to Las Vegas in May 2020! Sharepoint Conference 2020 is packed with over 200 sessions, panels and workshops for everyone working in the Microsoft 365 workspace. We from atwork look forward to being there again. The SPC 2020 event registration is already open and there are reduced price packages available. Additionally, find a discount code here! Vegas, baby! SPC 2020 takes place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 19 - 21, 2020. The workshops start on May 17th. It’s time to add the event to your calendar and to follow @SPConf and #SPC20 on Twitter and to watch SharePointTV! ...

Delegate365 has continued to evolve over the past few years. See the timeline of the Delegate365 versions in this graphic. atwork started the development of Delegate365 (www.delegate365.com) in early 2013 as an Add-On for Office 365. Many functions have been added since then. Here you can see the graphic of the Delegate365 versions timeline as of today (click to enlarge). On average, a new Delegate365 version is deployed every 3 months. Delegate365 is operated as SaaS, so updates usually happen automatically. For versions that require additional permissions, a Delegate365 administrator must run a setup once on request. You can find the Delegate365 version details in the corresponding articles here. The current version is Delegate365 v8.5. The next update will be Delegate365 version 9.1, planned for February 2020. ...

Microsoft recommends to organize multiple Azure subscriptions in the CSP partner system with the new Azure Plans. See a schematic representation of the management model here. Here´s the documentation for Azure Plans. When an Azure subscription is transitioned in the Microsoft partner portal, with the “Transition billing to Azure plan”… …a new level “Azure Plan” container is added between the customer and the Azure subscriptions. All CSP subscriptions will be added in that Azure plan. The organizational diagram looks as here. ...

The year comes to an end and we had our last event at Modern Workplace Conference Paris 2019 this week. See a short recap here. #MWCP19 started with a workshop day on Monday, Dec. 9th, followed by two conference days from Dec. 10th to Dec. 11th 2019 with a bunch of interesting session in the Centre de Conférence Microsoft à Issy les Moulineaux. The agenda offered four tracks. The workshops and sessions were mixed, some in English and some in French. ...

Welcome to the Advent season 2019! An initiative of Microsoft Azure MVP´s created an Azure Advent Calendar for 25 days on YouTube to learn Azure. Check it out! See the videos at Azure Advent Calendar: “The one and only Azure advent calendar. Join us on the count down to Christmas with some amazing Azure content. Let’s use December to learn Azure!” The Azure Advent Calendar was an idea by UK-based Microsoft Azure MVPs Richard Hooper and Gregor Suttie. A bunch of Azure community members contribute to that cool initiative. Watch the videos and get 25 days of great content covering cool topics in Microsoft Azure. Every day there will be 3 videos with a blog article posted, this makes 75 short Azure topics and videos in total. Cool stuff! ...

In addition to the Azure Advent Calendar 2019 and many other offers, there are more ways to learn Azure and coding microservices: Check out 25daysofserverless.com! Open 25daysofserverless.com and 25 days of serverless on GitHub and join the challenge! “There is no better way to learn a new technology than with gamification. And we’re here to help you learn Serverless once and for all with 25 daily challenges: 25 days of Serverless! Come join!” ...

As announced, this Wednesday, on November 27th, 2019, the Global Office Developer Bootcamp took place at the Microsoft office in Vienna, Austria. See some event reflections here. The world wide Global Office Developer Bootcamps 2019 (aka.ms/M365DevBootcamp) are following the success of the Developer Bootcamps 2018 held in 41 countries with over 3,400 attendees and it is now back for its 3rd year. The Bootcamps happen between October 1 to December 15, 2019. The idea is to share the latest and greatest technologies and products (Microsoft Graph, SharePoint Framework, Microsoft Teams, Office Add-ins, Connectors and Actionable Messages, Adaptive Card, Windows, Identity and more) on the Microsoft 365 platform. It was the first time we had the event in Austria. ...

Today, the Microsoft 365 Training Day for Security and Compliance took place at the Microsoft Office in Vienna. Microsoft 365 experts Martina Grom and Klaus Harrer-Nemecek provided information on the cloud security strategy and security implementation for the Modern Workplace. The interest was huge. The event was aimed at IT professionals, IT decision makers, security managers, legal and compliance managers and officers, and compliance consulting and technology partners. After the opening by Hermann Erlach, COO Microsoft Austria, our CEO Martina held the security keynote. Then the event was split into a teams and a safety track. Klaus, Security Technical Specialist at Microsoft Austria, filled the morning sessions about Microsoft 365 Security and the building blocks at a glance, Identity, and Information Protection. In the afternoon, Martina, MVP Office 365 and Microsoft Regional Director, held a workshop about the Security Immersion Experience (SIE) in Microsoft 365. See the event details here. ...

Here´s a quick tip from Mark Russinovich: Azure users, check out all updates to Azure services on the Azure heat map website. The Azure heat map at azurecharts.com shows the Azure Updates data for last 6 months visualized, constantly updated. To see the health of Azure services, check out status.azure.com/status. Enjoy working with Microsoft Azure!