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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!

Last week, the Microsoft Ignite conference took place in Orlando, Florida. Microsoft informed about its new products and services and offered over 1000 sessions and over 200 hands-on experiences to attend and watch online. This was our 5th Ignite conference and we had a blast. See some impressions here. Microsoft Ignite, including the pre-day, took place from Sunday, Nov. 3rd to Friday, Nov. 8th, 2019 in the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, Florida, at the same location as in the past three years. The logistics worked properly and all 30,000 attendees could schedule their conference days with the Microsoft Events mobile app (see Google Play and Apple App store) and online, hang out in The Hub area - the expo hall where all partners and the Microsoft booths were located and food was provided - and attend the sessions in the West building and in the Hyatt Hotel across the street. ...

Delegate365 version 8.5 is an update to the extensive Delegate365 version 8.4. This update includes a new sync operation “Sync with security group” and some sync fixes. See a description here. New “Sync with security group” mechanism: In Administration / Sync rules, this option allows to synchronize all members of a Security Group with assigned members of an OU. After a sync, only the members of a security group are assigned to an OU. Removed members will be removed from an OU, new members are added. See a full description of this sync feature at Sync with Security Group. ...

Delegate365 version 8.5 comes with an updated sync operation for the option “Sync with security group”. This option allows to achieve a match between (specific) Office 365 security groups and Delegate365 OU´s. In short, this means that the members of a Security Group control the assigned members of an OU, and after a sync, they are identical. See a description of this sync feature here. Sample scenario To describe the “Sync with Security Group” functionality, here´s a demo. In our organization, there are branches in 3 locations: *Seattle, New York, *and London. We want to have users in some locations automatically assigned to OU´s in Delegate365. For that purpose, we are using Security Groups in Office 365 and add the users as members to these groups. So here´s the detailed scenario. ...