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In this multi-part series we show you how to handle the Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams governance toolkit. The next article cover the governance part of our Groups Governance Toolkit.Imagine your company policy requires at least 2 owners per Office 365 Group or per Microsoft Team. In this part, we want to monitor all groups that are ownerless (orphaned), or do not comply with our organization’s policies. The IT department shall get the information of all groups and teams where there are no owners or not enough owners and the possibility to fix that. Read below how this can be accomplished. ...

Delegate365 is a user-friendly tool to enable delegated management of users, licenses, and groups. This means that only objects assigned to a scope administrator are displayed in Delegate365. So, sometimes, we get questions as “I can’t see my users/shared mailbox or similar”. Here’s why and how to solve such issues. Why does Delegate365 not show users? Well, that’s the idea of the tool. Delegate365 shows only objects to which I am entitled to see and to manage. ...

Join us at the legendary European Collaboration Summit from May 27 to May 29, 2019 in Wiesbaden, Germany! #collabsummit is Europe’s largest community-driven conference with a focus on modern workplace technologies and digital transformation, with topics such as Microsoft 365, Azure, SharePoint, AWS, and Business Apps. The conference is organized for the community by the community. We from atwork are honored to be part of CollabSummit.eu as in the past years (see 2018 and 2017). Check out the first announced sessions at Collabsummit 2019 program is here!! ...

After the introduction of the Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams Governance Toolkit and with the necessary requirements we are now looking into Azure Functions. In our group and team provisioning scenario, we need a little code for provisioning of an Office 365 group and a Microsoft team. Serverless computing with an Azure Function provides the optimal solution for that. Follow these steps to create the function we need for our workflow. ...

In part 1 of this series we described the scenario for our Office 365 groups governance toolkit. In this part we will setup a workflow for the Office 365 and Microsoft Teams provisioning. Workflows help to follow specific processes for a successful collaboration. Offering self-services for users is a key to reduce workloads on the IT department and to allow users to cover their requirements quickly while the organization’s policies are enforced during the process. A frequently asked request is how to provision a new Microsoft Team in Office 365 in a secure and monitored way. See how this can be implemented here. ...

Delegate365 protocols operations in it’s audit logs. This log space can be accessed from entitled users and it’s simple to create a custom Power BI dashboard for your Delegate365 data. See how this works here step-by-step. Tip: The article Delegate365-Working with Audit Logs covers the methods for accessing the data and working with the audit logs as well. This article informs how to connect to your Delegate365 with Microsoft Power BI step-by-step and how create your custom dashboard. You need to have a Power BI license, see details at Power BI Pricing. ...

IT-Governance is an important topic, especially in large organizations. In an agile and evergreen world, as it can be found with Microsoft 365 services, Governance becomes an integral part which needs to be monitored and updated on a regular basis. At Microsoft Ignite conference, we showed the “Groups Governance Toolkit” with a bunch of useful tools to regulate and monitor for Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. Everything we showed at Ignite is open source and built with out of the box tools within Microsoft 365 and Azure. ...

We from atwork will are looking forward to see you at SharePoint Conference North America 2019 that will take place in May 2019 in Fabulous Las Vegas. Check it out now and save $50 off your registration! SharePoint Conference North America 2019 will take place in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada from May, 21st to 23rd, 2019. Add #SPC19 to your calendar! See the details at sharepointna.com. “The SharePoint conference returns to Las Vegas: the world’s biggest and most comprehensive event empowering you to achieve more in the modern workplace with Microsoft 365.” ...

Office 365 Home is a really cool offer for up to 6 users within your family. You get the Premium versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, 1 TB OneDrive cloud storage each for each person, the subscription includes 60 minutes of free Skype calls every month to phones in over 60 countries and more, as described here. Here’s how to invite your family members. We described the process at “How to use Office 365 Home for sharing or How to get 5 times 1 TB OneDrive storage and 5 times 60 Skype minutes per month” some years ago (and also in German). Anyway, since I keep forgetting how to invite family members to my (renewed) Office 365 Home subscription, here’s the documentation for that… ...

If you are working with Microsoft SharePoint, 2019 will be a great year! First of all, because SharePoint Server 2019 has been announced, and because SharePoint Conference North America 2019 will take place in May in Fabulous Las Vegas (again). We from atwork will be part of the conference and we are looking forward to it. The event registration is already open and there are reduced price packages available. Additionally, find a discount code here! ...