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Delegate365 runs completely in Microsoft Azure, in a region of the customer’s choice. So, for US-based companies, Delegate365 is hosted within the United States of America, for EU-based customers, Delegate365 is hosted within the European Union, etc. Since we sometimes get questions about the location of the Delegate365 solution, we want to inform about the hosting options here. Delegate365 as a service Delegate365 is developed and operated by atwork and runs as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Customers can test and use Delegate365 instantly without any installation out-of-the-box and updates to the Delegate365 tenant are done automatically. Delegate365 runs completely in Microsoft Azure without customers having to maintain the solution in any way. The customer’s data never leave the desired region, except the customer exports his data intentionally. The hosting costs are included in the Delegate365 price. Thus, Delegate365 is delivered as a carefree package to be used instantly. ...

We were happy to be part of the 4th SharePoint Saturday organized by sug.cat in Barcelona last weekend. #SPSBCN took place on the 27th October 2018 at IQS, Institut Químic de Sarrià, on the hills of the beautiful city of Barcelona and offered almost 20 sessions about Microsoft 365 and Azure. We from atwork, Martina Grom and I, had a session about “Real world business scenarios for Office 365 Groups” and we showed our Groups Governance Toolkit which is a combination of Azure Functions with PowerShell, LogicApps and Power-BI to achieve groups governance. See all the event details at www.spsevents.org/city/Barcelona/barcelona2018. ...

Paris is always worth a trip, especially when the Modern Workplace Conference Paris 2018 takes place! So, we just returned from #MWCP18 that occurred from Tuesday, 16th to Thursday, 19th October at Microsoft France in Paris. Modern Workplace Conference Paris offered a pre-day and two conference days with four tracks and more than 50 sessions, delivered by Microsoft Corp speakers, IT-experts and Microsoft MVPs. The team led by Patrick Guimonet, Gokan Ozcifci, Sébastien Paulet, Nathalie Guimonet and Sencer Demir has a lot of experience in organizing IT-events and conferences. MWCP18 could welcome about 500 participants to the conference at the Microsoft EMEA headquarter on the Seine river. See more details at modern-workplace.pro. ...

These days, the next major Delegate365 version 8.1 is released. In that new version, there are a lot of new and improved features available for all Delegate365 customers. The menu has been restructured, permission policies allow to define granular rights and license policies simplify the set of licenses for Scope Admins. Furthermore, there are a bunch of useful improvements and the Delegate365 PowerShell module is available. See the details here. Run a setup: Admins need to run the Delegate365 setup after the upgrade process, see the How-To at (Re)run the setup. ...

With Delegate365 version 8.1 and the new permission policies, there come the new license policies as well. In previous versions of Delegate365, Admins could restrict the Office 365 licenses and plans for each Scope Admin. Now, the license set is replaced by a license policy that can be assigned to multiple administrators. See here, how this works. Note: The license policies work analogously to the permission policies: Define once, use for multiple admins. To make it short and comprehensible, see the old and the new Delegate365 license policies at a glance here. ...

When we started with Delegate365 five years ago, basic permissions were sufficient to control what features can be used by Scope Admins. Since Delegate365 evolved with more functionality and we received requests from our customers, it was time to renew the permission control to a more granular level. So, the existing permissions have been replaced with permission policies. With Delegate365 version 8.1, each Administrator gets a permission policy assigned that controls on a very granular level, what modules and features can be managed. The new menu structuring is part of that functionality. See how the permission policies work and how existing permissions are converted here. ...

With Delegate365 version 8.1 there comes a new menu structure. The new menu groups the functions more logically and allows granular control with new permission policies. The new policies are are described in a separate article. See the menu differences before and after in this overview. Now, each topic is a group to make it easier for admins to find related features. There are only two instead of three menu levels. Enlarge the following graphics to see all menus and their new position. The left side (gray) shows the full menu of Delegate365 version 7.x and 8.0, the right side (green) shows the new menu Delegate365 version 8.1. ...

From 24th to 28th September, Microsoft’s largest and fourth Microsoft Ignite conference took place in Orlando, Florida. #MSIgnite is the largest and leading event for IT-Professionals, Developers and Decision-Makers in the Microsoft universe. With approximately 30,000 attendees and about 700 breakouts and a lot of theater-sessions , a large expo and a lot of networking, this event was huge. We were proud to be part of the conference and we have collected some of our impressions here. ...

If you created new Azure subscriptions with a Microsoft Account (MSA), the subscription is managed with an own Azure Active Directory (AAD). This article shows how to integrate such an “external” Azure subscription into your organization’s AAD. Having Azure subscriptions owned by a MSA can have various reasons: Historically with older Azure subscriptions or if you are a member of the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) which still works for MSDN subscriptions only for MSAs… (this is a different story and worth grey hair…). Anyway, if you have such a situation, see how this process works here. ...

In a good week, Microsoft Ignite 2018 will start! Ignite is Microsoft’s largest yearly IT conference that will take place from September 24 - 28, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Ignite will offer about 700+ sessions, insights and roadmaps from industry leaders, and deep dives and live demos on the products you use every day. We are looking forward to a full week to meet customers, partners and friends from all over the world. And we have prepared a bunch of great content we will deliver in our sessions! ...