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In the Easter week, we joined the Microsoft Tech Summit Amsterdam. The event took place at RAI Amsterdam from March 28-29, 2018. See some impressions here. Beside the breakout sessions, Tech Summit provided experts panels, workshops, and booths to directly get in contact with the Microsoft teams and third party vendors and to ask questions. See more details at the conference website at www.microsoft.com/techsummit/amsterdam. We from atwork were glad to contribute with breakout sessions and a workshop along with speakers from Microsoft and some fellow MVP colleagues: ...

Want to cleanup unused apps in your Azure Active Directory? Well, that’s easy – but how to accomplish that if the Delete option is inactive? See the quick solution here. So, if you find a scenario as here, where you have an app in your AAD and you cannot delete it… …the reason is that the app is Multi-tenant. As an Admin, you need to modify the app level from Multi tenant to Single tenant, see also here. Open the app properties, scroll down and find the Multi tenant switch and change that to “No”. Then, save the new app properties. ...

When an automated task or an app needs to access data from Office 365, you need to create an app in the tenant’s Azure Active Directory (AAD). For having full control, e.g. for deleting objects in AAD, a so called Service Principal Name (SPN) can be used. That is similar to a Global Admin in Office 365, but just for apps and usually with a predefined expiration date. Which is good. Or? ...

Office 365 Groups retention policies are very helpful to reduce orphaned groups in an organization’s tenant. Kindly, the Office 365 system sends out notifications to inform the group owner(s) to renew a group – or that a group will be deleted. What, if you oversee such a notification? See here how to restore an Office 365 group – thanks soft delete! So, in my case, I oversaw the notifications and saw that my “projects” group was no longer accessible. I got a HTTP 403-Forbidden message when opening the SharePoint site of that group. ...

After we returned from MVP Summit, we were proud to be part of Microsoft Tech Summit from March 14th to 15th in Paris. The cost-free roadshow took place in Paris Expo Porte de Versailles and delivered two days of news and How-To’s of the Microsoft cloud services. See some impressions here. Beside the breakout sessions, Tech Summit provided experts panels, workshops, and booths to directly get in contact with the Microsoft teams and third party vendors and to ask questions. See more details at the conference website at www.microsoft.com/techsummit/paris. ...

In the mid of March, Microsoft’s MVP Summit took place at Microsoft’s headquarter in Redmond and in Bellevue in Washington. For us, this was a great week for getting the latest news about Microsoft products and technologies and for networking and meeting friends. MVP summit is an exclusive event for all active MVPs and Regional Directors (RDs). Microsoft trusts their community-leaders and the content is strictly confidential. We used the week for learning, building relationships and giving feedback which is simply great to directly interact with the product groups. ...

Celebrate the Return of the SharePoint Community to Las Vegas! After four years, SharePoint Conference North America is back from May 21st to 23rd 2018 at MGM Grand in fabulous Las Vegas. Meet the Microsoft SharePoint team, community members and peers from around the world there. We from atwork are happy to be there as well to meet and contribute to SPC 2018! SharePoint Conference North America provides over 150+ sessions and informs about the latest technologies of the Office 365 platform such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, and Microsoft Teams. See the details at www.sharepointna.com. ...

This week, the Microsoft Tech Summit roadshow took place in Frankfurt, Germany. On two days, from February 21-22, 2018, the cost-free roadshow informed about topics from Azure to Microsoft 365. We were happy to be part of the Tech Summit. See some impressions here. The keynote was delivered by Giovanni Mezgec, General Manager, Microsoft Office 365 Marketing and Corey Sanders, Director of Compute, Microsoft Azure. Then, there followed a variety of IT Pro Breakouts and Developer Breakouts. Beside the breakout sessions, Tech Summit provided experts panels, workshops and booths to directly get in contact with the Microsoft teams and third party vendors and to ask questions. See more details at the conference website at https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/techsummit/frankfurt. ...

PowerApps are very powerful and simple to use.Through the integration in SharePoint Online lists, we now can create our custom forms within a SharePoint site and add additional features as calculations, modifications and even visualizations. See here, how to integrate a map for showing a location instantly directly in SharePoint without any coding! In this sample, I created a custom list and added a column Location as a single text field. In the PowerApps menu, we see the (new) Customize forms option. As the name says, this allows to modify the display and edit form of that particular list with the PowerApps Online Studio. ...

Due to the coming GDPR regulation in May 2018 many customers are working very actively towards this date and check their compliance and security environment. Many requests arise around Azure Information protection which gives customers the ability to classify and protect their data in an easy, reproducible way. Data classification helps users to differentiate between data that can be shared outside an organization and data that is classified or NDA information. Many statistics show that less than 5% of all data from an organization are in that high classification range. ...