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Office 365 bietet eine Reihe an Sicherheitsfunktionen, die einem Unternehmen helfen, die Unternehmenskommunikation sicher zu gestalten. In einer neuen Videoreihe zu Office 365 security auf Channel 9 in den Office 365 News stelle ich dazu einige vor. In 20 Minuten zeige ich dabei die Funktionsweise von Customer Lockbox. Customer Lockbox fügt eine zusätzliche Kontrollmöglichkeit ein. Microsoft verwendet das Lockbox Verfahren bei Supportanfragen. Nehmen wir einmal an, Sie haben ein Problem mit einer Mailbox, welches Sie selbst nicht lösen können. Sie öffnen einen Servicerequest beim Microsoft Support. Der Support Mitarbeiter kontrolliert gemeinsam mit Ihnen den Fall und erkennt, dass er – um Ihr Problem lösen zu können, Zugriff auf diese Mailbox benötigt. Der interne Prozess sieht dann vor, dass der Microsoft Supportmitarbeiter diesen Request an das Lockbox System sendet. Lockbox ist ein automatisiertes System, welches Machine learning verwendet und diesen Request prüft. Es kann hier bereits sein, dass der Request abgelehnt wird. Ist die Anfrage jedoch valide, wird diese an den zuständigen Microsoft Support Manager weiter geleitet . Dieser prüft den request danach noch einmal und erlaubt oder verweigert ihn. ...

PowerApps is licensed in the Office 365 environment and offers three license plans: PowerApps for Office 365 and Dynamics 365, PowerApps Plan 1 and PowerApps Plan 2. Since it often is not clear, if end users who want to use (and not create) a PowerApps app need a license or how licensing works with data sources, I want to inform about licenses, show some samples and clarify that topic here. ...

PowerApps are a great way to accomplish simple tasks by end users. A new PowerApp is usually done in minutes (if the underlying data source is existing and working). Nevertheless, it often takes much more time to polish the app and to find and modify details. So I decided to post from time to time some tips when stumbling upon any topics in PowerApps. A driver’s log I wanted to use a very simple custom SharePoint Online list to allow colleagues to log their travels with a company car. At every destination, the user shall simply protocol his location and the mileage, and optional some information about the customer or the appointment. Very little fields, just to keep it handy. ...

Check out the sessions of Technical Summit 2016 in Darmstadt here! All sessions are online now at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/microsoft-techncial-summit/Technical-Summit-2016 Find the sessions by atwork on channel9 here: Martina Grom Toni Pohl Siegfried Jagott Christoph Wilfing Enjoy!

Sometimes, it’s the small things that cost (unnecessarily) time. Recently, I wanted to create a quick Office App for an existing Excel file to loop through rows and do some transformation for the values. I was stumbling over some topics when developing in real world. So here’s my short How To for working with Visual Studio and Office Apps with helpful tips. Set the start document If you are not used to develop Office Apps often, this maybe isn’t easy to find: How to set an existing document as start file. ...

Today, just a short info for Azure Active Directory guys: #AzureAD PowerShell V2.0 is now GA! In this blogpost, Alex Simons and Rob de Jong inform that the PowerShell Azure AD v2.0 cmdlets are now generally available (GA). See the details at the Technet Blog and at Azure Active Directory V2 PowerShell Module - General Availability Release 2.0.0.33. Prerequisites Azure Active Directory V2 PowerShell Module can be installed on Windows starting with versions of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and up. ...

According to the principle “Technical Summit 2016: Mehr Technologie geht nicht”, this year’s Technical Summit 2016 is happening next week in Darmstadt, Germany. The event lasts from Tuesday, 6th to Wednesday, 7th of December with an optional additional workshop day on Thursday, 8th. This events features prominent Microsoft speakers as Scott Guthrie, Donovan Brown and more. We from atwork are pleased to be part of this event with four sessions! ...

Large tenants and many operations can produce large audit logs in Delegate365 since every operation and every sync jobs is protocolled. To optimize the logging and to offer export and further use of the operations data, the audit logging changes with this version. See the details here. Previous versions: Let’s have a look back into the logging in the past. In the early versions of Delegate365, the logging was done in a database which blew up the database (unnecessarily). So, with version 2, we changed the logging to simple text files in CSV format to make it very easy to work with the protocolled data, for example, in Microsoft Excel. This format is used up to Delegate365 version 5.x. ...

As posted in September at Delegate365 announcement about upcoming changes in version 6, we will update Delegate365 to version 6 shortly. Actually, we wanted to update all Delegate365 tenants already this November, but we have been very busy, so this update comes a little bit delayed. See the details here. Delegate365 stays as it is. We just figured out some things we can improve and add to the existing functionality. So, no worries, Delegate365 will stay as it is, but you can benefit from improved and new features. ...

Azure-guys, there’s a new version of the cost free Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer available! Check it out here: https://storageexplorer.com! This is version Version 0.8.6 from 18th November 2016. And no, it’s not just a new logo and themes… The team included a lot of fixes and new stuff, as multiple editors in different tabs, search, modifications of data, improvements for uploads and downloads and more! See the details in the releasenotes! ...