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Want to learn more about compliance at Microsoft and Microsoft cloud services? Find many documents here and see Azure’s global and regional compliance in this infographic. Through IT-compliance, organizations ensure they are operating within a specific set of privacy and security requirements, guidelines and best practices. Of course, this also applies to Microsoft and Microsoft’s cloud services. See Microsoft compliance for Microsoft documentation and resources you need to get started with compliance for your business or organization. ...

Adaptive cards are becoming increasingly popular in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. We can find them in Microsoft Search, Power Apps, SPFx apps, Outlook email and many more services. So what are Adaptive Cards (AC) and Adaptive Card Extensions (ACE)? In this article, we show how you can harness the power of adaptive cards in Viva Connections. The purpose of Adaptive Cards Adaptive Cards are a new way for developers to exchange content in a common and consistent way. The idea behind Adaptive Cards is simple: most software developers are not known for being the best designers of forms and data presentations. In order to develop a system that would make it easy for developers to present data in attractive forms, Microsoft founded the “Adaptive Card Working Group” around 2017. This should make it easier for developers to display data in a standardized form on all possible devices. The group began developing Message Cards around 2017, which became Adaptive Cards in 2018. The latest information is publicly available on Github. ...

Holiday season is a good time to train your users about common security risks they may fall into it. Let me describe how to create a security awareness campaign and how to let users know their score. In Microsoft’s latest Digital Defense Report 2022 there are some very good conclusions and suggestions how to improve security in the digital space. In an environment where a lot of false information is publishes, phishing gets better and better. And people still need to be aware about security in their digital environment. The numbers, Microsoft can provide, are impressive: ...

Christmas is near. As a contribution to the festivetechcalendar.com, I describe here how to create an advent calendar with Microsoft Power Apps. You can download the Power App and use this app and this article to learn useful concepts in Power Apps. Here we go with the article for December 4th. Requirements The Power Apps Advent Calendar is designed to work like a real one, with the following rules. ...

The Microsoft Power Platform is great for quick and easy solutions and workflows. While developing a new Power App or flow is quick, governance and management can present some hurdles. Well, there is help for some topics, such as the use of solutions. Read more here. For a brief overview of governance for the Power Platform, have a look at Power Platform Environments and Governance Tips. Here we start with a very basic overview of administration and environments. ...

Working with Power Apps, have you seen that in the bound dropdown control the user can remove the selected item (even with single selection)? Well, there could be other solutions, but I want to make sure that a default value is always selected, even when the user clicks the button to remove the selection. In this sample Power App, I have a dropdown named *ProjectType *that is filled from a SharePoint list and a column with choices. When the user selects an item, they can remove the selection using the x-icon on the right. ...

Forms are simple. Forms are complex. Both are true depending on the functionality of the form. While you can create forms very quickly with Power Apps, it often takes a lot of time to make them as user-friendly as possible. In this article, we’ll look at how we can validate and simplify input using Regular Expressions. A sample form When creating a form, one often stumbles upon a few details designed to make it easier for the user to fill out the form. So, here´s my form with some fields. ...

The Center of Excellence (CoE), also known as the Microsoft Power Platform CoE Starter Kit, is a toolkit to gain insights into the use of the Microsoft Power Platform in an Microsoft 365 organization. While the installation has recently become a bit technically easier, a corresponding Power Platform license is also required for operation. Well, not every company owns or acquires the required license. We show how these license requirements can be solved with Azure temporary - for special use cases - and what are the benefits and the disadvantages of the PAYG billing. ...

Delegate365 v9.3 and later comes with a new setup. The new setup is required to use MFA enabled admins and to generate the Delegate365 app and certificate for authentication in the Microsoft 365 tenant. Follow the steps here to setup your Delegate365 tenant. Test Delegate365 These are the steps to open a new trial of Delegate365. Navigate to the Delegate365 website and click on the Trial link. Fill out the form and enter your Microsoft 365 tenant domain that you want to manage in Delegate365. ...

Delegate365 v9.3 comes with a new setup and a bunch of other new features, such as more details, SharePoint site templates, user mailbox Automapping, and more. See a list here. Modern Authentication: Delegate365 runs as with a Microsoft Azure Active Directory app. Delegate365 uses modern authentication from the start for all operations except Exchange Online. With Delegate365 version 9.3 and up, it always is using Modern Authentication for all Microsoft 365 services, regardless of the setup method. ...