PowerShell is both a command-line shell and scripting language and perfect for automating administrative tasks. When working with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft recommends to use the new Azure PowerShell Az module. See how to uninstall the outdated Azure PowerShell AzureRM , how to install the new Az module for PowerShell 5.x and 6.x and how to connect and to get a inventory of your resources and a little bit of Cloud Shell here. ...
Azure Cognitive Services offer a bunch of services. One is the Sentiment Analysis API that allows to analyze unstructured text for tasks such as sentiment analysis based on Microsoft machine learning algorithms. See the first steps how to use that here. The test works in the same way with Postman as in the previous article.The goal here is to analyze some text to get a positive or negative result of the meaning. ...
Cloud services help to automate simple and complex processes. For analyzing a picture, the Microsoft Cognitive Services offer a bunch of services like the Vision API, (Custom) Computer Vision, Face API, Video Indexer an more. Follow this first sample with Postman to start with the Vision API. Azure Cognitive Services can be integrated easily in custom processes and apps. A good starting point is Cognitive Services APIs web page on Azure. ...
Modern collaboration allows to use shared resources and to give access to external users from other organizations. See how this works for shared Microsoft Azure subscriptions here! So, see this step-by-step process here with the following sample of an Admin giving access to an external guest and some troubleshooting tips. Check your source AAD and subscription Signing-in with admin@M365x321500.onmicrosoft.com to the Azure portal. Our source subscription 18e* and it’s bound to AAD M365x321500.onmicrosoft.com. ...
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. ...
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. ...