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We from atwork will are looking forward to see you at SharePoint Conference North America 2019 that will take place in May 2019 in Fabulous Las Vegas. Check it out now and save $50 off your registration! SharePoint Conference North America 2019 will take place in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada from May, 21st to 23rd, 2019. Add #SPC19 to your calendar! See the details at sharepointna.com. “The SharePoint conference returns to Las Vegas: the world’s biggest and most comprehensive event empowering you to achieve more in the modern workplace with Microsoft 365.” ...

Office 365 Home is a really cool offer for up to 6 users within your family. You get the Premium versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, 1 TB OneDrive cloud storage each for each person, the subscription includes 60 minutes of free Skype calls every month to phones in over 60 countries and more, as described here. Here’s how to invite your family members. We described the process at “How to use Office 365 Home for sharing or How to get 5 times 1 TB OneDrive storage and 5 times 60 Skype minutes per month” some years ago (and also in German). Anyway, since I keep forgetting how to invite family members to my (renewed) Office 365 Home subscription, here’s the documentation for that… ...

If you are working with Microsoft SharePoint, 2019 will be a great year! First of all, because SharePoint Server 2019 has been announced, and because SharePoint Conference North America 2019 will take place in May in Fabulous Las Vegas (again). We from atwork will be part of the conference and we are looking forward to it. The event registration is already open and there are reduced price packages available. Additionally, find a discount code here! ...

Today I want to share just a quick tip for custom formatting views in SharePoint lists. My goal was to show a picture of a text field that contains an URL and to use conditional formatting with a traffic light system to visualize the sentiment of tweets that are written to a SharePoint Online custom list from a Flow. See the formatting options here. The articles Use column formatting to customize SharePoint and Use view formatting to customize SharePoint basically explain how to work with the JSON object that describes the elements that are displayed, which is a good start. So, the ready formatted list shall look as here. Some fields in that list are rendered with custom formatting, you will spot them easily… ...

This December, the 9th Thrive Conference will take place in beautiful Slovenia. Thrive conference impresses with great content and well-known speakers in the middle of central Europe, this year in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana from December 4th to 5th, 2018. See the conference details at www.thriveconf.com. There will be a bunch (60+) of cool sessions separated in the tracks CxO, SharePoint Development, SharePoint Pro, End User, Cloud and Development held in English. As speakers, there will be international world-class experts as Vesa Juvonen, Mike Fitzmaurice, Erwin van Hunen, Adis Jugo, Joel Oleson. Aleksandar Draskovic, Zlatan Dzinic, Radi Atanassov, just to name a few. As in 2017, we are proud to be part of Thrive conference. ...

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. ...

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! ...