Cloud

Datensicherheit ist ein wesentlicher Faktor für jedes Unternehmen und jede Organisation. So setzt auch unser Kunde WienIT auf die Microsoft Cloud. WienIT ist Wiens bedeutendster Infrastrukturdienstleister und Teil der Wiener Stadtwerke-Gruppe, die mit über 15.000 MitarbeiterInnen einer der vielfältigsten Arbeitgeber der Stadt Wien ist. atwork ist stolz darauf, WienIT mit Expertise im Bereich Cloud-Technologie und Security zu unterstützen. atwork unterstützt Kunden bei dem Einsatz von Microsoft 365 und Microsoft Azure in Geschäftsprozessen und Anwendungen. Unsere Expertise liegt in der Beratung, Konzeption, Migration und Entwicklung von Geschäftsanwendungen in der Microsoft Cloud. Wir freuen uns, dass wir WienIT dabei unterstützen konnten ihre Arbeitsumgebung effizienter und sicherer zu machen. ...

I recently came across an article that shows how (in)secure passwords are these days. See it here! On Hive Systems, author Corey Neskey has created an article and an illustrative table titled “Time it takes a hacker to brute force your password in 2022”. As computers become more and more powerful, passwords can be hacked faster and faster. It’s amazing how quickly short passwords can be hacked these days. Therefore, using a good and long password and MFA is essential these days. ...

Last Friday, the cloudusergroup organized the Virtual Community Event #ADCD2022, the Austrian Developer Community Day 2022. We had 25+ interesting sessions with great speakers and a great virtual day of the event. Here are some impressions of it. There hasn’t been a local community event for cloud developers for a long time. So we decided to hold such an event. Martina Grom and I, Toni Pohl, started to organize the event end of 2021. Due to the current Covid situation, it was clear that the event could unfortunately only take place virtually. Thankfully we got great support from Rainer Stropek, Martin Ullrich, Christian Glessner and Zaid Zaim. and we found some sponsors for advertising and for financing the community platform Hopin we wanted to use for the first time: Thanks to Microsoft Austria, atwork, Software Architects, hololux, tietoevry and to Coding Club Linz for your support! ...

Static website hosting in Azure Storage is really cool and quick method for simple deployment scenarios. Azure CDN edge nodes provide the cache and distribution layer with custom domains, rules, and further configuration options for such a static website. But what to do if you update the static website and it doesn’t deliver the new content? How can you force an update? See the solution here. In this sample, we have a community website www.cloudusergroup.at running in Azure. You can find out how to create and to deploy a static website on an Azure Storage Account at Static website hosting in Azure Storage and a tutorial at Tutorial: Host a static website on Blob Storage. In this case, the website has a custom domain bound to the website with Azure CDN, see more at Quickstart: Integrate an Azure Storage account with Azure CDN. ...

Azure storage accounts are a great and inexpensive way to store lots of data. I am using Azure Table storage to store large amounts of structured data for various tools. I needed to filter all rows that have a specific field that shows Null. While this sounds simple, it is a bit tricky. Here’s how. The problem is that columns showing “Null” just don’t exist, but they are shown in list with Null. Therefore, it does not work to filter them out. In my example, I had a table with a column called Users (of type Int32) that contained items with a number and others that had no value. So, the following query filters for a timeframe and all items having a Users value greater than 0. Unfortunately, the query also shows elements with the Null value… ...

Das Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Programm ermöglicht es Ihnen, Microsoft-Clouddienste über atwork zu beziehen. Unter dem Namen New Commerce Experience (NCE) wird es von Microsoft zukünftig für Endkunden einige Änderungen im CSP Programm geben. Was ist “New Commerce Experience” (NCE)? Die New Commerce Experience (NCE) ist eine neue Plattform für die Verwaltung Ihrer CSP-Subscriptions (Abonnements). Dies betrifft alle “seat-based”-Microsoft Lizenzen wie Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform und Windows 365 ab März 2022. Mit der neuen NCE Plattform werden Richtlinien neuer Subscription Verträge erweitert und angepasst sowie Laufzeiten, Kündigungsfristen und Preise der Abonnements geändert. ...

Working with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory as an identity and management system becomes more and more important. Like Active Directory, Azure AD grows throughout time with guest accounts, cloud accounts and synchronized accounts. From a governance and lifecycle point of view - and also for security reasons - it is therefore important to clean up Azure AD from time to time. The cleanup process supports a healthy lifecycle management. In this article we describe how to quickly identify guest users in your own Azure AD with on-board resources. ...

SharePoint (or Microsoft) lists provide a good storage for not too extensive structured data. Sometimes administrators want to restrict access to certain items or lines. This approach shows how you, as an administrator, can do this without using item permissions, but with simpler and easier-to-manage views and permissions. The goal Administrators often want users to see only certain records or only their own records from a larger list. Technically, it is possible to set permissions for specific users per item (see below). On the other hand, setting item permissions is not a good solution in every use case. If a SharePoint list is filled by a given user or by a task, and specific people shall see only their data in a list, depending on their department, or similar organizational information, setting item permissions can be elaborate in terms of effort. ...

I recently wanted to share a Microsoft Power BI report with other users who only have the “Power BI (Free)” license. Well, with a “Power BI Pro” license, a report can be shared with other users. But I noticed that there are stumbling blocks when it comes to licensing. Here are my findings. First of all, I’m not a licensing expert (and don’t want to be one). However, I would like to ensure that as many users as possible can consume Power BI reports. With this goal in mind, I would like to share my experiences here. ...

In the Microsoft 365 platform, productivity and recommendations are created to inform users about their relevant data. For example, Microsoft Delve is an app showing such information to a user. Another service is Microsoft Viva Insights (formerly MyAnalytics) that sends out statistics according to the motto “Work smarter with personal productivity insights in Microsoft 365”. While this can be very useful for users to quickly find and discover relevant data, works councils are often sensitive to personal data in a company. So how can we explain what is happening here and invalidate what data is visible to individual users and what data is visible to other users? Well, here is some information about the Microsoft 365 “works with” features. ...