Delegate365

Delegate365 changelog version 2.3. This version is a major release. We made some changes in the time consuming tasks and optimized them. Performance Improvements in all user lists: If an AAD or Office 365 tenant has many thousand users loading the list of all users was time consuming. The reason is that the Microsoft GraphAPI delivers objects in slices (we take about 200 users per call to ensure there are no timeout errors) but has no filter functions we need for separating our domains and OU´s in D365. The result have been some wait time in some cases if many thousand users are existing. So we decided to improve that mechanism and add a cache layer between the AAD and our D365 client. With version 2.3 there´s an extra service added which synchronizes all new, updated and deleted user objects in our own cache. This service runs in the background and takes care of all changes in AAD. The D365 client now uses that cache and has a completely new logic with async calls and organizies the requested data page per page. So – depending on the individual page size – the client at runtime requests only the data page which is rendered. The benefit is that all user list operations like searching and paging are happening instantly in less than one second, regardless of the number of users to be shown. This performance improvement delivers a great user experience even with ten thousands of users in the user list! ...

Delegate365 changelog version 2.2. This was an internal version only for testing some new features… We rolled out that version on some of our demo clients and did some heavy testing of the performance with many thousand users and tested SMS notifications. We built in some new features which will be integrated in the next official release 2.3.

April/May 2014 Added User Self Password Reset (SPR): Now users (not only admins) can login into D365. If the admin had deposited a notification for the specific user (email or SMS), the user can perform a self password reset. When resetting the password the user can decide if he wants to receive the necessary security-code via email or SMS (depending on the settings made by the admins). Then he receives the code and gets a temporary password on the website. With that he can login and now has to change the password to his own, individual password. This function simplifies the administrative effort when users can use this reset on their own. This feature is integrated in D365. *So IT departements have no need to buy Azure premium licenses just for their users to perform self service password reset when using D365! * SMS is a preview function. If used, additional costs for the SMS provider will be added – depending on the location (country) and the amount of SMS messages which is usually about 10 Cent per SMS. ...

We´re happy to publish our new Delegate365.com website today! Since Delegate365 is a very attractive tool for managing users and licenses in Microsoft Office 365 it also deserves a top modern and fancy product website. So, here it is! Have a look and check it out! The redesign starts with our new logo for Delegate365, from the left it´s the cloud symbol going into a capitalized D followed by the product name. ...

We wrote a White Paper for Delegate 365 with general product information and features. You can download the document in PDF or in Word format directly from here: https://atwork.at/download/Delegate365-Whitepaper.pdf (526KB) https://atwork.at/download/Delegate365-Whitepaper.docx (120KB) About: Delegate365 is a simple to use, web based portal for delegated user and license management in Microsoft Office 365. Delegate 365 adds functionality on top of Office 365 and works as an Add-On. Delegate 365 and Office 365 work absolutely together, in cloud only scenarios as well as in hybrid configurations. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 2. December 2013/January 2014 Order license: Added filter so only license types of your OU´s are visbile. Fixed. Switched to version 2 because of support for federated domains and users. The support works in the same way as in the Office 365 portal. Starting with version 2 of Delegate 365 synced domains and users are visible and group and license memberships are manageable. In Delegate365 the administrator can assign users to security groups and change the Office 365 licenses but cannot modify the user object itself because it´s managed in a local federated Active Directory. Windows Azure Active Directory handles federated objects differently, so these objects are no “full” objects which can be read but not changed. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 1.4 December 2013 Some minor fixes have been done in the UI. We extened Delegate365 with a WebAPI called “Delegate365Importer”. This is an interface running as cloud service in Windows Azure which receives users and licenses in JSON format, runs the requested operations in Delegate365 and returns also a JSON result. If you run an own system like a website where users can buy or request an Office 365 account or license then Delegate365Importer is perfect for doing all the necessary actions againt Windows Azure Active Directory or Office 365 in the back. You get back information for the tasks with the result. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 1.3 October 2013 Added some reports for testing (only available in special customer versions). Fixed some small issues with CSS and the “Select all”-funtion in Javascript. November 2013 Switched delegate365.com website to a new CMS in Windows Azure and added a version for german to the existing english version.

Delegate365 changelog version 1.2 August 2013 Added an overview about licenses per region (OU) into the dashboard. User license: Fixed a Javascript error when selecting all licenses. September 2013 Added a simple license management: Now the portal admin can define custom names for the available licenses, f.e. “External workers licenses” instead of “Exchangedeskless”. Portal Admin can define which OU gets what license and limit to a number of maximum licenses. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 1.1 July 2013 New function “distribution lists” integrated for testing. Changed portal colors to blue. Added new validation for fields. If a field is missing or not correctly formatted now a red popup with a message opens directly beside the field.