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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. ...

I am a big fan of the lightweight and super useful Visual Studio Code editor. Recently, I discovered another cool extension for creating PDF, HTML, PNG, and JPEG files from a Markdown document. Simply install the Markdown PDF extension by yzane.markdown-pdf. This cool extension exports a .md file to a PDF file as shown here. You can even with configure AutoSave by adding the "markdown-pdf.convertOnSave": true option to* settings.json* and restart Visual Studio Code. Then, when saving, the file gets converted automatically. That’s useful especially for documentation. Also, there are much more extensions to discover… ...

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.” ...

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… ...

As announced in Delegate365 changelog version 8.1-Many new features, this version brings PowerShell support for administrators. All Delegate365 admins can use the PowerShell module if the access is granted by Portal Admins. See the How-To here. Note that for using the Delegate365 PowerShell module, Delegate365 version 8.1 (or higher) is required. The version number can be found in the status line at the end of the page in the Delegate365 portal, see the screenshot below. ...

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. ...

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! ...