Get or update your M365 developer tenant

In case you do not already have a Microsoft 365 developer subscription or if you have an old Microsoft 365 tenant with E3 licenses running: You can now get a new M365 developer subscription with 25 users with E5 licenses and demo content. See more here. You just need a MSA or a Microsoft 365 school or work account. Open the address aka.ms/o365devprogram, and click on the Join now link. ...

June 11, 2020 · 1 min · Toni Pohl

Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon and Microsoft 365 for crisis communication resources

Microsoft 356 helps you communicate from anywhere. Today, the Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon online event starts and I show different services like the quick to use crisis communication SharePoint site the Microsoft Health Care Bot service and more. Check out the Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon and see how to start with these two services here. Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon You can still join the free 36-hour Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon online event and attend hundreds of interesting sessions, see the schedule. We from atwork will present the following sessions: ...

May 27, 2020 · 2 min · Martina Grom

Listen to the podcast about Microsoft 365 Governance for Work From Home with Martina Grom

How are you managing working from home during the pandemic? Listen to Richard Campbell’s podcast from runasradio.com and our Martina Grom. Richard talks to Martina about the challenges around maintaining security and productivity with entire workforces doing their jobs from home with Microsoft 365 and governance tools. Open the podcast “Office 365 Governance for Work From Home with Martina Grom” at https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/690. Martina mentions a bunch of tools as well as our Governance Toolkit 365. The tool runs as Software-as-a-Service and offers insights into your Microsoft 365 tenant, Power BI dashboards, newsletters, an API with custom workflows and a Bot with Teams integration. Check it out. ...

May 15, 2020 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Watch our sessions of GlobalAzure Virtual Austria 2020

Watch our sessions of GlobalAzure Virtual Austria 2020

As in the previous years, we were proud to be part of the Global Azure Virtual - formerly known as the Global Azure Bootcamp - event on April 24, 2020. Because of the Corona pandemic, the word-wide event went virtual and was distributed as Microsoft Teams Live events, organized by the Coding Club Linz. If you could not attend live, you now can watch some sessions that are already uploaded to Youtube. Find them here! ...

May 10, 2020 · 2 min · Toni Pohl

Get the daily Bing picture as background in your Teams meetings automatically

The Microsoft Bing Search Engine provides a professional and beautiful picture every day, you can see it online at www.bing.com. With the Bing API, you can easily get the images for your own use, e.g. to use them as custom background image in your Microsoft Teams calls. See how this works and download the ready-to-use PowerShell script here. So, the task is to get the daily image information, to download the picture and to provide it as background picture in Teams. ...

May 7, 2020 · 5 min · Martina Grom
Get more OneDrive for Business storage

Get more OneDrive for Business storage

Today´s another quick tip for Microsoft 365 users: If you are using OneDrive for Business (OFB) and encounter the default 1 TB storage limitations, there is a way to get more storage space. To do so, see the article by John Patrick White at Increase your OneDrive Storage Limit beyond 5 TB and Joel Olson´s blog post at Three tiers to increase to unlimited storage in OneDrive for Business. It is not very well known that the storage quota can be controlled and extended. Thank you guys, this is valuable for many Office 365 users with a lot of files! ...

April 1, 2020 · 1 min · Martina Grom
Automate SSL certificates updates with App Services and Azure Key Vault

Automate SSL certificates updates with App Services and Azure Key Vault

Storing credentials, SSL certificates, connection strings and other secrets in Azure Key Vault is recommended for every software project in the (Azure) cloud. This is easy to do when using certificates, such as for a website hosted in Azure App Services. Learn how to configure a SSL certificate once and then have it automatically updated when you update it in the Key Vault, called automatic rotation. See a step-by-step description here. ...

March 22, 2020 · 7 min · Toni Pohl
Try the VSCode Docs Authoring Pack extension

Try the VSCode Docs Authoring Pack extension

Today´s a very quick tip: If your are writing documentation in MarkDown with Visual Studio Code, try out the Docs Authoring Pack extension! Install the Docs Authoring Pack extension for VSCode. Once installed, you can use the shortcut ALT + M to access the MarkDown commands, such as the Preview function or to insert formatting. Happy documenting with the Docs Authoring Pack extension for VSCode.

February 28, 2020 · 1 min · Martina Grom
Azure Logic Apps Toolbox 2-Send text and files multipartform-data to SharePoint Online

Azure Logic Apps Toolbox 2-Send text and files multipartform-data to SharePoint Online

Using an Azure Logic app is often a quick fix for small computing tasks. So my scenario is as follows: I want to use a form on a website to offer text fields and file upload. The submit button is intended to send the data to a Logic App. The Logic App receives the data and writes it to a SharePoint Online list and sends a notification if necessary. See the implementation here. ...

February 17, 2020 · 8 min · Toni Pohl
Learn more about the Governance Toolkit 365 as an applied cloud story

Learn more about the Governance Toolkit 365 as an applied cloud story

The Governance Toolkit 365 (GT365) is a software-as-a-service solution that offers insights into a Microsoft 365 tenant and is part of the Microsoft Applied Cloud Stories initiative (#AppliedCloudStories). GT365 reads cloud data, stores the data and offers IT administrators monitoring and reporting functions to get a tenant overview at a glance, for example as a newsletter, in Power BI, as API or as a Bot that can be integrated in Microsoft Teams. The GT365 workloads are fully processed in Microsoft Azure using serverless computing. Here are some architectural insights on how to avoid throttling and how to use fan-out functions. ## The application ...

February 4, 2020 · 7 min · Toni Pohl