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Microsoft announced the retirement of the Microsoft Service Communications API (Msg MC299902). Therefore, we changed the service health components in Delegate365 to use the successor API functions with immediate effect and to get more data. A new setup of Delegate365 is required. See the details here. The Service health module in Delegate365 shows, what´s happening in a specific Microsoft 365 tenant at a glance to all authorized users. Contrary to the required authorizations in M365, this is not necessary in Delegate365. All admins can view the service health and the message center posts. ...

It’s a wrap! The European Collab Summit and Cloud Summit (www.collabsummit.eu) are sister conferences and are the major community-driven technology conferences focusing on digital transformation, the Cloud, and modern workplace. This year, after being remote for almost two years, the atwork-team attended the conference as speakers and attendees (of course in compliance with the COVID-19 safety concept), and we had a blast! The conference took place from 11/29 – 12/2 at Messe Düsseldorf, Germany, with excellent experts who informed about topics, such as Microsoft 365, Azure, Artificial Intelligence, SharePoint, Microsoft Viva, Teams, Yammer, and Business Apps & Power Platform. This focus is further strengthened by the partnership with Microsoft Teams as a Premium Technology Partner. ### ESC 2021 in a nutshell ...

The Cloud Hub Teams app is a business application that provides data from your Microsoft 365 tenant, the Message Center and the Incident Center, as well as the status and history of global Azure services. Since Microsoft recently announced the discontinuation of the Microsoft Service Communications API, all organizations using the Cloud Hub Teams app have to renew their app permissions once in order to be able to use the successor API functions. See how it works here. ...

In this article, we will show you how to set up document templates for Microsoft Teams channels. You can create custom document content types and assign custom Word/Excel or PowerPoint templates to specific Teams channels, which the Microsoft Teams members can use. Let’s go! Go to the Microsoft Teams team and choose a specific channel Navigate to the “Files” section Choose “Open in SharePoint” and you will be navigated to the SharePoint page of the Teams channel ...

One thing is for sure - every day is a great day to learn something new from Microsoft Teams’ MVPs. Within the latest episode, “Microsoft Teams’ Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs)- Learn from the experts”, you can learn from MVPs in the fields of planning, deploying, adopting, managing, and securing Teams. Stephen Rose (@stephenlrose), Senior Marketing Manager at Microsoft Teams and host of the “Inside Microsoft Teams” series, invited several experts around the world share their favorite tips and tricks on Microsoft Teams. ...

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. ...

In some tenants, sometimes reports appear blank. This can happen when reports are obfuscated in the Microsoft 365 admin center. See more here. Reports can be scheduled and downloaded in the Reports menu. When the report generation is completed, they show up in the list, as here. When the report is open and “no data available” is displayed (although you see users and groups in the Delegate365 pages)… ...

Are you still thinking of ways to move to the cloud with certain services? Well, the Cloud economics site could help. For working with the Azure cloud, Microsoft provides the Cloud economics public website with information how to get the most value from an Azure investment. Open it it at Cloud economics. On the website, potential customers can find a bunch of information about key guidelines for common technical and financial considerations, and reasons, why companies are moving to the cloud in case studies. Also, there is a PowerPoint document with recommendations available to download at Financial and economic considerations for cloud migration. ...

Today´s just a short reading tip from McKinsey.com: Defining the skills citizens will need in the future world of work. The Covid crisis has undoubtedly changed the way we work today. At McKinsey Insights, Marco Dondi, Julia Klier, Frédéric Panier, and Jörg Schubert published an interesting article about the skills citizens will need in the future world of work. They find that the demand for technological, social and emotional, and higher cognitive skills will increase. Work in a digital environment, Digital literacy, and collaboration are just a few of them, as well as constant adaptation to new ways of working and new professions. Read the article at www.mckinsey.com. ...