Tips for PowerApps-camera access

Tips for PowerApps-camera access

PowerApps allow to access a web or photo camera of a device. When using the camera, sometimes I got a message “To access the camera, check your device settings”. Irritating. See my workaround here. So, when I got this message in the camera control … I got mad, because I didn’t find out where to allow that access on my computer (especially because it worked before). I checked device settings, the camera control settings, PowerApps settings, googled… ...

January 20, 2017 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Delegate365 changelog version 6-Menu restructuring

Delegate365 changelog version 6-Menu restructuring

With Delegate365 version 6 there comes a slightly restructured menu. See the differences here. The existing left menu got a little bit disordered, so we reorganized it with groups to make it easier for admins to find related features. Enlarge the following graphics to see all menus and their new position. The left side (gray) shows the menu of D365 version 5, the right side (green) shows the new menu D365 version 6. ...

January 17, 2017 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Switching from Windows Phone to iPhone

Switching from Windows Phone to iPhone

A smartphone is everybody’s companion today. About two months ago I switched from Windows Phone to Apple iPhone. This article is my personal synopsis.after a short period of using the iPhone. My history Before, I had a Microsoft Lumia 950 for about one year. My personal smartphone history started with Windows Mobile, iPhone 3, 4 and 4s followed by Windows Phone 8, 8.1 and 10. I was satisfied with Lumia 1020 (mostly because of the good camera) and with the cool Lumia 950. ...

January 14, 2017 · 6 min · Toni Pohl
Speed up your old notebook with Pixel

Speed up your old notebook with Pixel

And now for something completely different: Recently, I stumbled upon the article at qz.com: Your old laptop can live again for the cost of a USB drive. The idea is to boot the free Debian “Pixel” OS from an USB stick and to work in that slim and fast environment. So I tried it out! PIXEL is a project of the the Raspberry Pi Foundation, see Introducing PIXEL. and get more details in the blogpost raspberrypi.org/blog: PIXEL for PC and Mac. ...

January 13, 2017 · 3 min · Toni Pohl
How to change the email address of your Microsoft Account

How to change the email address of your Microsoft Account

Having a Microsoft Account (MSA, formerly known as LiveID) and want to change the email address? Here’s how! Go to https://account.microsoft.com/account and sign in with your Microsoft Account. Click “Your info” and select “Manage how you sign in to Microsoft”. Depending on your account security information: Continue with the protection information… Wait for the code, enter it and continue. If you do not want to add security now, click “Set it up later”… ...

January 12, 2017 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Gain access as delegated partner to another Office365 tenant with PowerShell

Gain access as delegated partner to another Office365 tenant with PowerShell

The goal was administer an Office365 tenant as delegated partner. But, currently I had difficulties to access another Office365 tenant in the Microsoft Partner Portal. When selecting a partner and opening the Office 365 admin center, not the partner tenant was opened but instead my own tenant. I didn’t figure out why this no longer was working. Anyway, I tried to use PowerShell instead… The red marked links opened the Microsoft Partner Portal, but not on behalf of the partner tenant, but only showing my own Office 365 tenant… ...

January 11, 2017 · 3 min · Toni Pohl
Christoph Wilfing goes atwork english version

Christoph Wilfing goes atwork english version

We are pleased to announce that our long-term partner Christoph Wilfing is now part of atwork! Christoph Wilfing has been an independent IT consultant for several years and has worked intensively with atwork in various projects in the past. Thus, we have decided to contribute the company Christoph Wilfing to atwork gmbh and to shape the future of atwork together. Christoph Wilfing is now a joint partner and employee of atwork. ...

January 10, 2017 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Tips for PowerApps-When does a user need a license?

Tips for PowerApps-When does a user need a license?

PowerApps is licensed in the Office 365 environment and offers three license plans: PowerApps for Office 365 and Dynamics 365, PowerApps Plan 1 and PowerApps Plan 2. Since it often is not clear, if end users who want to use (and not create) a PowerApps app need a license or how licensing works with data sources, I want to inform about licenses, show some samples and clarify that topic here. ...

January 5, 2017 · 6 min · Toni Pohl
Tips for PowerApps-A drivers logbook

Tips for PowerApps-A drivers logbook

PowerApps are a great way to accomplish simple tasks by end users. A new PowerApp is usually done in minutes (if the underlying data source is existing and working). Nevertheless, it often takes much more time to polish the app and to find and modify details. So I decided to post from time to time some tips when stumbling upon any topics in PowerApps. A driver’s log I wanted to use a very simple custom SharePoint Online list to allow colleagues to log their travels with a company car. At every destination, the user shall simply protocol his location and the mileage, and optional some information about the customer or the appointment. Very little fields, just to keep it handy. ...

January 4, 2017 · 3 min · Toni Pohl
Microsoft MVP awards 2017 for Martina Grom and Sigi Jagott

Microsoft MVP awards 2017 for Martina Grom and Sigi Jagott

We are very happy to announce that our both CEO’s, Martina Grom, CEO of atwork.at, and Siegfried Jagott, CEO of atwork.de, have been reawarded with the Microsoft MVP Award! Martina and Sigi have expertise in Microsoft Office 365 and are recognized experts, book authors and conference speakers. See Martina’s MVP profile. Martina was awarded as Microsoft Regional Director as well in 2015 (see here and the new RD website) Martina (@magrom) is recognized as an expert in Microsoft Office Online Services solutions and was worldwide one of the first 8 Microsoft MVP’s awarded in 2011 for her expertise in Office 365. Martina is doing consulting companies on their way to the cloud. Her expertise is related to online technologies especially in Microsoft cloud services with Azure and Office 365. She helps companies in architecture planning toward cloud solutions. Martina has authored numerous books, articles and blogs and is a well known conference speaker. See Martina’s about page. ...

January 1, 2017 · 2 min · Toni Pohl