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2023 was the year when we finally overcame the pandemic that affected many aspects of our lives. We resumed our normal activities while also applying the lessons we learned from a challenging situation, where we had to limit our travel, social interactions, and work remotely. From a business perspective, the year was very rewarding for us. Our company, atwork, received the Innovation award 2023 from Microsoft Austria for our AI4Good project, which uses AI to assist with sign language communication in various scenarios. ...

Merry Christmas to all our friends, partners, and customers! As we approach the end of 2023, we would like to take a moment to express our gratitude for your continued support and trust in our projects. We are proud to have you as our partners and customers, and we look forward to continuing our journey together in the coming year. This year has been a remarkable one for us, with several successful projects that have helped us grow and learn. We are grateful for the opportunity to work with many of you and contribute to your success. We hope that our projects have made your life easier and more efficient. ...

The current version of Delegate365 v9.7 comes with some improvements. See the details here. SMTP Authentication in Users / Mailbox settings: A new switch SMTP Authentication has been added to the Mailbox settings of a User. This allows, see Enable or disable authenticated client SMTP submission (SMTP AUTH) in Exchange Online. Usually, Microsoft recommends to disable SMTP AUTH in your Exchange Online organization and to enable it only for the accounts (mailboxes) that still require it. If security defaults is enabled in your organization, SMTP AUTH is already disabled in Exchange Online. However, admins can modify this setting in the Mailbox features section. The SMTP Authentication dropdown allows to set the setting to* On, Off, *and Organization settings. which means that the settings for the user are inherited from the organization´s transportation rules settings. This setting corresponds to the setting in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, under Users / Active Users / Select a user / Manage Email Apps / Authenticated SMTP switch or with PowerShell. In PowerShell, this setting is set with Set-TransportConfig and Set-CASMailbox with an attribute named SmtpClientAuthenticationDisabled, where the organization settings are equal to $null, On means $false, and Off means $true. This is simplified in Delegate365 to be more understandable. ...

Congratulations to the atwork team behind the Sign Language Project (SLRproject.ai) for winning the Microsoft Austria Partner Innovation Award 2023! The project aims to develop a machine learning model that can automatically translate Sign Language into text and transmit this text into various communication programs, such as Microsoft Teams. It is an innovative development and research project for sign language recognition with Azure Artificial Intelligence Services (Azure AI). The SLR project is a remarkable example of how technology can have a positive impact on society using modern AI technology. We congratulate the project initiator Peter Hödl, who started this project around two years ago and continues to work hard together with the team to create an integrable solution. ...

Sometimes being a guest in Microsoft Entra tenants feel like Hotel California: “You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!” It is this time of the year, where people get new phones and this comes also with some necessary cleanup task if you move from one phone to another. While the technology is really awesome today – connect old phone with new phone and transfers happen magically, there are some things that need to be done manually. Things like your Bank account access, cryptocurrency wallets, wallets, digital ID’s and last but not least – your multifactor settings. ...

By working with Azure Logic Apps, data can be processed very quickly and conveniently. Sometimes small details are a challenge, like function names or correct syntax. This is especially true if you don’t work with logic apps all the time. In addition to our existing tips here in the blog, we have some other useful functions from various scenarios that will make your work with Logic Apps easier. If you are interested, we have already collected a number of tips in our blog in category Logic Apps. So, here are some more general tips for your flows. ...

Part of the job of Microsoft 365 administrators is to ensure that their users can access and work with all services. This also includes ensuring that applications work. Microsoft Entra manages applications and the associated settings in a central location. It is relevant to know when application certificates and secrets expire in order to renew them in a timely manner. This article shows how you can query which applications need to be updated. ...

Sometimes it makes sense to provide users with a link to manage a Microsoft Team in applications or in generated emails. Only the Teams client can do this. Or? The teams client offers the Manage team option The teams client allows open the options menu, and to click on the Manage team menu. ...

Power Pages is a enterprise-grade software-as-a-service platform from Microsoft that provides a low-code solution for building, managing, and hosting dynamic enterprise websites. It enables citizen developers and professional developers within organizations to quickly and securely build custom external-facing web applications. These applications are tailored for use by the organization’s consumers, partners, community users, and internal users. Learn more about Power Pages here. Power Pages architecture The rapid shift towards digital technologies has led to a significant increase in remote work, heightened customer expectations for online applications and services, and increased use of advanced technologies across the board. Behind all of these advances is the driving force of cloud computing, which is enabling and enabling these transformative changes. Today, some IT solutions no longer require software development. Power Pages tries to address this and is part of Microsoft’s Power Platform. It is built on Microsoft Azure and leverages the same security stack as Azure, which integrates with Microsoft 365 compliance tools. This screenshot shows a quick sample of a generated Power Pages site. The site can be enriched with forms and workflows. ...

I know some habits are hard to break. We still see some IT administrators using the outdated tools. We recommend admins using older Azure AD, Azure AD Preview or MS Online modules to use MS Graph modules instead. Renew your tools! Powershell modules retirements The discontinuation means that Microsoft is not making any investments in the outdated Powershell modules and does not make any SLA commitments beyond security-related fixes. See the details of the retirement plans here: ...