Another year comes to an end. This year was also full of challenges and exciting projects. We would like to wish happy holidays and a happy new year to all of you. Once more, we say thank you for the good cooperation in 2022 and are looking forward to a healthy and successful 2023! Instead of Christmas presents, as in previous years, we support a selected charity project with a donation at Christmas. ...
We’ve developed a new update for Delegate365 with a number of useful improvements. All existing customers will be updated to Delegate365 version 9.3.1 in the next few days. See the details here. Licenses sorted by name: All licenses and plans are now sorted by name. This makes it easier for administrators to find the licenses and plans by name and adjust the corresponding license. Sorting is applied to both license names (SKU´s) and plans, in all modules. ...
Want to learn more about compliance at Microsoft and Microsoft cloud services? Find many documents here and see Azure’s global and regional compliance in this infographic. Through IT-compliance, organizations ensure they are operating within a specific set of privacy and security requirements, guidelines and best practices. Of course, this also applies to Microsoft and Microsoft’s cloud services. See Microsoft compliance for Microsoft documentation and resources you need to get started with compliance for your business or organization. ...
Adaptive cards are becoming increasingly popular in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. We can find them in Microsoft Search, Power Apps, SPFx apps, Outlook email and many more services. So what are Adaptive Cards (AC) and Adaptive Card Extensions (ACE)? In this article, we show how you can harness the power of adaptive cards in Viva Connections. The purpose of Adaptive Cards Adaptive Cards are a new way for developers to exchange content in a common and consistent way. The idea behind Adaptive Cards is simple: most software developers are not known for being the best designers of forms and data presentations. In order to develop a system that would make it easy for developers to present data in attractive forms, Microsoft founded the “Adaptive Card Working Group” around 2017. This should make it easier for developers to display data in a standardized form on all possible devices. The group began developing Message Cards around 2017, which became Adaptive Cards in 2018. The latest information is publicly available on Github. ...
Holiday season is a good time to train your users about common security risks they may fall into it. Let me describe how to create a security awareness campaign and how to let users know their score. In Microsoft’s latest Digital Defense Report 2022 there are some very good conclusions and suggestions how to improve security in the digital space. In an environment where a lot of false information is publishes, phishing gets better and better. And people still need to be aware about security in their digital environment. The numbers, Microsoft can provide, are impressive: ...
Christmas is near. As a contribution to the festivetechcalendar.com, I describe here how to create an advent calendar with Microsoft Power Apps. You can download the Power App and use this app and this article to learn useful concepts in Power Apps. Here we go with the article for December 4th. Requirements The Power Apps Advent Calendar is designed to work like a real one, with the following rules. ...
On the third day of Christmas, Microsoft gave to me… better communication, an intranet in Teams and great experience for employees with Viva Engage. We sparkle goodness within employees as we see how we can improve engagements and use Viva Engage to surprise and engage users. We use Storylines in Viva Engage to create exciting engagements for everyone. Ho-Ho-Ho Hybrid work creates a social gap within Teams and organizations. People feel less connected while they still enjoy the flexibility of remote work. Yammer and Viva Engage help people stay connected while working remote. The social community effect is essential to keep people in organizations happy and engaged. Imagine, during a lock down you were unable to get introduced to new colleagues, get a proper onboarding in your organization or to interact at a personal, social level. Yammer became one of the most used apps within Microsoft Teams, and suddenly we started many Yammer onboarding conversations with customers. The tighter integration within Viva Connections and with Viva Engage brought even more attention to my loved old-new Enterprise social tool. ...
The Microsoft Power Platform is great for quick and easy solutions and workflows. While developing a new Power App or flow is quick, governance and management can present some hurdles. Well, there is help for some topics, such as the use of solutions. Read more here. For a brief overview of governance for the Power Platform, have a look at Power Platform Environments and Governance Tips. Here we start with a very basic overview of administration and environments. ...
Working with Power Apps, have you seen that in the bound dropdown control the user can remove the selected item (even with single selection)? Well, there could be other solutions, but I want to make sure that a default value is always selected, even when the user clicks the button to remove the selection. In this sample Power App, I have a dropdown named *ProjectType *that is filled from a SharePoint list and a column with choices. When the user selects an item, they can remove the selection using the x-icon on the right. ...
Forms are simple. Forms are complex. Both are true depending on the functionality of the form. While you can create forms very quickly with Power Apps, it often takes a lot of time to make them as user-friendly as possible. In this article, we’ll look at how we can validate and simplify input using Regular Expressions. A sample form When creating a form, one often stumbles upon a few details designed to make it easier for the user to fill out the form. So, here´s my form with some fields. ...