Merry Christmas 2017 and Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas 2017 and Happy Holidays!

Wir wünschen all unseren Kunden, Freunden und Partnern frohe Festtage und ein schönes Neues Jahr. Wir möchten uns auf diesem Wege herzlichst für die gute Zusammenarbeit im Jahr 2017 bedanken und freuen uns schon auf ein erfolgreiches 2018! We would like to wish happy holidays and a happy new year to all our customers, friends and partners. Once more, we say thank you for the good cooperation in 2017 and are looking forward to a successful 2018! ...

December 24, 2017 · 2 min · Doris Schlaffer

atwork participates at The Art of Data Management event

The new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) comes in force in 6 months. From then on, every business processing personal data has to fulfil the statutory European data privacy laws. A violation can result in high fines and penalties. Within the cost free seminar series “The Art of Data Management”, taking place in Germany and Austria, atwork prepares you for the statutory changes. Our experts pass on a first general insight into the security concept of Office 365 and Azure and tell you how to fulfil the conditions of the new regulation with the help of Microsoft Cloud Services. ...

November 20, 2017 · 1 min · Toni Pohl

Impressions of SharePoint Saturday Barcelona 2017

Fall time usually is a very busy time in the IT business. So, we were happy to have a break and be part of SharePoint Saturday 2017 in Barcelona! #SPSBCN took place on the 28th October in beautiful Barcelona (see the details on the SPSEvents.org website here). This event already was the 3rd SharePoint Saturday Barcelona. The venue location at IQS was the same as in the years before. Edin and his team of sug.cat (Grup d’Usuaris de SharePoint de Catalunya) organized the event perfectly and we all had a great time there. ...

November 9, 2017 · 2 min · Toni Pohl

See you at Thrive conference in Slovenia!

SharePoint Days conference has evolved to Thrive conference! We are looking forward to Thrive conference in beautiful Rimske Terme/Slovenia from 8th to 9th November! Join us and a bunch of experts and MVP fellows at this great event that’s close to Austria and Central Europe! Have a look a the great speakers lineup and the agenda with a lot of tracks and sessions around SharePoint, Office365 and Azure! As in the last year, Martina and I are honored to be part of Thrive conference. ...

October 18, 2017 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Impressions of Microsoft Ignite 2017

Impressions of Microsoft Ignite 2017

It was a busy week! Ignite is the largest and leading event for IT-Professionals and Decision-Makers in the Microsoft universe. This year, the conference took place in Orlando, Florida, from 25th to 29th September. With approximately 30,000 attendees and about 700 breakout, a lot of theater-sessions a large expo and a lot of networking this event was … big #dataoverflow. See my personal impressions here. Welcome to Florida After the first Ignite conference in Chicago in May 2015 and in Atlanta in September 2016, the event location this year was Orlando. From our company, atwork, five persons attended (see our colleagues Dominik, Andreas and Jens from Germany with the blue atwork T-Shirts below) and Martina Grom was a speaker. Florida did welcome us with hot and humid weather with a lot of sunshine and a bit of scattered rain showers – back in summer time. So, we used the weekend before Ignite for visiting a Disney Park and the Star Wars universe with our MVP pal Loryan. For us, the conference started on Sunday with a pre-day and a lot of technical information. ...

October 7, 2017 · 6 min · Toni Pohl
Provisioning an Office 365 group with an approval flow and Azure functions-part 1

Provisioning an Office 365 group with an approval flow and Azure functions-part 1

Office 365 groups span over various Office 365 services and provide a great way for collaborating. By default, every user can create an Office 365 group. While self-service is a good thing and many businesses adopted into that direction, some companies still prefer the controlled approach. In real world environments, organizations usually want to restrict the group provisioning so that IT can control the wild growth of groups. This article series shows how to create an Office 365 group with an attached approval process with SharePoint Online, Flow and Azure functions. See how this works here! ...

September 28, 2017 · 8 min · Martina Grom
Nachlese zum GDPR Workshop mit atwork, Microsoft und Grant Thornton

Nachlese zum GDPR Workshop mit atwork, Microsoft und Grant Thornton

atwork organisierte einen GDPR-Workshop, der diese Woche bei Microsoft in Wien stattgefunden hat. Als kompetenten Partner aus der Wirtschaftsprüfung und Steuerberatung konnten wir Philipp Mattes von Grant Thornton gewinnen, der den ersten Teil präsentierte. Unsere Security Expertin Martina Grom informierte in Teil Zwei über die technischen Möglichkeiten mit den Microsoft Cloud Services. Sehen Sie hier eine Nachlese. Die GDPR-Veranstaltung fand am 5. September 2017 im Microsoft Office in Wien statt. Veranstalter waren Microsoft, atwork und Grand Thornton. Rund 30 Teilnehmer folgten unserer Einladung zu dem kostenfreien Event. ...

September 7, 2017 · 8 min · Toni Pohl

Martina Grom speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2017

We are delighted to announce that our CEO, Martina Grom, will be speaker at this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference. Ignite is Microsoft’s largest IT conference that will take place from September 25 - 29, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. Ignite will offer about 900+ sessions, insights and roadmaps from industry leaders, and deep dives and live demos on the products you use every day. As in the last years at Ignite Chicago 2015 and Ignite Atlanta 2016, Martina will deliver sessions about the Office 365 eco system. See more information at speaker Martina Grom. ...

July 26, 2017 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
BUILD 2017 Redelivery Event bei Microsoft Wien

BUILD 2017 Redelivery Event bei Microsoft Wien

Am 21. Juni fand bei Microsoft Wien das Community Event BUILD 2017 Redelivery statt. Spät aber doch, hier ein paar Eindrücke vom Event mit einigen Schnappschüssen! Unter dem Motto //BUILD on Tour Neuigkeiten für Devs und IT-Pros organisierten Gerhard Göschl (MSFT), Gerwald Oberleitner (MSFT), Martina Grom (MVP, RD) und Rainer Stropek (MVP, RD) das Event im Office von Microsoft Wien. Es gab drei Tracks, mit den Zielgruppen für Entwickler, IT-Pros und Open Source Software sowie zusätzlich einen Hands-On Workshop über Azure Stack. Die Veranstaltung wurde von der community für die community veranstaltet und war kostenfrei. Vielen Dank an alle Sprecher (aus der MVP community), an den Sponsor Microsoft und an alle Teilnehmer! ...

July 2, 2017 · 2 min · Toni Pohl

Grenzenloses Arbeiten mit Office 365 und Android oder iOS

Office 365 ist mobil! Erfahren Sie in diesem Webinar mit Martina Grom und Artur Speth, wie Sie die Office 365-Apps auf Android- oder iOS-Geräten nutzen können! Das Webinar findet live kommenden Dienstag, den 20 Juni, von 10:00 bis 11:00 Uhr statt. Weitere Informationen und die Anmeldung sind unter Grenzenloses Arbeiten: Office 365 auch unter Android und iOS nutzen erreichbar. Das Webinar wird von Artur Speth, Technical Architect MTC bei Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, und Martina Grom, CEO atwork und RD & MVP Office 365, durchgeführt und kann online angesehen werden. ...

June 18, 2017 · 1 min · Toni Pohl