Martina Grom

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: ...

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. ...

Sometimes organizations want to make certain data available to dynamic groups. The good news is: SharePoint Online supports Dynamic Groups. Here is a step-by-step guide to show you how it works. With Dynamic Groups, members can be grouped based on specific characteristics, for example if a user property exists, they are assigned to a certain department and more. This is very useful if only certain users should be members of such a group, especially in large companies. In this short article, we create a new Dynamic Group in Azure AD, and assign the Group to a SharePoint Online site. ...

Carrying out a cleanup process from time to time helps against IT garbage. If you are an Microsoft 365 admin, the following post will help you to find out unused teams. In large organizations, many teams are often created over time (which are not used). While Microsoft 365 now supports the cleanup with the renewal function (see more at Team expiration and renewal in Microsoft Teams), it is sometimes helpful to identify and evaluate teams that are no longer used and to carry out deletion actions yourself. The Microsoft Graph now offers a (beta) method for searching and identifying such teams according to your own criteria. ...

Only one week left until the Teams Nation Community Conference 2022! The #TeamsNation online conference is 100% community and 100% free with 13 tracks, 140 sessions and 170 speakers! We are excited to be a part of it, along with hundreds of fellow community members. See the schedule and register today! Our contributions are the following sessions: How Microsoft 365 Priva helps to safeguard personal data and build a privacy-resilient workplace and ...

Datensicherheit ist ein wesentlicher Faktor für jedes Unternehmen und jede Organisation. So setzt auch unser Kunde WienIT auf die Microsoft Cloud. WienIT ist Wiens bedeutendster Infrastrukturdienstleister und Teil der Wiener Stadtwerke-Gruppe, die mit über 15.000 MitarbeiterInnen einer der vielfältigsten Arbeitgeber der Stadt Wien ist. atwork ist stolz darauf, WienIT mit Expertise im Bereich Cloud-Technologie und Security zu unterstützen. atwork unterstützt Kunden bei dem Einsatz von Microsoft 365 und Microsoft Azure in Geschäftsprozessen und Anwendungen. Unsere Expertise liegt in der Beratung, Konzeption, Migration und Entwicklung von Geschäftsanwendungen in der Microsoft Cloud. Wir freuen uns, dass wir WienIT dabei unterstützen konnten ihre Arbeitsumgebung effizienter und sicherer zu machen. ...

I recently came across an article that shows how (in)secure passwords are these days. See it here! On Hive Systems, author Corey Neskey has created an article and an illustrative table titled “Time it takes a hacker to brute force your password in 2022”. As computers become more and more powerful, passwords can be hacked faster and faster. It’s amazing how quickly short passwords can be hacked these days. Therefore, using a good and long password and MFA is essential these days. ...

Static website hosting in Azure Storage is really cool and quick method for simple deployment scenarios. Azure CDN edge nodes provide the cache and distribution layer with custom domains, rules, and further configuration options for such a static website. But what to do if you update the static website and it doesn’t deliver the new content? How can you force an update? See the solution here. In this sample, we have a community website www.cloudusergroup.at running in Azure. You can find out how to create and to deploy a static website on an Azure Storage Account at Static website hosting in Azure Storage and a tutorial at Tutorial: Host a static website on Blob Storage. In this case, the website has a custom domain bound to the website with Azure CDN, see more at Quickstart: Integrate an Azure Storage account with Azure CDN. ...

Working with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory as an identity and management system becomes more and more important. Like Active Directory, Azure AD grows throughout time with guest accounts, cloud accounts and synchronized accounts. From a governance and lifecycle point of view - and also for security reasons - it is therefore important to clean up Azure AD from time to time. The cleanup process supports a healthy lifecycle management. In this article we describe how to quickly identify guest users in your own Azure AD with on-board resources. ...

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. ...