Martina Grom

Some of us are part of many Microsoft Teams Tenants as guests. At least for me it happens very often that people try to reach me in their home tenants and they start a chat with my Martina Grom (Guest) account. Those messages likely get a reply from me only if I am currently signed-in into those tenants – most part of the day I am just signed into my home tenant. So the idea for using Microsoft Teams as an instant messaging service is failing here. ...

Delegate365 provides a PowerShell module to access data in Delegate365 in scripts. You can import the Delegate365 module locally, or use it in the Azure Cloud Shell as well. See here, how to use the module in Azure Cloud Shell. Here, you can find a description of the Delegate365 PowerShell module. It is hosted in the PowerShell Gallery and can be easily installed. So, here´s a step-by-step guide how to use the Delegate365 PS module. ...

Starting in 2022, Microsoft will enable EU-based public sector and corporate customers to process and store all of their data within the EU. Read the article at EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud! Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash Important Notes: This commitment will apply across all of Microsoft’s main cloud services Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365. Microsoft’s cloud services already meet EU regulations. Microsoft Online Services already enable customers to comply with the GDPR even without this additional commitment to store and process data within the EU boundary. ...

The well-known Scott Hanselman has been producing the recurring Azure Friday series for a long time. Last Friday, Scott interviewed Azure Barry (Barry Luijbregts) about “What to use for monitoring your applications in Azure”. Barry did a great overview about the main monitoring services. See the recording and a kind of summary transcript here. Azure provides a bunch of services for monitoring purposes. So, when you you use what service? To answer that, see the video at What to use for monitoring your applications in Azure | Azure Friday. ...

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We learned many new terms this year. With 2020 now coming to an end the Team at atwork created a Bingo card about the most used terms in our environment. Is it Bingo for you, too? Please feel free to add suggested items, maybe we can create more than one Bingo card. Happy 2021!

This quote from Immanuel Kant made my day: “Many things have a price, some have a dignity.”

Today´s a quick tip: Check out the free Microsoft eBook “Roadmap to Digital Infinity” - How to become an Intelligence Driven Organization! Roadmap to Digital Infinity This is a short eBook with 19 pages that “will show you how to take the next steps on your digital journey.” It covers topics from Intelligence Driven Organization to the Digital Feedback Loop and the the core solution. It’s a beautifully designed eBook. I like the statements like “Change is the new normal” and a statement from Ralph Haupter, President, Microsoft EMEA: “One thing we can count on: combining human ingenuity with innovation will be essential, not optional”. In addition, the data analysis helps to put an organization in a test and learning culture. New ideas can be developed, started and improved with much more confidence. ...

I recently ran into this problem: I had to install the Azure Az PowerShell module from the PowerShell Gallery on a new computer. Interestingly the installation with Install-Module -Name Az failed with the error message “WARNING: Source Location ‘https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/package/Az.Accounts/1.9.3' is not valid.”. See my solution here. The Azure Az PowerShell module provides access to the world of Azure. See more at Introducing the new Azure PowerShell Az module. So, if you run into this issue when executing ...

Galactic Summit was THE Microsoft 365 online conference that happened on June 2nd and June 9th, 2020 on USS Defiant, USS Voyager, USS Enterprise, USS Discovery and La Sirena with over 8000 attendees. You can now watch the sessions online! Thanks to the organizers Adis, Margit, Spencer, Elena and Fitz, the sponsors and speakers of #GalacticSummit for this great and free online event! See all sessions at www.collabsummit.space. Find our sessions here: Best practices to use Microsoft 365 for crisis communication requirements, Martina Grom ...