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Office 365 Home is a really cool offer for up to 6 users within your family. You get the Premium versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, 1 TB OneDrive cloud storage each for each person, the subscription includes 60 minutes of free Skype calls every month to phones in over 60 countries and more, as described here. Here’s how to invite your family members. We described the process at “How to use Office 365 Home for sharing or How to get 5 times 1 TB OneDrive storage and 5 times 60 Skype minutes per month” some years ago (and also in German). Anyway, since I keep forgetting how to invite family members to my (renewed) Office 365 Home subscription, here’s the documentation for that… ...

If you are working with Microsoft SharePoint, 2019 will be a great year! First of all, because SharePoint Server 2019 has been announced, and because SharePoint Conference North America 2019 will take place in May in Fabulous Las Vegas (again). We from atwork will be part of the conference and we are looking forward to it. The event registration is already open and there are reduced price packages available. Additionally, find a discount code here! ...

Today I want to share just a quick tip for custom formatting views in SharePoint lists. My goal was to show a picture of a text field that contains an URL and to use conditional formatting with a traffic light system to visualize the sentiment of tweets that are written to a SharePoint Online custom list from a Flow. See the formatting options here. The articles Use column formatting to customize SharePoint and Use view formatting to customize SharePoint basically explain how to work with the JSON object that describes the elements that are displayed, which is a good start. So, the ready formatted list shall look as here. Some fields in that list are rendered with custom formatting, you will spot them easily… ...

As an administrator, you may receive a requirement to add some logic to your *Project Detail Pages *(PDPs). There are some options how to do this. This is the first article of a series explaining ways to implement some logic using JavaScript/JQuery. All articles of this series apply to Project Online, Project Server 2013, Project Server 2016 and Project Server 2019. Methods There are three methods to get values of project fields: ...

As announced in Delegate365 changelog version 8.1-Many new features, this version brings PowerShell support for administrators. All Delegate365 admins can use the PowerShell module if the access is granted by Portal Admins. See the How-To here. Note that for using the Delegate365 PowerShell module, Delegate365 version 8.1 (or higher) is required. The version number can be found in the status line at the end of the page in the Delegate365 portal, see the screenshot below. ...

This December, the 9th Thrive Conference will take place in beautiful Slovenia. Thrive conference impresses with great content and well-known speakers in the middle of central Europe, this year in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana from December 4th to 5th, 2018. See the conference details at www.thriveconf.com. There will be a bunch (60+) of cool sessions separated in the tracks CxO, SharePoint Development, SharePoint Pro, End User, Cloud and Development held in English. As speakers, there will be international world-class experts as Vesa Juvonen, Mike Fitzmaurice, Erwin van Hunen, Adis Jugo, Joel Oleson. Aleksandar Draskovic, Zlatan Dzinic, Radi Atanassov, just to name a few. As in 2017, we are proud to be part of Thrive conference. ...

Delegate365 runs completely in Microsoft Azure, in a region of the customer’s choice. So, for US-based companies, Delegate365 is hosted within the United States of America, for EU-based customers, Delegate365 is hosted within the European Union, etc. Since we sometimes get questions about the location of the Delegate365 solution, we want to inform about the hosting options here. Delegate365 as a service Delegate365 is developed and operated by atwork and runs as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Customers can test and use Delegate365 instantly without any installation out-of-the-box and updates to the Delegate365 tenant are done automatically. Delegate365 runs completely in Microsoft Azure without customers having to maintain the solution in any way. The customer’s data never leave the desired region, except the customer exports his data intentionally. The hosting costs are included in the Delegate365 price. Thus, Delegate365 is delivered as a carefree package to be used instantly. ...

We were happy to be part of the 4th SharePoint Saturday organized by sug.cat in Barcelona last weekend. #SPSBCN took place on the 27th October 2018 at IQS, Institut Químic de Sarrià, on the hills of the beautiful city of Barcelona and offered almost 20 sessions about Microsoft 365 and Azure. We from atwork, Martina Grom and I, had a session about “Real world business scenarios for Office 365 Groups” and we showed our Groups Governance Toolkit which is a combination of Azure Functions with PowerShell, LogicApps and Power-BI to achieve groups governance. See all the event details at www.spsevents.org/city/Barcelona/barcelona2018. ...

Paris is always worth a trip, especially when the Modern Workplace Conference Paris 2018 takes place! So, we just returned from #MWCP18 that occurred from Tuesday, 16th to Thursday, 19th October at Microsoft France in Paris. Modern Workplace Conference Paris offered a pre-day and two conference days with four tracks and more than 50 sessions, delivered by Microsoft Corp speakers, IT-experts and Microsoft MVPs. The team led by Patrick Guimonet, Gokan Ozcifci, Sébastien Paulet, Nathalie Guimonet and Sencer Demir has a lot of experience in organizing IT-events and conferences. MWCP18 could welcome about 500 participants to the conference at the Microsoft EMEA headquarter on the Seine river. See more details at modern-workplace.pro. ...

These days, the next major Delegate365 version 8.1 is released. In that new version, there are a lot of new and improved features available for all Delegate365 customers. The menu has been restructured, permission policies allow to define granular rights and license policies simplify the set of licenses for Scope Admins. Furthermore, there are a bunch of useful improvements and the Delegate365 PowerShell module is available. See the details here. Run a setup: Admins need to run the Delegate365 setup after the upgrade process, see the How-To at (Re)run the setup. ...