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March 8th is celebrated worldwide as Women’s day. There is more of that: March is Women’s History Month. Working as a women in technology is not as exotical as it was 25 years ago, still, there is room for improvement to engage women to look into jobs in technology and also to engage them to bond with other women in technology and join allies with like minded people in the industry. In 2022 I started with the idea to celebrate women’s history month with highlighting a women in Tech every day and write why she is a role model for me and what she does. But why only 2022? Why not 2023 as well? There are still so many women around us which I want to celebrate in the 31 days of march. What are your women or March? #WomensHistoryMonth ...

Wir freuen uns über eine Microsoft-Referenz eines Projekts bei den Wiener Linien, das wir begleiten: Wiener Linien: Bau-Kollaboration als Fundament für Wiens Mobilität Foto: Architekt MossburgerOLN/Datenquelle Stadt Wien / news.microsoft.com atwork unterstützt die Wiener Linien bei der Umsetzung der hausinternen Datenablage und der Genehmigungsprozesse mit Microsoft 365 und der Power Platform. Die Lösung ermöglicht die Zusammenarbeit von Partnern und Baufirmen mit Gutachtern und den planungsverantwortlichen Mitarbeitern der Wiener Linien und ist sicher und flexibel. Nach der ersten erfolgreichen Projektumsetzung wird damit auch die Planung des Großprojekts Linienkreuz U2xU5 erfolgen. ...

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. ...

The Center of Excellence (CoE), also known as the Microsoft Power Platform CoE Starter Kit, is a toolkit to gain insights into the use of the Microsoft Power Platform in an Microsoft 365 organization. While the installation has recently become a bit technically easier, a corresponding Power Platform license is also required for operation. Well, not every company owns or acquires the required license. We show how these license requirements can be solved with Azure temporary - for special use cases - and what are the benefits and the disadvantages of the PAYG billing. ...

Sometimes it is useful to create a file of a specific size to test network or internet speed or to upload it to a specific application. This is how you can create a file with a specific file size in Windows and with PowerShell. Using the fsutil command line tool For the start, we can use fsutil** command with the file createnew option in a command prompt or in a PowerShell terminal for that purpose. ...

Today, a quick tip on an article about one of Microsoft’s fastest growing companies: Helping power users to build business apps with low-code and no-code apps. Helping regular folks build business apps The article on protocol.com is about Charles Lamanna, who is corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Applications. Charles Lamanna runs one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing businesses: Helping regular folks build business apps Microsoft’s Power Platform strategy is to allow non-technical people to build applications for their team’s needs with it´s Power Platform, which basically includes Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate and other services out of Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, as the following graphics illustrates. ...

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. ...

There are often hidden treasures to be discovered. The Thrive conference in Slovenia is one of them. Join us at there at the end of May! Thrive conference takes place from 24th - 25th May 2022 at ECO Hotel Bohinjska Bistrica, a small village between Bled lake and Bohinj lake in the heart of Triglav National Park, in beauftiful Slovenia. On 23rd May there are pre-conference workshops. The location is very easy to reach from Austria, by train or car. Visit the Bohinj website for more information about one of the most beautiful National Parks in the heart of Europe. ...

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 ...