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Microsoft announced the retirement of the Microsoft Service Communications API (Msg MC299902). Therefore, we changed the service health components in Delegate365 to use the successor API functions with immediate effect and to get more data. A new setup of Delegate365 is required. See the details here. The Service health module in Delegate365 shows, what´s happening in a specific Microsoft 365 tenant at a glance to all authorized users. Contrary to the required authorizations in M365, this is not necessary in Delegate365. All admins can view the service health and the message center posts. ...

The Cloud Hub Teams app is a business application that provides data from your Microsoft 365 tenant, the Message Center and the Incident Center, as well as the status and history of global Azure services. Since Microsoft recently announced the discontinuation of the Microsoft Service Communications API, all organizations using the Cloud Hub Teams app have to renew their app permissions once in order to be able to use the successor API functions. See how it works here. ...

One thing is for sure - every day is a great day to learn something new from Microsoft Teams’ MVPs. Within the latest episode, “Microsoft Teams’ Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs)- Learn from the experts”, you can learn from MVPs in the fields of planning, deploying, adopting, managing, and securing Teams. Stephen Rose (@stephenlrose), Senior Marketing Manager at Microsoft Teams and host of the “Inside Microsoft Teams” series, invited several experts around the world share their favorite tips and tricks on Microsoft Teams. ...

I recently wanted to share a Microsoft Power BI report with other users who only have the “Power BI (Free)” license. Well, with a “Power BI Pro” license, a report can be shared with other users. But I noticed that there are stumbling blocks when it comes to licensing. Here are my findings. First of all, I’m not a licensing expert (and don’t want to be one). However, I would like to ensure that as many users as possible can consume Power BI reports. With this goal in mind, I would like to share my experiences here. ...

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. ...

In some tenants, sometimes reports appear blank. This can happen when reports are obfuscated in the Microsoft 365 admin center. See more here. Reports can be scheduled and downloaded in the Reports menu. When the report generation is completed, they show up in the list, as here. When the report is open and “no data available” is displayed (although you see users and groups in the Delegate365 pages)… ...

Are you still thinking of ways to move to the cloud with certain services? Well, the Cloud economics site could help. For working with the Azure cloud, Microsoft provides the Cloud economics public website with information how to get the most value from an Azure investment. Open it it at Cloud economics. On the website, potential customers can find a bunch of information about key guidelines for common technical and financial considerations, and reasons, why companies are moving to the cloud in case studies. Also, there is a PowerPoint document with recommendations available to download at Financial and economic considerations for cloud migration. ...

When you run a message trace operation to get status information about specific emails, the result can vary, depending on time zone settings. See a sample here. Show messages in the mail client In this sample, we work with an email sent from azure-noreply@microsoft.com. In Outlook we see the timestamp at Mon 7/5/2021 7:08 PM (2021-07-05 19:08). Message Trace in Delegate365 In Delegate365, admins can run a message trace to get information about the delivery status. When we run the message trace with the filter Startdate 2021-07-05 to Enddate 2021-07-05 - just this one day - and that user as recipient… ...

The Microsoft Power Platform enables individual solutions to be developed and business processes to be easily automated. When it comes to controlling the solutions, it is important to establish an IT governance in the organization. There are many areas and details about it. For this reason, I’ve put together a summary here with some news and helpful tips. The Microsoft Power Platform includes Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual agents, leveraging the common infrastructure of the Microsoft Dataverse (the former Common Data Service) and Data Connectors. Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform are both deeply coupled with Dataverse and are held in containers called environments. A governance strategy usually starts with organizing the environments accordingly. Environments allow to separate Production, Test and Development. See more at Environments overview and at Microsoft Power Platform guidance documentation. ...

“In einer herausfordernden Zeit konnten wir mit atwork schnell und professionell eine funktionierende Lösung für Home-Schooling und Home-Office in Betrieb nehmen. Die Kompetenzen auf technischer und organisatorischer Ebene haben einen unkomplizierten und raschen Start in Microsoft Teams ermöglicht. Auch bei weiteren Projekten konnten wir uns voll auf das Knowhow von atwork verlassen. Wir freuen uns einen langfristigen Partner für Microsoft Cloud Services zu haben.” Benjamin Böhm (Head of IT, Diakonie – Eine Welt) ...