Use Dynamic Groups to access SharePoint Online sites

Use Dynamic Groups to access SharePoint Online sites

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. ...

June 21, 2022 · 4 min · Martina Grom
Governance Toolkit 365-Turn off obfuscation

Governance Toolkit 365-Turn off obfuscation

The Governance Toolkit 365 (GT365) provides many insights from a Microsoft 365 tenant, like users, guests, teams, activities, Power Apps and Flows, Power BI reports and much more. If reports don’t show names, IDs, or other details, you’ll need to turn off the obfuscation feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Here´s how. The reports Here’s an example of a Teams activity report showing when Teams were last accessed. As you can see in the following screenshot, the TeamId and the TeamName are not shown correctly. ...

June 20, 2022 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Tips for PowerApps-8 Group and chart

Tips for PowerApps-8 Group and chart

Grouping in Power Apps can be a little tricky. Here´s how to create a new collection from a data table and visualizing the grouped result in a chart control. In this small sample, I will show how you can use a data table with the group by function to visualize a summary with a chart in a Power App. The data source is minimal: It´s a SharePoint list named Fruits, containing some items. The Type column is what we want to see grouped by the number of items. ...

June 6, 2022 · 3 min · Toni Pohl

Delegate365 changelog 9.2.5-Updates

All Delegate365 tenants have been updated to the latest version v9.2.5. This enables the use of the new service health dashboard and new functions. So: If your health dashboard is not displayed correctly, please run the Delegate365 setup again (see here). This will renew the Delegate365 app with the necessary permissions for the operations. After the setup is completed, Delegate365 can be used again and the new extended service health dashboard will show the current tenant status. Otherwise, no setup is currently required. However, you can always do a setup to renew the Delegate365 app and ensure all required permissions are in place. ...

May 17, 2022 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Get the latest Teams activity with Graph

Get the latest Teams activity with Graph

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. ...

May 11, 2022 · 4 min · Martina Grom
Join us at Thrive conference 2022

Join us at Thrive conference 2022

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. ...

May 3, 2022 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Copy a SharePoint list with PnP PowerShell

Copy a SharePoint list with PnP PowerShell

In the Microsoft 365 world, sometimes you want to copy a custom list in SharePoint Online to another SharePoint site in the same or in a different M365 tenant. While there are third-party tools for this, there is an easy-to-use method for such a scenario using PnP PowerShell. This article shows how it works with a step-by-step example. PnP PowerShell PnP PowerShell is an open-source component from Microsoft providing over 600 cmdlets that work with Microsoft 365 environments such as SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, and more services. We can use this simple-to-use module for our purpose. See more at PnP PowerShell overview. ...

April 22, 2022 · 5 min · Toni Pohl
Delegate365 changelog 9.2.5-Message Trace optimization

Delegate365 changelog 9.2.5-Message Trace optimization

Exchange Online message tracking logs can be searched by sender or recipient email address to find specific email messages. This update improves the speed of the runtime behavior of the message trace function in Delegate365. Message Trace: The Mailboxes / Message Trace module allows to query the Exchange logs for email messages with a specific sender or recipient within the last seven days. This works for internal and external email addresses, also for Alias addresses if required. ...

April 14, 2022 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Troubleshoot Delegate365 email delivery

Troubleshoot Delegate365 email delivery

When using Delegate365, the system sends emails for various notifications. If the email is not received, check this configuration. Check these relevant points: Sender requirements: Check whether you are using an Office 365 email address that has an Exchange license. The sender address needs to have a mailbox that can be used for sending. As a Portal Admin, open the Administration / App settings menu, and open the Email configuration section. After clicking the Save button, try it out by sending a test email to a user below. The mailbox should get a test message. If this does not work, use another (service) mail account and retry. ...

March 28, 2022 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Join us at TeamsNation next week!

Join us at TeamsNation next week!

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 ...

March 16, 2022 · 1 min · Martina Grom