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In a good week, Microsoft Ignite 2018 will start! Ignite is Microsoft’s largest yearly IT conference that will take place from September 24 - 28, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Ignite will offer about 700+ sessions, insights and roadmaps from industry leaders, and deep dives and live demos on the products you use every day. We are looking forward to a full week to meet customers, partners and friends from all over the world. And we have prepared a bunch of great content we will deliver in our sessions! ...

Modern SharePoint Sites come with two Microsoft buttons on the bottom of each SharePoint page: “Get the mobile app” and “Feedback”. Want to remove them from your SharePoint sites? Well, then we have an easy to use solution ready for you. Since the modern communications sites in SharePoint no longer offer any customizations with CSS or Javascript, an app solution is required here. We at atwork have developed such a small app that removes the default Microsoft buttons “Get the mobile app” and “Feedback”. The solution is not free, but we offer to purchase it from us. The package comes with the app and a short description how to deploy it. ...

With Delegate365 version 8.0, besides many other features, a brand new feature has been added to Delegate365: Group OU’s. In short, a Group OU can be used by Scope Admins for using members of another OU they do not manage themselves. See how this works here. In Delegate365, Scope Admins can manage all objects of their assigned OU’s. But, they could not assign other users they don’t manage to any group. This is where Group OU’s come in. To illustrate this new feature, let’s have a look at this sample. ...

Delegate365 version 8.0 is a major release with a bunch of new features and updates. This Delegate365 version brings support for a new partner login, improvements in the setup process after updates, integration of Azure Event Grid, new user profile features, new Group OU’s, a new check email address module, some bugfixes, new security features and some more features. See the details here. The last update of Delegate365 version 7.5 took place in April. We have been busy developing and testing Delegate365 since then. Now is the time to launch the new Delegate365 version 8 and the new features. Let’s start with the new setup. ...

Good to see that Microsoft is committed to sustainability in their data centers as seen in the session “Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich” from the last BUILD conference. There are a lot of interesting facts to learn about the Microsoft Azure data centers, as e.g. “Microsoft signed the largest corporate deal on solar panels for Virginia in the US in history, good for 257 Megawatts”. The goal is to reach the 100% energy use from renewable energy. ...

Yesterday, on June 20th, the Insider Dev Tour (see insiderdevtour.com) took place in our home town Vienna. It’s a roadshow for software developers in the Microsoft universe delivering the latest news about Windows, Azure, Office, Graph, AI technology and more. I enjoyed being part of the event along with my fellow MVP colleagues and the Windows Development community. The content was more or less pre-defined and included demos and code-focused overviews of the new developer technologies coming out of Redmond. The topics included building native Win32/XAML apps and Progressive Web Apps, how to connect with new ecosystems using the Microsoft Graph and Windows Timeline (my session), how to add AI (Artificial Intelligence) into your projects, and how to bring your experiences into the next dimension through Mixed Reality and more. ...

When creating a new Azure subscription, the Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions must be defined for users to be able to work with the subscription. But, Office 365 Admins can get permissions automatically – if you define it as here! They key you need to enable that is called “Global admin can manage Azure Subscriptions and Management Groups” in the Azure Active Directory management in the Azure Portal at https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/ActiveDirectoryMenuBlade/Properties. See the following screenshot. ...

Office 365 is a wide service and offers a lot of functionality if you have the corresponding license acquired. So, one frequently asked question is: What happens in Delve if a user has no Office 365 license assigned? See it here. And the answer is: Delve works for all users in Office 365 (in an AAD). The following user Raul has no Exchange license in Office 365. So, this user has just one license plan set. ...

When working internationally, you can now use three time zones in your Outlook calendar. See how to configure this helpful feature here quickly. The default time zone in Outlook matches your current geographic location. This is based on the time zone configured in the Windows Control Panel. So, to add up two more time zones in Outlook, open the Files / Options / Calendar and select your second and third time zone as in the following screenshot. ...

Microsoft Ignite is Microsoft’s largest, yearly conference focused on the latest insights and skills from technology leaders and practitioners with more than 25.000 attendees and will take place in September 24–28, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. We are very pleased to announce, that atwork’s CEO, Martina Grom, is a featured speaker at this year’s Ignite! As presented on the Ignite Speakers website, Martina will be among other well-known speakers within Microsoft and the Microsoft communities. ...