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Yesterday, on the 22nd April 2017, the fifth Microsoft Global Azure Bootcamp happened worldwide where user groups and communities organized events to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing. In Austria, the #GAB happened in Linz. We had a great day with Azure and the community! See details at the website of global.azurebootcamp.net. The official twitter hashtag was #GlobalAzure (but many, as I, used #GAB2017, but that’s life ). As in the years before, Rainer Stropek (MVP, RD) with Karin and their team of Coding Club Linz organized the event in Austria, Linz in Wissensturm, see Global Azure Bootcamp 2017 in Austria. ...

Recently I got an error in my PowerApp when trying to get an Office 365 User Profile, although this was working before: “The service returned an error: Office365Users!MyProfile: {“status”:402,“message”:Insufficient privileges to complete the operation.”,“source”:“127.0.0.1”}". See here how to deal with such scenarios. Well, first I tried to check my Office 365 User connection, removed the data source and added it again. But this didn’t change anything, the app still reported the same error. ...

Mit dem Motto “Wir digitalisieren Österreich #DigitaleHelden” startet Microsoft eine Digitalisierungs-Kampagne mit Gewinnspiel. Wir von atwork freuen uns, mit dabei zu sein und informieren über die neuesten Microsoft Cloud Technologien und zeigen eine PowerApp für den täglichen Gebrauch im Unternehmen. Schauen Sie rein und machen Sie mit! Hier gehts zum atwork Kurzvideo: microsoft.at/osterhelden/atwork. Das atwork Team stellt die Vorteile der Microsoft Cloud vor, beantwortet Fragen zur Sicherheit und erklärt welche Möglichkeiten es zur Automatisierung gibt. Mit einer Fahrtenbuch Applikation zeigen wir Ihnen, wie Microsoft PowerApps Alltagsprozesse erleichtert. Als kleines Ostergeschenk gibt es bis zum 10. Juni 2017 die Möglichkeit eine kostenfreie Beratung für eine Migration in die Microsoft Cloud zu gewinnen. Video ansehen und mitmachen! ...

Delegate365 version 6.2 comes with some updates and improvements. See the new features described here. License counting update: Delegate365 is licensed per user that shall be managed. There comes just one peculiarity with that: shared mailboxes and resources are delivered from the Office 365 interface as users. This causes that D365 counts such users (but only) if they are assigned to an OU as well although they do not need to have an Office 365 license. So, this can lead to uncertainty, why licensing in D365 can be different from Office 365. Again, this is only the case if the user objects are assigned to an OU in D365. For more information about that topic pls. see Delegate365 license information (Q&A 4 to 6). With the new feature this behavior can be compensated and is obsolete. The following graphics shows such a scenario where a shared mailbox “support” is assigned to an OU in D365 (and counts as a D365 user license). We wanted to simplify that licensing in D365 to make it equal to Office 365 licensing in that specific case. With this D365 update, there come two new switches “Ignore shared mailbox users” and “Ignore resource users” in the administration / sync / sync options user region. By default, these two switches are set to “No”. This means, existing users for shared mailboxes and resources stay in the users list, as it was before. If set to “Yes”, this means that shared mailboxes and resources are ignored as “user” in D365. Such user objects that were existing in the users list will be removed from the users list. (No worries, nothing bad happens, they just no longer show up – and are not counted for D365 user licenses.) After the next SyncOp (of course, with “Use user sync options” switch to “Yes”), these user objects will no longer shown in the users list. The shared mailbox “support” is gone from the users list. Of course, the object is still manageable in the more / shared mailboxes list and can be managed there. The same goes for the resources. Our recommendation: Set both new switches to “Yes”. Usually there is no need to manage a shared mailbox or a resource in the same way as a user. With “Ignore shared mailbox users” and “Ignore resource users” activated, this saves D365 licenses. ...

I recently had a curious behavior in my customers Exchange 2010 SP3 hybrid environment with centralized mail transport for Exchange 2010 SP3 Edge servers enabled. Before I describe the topic in more detail I would like to say thank you to the guys from Microsoft: Timothy Heeney, Scott Landry and Tom Kern helped me with my ‘little’ mail flow problem . Appreciate your help. My customer is using a smtp gateway for external mail flow as usual. Some of the mailboxes have configured smtp forwarding like ForwardingAddress (mail contact) and ForwardingSMTPAddress (external smtp address directly set on the mailbox). ...

Your computer is still bound to your company’s local domain? How old school. Well, here’s a step-by-step guide how to join Azure Active Directory (AAD Join) with Windows 10. You must be administrator on your local computer, Your existing use profile (C:\Users[account name]) will continue to exist, but anyway, it’s a good idea to backup your local data if needed. Usually such “local” data should be synchronized to the cloud anyway, so it’s easy to restore (for example with OneDrive). ...

In many of my Office 365 projects customer want to limit the self-service of Office 365 groups creation. Gladly, this is possible in Office 365, with the definition that just specific users are able to create Office 365 groups. Since the launch of Microsoft Teams in March 2017 customers asked me several times if this policy also affect the creation of Microsoft teams? Well, let’s take a look. In a previous blog post, we described how to setup Office 365 Groups policies, check out Management capabilities for Office 365 Groups. Since Microsoft Teams depend on Office 365 groups, we document this scenario step-by-step. ...

We enjoyed being part of aOSDay Dublin on March 15th, 2017, organized by the aOS Community. We had very interesting sessions from Securing Office 365 services, modern app development, groups, connectors to MyAnalytics and Office 365 toolsets. The agenda and speakers are available in a Sway at docs.com. Organizer Patrick Guimonet did the welcome and a session. Tony Redmond delivered a keynote and teached some basic Irish expressions. There were two tracks with 10 sessions, we of atwork had two sessions: ...

Office 365 Groups spannen sich über mehrere Office 365 Services und stellen gemeinsame Arbeitsbereiche für Teammitglieder dar. Ende Februar hat AvePoint ein Webinar mit den Experten Ragnar Heil (Microsoft), Robert Mulsow (AvePoint) und Martina Grom (atwork) produziert. Hier gehts zum Webinar “Office 365 Groups: Sie fragen, unsere Experten antworten”. Ganz nach dem Motto “Sie fragen, unsere Experten antworten” standen Ragnar Heil (Microsoft Partner Channel Lead DACH), Robert Mulsow (AvePoint Director Technical Solutions Professionals DACH, NORDICS, BeNeLux) und Martina Grom (atwork CEO, Microsoft MVP und Regional Director) Rede und Antwort. ...

The cloud train started some years ago. Today, it’s no longer the question “IF you will use the cloud, but WHEN you will use the cloud”. That’s the direction IT is going. See my top five reasons why your organization and your IT can benefit from using cloud services. The following reasons are my personal ones and I am focused on the Microsoft cloud services. I am working with Office 365 and Azure a lot since the beginning. So here’s my top 5 list for using PUBLIC cloud services: ...