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PowerApps are a great way to accomplish simple tasks by end users. A new PowerApp is usually done in minutes (if the underlying data source is existing and working). Nevertheless, it often takes much more time to polish the app and to find and modify details. So I decided to post from time to time some tips when stumbling upon any topics in PowerApps. A driver’s log I wanted to use a very simple custom SharePoint Online list to allow colleagues to log their travels with a company car. At every destination, the user shall simply protocol his location and the mileage, and optional some information about the customer or the appointment. Very little fields, just to keep it handy. ...

Check out the sessions of Technical Summit 2016 in Darmstadt here! All sessions are online now at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/microsoft-techncial-summit/Technical-Summit-2016 Find the sessions by atwork on channel9 here: Martina Grom Toni Pohl Siegfried Jagott Christoph Wilfing Enjoy!

After part 1, we now look into the app side of our Excel solution. I want to point out some basics here to make it easy for developers to create their first Office App (with Excel). Here we go. Working with the API To easily access the Excel or Word functions with JavasScript, Microsoft provides an object with an anonymous function and a context (*ctx *here) as parameter. So, accessing Excel works basically as here: ...

Sometimes, it’s the small things that cost (unnecessarily) time. Recently, I wanted to create a quick Office App for an existing Excel file to loop through rows and do some transformation for the values. I was stumbling over some topics when developing in real world. So here’s my short How To for working with Visual Studio and Office Apps with helpful tips. Set the start document If you are not used to develop Office Apps often, this maybe isn’t easy to find: How to set an existing document as start file. ...

Today, just a short info for Azure Active Directory guys: #AzureAD PowerShell V2.0 is now GA! In this blogpost, Alex Simons and Rob de Jong inform that the PowerShell Azure AD v2.0 cmdlets are now generally available (GA). See the details at the Technet Blog and at Azure Active Directory V2 PowerShell Module - General Availability Release 2.0.0.33. Prerequisites Azure Active Directory V2 PowerShell Module can be installed on Windows starting with versions of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and up. ...

According to the principle “Technical Summit 2016: Mehr Technologie geht nicht”, this year’s Technical Summit 2016 is happening next week in Darmstadt, Germany. The event lasts from Tuesday, 6th to Wednesday, 7th of December with an optional additional workshop day on Thursday, 8th. This events features prominent Microsoft speakers as Scott Guthrie, Donovan Brown and more. We from atwork are pleased to be part of this event with four sessions! ...

Die Office-365-Experten von atwork haben zusammen mit namhaften MVPs (Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals) und Experten von Microsoft zwei Online-Kurse auf Basis der Lern-Plattform EdX entwickelt: Managing Microsoft Exchange Online in Office 365: Learn how to manage and configure Exchange Online in Office 365. Dieses Online-Training ist kostenlos verfügbar unter https://aka.ms/cld222. Onboarding Messaging to Office 365: Learn how to move your messaging system to Office 365 and how you can interact with the Microsoft FastTrack Center during your migration. Dieses Online-Training ist kostenlos verfügbar unter https://aka.ms/cld223. ...

Large tenants and many operations can produce large audit logs in Delegate365 since every operation and every sync jobs is protocolled. To optimize the logging and to offer export and further use of the operations data, the audit logging changes with this version. See the details here. Previous versions: Let’s have a look back into the logging in the past. In the early versions of Delegate365, the logging was done in a database which blew up the database (unnecessarily). So, with version 2, we changed the logging to simple text files in CSV format to make it very easy to work with the protocolled data, for example, in Microsoft Excel. This format is used up to Delegate365 version 5.x. ...

As posted in September at Delegate365 announcement about upcoming changes in version 6, we will update Delegate365 to version 6 shortly. Actually, we wanted to update all Delegate365 tenants already this November, but we have been very busy, so this update comes a little bit delayed. See the details here. Delegate365 stays as it is. We just figured out some things we can improve and add to the existing functionality. So, no worries, Delegate365 will stay as it is, but you can benefit from improved and new features. ...

As covered in our blog post “Some snapshots around MVP Summit 2016”, we enjoyed the Microsoft MVP summit very much. We met many friends from all over the world and talked about various topics. One talk ended in a very international podcast production, recorded at the famous Channel 9 studios in Redmond made by Aurélien Prévot (MVP from France), including Christophe Fiessinger (Microsoft Corp.), Martina Grom (RD and MVP from Austria), Adis Jugo (MVP from Croatia), Luc Labelle and Sébastien Levert (both MVPs from Canada). Follow this link here: ...