Microsoft365

Office 365 is moving fast – each week we find new and interesting stuff in the service. One of the long awaiting features is custom branding. This was first only exclusive to customers who use their own ADFS service and afterwards only to those customers who have an additional Azure AD subscription. Gladly this feature is now available also for Office 365 customers, together with the self-service password reset option for all users (not only Office 365 administrators). ...

We at atwork developed a new solution named Delegate365. Delegate365 is a Web-based portal for managing users and licenses in Microsoft Office 365. For information about our product see our product website https://delegate365.com. We are using Google AdWords which helps us to successfully advertise the product for the target markets. Google asked us if we want to share our marketing story for Delegate365 on their https://customers.withgoogle.com portal. Good for our product promotion and for Google. So here it is! ...

We are working hard on Delegate365 right now and are currently working on the next version 3.4 which will be released in the next days. We also are producing new short videos showing how to setup and how to work with Delegate365. The new videos will include spoken text (in English) according to the How To´s. We are still in the finishing touches but have a short preview of the new dashboard here… ...

Shortly we launched Delegate365 version 3.3. With that release there came a new and very fast cloud service along which handles all Exchange operations. We upgraded this service yesterday into production. Delegate365 users, have you noticed the NEW SPEED? The new service now uses pooling for all incoming request of one tenant and is very fast since many operations can be executed asynchronously within the connection pool. The result is that all Exchange-tasks are much much faster (about factor 6 to 10) than before. ...

Heute wurde die “IT Pro and Developer Preview of Office 2016 for the Windows Desktop” angekündigt, schreibt Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office 365 Client Apps and Services Team, im Office-Blog. Announcing the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview. Das neue Look & Feel ist frisch und passt in das Office 365-Design. Ich arbeite bereits mit der Preview und sie funktioniert aus meiner Sicht bereits recht gut. Um einen Eindruck zu vermitteln, wie sich das neue Office 2016 Preview anfühlt, habe ich hier Screenshots von Outlook und dem Skype for Business Client angefügt. ...

Today´s world offers a lot of ways to communicate. One one hand there are tools (or “Apps”) for nearly everything and on the other side users can get confused sometimes too choose the right way or the correct tool to reach the desired group(s). Our Office 365 expert Martina Grom took a look into the current tools in the Microsoft cloud world to bring light into the dark and wrote an overview article in the Yammer Blog: ...

As announced in our version 3.3 article we added another feature in the new module “assign licenses”. Now this list also shows all already assigned plans for each user. There´s a new column “AssignedPlans” showing the plans of the displayed users. So this list can be used for setting and also for reporting multiple user licenses of OU´s. For doing that we had to implement an additional caching layer which is now filled by the automatic sync process. ...

The current version of Delegate365 is version 3.3. In that version we have some new features available as well as some minor bugfixes. Let´s start with these: Bugfixes Sync licenses: It seems that there was a change in delivering the licenses information of users by Microsoft. If the Office 365 licenses of an user were changed, the license and the active plans stay unchanged. In D365 the synchronization could not update the license data correctly because it relied on that data. We found that now only the disabled plans information delivered by the interface is correct. The sync and getting and setting the licenses function has been updated to use the disabled plans data. So this version fixes all license information updates. Since the Sync functions automatically runs periodically (usually all 4 hours), there´s no need to do anything manually. Anyway, admins can click the Sync button anytime to ensure that all data in the D365 tenant are updated. ...

Von 9. bis 11. März fand in Erding bei München die SharePoint Konferenz für Developer von ppEDV statt. Wir von atwork waren mit zwei Sessions dabei (siehe Agenda). Die Präsentationen sind auf SlideShare.net verfügbar. Update 15.03.: Die Samples können direkt hier heruntergeladen werden. Es ist ein Rebuild erforderlich, damit alle NuGet Packages geladen werden und das Anpassen der .config-Dateien. BI-System mit OData und SharePoint Online (Martina Grom & Toni Pohl) Samples: SPKonf-ODataSample.zip SPKonf-SharePointAppEventDemoSample.zip ...

SharePoint MVP Benjamin Niaulin (sharegate.com/blog) asked some of his colleagues about their opinions and thoughts of Microsoft Office 365. Our Office 365 expert Martina Grom was among them. Here´s the result: 20 MVPs Share Their Thoughts on Office 365 …a lot of well known experts in the IT industry! Here´s Martina´s statement: Martina Grom from atwork Martina is head of consulting and project development. @magrom Which feature(s) of Office 365 you think will have the biggest impact in 2015? And why? Office 365 has so many features, that’s really hard to decide. Let’s name some of them which I think are important: ...