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Today, the Microsoft 365 Training Day for Security and Compliance took place at the Microsoft Office in Vienna. Microsoft 365 experts Martina Grom and Klaus Harrer-Nemecek provided information on the cloud security strategy and security implementation for the Modern Workplace. The interest was huge. The event was aimed at IT professionals, IT decision makers, security managers, legal and compliance managers and officers, and compliance consulting and technology partners. After the opening by Hermann Erlach, COO Microsoft Austria, our CEO Martina held the security keynote. Then the event was split into a teams and a safety track. Klaus, Security Technical Specialist at Microsoft Austria, filled the morning sessions about Microsoft 365 Security and the building blocks at a glance, Identity, and Information Protection. In the afternoon, Martina, MVP Office 365 and Microsoft Regional Director, held a workshop about the Security Immersion Experience (SIE) in Microsoft 365. See the event details here. ...

Last week, the Microsoft Ignite conference took place in Orlando, Florida. Microsoft informed about its new products and services and offered over 1000 sessions and over 200 hands-on experiences to attend and watch online. This was our 5th Ignite conference and we had a blast. See some impressions here. Microsoft Ignite, including the pre-day, took place from Sunday, Nov. 3rd to Friday, Nov. 8th, 2019 in the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, Florida, at the same location as in the past three years. The logistics worked properly and all 30,000 attendees could schedule their conference days with the Microsoft Events mobile app (see Google Play and Apple App store) and online, hang out in The Hub area - the expo hall where all partners and the Microsoft booths were located and food was provided - and attend the sessions in the West building and in the Hyatt Hotel across the street. ...

We are excited to kick off the Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp in Vienna, Austria, on November 27, 2019! The Microsoft MVPs and community leaders invite YOU to attend this cost free developer bootcamp to learn the latest on Microsoft 365 platform such as Microsoft Graph, SharePoint Framework, Microsoft Teams, Bots, Actionable Messages and more. Learn how to apply the latest technologies to your future projects! The Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp takes place at the Microsoft Office in Vienna: ...

In addition to all the great features in Office 365, governance plays an important role, especially for large organizations. Richard Campbell, runasradio.com, interviewed Martina Grom recently about governance and tools in Office 365. The interview is available as podcast here. In this podcast, Richard chats with Martina about the various aspects of Office 365 that affect the way users collaborate with each other and get work done. There are bunch of great tools inside and outside of Office 365 to enable Governance. Check out the latest Office 365 Governance podcast with Martina Grom at runasradio.com. ...

The Microsoft MVP Award Program honors IT Professionals and Developers who support the Microsoft community and share their knowledge. The program´s renewal cycle is every year on July 1st. So, today it was a busy day on Twitter and the #MVPBuzz hashtag. We at atwork are proud and pleased that our MVP’s have been renewed for their community contributions for 2019-2020! The MVP Award is Microsoft’s way of thanking outstanding community leaders based on their actions to share knowledge and technology in all possible ways, from speaking engagements to supporting others in communities. An MVP is awarded for contributions over the previous year for community work. See more abut the MVP program at mvp.microsoft.com and learn about the award categories here and view all current MVPs here. ...

Yesterday, the Insider Dev Tour 2019 took place in our home town Vienna, organized from the community for the community. About 60 attendees joined us at this beautiful summer day in the Microsoft Office in Vienna. See some snapshots from the #InsiderDevTour event in our Sway here. Many thanks to the team and to Gerwald Oberleitner, Martina Grom, Thomy Gölles, Christoph Wille, Stefan Bauer, Martin A. Ullrich, Shehata Haroun, Andi Pollak, Christian Nagel and Christian Waha, Bernadette Welly and Georg Binder! Our special thanks to Gerwald Oberleitner from Microsoft for delivering the keynote and to our colleague Martin A. Ullrich for the organization support and for jumping in into the 2nd session! ...

End of May the European Collaboration Summit 2019 took place in Germany. My MVP colleague Michael Greth (see also sharepointsendung.de) did a short interview with me about Microsoft Graph and my session “Develop Intelligent Apps for the Modern Workplace”. Watch it here. The interview is about Microsoft Graph and the use of Adaptive Cards and is in German. Watch the 6 minute talk on LinkedIn at Linkedin.com: ECS 2019 - Community Talk mit Toni Pohl über Microsoft Graph und Adaptive Cards … ...

The European Collaboration Summit (ECS), also known as #collabsummit, is the largest community-driven conference in the world with a focus on modern workplace technologies and digital transformation. Experts from around the world informed about topics such as Microsoft 365, Azure, SharePoint, AWS, business apps and more. We were happy to be part of that great event in May 2019 in Wiesbaden, Germany. See some impressions here. ECS took place from Monday, 27 May to Wednesday, 29 May 2019 at the Rhein Main Congress Center (RMCC) in Wiesbaden, Germany. On Monday, the workshops started for more than 800 attendees, followed by two full conference days with more than 2,000 attendees. Wow! See this amazing photo(s and the cool closing video) from Aleksandar Draskovic – thx! ...

Last week, the SharePoint Conference returned to Las Vegas! #SPC19 took place from May 21 - 23, 2019 at the brand-new MGM Grand conference center, Las Vegas, Nevada. The event informed about the latest news in SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Microsoft 365 and Azure. We from atwork were proud to deliver a full day workshop about Security and Governance in Microsoft 365 and some sessions. See some impressions of SPC19 here! As in the last year, at the first “reborn” SharePoint Conference in Vegas, SPC19 was organized by SharePoint Conference with Microsoft as a Diamond sponsor. Jeff Teper, Corporate Microsoft Vice President Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive and Stream, and his team delivered the SPC keynote about “The intelligent workplace”. You can watch it on demand at the SharePoint Virtual Summit site at aka.ms/spc/summit. ...

At Microsoft Ignite conference last September, we demoed an approach for a self-built Office 365 Groups Governance Toolkit. Since Microsoft 365 is an evergreen service and continues to evolve, today we have more group settings available and we extend our provisioning function to work with group naming policies as well. See here how this can be accomplished by including new Graph requests. Foreword You can find the previous articles of our governance story at Provisioning an Office 365 group with an approval flow and Azure functions-part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and part 6 and the source code at martinagrom/Ignite2018GroupsGovernanceToolkit. ...