Toni Pohl

Yesterday I documented in “Get data from SharePoint as HTML table with Azure Logic Apps” how data is retrieved from SharePoint Online with an Azure Logic app. To dig a little deeper into working with SharePoint list data, here are a few more helpful tips. Query for empty fields (eq null) To find items in an SPO list that have NO value in an Azure Logic App SharePoint Get items action, we can use “<field> eq null” (and not eq ‘’ ). Simple as that, but good to remember. So in our sample, the ODATA filter query is as here: SubscriptionEndDate lt addDays(utcNow(),-30) and Invoice eq null ...

Sometimes it´s good to get data from a data source as a table and as quickly as possible in an automated way. While this can be done with multiple ways, here´s a quick solution if you want to get the items from a custom list in SharePoint Online sent as a HTML table in an email with Azure Logic Apps (or Power Automate). In this sample, we assume we have a custom list in a SharePoint Online site that includes some hundred lines of data with license requests and billing information. We want to get specific items that will expire in near future where there´s no invoice set. We will do this with a filtered query. The result shall be formatted as HTML table and sent to an email address. Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate (Flow) is perfect for such a quick task. ...

Today, there was a free live event on the Collab Global CON4 platform about IT Governance in Microsoft Teams. Tune in to the Governance Live Discussion with Dux Raymond Sy and Martina Grom - Good Governance Precedes Great Adoption. Live Discussion: How to Make It Easy For People to Do the Right Thing in Microsoft Teams. (Good Governance Precedes Great Adoption) Hear the two talk about why Teams governance is important and see examples of how processes can be improved. ...

Cloud architecture diagrams need to look good. Get the new Azure architecture icons v3 here! Open docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/icons, agree to the terms and download the file Azure_Public_Service_Icons_V3.zip. Check out the pretty new Azure icons for your cloud diagrams!

Letzten Freitag wurde ein Beitrag im ORF Ö1 Radio im Technologie-Magazin “Matrix” zum Thema “Wo unsere Daten wohnen - Vom (Computer-) Leben in der Rechnerwolke” mit unserer Cloud-Expertin Martina Grom gesendet. Hier geht es zur Aufzeichung. Die Journalistin Sarah Kriesche wirft in dem Beitrag einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Cloud-Geschäfts und lud dazu unsere Geschäftsführerin und Microsoft Cloud-Expertin Martina Grom von atwork ein. Weitere Gäste waren Werner Illsinger, Präsident der Digital Society und Thomas Dullien, Geschäftsführer von optimyze. ...

Sometimes it is useful to convert data in documents to another format. There are various tools for this. My favorite conversion tool is Pandoc. Pandoc supports a few dozen file formats, from Word to Markdown and many more. See how to convert a document with Pandoc here. Download the Pandoc tool Pandoc is a cost free and universal document converter, available for all platforms. You can download the command line tool from https://pandoc.org/installing.html. ...

The next version of Delegate365 is here. Delegate365 v9.2 follows the last update v9.1. This update includes a bunch of helpful features and improvements such as SharePoint sites management, Group OU improvements, report improvements, a new message trace job and more. See a description of the new features here. License bars on the dashboard, for users and quotas: The license information is now visually improved for Portal Administrators. A license bar per license (SKU) shows how many licenses are in use and how many are available in total. The same applies to a user’s licenses… …and license quotas. The new display enables a quick view of the licenses. ...

Delegate365 provides a toolbox for easy management of a Microsoft 365 tenant. Management ranges from Exchange Online to Azure AD, SharePoint Online, Reporting and Intune. Delegate365 communicates with the Microsoft 365 services via apps and Modern Authentication, wherever possible. However, a service account had to be used for some Exchange features and the multi-factor authentication management. This will change with the next versions. Some M365 background information So far, some Microsoft services such as Exchange Online (EXO) could only be reached with Basic Authentication, while other (new) services such as Microsoft Graph can be used with an app. Basic Authentication relies on sending usernames and passwords with every request increasing risk of attackers capturing users´ credentials. Therefore, Microsoft recommends that you stop using Basic Authentication. Basic Authentication is superseded by *Modern Authentication *based on OAuth 2.0 that is supported for the new Microsoft 365 services. ...

Today, Microsoft announced “the Microsoft cloud in Austria, for Austria”. The Austrian data center region will join Microsoft’s global cloud and provide Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure and Dynamics 365 services. Microsoft’s Austrian data center region supports companies in complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union and will offer companies on-site access to the entire range of Microsoft cloud services. Microsoft also announced a new Center of Digital Excellence to modernize the IT infrastructure of public services and to promote industrial innovations in Austria. ...

Today´s a quick tip for users working with Azure Logic Apps. This article shows how you can continue to work in a flow if an action has failed. This sample accesses an Excel file from a Microsoft teams SharePoint site and searches for a key. If the key was not found, the flow shall continue and deliver a useful error code with a message. See how this works here. The scenario The following Azure Logic App is triggered by an HTTP request and gets some data from another system. The purpose is to lookup a campaign and some data from an Excel file that is stored in a SharePoint site of a Microsoft 365 Group (a team site) and to continue to work with that data. Furthermore, the Logic App generate a voucher and sends emails. But that´s another story. Here we concentrate on the failure handling. ...