Toni Pohl

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) acts as a central identity service and manages all apps in a tenant. When it comes to app management, Administrators often are confused why there are two (or currently three) application management modules existing in the Azure portal. Well, see the explanation here. An app can have many properties. The important part is, that Azure AD assigns an unique Application ID to an app and allows developers to add certain capabilities such as permissions, conditional access and more that is used by applications to access specific services. ...

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, I wrote how to Update your Azure CLI with Choco. Today, I needed to renew an existing Service Principal Name in an AAD. A SPN stands for Service Principal Name which is used for automation authentication. The PowerShell az module got some updates (v1.0.0). So, here´s the full step-by-step instruction for renewing a SPN with az ad sp credential. This updates the steps described at How to create or renew Service Principal Names in Azure Active Directory… ...

I use Azure CLI from time to time. So, it´s a good idea to update that module… For example, I use Azure CLI for renewing SPN´s a described at How to create or renew Service Principal Names in Azure Active Directory. When I checked the latest version with az --version , I saw my outdated version: “You have 52 updates available. Consider updating your CLI installation.” So, the best method is to use Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows in an elevated command prompt as described at Azure CLI. To make it short: Simply run ...

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 … ...

At atwork, diversity and inclusion are in our daily life. Everyone should be treated equally and with respect. These are the foundations of our modern society. This year, Euro Pride takes place in our home town Vienna. We want to show our sympathy by adapting our atwork logo on the website and in our blog to the rainbow colors. We support pride and the LGBTIQ community with the motto “Join us. March with us. Together & Proud.” ...

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. ...

If you are a Microsoft 365 developer, you will be working with the Microsoft Graph to access data in the cloud. Of course, every product needs a mascot. So, the Microsoft Graph team created their own mascot: Welcome, Microsoft Graph g-raph (giraffe). Get the artwork for the Microsoft Graph g-raph here! For me, the g-raph is a very cute and perfect visualization of “connecting the dots” within the Microsoft 365 services with Microsoft Graph technology. ...