Working with the new Azure PowerShell Az module

Working with the new Azure PowerShell Az module

PowerShell is both a command-line shell and scripting language and perfect for automating administrative tasks. When working with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft recommends to use the new Azure PowerShell Az module. See how to uninstall the outdated Azure PowerShell AzureRM , how to install the new Az module for PowerShell 5.x and 6.x and how to connect and to get a inventory of your resources and a little bit of Cloud Shell here. ...

February 26, 2019 · 4 min · Toni Pohl
Detect sentiment with Text Analytics

Detect sentiment with Text Analytics

Azure Cognitive Services offer a bunch of services. One is the Sentiment Analysis API that allows to analyze unstructured text for tasks such as sentiment analysis based on Microsoft machine learning algorithms. See the first steps how to use that here. The test works in the same way with Postman as in the previous article.The goal here is to analyze some text to get a positive or negative result of the meaning. ...

February 25, 2019 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
First steps with the Microsoft Vision API

First steps with the Microsoft Vision API

Cloud services help to automate simple and complex processes. For analyzing a picture, the Microsoft Cognitive Services offer a bunch of services like the Vision API, (Custom) Computer Vision, Face API, Video Indexer an more. Follow this first sample with Postman to start with the Vision API. Azure Cognitive Services can be integrated easily in custom processes and apps. A good starting point is Cognitive Services APIs web page on Azure. ...

February 25, 2019 · 3 min · Toni Pohl
Troubleshooting Delegate365-Login

Troubleshooting Delegate365-Login

Sometimes support cases are opened because users cannot login to Delegate365 with their Office 365 account. In most cases, the browser cache automatically signs-in a user with wrong credentials. Please follow these simple steps to see how to achieve a successful login to the Delegate365 portal in such scenarios. 1. Use a browser in Private mode The most common stumbling block is that web browser log in users automatically. Also, often users are working with multiple accounts. Thus, there is a high probability that an incorrect sign-in will occur when opening the Delegate365 portal. ...

February 21, 2019 · 4 min · Toni Pohl
How to invite external users to your Azure subscription

How to invite external users to your Azure subscription

Modern collaboration allows to use shared resources and to give access to external users from other organizations. See how this works for shared Microsoft Azure subscriptions here! So, see this step-by-step process here with the following sample of an Admin giving access to an external guest and some troubleshooting tips. Check your source AAD and subscription Signing-in with admin@M365x321500.onmicrosoft.com to the Azure portal. Our source subscription 18e* and it’s bound to AAD M365x321500.onmicrosoft.com. ...

February 18, 2019 · 4 min · Toni Pohl
Troubleshooting Delegate365

Troubleshooting Delegate365

Delegate365 is a user-friendly tool to enable delegated management of users, licenses, and groups. This means that only objects assigned to a scope administrator are displayed in Delegate365. So, sometimes, we get questions as “I can’t see my users/shared mailbox or similar”. Here’s why and how to solve such issues. Why does Delegate365 not show users? Well, that’s the idea of the tool. Delegate365 shows only objects to which I am entitled to see and to manage. ...

February 13, 2019 · 7 min · Toni Pohl
Ready for European Collaboration Summit 2019!

Ready for European Collaboration Summit 2019!

Join us at the legendary European Collaboration Summit from May 27 to May 29, 2019 in Wiesbaden, Germany! #collabsummit is Europe’s largest community-driven conference with a focus on modern workplace technologies and digital transformation, with topics such as Microsoft 365, Azure, SharePoint, AWS, and Business Apps. The conference is organized for the community by the community. We from atwork are honored to be part of CollabSummit.eu as in the past years (see 2018 and 2017). Check out the first announced sessions at Collabsummit 2019 program is here!! ...

January 25, 2019 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Delegate365-Working with Audit Logs and Power-BI

Delegate365-Working with Audit Logs and Power-BI

Delegate365 protocols operations in it’s audit logs. This log space can be accessed from entitled users and it’s simple to create a custom Power BI dashboard for your Delegate365 data. See how this works here step-by-step. Tip: The article Delegate365-Working with Audit Logs covers the methods for accessing the data and working with the audit logs as well. This article informs how to connect to your Delegate365 with Microsoft Power BI step-by-step and how create your custom dashboard. You need to have a Power BI license, see details at Power BI Pricing. ...

January 8, 2019 · 4 min · Toni Pohl
Convert a Markdown document to PDF easily

Convert a Markdown document to PDF easily

I am a big fan of the lightweight and super useful Visual Studio Code editor. Recently, I discovered another cool extension for creating PDF, HTML, PNG, and JPEG files from a Markdown document. Simply install the Markdown PDF extension by yzane.markdown-pdf. This cool extension exports a .md file to a PDF file as shown here. You can even with configure AutoSave by adding the "markdown-pdf.convertOnSave": true option to* settings.json* and restart Visual Studio Code. Then, when saving, the file gets converted automatically. That’s useful especially for documentation. Also, there are much more extensions to discover… ...

January 3, 2019 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Join us at SPC19 North America!

Join us at SPC19 North America!

We from atwork will are looking forward to see you at SharePoint Conference North America 2019 that will take place in May 2019 in Fabulous Las Vegas. Check it out now and save $50 off your registration! SharePoint Conference North America 2019 will take place in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada from May, 21st to 23rd, 2019. Add #SPC19 to your calendar! See the details at sharepointna.com. “The SharePoint conference returns to Las Vegas: the world’s biggest and most comprehensive event empowering you to achieve more in the modern workplace with Microsoft 365.” ...

December 27, 2018 · 1 min · Toni Pohl