Toni Pohl

Having a Microsoft Account (MSA, formerly known as LiveID) and want to change the email address? Here’s how! Go to https://account.microsoft.com/account and sign in with your Microsoft Account. Click “Your info” and select “Manage how you sign in to Microsoft”. Depending on your account security information: Continue with the protection information… Wait for the code, enter it and continue. If you do not want to add security now, click “Set it up later”… ...

The goal was administer an Office365 tenant as delegated partner. But, currently I had difficulties to access another Office365 tenant in the Microsoft Partner Portal. When selecting a partner and opening the Office 365 admin center, not the partner tenant was opened but instead my own tenant. I didn’t figure out why this no longer was working. Anyway, I tried to use PowerShell instead… The red marked links opened the Microsoft Partner Portal, but not on behalf of the partner tenant, but only showing my own Office 365 tenant… ...

We are pleased to announce that our long-term partner Christoph Wilfing is now part of atwork! Christoph Wilfing has been an independent IT consultant for several years and has worked intensively with atwork in various projects in the past. Thus, we have decided to contribute the company Christoph Wilfing to atwork gmbh and to shape the future of atwork together. Christoph Wilfing is now a joint partner and employee of atwork. ...

PowerApps is licensed in the Office 365 environment and offers three license plans: PowerApps for Office 365 and Dynamics 365, PowerApps Plan 1 and PowerApps Plan 2. Since it often is not clear, if end users who want to use (and not create) a PowerApps app need a license or how licensing works with data sources, I want to inform about licenses, show some samples and clarify that topic here. ...

PowerApps are a great way to accomplish simple tasks by end users. A new PowerApp is usually done in minutes (if the underlying data source is existing and working). Nevertheless, it often takes much more time to polish the app and to find and modify details. So I decided to post from time to time some tips when stumbling upon any topics in PowerApps. A driver’s log I wanted to use a very simple custom SharePoint Online list to allow colleagues to log their travels with a company car. At every destination, the user shall simply protocol his location and the mileage, and optional some information about the customer or the appointment. Very little fields, just to keep it handy. ...

Wir freuen uns mitzuteilen, dass unser langjähriger Partner Christoph Wilfing seit Jahresbeginn 2017 Teil von atwork ist! Christoph Wilfing war seit mehreren Jahren als selbstständiger IT Dienstleister tätig und hat bereits in der Vergangenheit intensiv mit atwork in verschiedenen Projekten zusammen gearbeitet. Somit haben wir uns entschieden, das Unternehmen Christoph Wilfing in die atwork gmbh einzubringen und gemeinsam die Zukunft von atwork zu gestalten. Christoph Wilfing ist nun Teilhaber und Mitarbeiter von atwork. ...

We are very happy to announce that our both CEO’s, Martina Grom, CEO of atwork.at, and Siegfried Jagott, CEO of atwork.de, have been reawarded with the Microsoft MVP Award! Martina and Sigi have expertise in Microsoft Office 365 and are recognized experts, book authors and conference speakers. See Martina’s MVP profile. Martina was awarded as Microsoft Regional Director as well in 2015 (see here and the new RD website) Martina (@magrom) is recognized as an expert in Microsoft Office Online Services solutions and was worldwide one of the first 8 Microsoft MVP’s awarded in 2011 for her expertise in Office 365. Martina is doing consulting companies on their way to the cloud. Her expertise is related to online technologies especially in Microsoft cloud services with Azure and Office 365. She helps companies in architecture planning toward cloud solutions. Martina has authored numerous books, articles and blogs and is a well known conference speaker. See Martina’s about page. ...

Check out the sessions of Technical Summit 2016 in Darmstadt here! All sessions are online now at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/microsoft-techncial-summit/Technical-Summit-2016 Find the sessions by atwork on channel9 here: Martina Grom Toni Pohl Siegfried Jagott Christoph Wilfing Enjoy!

After part 1, we now look into the app side of our Excel solution. I want to point out some basics here to make it easy for developers to create their first Office App (with Excel). Here we go. Working with the API To easily access the Excel or Word functions with JavasScript, Microsoft provides an object with an anonymous function and a context (*ctx *here) as parameter. So, accessing Excel works basically as here: ...

Sometimes, it’s the small things that cost (unnecessarily) time. Recently, I wanted to create a quick Office App for an existing Excel file to loop through rows and do some transformation for the values. I was stumbling over some topics when developing in real world. So here’s my short How To for working with Visual Studio and Office Apps with helpful tips. Set the start document If you are not used to develop Office Apps often, this maybe isn’t easy to find: How to set an existing document as start file. ...