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With this update, Delegate365 allows viewing and changing licenses for shared mailboxes and resource mailboxes. Since each mailbox is a user mailbox and Delegate365 works with the OU scopes, the behavior of the new license management depends on the assigned OUs and objects. Details can be found here. New menu license in Shared Mailboxes and Resource Mailboxes The modules Mailboxes / Shared mailboxes and Mailboxes / Resources now show a module Licenses in the context menu on the right when a mailbox is selected in the list. ...

Delegate365 v9.2.5 includes a new module showing a user´s authentication methods and the assigned devices. See the details here. Note: This update does not require a new setup, if the previous version was v9.2.4. Otherwise, the Admin has to run the setup after the update process. New authentication methods menu in Users: In the Users module, when a user is selected, the context menu shows the Authentication methods item. View and delete devices: After opening the Authentication methods menu, a panel opens and shows the assigned devices, and the last login to that device, as here. The admin can remove devices by clicking on the Delete icon per device. A confirmation with the device name follows, like for “Deleted Device” here: When confirmed, a toaster notification in the bottom right corner shows the successful removal of the device. That´s it. Continue as needed to cleanup old devices. ...

Azure storage accounts are a great and inexpensive way to store lots of data. I am using Azure Table storage to store large amounts of structured data for various tools. I needed to filter all rows that have a specific field that shows Null. While this sounds simple, it is a bit tricky. Here’s how. The problem is that columns showing “Null” just don’t exist, but they are shown in list with Null. Therefore, it does not work to filter them out. In my example, I had a table with a column called Users (of type Int32) that contained items with a number and others that had no value. So, the following query filters for a timeframe and all items having a Users value greater than 0. Unfortunately, the query also shows elements with the Null value… ...

Delegate365 v9.2.4 is the latest update that brings new service health, guest user information, teams templates and other improvements. See the details here. Important: To upgrade to this version, Delegate365 setup must be run. We will inform all customers to make an appointment for the setup. This is required because the Delegate365 app needs additional permissions to read the service health (see below). Follow the steps at Delegate365-(Re)run the setup. The dashboard service health: As described at Delegate365 changelog 9.3-Service health, the old Microsoft Service Communications API has been retired by Microsoft. Therefore, the service health components in Delegate365 had to be changed. After the setup, the dashboard shows the service health properly again. The new service health shows more detailed information. Each service can be opened by clicking on it. ...

In Delegate365, a new Microsoft Team can be deployed using a teams template. Teams can also be cloned. Details can be found here. Menu Teams: A Microsoft Team is built on a Microsoft 365 Group. The Teams module can be found in the Groups / Teams menu. The following screenshot shows the new and adjusted functions. Create a new team with a teams template: As usual, click on the plus icon in the top left of the list. In the groups pane, enter the new team name and properties. By default, the Create a Team switch is set to Yes. Below that, there is a new dropdown control Template that allows to specify which teams template shall be applied to the new team. When done, click Save at the bottom of the panel. Usually the new team is ready after a few seconds to a minute. ...

I had to export email messages from a specific folder in my Outlook mailbox to a CSV file for further processing. Nothing special, just a quick export. I noticed that Outlook allows messages to be exported, but the date of the message is missing in the export file! Really? So here is a workaround to quickly export email messages using Graph PowerShell. Why PowerShell Of course there are many ways to export emails. Unfortunately, the Outlook method is unsatisfactory. When opening the File menu in Outlook for the desktop, there is an “Open & Export” menu which has an Import/Export function. Well, the wizard allows to export messages to a CSV or to a PST file. ...

Microsoft announced the retirement of the Microsoft Service Communications API (Msg MC299902). Therefore, we changed the service health components in Delegate365 to use the successor API functions with immediate effect and to get more data. A new setup of Delegate365 is required. See the details here. The Service health module in Delegate365 shows, what´s happening in a specific Microsoft 365 tenant at a glance to all authorized users. Contrary to the required authorizations in M365, this is not necessary in Delegate365. All admins can view the service health and the message center posts. ...

In some tenants, sometimes reports appear blank. This can happen when reports are obfuscated in the Microsoft 365 admin center. See more here. Reports can be scheduled and downloaded in the Reports menu. When the report generation is completed, they show up in the list, as here. When the report is open and “no data available” is displayed (although you see users and groups in the Delegate365 pages)… ...

“Wo ist die aktuelle Marktanalyse?”, “Wo hast du die Präsentation rund um Microsoft 365 abgelegt?” – wer kennt diese Fragen nicht? Eine der größten Zeitfallen ist die Suche nach Inhalten, Kontakten und Unterhaltungen. Wenn jedoch alle wichtigen Informationen – wie in Microsoft 365 – sofort und anwendungsübergreifend abrufbar sind, kann jede und jeder Einzelne effizienter arbeiten. Daher bietet Microsoft verschiedene Suchoptionen an, die wir in diesem Artikel erörtern. ...

Damit ihr eure Aufgaben und Ereignisse noch besser verwalten könnt, gibt es eine neue Ansicht für Outlook – die Board Ansicht. Die Board Ansicht ist wie eine unendlich große Leinwand, auf der du Inhalte, wie Kalender, Aufgaben, Ziele, Links, Notizen und Dateien zusammenführen und strukturieren kannst. In diesem Artikel zeigen wir dir, jede einzelne Option, die du zu deinem Board hinzufügen und was du damit machen kannst. Dein Weg zur Outlook Kalender Board Ansicht Da der Outlook Kalender ein Teil von Outlook Web ist, kannst du du über outlook.office.com darauf zugreifen. Tipp: versehe die URL outlook.office.com/calendar/view/board mit einem Lesezeichen, um sofort auf das Board zugreifen zu können. ...