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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 Basic Authentication is superseded by *Modern Authentication *based on OAuth 2.0 that is supported for the new Microsoft 365 services. ...

I recently ran into this problem: I had to install the Azure Az PowerShell module from the PowerShell Gallery on a new computer. Interestingly the installation with Install-Module -Name Az failed with the error message “WARNING: Source Location ‘https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/package/Az.Accounts/1.9.3' is not valid.”. See my solution here. The Azure Az PowerShell module provides access to the world of Azure. See more at Introducing the new Azure PowerShell Az module. So, if you run into this issue when executing ...

Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp is back! This year the event will take place virtually from more than 100 cities worldwide. Join us at our Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp - Austria on November, 13th, 2020! The Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp is here for the 4th year straight. Check out Microsoft 365 Events Bootcamps and join us at our bootcamp in Austria using Microsoft Teams. Register now! We are excited to kick off the virtual Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp Austria 2020! The Microsoft MVPs and community leaders invite YOU to attend this bootcamp to learn the latest on Microsoft 365 platform such as Microsoft Graph, SPFx, Microsoft Teams, the Power Platform, Bots, AI and more. Learn how to apply the latest technologies to your future projects. ...

To ensure the security of your Microsoft 365 client, we recommend implementing an appropriate governance and security strategy. An effective measure is to determine the current administrators and their permissions. In this article, we want to identify administrators with permanent roles and administrators who can use roles with Privileged Identity Management (PIM). PIM provides just-in-time privileged access to Azure AD and Azure resources. See how to find all Administrators, including PIM, here. ...

Delegate365 supports working with guest users. Guest users or external users are users that are invited to the company tenant by email. Once they accept the invitation, they get access to corporate resources. For example, a guest user can be a member of a Microsoft team or collaborate in Planner or in a SharePoint site or similar. See some samples here. Invite a guest user In Delegate365, admins can invite a guest user by clicking on the “Invite guest user” icon next to the “+” icon (new user). If you don´t see this icon, ask your Delegate365 Portal Admin to enable that feature in the permission policies. ...

Sometimes it´s required to run a script as a service user on a Windows machine, e.g. for reading file shares as a different user with different permissions or similar tasks. You can easily do this using the following two methods. Method 1: Run a task as different user with Scheduled Tasks The first method is to create a new basic task in Computer Management / System Tools / Task Scheduler / Task Schedule Library. ...

Galactic Summit was THE Microsoft 365 online conference that happened on June 2nd and June 9th, 2020 on USS Defiant, USS Voyager, USS Enterprise, USS Discovery and La Sirena with over 8000 attendees. You can now watch the sessions online! Thanks to the organizers Adis, Margit, Spencer, Elena and Fitz, the sponsors and speakers of #GalacticSummit for this great and free online event! See all sessions at www.collabsummit.space. Find our sessions here: Best practices to use Microsoft 365 for crisis communication requirements, Martina Grom ...

Delegate365 v9.2 brings a new feature for auto-assigning existing SharePoint site to an OU. This follows the same principle as auto-assigning groups. See it here. Note: To use the SharePoint Online management feature, ensure you have configured the SPO access for Delegate365 as described at Delegate365 changelog 9.1-SharePoint Online. The following scenario describes how to use the new SPO site auto assign. A scenario In this demo tenant, there are some SharePoint Online sites with a prefix in their site name: There are two sites starting with “New York”, one site with “Paris” and three sites starting with “Seattle”. All site names are separated with an underscore between OU name and the following site name, as here in screenshot of the SharePoint admin center (open it with your tenant-name and a Admin at https://[yourtenant]-admin.sharepoint.com/). ...