Quick tip: disable meeting invite notifications in Teams activity feed.

There is a new (annoying) functionality which  show meeting invite notifications in your Microsoft Teams activity feed. To disable this go to your  Teams settings and open the 'Notifications and activity' menu on the left sside. At the bottom you will find the calendar notifications which you can change to 'Off'. See Manage notification settings on Microsoft support for more details

SharePoint 2013 workflow retirement - the end of an era

Microsoft is (finally) retiring SharePoint workflows - the end of an era of workflows built on top of Microsoft  Workflow Foundation (Workflow Foundation got introduced in 2005 - and yes I did play around with the beta of this back then - since I though it was the greatest thing since sliced bread )

Starting April 2d 2024 all SharePoint 2013 workflows will be turned off for newly created tenants. April  2d 2026 all SharePoint 2013 workflows will stop working for existing tenants.

Helpful links:

• Microsoft 365 assessment tool to scan tenants
• Guidance: migrate from classic workflows to Power Automate flows in SharePoint

Microsoft cloud IT architecture resources available

Summary: Learn core cloud architecture concepts for Microsoft identity, security, networking, and hybrid. Review prescriptive recommendations for protecting files, identities, and devices when using Microsoft's cloud. Learn how to deploy a modern and secure desktop with Windows 10 and Office ProPlus.

These architecture tools and posters give you information about Microsoft cloud services, including Office 365, Windows 10, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and hybrid on-premises and cloud solutions. IT decision makers and architects can use these resources to determine the ideal solutions for their workloads and to make decisions about core infrastructure components such as identity and security.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/microsoft-cloud-it-architecture-resources

Quick tip: finding all users with Dynamics 365 Service Administrator role in Office 365 tenant with PowerShell

Unfortunately the Office 365 Admin Portal, does not contain a predefined view to show all users who have the Dynamics 365 Service Administrator role – this role allows you to manage Dynamics 365 at tenant level (See Use the service admin role to manage your tenant for more details). But luckily you can also retrieve this information using PowerShell.

First make sure that you install the different prerequisites as outlined in Connect to Office 365 PowerShell – next open Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell. To connect to Office 365, simply type connect-msolservice . Get-MsolRole will give you a list of all administrator roles. You will see that the internal role name which is listed is still "CRM Service Administrator". The last line will export all users with this role to a CSV file

 connect-msolservice  
 get-msolrole | select name, description  
 $role = get-msolrole -rolename "CRM Service Administrator"  
 get-msolrolemember -roleobjectid $role.objectid | export-csv d:\temp\serviceadmins.csv