Office 365 and more

So I bought a Raspberry PI III (3) a while back just to install Windows IoT core on it. Well after another power supply and getting Noobs to work I got Windows IoT core 10 on my RP. What do you see? Well not much to be honest (see below). It's running that's for sure. Well after the RP got running I hooked it up to Azure to do some cool things with it (in my mind). So connecting it to Azure wasn't that hard luckily, see below. Nailed it! Ok, now what? I think of building an App to just make a light go on and off via the RP in Azure. The Idea of having something connected to the cloud and making it work is so cool!  To be continued.

Well I wanted to talk a little more about Conditional Access. However because of the fact that you need Azure Active Directory Premium and I don't have that at this moment I'll skip this one for the time being and go on to another topic.

In my last post I talked about Azure Information Protection (AIP). It was a way of getting a good sense of security in the Cloud. Today I want to talk about a very important feature in Azure: Azure Active Directory (AAD). AAD is a good place to start with security. Users that are allowed or prevented from logging in is your first line of defense. In preview AAD is not something radically new. Microsoft created the Management portal om the new Azure Portal to make it look and feel like the new portal. At this moment the most users will have to use the old portal for AAD but once the new management portal is out of preview we are good to go! What has changed? So who cares? It's a new Mangement portal for AAD. To be honest nothing has really changed, Microsoft just changed the look & feel of the new portal. 3 versions There are 3 versions of the AAD: Free, Basis and Premium. See the link below to decide what versions of AAD you need. Overview AAD subscriptions F

Let's start with one of my favorites (till now). Azure Information Protection (or AIP). Just imagine the following example: You are working on your Word document and you want to send this document to an external person. You e-mail that document as an attachment. The person opens this document, reads it and puts it on an USB stick to take with him. The USB stick get's lost! Now the document can have fallen into the wrong hands! Now what? OK this is a little bit of a roman but hey it could happen! Active Director Rights Management  First let us go back in time to when AIP didn't exist and there was  Active Directory Rights Management Services .  This was a server role that could be installed on Windows Server 2008 R2, it exists since Windows server 2003! Back then it was called RMS. The RMS client is available  from Windows 2000 and later. So what does RMS do? To explain in simple English: Information with RMS on it has certain policies with it  that would remain

So, I decided to start making a set of blogposts about the different features in Azure. I think it's a good way for me to learn more about Azure. Every few days I'll discuss an Azure feature which I came across. Few days ago I showed Application insights. #WhatsInAzure For more info see my references below. Reference: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/azure-skills-training.aspx https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/topics/security/

So here is the thing. I want to have some analytics on SharePoint online but I don't want to use Google Analytics. I know there is an Office 365 adoption package for PowerBi, been there done that. However I'm missing 1 big feature! That one feature is: User flow User Flow Google Analytics Where do users go when they're on SharePoint? What do they click what pages do they visit? I want to know where the users go in en come out again. Sure with Analytics of Office 365 in the Admin portal or the Adoption package you get a good sense of what is happening in your tenant but you never really know what path they walk. So let's get the grocery shopping list: Data, we need the data. Where do I find the correct data? Ok we need a dashboard, PowerBI Desktop should do the trick We need the Sankey Diagram, that's the diagram Google Analytics also uses Well part 1 is hard to find, I'm not sure if I'm looking in the right spot but I found Application Ins

I have something with the idea of Bots. Call me lazy. I like the idea of having other things do work for me. Bots are not a new thing but their intelligence is growing with the years. Remember those Lync server bots you used to have long long ago? I never found a customer that actually used it inside their company. The idea is really cool, you start a Skype chat with a bot and get answers straight away. Big companies are investing huge sums of money into the new AI levels. At this moment there are 4 levels, Venturebeat names them the following: A bot that remembers A bot that learns A bot understands Bots that rule the world Ok, level 4 is little scary but you never know.  Bots in the news Microsoft Microsoft created the Bot Framework so you can build your own bot ( Bot Framework Microsoft ) You can hook this up to Outlook, Skype, Text/SMS etc.. pretty neat stuff. You can have a Azure bot or a bot called Jessie walking around in your life.  Google Google Assistant i