We have a government customer with an enterprise agreement. We’ve worked with them for a couple of years as their systems integrator deploying Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Power Apps and Power Pages.

We’re trying to make a customer claim in Partner Center.

On the Incentives | Customer claims screen, I’m confused about the partner roles:

Build intent – AdvisorPartner activitiesUsage recognition – Non-IncentivizedInfluenced Revenue recognition – Non-Incentivized

The guidance page on Learn doesn’t make any sense to me.

Can anyone explain it like I’m an 8th grader new to Microsoft partnership?

All we want is revenue recognition, usage recognition, partner points, solution designtions, incentives, awards, margin, rebates, and a healthy and happy life.

How can I figure out which role to choose to achieve these goals?

​We have a government customer with an enterprise agreement. We’ve worked with them for a couple of years as their systems integrator deploying Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Power Apps and Power Pages.We’re trying to make a customer claim in Partner Center. On the Incentives | Customer claims screen, I’m confused about the partner roles:Build intent – AdvisorPartner activitiesUsage recognition – Non-IncentivizedInfluenced Revenue recognition – Non-IncentivizedThe guidance page on Learn doesn’t make any sense to me.  Can anyone explain it like I’m an 8th grader new to Microsoft partnership? All we want is revenue recognition, usage recognition, partner points, solution designtions, incentives, awards, margin, rebates, and a healthy and happy life. How can I figure out which role to choose to achieve these goals?  Read More

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Hi I am new to Microsoft teams community.I want a little help regarding MS Account.I am using Azure Account on my personal mail (I don’t have work mail) to use for Microsoft Graph API to authenticate my app in azure portal.The Authentication is successfull using Oauth flow.But when i access other API endpoints such as to get the  teams that the user has joined or channels It says that i should have office ms licence.In Microsoft Graph API does some endpoints need WORK Account(ms office account) for accessiong these Endpoints.If so do i buy the microsoft 365 license.

​Hi I am new to Microsoft teams community.I want a little help regarding MS Account.I am using Azure Account on my personal mail (I don’t have work mail) to use for Microsoft Graph API to authenticate my app in azure portal.The Authentication is successfull using Oauth flow.But when i access other API endpoints such as to get the  teams that the user has joined or channels It says that i should have office ms licence.In Microsoft Graph API does some endpoints need WORK Account(ms office account) for accessiong these Endpoints.If so do i buy the microsoft 365 license.  Read More

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Hi, 

I am curious, if its possible to track the working time and tasks with Copilot, so that it recoginezes how long I am working on a document (in general all changes are documented with time, thus this data could be extracted for this) and registeres these time in an e.g. excel sheet as working time on a day incl. stateing the document and at best even recognizes, for which customers this document was created. If I work on different documents for different customers on one day, I expect Copilot to document all these documents with the time for a customer and for the relevant day.  At best, whenever I am not working on a document, it would be nice, if Copilot could ask what task I am performing and document this too – in Case of Teams Meeting, the time should be also documented and related to the customer and working day. 

Contrary to usual employees, I want to controll myself with Copilot in detail with regard to the time I spend on different things/tasks and document them, to help me with the time tracking incl. detailed information, for the purpose of charging customers for the work done on basis of the measured working time. Also this would be very helpful to increase efficacy of work and maybe identify time thieves. 

Unfortunately, I haven’t yet found a time tracking tool that is convenient for me and ideally records the working hours for tasks from the planner. In general you always have to manually specify the tasks done (which is actually already given in the planner, but I need to repeat it) and I find that a bit annoying. If working on several documents in a block, often the entire working time is recorded, but it can’t be broken down into the times required for the individual documents afterwards. Finally the working time recorded should be compared with the planned working time in the planner and gives me an information, how much time is left acc. to the planner to perfom a task. 

I have great hopes, that Copilot could help in recording the working times and tasks as simply as possible (i.e. automatically when editing a document), but at the same time in detail. Is that a conceivable idea and can Copilot cover such task? 

Thank you very much in advance for any thoughts about this. 

​Hi,  I am curious, if its possible to track the working time and tasks with Copilot, so that it recoginezes how long I am working on a document (in general all changes are documented with time, thus this data could be extracted for this) and registeres these time in an e.g. excel sheet as working time on a day incl. stateing the document and at best even recognizes, for which customers this document was created. If I work on different documents for different customers on one day, I expect Copilot to document all these documents with the time for a customer and for the relevant day.  At best, whenever I am not working on a document, it would be nice, if Copilot could ask what task I am performing and document this too – in Case of Teams Meeting, the time should be also documented and related to the customer and working day. Contrary to usual employees, I want to controll myself with Copilot in detail with regard to the time I spend on different things/tasks and document them, to help me with the time tracking incl. detailed information, for the purpose of charging customers for the work done on basis of the measured working time. Also this would be very helpful to increase efficacy of work and maybe identify time thieves. Unfortunately, I haven’t yet found a time tracking tool that is convenient for me and ideally records the working hours for tasks from the planner. In general you always have to manually specify the tasks done (which is actually already given in the planner, but I need to repeat it) and I find that a bit annoying. If working on several documents in a block, often the entire working time is recorded, but it can’t be broken down into the times required for the individual documents afterwards. Finally the working time recorded should be compared with the planned working time in the planner and gives me an information, how much time is left acc. to the planner to perfom a task.  I have great hopes, that Copilot could help in recording the working times and tasks as simply as possible (i.e. automatically when editing a document), but at the same time in detail. Is that a conceivable idea and can Copilot cover such task?  Thank you very much in advance for any thoughts about this.   Read More

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Hello All,

We have a document library that contains some ASPX files.

In the past we have been able to upload these files normally and when opened they provide the expected functionality.

However, recently, our ASPX file names are being changed to include a query parameter (e.g. “story.aspx?d=wccb138f4041948d281908c2278103ca9”)

This is preventing the files from loading properly (since the extension is no longer “.aspx”).

I suspect that this is a problem with our new Proofpoint solution, but I want to see if anyone has experience filename mangling when uploading to SP O365.

Any insights are appreciated.

Thank you,

-tomas

​Hello All,We have a document library that contains some ASPX files. In the past we have been able to upload these files normally and when opened they provide the expected functionality. However, recently, our ASPX file names are being changed to include a query parameter (e.g. “story.aspx?d=wccb138f4041948d281908c2278103ca9”) This is preventing the files from loading properly (since the extension is no longer “.aspx”). I suspect that this is a problem with our new Proofpoint solution, but I want to see if anyone has experience filename mangling when uploading to SP O365. Any insights are appreciated. Thank you,-tomas  Read More

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I have been working with Microsoft Support on this issue for three months. Hopefully I can save others the trouble.

Sometime around April 2024, I and my colleagues started seeing regular alerts on our mobile devices saying “Open Teams to continue receiving notifications for <email address>”, or “<email address> needs to sign in to see notifications”. Just as promised, after this message appears, we do not get notified about messages and Teams calls do not ring on our mobile devices until we open Teams. We eventually determined that these alerts coincided with activating or deactivating PIM roles.

Apparently, a change was made to Privileged Identity Management in Microsoft Entra ID around that time whereby users’ tokens are invalidated when a role is activated or deactivated. Quoting the Microsoft Support rep:

“When a user’s role changes (either due to activation or expiration), Skype AAD will revoke existing tokens of that users. Skype AAD will also notify PNH about that token revocation. This is expected behavior and is working as designed. These changes were rolled out in Skype AAD in April/May 2024 which is since when you are facing the issue as well.”

(I’ve never heard of Skype AAD or PNH, but who am I to question the expert?)

Anyway, as far as I can tell, this change was not announced or documented anywhere, so hopefully this message will show up in the search results of my fellow admins who are dealing with this. It’s not a bug, it’s “expected behavior and working as designed”.

​I have been working with Microsoft Support on this issue for three months. Hopefully I can save others the trouble. Sometime around April 2024, I and my colleagues started seeing regular alerts on our mobile devices saying “Open Teams to continue receiving notifications for <email address>”, or “<email address> needs to sign in to see notifications”. Just as promised, after this message appears, we do not get notified about messages and Teams calls do not ring on our mobile devices until we open Teams. We eventually determined that these alerts coincided with activating or deactivating PIM roles. Apparently, a change was made to Privileged Identity Management in Microsoft Entra ID around that time whereby users’ tokens are invalidated when a role is activated or deactivated. Quoting the Microsoft Support rep: “When a user’s role changes (either due to activation or expiration), Skype AAD will revoke existing tokens of that users. Skype AAD will also notify PNH about that token revocation. This is expected behavior and is working as designed. These changes were rolled out in Skype AAD in April/May 2024 which is since when you are facing the issue as well.” (I’ve never heard of Skype AAD or PNH, but who am I to question the expert?) Anyway, as far as I can tell, this change was not announced or documented anywhere, so hopefully this message will show up in the search results of my fellow admins who are dealing with this. It’s not a bug, it’s “expected behavior and working as designed”.  Read More

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