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M365 Saturday Bangalore 2022 - a remarkable one-day free community event with huge success on 3rd Dec 2022 at Microsoft Office, Bangalore. Organized by the Microsoft Saturday Bangalore user group, one of the best platforms for tech geeks to join as members, attendees, or even speakers to learn, grow and share knowledge with others. Let's have a look at the recap of the event.

This blog discusses how cyberattacks originating from business emails can be minimized and prevented. Alongside, a bonus guide is also mentioned that has a full in-depth analysis and instructions that are mentioned for advanced business email security in M365 that is completely free to download.

This article will help to enable unlimited (auto-expanding) Archive on a user mailbox or for the entire organization. It also explains the features of the unlimited (auto-expanding) Archive and its accessibility.

You don’t need to put in the hours to get better at design. While discussing the benefits of designing every day in this blog, I share 6 amazing 30-day challenges that will help you get better at designing indigestible, byte-sized daily exercises. Read on and take the first step towards building daily design practice.

Learn how to master People Picker columns in SharePoint from the Power Apps canvas app. In this blog post, you will find detailed step-by-step instructions on creating, updating, and clearing People Picker columns for single and multi-user setups in SharePoint.

Designers know that innovative ideas do not just appear out of thin air. Instead, they spark when we are most inspired. This blog discusses the sources to find inspiration from and different techniques to turn that inspiration into innovative ideas for your next design project. If you’re feeling uninspired or stuck, then this blog is for you.

Penthara Technologies has successfully completed a cloth donation drive - Mission Do Garmi, with the help of volunteers and donators. This blog showcases our contribution to helping a few slums survive this winter in a better way.

This blog is about how to restrict access to any application from different office locations in the world by using conditional access policies in Microsoft Azure. We are using specific IP address ranges to identify and name our office locations.

This article will help achieve the erstwhile incoming email functionality using Power Automate, aka flows from specific domains. The flow can handle multiple attachments and special characters in the subject line. In addition, it includes failure notifications at multiple stages.

Mockups are an essential part of the creative process. However, finding high-quality mockups on the vast web can be tricky, especially free ones. In this blog post, we discuss our top 10 free mockup site choices to go to for your branding projects. We also discuss the various features of each of these sites in detail.

Learn how to create an Adaptive Card in Power Automate that posts a summary of upcoming events like Birthdays, Work Anniversaries and Holidays to an MS Teams Channel. The source of these events is the SharePoint legacy calendar app. Advanced Dynamic JSON Adaptive Card implementation has been covered extensively in this example.

Appreciation of an employee with an office birthday celebration is always a great idea. Here are some great tips for an awesome and inexpensive office birthday celebration.

There are a couple of ways to add CSS into HTML within SPFx solution and in this article, you are going to learn how to do in different ways and advantages and disadvantages of using those ways. You will learn what CSS is and most importantly how to add dynamic classes in SPFx solution.

Learn how to implement best practices while improving the performance of your Power App solution. Here we cover concurrent approach, control optimizations, formula optimizations and some tips and tricks for improving the visual experience for the end user via loading spinners.

For many, the inbox is the command center for their day. It’s the way to keep track of what is going on and what needs to get done. Outlook’s Focused Inbox makes this process easier by helping you focus on the emails that matter most to you. It separates your inbox into two tabs—Focused and Other. Emails you need to act on right away are in the Focused tab, while the rest wait for you in Other.

Objective This article will help you configure mail routing during the hybrid migration process from your on-premises mail server to Exchange Online (Microsoft 365). This will ensure zero interruption for your mail flows when some of your user mailboxes will be On-premises while the others have been migrated to Exchange Online. Scenario Today, we will […]

This blog covers some important information that is to be kept in mind before giving the AZ-104 exam. Also, it majorly briefs whether the Microsoft documentation is enough to clear the exam or not.

As designers, we showcase our work and communicate our reasoning behind a solution through presentations. Here is a guide on getting started with impactful presentations and what to include in them.

Learn how to customize react-table within SPFx solution. In this blog post we have covered some advanced customizations and configuration options like conditional rendering of table data, adding hyperlink to table row, making a single cell clickable in a row, and maintaining pagination with react-table.

Overview SharePoint APIs are used in various platforms to perform basic as well as complex actions. Two places where these APIs are used vigorously are: SPFx Solutions Power Automate Custom Applications The challenge faced while developing these solutions is that, there is no easy and quick way to test or execute these API calls in […]

Introduction Are you still living in the era where you think that solely paying incentives and bonuses will keep your employees happy at work? If yes, read this post further to understand the importance of happiness and what drives individuals beyond financial gains to keep them happy. Employee happiness creates a positive atmosphere and this […]

Introduction When performing mailbox migrations, it is utmost important that you stay on top of the progress. However, given the current user interface (UI), it is next to impossible to identify the most current status of mailbox migration. As a result, you find it difficult to report exact status to the concerned teams. Using this […]

Objective The objective of this article is to understand how we can use Power Automate aka Flow to calculate the due date for a task excluding holidays and weekends. Prerequisites An account with SharePoint Site Collection Admin and Power Automate Access SharePoint Team Site Steps to create the lists Create a SharePoint list Titled Work Progress […]

What is useEffect in React UseEffect is a hook in react which was created to be used in a functional component. useEffect hook can be used in different scenarios depending on our need i.e. it can provide lifecycle functionality of class component as componentWillMount or componentDidMount. For more detailed information you can refer to the […]

Though the journey of a self-taught graphic designer is very unconventional, you will be surprised by just how many of them are out there. Encouraged by this and the spare time I had on my hands due to the pandemic, I started learning things that I was interested in. That is how my graphic design […]

Brief of react and redux: Redux is a framework that is responsible for managing the state for most of the popular front-end frameworks, such as React, Angular, etc. You can build web parts using any of the frameworks using redux. (Insert basics of redux) In this post, I will walk you through how to use […]

Goal Our end goal here is to post an adaptive card to 2 different departments for approval. Each department will be presented with a different set of rejection reasons based on their department dynamically. These rejection reasons are being fetched dynamically from the SharePoint List and are being appended to the adaptive cards. This eliminates […]

When building SharePoint Framework solutions, you can use CSS to define how your customization should look and behave. When building SharePoint customizations using CSS, you can change the layout of the page. Microsoft itself has its own recommendations for working with CSS in SharePoint Framework solutions which you should read from here. Sometimes when working on […]

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In this blog post, we will cover an important and common aspect of OneDrive for Business (ODB) administration, which is an important tool for business management, here the use of different tools and knowledge could really help improve a business results. A request that reaches Office 365 admins many times is to disable ODB for […]

Microsoft Teams is the modern day chat service offering within the Office 365 collaboration portfolio. It is customizable in many different ways your teams work today. It also includes publicly available APIs and bot frameworks for further extensibility. We just wanted a very simple of list third party integrations available in Microsoft Teams, although if […]

Penthara Technologies earns distinction through demonstrated technology success and customer commitment. Mohali, Punjab, India — Feb, 14, 2017 — Penthara Technologies, today announced it has achieved a silver Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions competency, demonstrating its ability to meet Microsoft Corp. customers' evolving needs in today's mobile-first, cloud-first world. To earn a Microsoft silver competency, […]