Last week Martina and I participated in Microsoft Cloud Summit Paris. This was the biggest event ever put on by Microsoft communities in France with about 800 technology enthusiasts. We had CVP Julia White and GM for Database Systems Rohan Kumar as keynote speakers and had two great event days there, right in the center besides the Eiffel tower. And Cloud Summit Paris has been featured by the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog! ...

Recently, the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog published my three-part series about “Working With Office 365 Groups And Connectors”. Read the articles online in the MVP blog here: Part 1 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Part 2 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Part 3 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Also, thanks to Richard Hay for posting the summary at windowsitpro.com: Learn more about Office 365 Groups and Connectors. ...

Since today, the Azure portal offers to send invoices directly to an email address instead of downloading your invoice every month. See the announcement at Now available: Azure invoices emailed direct to your inbox. The new menu “Send my invoice” is available in the “Billing” section. Click the “Opt In” button and configure the email address you want to use for getting the monthly invoices. ...

Before developing, it’s useful to create a mockup for an application. PowerPoint can help! As prerequisites, you need to have PowerPoint and Visual Studio 2013 or later installed. If this is the case, you find additional shapes in the Storyboarding / Storyboard Shapes menu. This opens a task pane with elements sorted by category (Common, Windows Apps, Desktop, Phone, etc) you need to draw an app. See more information at Storyboard your ideas using PowerPoint. ...

We are delighted to be part of Microsoft Cloud Summit 2017 in Paris from January 23th to 25th 2017 at the New Cap Event Center! Microsoft Cloud Summit 2017 Paris is a conference organized by AGILE.NET - aOS - AZUG FR - CMD – GUSS and offers: 1 day pre-conference workshops (Jan. 23th) 2 days of conference (Jan 24th-25th) space for about 900 attendees (the conference is sold out) 7 tracks and 72 sessions, see the agenda ...

PowerApps allow to access a web or photo camera of a device. When using the camera, sometimes I got a message “To access the camera, check your device settings”. Irritating. See my workaround here. So, when I got this message in the camera control … I got mad, because I didn’t find out where to allow that access on my computer (especially because it worked before). I checked device settings, the camera control settings, PowerApps settings, googled… ...

With Delegate365 version 6 there comes a slightly restructured menu. See the differences here. The existing left menu got a little bit disordered, so we reorganized it with groups to make it easier for admins to find related features. Enlarge the following graphics to see all menus and their new position. The left side (gray) shows the menu of D365 version 5, the right side (green) shows the new menu D365 version 6. ...

A smartphone is everybody’s companion today. About two months ago I switched from Windows Phone to Apple iPhone. This article is my personal synopsis.after a short period of using the iPhone. My history Before, I had a Microsoft Lumia 950 for about one year. My personal smartphone history started with Windows Mobile, iPhone 3, 4 and 4s followed by Windows Phone 8, 8.1 and 10. I was satisfied with Lumia 1020 (mostly because of the good camera) and with the cool Lumia 950. ...

And now for something completely different: Recently, I stumbled upon the article at qz.com: Your old laptop can live again for the cost of a USB drive. The idea is to boot the free Debian “Pixel” OS from an USB stick and to work in that slim and fast environment. So I tried it out! PIXEL is a project of the the Raspberry Pi Foundation, see Introducing PIXEL. and get more details in the blogpost raspberrypi.org/blog: PIXEL for PC and Mac. ...

Having a Microsoft Account (MSA, formerly known as LiveID) and want to change the email address? Here’s how! Go to https://account.microsoft.com/account and sign in with your Microsoft Account. Click “Your info” and select “Manage how you sign in to Microsoft”. Depending on your account security information: Continue with the protection information… Wait for the code, enter it and continue. If you do not want to add security now, click “Set it up later”… ...