Oh, Microsoft is rebranding it’s events: PDC became BUILD in 2011, TechEd became Ignite in 2015 and in 2017, WPC becomes Inspire! The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) now will be named Microsoft Inspire, while the content and targets will stay the same: Connect Microsoft Partners worldwide. Microsoft states: “Microsoft Inspire welcomes both active Microsoft partners and those seeking to partner with us. With a primarily executive audience, Microsoft Inspire is the ideal conference for business and channel leaders in SMB, Corporate Accounts and Enterprise markets.” ...

According to the principle “Technical Summit 2016: Mehr Technologie geht nicht”, this year’s Technical Summit 2016 is happening next week in Darmstadt, Germany. The event lasts from Tuesday, 6th to Wednesday, 7th of December with an optional additional workshop day on Thursday, 8th. This events features prominent Microsoft speakers as Scott Guthrie, Donovan Brown and more. We from atwork are pleased to be part of this event with four sessions! ...

Die Office-365-Experten von atwork haben zusammen mit namhaften MVPs (Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals) und Experten von Microsoft zwei Online-Kurse auf Basis der Lern-Plattform EdX entwickelt: Managing Microsoft Exchange Online in Office 365: Learn how to manage and configure Exchange Online in Office 365. Dieses Online-Training ist kostenlos verfügbar unter https://aka.ms/cld222. Onboarding Messaging to Office 365: Learn how to move your messaging system to Office 365 and how you can interact with the Microsoft FastTrack Center during your migration. Dieses Online-Training ist kostenlos verfügbar unter https://aka.ms/cld223. ...

Large tenants and many operations can produce large audit logs in Delegate365 since every operation and every sync jobs is protocolled. To optimize the logging and to offer export and further use of the operations data, the audit logging changes with this version. See the details here. Previous versions: Let’s have a look back into the logging in the past. In the early versions of Delegate365, the logging was done in a database which blew up the database (unnecessarily). So, with version 2, we changed the logging to simple text files in CSV format to make it very easy to work with the protocolled data, for example, in Microsoft Excel. This format is used up to Delegate365 version 5.x. ...

As posted in September at Delegate365 announcement about upcoming changes in version 6, we will update Delegate365 to version 6 shortly. Actually, we wanted to update all Delegate365 tenants already this November, but we have been very busy, so this update comes a little bit delayed. See the details here. Delegate365 stays as it is. We just figured out some things we can improve and add to the existing functionality. So, no worries, Delegate365 will stay as it is, but you can benefit from improved and new features. ...

Azure-guys, there’s a new version of the cost free Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer available! Check it out here: https://storageexplorer.com! This is version Version 0.8.6 from 18th November 2016. And no, it’s not just a new logo and themes… The team included a lot of fixes and new stuff, as multiple editors in different tabs, search, modifications of data, improvements for uploads and downloads and more! See the details in the releasenotes! ...

From time to time (yes it’s almost that time of the year again, when we use this opening statement)… user’s have difficulties to connect to a SQL Azure Database with Power-BI. So I decided to post this article as a brief hint (and as reminder for myself), how to connect from Power-BI. First of all, allow the connection with TCP port 1433 to your client IP address in the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com. Click “Add client IP” and add it to the firewall settings of the SQL server as in this sample here. ...

As covered in our blog post “Some snapshots around MVP Summit 2016”, we enjoyed the Microsoft MVP summit very much. We met many friends from all over the world and talked about various topics. One talk ended in a very international podcast production, recorded at the famous Channel 9 studios in Redmond made by Aurélien Prévot (MVP from France), including Christophe Fiessinger (Microsoft Corp.), Martina Grom (RD and MVP from Austria), Adis Jugo (MVP from Croatia), Luc Labelle and Sébastien Levert (both MVPs from Canada). Follow this link here: ...

Last week Martina and I have been speaking at Unity Connect in Haarlem in the Netherlands. Unity Connect is an IT conference about Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Skype, Yammer, and Azure and took place from 16th to 18th November 2016 in the beautiful city of Haarlem. We arrived on Tuesday evening and entered the stunning inner city of Haarlem with so many cool restaurants and bars. The banner picture of Unity Connect just gives a brief impression of the beautiful buildings in that small town. The conference location was in Philharmonie Haarlem which is actually a concert hall but a very cool event location. With the inner city and the hotels around the corner, this event is - besides the conference offerings - one of my absolute favorite places to go in this region. ...

The European SharePoint Conference took place in Vienna from 14th to 18th November 2016. We took this occasion to meet our friends from the Office 365 community in our home town Vienna for an informal come together aka #SharePintVienna. Right after the MVP Summit week in Redmond, we invited about 60 persons and more than 40 came to our come together at “TheRoom” near the city center for some drinks and dinner on the 14th November. See some snapshots of the evening in this Sway. ...