Microsoft Azure ist eine Plattform zum hochverfügbaren, skalierbaren und sicheren Betrieb von IT-Services, von virtuellen Maschinen bis hin zu Websites. Im Gegensatz zu herkömmlichen Hosting-Lösungen bietet Azure eine Vielzahl von zusätzlichen Services. Nur, welche Vorteile bieten Azure Websites im Vergleich zu anderen Angeboten von Providern? Hier einige Gründe für den Einsatz von Azure Websites. Die Basis Weblösungen werden unter Microsoft Azure als “App Services” bezeichnet (siehe https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/). Ein App Service kann eine Web App, Mobile App, Logic App oder API Apps sein. Diese (und weitere) Dienste können beliebig kombiniert werden. Eine “Standard”-Website ist eine “Web App”, welche auf einem vorkonfiguierten Webserver in einer bestimmten Größe läuft. Dies ist eine abgesicherte, virtuelle Maschine, die vom Provider als Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) System bereitgestellt wird. Dabei kümmert sich der Betreiber (Microsoft) darum, dass die Website hochverfügbar und sicher läuft und dass es Backups, LoadBalancer, Berechtigungen und vieles mehr gibt. Also ein “Rundum-Paket” für den sicheren Betrieb. ...

Since it still happens from time to time that customers forget that their Virtual Machines (VMs) in Azure need to be deallocated to stop producing costs, here’s a small reminder for all Azure users who are using the Azure Portal https://portal.azure.com to administer their VMs. A running VM is displayed as here: To stop a VM, click the Stop menu and confirm. Now the VM is being stopped and the deallocating process starts. ...

Recently, the team of the Operations Management Suite announced that Linux management with Operations Management Suite (OMS) is now generally available. Now generally available: Linux management with Operations Management Suite (OMS) This means, IT administrators now are able to manage even Linux machines with one central cloud solution running in Microsoft Azure. Currently, these Linux systems are supported: Graphics taken from the original blog post. Check it out!

Summertime (and holiday season) is almost over and we were busy to advance Delegate365. In the last weeks we concentrated on smaller fixes which resulted in Delegate365 version 5.3.2. Major updates will follow in fall time. So here’s a list of the current fixes: Auditing: When selecting and downloading multiple log files in the administration / auditing menu, there was an issue if the Excel format was created. Then the name of the sheets in the Excel file were too long (since the created filenames were extended with the instance name in previous versions). Therefore the creation of the download package did not work. We fixed that with version 5.3.1 and later versions. Pls. remember that the logfiles can be extensive and the creation of the ZIP or XLSX files can take a while. We recommend not to select too many files in one step but to select only a handful of files to download. We are working on an automation of logfile downloads which will be available in future. ...

Want to check the status of your notebook battery? Well, Christoph Wilfing showed me how this works in Windows: C:\Windows\system32>powercfg /batteryreport Battery life report saved to C:\Windows\system32\battery-report.html. C:\Windows\system32>start battery-report.html The output is an HTML file with all detailed information: … … … My notebook is about 1.5 years old (with a firmware about 1 year old). The report says, the battery (which is about 3 years old ) is still in a good shape: ~81.000 mWh full charge capacity for 94.480 mWh design capacity. ...

Check out this upcoming session with our CEO, Martina Grom, at Microsoft’s Ignite Conference 2016 in Atlanta: Ask us anything about Microsoft Office 365 Groups! https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/4098 CU there!

Gestern fand das erste Treffen des Azure Meetup Vienna statt. In dieser Gruppe geht es um Wissensvermittlung und den Erfahrungsaustausch zu Microsoft Azure für IT Pros, Entwickler und Entscheider mit Themen aus der Community. Die Meetup.com Website bietet die Online-Plattform zu den regelmäig geplanten Treffen: Azure Meetup Vienna Wir haben einige Snapshots vom Event auf der Event-Website hinzugefügt… Alle Details zur Azure Meetup Vienna Gruppe, den Terminen, Themen und allem organisatorischen Rundherum findet ihr auf der Meetup.com Website. ...

Finally, we updated our new team photo on our Azure Active Directory (Office 365) login page… The latest and colorful atwork team picture. Here it is… Unfortunately, not all our coworkers are on that picture, but it’s a nice snapshot. For information about our company, pls. check out our website https://www.atwork-it.com/.

See this helpful overview of Microsoft Azure services provided by the Microsoft Azure team: https://azureplatform.azurewebsites.net/en-us/ When opening a service, you get details with documentation, pricing, limits, SLA, code samples and more. Cool and helpful!

When using Yammer, it’s obvious, that uploaded pictures are shown with a reduced quality. Yammer does automatically scale and reduce pictures to make them more web compatible. But Yammer still has the source picture stored! To illustrate this behavior with a sample, see (and enlarge) this picture. It’s a screenshot taken from a Windows machine and the Registry Editor. The items do have poor quality and are not good readable and pixilated. ...