Bereits im Dezember habe ich über meine ersten Erfahrungen mit dem Microsoft Band berichtet und überraschend viel Feedback dazu erhalten. Das hat mich sehr gefreut und zeigt, dass das Microsoft Band wirklich starkes Interesse weckt. Nun sind etwas mehr als 8 Monate vergangen und ich denke, es ist an der Zeit, zu schreiben, wie sich das Band im Langzeitgebrauch hält. Mittlerweile ist das Band auch in Europa erhältlich. Damit ist es einfacher geworden, sich selbst eines zu bestellen. ...

As S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, wrote in his MSDN blog, the final version of Visual Studio 2015 is available: Save the Date: Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th The new Visual Studio version is targeting developers on new platforms: from cross-platform mobile development targeting iOS, Android to the classic Windows apps. Check out the Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event site with over 60 on-demand content sessions! ...

“People buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t like.” A quote by Dave Ramsay taken from the article What I Learned When I Gave Up the ‘9 to 5’ by Jacob Laukaitis.

When updating to a new build of Windows 10 Technical Preview Windows Enterprise must be reactivated. There are some Microsoft product keys on the net for various versions of Win10 TP. With the latest build (10240) these keys no longer work, it seems Microsoft has disabled the online activation until the end of July 2015. Here’s a workaround how to activate Windows 10 Enterprise: winaero.com/blog: How to activate Windows 10 build 10240 ...

Die Domainverifizierung in Office 365 ist eine der Voraussetzungen, um mit Office 365 in Produktion gehen zu können. Es kann jedoch passieren, dass man beim hinzufügen der Domain eine Fehlermeldung erhält, dass die Domain bereits in einem anderen Tenant verwendet wird. Dies kann mehrere Ursachen haben: Die Domain wurde tatsächlich bereits in einem anderen Tenant hinzugefügt und dort nicht entfernt – normalerweise sollte hier die IT Abteilung darüber Bescheid wissen. Ein Benutzer im Unternehmen hat sich für eine PowerBI Demo registriert. Ein schneller Weg, falls die Domain in PowerBI registriert wurde, sie wieder zu entfernen, ist mit diesen Schritten möglich: ...

Delegate365 version 4.2 is out. The users list now can be filtered in a better way. The text search has been improved and the list offers system and customizable views for quick and easy filtering. For synced users now there is no Password reset function and Global Admins can restrict if admins are able to create new users. OU Overview delivers all managed objects at a glance. See the details here. ...

Domain verification in office 365 is one of the requirements to use Office 365 in production. Sometimes it happens that you receive an error while you want to add your domain to a tenant. There are various reasons for that. The Domain was already added in another tenant and not removed from that tenant. Normally the IT department knows which tenant is affected and can work out a solution. A user in your company signed up for a PowerBI Demo. A fast way to remove an accidentially added domain from a PowerBI demo is available through that steps: ...

Shortly we released Delegate365 version 4.1 with many new features. Users can now be converted to shared mailboxes or resources, “rooms” have been renamed to “resources”, Shared Mailboxes now support all possible permission sets, there’s a new sync switch and a new sync history with more details and additional sync options. Also the assign licenses have been improved and D365 now uses the same friendly license plan names as in the Office 365 portal. See the details here. ...

When using Azure services or products running on Azure like our Delegate365 it is important to place them in a datacenter near you to get a low latency. Currently Microsoft Azure is available in 17 regions worldwide, see Azure Regions. There are some websites performing speed tests and providing the necessary information for the decision where to locate Azure services for your location. The first speed test is https://azurespeedtest.azurewebsites.net (which is also available on github.com). ...

The licensing of Delegate365 is at user base for the number of users that are to be managed with Delegate365. So if f.e. there are 10,000 users in AAD and you want to manage 2,000 in D365, then a license for 2,000 users would be sufficient. Users are all active user in Office 365. This includes users, shared mailboxes and resources (rooms or equipment mailboxes). In order to make prices transparent also for larger packages up to 500,000 users we replaced the former static price information with an interactive price selector on the Delegate365 website. ...