There are a lot of new, free E-Books available from Microsoft Press. Topics are around Windows 10, Microsoft Azure, App Development, Microsoft System Center and a lot more. It’s definitely worth to bookmark this page. Some highlights: Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals, Preview Edition, May 2015, Ed Bott Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Machine Learning, April 2015, Jeff Barnes Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation, April 2015, Michael McKeown Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, Preview Edition 2, April 2015, Charles Petzold ...

Das Session-Angebot der letzten beiden großen Microsoft Konferenzen BUILD und Ignite ist riesig. Zum Glück bietet Microsoft alle Sessions und Präsentationen online frei verfügbar an! Ganz bequem ist es, einfach bestimmte oder alle Sessions downzuloaden, dann kann man diese auch unterwegs ansehen und sich weiterbilden. Hierzu gibt es bereits mehrere PowerShell Scripts aus der Community. Ganz aktuell ist die Version Channel9 Session Downloader v1.81 adaptiert von Michel de Rooij in der TechNet Gallery. Diese Version bringt sogar ein UI mit, wo man bequem aussuchen kann, was geladen werden soll. Das Ganze sieht so aus: ...

Interested in the brand new Microsoft Office 2016 Preview which was announced for public download at MSIgnite? Well, get it online from various sources: Office 365 subscribers can download the bits from the Software / Office page (if First Release is switched on). All other Office users can get it from Get the Office 2016 Preview for home. Also, have a look at the product Website Office 2016 Preview and check out the FAQ’s. ...

Want to download all sessions of #MSIgnite 2015 easily? Simply use this PowerShell script fresh from the community in the current version Channel9 Session Downloader v1.81 adapted by Michel de Rooij which is available in TechNet Gallery. This version even opens an UI where you can select what to download: All events and sessions are available in different formats via a RSS-feed, like https://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high. The PS script utilizes these data feeds and transfers the files to the specified path on your computer. The download works with BITS. ...

It has been a noisy week in Social Media with #MSIgnite. Such a large conference as Microsoft Ignite (see here) produces a lot of traffic in Social Media. We made some Twitter reports to deliver some impressions about MSIgnite. The following statistics was created by searching for hashtag #MSIgnite. Overview Since 2nd of May till now (10th May) there have been almost 109.000 tweets sent by almost 17.000 Twitter users. With 53% about half of the messages have been retweeted. ...

Today is Microsoft Ignite’s last conference day. Microsoft largest IT-conference MSIgnite took place from 4t to 8th of May in Chicagos’s McCormick center, some miles south of downtown. Martina and I attended BUILD conference too, so we have a direct comparison of the two large Microsoft conferences this year. The size was impressive Five conference days are exhausting. Well, actually this Friday is just half a conference day, because it ended after noon and the expo hall was closed down yesterday. But let’s start with the beginning. ...

Time flies! As soon as BUILD conference 2015 started it’s over now. Martina and I arrived a week ago in California and spent some days in Silicon valley (working there…) and north of San Francisco before attending the conference. BUILD, the 5th This was our 4th BUILD. In total there were five BUILD conferences (after Microsoft paused and renamed the PDC and started with Windows 8): The first one was in 2011 in Los Angeles, Anaheim, followed 2012 at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, we skipped 2013 in San Fran, Moscone Center, and have been at the last BUILD 2014 and now in 2015, also in the same location. So we have some experience with this Developer Conference. ...

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See how Microsoft plans to upgrade hundreds of millions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers to the new Windows 10 edition coming end of July in Ed Bott’s article on ZDNet: Get Windows 10: Microsoft’s hidden roadmap for the biggest software upgrade in history The sources of Ed Bott said: This will be done with the GWX executable – which is short for “Get Windows 10”. A XML file describes the “roadmap” for the upgrade. ...

Are working with Office 365 and are you attending Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago in some days? Here’s your chance to engage six Office 365 MVP’s in an open Q&A panel discussion, see Microsoft Office 365 MVP Panel! See this astonishing promotion video here! Office365 MVP experts panel at Microsoft Ignite including @S_McNeill, @DarrellCWebster, @magrom, @JPBruzzese, @jseghers and @bretthill. Many thanks to @bretthill for this great video cut! Update: Video-URL links changed to YouTube. CU there at the Microsoft Office 365 MVP Panel!