Office 365 is moving fast – each week we find new and interesting stuff in the service. One of the long awaiting features is custom branding. This was first only exclusive to customers who use their own ADFS service and afterwards only to those customers who have an additional Azure AD subscription. Gladly this feature is now available also for Office 365 customers, together with the self-service password reset option for all users (not only Office 365 administrators). ...

Yesterday I stumbled across an article on The Verge website: You can now run Android apps on a Mac or PC with Google Chrome. Sounded interesting! So I tested this on my Windows 8.1 computer. Besides Google Chrome you just need to install the “App Runtime for Chrome” (ARC). Find out how it works here: Getting Started with ARC “…The App Runtime for Chrome (Beta), or ARC, lets you run your favorite Android apps on Chrome OS….” ...

We at atwork developed a new solution named Delegate365. Delegate365 is a Web-based portal for managing users and licenses in Microsoft Office 365. For information about our product see our product website https://delegate365.com. We are using Google AdWords which helps us to successfully advertise the product for the target markets. Google asked us if we want to share our marketing story for Delegate365 on their https://customers.withgoogle.com portal. Good for our product promotion and for Google. So here it is! ...

We are working hard on Delegate365 right now and are currently working on the next version 3.4 which will be released in the next days. We also are producing new short videos showing how to setup and how to work with Delegate365. The new videos will include spoken text (in English) according to the How To´s. We are still in the finishing touches but have a short preview of the new dashboard here… ...

Microsoft´s Terry Myerson hat gestern auf dem Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) summit angekündigt, dass Windows 10 diesen Sommer verfügbar sein wird. Windows 10 Launching This Summer in 190 Countries and 111 Languages. Es wurde kein genaues Datum genannt, Windows 10 wird also im Lauf des Sommers bereitstehen. Ab Verfügbarkeit wird Microsoft Windows 10 für ein Jahr lang als kostenfreies Upgrade von existierenden Windows 7 und Windows 8 Versionen anbieten. ...

Shortly we launched Delegate365 version 3.3. With that release there came a new and very fast cloud service along which handles all Exchange operations. We upgraded this service yesterday into production. Delegate365 users, have you noticed the NEW SPEED? The new service now uses pooling for all incoming request of one tenant and is very fast since many operations can be executed asynchronously within the connection pool. The result is that all Exchange-tasks are much much faster (about factor 6 to 10) than before. ...

Heute wurde die “IT Pro and Developer Preview of Office 2016 for the Windows Desktop” angekündigt, schreibt Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office 365 Client Apps and Services Team, im Office-Blog. Announcing the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview. Das neue Look & Feel ist frisch und passt in das Office 365-Design. Ich arbeite bereits mit der Preview und sie funktioniert aus meiner Sicht bereits recht gut. Um einen Eindruck zu vermitteln, wie sich das neue Office 2016 Preview anfühlt, habe ich hier Screenshots von Outlook und dem Skype for Business Client angefügt. ...

Today´s world offers a lot of ways to communicate. One one hand there are tools (or “Apps”) for nearly everything and on the other side users can get confused sometimes too choose the right way or the correct tool to reach the desired group(s). Our Office 365 expert Martina Grom took a look into the current tools in the Microsoft cloud world to bring light into the dark and wrote an overview article in the Yammer Blog: ...

As announced in our version 3.3 article we added another feature in the new module “assign licenses”. Now this list also shows all already assigned plans for each user. There´s a new column “AssignedPlans” showing the plans of the displayed users. So this list can be used for setting and also for reporting multiple user licenses of OU´s. For doing that we had to implement an additional caching layer which is now filled by the automatic sync process. ...

Willkommen beim dritten Global Azure Bootcamp! Am Samstag, dem 25. April 2015, findet dieses Event in Dutzenden Orten weltweit statt. Das Event wird von der Community für die Community durchgeführt und ist kostenlos. In Österreich findet das Global Azure Bootcamp wieder in der HTBLA Leonding in Oberösterreich statt. Alle Details und Anmeldung unter https://austriaazurebootcamp2015.eventday.com. Das erste erste Global Windows Azure Bootcamp fand an mehr als 90 Orten rund um die Welt statt. Im März 2014 waren es bereits 136 Veranstaltungsorte – hier wurde unter anderem eine riesige globale Computer-Farm erstellt. In Österreich waren es letztes Jahr bereits fast 70 Teilnehmer, die sich über Azure Grundlagen und Azure Deep Dives informieren konnten. ...