Delegate365 version 2.9 is a new milestone in the evolution process of our Office 365 Delegation Add-On product. Have a look at the great new features: New Design We completely rebuilt the design and optimized the website performance. We now make use of the latest Bootstrap framework and optimized all Client-side Styles and Code to reduce load time as well as using the Javascript framework AngularJS and SignalR for receiving a great website performance. The whole website now uses these technics for a good user experience with immediate response times – the user sees what´s going on, f.e. when opening a distribution list manipulating members of a distribution list or when syncing data. The page setup is renewed and the menu has been cleaned up somewhat. See the details here. ...

As described here we are pleased to announce the new synchronization function in D365 version 2.9. We completely rebuilt the sync process and added rules for automatic user assignment to specific OU´s. Why Sync? Since D365 needs to deal with (ten)thousands of users in an AAD D365 uses an cache layer to deliver a good user experience and performance. So changes which are made outside of D365 - like in the Office 365 portal, via PowerShell or another App – may not be visible immediately in D365. ...

Since yesterday the new edition “Visual Studio Community 2013” is available for download on the Visual Studio product website Visual Studio Community 2013 - A Full-Featured IDE – FREE. Visual Studio Community 2013 includes the full functionality of Visual Studio Professional 2013! This version is FREE – for non commercial use! Details: vs_community.exe is a small downloader. If you have installed VS Professional 2013 you have to uninstall it before. This version corresponds to Visual Studio Professional 2013 and includes Update 4. ...

Today Microsoft Connect(); Event Day 1 took place in New York. The Keynote and the sessions can be watched or downloaded at channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2014/011. Microsoft had a lot of announcements for developers. See a short summary in screenshots here! ScottGu opened the event (in his classic red poloshirt and jeans). As of today Microsoft runs 19 datacenters worldwide (much more than Amazon and Google). Microsoft wants to push .NET and developers using .NET, Visual Studio and Azure. The numbers are impressive. ...

So we (@magrom and @atwork) had a really great week at MVP Summit 2014 on Microsoft Campus in Redmond. We learned a lot and had a lot of fun. Since the content of the summit was under NDA the participants tweeted a lot about stuff around the event. Here´s some statistics from Twitter with hashtag #mvpsummit. There were more than 8.000 tweets made by about 2.500 users. About half of all tweets have been retweets. ...

Very short info for Microsoft MVP´s found on Twitter during MVP Summit 2014: Telerik Offers Its Best Tools to Microsoft MVPs - for Free Simply send an email to sales@telerik.com with a link to your MVP profile. Developers, enjoy!

Nächste Woche, am 12. und 13. November, findet ein sehr interessantes Online-Event von Microsoft statt, das Connect() - Event, schreibt S. “Soma” Somasegar im MSDN-Blog: Chance to Connect(); on What’s Coming Next, November 12th and 13th. Die Details zum Event sind únter https://www.visualstudio.com/connect-event-vs ersichtlich. Die Themen sind Visual Studio vNext und Microsoft Azure. Connect(“Day 1”); am Mittwoch 12.11., wird Live aus New York gestreamed. Sprecher sind u.a. Scott Guthrie, S. Somasegar, Brian Harry und Scott Hanselman, die über in Zukunft von .NET, ASP.NET, Azure, Visual Studio und Visual Studio Online informieren werden. Nach den Sessions gibt es mit jedem Sprecher eine halbe Stunde Q&A. ...

Schon ist die TechEd Europe 2014 wieder vorbei (siehe 4 – 3 – 2 - 1). Etwa 5000 Teilnehmer, davon etwa 200 aus Österreich, haben die Konferenz und den Veranstaltungsort Barcelona genossen. Das Verhältnis IT-Pros und Developer war etwa 80% zu 20%, dennoch war das Angebot an Developer-Sessions aus meiner Sicht sehr gut. Neben den (wirklich) vielen Sessions und Neuankündigungen gab es Angebote wie die Hands-on Labs, Alumni Lounge, TechExpo, Ask The Experts und Abend-Events. ...

Für den morgen mal was Kräftiges. Nach den Country Drinks gestern am Strand und der Enttäuschung, dass bereits um 23:00 für Österreich Schluss war, erwarte ich mir doch etwas mehr von dieser Session. ;) Ziel von Azure Active Directory war es immer eine Identity Source für alle Online Services zu sein die Microsoft herausbringt. Es gibt AAD in drei Versionen ==>Free | Basic | Premium Wir sprechen heute über Premium. Die Free / Basic Versionen gibts auch, kann sich sicher jeder raussuchen was der Unterschied genau ist. ...

Der Meister selbst persönlich. Ich freu mich. Es geht um Erfahrungen mit Azure und Applikationen die in Azure gelaufen sind. Es werden aber keine Namen genannt sondern nur Architekturen. (bis auf eine Ausnahme) Case - Election Results Ein grosser US Staat wollte die Elections auf den Automaten einfach online auswerten und dort entsprechend abfackeln, at Scale. Im September eine kleine Election hat funktioniert, aber es war eng was Performance Themen betraf. Im November wollte man wesentlich grössere Elections machen. Review der Architektur stand an. ...