Um einen Überblick zu Sicherheitswarnungen zu bekommen, stellt Microsoft ein Security Bulletins Dashboard zur Verfügung, in dem sich jeder seine Benachrichtigungen personalisiert zusammen stellen kann. Hier geht es sehr einfach: zunächst meldet man sich mit seiner Windows Live ID an, dann wählt man jene Produkte aus, die relevant sind, schon wird das Dashboard erstellt. Außerdem können sich IT Administratoren auch alle technischen Sicherheitsinfos per RSS Feed abonnieren oder dem Team direkt auf Twitter folgen: ...

Sometimes it´s good to check if the desired version of the Microsoft .NET Framework is installed on the target machine where you want to run your code, ah, app. Fortunately, this is easy to figure out. See MSDN article How to: Determine Which .NET Framework Versions Are Installed for .NET versions and How to determine which versions and service pack levels of the Microsoft .NET Framework are installed. To check the version open a command prompt, and start ...

John Montgomery, Director of Program Management Visual Studio Platform, announced the availability of Update 3 Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013. The download of release candidate (RC) for Visual Studio 2013.3 was published on June 30th and consists of a very small online-installer. RC3 Update is still pre-release. An Upgrade from Update 3 RC to Update 3 RTM is supported. Find it here: Download. See the original blog post for information about the new features of RC3!

Since we put our App “Like for Outlook” in the Microsoft Office Store recently here´s some information how to install Apps for Outlook as an IT-administrator. What is deployed As an App for Office consists of an App manifest XML file and a webpage (which can be Provider-Hosted or SharePoint-Hosted) the Exchange admin needs to “install” (only) the App manifest file in the Exchange system for his company. In the manifest there´s specified where the App is hosted (the URL) as well as the permissions the app needs from the Host system (Outlook). See the relevant parts here: ...

We´re happy to announce our first App for Outlook called “Like for Outlook”! Have you ever wanted to send a “Like”-message in Microsoft Outlook like in social media networks? Now you can! With that little App for Outlook you can send a “Like” to the sender or the recipients of an email with one click! Click here and install the App from the Office Store. It´s free! Install the app Open the link Like for Outlook and you will be redirected to the Like for Outlook App in the Microsoft Office Store immediately. ...

Letzte Woche fand die fünfte ShareConf 2014 Konferenz wie schon im Vorjahr im noblen Van der Valk Airporthotel Düsseldorf statt. Die Teilnehmer konnnten sich in mehr als 50 Vorträgen über aktuelle Themen rund um Microsoft SharePoint Technologien informieren und sich mit Referenten und Kollegen austauschen. Wir von atwork waren mit drei Sessions dabei. Hier ein paar Schnappschüsse von der Konferenz. Hier finden Sie die Präsentationen unserer Vorträge online auf SlideShare: ...

“The next big thing is small.” Microsoft is starting a new project on https://www.windowsondevices.com/. If you are interested in developing an Internet of Things (IoT) solution have a look on that website. There you can sign up for a mini Windows device. Microsoft is interested in what kind of solutions new and experienced Windows developers can build with the brand new Intel Galileo hardware based on Windows as Operating System with the tools we already know and love. ...

In part 1 we created a Yammer App and organized all the necessary App data for the authentication. Now let´s develop a .NET sample app for accessing data from the Yammer network. Communication with Yammer services Once the authentication is done we can use the Yammer API REST-Services to get data. The URLs all start with https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/... followed by the service methods like https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/messages.json , users.json , groups.json and so on. ...

At SharePointkonferenz.at (#spkonfat) we from atwork - Martina and me - had a session about Yammer with the title “Who needs Yammer when we have SharePoint?” (see program). Martina gave an overview of Enterprise Social, differences between SharePoint Social and Yammer, experiences, projects and studies. When using social tools remember: “Social Enterprise is implemented 80% through organization culture and 20% through technology.” by Gartner, September 2012. It´s our recommendation to have key users in each company to promote and help employees to understand what it means to work like a network. ...

In addition to the many features of Microsoft Azure this platform is really cool for hosting websites, see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/web-sites/. Since we not only want to reach our websites with the out-of-the-box Microsoft domain *.azurewebsites.net we can add our custom domains as well. This article shows how this works. Update: See also Manage custom domains in Azure Websites step-by-step First switch the Azure website to a non-free mode For using one or more custom domains we need to switch the website to the (non free) web hosting plans *Shared, Basic *or Standard. You can do this in the “Scale” menu of the specific website. The screenshot shows how. ...