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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: ...

Diese Woche fand die SharePoint Konferenz Wien statt (siehe auch hier). Am Montag war der Start mit drei Ganztagesworkshops, Dienstag und Mittwoch waren Konferenztage mit fünf und sechs Tracks mit je drei Sessions. Es waren wieder viele bekannte Sprecher aus der SharePoint-Community dabei. Das Programm war mit etwa 50 Sessions sehr umfangreich und reichte von Architektur bis Yammer. Veranstaltungsort war wie auch im Jahr zuvor die Event Pyramide im Süden von Wien. Dieses Jahr hatten wir Frühsommerwetter und angenehme Temperaturen. Somit war das Wetter perfekt für die Konferenz (dieses Jahr funktionierte die Klimatisierung wunderbar) und auch fürs Draußen Sitzen bei der Konferenzparty am Dienstag Abend. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 2.3. This version is a major release. We made some changes in the time consuming tasks and optimized them. Performance Improvements in all user lists: If an AAD or Office 365 tenant has many thousand users loading the list of all users was time consuming. The reason is that the Microsoft GraphAPI delivers objects in slices (we take about 200 users per call to ensure there are no timeout errors) but has no filter functions we need for separating our domains and OU´s in D365. The result have been some wait time in some cases if many thousand users are existing. So we decided to improve that mechanism and add a cache layer between the AAD and our D365 client. With version 2.3 there´s an extra service added which synchronizes all new, updated and deleted user objects in our own cache. This service runs in the background and takes care of all changes in AAD. The D365 client now uses that cache and has a completely new logic with async calls and organizies the requested data page per page. So – depending on the individual page size – the client at runtime requests only the data page which is rendered. The benefit is that all user list operations like searching and paging are happening instantly in less than one second, regardless of the number of users to be shown. This performance improvement delivers a great user experience even with ten thousands of users in the user list! ...

Delegate365 changelog version 2.2. This was an internal version only for testing some new features… We rolled out that version on some of our demo clients and did some heavy testing of the performance with many thousand users and tested SMS notifications. We built in some new features which will be integrated in the next official release 2.3.

April/May 2014 Added User Self Password Reset (SPR): Now users (not only admins) can login into D365. If the admin had deposited a notification for the specific user (email or SMS), the user can perform a self password reset. When resetting the password the user can decide if he wants to receive the necessary security-code via email or SMS (depending on the settings made by the admins). Then he receives the code and gets a temporary password on the website. With that he can login and now has to change the password to his own, individual password. This function simplifies the administrative effort when users can use this reset on their own. This feature is integrated in D365. *So IT departements have no need to buy Azure premium licenses just for their users to perform self service password reset when using D365! * SMS is a preview function. If used, additional costs for the SMS provider will be added – depending on the location (country) and the amount of SMS messages which is usually about 10 Cent per SMS. ...

We´re happy to publish our new Delegate365.com website today! Since Delegate365 is a very attractive tool for managing users and licenses in Microsoft Office 365 it also deserves a top modern and fancy product website. So, here it is! Have a look and check it out! The redesign starts with our new logo for Delegate365, from the left it´s the cloud symbol going into a capitalized D followed by the product name. ...

European SharePoint Conference took place in Barcleona this year. After last year in February in Copenhagen now it´s time for sunny Catalonia in May for Sun, Sea, Sand and SharePoint! Many attendees used this opportunitiy for combining business with some holidays in these attractive location (see some tips here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, … after the top x lists there are so many things to see and to enjoy…). As last year, Martina (@magrom) had two sessions. ...

Last weekend SharePoint Saturday Belgium #SPSBE took place in a suburb of Brussels, see https://www.spsevents.org/city/Brussels/Brussels2014/home. It was the 4th SPS in Belgium and the SharePoint community met for exchanging knowledge … and having a fun and a great event. We from atwork (@magrom and @atwork) were happy to be part of SPSBE and had a great weekend in Brussels (which was in fact our first time in Belgium which was awesome). About 250 participants followed the invitation to the community event which occured in St-Lendriksborre at the location of Xylos, one of the main sponsors for SPSBE. ...

We wrote a White Paper for Delegate 365 with general product information and features. You can download the document in PDF or in Word format directly from here: https://atwork.at/download/Delegate365-Whitepaper.pdf (526KB) https://atwork.at/download/Delegate365-Whitepaper.docx (120KB) About: Delegate365 is a simple to use, web based portal for delegated user and license management in Microsoft Office 365. Delegate 365 adds functionality on top of Office 365 and works as an Add-On. Delegate 365 and Office 365 work absolutely together, in cloud only scenarios as well as in hybrid configurations. ...

We from atwork (@magrom and @atwork) had a busy time in the last three weeks. We attended some events in Europe and America and were traveling a little bit… With so many interesting events we created some Twitter reports with Twitter Analytics for Excel 2013, see the main reports here. #COD14 At the end of march, from 21 to 22th, we have been in Berlin at Community Open Day 14 #cod14. COD is a Microsoft internal event organized by Microsoft Germany for community leaders (members of the CLIP and MVP program) and took place at the new Microsoft Office in Berlin, at a very noble address Unter den Linden with more than 100 participants. Had a great time meeting all our pals from Germany, Austria and Switzerland! See some Twitter statistics here (click on the images to enlarge). ...