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Mit einem Microsoft Office 365 Home Abonnement erhält man eine Reihe von zusätzlichen Vorteilen, etwa 1 TB OneDrive Cloud-Speicherplatz und 60 Skype-Minuten pro Monat – mehr oder minder kostenlos. Auch wenig bekannt ist, dass diese Vorteile mit weiteren Personen geteilt werden können! Doch beginnen wir am Anfang: Die Office 365 Home Subscription kostet nur 99 Euro pro Jahr und kann online erworben werden, siehe Office kaufen. ...

If you have a subscription for Microsoft Office 365 Home, you get a lot of additional benefits with that subscription: You get 1 TB of OneDrive storage and 60 minutes of Skype calls per month – more or less for free. The second well known secret is, that you can share these benefits with up to four persons! Office 365 Home costs USD 9.99 per month, so about USD 120 per year. Currently there’s even a price reduction and you get this subscription for only USD 99.99 per year, see Looking to buy Office?. ...

Today Microsoft announced a new tool named “PowerApps” at Convergence 2015 EMEA in Barcelona. PowerApps are a new service for providing a new and shiny app user interface for all kind of devices and works with any data (OData) delivered from cloud services. So, it’s a kind of form and workflow generator for the cloud… See the announcement here: Introducing Microsoft PowerApps. “…PowerApps is an enterprise service for innovators everywhere to connect, create and share business apps with your team on any device in minutes…” ...

Beim zweitägigen Connect(); //2015 Developer Virtual Event hat Microsoft hat eine ganze Reihe an Neuerungen für Developer bekannt gegeben. In 112 Sessions geht es um Alles, was Developer Herzen höher schlagen lässt: .NET Core 5, ASP.NET 5 RC, Go-Live Support, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Team Services, Visual Studio Marketplace, Visual Studio Developer Essentials, Node.js, Docker Support und vieles vieles mehr. Neben der offiziellen News auf dem Visual Studio Blog News and Announcements at Connect(); //2015 und von Brian Harry News from Connect(); 2015 hat mein Kollege Wolfgang Strasser eine gute Zusammenfassung der Connect-Keynote gepostet: Connect(); // 2015–Keynote Recap. Die wichtigsten Infos auf einen Blick! ...

Check out this great Channel9 interview during Microsoft MVP Summit 2015 at Microsoft in Redmond. Ep08: Interview with Kathleen Dollard, Martina Grom and Lori Lalonde during the #MVPSummit Get to know more about the Microsoft MVP’s Kathleen Dollard, Martina Grom and Lori Lalonde interviewed by Soumow. They talk about their activities for the MVP program, about women in Tech in their countries and they end with advices for success. Enjoy the show!

Office 2016 und Office 365 Pro Plus bringen einige neue Funktionen, die ich zum Anlass genommen habe, eine kleine Video Serie zu starten, damit die Funktionen auch gleich live angeschaut werden können. In den ersten Videos zeige ich, welche neuen Funktionen es im Client gibt. Man sieht jedoch auch Funktionen, die aus Office 365 heraus unterstützt werden, wie z.B. Clutter oder die neuen, modernen Attachments. Hier die gesammelten Links zum Durchklicken: ...

Telerik provides a new, free whitepaper for ASP.NET Developers. Download it from here: The Anatomy of Responsive ASP.NET Apps whitepaper See the basics of Responsive UI design in the 28 page PDF and enjoy…!

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella is currently on Europe tour and announced a number of investments in the Microsoft Cloud in Europe. Microsoft will extend regional hubs in Ireland and in the Netherlands and announced new datacenters in the UK and in Germany. Find more information about the UK plans here: Microsoft announces plans to offer cloud services from the UK. In Germany, Deutsche Telecom as Data Trustee under German law will be operating the German datacenters. This (data will not be saved and transported outside of Germany) was a request a lot of German customers had in the Microsoft cloud – and Microsoft reacted. The Microsoft Cloud in Germany will be available during the second half of 2016. ...

Delegate365 will be updated to version 4.5.3 this Friday. In this version resource mailboxes receive a new feature for controlling the AllRequestOutOfPolicy property (a feature the Office 365 portal does not provide). The AllRequestOutOfPolicy setting: When using resources like a room, there can be an issue with reservation: “Office 365 users can reserve a meeting room even though it’s already reserved for another meeting”. Microsoft describes this issue in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3066068. This resource mailbox property cannot be set in the Office 365 portal, just with PowerShell – and with Delegate365 for portal admins and scope admins as well. ...

Today Microsoft announced some changes in OneDrive (the consumer cloud storage) on the OneDrive Blog. To make it quick, here are the changes taken from the source blogpost “OneDrive storage plans change in pursuit of productivity and collaboration”. We’re no longer planning to offer unlimited storage to Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers. Starting now, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage. 100 GB and 200 GB paid plans are going away as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016. ...