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Office 365 verändert sich schnell – jede Woche finden sich neue und spannende Features rund um das Service. Eines der Features die sehr lange nachgefragt wurden war eine anpassbare Login Seite. Bisher war das jenen Kunden vorbehalten, die entweder ADFS einsetzen oder über eine eigene Azure AD subscription verfügen. Glücklicherweise gibt es dieses Feature nun auch für Office 365 Abonnenten. Gleichzeitig damit wurde auch verkündet, dass es nun möglich ist, dass Office 365 Benutzer ihr Kennwort selbst zurück setzen können, was bisher nur den Office 365 Administratoren vorbehalten war. ...

Heute gibt es ein kleines Ostergeschenk für alle Developer, die mit Azure entwickeln, nämlich den ganz neuen Azure Resource Explorer. Das Azure Resource Explorer Tool steht als Website unter https://resources.azure.com/ zur Verfügung. Damit können die Azure Management-API’s angesehen und ausprobiert werden. Nach der Authentifizierung mit dem Azure-Login liest das Tool die damit verknüpften Providers und Subscriptions aus. Diese werden links in einem Tree aufgelistet. Beim Anklicken eines Knoten wird das korrespondierende HTTP Kommando rechts generiert und der Output sogleich im JSON-Format darunter angezeigt – wie ein Explorer eben. ...

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). ...

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… ...

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. ...

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. ...

The current version of Delegate365 is version 3.3. In that version we have some new features available as well as some minor bugfixes. Let´s start with these: Bugfixes Sync licenses: It seems that there was a change in delivering the licenses information of users by Microsoft. If the Office 365 licenses of an user were changed, the license and the active plans stay unchanged. In D365 the synchronization could not update the license data correctly because it relied on that data. We found that now only the disabled plans information delivered by the interface is correct. The sync and getting and setting the licenses function has been updated to use the disabled plans data. So this version fixes all license information updates. Since the Sync functions automatically runs periodically (usually all 4 hours), there´s no need to do anything manually. Anyway, admins can click the Sync button anytime to ensure that all data in the D365 tenant are updated. ...

SharePoint MVP Benjamin Niaulin (sharegate.com/blog) asked some of his colleagues about their opinions and thoughts of Microsoft Office 365. Our Office 365 expert Martina Grom was among them. Here´s the result: 20 MVPs Share Their Thoughts on Office 365 …a lot of well known experts in the IT industry! Here´s Martina´s statement: Martina Grom from atwork Martina is head of consulting and project development. @magrom Which feature(s) of Office 365 you think will have the biggest impact in 2015? And why? Office 365 has so many features, that’s really hard to decide. Let’s name some of them which I think are important: ...