Free eBook Fundamentals of Azure

Free eBook Fundamentals of Azure

Für alle Developer und IT-Pros, die sich noch nicht (viel) mit Microsoft Azure befasst haben, gibt es ganz frisch ein kostenfreies eBook mit einem aktuellen Überblick über Azure und die wichtigsten Dienste in Azure. Das eBook “Fundamentals of Azure” ist das erste Buch aus der Reihe “Microsoft Azure Essentials” von Microsoft Press. Fundamentals of Azure wurde von Michael S. Collier und Robin E. Shahan geschrieben und umfasst 246 Seiten – mit einem Vorwort von VP Scott Guthrie. ...

February 11, 2015 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Martina Grom awarded as Microsoft Regional Director

Martina Grom awarded as Microsoft Regional Director

We are very happy and also proud that our CEO, Martina Grom, was awarded as Microsoft Regional Directory (RD) shortly! There’s a lot going on over at Microsoft these days. The RD program is designed to honor world-wide technology leaders who are an active part of the community and who have impact in sharing knowledge around the globe. See the new RD-website https://msrd.io/ for mission statements. The Microsoft RD program exists since 1993 (for an older description see also wikipedia.org). ...

February 8, 2015 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
How to manage self service password reset for users in Delegate365

How to manage self service password reset for users in Delegate365

Delegate365 provides a user self service password reset (SSPR) function since version 2.1. If an user forgot his Office 365 password – and the admins allowed that function – he can self reset his password easily with D365. The SSPR feature comes automatically with Delegate365 at no additional costs. In contrast there´s Azure Active Directory in three editions (Free, Basic and Premium) where SSPR starts with the premium and basic features, see Self-service password reset for users in Azure Active Directory Editions. ...

February 6, 2015 · 4 min · Toni Pohl
How to use Office 365 MFA in Delegate365

How to use Office 365 MFA in Delegate365

In Office 365 IT Admins can define Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for their users to secure access for all or special user accounts. The good news is that Delegate365 supports the usage of MFA for the login process by default. MFA works exactly in the same way as usual. MFA consists of usually two factors: Something you know (typically a password) Something you have (a trusted device that is not easily duplicated, like a phone) ...

February 6, 2015 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Free eBook Developers Guide to the New .NET

Free eBook Developers Guide to the New .NET

Auf .NET Developer kommt viel Neues zu. Der Tools-Hersteller Telerik bietet ein kostenfreies eBook an, welches über die wichtigsten Neuerungen in .Net informiert. Das ansprechende eBook wurde von Michael Crump und Sam Basu geschrieben und ist 49 Seiten stark. Es ist nur eine Angabe des Namens, einer E-Mail Adresse und des Landes erforderlich, dann startet der Download des 16MB eBooks: The Developer’s Guide to the New .NET Die Zukunft des “neuen” .NET startete letzten November mit der Open Source-Ankündigung auf dem Connect(); Microsoft Visual Studio vNext & Azure Online-Event (siehe auch unsere Zusammenfassung hier). ...

January 30, 2015 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Delegate365 changelog version 3.1

Delegate365 changelog version 3.1

Delegate365 version 3.1 brings improvements and new features. As already announced in Delegate365 version 3.1 outlook we have some new modules and an unified user interface. Here´s a list of the main changes. New: Unassign users in the administrator menu: With this new module users who are already assigned to an OU can be unassigned. This module is only available for portal admins and works exactly in the same way as the assign users module: Search the users, mark them and click the “Unassign” button. ...

January 28, 2015 · 4 min · Toni Pohl
Eigene Apps in den App Launcher von Office 365 integrieren

Eigene Apps in den App Launcher von Office 365 integrieren

Seit kurzem ist in den Office 365 Webs der App Launcher (in deutsch das “App-Startfeld”) in der linken oberen Ecke verfügbar. Dieser zeigt jederzeit wichtige Apps für den angemeldeten Benutzer an, für die er berechtigt ist, ganz gleich welche Web-Anwendung geöffnet ist. Somit ist der App Launcher sozusagen das Office 365 “Startmenü” – bye bye Bookmarks. App Launcher erweitern Der App Launcher zeigt die wichtigsten Apps auf einen Blick und sieht standardmäßig - je nach Lizenzen und Berechtigungen - so aus: Jede App wird als Kachel angezeigt und kann mit einem Klick gestartet werden. ...

January 26, 2015 · 7 min · Martina Grom

Delegate365 version 3.1 outlook

Delegate365 is continuously improving. We were busy and implemented new features and optimized some code in the Delegate365 solution. So, in the next version we will have some improvements, here´s a first outlook: We have completely rewritten the logging operations and are now using a new event store for protocoling detailed actions of operations. This means with version 3.1 the event sourcing is made step by step and saves all changed fields with old and new values. Starting with v3.1 all operations in D365 are protocolled step by step. Additionally we are developing an additional protocol source which delivers an overview and is good readable for humans. ...

January 22, 2015 · 3 min · Toni Pohl
Freies GitHub Student Developer Pack von Microsoft

Freies GitHub Student Developer Pack von Microsoft

In der Open-Source Development Community werden viele Projekte in GitHub bereitgestellt. Microsoft beginnt nun ebenso diese populäre Plattform zu nutzen und stellt viele Open Source Projekte auf GitHub bereit, wie etwa das .NET Core Framework. Für Studenten gibt es nun ein ganz aktuelles Angebot von Microsoft, welches eine Vielzahl an tollen Tools und Services von GitHub zur kostenfreien Verfügung stellt, das GitHub Student Developer Pack und Visual Studio Community 2013. Diese Pakete sind ganz auf Studenten zugeschnitten, schreibt Steve “Guggs” Guggenheimer in Microsoft & GitHub: Free tools for student developers. ...

January 21, 2015 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
How to setup an Exchange Admin in Office 365 and use this account in Delegate365

How to setup an Exchange Admin in Office 365 and use this account in Delegate365

In large organizations it´s often useful to create an own Exchange administrator for performing tasks against the Exchange API´s, f.e. with PowerShell or with third party tools like our Delegate365 solution. Here´s how to create an Exchange Admin in Office 365. There are two ways to accomplish this task: The easy way is to simply create (or use) a gobal administrator in Office 365. This user gets all rights in all services of Office 365 (AAD, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync) automatically. The second way – if your want to have an own Exchange administrator - is described here. Login in as global admin First, open the Office 365 portal https://portal.office.com with a global admin account to get full rights in that Office 365 tenant. ...

January 17, 2015 · 5 min · Toni Pohl