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Are you working with many Microsoft Accounts? Well, I do. In our company we have tons of Microsoft Accounts (former: Live-ID). Of course we use Microsoft Accounts in all our Windows 8.1 clients, we use some for testing with Outlook and using Skydrive, some for Windows Store Apps, for Phone Store Apps (which Microsoft reunited into one Store Account for Developers at last), for Windows Azure (finally you can use organizational accounts - which are Active Directory users - since fall – before that you needed a Microsoft Account…) and so on. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 2. December 2013/January 2014 Order license: Added filter so only license types of your OU´s are visbile. Fixed. Switched to version 2 because of support for federated domains and users. The support works in the same way as in the Office 365 portal. Starting with version 2 of Delegate 365 synced domains and users are visible and group and license memberships are manageable. In Delegate365 the administrator can assign users to security groups and change the Office 365 licenses but cannot modify the user object itself because it´s managed in a local federated Active Directory. Windows Azure Active Directory handles federated objects differently, so these objects are no “full” objects which can be read but not changed. ...

Im Oktober hat Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President, Windows Server & System Center, im Server & Management Blog neue Informationen von Microsoft für VMware Experten vorgestellt: Microsoft Wants to Help VMware Experts “Future-Proof " Their Career. Die Website “Future-Proof your career” ist unter https://www.virtualizationsquared.com/ verfügbar. Die Website ist für VMware Spezialisten und natürlich auch für alle IT-Pros gemacht, die sich tiefer mit Microsoft Server Virtualization befassen wollen. In der Microsoft Virtual Academy finden Sie eine ganze Reihe von Online-Ressourcen über Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center. Diese Kurse liefern das KnowHow und Training für das Microsoft Specialist Exam 74-409 Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center. ...

Weihnachten ists! Da freut man sich über Geschenke. So schenkt uns MS Press auch mehrere freie eBooks über Microsoft System Center! Wir haben bereits einige freie eBooks aus dem Microsoft System Center hier vorgestellt. Hier die komplette aktuelle Sammlung aus dem MSDN-Blog von MS Press. Um den Jahreswechsel sind noch drei weitere freie eBooks vorgesehen – stay tuned. Free ebooks: Microsoft System Center family of titles Für die nächsten Wochen angekündigt sind: ...

Windows Azure offers an easy and modern way to work with media files. With Azure Media Services you can upload video files, encode them and offer them for streaming clients. A great way to use multimedia content in your webs and apps! For example Azure Media Services have been used in the Olympic Games 2012 in London for delivering more than 2,300 hours of live and HD content to more than 20 countries for multiple Olympics broadcasters, see Windows Azure Media Services Case Study. ...

We´re happy to contribute to the new website of the Office 365 MVP community at https://www.office365mvps.com! This cool website was created by Darrell Webster and combines the blog feeds of the most known Office 365 MVP´s – worldwide! There are also some other MVP´s who share their expertise in the Office 365 products Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Azure Active Directory. More information about the Microsoft MVP award program can be found here. We designed and developed the new website layout. This is how it looks: ...

Für alle IT-Pros, die sich für Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 interessieren, hier ein ganz aktueller Tipp: Ganz frisch gibt es das kostenfreie (englische) e-Book von Mitch Tulloch, Symon Perriman und dem System Center Team aus dem MSDN-Blog von MS-Press zu laden! Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 “Whether you are new to System Center or are already using it in your business, this book has something that should interest you…” ...

Windows Azure bietet tolle Funktionen um mit Multimedia Inhalten zu arbeiten. Mit Azure Media Services können Audio- und Video-Dateien upgeloadet, kodiert und für Streaming Clients bereitgestellt werden. Eine großartige Methode, um Multimedia Content in eigenen Webs und Apps zu verwenden! So wurden Azure Media Services zum Beispiel bei den Olympic Games 2012 in London eingesetzt, um HD-Inhalte mit mehr als 2.300 Stunden in mehr als 20 Länder weltweit zu übertragen, siehe Windows Azure Media Services Case Study. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 1.4 December 2013 Some minor fixes have been done in the UI. We extened Delegate365 with a WebAPI called “Delegate365Importer”. This is an interface running as cloud service in Windows Azure which receives users and licenses in JSON format, runs the requested operations in Delegate365 and returns also a JSON result. If you run an own system like a website where users can buy or request an Office 365 account or license then Delegate365Importer is perfect for doing all the necessary actions againt Windows Azure Active Directory or Office 365 in the back. You get back information for the tasks with the result. ...

Since beginning of december Microsoft Office 365 Student Advantage is available for educational facilities like schools and universities. With Student Advantage participating schools get free access to Microsoft Office 365 as long as the schools license Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus for their faculty members. A great deal to get the Office 365 licenses – for free! Student Advantage … makes it easy for students to get access to the latest version of Microsoft Office and better prepare themselves for the tools used in modern day workplaces. Today, Student Advantage is available to more than 35,000 educational institutions worldwide. Software-as-a-Service is the modern way of working with the latest and easy to use software. ...