Check out this aka.msAzure hyperlinks collection

Check out this aka.msAzure hyperlinks collection

Sometimes, everybody needs a little helper. Find this helpful list of aka.ms/Azure shortcuts by mzbowe at Bookmark this! aka.ms/Azure/Shortcuts | Just scroll and click “Just want to make it simpler to remember key Azure links. All of my shortcuts will start with aka.ms/Azure/[the thing] …”. as for example https://aka.ms/Azure/VM, https://aka.ms/Azure/GraphAPI and a ton of more shortcuts. Nice list for Azure!

May 3, 2017 · 1 min · Toni Pohl

Global Azure Bootcamp 2017 Austria

Yesterday, on the 22nd April 2017, the fifth Microsoft Global Azure Bootcamp happened worldwide where user groups and communities organized events to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing. In Austria, the #GAB happened in Linz. We had a great day with Azure and the community! See details at the website of global.azurebootcamp.net. The official twitter hashtag was #GlobalAzure (but many, as I, used #GAB2017, but that’s life ). As in the years before, Rainer Stropek (MVP, RD) with Karin and their team of Coding Club Linz organized the event in Austria, Linz in Wissensturm, see Global Azure Bootcamp 2017 in Austria. ...

April 23, 2017 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Tips for PowerApps-issues and status

Tips for PowerApps-issues and status

Recently I got an error in my PowerApp when trying to get an Office 365 User Profile, although this was working before: “The service returned an error: Office365Users!MyProfile: {“status”:402,“message”:Insufficient privileges to complete the operation.”,“source”:“127.0.0.1”}". See here how to deal with such scenarios. Well, first I tried to check my Office 365 User connection, removed the data source and added it again. But this didn’t change anything, the app still reported the same error. ...

April 16, 2017 · 2 min · Toni Pohl

All you need to know about Visual Studio Code-Tips and Tricks

Visual Studio Code (VSC) provides developers with a fast and powerful code editor.VSC is available as cross-platform development tool, supporting OS X, Linux, and Windows and is a cost free part of the Visual Studio family. Get the Visual Studio Code Tips & Tricks Vol. 1 document to get 26 pages of tips and tricks for this great code editor. Download Visual Studio Code Tips & Tricks Vol. 1 The PDF document was authored by Tobias Kahlert and Kay Giza of Microsoft Germany. Since this is volume 1, we hope for volume 2 in future as well. ...

March 31, 2017 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Restrict Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams creation in organizations

Restrict Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams creation in organizations

In many of my Office 365 projects customer want to limit the self-service of Office 365 groups creation. Gladly, this is possible in Office 365, with the definition that just specific users are able to create Office 365 groups. Since the launch of Microsoft Teams in March 2017 customers asked me several times if this policy also affect the creation of Microsoft teams? Well, let’s take a look. In a previous blog post, we described how to setup Office 365 Groups policies, check out Management capabilities for Office 365 Groups. Since Microsoft Teams depend on Office 365 groups, we document this scenario step-by-step. ...

March 19, 2017 · 6 min · Martina Grom

Download Visual Studio 2017 today

Today, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2017 in a two day worldwide online event. Now you can download the latest version of Visual Studio at www.visualstudio.com! There have been local community events (see here). I joined the usergroup event at the Microsoft office in Vienna today. See some snapshots here. Have a look at www.visualstudio.com to see what’s new in Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Online! I stumbled about this article at Petri.com – check this out before installing Visual Studio 2017: Visual Studio 2017 Is Not Supported on All Versions of Windows 10 and at Visual Studio 2017 Product Family System Requirements ...

March 7, 2017 · 1 min · Toni Pohl

Cloudbleed-Use Multi Factor Authentication asap

Some hours ago, a security vulnerability became public regarding services of Cloudfare. Read this article “Cloudbleed” and strengthen your IT-security! “Cloudfare Inc. is a U.S. company that provides a content delivery network, Internet security services and distributed domain name server services, sitting between the visitor and the Cloudflare user’s hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites.” see Wikipedia. A lot of Internet companies are using Cloudfare for the distribution of their content. ...

February 24, 2017 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Celebrate the Visual Studio 2017 launch with the community

Celebrate the Visual Studio 2017 launch with the community

Join the Microsoft Visual Studio Team and the worldwide communities celebrating the brand new Visual Studio 2017 release on March 7th and 8th! The announcements and the new features will be published in a live event during these two days. See the details at launch.visualstudio.com. “Visual Studio 2017 is coming on March 7. We’re excited to announce that Visual Studio 2017 will be available for download on Tuesday, March 7, 2017! Join us at 8:00 AM PST on March 7 for a two-day online event celebrating the launch of our latest version as well as 20 years of Visual Studio.” ...

February 16, 2017 · 1 min · Toni Pohl

Impressions of Microsoft Tech Summit Johannesburg

This week, we have been at Microsoft Tech Summit Johannesburg, South Africa. The event took place in Sandton Convention Center from 6th to 7th February 2017 and hosted over 50 technical sessions with a range of topics as Microsoft Azure, hybrid platforms, DevOps, app platform, productivity, collaboration and more. Microsoft Tech Summit is a cost free, two-day technical event touring through a bunch of cities worldwide, delivering a free technical training on the latest Microsoft technologies. See an overview and the stations here. ...

February 12, 2017 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Microsoft Cognitive Services January Updates

Microsoft Cognitive Services January Updates

If you already played with Microsoft Cognitive Services, there are some important updates! First, your email address needs to be verified. Secondly, the “api.projectoxford.ai” endpoint was updated to a new, localized address “[datacenter].api.cognitive.microsoft.com*” , for example https://westus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/… See details at Cognitive Services. After the verification, you get access to your subscriptions again. Of course, you need to update your code… To get more information about the Cognitive Services team, visit https://cognitive.uservoice.com/ ...

February 7, 2017 · 1 min · Toni Pohl