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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.” ...

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. ...

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/ ...

Recently, the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog published my three-part series about “Working With Office 365 Groups And Connectors”. Read the articles online in the MVP blog here: Part 1 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Part 2 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Part 3 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Also, thanks to Richard Hay for posting the summary at windowsitpro.com: Learn more about Office 365 Groups and Connectors. ...

Before developing, it’s useful to create a mockup for an application. PowerPoint can help! As prerequisites, you need to have PowerPoint and Visual Studio 2013 or later installed. If this is the case, you find additional shapes in the Storyboarding / Storyboard Shapes menu. This opens a task pane with elements sorted by category (Common, Windows Apps, Desktop, Phone, etc) you need to draw an app. See more information at Storyboard your ideas using PowerPoint. ...

PowerApps allow to access a web or photo camera of a device. When using the camera, sometimes I got a message “To access the camera, check your device settings”. Irritating. See my workaround here. So, when I got this message in the camera control … I got mad, because I didn’t find out where to allow that access on my computer (especially because it worked before). I checked device settings, the camera control settings, PowerApps settings, googled… ...

A smartphone is everybody’s companion today. About two months ago I switched from Windows Phone to Apple iPhone. This article is my personal synopsis.after a short period of using the iPhone. My history Before, I had a Microsoft Lumia 950 for about one year. My personal smartphone history started with Windows Mobile, iPhone 3, 4 and 4s followed by Windows Phone 8, 8.1 and 10. I was satisfied with Lumia 1020 (mostly because of the good camera) and with the cool Lumia 950. ...

And now for something completely different: Recently, I stumbled upon the article at qz.com: Your old laptop can live again for the cost of a USB drive. The idea is to boot the free Debian “Pixel” OS from an USB stick and to work in that slim and fast environment. So I tried it out! PIXEL is a project of the the Raspberry Pi Foundation, see Introducing PIXEL. and get more details in the blogpost raspberrypi.org/blog: PIXEL for PC and Mac. ...

The goal was administer an Office365 tenant as delegated partner. But, currently I had difficulties to access another Office365 tenant in the Microsoft Partner Portal. When selecting a partner and opening the Office 365 admin center, not the partner tenant was opened but instead my own tenant. I didn’t figure out why this no longer was working. Anyway, I tried to use PowerShell instead… The red marked links opened the Microsoft Partner Portal, but not on behalf of the partner tenant, but only showing my own Office 365 tenant… ...

PowerApps is licensed in the Office 365 environment and offers three license plans: PowerApps for Office 365 and Dynamics 365, PowerApps Plan 1 and PowerApps Plan 2. Since it often is not clear, if end users who want to use (and not create) a PowerApps app need a license or how licensing works with data sources, I want to inform about licenses, show some samples and clarify that topic here. ...