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We’re excited to invite you to AgentCon Vienna, happening Thursday, January 29, 2026, right in the heart of Vienna! What is AgentCon AgentCon Vienna is part of the AgentCon World Tour. This in-person event brings together AI enthusiasts and industry experts for an afternoon of learning, networking, and inspiration. Expect a cool agenda packed with great sessions and amazing speakers - from practical demos to deep dives into cutting-edge topics like AI agents, MCP servers, and agentic engineering. Whether you’re a developer, architect, or tech enthusiast, you’ll find sessions that spark ideas and help you stay ahead in the world of AI. ...

Credentials and secrets should be stored in a secure environment and not directly in an Azure Logic App or script. Azure provides the Key Vault service, which allows to store such secrets in a secure and controllable way. See how this works here. What is a secret? The Microsoft documentation of Azure Key Vault describes secrets follows: “A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, or cryptographic keys.” at Azure Key Vault basic concepts and at Azure Key Vault security. So you want to store ALL secrets in a safe location, in a Key Vault, and access them from other services. This can be done within Azure resources with a Managed Identity (see below). In this article we will focus on using an Azure Key Vault and storing such secrets and accessing them later in this step-by-step guide. ...

Are you interested or already working with Microsoft Azure? Download the freshest and latest version of the free e-book “Inside Azure Management v3”. This preview release of “Inside Azure Management” is now available with more than 500 pages in 16 chapters covering topics like implementing solutions, containers, migrating workloads, hybrid, automation, backup, costs, governance, monitoring and alerting, analytics, and more. Check it out! The e-book already has about 30.000 downloads and is written by Microsoft MVP´s. “Inside Azure Management” can be downloaded at Free Book: Inside Azure Management v3. ...

In this multi-part series we show you how to handle the Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams governance toolkit. The next article cover the governance part of our Groups Governance Toolkit.Imagine your company policy requires at least 2 owners per Office 365 Group or per Microsoft Team. In this part, we want to monitor all groups that are ownerless (orphaned), or do not comply with our organization’s policies. The IT department shall get the information of all groups and teams where there are no owners or not enough owners and the possibility to fix that. Read below how this can be accomplished. ...

Are you using tools as Telerik Fiddler or Postman for testing HTTP Requests? Well, if you are already working with Visual Studio Code, try out the cool REST Client extension! My colleague Christoph showed me this cool extension for executing HTTP requests directly from VS Code quickly. Simply install the REST Client extension: Press F1, type ext install then search for rest-client as shown in the following screenshot. (Check out the useful Run Code from Visual Studio Code extension as well…) ...

Visual Studio Code (currently, Version 1.22 is available) is a very cool developer tool providing a modern and fast code editor with a bunch of extensions. With extensions as Code-Runner, it’s easy to run a code file or active text directly from the VS Code text editor. Check out this quick description how to configure and use Code Runner. If you are new to VS Code, at a glance: To install the latest version of VS Code, get the download for Windows, Linux or macOS. To run a command, launch the Command Palette with F1 or Ctrl + Shift + P, run Quick Open by pressing Ctrl + P, etc. See all keyboard shortcuts at Windows, macOS and Linux. ...

Serverless Computing is popular. With Microsoft Azure, IT people can concentrate on their tasks and apps without taking care of managing any server infrastructure. One of the key Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) components from Microsoft is the new, extensive Azure Functions service. Learn how to use Azure Functions with the cost-free Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook! The “Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook” book was written by Praveen Kumar Sreeram and reviewed by our colleague Florian Klaffenbach, published by Packt Publishing Ltd. last fall. You can download the free ebook in the Azure Resource Center at Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook. ...

Passend zu meinem letzten Blogpost mit dem Hinweis zum Office 365 Developer Podcast möchte ich Software-Entwicklern das neue SharePoint Framework vorstellen. Doch schön der Reihe nach… Mit der Vorstellung von SharePoint 2016 Anfang Mai (siehe Future of SharePoint) hat Microsoft ein neues Entwicklungsmodell für SharePoint vorgestellt: Das SharePoint Framework. Anstelle von Server-seitigem Development (so, wie es von der ersten SharePoint Version mit ASP und ab 2003 ASP.NET – mit Ausnahme des neuen App Modells - bis heute der Fall war…) tritt nun Client-seitiges Development. Für Entwickler bedeutet das in einem Wort gesagt: Javascript! ...

Im Teil 1 haben wir die Grundlagen für die Änderungen der Skype for Business Online policies gesetzt. Nun sollen die aktuellen Policies von Skype for Business Online per PowerShell zusammengefasst und als Script weiterverwendet werden. Als Ergebnis erhalten wir ein Textfile, welches mit Excel zur weiteren Verwendung aufbereitet wird. Einen Überblick erhalten Nachdem ich keinen Überblick über die vielen (229) SFB Online Policies gefunden habe, war es naheliegend, selbst eine solche Liste mit den Werten der existierenden Policies zu erstellen. Somit entstand aus den Cmdlets aus Teil 1 das folgende PowerShell Script. Dieses hat den großen Vorteil dass es einerseits jederzeit erneut aufgerufen werden kann und dann den aktuellen Stand der Policies liefert und andererseits leicht (etwa mit Excel) nachbearbeitet werden kann um die Ergebnisse visuell gut aufzubereiten. ...

Vor kurzem hat Microsoft die Veröffentlichungsdaten der finalen Version von Windows Server 2016 und System Center 2016 bekanntgegeben. Die RTM-Versionen werden bei der Microsoft Ignite Conference, also ab 26. September 2016, veröffentlicht, schreibt Microsoft in den beiden Blogartikeln in System Center 2016 to launch in September und in Windows Server 2016 new Current Branch for Business servicing option. Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2016 gibt es in drei Editionen (siehe auch hier): Datacenter: Die Version für unlimitierte Virtualisierung mit den neuen Shielded Virtual Machines, Software-defined Storage und Software-defined Networking. ...