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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 ...

The cloud train started some years ago. Today, it’s no longer the question “IF you will use the cloud, but WHEN you will use the cloud”. That’s the direction IT is going. See my top five reasons why your organization and your IT can benefit from using cloud services. The following reasons are my personal ones and I am focused on the Microsoft cloud services. I am working with Office 365 and Azure a lot since the beginning. So here’s my top 5 list for using PUBLIC cloud services: ...

Since the beginning, Delegate365 developed to an extensive cloud solution for Microsoft Office 365. This article delivers a short overview about the components of Delegate365 in the Microsoft Cloud. The following graphics shows the involved Azure services that are used in D365. Delegate365 is using Platform-as-a-Service components that are maintenance-free. In detail, Delegate365 consists of the following Azure services. Web App – this hosts the Delegeate365 portal website. Jobs – these are tasks that run automatically in the background, currently these are the Synchronization Job, the License Aggregator Job, the Log Sink Job and the Sync Notifications. ...

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. ...

At the end of last year, Delegate365 version 6 was announced. We added a bunch of features and before updating all tenants, we wanted to improve some functionality. So it took some time to develop and test new features. Now it’s time to update all existing Delegate365 tenants to the latest version 6.1. See the most relevant news at a glance here! Important: Some customers are already using Delegate365 version 6. All D365 tenants will be upgraded to version 6.1 in the next days. All customers will also receive an email notification about the exact upgrade time. If you have any reservation against the D365 tenant upgrade time please contact us at support@atwork.at. ...

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/ ...

Preregister for Microsoft Ignite conference 2017! Microsoft Ignite 2017 will take place from September 25th to 29th 2017 in Orlando, Florida, and is Microsoft’s largest yearly event. CU there?

Last week Martina and I participated in Microsoft Cloud Summit Paris. This was the biggest event ever put on by Microsoft communities in France with about 800 technology enthusiasts. We had CVP Julia White and GM for Database Systems Rohan Kumar as keynote speakers and had two great event days there, right in the center besides the Eiffel tower. And Cloud Summit Paris has been featured by the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog! ...