Happy 25th Birthday, Visual Basic!

Happy 25th Birthday, Visual Basic!

A long time ago, in 1991, a new programing language was born: Visual Basic became 25 this month! See @ThatVBGuy and the blogpost here: Happy 25th Birthday, VB! I personally started with VB 3.0 in 1993 – the first release on Windows 3.x. And VB 3.0 made Windows Apps available for me (yes, I am that old). For some features of VB14, check out Visual Studio Toolbox: What’s New in Visual Basic 14. ...

May 25, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Delegate365 changelog version 5.3-Auto licensing for existing users

Delegate365 changelog version 5.3-Auto licensing for existing users

Delegate365 version 5.2 has many new features (see here). In D365 version 5.3 we have a new feature for changing Office 365 licenses for users with already assigned OU’s. This article describes how this works in detail with an example, step by step. Why did we add this feature? Well, a D365 customer had the requirement to auto assign Office 365 licenses. This could already be done in the previous versions of D365. But the peculiarity was that Office 365 licenses should be set gradually. So for example, in May users of an OU should get a license for SharePoint Online, in June for Yammer and in July for Exchange Online. This is a special use case which could only be done in D365 manually or partly, but not automatically. So we added this feature in the product. ...

May 16, 2016 · 4 min · Toni Pohl
Delegate365 changelog version 5.2-Dynamic Groups and new configuration rules

Delegate365 changelog version 5.2-Dynamic Groups and new configuration rules

Delegate365 version 5.2 is here. We skipped version 5.1 because of many new features (which would have been version 5.1) and the OpenID Connect authentication update (which we changed in version 5.2). So we combined both updates in version 5.2 to minimize the effort. If you are coming from D365 version 5.0 you have not missed anything. See the new features of version 5.2 described in here. Important: For the update of your existing D365 tenant, it is necessary to run the Delegate365 Setup again. Please see Delegate365 now uses OpenID Connect - or how to run setup to update to version 5.2 for the step-by-step details. ...

May 12, 2016 · 7 min · Toni Pohl
blog.atwork welcomes the new BlogEngine

blog.atwork welcomes the new BlogEngine

A small note on our own behalf… we updated our blog system of blog.atwork.at to the latest version of the Open Source solution BlogEngine.net (see the project on GitHub). So, here it is! We inform about current trending IT-topics and hope you find our blog useful.

May 9, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Welcome Microsoft Flow

Welcome Microsoft Flow

Microsoft has named its own IFTTT tool called Flow… “Microsoft Flow is a service for automating workflow across the growing number of apps and SaaS services that business users rely on.”. Find the announcement in Welcome to Microsoft Flow and try it here, for example with Yammer: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/search/?q=yammer Check it out on https://flow.microsoft.com!

April 30, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Azure for Microsoft CSP partners

Azure for Microsoft CSP partners

Microsoft partner organizations as atwork can sell and manage subscriptions of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure with the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program (https://partnercenter.microsoft.com). Can they? Well, basically yes. But only partly… The reason is that some services in Azure are only available in the (old) Service Manager Portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com) while CSP only makes the (new) Azure Resource Manager Portal (“ARM” for Azure Resource Manager portal, https://portal.azure.com) available. This currently affects services as for example Azure Active Directory management, Operational Insights, ServiceBus and some more. ...

April 27, 2016 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Delegate365 now uses OpenID Connect - or how to run setup to update to version 5.2

Delegate365 now uses OpenID Connect - or how to run setup to update to version 5.2

This method has been deprecated since 2020 and is no longer available. The content in this article is provided for historical reference only. The next version of Delegate365 will be version 5.2. This article describes the necessary steps to use the new version – and why. Maybe you have recognized that we skip version 5.1. Well, the reason is that we added some new features in version 5.1 (an article with the new features will be posted shortly) and then we switched the authentication system. So we decided to do only one upgrade process and continue with version 5.2 (with the new authentication). So after version 5.0 now there comes 5.2 (you have not missed anything). ...

April 14, 2016 · 4 min · Toni Pohl
Building Blocks

Building Blocks

Ready for BUILD Conference? Well, prepare with Building Blocks 2016 which will be held during BUILD Conference by Microsoft Experts! Check out the “Prep for Build with the experts, March 22–24: Building Blocks 2016” with these cost free courses**:** March 22: Universal Windows Platform Development (Andy Wigley) March 22: Internet of Things Development (Pete Brown) March 23: Web Development (Jon Galloway) March 23: Data Development (Romit Girdhar) March 24: Cross-Platform Mobile Development (Thiago Almeida) ...

March 22, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Delegate365 customers URL change step-by-step guide

Delegate365 customers URL change step-by-step guide

This method using /setup has been deprecated since 2020 and is no longer available. Use setup.delegate365.com instead. The content in this article is provided for historical reference only. As posted in Delegate365 customers URL change, it is required to create a new service account with a redirection to the new *.delegate365.com domain. After your Delegate365 portal is reachable with the new URL https://[yourcompanyname].delegate365.com, pls. follow these steps. Requirements: Your Delegate365 portal must already be accessible with the new URL https://[yourcompanyname].delegate365.com (already prepared by atwork). You need to have a Global Admin account and password of your Office 365 tenant to perform these steps. You need to have the Delegate365 configuration password. If you don’t have that password, pls. contact support@atwork.at Important: ...

March 16, 2016 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Delegate365 customers URL change

Delegate365 customers URL change

This method using /setup has been deprecated since 2020 and is no longer available. Use setup.delegate365.com instead. The content in this article is provided for historical reference only. Delegate365 runs completely in the cloud on the Microsoft Azure platform. So every (prospective) customer got a personal D365 tenant with an URL of https://D365[customername].azurewebsites.net. For customers, the Delegate365 portal URL will be changed to https://[customername].delegate365.com shortly. There are two reasons for the usage of the new URL. First, the background management of the D365 portal is easier with a custom URL, for example that each customer portal can be scaled and moved without URL change. Secondly, the custom delegate365.com domain is nicer and easier to remember than the default azurewebsites.net URL. It’s more convenient in both ways. ...

March 14, 2016 · 2 min · Toni Pohl