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From time to time we stumble about resource quotas in Microsoft Azure. So this is a good opportunity to remember the article “Azure Subscription and Service Limits, Quotas, and Constraints” which describes the limits used by default in Azure services. So when creating a new SQL Server in an Azure subscription I ran into the message “Server response = 40652 Cannot move or create server. Subscription ‘xxxx’ will exceed server quota.”. Honestly, first I did not check the error message, then I saw that the server quota would have been exceed. So the solution was to delete unused SQL servers in that subscription to free resources and then to create the new SQL server resource in the Azure Portal. ...

An interesting visualization shows, how much money is made in the internet industry … per second! See Battle of the Internet Giants for a live view. I don’t know if this represents real numbers (well, this is a “Real-Time Accumulation of Wealth”), but the live visualization is made pretty well and is impressive! Especially the fact that Apple profits about 50% of all shown income – with companies as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, facebook, YouTube etc. – I did not know. My snapshot was made after 60 seconds. So in one minute Apple makes a profit of about $ 70K, Microsoft 41K, Google 24K, Skype about 4K, and facebook “only” about 3K while Twitter is loosing money each second. ...

We recently added some more minor features to Delegate365 version 5 we would like to point out. More, new design themes. When opening the company menu Portal Admins can change the appearance of D365. Admins now can choose between 12 themes. “atwork” is the default theme which now appears in the new color scheme dark grey and blue (as shown in the screenshot above). After selecting, you can see a small preview of the color scheme below. These are the available color sets: When saving these settings, the selected theme this will be applied immediately (for all users of D365). ...

Delegate365 version 5 is about to come in the next two weeks. In this version we concentrated on core optimizations of D365 and not in features. Since many core functions of the prodct have been improved, we claimed a major release for this D365 version and think version number 5 is well deserved. Anyway, see the details of the new D365 version here: Optimization: This version brings optimized features and better performance in a bunch of functions. The SyncOp has been strongly optimized and D365 now uses more caching for showing and updating lists which results in better performance. Users of D365 will see most significant performance in the SyncOp and in lists with a larger number of items, for example in the users list or in the distribution lists, but all lists have been updated. ...

Wow, we had a busy year 2015 with Delegate365. Thanks to our customers and partners we got a lot of feedback to improve the service. As you see by the number of blogposts in 2015 (almost 40) we released updates of Delegate365 continuously and implemented a lot of useful features in the product in the last year. All customers get these updates automatically in their SaaS D365 tenant and benefit from the improvements. We collected feature requests and summarized and prioritized them internally. ...

In the last two months, from December until now, we were busy with improving Delegate365. We did not communicate much in that time here because we did a lot of work in maintaining and optimizing the core project and not in features. Currently, we are still testing the new, improved version which will be rolled out mid of february for all D365 tenants. Customers will benefit from optimized code and better performance, specially in the SyncOp and from optimized loading times in lists in D365. We will post a list of some new features and improvements here shortly!

We are glad that Office Conference 2016 got such great feedback during the event and afterwards. We consolidated the feedback from all participants and from the mobile app. See the results here! Office Conference 2016 provided one keynote and 33 sessions with topics around the Microsoft Office 365 ecosystem. On two event days there were in total about 150 attendees and 35 speakers from nine countries. See our Wrap up. Conference Overview The following graphics delivers some key numbers at a glance. ...

We updated our blog.atworkat with a slight redesign. Since we updated from Blogengine 2.x to 3.x some months ago, we wanted to brand our blog a little bit more in our old custom style. Yeah, the changes are small. An important functionality is that we do have our categories back at the page bottom. So you can filter for each category easily again with one click. We also updated some interfaces since the blog feeds other channels, now with other WebAPIs than the built in ones. ...

Last week the second Office 365 Konferenz (office365conferenz.net) took place from 8th to 9th of January 2016 in Cologne. With about 120 attendees the event was fully booked (again). ## The Conference Well, this was the second Office 365 Conference in Germany - from the community for the community – which offered many interesting sessions with well-known international speakers. We would like to point out some topics worth mentioning about this conference: ...

First of all we would like to thank all attendees, speakers, sponsors and all helping hands for making the second Office 365 Conference such a huge success (again)! Members of the MVP community organized the Office 365 conference from January 8th to 9th 2016 in Cologne. Beside the great personal feedback on site it’s always interesting to get some event feedback in Social Media, so we made a short Twitter Statistics of the hashtag #Office365Konf. So, here we go! ...