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In our 10th year of being Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, atwork by now reached SIX gold competencies and TWO Silver competencies! We are very proud to achieve so many business relevant competencies in the highest achievable level in the Microsoft Partner Program! So atwork now is certified by Microsoft in these competences: Gold Cloud Productivity Gold Data Platform Gold Messaging Gold Cloud Platform Gold Application Development Gold Collaboration and Content Silver Midmarket Solution Provider Silver Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions There are not that many IT organizations in the Microsoft Partner Program in our region who hold as many certifications as atwork – and we are proud of that. ...

We are using a lot of PowerShell for configuring Office 365 tenants and Exchange Online. When getting new requests, I usually use my existing PS-Scripts to connect to Exchange Online, modify them, execute them and that’s it – that’s the real world scenario. Recently I had the issue that – when connecting to Exchange Online – I always got the error “PowerShell has stopped working” or when using PS ISE “PowerShell_ise has stopped working”. ...

With Delegate365 version 4.4 we changed the auditing format in the portal. Auditing works in the same way as before and logs all operations, but the way how data is stored and handled has been changed. Read the details here. Why did we change the storage format? Well, we have customers with many users and objects in Office365. Since Delegates executes automatic sync operation multiple times a day Delegate can gather a lot of (changed) data each time. So we had instances of D365 running where the auditing log was some million lines long. With the logging the D365 SQL database grew immeasurably and the auditing log took a long time to open (or download) the list in the D365 portal. In some cases the auditing log could not be opened since the data fetching from the database took too long. So we needed to change that. The new logging saves data to an CSV file instead to the SQL database on a monthly basis. By outsourcing logging the D365 database stays small and performant while D365 can make use of simply appending lines to the logfiles. ...

Windows 10 was released today! See some information about the upgrade to Windows 10 here: Update installs Get Windows 10 app in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 SP1 – describes the prerequisites for the Windows 10 update: You must have April 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 (2919355) installed in Windows 8.1 or install Windows 7 SP1. Via Windows Update: See How to get an update through Windows Update. ...

Today we released Delegate365 version 4.3. Now the user types are shown in the users list to see these information at a glance. Custom views got new filters by user type and text search was generalized in the D365 portal. Also custom email addresses can be added now. See the details here…. New type information in users list: The users list now got a new column “type” showing the type of the user object in Office 365. Since all “mailboxes” have a user object this column helps admins to see of what type the user is at a glance. The type column works in the same way as the other user properties and can be searched, sorted and filtered (see below). ...

Microsoft offers free upgrades from Windows 7 or Windows 8 to Windows 10. See how easy this works here: Upgrade to Windows 10 for free Once Windows Updates has installed the “Get Windows 10 app” you can reserve your Windows 10 version. Windows 10 upgrade will be available starting by July 29th!

As S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, wrote in his MSDN blog, the final version of Visual Studio 2015 is available: Save the Date: Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th The new Visual Studio version is targeting developers on new platforms: from cross-platform mobile development targeting iOS, Android to the classic Windows apps. Check out the Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event site with over 60 on-demand content sessions! ...

“People buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t like.” A quote by Dave Ramsay taken from the article What I Learned When I Gave Up the ‘9 to 5’ by Jacob Laukaitis.

When updating to a new build of Windows 10 Technical Preview Windows Enterprise must be reactivated. There are some Microsoft product keys on the net for various versions of Win10 TP. With the latest build (10240) these keys no longer work, it seems Microsoft has disabled the online activation until the end of July 2015. Here’s a workaround how to activate Windows 10 Enterprise: winaero.com/blog: How to activate Windows 10 build 10240 ...

Delegate365 version 4.2 is out. The users list now can be filtered in a better way. The text search has been improved and the list offers system and customizable views for quick and easy filtering. For synced users now there is no Password reset function and Global Admins can restrict if admins are able to create new users. OU Overview delivers all managed objects at a glance. See the details here. ...