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Are working with Office 365 and are you attending Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago in some days? Here’s your chance to engage six Office 365 MVP’s in an open Q&A panel discussion, see Microsoft Office 365 MVP Panel! See this astonishing promotion video here! Office365 MVP experts panel at Microsoft Ignite including @S_McNeill, @DarrellCWebster, @magrom, @JPBruzzese, @jseghers and @bretthill. Many thanks to @bretthill for this great video cut! Update: Video-URL links changed to YouTube. CU there at the Microsoft Office 365 MVP Panel!

Delegate365 version 3.5 is another major release. There are many new features like support for resources/rooms, contacts, sync-updates, support for restoring soft deleted users, management of members of all OU’s, mailbox delegation, user’s MFA when creating users, new restrictions for licenses for admins and some more updates. Let’s start with the description of the last changes. Delegate365 version 3.5 comes with the new dashboard we updated in version 3.4. Users / new user: Now it’s possible to set Multi factor Authentication immediately when creating a new user. Simply set the MFA dropdown and save the new user. Info: With MFA the user creation can take some seconds. In previous versions the user needed to be created first and MFA could only be activated later with editing. ...

The new app model has a lot of benefits, especially for Web Developers who are writing solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 or SharePoint Online. A very common request of Line-of-Business (LOB) apps is that actions in SharePoint lists shall trigger special operations, for example to start a workflow or to exchange data with other, external systems. This can be accomplished with “Remote Event Receivers” in SharePoint. With SharePoint 2013 the new concept uses Azure ServiceBus to transport events and data between the SharePoint Server system and a remote App (which while developing usually is running on “localhost”). ...

On infographicportal.com there’s a nice representation how fast the mobile market is growing – and how important this market is and will be in near future. See the article here: https://www.infographicportal.com/state-mobile-2015/ Here are some statements out of the graphics: “There are 1.2 billion mobile users today. By 2018 – in 3 years – that number will be nearly 5 billion.” “Mobile payments are increasing annually by 48%.” “By 2017, 87% of connected devices will be Tables and Smartphones.” ...

Great saying by @csdhall, valued MVP-colleague and Yoga Guru, found in Facebook: “If you think you are living in the age of digital media, you are wrong. Infact, you are living digital media.”

Delegate365 version 3.4 (which was pre-announced here) comes with some new features: New dashboard: The start page now shows charts with the admin’s OU’s and how many users within the OU’s are assigned an Office 365 license. Dashboard Performance with large tenants: The new interactive dashboard now shows more overview information. The performance is better too, since it was necessary to move time consuming tasks (like the OU license assignment list) into to the administrator dashboard. The start page of D365 now displays cached information or data that can be read very fast, thus the dashboard performance with large tenants now is much better. ...

We produced new videos showing the ease-of-use of Office 365 user and license management with Delegate365. On https://delegate365.com/videos there is one overview video and 10 videos explaining setup and the management with delegated administrators. Check out the videos on our Delegate365 product-website!

Office 365 is moving fast – each week we find new and interesting stuff in the service. One of the long awaiting features is custom branding. This was first only exclusive to customers who use their own ADFS service and afterwards only to those customers who have an additional Azure AD subscription. Gladly this feature is now available also for Office 365 customers, together with the self-service password reset option for all users (not only Office 365 administrators). ...

Yesterday I stumbled across an article on The Verge website: You can now run Android apps on a Mac or PC with Google Chrome. Sounded interesting! So I tested this on my Windows 8.1 computer. Besides Google Chrome you just need to install the “App Runtime for Chrome” (ARC). Find out how it works here: Getting Started with ARC “…The App Runtime for Chrome (Beta), or ARC, lets you run your favorite Android apps on Chrome OS….” ...

We at atwork developed a new solution named Delegate365. Delegate365 is a Web-based portal for managing users and licenses in Microsoft Office 365. For information about our product see our product website https://delegate365.com. We are using Google AdWords which helps us to successfully advertise the product for the target markets. Google asked us if we want to share our marketing story for Delegate365 on their https://customers.withgoogle.com portal. Good for our product promotion and for Google. So here it is! ...