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As described here we are pleased to announce the new synchronization function in D365 version 2.9. We completely rebuilt the sync process and added rules for automatic user assignment to specific OU´s. Why Sync? Since D365 needs to deal with (ten)thousands of users in an AAD D365 uses an cache layer to deliver a good user experience and performance. So changes which are made outside of D365 - like in the Office 365 portal, via PowerShell or another App – may not be visible immediately in D365. ...

Since yesterday the new edition “Visual Studio Community 2013” is available for download on the Visual Studio product website Visual Studio Community 2013 - A Full-Featured IDE – FREE. Visual Studio Community 2013 includes the full functionality of Visual Studio Professional 2013! This version is FREE – for non commercial use! Details: vs_community.exe is a small downloader. If you have installed VS Professional 2013 you have to uninstall it before. This version corresponds to Visual Studio Professional 2013 and includes Update 4. ...

Today Microsoft Connect(); Event Day 1 took place in New York. The Keynote and the sessions can be watched or downloaded at channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2014/011. Microsoft had a lot of announcements for developers. See a short summary in screenshots here! ScottGu opened the event (in his classic red poloshirt and jeans). As of today Microsoft runs 19 datacenters worldwide (much more than Amazon and Google). Microsoft wants to push .NET and developers using .NET, Visual Studio and Azure. The numbers are impressive. ...

So we (@magrom and @atwork) had a really great week at MVP Summit 2014 on Microsoft Campus in Redmond. We learned a lot and had a lot of fun. Since the content of the summit was under NDA the participants tweeted a lot about stuff around the event. Here´s some statistics from Twitter with hashtag #mvpsummit. There were more than 8.000 tweets made by about 2.500 users. About half of all tweets have been retweets. ...

Very short info for Microsoft MVP´s found on Twitter during MVP Summit 2014: Telerik Offers Its Best Tools to Microsoft MVPs - for Free Simply send an email to sales@telerik.com with a link to your MVP profile. Developers, enjoy!

In the coming week there will be the next update of Delegate rolled out. This will be Delegate version 2.9 which includes these updates: New Synchronization: We improved the sync processes (for domains, security groups, distribution lists and user and licenses) which now are combined in one simple step. The user import now can be configured with rules for putting users in specific OU´s depending on special properties (country, security groups, AAD properties…) ...

In Delegate365 version 2.8 there´s a new setup wizard included (as announced here). With this function companies no longer need to create a (temporary) administrator user for doing the setup process of Delegate365 but instead can setup their Azure Active Directory on their own for working with Delegate365. Prerequisites To configure your real company AAD with Delegate365 you get two access information by atwork: The Setup-URL (which usually goes like https://[yourcompany].azurewebsites.net/setup) and a configuration password (which is in fact a code) to give you the access for the setup process. This code is important and valid for this specific Delegate365 appliance. With that code you can setup the service accounts till the code is changed. More about that later. ...

So SharePoint and Project Conference Adriatics 2014 is over now (15th to 16th October). We, @magrom and @atwork, had a really great time at SPC Adriatics 2014 - as always ;). It was our third SPC Adriatcs and we enjoyed the hospitality and meeting so many friends and colleagues from all over the world. There were about 200 attendees and about 30 speakers from 17 countries enjoying the conference in Zagreb, Croatia (see our conference announcement here). ...

Next week there will Delegate version 2.8 rolled out to all appliances. There will be new features included: Setup-Wizard: There´s a new setup wizard included, so that each customer can do the configuration (and renewal of the service account) of his D365 version on his own. New Synchronization: moved to version 2.9 (updated) More to come in the next version(s)… BTW: We added the update date information and bullets in the style sheet (which was missing) in the changelog on https://delegate365.com/changelog. ...

Since we often create Azure Websites I want to show a step-by-step guide how to use custom domains with your Azure Website. In my case I´m using the ISP GoDaddy.com and their web-interface and the Azure portal. Custom domain To use custom domains see also our previous post Manage custom domains in Azure websites. So I want to add the custom domain office365conference.net to an Azure website with an Umbraco web (this CMS can handle multiple-domains). We already created the website with the Azure website-URL office365pillscall4papers.azurewebsites.net - sorry, I didn´t have a shorter one . ...