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Check out the new prices of Microsoft Azure services valid by 1st of October 2014: Azure pricing updates Here we go…

Last week the IT DevConnections conference took place in the cool location of Aria resort in Las Vegas with about 1.400 attendees. As every successful conference is also present in Social Media we collected data from Twitter and publish some summary statistic of the the event - as we did for devconnections 2013 last year. The timeframe of the reporting is Sun, 14th to 22th of September – so we covered the whole last (conference) week with hashtag #devconnections. So, here we go. Click on the graphics to enlarge them. ...

Last week we from atwork (@magrom and @atwork) have been part of IT DevConnections conference which took place in fabulous Las Vegas. It was our second year at DevConnections. Last year we´ve been in the developer track, this year we had two sessions in the SharePoint track. Since we´re deep in Office 365 consulting and development this conference is a great get-together - and, it was in hot and sunny Las Vegas! ...

This week the IT DevConnections conference takes place in fabolous Las Vegas. This is the second year where we from atwork were part of this great conference. Meeting experts and colleagues from all over the world makes this event exceptional – and, it´s in hot and sunny Las Vegas! Since we´re very deep in cloud services, our two session informed about or Top-10 list of Office 365 features and PowerBI with SharePoint Online. Here are the links to the session descriptions and to the slides on Slideshare.net. Here you find all links to more resources from our sessions. ...

In Delegate365 version 2.7 there were some minor fixes rolled out. Style Sheets and client messages were updated. The user import with an CSV file had a problem with updating the new imported users in the users list. Since D365 uses a cache layer for user objects to improve performance since version 2.3 the new users didn´t show up immediately after the file import but after the automatic sync task (which runs in the background in a predefined time frame). With this fix the new importet users now show up immediately in the users list. ...

Visualizations are important to understand context and size. Here are some samples of interesting data! Map Shows All The Devices In The World Connected To The Internet and… 6 maps that explain global supply chains …like this ones… Thx to the tweets of @magrom and @JohnBerry!

In Office 365 SharePoint Online all users of an Office 365 tenant are visible in the people picker. But for end users this often does not make sense… Use the people picker So if your type a person´s name in any people picker in SPO the system shows a list of all users known to the system. Pick the desired one and the user object id is used for the field or property. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 2.6. We internally changed the encryption of stored credentials and extended it to protect all custom values. D365 uses an own Service Account for accessing and transferring user data to Azure Active Directory. For Exchange functionality like Alias email addresses or distribution lists as well as reporting data D365 needs additional credentials. These essential data must be stored in a secure way. To ensure safety in D365 we changed the encryption and extended it to all properties stored in the D365 database with version 2.6. Now all custom config values (even fields like company name, address, phone number, etc.) are encrypted with an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. ...

Bloggers who like to use their blog in a very simple way might be interested in https://blot.im/. “Blot is the simplest way to blog.” There´s no interface, just use Dropbox and upload text files. Blot uses these files and shows them in the web in a nice and clean web-interface. Depending on the audience and the formatting requirements Blot can be an alternative. Directly on the Blot website there´s a YouTube video embedded which shows how it works. ...

Probably you’ve seen a lot of photos and videos this week of celebrities and other well known business people dumping buckets of ice water over their heads. Here’s why and how we participated in it. The #IceBucketChallenge is about raising money and awareness for a disease called “ALS” (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) which is a motor neurone disease. The rules of the challenge: To accept a person has to dump a bucket of ice water over his head within the next 24 hours or donate money (usually $100) toward fighting ALS. Even if a person completes the challenge, they’re welcome to donate money too – actually everybody is most welcome to make a donation at https://www.alsa.org. After the ice water dumping nominate three other persons! ...