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Today’s tip is a quick one: If you have licensed mailboxes you only need as additional E-Mail addresses with a separate E-Mail address you can think about converting them to shared mailboxes. Shared Mailboxes have 10GB free storage and there are no additional license costs. Setting the appropriate rights to the shared mailbox they will also automatically show up in Outlook. If you want to convert one of your licensed mailboxes to a shared mailbox you can do that with PowerShell. ...

Have you seen it? Now it´s possible to *delete *Azure Active Directories from the Azure Portal! Just discovered this (long expected) feature shortly. Just an important information about deleting… When selecting an AD (mark the corresponding line right of the name…) and clicking the “Delete”-button… you maybe get a message like: *The following issue(s) prevent deletion of this directory: - Directory has one or more Multi-Factor Authentication providers. You are signed in as a user for whom ‘*.onmicrosoft.com’ is the home directory Directory is a “Partner” directory. Directory has never had an Azure subscription. Directory has one or more subscriptions to Microsoft Online Services. Directory has one or more applications. Directory has one or more applications. Delete all users except yourself ...

Right now Microsoft TechEd 2014 is happening in Houston, Texas. Tools-Maker Telerik is also celebrating this event and gives away their best tools for creating Windows Universal Apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Interested Developers open https://www.telerik.com/account/teched.aspx, register (or use your existing telerik account) and claim a license for the Telerik tools. The campaign runs till end of TechEd 2014 (till May 15th), so be quick! When Telerik launches the tools officially, all license holders will be upgraded automatically. ...

Last week European SharePoint Conference 2014 took place in Barcelona. Time to recap mentions of the SharePoint event on Twitter (hashtag #ESPC14). Here are the results by 11th May, 21:30 made with Twitter Analytics for Excel (which @magrom also showed in her session PowerBI and SharePoint Online). In this week there were more than 4.300 tweets sent, about 40% (1.700) of them were retweets. The top tweet-days were Wednesday followed by Tuesday and Thursday with average 1.200 tweets daily in these three days. (Click on the graphics to increase them.) ...

European SharePoint Conference took place in Barcleona this year. After last year in February in Copenhagen now it´s time for sunny Catalonia in May for Sun, Sea, Sand and SharePoint! Many attendees used this opportunitiy for combining business with some holidays in these attractive location (see some tips here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, … after the top x lists there are so many things to see and to enjoy…). As last year, Martina (@magrom) had two sessions. ...

Last weekend SharePoint Saturday Belgium #SPSBE took place in a suburb of Brussels, see https://www.spsevents.org/city/Brussels/Brussels2014/home. It was the 4th SPS in Belgium and the SharePoint community met for exchanging knowledge … and having a fun and a great event. We from atwork (@magrom and @atwork) were happy to be part of SPSBE and had a great weekend in Brussels (which was in fact our first time in Belgium which was awesome). About 250 participants followed the invitation to the community event which occured in St-Lendriksborre at the location of Xylos, one of the main sponsors for SPSBE. ...

Some days ago Martina found an interesting blog post with a provocative title: “Is Microsoft serious about going social with Yammer?” The blog post was published on https://www.allthingsic.com/virpi/ by Rachel Miller. It goes on rich in images.… Nice reading about the sense of the universe, ah, enterprise social!

We wrote a White Paper for Delegate 365 with general product information and features. You can download the document in PDF or in Word format directly from here: https://atwork.at/download/Delegate365-Whitepaper.pdf (526KB) https://atwork.at/download/Delegate365-Whitepaper.docx (120KB) About: Delegate365 is a simple to use, web based portal for delegated user and license management in Microsoft Office 365. Delegate 365 adds functionality on top of Office 365 and works as an Add-On. Delegate 365 and Office 365 work absolutely together, in cloud only scenarios as well as in hybrid configurations. ...

The Expert, A Hilarious Sketch About the Pain of Being the Only Engineer in a Business Meeting by laughingsquid.com. … perfectly illustrated in the comedy sketch, “The Expert.”. Found somewhere in Social Media. Simply great…! Enjoy!

We from atwork (@magrom and @atwork) had a busy time in the last three weeks. We attended some events in Europe and America and were traveling a little bit… With so many interesting events we created some Twitter reports with Twitter Analytics for Excel 2013, see the main reports here. #COD14 At the end of march, from 21 to 22th, we have been in Berlin at Community Open Day 14 #cod14. COD is a Microsoft internal event organized by Microsoft Germany for community leaders (members of the CLIP and MVP program) and took place at the new Microsoft Office in Berlin, at a very noble address Unter den Linden with more than 100 participants. Had a great time meeting all our pals from Germany, Austria and Switzerland! See some Twitter statistics here (click on the images to enlarge). ...