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This is part 1 of our changelog for our product Delegate 365. The purpose is to provide a web-portal for delegating administrative tasks for Microsoft Office 365 customers to ease managing tasks within a company or organization. The situation in larger companies as well as in educational services (with maybe thousands of email-accounts) is that a global administrator or the central IT-departement has a lot of work in performing basic tasks like creating and updating email-accounts and assigning rights for users. In the Office 365 portal there exist roles, but all administrative roles always have access to all users – not only groups of users. ...

PowerShell is your friend in any operations where more than 5 Users are involved in Office 365. You can do a lot there: changing Password policies, set user locations, assign licenses and a lot more. In this post I’ll show you how you can change license assignments from a selected user group within Office 365. This is useful for example in current Live@Edu Migrations or when a specified group of users has to change their license assignments and all other users need to stay untouched. ...

Anybody who knows me in person is aware that I am a very Microsoft committed person. As a Microsoft Office 365 MVP I use Microsoft technology day in day out with some high effort towards public cloud services. But that does not mean that I use any Microsoft device: my all day laptop is a 11’’ MacBook Air with Windows 8 on it and I used an iPhone since 2009. The MacBook Air is always good for starting conversations in front of presentations or talks to customers. The iPhone was a nice new gadget in 2009 and I stayed with it over the last years, buying the iPhone 3, the iPhone 3s, the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4s. ...

This week European SharePoint Conference #espc13 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. ESPC is the largest SharePoint Conference in Europe, with more than 1.400 people attendees. The conference was located in Bella Center, Scandinavia´s biggest exhibition and conference centre. For most attendees it was very convenient to stay in Bella Sky Comwell Hotel, a brand new design hotel which is part of the conference complex. Bella Center is about 10 minutes away from CPH airport and also about 10 to 15 minutes away from the city of Copenhagen, connected with the Metro. ...

Are you a current Microsoft MVP working with Windows Azure? If yes: Did you know, you can obtain a free Not-For-Resale license for the Cerebrata tools Cloud Storage Studio 2, Azure Diagnostics Manager 2 and Azure Management Cmdlets? Just visit www.cerebrata.com/Offers/MVP.aspx and contact Luke Jefferson. Thanks Cerebrata for this service to the MVP-community!

I am an Ultrabook Fan: Ultrabooks are small, lightweight and easy to handle. You need a lot of adapters (which have some weight too) and Ultrabooks can be used as a permanent working device. On my Ultrabook I am able to test how Office 2011 works together with Office 365. All in all a lot of advantages. My Ultrabook is the “I am a PC” Version: I use Windows on a separate Partition and have included a second Windows 7 Installation via VHD-boot. Both Windows Installations are present via Bootloader and I can choose between them. ...

There was a lot of amusement in the community about Siri and the answer to “What is the best smartphone ever”? The answer is simple and amusing: Nokia’s Lumia 900 is the best smartphone ever, according to Siri. I tried to reproduce the behavior with my Apple iPhone 4S and played around with some questions and Siri answered to them. The answer to exactly that question depends on one fact: the word “ever”. ...

Find a cool article about Developing Windows Azure, Cloud-Based Applications With Windows 8-What you need and how to get there in Bruno Terkaly´s msdn-blog! His tips: Use VS2010 + Azure SDK 1.6 (Visual Studio 2011 does not yet support the Azure SDK and tooling) parallel with VS11 Beta and SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with SP1. And Windows 8 of course.

In this blogpost I will describe a solution for IT Administrators with the following situation: You are unable to receive E-Mails in your Office 365 account, senders receive a NDR (non delivery report). The NDR says: The following organization rejected your message: CH1EHSMHS012.bigfish.com. Diagnostic information for administrators: Generating server: bigfish.com martina.grom@mydomain.com CH1EHSMHS012.bigfish.com #<CH1EHSMHS012.bigfish.com #5.4.6 smtp;554 5.4.6 Hop count exceeded - possible mail loop> #SMTP# ...

@magrom and me, @atwork, had a great time at MVP 12 summit in Redmond! We met a lot of great people and had a lot of fun! We created a photo mosaic from our photos and photos of some other MVPs. MVP12 summit photo mosaic Our photo mosaic of #mvp12 summit made it into “What’s new in the Microsoft MVPs world”. Also there is some traffic with really nice tweets about our mosaic… thx! ...