We are pleased that the first three parts of our 4-part series “Identity in your own apps with Windows Azure Active Directory” are online by now in the official Microsoft MVP Blog. The article series is about using Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) in your own scenarios and applications, how to create an ASP.NET solution with authenticating against WAAD, managing the Active Directory, using the API and working with the cloud. ...
Office 365 offers already a lot of build-in Reports for the various Services within Office 365. You can find those Reports in the Admin Dashboard and the menuitem Reports. Office 365 Administrators can look at those Reports. Please be aware that those reports are visible if you have at least one Exchange Online license within your account (Thanks Erwin B. from MS Support for helping me figure this out). ...
According to the blog post Update on InfoPath and SharePoint Forms by the Microsoft Office Team which was released of today, InfoPath and SharePoint forms will not be continued in upcoming new versions of SharePoint Server. “This means that InfoPath 2013 is the last release of the desktop client, and InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Server 2013 is the last release of InfoPath Forms Services. The InfoPath Forms Services technology within Office 365 will be maintained and it will function until further notice.” ...
Are you a web developer and working with jQuery library? Have a look at the list of detechter.com with 29 jQuery links for new and pro! BTW: Helpful Content Delivery Network (CDN) Links, see https://jquery.com/download/: Google CDN Microsoft CDN CDNJS CDN You find all available files and version here: https://code.jquery.com/
Are you working with many Microsoft Accounts? Well, I do. In our company we have tons of Microsoft Accounts (former: Live-ID). Of course we use Microsoft Accounts in all our Windows 8.1 clients, we use some for testing with Outlook and using Skydrive, some for Windows Store Apps, for Phone Store Apps (which Microsoft reunited into one Store Account for Developers at last), for Windows Azure (finally you can use organizational accounts - which are Active Directory users - since fall – before that you needed a Microsoft Account…) and so on. ...
Delegate365 changelog version 2. December 2013/January 2014 Order license: Added filter so only license types of your OU´s are visbile. Fixed. Switched to version 2 because of support for federated domains and users. The support works in the same way as in the Office 365 portal. Starting with version 2 of Delegate 365 synced domains and users are visible and group and license memberships are manageable. In Delegate365 the administrator can assign users to security groups and change the Office 365 licenses but cannot modify the user object itself because it´s managed in a local federated Active Directory. Windows Azure Active Directory handles federated objects differently, so these objects are no “full” objects which can be read but not changed. ...
Employees of Microsoft India developed a safety app for Windows Phone called “Guardian”. Microsoft launches a new safety app for Windows Phone dubbed Guardian Guardian covers all the features you would want in a safety app: SOS calls and SMS, Locate me and so on. See all features in the source article. Download the app here: Guardian – Windows Phone Store
A great blog post about the often seen relationship between developers and users by Pinal Dave: blog.sqlauthority.com: Developer – Nine Things Developers Hate to Hear How users often see the programmers: as aliens from another universe. How programmers often see the users: as horde of stone-age man. Great stuff – read the enumerations carefully.
During the holidays I stumbled about Hyper-V and importing an exported virtual machine from Hyper-V 2008 R2 to Hyper-V 2012. Well, of course, exporting, copying the files onto the new host machine and importing. Sounds easy – and how it´s supposed to work - but the Hyper-V 2012 says “There´s no spoon virtual machine to import”! The Import Wizard error message says: “Hyper-V did not find virtual machines to import from location “”.” ...
Web Platform Installer (WPI) is awesome. You get the installer as download from https://www.microsoft.com/web/ . WPI enables the installation of a server feature or a ready-to-use product with some mouse clicks! If you want to install a product like f.e. Umbraco CMS, WPI installs all the necessary components on your local machine. Well, that´s great. But – if you need SQL Server – maybe you already have an extra machine for your databases? ...