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Today, on 30th November 2013 from 9am - 5pm GMT, there was the first Online Office 365 Saturday event in the world – as virtual event via Lync! Experts informed in one-hour sessions about Microsoft Office 365 technologies and how Office 365 can be used to deliver world-class communications, collaboration, and social solutions. There were 4 different tracks to choose from: Exchange Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/71JFFW9P Mix & Match Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/8Q1SB8C7 SharePoint Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/CG999QY5 Office 365 Developer Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/T3935V21 ...

This week, on November 27th to 28th, SPC Adriatics conference took place in Zagreb, Croatia, see spcadriatics.com. It was the second SPC Adriatics conference with the motto “Back to business” and about 200 participants from Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Germany. The SharePoint conference #spcadriatics offered 40 sessions with 30 international speakers, most of them Microsoft MVPs, even from the US. As last year we were also proud to be part of the conference 2013 with two sessions. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 1.3 October 2013 Added some reports for testing (only available in special customer versions). Fixed some small issues with CSS and the “Select all”-funtion in Javascript. November 2013 Switched delegate365.com website to a new CMS in Windows Azure and added a version for german to the existing english version.

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Update: IT/DevConnections conference is over. For us, @magrom and @atwork, it was a great conference, we enjoyed it very much to be part of it! To get an impression of the trending topics in Social Media see this Twitter Analytics for #devconnections! We updated this analytics today to get a final resultset. By now (Friday, 2:30pm) there were 1.022 tweets and 744 retweets, in total almost 2.000 tweets. The Top Hashtags (besides #devconnections) were: #sharepoint, #powershell (@mminasi did well ), #sqlserver, #msexchange, #xamarin, #office365 (glad it´s in the top list), #office and #sqlconnections. ...

We hope you liked our session at IT/DevConnections 2013 in Las Vegas! Our session was about “How to (Remote) Control Office 365 with Windows Azure”. Here´s the abstract: With the new version of Office 365 developers have new possibilities for integration and automation. Companies are able to automate business processes with Office 365 APIs and PowerShell. They are able to control the cloud as they wish. In this session, we will show you a demo scenario in which we automate Office 365 with Windows Azure. You can see how to control and automate Office 365 with the magic of Web technologies and Visual Studio. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 1.2 August 2013 Added an overview about licenses per region (OU) into the dashboard. User license: Fixed a Javascript error when selecting all licenses. September 2013 Added a simple license management: Now the portal admin can define custom names for the available licenses, f.e. “External workers licenses” instead of “Exchangedeskless”. Portal Admin can define which OU gets what license and limit to a number of maximum licenses. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 1.1 July 2013 New function “distribution lists” integrated for testing. Changed portal colors to blue. Added new validation for fields. If a field is missing or not correctly formatted now a red popup with a message opens directly beside the field.

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. ...