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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. ...

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. ...