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Recently, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Regional Directors website at rd.microsoft.com. Finally! Our CEO, Martina Grom, was awarded as Regional Director in 2015, see here. So we are more than happy that there’s now a place where Microsoft informs officially about the Regional Director program. Check it out at rd.microsoft.com. Since it’s not well known, what the Regional Director award is about, there’s a FAQ list at rd.microsoft.com/FAQ. The most frequently asked questions are, if Regional Directors (RD’s) are employed by Microsoft, how they are selected or if they are also MVP. The FAQ’s answer these questions clearly, see the statements summarized here: ...

Project managers and IT personnel, pls. see this animated GIF about “How long it takes to complete a task”. Source: https://www.robbomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/tasks.gif Thx, @adisjugo for that post! Awesome!

Last week, our third IT/DevConnections conference took place in Las Vegas. We had the pleasure to have several sessions there. The IT/DevConnections conference took place from 10th to 13th of October in the luxurious Aria resort that is located right in the middle of the famous Las Vegas strip. That’s a very cool location for obtaining KnowHow transfer during the day and enjoying the nightlife of Vegas. Besides the networking at the conference, there were social events and parties. ...

It has been a busy week when we’ve been at Microsoft Ignite conference 2016 which took place in Atlanta from 26th to 30th September. This was Microsoft’s second Ignite conference (the first one happened in Chicago in May 2015, see here) with more than 20.000 people attending and more than 1.000 sessions. For us, it was our first time in the US South (in Georgia) and we enjoyed it very much. ...

We at atwork are now official Microsoft Authorized Education Partner (AEP). The AEP program authorizes atwork to purchase and re-sell academic priced products to Qualified Educational Users. Microsoft informs about the details on https://www.mepn.com/MEPN/AEPHome.aspx. The short description reads as follows: The AEP program authorizes partners to purchase and re-sell academic priced products to Qualified Educational Users. The program is designed to increase customer and partner satisfaction and to improve communication and service to our partners with a standard set of terms and conditions, improved training, and new resources and tools to keep the channel informed with up to date information on new products and events, in addition to guarding against channel miss-selling of academic licensing. ...

Today Microsoft announced that Microsoft Accounts “MSA” (formerly known as “Live-ID”) no longer can be created with a work email address. That’s important for millions of users. What does this mean? Well, this article Cleaning up the #AzureAD and Microsoft account overlap explains all the details: “Starting today, we’re blocking the ability to create a new personal Microsoft account using a work/school email address, when the email domain is configured in Azure AD.” ...

Want to check the status of your notebook battery? Well, Christoph Wilfing showed me how this works in Windows: C:\Windows\system32>powercfg /batteryreport Battery life report saved to C:\Windows\system32\battery-report.html. C:\Windows\system32>start battery-report.html The output is an HTML file with all detailed information: … … … My notebook is about 1.5 years old (with a firmware about 1 year old). The report says, the battery (which is about 3 years old ) is still in a good shape: ~81.000 mWh full charge capacity for 94.480 mWh design capacity. ...

Finally, we updated our new team photo on our Azure Active Directory (Office 365) login page… The latest and colorful atwork team picture. Here it is… Unfortunately, not all our coworkers are on that picture, but it’s a nice snapshot. For information about our company, pls. check out our website https://www.atwork-it.com/.

Your PC does not show the latest updates/Windows 10 Anniversary Update? Well, have a look here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Hint: This update process does not work for Windows 10 Enterprise editions. When running the downloaded Windows10Upgrade9252.exe… Update: Check your current version of Windows with the winver command in the Command Prompt. Check out this article about latest info and getting the Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 (Windows Anniversary Update): ...

Wir haben unsere Tankstellen-Abrechnungslösung Topas und Topas Plus seit bereits fast zwei Jahrzehnten im Programm. Wir bedauern mitzuteilen, dass wir das Produkt mit Jahresende (31.12.2016) auf “end of support” setzen. Topas Plus ist eine Software-Lösung, welche die Abrechnung von Tankstellen ermöglicht und automatisiert. Topas ist ein umfangreiches, anpassbares Softwareprodukt, mit dem Benutzer schnell auf wichtige Geschäftsinformationen innerhalb eines Unternehmens zugreifen können. Es integriert Kundendaten, Tanklagerverwaltung, Belegverwaltung, Tankstellenverwaltung sowie Produktmanagement in einer Applikation. Die Software läuft unter Windows und bietet verschiedene Module, die per Lizenzkey freigeschaltet werden können. ...