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We are very happy to announce that our both CEO’s, Martina Grom, CEO of atwork.at, and Siegfried Jagott, CEO of atwork.de, have been reawarded with the Microsoft MVP Award! Martina and Sigi have expertise in Microsoft Office 365 and are recognized experts, book authors and conference speakers. See Martina’s MVP profile. Martina was awarded as Microsoft Regional Director as well in 2015 (see here and the new RD website) Martina (@magrom) is recognized as an expert in Microsoft Office Online Services solutions and was worldwide one of the first 8 Microsoft MVP’s awarded in 2011 for her expertise in Office 365. Martina is doing consulting companies on their way to the cloud. Her expertise is related to online technologies especially in Microsoft cloud services with Azure and Office 365. She helps companies in architecture planning toward cloud solutions. Martina has authored numerous books, articles and blogs and is a well known conference speaker. See Martina’s about page. ...

Check out the sessions of Technical Summit 2016 in Darmstadt here! All sessions are online now at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/microsoft-techncial-summit/Technical-Summit-2016 Find the sessions by atwork on channel9 here: Martina Grom Toni Pohl Siegfried Jagott Christoph Wilfing Enjoy!

After part 1, we now look into the app side of our Excel solution. I want to point out some basics here to make it easy for developers to create their first Office App (with Excel). Here we go. Working with the API To easily access the Excel or Word functions with JavasScript, Microsoft provides an object with an anonymous function and a context (*ctx *here) as parameter. So, accessing Excel works basically as here: ...

Sometimes, it’s the small things that cost (unnecessarily) time. Recently, I wanted to create a quick Office App for an existing Excel file to loop through rows and do some transformation for the values. I was stumbling over some topics when developing in real world. So here’s my short How To for working with Visual Studio and Office Apps with helpful tips. Set the start document If you are not used to develop Office Apps often, this maybe isn’t easy to find: How to set an existing document as start file. ...

Today, just a short info for Azure Active Directory guys: #AzureAD PowerShell V2.0 is now GA! In this blogpost, Alex Simons and Rob de Jong inform that the PowerShell Azure AD v2.0 cmdlets are now generally available (GA). See the details at the Technet Blog and at Azure Active Directory V2 PowerShell Module - General Availability Release 2.0.0.33. Prerequisites Azure Active Directory V2 PowerShell Module can be installed on Windows starting with versions of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and up. ...

The next Microsoft BUILD conference will be held from May 10th to 12th 2017, this time no longer in San Francisco, but in Seattle. It seems Microsoft wants to simplify their organization, so they now pick the region of their headquarter. See https://build.microsoft.com/ CU there!

Oh, Microsoft is rebranding it’s events: PDC became BUILD in 2011, TechEd became Ignite in 2015 and in 2017, WPC becomes Inspire! The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) now will be named Microsoft Inspire, while the content and targets will stay the same: Connect Microsoft Partners worldwide. Microsoft states: “Microsoft Inspire welcomes both active Microsoft partners and those seeking to partner with us. With a primarily executive audience, Microsoft Inspire is the ideal conference for business and channel leaders in SMB, Corporate Accounts and Enterprise markets.” ...

According to the principle “Technical Summit 2016: Mehr Technologie geht nicht”, this year’s Technical Summit 2016 is happening next week in Darmstadt, Germany. The event lasts from Tuesday, 6th to Wednesday, 7th of December with an optional additional workshop day on Thursday, 8th. This events features prominent Microsoft speakers as Scott Guthrie, Donovan Brown and more. We from atwork are pleased to be part of this event with four sessions! ...

Die Office-365-Experten von atwork haben zusammen mit namhaften MVPs (Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals) und Experten von Microsoft zwei Online-Kurse auf Basis der Lern-Plattform EdX entwickelt: Managing Microsoft Exchange Online in Office 365: Learn how to manage and configure Exchange Online in Office 365. Dieses Online-Training ist kostenlos verfügbar unter https://aka.ms/cld222. Onboarding Messaging to Office 365: Learn how to move your messaging system to Office 365 and how you can interact with the Microsoft FastTrack Center during your migration. Dieses Online-Training ist kostenlos verfügbar unter https://aka.ms/cld223. ...

Large tenants and many operations can produce large audit logs in Delegate365 since every operation and every sync jobs is protocolled. To optimize the logging and to offer export and further use of the operations data, the audit logging changes with this version. See the details here. Previous versions: Let’s have a look back into the logging in the past. In the early versions of Delegate365, the logging was done in a database which blew up the database (unnecessarily). So, with version 2, we changed the logging to simple text files in CSV format to make it very easy to work with the protocolled data, for example, in Microsoft Excel. This format is used up to Delegate365 version 5.x. ...