Azure Services at a glance

See this helpful overview of Microsoft Azure services provided by the Microsoft Azure team: https://azureplatform.azurewebsites.net/en-us/ When opening a service, you get details with documentation, pricing, limits, SLA, code samples and more. Cool and helpful!

August 24, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Yammer and the picture quality

Yammer and the picture quality

When using Yammer, it’s obvious, that uploaded pictures are shown with a reduced quality. Yammer does automatically scale and reduce pictures to make them more web compatible. But Yammer still has the source picture stored! To illustrate this behavior with a sample, see (and enlarge) this picture. It’s a screenshot taken from a Windows machine and the Registry Editor. The items do have poor quality and are not good readable and pixilated. ...

August 22, 2016 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
PowerShell, welcome to Linux!

PowerShell, welcome to Linux!

As Jeffrey Snover ,Technical Fellow at Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Group, announced recently, PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux! It’s interesting to see that PowerShell - as a command-line shell and scripting language which is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework – now is available on Linux. This is possible because of the new .NET Core system running on Linux. In our modern times, when “Microsoft loves Linux”, such things are possible – and seem logical! ...

August 19, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl

SharePoint Framework Developer Preview Release is here

After the announcement on May 4th at the Future of SharePoint event, now the first public developer preview of the SharePoint Framework is available. The SharePoint Framework enables developers to build client-side web parts using “modern script development tools” – this means Javascript and related web components and tools. The new SharePoint Workbench allows developers to test and deploy client-side web even offline! Read the details in the Office Dev Center in SharePoint Framework Developer Preview Release! ...

August 18, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl

Announcing Visual Studio Code Intro Videos

Today, Microsoft released some new videos explaining coding with the cost free Visual Studio Code environment. See the blog post in the code.visualstudio.com/docs project: Announcing Intro Videos. See the Intro Videos - Overview with the first six videos to get started. Check out Setup and Basics of VS Code. Happy coding!

August 15, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Monitoring and Reporting of Office 365 with OMS-Part 1

Monitoring and Reporting of Office 365 with OMS-Part 1

The Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) delivers a great way to collect, analyze and monitor computer systems and services in your cloud and on-premises environments. Data is collected through agents and is saved to the OMS repository for further analysis. See here how this works for monitoring and reporting for Microsoft Office 365! If OMS is new to you, check out the description of OMS in What is Log Analytics?. If you want to learn more details and proceed step by step, check out this article Get started with Log Analytics ...

August 14, 2016 · 3 min · Martina Grom
Goodbye, Azure RemoteApp

Goodbye, Azure RemoteApp

Well, actually I liked the idea of streaming apps with Azure RemoteApps. Now Microsoft decided to discontinue RemoteApps. Read the details here. Application remoting and the Cloud New tests and the purchase of the Azure RemoteApp service are no longer possible. “Azure RemoteApp is being discontinued. The trial period for subscription *** expired on ‎13‎.‎08‎.‎2016 and can no longer access Azure RemoteApp. Click here for more information.” Existing Azure RemoteApp customers can use the service through August 31st, 2017. ...

August 13, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl

Check out the Microsoft Trust Center, the EU Model clause and more

Do you plan to use Microsoft’s cloud services? See how data is secured and what mechanisms and certifications are used to fulfill organization’s need for compliance. Check out the https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trustcenter/Compliance Filter by services to see the corresponding certifications and a describing article about the specific meaning. For example, see the EU Model clause here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Compliance/EU-Model-Clauses On that Microsoft Trust Center webpage ther are also direct links: Trusted Cloud: Microsoft Azure Security, Privacy, and Compliance (1.7MB, PDF) ...

August 10, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl

Get the Windows 10 Anniversary Update

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): ...

August 5, 2016 · 1 min · Toni Pohl

Monaco Editor in eigene Web-Apps integrieren

Visual Studio Code verwendet ihn. Und man kann ihn auch selbst in eigenen Projekten verwenden: Den unglaublich coolen Monaco-Editor! Dieser Editor ist ein browser-basierter Code Editor, mit IntelliSense für JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, Less, Sass, C# und TypeScript Support und vielem mehr. Und er kann in eigenen Web-Apps verwendet werden. Eine detaillierte Beschreibung des Monaco-Editors ist unter (Visual Studio Code) Editing Evolved vorhanden. Hier werden die coolen Features des Editors und Tipps und Tastenkombinationen beschrieben. ...

August 5, 2016 · 2 min · Toni Pohl