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Gestern fand das erste Treffen des Azure Meetup Vienna statt. In dieser Gruppe geht es um Wissensvermittlung und den Erfahrungsaustausch zu Microsoft Azure für IT Pros, Entwickler und Entscheider mit Themen aus der Community. Die Meetup.com Website bietet die Online-Plattform zu den regelmäig geplanten Treffen: Azure Meetup Vienna Wir haben einige Snapshots vom Event auf der Event-Website hinzugefügt… Alle Details zur Azure Meetup Vienna Gruppe, den Terminen, Themen und allem organisatorischen Rundherum findet ihr auf der Meetup.com Website. ...

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/.

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!

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. ...

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! ...

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! ...

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!

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 ...

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. ...

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) ...