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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. ...

Check out this upcoming session with our CEO, Martina Grom, at Microsoft’s Ignite Conference 2016 in Atlanta: Ask us anything about Microsoft Office 365 Groups! https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/4098 CU there!

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 ...