When using SQL Databases in Microsoft Azure you´re self responsible for backups. Of course, usually the SQl Azure database cluster takes care of availability – but what if an app deletes records, or you need an older consistent version of a database or you want to work with the data on your local system or in your company´s network? This article shows how to create manual and automated backups and restore them locally or in the cloud. ...
Achtung, SharePoint Developer: Das Office Team hat bekanntgegeben, dass AutoHosted Apps in naher Zukunft nicht mehr möglich sind, siehe Update on Autohosted Apps Preview program. Die “Office 365 Autohosted Apps experience” ist ein Service aus der Preview von SharePoint 2013, welches nun mit 30. Juni 2014 eingestellt wird. Danach sind keine AutoHosted Apps mehr möglich. Anstelle der AutoHosted Apps treten die Provider-Hosted Apps. Apps, die derzeit im AutoHosted Service laufen sind davon nicht betroffen und laufen weiter. Wenn sich für diese existierenden Apps etwas ändern sollte, wird das Office Team dies ebenso in seinem Blog blogs.office.com veröffentlichen. ...
Have you seen it? Now it´s possible to *delete *Azure Active Directories from the Azure Portal! Just discovered this (long expected) feature shortly. Just an important information about deleting… When selecting an AD (mark the corresponding line right of the name…) and clicking the “Delete”-button… you maybe get a message like: *The following issue(s) prevent deletion of this directory: - Directory has one or more Multi-Factor Authentication providers. You are signed in as a user for whom ‘*.onmicrosoft.com’ is the home directory Directory is a “Partner” directory. Directory has never had an Azure subscription. Directory has one or more subscriptions to Microsoft Online Services. Directory has one or more applications. Directory has one or more applications. Delete all users except yourself ...
Right now Microsoft TechEd 2014 is happening in Houston, Texas. Tools-Maker Telerik is also celebrating this event and gives away their best tools for creating Windows Universal Apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Interested Developers open https://www.telerik.com/account/teched.aspx, register (or use your existing telerik account) and claim a license for the Telerik tools. The campaign runs till end of TechEd 2014 (till May 15th), so be quick! When Telerik launches the tools officially, all license holders will be upgraded automatically. ...
Last week European SharePoint Conference 2014 took place in Barcelona. Time to recap mentions of the SharePoint event on Twitter (hashtag #ESPC14). Here are the results by 11th May, 21:30 made with Twitter Analytics for Excel (which @magrom also showed in her session PowerBI and SharePoint Online). In this week there were more than 4.300 tweets sent, about 40% (1.700) of them were retweets. The top tweet-days were Wednesday followed by Tuesday and Thursday with average 1.200 tweets daily in these three days. (Click on the graphics to increase them.) ...
European SharePoint Conference took place in Barcleona this year. After last year in February in Copenhagen now it´s time for sunny Catalonia in May for Sun, Sea, Sand and SharePoint! Many attendees used this opportunitiy for combining business with some holidays in these attractive location (see some tips here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, … after the top x lists there are so many things to see and to enjoy…). As last year, Martina (@magrom) had two sessions. ...
Vorsicht bei dem letzten Update KB2919355. Betreibt man seinen eigenen DNS Server unter Windows Server 2012 R2 und verwendet statt der Registry und AD Integration auf dem DNS Server Zonendateien kann es passieren, dass dieser nach dem Update nicht mehr startet, bzw. kurz nach dem Start sein Service wieder stoppt. Dies mussten wir leider selbst bei einem unserer DNS Server feststellen. Dank schneller Analyse (danke hier auch an meinen Kollegen ChristophW) konnten wir das Issue schnell identifizieren und mit einer Deinstallation des Updates funktioniert der DNS Server auch wieder. ...
Weiter geht es mit WebDeploy und einem sehr hilfreichen Open Source Tool zum Deploying von Websites nach Microsoft Azure: WAWSDeploy von David Ebbo, der selbst Dev Lead im Team von Windows Azure Web Sites ist. David hat ein kleines Tool geschrieben um Web Deploy (aka msdeploy) stark zu vereinfachen. Simple Azure Web Sites deployment David formuliert den Grund für sein WAWSDeploy-Tool so: “However, in some cases, I just need to deploy a bunch of files from my local machine with minimal fuss, and using git is overkill.” - und er hat völlig Recht. Nur zum Deploying von Websites ist Git Overkill – wenn dann n Versionen von der Website im Azure Git-Repository herumkugeln. Danke an Christoph Wille für den Tipp zum Tool! ...
Last weekend SharePoint Saturday Belgium #SPSBE took place in a suburb of Brussels, see https://www.spsevents.org/city/Brussels/Brussels2014/home. It was the 4th SPS in Belgium and the SharePoint community met for exchanging knowledge … and having a fun and a great event. We from atwork (@magrom and @atwork) were happy to be part of SPSBE and had a great weekend in Brussels (which was in fact our first time in Belgium which was awesome). About 250 participants followed the invitation to the community event which occured in St-Lendriksborre at the location of Xylos, one of the main sponsors for SPSBE. ...
Neben den neuen und umfangreichen Möglichkeiten Microsoft Azure zu automatisieren (Teil 1, 2, 3) bleiben natürlich auch ganz erprobte und einfache Mittel, Websites zu deployen: mit den guten, alten File Transfer Protocol. Dieser Weg ist vielfach bekannt und kann mit wenig Aufwand (da FTP ja in Windows eingebaut ist) verwendet werden, um verschiedene lokale Deployments zu verwenden. Per FTP Client Dazu wird zunächst von der existierenden Website das Publish Profile downgeloadet. Das heruntergeladene File (bei mir miniblog2.azurewebsites.net.PublishSettings) beinhaltet die relevanten Daten für die Web- und FTP-Verbindung – hier gelb markiert. ...