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Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella is currently on Europe tour and announced a number of investments in the Microsoft Cloud in Europe. Microsoft will extend regional hubs in Ireland and in the Netherlands and announced new datacenters in the UK and in Germany. Find more information about the UK plans here: Microsoft announces plans to offer cloud services from the UK. In Germany, Deutsche Telecom as Data Trustee under German law will be operating the German datacenters. This (data will not be saved and transported outside of Germany) was a request a lot of German customers had in the Microsoft cloud – and Microsoft reacted. The Microsoft Cloud in Germany will be available during the second half of 2016. ...

Delegate365 will be updated to version 4.5.3 this Friday. In this version resource mailboxes receive a new feature for controlling the AllRequestOutOfPolicy property (a feature the Office 365 portal does not provide). The AllRequestOutOfPolicy setting: When using resources like a room, there can be an issue with reservation: “Office 365 users can reserve a meeting room even though it’s already reserved for another meeting”. Microsoft describes this issue in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3066068. This resource mailbox property cannot be set in the Office 365 portal, just with PowerShell – and with Delegate365 for portal admins and scope admins as well. ...

Am Donnerstag hat die dritte Veranstaltung aus unserer Office 365 Pills Roadshow in Wien im Seminarzentrum der ETC stattgefunden. Das Thema war “Hybrid in die Cloud”. In kurzen Sessions informierten Toni Pohl, Christoph Wilfing, Christian Lapacka und Dennis Hobmaier (AvePoint) und Martina Grom über Office 365 Identitätsmanagement, Application Management, Exchange 2013 und 2016 Hybrid, SharePoint 2016 Hybrid und AvePoint Tools sowie über Office Pro Plus Deployment. Die Pills#3 Veranstaltungsdetails sind hier anzusehen. Rund 30 Teilnehmer folgten der Einladung zum kostenfreien Event am Donnerstag Nachmittag und Abend und es war aus meiner Sicht eine sehr entspannte Veranstaltung. ...

Today’s a quick tip: Get some more space on you local hard drive by deleting unused space of OneDrive For Business Synchronization. Navigate to your user directory and in the Microsoft Office version directory in Windows Explorer. The path is (for Office 2016 – otherwise use your installed Office version directory): C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\16.0 …check the size of the “OfficeFileCache.old” directory (which is 3GB in my case)… …and delete this directory. That’s it. ...

With Delegate365 version 4.5.2 there come some improvements. See the details here. Sorting in all Lists: We changed the sorting in all lists of D365. Before that, sorting only sorted all visible items on the current page in the list. If a user now clicks on a sortable column header, D365 now sorts all items in the list - regardless on which page the entry is. The following screenshot shows the behavior: In this user list there are two pages. If the Admin clicks on the column “Display Name”, all items are sorted. If the sort order is descending like here, we see the last item “Zack Kelly”, even if this user actually was on page two. So, now D365 sorts all items (server side) in any list and no longer just the items on the current page (client side). This behavior now delivers the results a user would expect of the sorting. All lists have been updated in D365 and now use this new sorting method. Besides: Also Search is searching all entries in lists! ...

Manchmal bekommt man vor lauter Arbeit gar nicht alles mit, was in der eigenen Firma so alles passiert… etwa heute, als ich einen Newsletter von Microsoft erhalten habe, wo unsere Martina wieder einen neuen Webcast zum Thema “Identität in der Wolke - Azure Active Directory” hält. Der Webcast findet am 27, November, von 9:00 bis 10:00 Uhr, statt. Hier gehts zur Anmeldung. In dem Webinar geht es um Identity Management mit AAD und allem, was dazugehört. ...

This week unityConnect, the SharePoint and Office 365 conference, took place in Amsterdam. The speaker lineup was amazing and the content team did a great job. We asked Twitter about some numbers of this event. See it here! There have been around 400 attendees and a lot of well known experts at the three day event at “The Meervaat” near Amsterdam downtown. unityConnect is considered to be one of the premier SharePoint and Office 365 technical training events in Europe and offered more than 50 sessions with great speakers from Microsoft and from the industry. ...

Der beste Einstiegspunkt für die Entwicklung mit Office 365 ist dev.office.com. Developer können hier gleich unter https://dev.office.com/devprogram am “Office 365 Dev Program” teilnehmen und einen kostenfreien Office 365 Abonnement für ein ganzes Jahr eröffnen! Die Website fasst auch die wichtigsten Ressourcen zusammen: Das Office 365 Network ist das Yammer-Network mit tausenden Teilnehmern (MSDN-Foren gibt es aber nach wie vor), das Office Dev Center Blog informiert über Neuigkeiten und in Uservoice.com kann Feedback zu einzelnen Funktionen und Wünsche abgegeben werden. ...

This week, from 7th to 8th October, the collab365.event happened as Online Event. Martina and I were honored to be part of that great virtual event! We hope you liked our sessions No more SPO Public Websites. What´s next?, How to (remote) control Office 365 with Microsoft Azure and Who needs Yammer – we have SharePoint! Thanks a lot for your particpiation and your feedback! Today, Sunday at 12:00pm, I made a statistics about the Twitter hashtag #collab365. See the results here! ...

We will update Delegate365 to version 4.5.1 shortly. In this version a fix was made in the resources, “booking delegates” feature. Thanks to Henry K. for reporting this issue! The issue: In Office 365 resource mailboxes “Booking delegates” had an other status than in Delegate365, depending in which way they were created or when they were updated. Analysis: Let’s have a look in the Office 365 / Exchange Admin Center regarding this feature: ...