Microsoft365

In May Martina, I and our MVP colleague Sigi Jagott have been to Redmond and recorded some courses about Office 365 for Microsoft Virtual Academy. The recordings took two days for Martina and two days for Sigi. I had the pleasure to join Martina for the first day and two recordings. It’s quite an experience to come into the Microsoft Studio in Redmond Town Center and get a briefing about how it works, what to do (and what not to do). The recording was done and cutted by Danny who did a great job introducing us into the world of doing the webcasts. Many thanks for your patience and your support! ...

Delegate365 version 4.0.5 is out. The last automatic sync operations are now shown in the sync page and the lists show if objects are cloud or synced items. See the details here. Automatic Sync infos: For admins it’s essential to see when the last sync process was executed and if it the operations were successful. So we integrated a short history in the sync page showing the last 5 sync operations. Admins see when the automatic sync started and when it ended and if it finished successfully. As you can see the sync tries to use differential queries if possible to update only the changed objects quickly. As before Admins can run the manual Sync process anytime. ...

In Delegate365 version 4.0 we have made further improvements and some minor fixes. We introduced a new member picker with Auto-Suggest instead of the old dialog picker which now is accessible in the new Task Pane. The sync was updated to get the synced or cloud-information and some fixes for setting alias addresses and mailbox delegation. See the details here. New Member Picker: In all groups a new member picker came in. Members are managed by selecting the group and clicking “Manage Members” in the Task Pane like in this sample with a security group here. The usernames can be partly typed – one char is sufficient – and the Auto Suggest opens an shows all user names starting with that characters. The navigation can be done by mouse or with the cursor keys. Once the selection is made the admin still can remove items by clicking the “x” icon and the end of the users name or Apply the settings by clicking “Add”. The selected users are then added as members to that specific group. This concept was introduced in the administration / manage administrators page with version 3.9.5 (see here) and works now for all member pickers in D365: distribution groups, security groups, shared mailboxes and manage administrators (as before). ...

Windows 10 steht bereits in den Startlöchern, ebenso wie Visual Studio 2015, .Net 2016, Azure und vieles mehr. Das haben wir zum Anlass genommen, am 19. Juni 2015 ein kostenfreies Event zu organisieren, wo Developer die Neuigkeiten von der //Build aus San Francisco live präsentiert bekommen. Die Präsentationen werden von Microsoft MVP’s, Regional Directors und Microsoft Mitarbeitern gehalten, die entweder auf der //Build waren oder hautnah am Geschehen sind. Das Event ist kostenlos, aber die Plätze sind limitiert, deshalb bitte rasch anmelden! ...

The next version of Delegate365 is here! In Delegate365 version 3.9 we have even more cool features and improvements. The sync processes now offers a bunch of innovations for automatic assignments to Delegate365 OU’s and was unified with the automatic sync function. Another switch was implemented to prohibit Admins access to the user’s mailbox settings as well as the new options for branding Delegate365 with your company logo and themes and some more features. See the details here: ...

Windows 10 steht bereits in den Startlöchern, ebenso wie der Neue Windows Server, SCOM und OMS, Nano Server, Azure Stack, IoT und vieles mehr. Das haben wir zum Anlass genommen, am 19. Juni 2015 ein kostenfreies Event zu organisieren, wo IT Pro’s die Neuigkeiten von der Ignite aus Chicago live präsentiert bekommen. Die Präsentationen werden von Microsoft MVP’s, Regional Directors und Microsoft Mitarbeitern gehalten, die entweder auf der Ignite waren oder hautnah am Geschehen sind. Das Event ist kostenlos, aber die Plätze sind limitiert, deshalb bitte rasch anmelden! ...

We updated the product website Delegate365.com and implemented some improvements there to support interested parties to inform about Delegate365 and to open a trial. New Trial: We added added a new “Trial” button prominently to the menu to make it very easy to find the trial and to open a new evaluation version of Delegate365. The new form is also directly reachable with the URL https://delegate365.com/trial. In the trial form you just need to fill in your name, organization and company name. There’s also a field for optional additional comments – the same as before. After submitting the data with “Request Trial” we approve the request in the workflow and provision a new D365 tenant for you. This process may take up to one business day. ...

Rund um Sicherheit in Azure und Office 365 stellt Microsoft nun mehrere Webcast Termine im Mai und Juni 2015 bereit, wo alle Interessierten herzlich eingeladen sind, Fragen zu stellen und sich auszutauschen. Hier die Themenblöcke: Informationssicherheit in der Azure Cloud, Rainer Stropek, 22.05.2015. 09:00-10:00 Uhr Cloud Computing ist zu großen Teilen Vertrauenssache. Firmen, die sich für die Cloud entscheiden, legen größten Wert auf Eigenschaften wie Vertraulichkeit, Integrität, Verfügbarkeit, Nachvollziehbarkeit etc. In diesem Event geht Rainer Stropek, Azure MVP der ersten Stunde, darauf ein, welche Mechanismen die Microsoft Azure Cloud in Sachen Informationssicherheit mitbringt. Das Thema wird sowohl organisatorisch als auch technisch behandelt. Kenntnisse über Microsoft Azure setzt Rainer keine voraus. Ein gewisses, grundlegendes Verständnis über die Prinzipien von Cloud Computing wäre allerdings von Vorteil. ...

We had a great time at SharePoint Saturday Paris (www.spsevents.org/city/Paris/Paris2015)! Thanks a lot to the organizers Benoit, Gokan and Patrick! The event was well organized and we had a lot of fun being part of the french and the international SharePoint community at this event. #SPSParis took place in Tour Montparnasse, which was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011. We had a fantastic view from the 40th level over Paris, wow! We enjoyed the great speaker dinner and the event itself and all activities around it. ...

We had a busy May! Delegate’s next version 3.8 brings some more new features. See the details here: User Password Policy: Now Administrators can set a the Password Policy for each user. If at least one user is selected, on the right side panel the new function “Password Policy” is shown, as in the screenshot below. The Task Pane loads the current settings of the selected user and enables the setting “Password never expires” for the Admin. When clicking “Save” the setting will update the password policy for this particular user. ...