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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. ...

Today’s tip is a quick one: If you have licensed mailboxes you only need as additional E-Mail addresses with a separate E-Mail address you can think about converting them to shared mailboxes. Shared Mailboxes have 10GB free storage and there are no additional license costs. Setting the appropriate rights to the shared mailbox they will also automatically show up in Outlook. If you want to convert one of your licensed mailboxes to a shared mailbox you can do that with PowerShell. ...

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.) ...

Viele Unternehmen, die von Small Business Server Umgebungen auf Office 365 umstellen, sind es gewohnt, einen Verteiler zu haben, der automatisch an alle Mitglieder des Unternehmens versendet. Aber auch große Unternehmen wollen Verteilerlisten mit bestimmten Kriterien automatisch befüllt haben. Um dies in Exchange Online abzubilden, benötigt man eine Dynamische Verteilerliste. In der Exchange Administrationskonsole kann man dann bequem eintragen, welche Kriterien die Verteilerliste haben soll und natürlich auch, welche Empfänger ausgewählt werden sollen. Hier kann man dann gleich einschränken, ob nur Mitglieder mit Exchange Postfächern, oder mit externen Mailadressen und vieles mehr selektiert werden sollen. Über Regeln können bereits in der GUI Filter gesetzt werden. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Some days ago Martina found an interesting blog post with a provocative title: “Is Microsoft serious about going social with Yammer?” The blog post was published on https://www.allthingsic.com/virpi/ by Rachel Miller. It goes on rich in images.… Nice reading about the sense of the universe, ah, enterprise social!

From 7th to 10th of April the WinDays Conference 2014 takes place in Umag, Croatia. WinDays started 13 years ago and as of today the conference is the largest regional technology conference about business and technology with more than 1.500 participants. See some snapshots from the conference setup… [ ](img_107.jpg “WP_20140408_15_34_59_Pro”) We from atwork are happy to be part of the conference. Find our slides and our code sample here: ...

This week, from March 31th to April 2nd, the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2014 takes place in Austin, Texas. Austin is a great city and it´s fun to be here an to be part of the conference! We from atwork are here with two sessions: How to (remote) control Office 365 with Azure with Martina Grom and Toni Pohl (Developer session) Experts Unplugged: Exchange Online Migrations with Ayla Kol, Jono Luk, Martina Grom, Ram Poornalingam, Ronil Dhruva and Lucas Costa (Discussion Session) ...

Microsoft OneNote 2013 ist nun gratis für mehrere Plattformen verfügbar. Gibt es hierzu auch Neuigkeiten für Software-Entwickler? Ja! Für Entwickler sind vor allem die API´s interessant, siehe Scott Hansleman´s Blogpost OneNote and Microsoft’s quiet API revolution. Scott schreibt sehr schön, wie wichtig Schnittstellen für moderne Software ist: “The moral of the story here is - if you have no API then you have no story.” Das finde ich in unserer “connected world” sehr treffend. Hier findet ihr die Links zu den neuen OneNote APIs (von Scott´s post hier zusammengefasst): ...