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“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” George S. Patton (1885-1945) …found on Martin’s frig.

It has been a busy week when we’ve been at Microsoft Ignite conference 2016 which took place in Atlanta from 26th to 30th September. This was Microsoft’s second Ignite conference (the first one happened in Chicago in May 2015, see here) with more than 20.000 people attending and more than 1.000 sessions. For us, it was our first time in the US South (in Georgia) and we enjoyed it very much. ...

This week Martina and I have been part of the aOS community event in Aix-en-Provence in South France. See our session presentation and some snapshots of the event here. The aOS Community organizes and supports all types of events promoting the sharing and exchange of Microsoft technologies in various communities in public meetings, conferences and online meetings targeting primarily French speaking countries. The event took place in Aix-en-Provence on 6th September at the campus of YNOV, a school building with perfect infrastructure for such an event (rooms, space, seats, projector, aircondition and fast WiFi). The event web page is Journée aOS Aix en Provence. ...

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/.

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. ...

Just discovered the “Community Leaders page compiled by Communauté aOS” on docs.com with interviews with active members of the Microsoft communities! Martina and I are honored to be part of these communities with such great guys! The following picture shows Nuno Árias Silva, Hans Brender, Elio Struyf, Francesco Sodano, Jeff Teper (Microsoft Corporate Vice President OneDrive and SharePoint), Rodrigo Pinto and (the profile of) Paolo Pialorsi (and me). This photo was taken at SharePoint Saturday Paris in May 2016 and there were a lot of great speakers at that community event (see also our impressions here). ...

Vor kurzem hat Microsoft die Veröffentlichungsdaten der finalen Version von Windows Server 2016 und System Center 2016 bekanntgegeben. Die RTM-Versionen werden bei der Microsoft Ignite Conference, also ab 26. September 2016, veröffentlicht, schreibt Microsoft in den beiden Blogartikeln in System Center 2016 to launch in September und in Windows Server 2016 new Current Branch for Business servicing option. Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2016 gibt es in drei Editionen (siehe auch hier): Datacenter: Die Version für unlimitierte Virtualisierung mit den neuen Shielded Virtual Machines, Software-defined Storage und Software-defined Networking. ...

Mitte Mai fand die erste “CDC-Germany” Konferenz statt, siehe Cloud and Datacenter Conference Germany. In dieser prominent besetzten IT-Pro Konferenz ging es um die Themen Public und Private Cloud, Azure Stack, Hyper-V, Cluster, System Center, Hybrid, PowerShell, RDS, Recht und Datacenter-Technologien. Organisiert wurde dieses tolle Community Event mit internationalen Sprechern von dem Team rund um unseren Kollegen Carsten Rachfahl, Mr. ‎HyperVServer. Das Event in Düsseldorf war mit mehr als 270 Teilnehmern und insgesamt mehr als 360 IT-Pros äußerst gut besucht. Alle Teilnehmer nutzten die Veranstaltung, um über Private Cloud und Public Cloud-Technologien zu informieren, sich informieren zu lassen und um sich auszutauschen. ...