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This week the IT DevConnections conference takes place in fabolous Las Vegas. This is the second year where we from atwork were part of this great conference. Meeting experts and colleagues from all over the world makes this event exceptional – and, it´s in hot and sunny Las Vegas! Since we´re very deep in cloud services, our two session informed about or Top-10 list of Office 365 features and PowerBI with SharePoint Online. Here are the links to the session descriptions and to the slides on Slideshare.net. Here you find all links to more resources from our sessions. ...

Visualizations are important to understand context and size. Here are some samples of interesting data! Map Shows All The Devices In The World Connected To The Internet and… 6 maps that explain global supply chains …like this ones… Thx to the tweets of @magrom and @JohnBerry!

Bloggers who like to use their blog in a very simple way might be interested in https://blot.im/. “Blot is the simplest way to blog.” There´s no interface, just use Dropbox and upload text files. Blot uses these files and shows them in the web in a nice and clean web-interface. Depending on the audience and the formatting requirements Blot can be an alternative. Directly on the Blot website there´s a YouTube video embedded which shows how it works. ...

Probably you’ve seen a lot of photos and videos this week of celebrities and other well known business people dumping buckets of ice water over their heads. Here’s why and how we participated in it. The #IceBucketChallenge is about raising money and awareness for a disease called “ALS” (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) which is a motor neurone disease. The rules of the challenge: To accept a person has to dump a bucket of ice water over his head within the next 24 hours or donate money (usually $100) toward fighting ALS. Even if a person completes the challenge, they’re welcome to donate money too – actually everybody is most welcome to make a donation at https://www.alsa.org. After the ice water dumping nominate three other persons! ...

…can be checked out online here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/ Well, yes, this was a very simple HTML page on IIS 1.0 on Win NT 3.5. Even the web was youthful than, I remember the days of gopher, Trumpet Winsocket and such stuff. …found in a tweet of @shanselman. And there´s one Microsoft web in the archives of 1996.

Für schnell entschlossene Entwickler, die gerade nicht im Urlaub weilen, gibt es heute, am 8. August, in der MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy) ein sehr interessantes Live-Event mit dem Titel Introduction to Office 365 Development. Die Online-Kurse liefern einen Überblick über Development für Office 365, von Apps für Office und SharePoint bis zu Full Trust Apps und Einblicke in die neue Office 365 API (siehe auch hier). Das Event startet bei uns am Freitag, den 8. August, um 18 Uhr und dauert bis Mitternacht. ...

Microsoft veranstaltet jedes Jahr eine Reihe von Events für unterschiedlichen Zielgruppen: TechEd für IT-Pros und Developer, SharePoint-Conference (SPC) für Enterprise-Admins und SP-Developer, I Am MEC für die Exchange Gurus, Microsoft Project Conference für Projektmanager, Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) für SCCM-Admins, usw. Ab nächstem Jahr konsolidert Microsoft diese Events zu einem großen, fetten, neuen Event: Microsoft’s unified technology event for Enterprises Das “unified technology event for enterprises” wird von 4. bis 8. Mai 2015 in Chicago stattfinden. ...

Sommerzeit ist Ferienzeit. Und Fortbildungszeit! Für IT-Pro´s, die sich um Migrationen von Windows-Server-Systemen (und um virtuelle Maschinen und Netzwerke) kümmern, gibt es in Kürze ein cooles Training aus der Microsoft Jump Start-Reihe: Am 24. Juli findet ein Online-Training mit dem Thema “Migrating Legacy Windows Server to 2012 R2 & Microsoft Azure” statt. In diesem (englischsprachigen) Training wird gezeigt, wie von früheren Windows Server-Versionen auf die letzte Windows Server 2012 R2 Version aktualisiert und alle wichtigen Dienste übernommen werden können, von Windows Server 2003 bis hin zu Windows Clustern. ...

There´s a cool made video “Look Up” by Gary Turk about our confusion with #socialmedia. Update: Thanks Stefan Bauer from www.n8d.at for the tip that this video is originally made by Gary Turk with the title “Look Up” and viral since May. The previous version I posted here is only a repost by James Ellis on facebook. So I changed the author and the link to the original video on YouTube. Watch the video here! ...

Heute, am 14. Juli, findet in der Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) in der Microsoft Jump Start Series ein interessantes Online Event statt, nämlich der Microsoft Cloud Day 2014 Q&A with Mark Russinovich. Das Live Event ist kostenfrei und richtet sich an Entwickler, IT Pros, IT-Architekten und alle, die an Microsoft Azure interessiert sind. Die Veranstaltung beginnt bei uns um 16 Uhr und kann online per Streaming Webcast angesehen werden. ...