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We´re happy to contribute to the new website of the Office 365 MVP community at https://www.office365mvps.com! This cool website was created by Darrell Webster and combines the blog feeds of the most known Office 365 MVP´s – worldwide! There are also some other MVP´s who share their expertise in the Office 365 products Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Azure Active Directory. More information about the Microsoft MVP award program can be found here. We designed and developed the new website layout. This is how it looks: ...

Seit Anfang November ist Yammer Enterprise in jedem Office 365 E-Plan enthalten. Bisher war dies nur bei Kunden mit einem Enterprise Agreement der Fall. Bei neuen Tenants (nach dem 1.11.2013 angelegt) ist der Yammer Enterprise Plan bereits im Office 365 Tenant enthalten. Das sehen Sie am einfachsten, wenn Sie in Ihrem Office 365 Dashboard im Bereich Aktueller Status bereits Yammer Enterprise sehen. Möchten Sie nun Yammer Enterprise für Ihr Netzwerk aktivieren, klicken Sie im linken Bereich Dienstübersicht auf den Link *Enthaltene Dienste *und anschließend auf Ja, Yammer Enterprise für mein Netzwerk aktivieren. ...

Ganz frisch eingetroffen ist soeben die Ankündigung für die nächste BUILD Konferenz. BUILD 2014 ist die Microsoft-Konferenz für Windows Entwickler und wird von 2. bis 4 April 2014 (wieder) im Moscone Center in San Francisco in sunny California stattfinden. www.buildwindows.com Die Konferenz wurde im Official Microsoft Blog von Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President and Chief Evangelist, Developer & Platform Evangelism, angekündigt. BUILD ist die Konferenz für Software-Entwickler rund um Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Windows Server, Visual Studio und vieles mehr. ...

Recently TheVerge.com posted an article about a study of designer Jay Machalani. The new Windows 8 start screen is cool, but in many aspects inconsistent to the classic desktop. So Jay put together a plan to improve that a little bit… Back to the Start: imagining a better Windows Here are Jay´s results of a new Windows 8 start menu. Interesting. Or maybe so? Pictures taken from TheVerge. Click on a picture to open the source article. ...

Software projects often take longer as expected. Why? See this great article by Michael Wolfe here! Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3 times? Map taken from bing.com/maps. Michael explains the occuring (and unexpected) problems with an anology of a planned hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit friends in Newport Beach. The line is about 400 miles long; they can walk 4 miles per hour for 10 hours per day, so they’ll be there in 10 days. Or…? ...

Today, on 30th November 2013 from 9am - 5pm GMT, there was the first Online Office 365 Saturday event in the world – as virtual event via Lync! Experts informed in one-hour sessions about Microsoft Office 365 technologies and how Office 365 can be used to deliver world-class communications, collaboration, and social solutions. There were 4 different tracks to choose from: Exchange Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/71JFFW9P Mix & Match Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/8Q1SB8C7 SharePoint Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/CG999QY5 Office 365 Developer Track: https://meet.lync.com/office365ukusergroup/rene/T3935V21 ...

This week, on November 27th to 28th, SPC Adriatics conference took place in Zagreb, Croatia, see spcadriatics.com. It was the second SPC Adriatics conference with the motto “Back to business” and about 200 participants from Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Germany. The SharePoint conference #spcadriatics offered 40 sessions with 30 international speakers, most of them Microsoft MVPs, even from the US. As last year we were also proud to be part of the conference 2013 with two sessions. ...

More the knowledge lesser the Ego, Lesser the knowledge more the Ego. Albert Einstein (found on Twitter)

Letzte Woche fand die TechNet Conference 2013 in Berlin statt. In 40 Sessions und drei Tracks konnten sich Teilnehmer über die Neuerungen der Microsoft Cloud OS (Track 1), über New Era / Client Deployment & Co IT (Track 2) und Modern Workstyle / Office Suite (Track 3) informieren, siehe Konferenz-Agenda. Mit etwa 500 Teilnehmern war das Event im ehemaligen Kino der Kosmos KG in Berlin-Friedrichshain ausgebucht. Experten von Microsoft Deutschland und Microsoft MVPs hielten die (DeepDive) Sessions mit viel Praxisbezug. Es waren auch viele internationale IT-Sprecher wie Aidan Finn, Damian Flynn, Maarten Goet, Matt McSpirit, Paula Januszkiewicz und natürlich viele bekannte MVPs aus dem DACH-Raum vertreten, siehe Sprecher. Aus Österreich hatten Martina Grom und ich Sessions im Office-Track, den Martina als Track-Owner zusammengestellt hat. ...

Today Microsoft TechNet Conference 2013 started in Berlin. It was the first TN-Conference in Germany since last TechEd (which was in 2010?) with more than 500 attendees. The event was organized by Microsoft Germany. In 40 sessions experts from Microsoft and Microsoft MVP´s informed in two days about the newest technologies, see Microsoft TechNet Conference 2013 Website. We had three main tracks: Microsoft Cloud OS (Track 1) New Era / Client Deployment & CoIT (Track 2) ...