Toni Pohl

In the last days, some customers of Delegate365 experienced a warning in the Delegate365 portal that informed about the failing communication to Exchange Online. This issue was caused by the Microsoft Exchange Online PowerShell endpoint. We are glad to announce that this issue should be fixed soon. Delegate365 informed users about the reduced functionality with a message “Access denied – please check the credentials of your Office 365 account…” when opening the yellow warning icon in the portal. ...

It’s a not so well known feature, that admins can transfer services in Microsoft Azure to reorganize their cloud services. This can be accomplished in the Azure Portal or programmatically. See here, how this works. So, you can move services between resource groups and you can move services to another Azure subscription.This can be done in the (new) Azure Portal portal.azure.com. When opening a resource, you see the “change” links to change the resource group and to change the subscription as in the screenshot here: ...

To secure a personal Microsoft Account (“MSA”, formerly known as “LiveID”), you can enable two-step verification (“MFA” for Multi Factor Authentication) easily. This article shows the How-To. The Microsoft support article About two-step verification informs about the necessary steps. ## Secure your MSA I wanted to add MFA to an existing MSA *@outlook.com. To make it short: Open the Security basics page (https://account.microsoft.com/security). Click update info, enter (or confirm) your mobile phone number. You get a SMS with a security code. ...

This May, the visualcapitalist website published interesting numbers about the Market Cap, revenue and earnings of Apple, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. See the charts with the business values of 2016 at Here’s how 5 Tech giants make their billions - comparing the revenue streams of the five largest tech companies. Apple is living of the iPhone, the rest is not significant. iPad and Mac are just about at 10% of the revenue. Thanks, iPhone market. ...

We are delighted to announce that our CEO, Martina Grom, will be speaker at this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference. Ignite is Microsoft’s largest IT conference that will take place from September 25 - 29, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. Ignite will offer about 900+ sessions, insights and roadmaps from industry leaders, and deep dives and live demos on the products you use every day. As in the last years at Ignite Chicago 2015 and Ignite Atlanta 2016, Martina will deliver sessions about the Office 365 eco system. See more information at speaker Martina Grom. ...

Am 21. Juni fand bei Microsoft Wien das Community Event BUILD 2017 Redelivery statt. Spät aber doch, hier ein paar Eindrücke vom Event mit einigen Schnappschüssen! Unter dem Motto //BUILD on Tour Neuigkeiten für Devs und IT-Pros organisierten Gerhard Göschl (MSFT), Gerwald Oberleitner (MSFT), Martina Grom (MVP, RD) und Rainer Stropek (MVP, RD) das Event im Office von Microsoft Wien. Es gab drei Tracks, mit den Zielgruppen für Entwickler, IT-Pros und Open Source Software sowie zusätzlich einen Hands-On Workshop über Azure Stack. Die Veranstaltung wurde von der community für die community veranstaltet und war kostenfrei. Vielen Dank an alle Sprecher (aus der MVP community), an den Sponsor Microsoft und an alle Teilnehmer! ...

Well, it’s 1st of July and guess what? I got reawarded as a Microsoft MVP for the 5th time. And, I was accepted by two Product Groups for my contributions of the last year: I got the MVP award for Microsoft Azure and for Office Development. Wow! See my MVP-Profile here. For me, being awarded as a Microsoft MVP is a great honor. This award is a marvelous acknowledgment for all my activities as conferences, meetups, blog articles and all my other contributions to the various national and international IT-communities. I started as a MVP for “Client Development” in 2013 which then was re-organized in “Windows Development”. It was a very exiting time to be part of that group among great personalities! Today, I’m doing mostly projects around Microsoft Azure and Office Development, so I’m really proud and happy that my community contributions ended up in these two new competencies. ...

Alles hat ein Ende, so auch unser Office 365 Sofort-Test. Der Sofort-Test von Office 365 wurde von uns gemeinsam mit Microsoft Deutschland 2012 entwickelt und ermöglichte das rasche und anonyme Testen von Office 365 Services. Nun, nach fünf Jahren, ist Office 365 erfolgreich im deutschen Markt angekommen und der Office 365 Sofort-Test hat ausgedient. Der Sofort-Test war unter der Adresse sofort-test.office365.de für jedermann erreichbar und ermöglichte das kostenlose Ausprobieren von Office 365 für 30 Minuten. Der Besucher erhielt einen vorgenerierten Office 365 Benutzer, der Zugang zu Microsoft SharePoint Online, Exchange Online und weiteren Diensten bereit stelle. ...

Delegate365 provides various automation tasks. One of these is the new License Assignment rule to automatically assign Office 365 licenses to users based on their user properties or on their group membership. See how this works in real world with a demo scenario here. The License Assignment is available since version 6.4. For details, pls. see the description here. This new feature allows to assign Office 365 licenses in a very custom way to users and runs at each Delegate365 synchronization operation, So, whenever a SyncOp runs, Delegate365 checks the sync rules and assigns licenses as specified. So let’s see how this works step-by-step as follows. ...

Delegate365 version 6.5 is here soon. With that update, there comes new functionality and some further improvements. Read the details here. Notification center: Now, the notification center shows just the last 100 messages (instead of all unread messages) to reduce the loading time for all unread messages that can be produced in a large number by the synchronization process. Anyway, you can access all messages as before by clicking the “Read all messages” link. “Clear all messages” sets all messages to “read”, so that they no longer show up in the notification center. This step improves the dashboard’s loading time. ...