Toni Pohl

When using a federated scenario where on prem users are synchronized to the cloud with Dirsync or AAD Connect, it’s important to know which user properties are transported into the Azure Active Directory (AAD). In the Microsoft Sync Tool you can define which fields shall be federated. In the cloud world, we can use the user properties in AAD in different ways: Accessing them with PowerShell, GraphAPI or with Exchange Remote PowerShell, depending on the scenario and the data you need. ...

Office 365 bietet Services für problemlose Zusammenarbeit und sichere Kommunikation. Zu diesen Themen und den zu aktuellsten Neuigkeiten gibt es eine kostenfreie virtuelle Veranstaltung von Microsoft mit unserer Mitwirkung, den Virtual Summit Office 2016 am Donnerstag, den 25. Februar 2016, von 14 bis 16 Uhr. Die zweistündige virtuelle Veranstaltung findet in Deutscher Sprache statt. Die Schwerpunkte sind: Mobilität und das moderne Arbeiten heute Kommunikation mit Konferenz- und Telefoniediensten Datensicherheit, Compliance und Analysemöglichkeiten mit Office 365 ...

Microsoft bietet eine Reihe von Programmen an, um in die Welt der Software-Entwicklung einzusteigen. Mit dem Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program haben Nicht-Professionelle Entwickler die Möglichkeit, eine Vielzahl an Tools und Services zu nutzen. Das Angebot des Visual Studio Dev Essentials Programs umfasst unter anderem Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio Team Services (zuvor Visual Studio Online) und ein 300 US$ Guthaben für Azure Services sowie viele weitere Zusatzangebote wie etwa Xamarin University Access. ...

From time to time we stumble about resource quotas in Microsoft Azure. So this is a good opportunity to remember the article “Azure Subscription and Service Limits, Quotas, and Constraints” which describes the limits used by default in Azure services. So when creating a new SQL Server in an Azure subscription I ran into the message “Server response = 40652 Cannot move or create server. Subscription ‘xxxx’ will exceed server quota.”. Honestly, first I did not check the error message, then I saw that the server quota would have been exceed. So the solution was to delete unused SQL servers in that subscription to free resources and then to create the new SQL server resource in the Azure Portal. ...

An interesting visualization shows, how much money is made in the internet industry … per second! See Battle of the Internet Giants for a live view. I don’t know if this represents real numbers (well, this is a “Real-Time Accumulation of Wealth”), but the live visualization is made pretty well and is impressive! Especially the fact that Apple profits about 50% of all shown income – with companies as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, facebook, YouTube etc. – I did not know. My snapshot was made after 60 seconds. So in one minute Apple makes a profit of about $ 70K, Microsoft 41K, Google 24K, Skype about 4K, and facebook “only” about 3K while Twitter is loosing money each second. ...

We recently added some more minor features to Delegate365 version 5 we would like to point out. More, new design themes. When opening the company menu Portal Admins can change the appearance of D365. Admins now can choose between 12 themes. “atwork” is the default theme which now appears in the new color scheme dark grey and blue (as shown in the screenshot above). After selecting, you can see a small preview of the color scheme below. These are the available color sets: When saving these settings, the selected theme this will be applied immediately (for all users of D365). ...

Die meisten Applikationen benötigen einen Platz zum Speichern von Daten. Je nach Datentyp, Datenmenge, Zugriff und der damit verbundenen Methode zum Zugriff auf die Daten können verschiedenste Speichermodelle eingesetzt werden. Mit den Azure Services kommen neben den herkömmlichen Varianten weitere, neue Mechanismen hinzu, die genutzt werden können. Dieser Artikel befasst sich mit Zugriff auf Azure BLOB Storage. Wofür BLOB? BLOB steht für Binary Large OBject. Darunter versteht man große, binäre Objekte, wie etwa Dateien oder andere unstrukturierte Daten. BLOBs werden im Regelfall nicht in (klassischen) Datenbanken gespeichert und können nicht oder nur mit viel Aufwand strukturiert gespeichert werden. ...

Delegate365 version 5 is about to come in the next two weeks. In this version we concentrated on core optimizations of D365 and not in features. Since many core functions of the prodct have been improved, we claimed a major release for this D365 version and think version number 5 is well deserved. Anyway, see the details of the new D365 version here: Optimization: This version brings optimized features and better performance in a bunch of functions. The SyncOp has been strongly optimized and D365 now uses more caching for showing and updating lists which results in better performance. Users of D365 will see most significant performance in the SyncOp and in lists with a larger number of items, for example in the users list or in the distribution lists, but all lists have been updated. ...

Wow, we had a busy year 2015 with Delegate365. Thanks to our customers and partners we got a lot of feedback to improve the service. As you see by the number of blogposts in 2015 (almost 40) we released updates of Delegate365 continuously and implemented a lot of useful features in the product in the last year. All customers get these updates automatically in their SaaS D365 tenant and benefit from the improvements. We collected feature requests and summarized and prioritized them internally. ...

In the last two months, from December until now, we were busy with improving Delegate365. We did not communicate much in that time here because we did a lot of work in maintaining and optimizing the core project and not in features. Currently, we are still testing the new, improved version which will be rolled out mid of february for all D365 tenants. Customers will benefit from optimized code and better performance, specially in the SyncOp and from optimized loading times in lists in D365. We will post a list of some new features and improvements here shortly!