Toni Pohl

As S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, wrote in his MSDN blog, the final version of Visual Studio 2015 is available: Save the Date: Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th The new Visual Studio version is targeting developers on new platforms: from cross-platform mobile development targeting iOS, Android to the classic Windows apps. Check out the Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event site with over 60 on-demand content sessions! ...

“People buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t like.” A quote by Dave Ramsay taken from the article What I Learned When I Gave Up the ‘9 to 5’ by Jacob Laukaitis.

When updating to a new build of Windows 10 Technical Preview Windows Enterprise must be reactivated. There are some Microsoft product keys on the net for various versions of Win10 TP. With the latest build (10240) these keys no longer work, it seems Microsoft has disabled the online activation until the end of July 2015. Here’s a workaround how to activate Windows 10 Enterprise: winaero.com/blog: How to activate Windows 10 build 10240 ...

Delegate365 version 4.2 is out. The users list now can be filtered in a better way. The text search has been improved and the list offers system and customizable views for quick and easy filtering. For synced users now there is no Password reset function and Global Admins can restrict if admins are able to create new users. OU Overview delivers all managed objects at a glance. See the details here. ...

Shortly we released Delegate365 version 4.1 with many new features. Users can now be converted to shared mailboxes or resources, “rooms” have been renamed to “resources”, Shared Mailboxes now support all possible permission sets, there’s a new sync switch and a new sync history with more details and additional sync options. Also the assign licenses have been improved and D365 now uses the same friendly license plan names as in the Office 365 portal. See the details here. ...

When using Azure services or products running on Azure like our Delegate365 it is important to place them in a datacenter near you to get a low latency. Currently Microsoft Azure is available in 17 regions worldwide, see Azure Regions. There are some websites performing speed tests and providing the necessary information for the decision where to locate Azure services for your location. The first speed test is https://azurespeedtest.azurewebsites.net (which is also available on github.com). ...

The licensing of Delegate365 is at user base for the number of users that are to be managed with Delegate365. So if f.e. there are 10,000 users in AAD and you want to manage 2,000 in D365, then a license for 2,000 users would be sufficient. Users are all active user in Office 365. This includes users, shared mailboxes and resources (rooms or equipment mailboxes). In order to make prices transparent also for larger packages up to 500,000 users we replaced the former static price information with an interactive price selector on the Delegate365 website. ...

In May Martina, I and our MVP colleague Sigi Jagott have been to Redmond and recorded some courses about Office 365 for Microsoft Virtual Academy. The recordings took two days for Martina and two days for Sigi. I had the pleasure to join Martina for the first day and two recordings. It’s quite an experience to come into the Microsoft Studio in Redmond Town Center and get a briefing about how it works, what to do (and what not to do). The recording was done and cutted by Danny who did a great job introducing us into the world of doing the webcasts. Many thanks for your patience and your support! ...

Ja, wir haben Sommer (und es ist richtig heiß in Mitteleuropa). Da hat Norbert Palecek (@Palenor) gerade passend auf einen aktuellen Artikel von Heise.de hingewiesen… heise.de: Ein Drittel aller Server im Koma – danke Norbert für den Tipp! Demnach sollen laut einer Studie der renommierten Stanford University rund ein Drittel aller Server in Rechenzentren eingeschalten sein … und nichts anderes tun, als Strom verbrauchen. Die durchschnittliche Auslastung der Rechner liegt bei nur rund 6 Prozent! Die Energie, die durch das Ausschalten nicht benötigter Server gespart werden könnte liegt bei 4 Gigawatt. Und das würde der Leistung von vier Kernkraftwerken entsprechen. ...

Wow, Microsoft is fast in delivering new versions of it’s Technical Preview of Windows 10. Today, Gabe Aul announced the availability of the next build of Win10 TP in “Welcome to the faster Fast ring”. “We have one more surprise for you this week – Build 10162, releasing to the Fast ring.” Microsoft did publish Build 10159 with the new wallpaper and logon UI on Tuesday, so Build 10162 was published right after… ...