Toni Pohl

Ganz neu und frisch gibt es seit wenigen Tagen eine Azure Billing API. Enterprise Agreement Kunden haben ja eine eigene Verwaltung ihrer Subscriptions im Microsoft Azure - EA Portal und eine eigne Schnittstelle. Alle anderen Azure Subscriptions und deren Verwendung und die angefallenen Kosten können nun seit kurzem mit der neuen Azure Billing API (Preview) abgefragt werden. Wozu? Das ist besonders für kleine Unternehmen sinnvoll, die kein Azure EA besitzen, aber dennoch mehrere Azure Subscriptions verwenden. So werden etwa oft mehrere eigene Unternehmens-MSDN Abos von unterschiedlichen Mitarbeitern verwendet, da macht es Sinn die “usage” und das “billing” automatisiert (oder in weiterer Folge gesammelt) abzufragen. ...

Delegate365 version 4.0.5 is out. The last automatic sync operations are now shown in the sync page and the lists show if objects are cloud or synced items. See the details here. Automatic Sync infos: For admins it’s essential to see when the last sync process was executed and if it the operations were successful. So we integrated a short history in the sync page showing the last 5 sync operations. Admins see when the automatic sync started and when it ended and if it finished successfully. As you can see the sync tries to use differential queries if possible to update only the changed objects quickly. As before Admins can run the manual Sync process anytime. ...

In Delegate365 version 4.0 we have made further improvements and some minor fixes. We introduced a new member picker with Auto-Suggest instead of the old dialog picker which now is accessible in the new Task Pane. The sync was updated to get the synced or cloud-information and some fixes for setting alias addresses and mailbox delegation. See the details here. New Member Picker: In all groups a new member picker came in. Members are managed by selecting the group and clicking “Manage Members” in the Task Pane like in this sample with a security group here. The usernames can be partly typed – one char is sufficient – and the Auto Suggest opens an shows all user names starting with that characters. The navigation can be done by mouse or with the cursor keys. Once the selection is made the admin still can remove items by clicking the “x” icon and the end of the users name or Apply the settings by clicking “Add”. The selected users are then added as members to that specific group. This concept was introduced in the administration / manage administrators page with version 3.9.5 (see here) and works now for all member pickers in D365: distribution groups, security groups, shared mailboxes and manage administrators (as before). ...

See the very interesting article “Upcoming changes to Windows 10 Insider Preview builds” by Gabe Aul in Blogging Windows for the latest details about Windows 10 and it’s official release in about one month. You can download the last version of Windows 10 technical preview – which is April Update (build 10130) - here for free: Download Windows 10 Insider Preview ISO June Update. The latest updates will automatically come via Windows Update. ...

In Teil 1 habe ich beschrieben, wie man Organisationskonten mit Visual Studio Online nutzen kann. Hierzu möchte ich noch einige weitere Infos anfügen, die für die Verwendung von VS Online im Unternehmen hilfreich sind. Konten mischen? Zunächst einmal wird oft die Frage gestellt, ob man in bestehende VS Online Services Benutzer mit Microsoft Konto UND Organisations-ID hinzufügen kann. Die kurze Antwort darauf lautet: Nein. Damit es simpel bleibt, nehme ich das Ergebnis hier gleich vorweg. Ob Organisations-IDs verwendet werden können hängt davon ab ob Visual Studio Online mit einer Org-ID erstellt wurde (denn nur dann können Org-ID’s verwendet werden). Zur Übersicht habe ich die folgende Tabelle mit dem aktuellen Status angelegt. ...

Delegate365 version 3.9.5 is out. We made some minor changes since the last version 3.9 (see here). See the changes here: Bulk create admins: When using D365 with many admins it can be some effort to create them. In former versions it was necessary to type (or copy) the UPNs of each admin in the create admin field. The creation of new admins works – as before – on the administration / manage administrators list. Now there follows a new form. Global Admins can type a username and an Auto-Complete function shows all corresponding starting with that name (starts with). Also there can be multiple admins picked and created in one step! To remove a selected admin, delete the user with Backspace key or by clicking the x-icon. The Auto-Complete works very quick even for many users (like in the screenshot above). Further improvements are that now all settings can be defined directly below in one step – for all selected admins like shown here. Below there are two more new sections: “Add admin to domain” and “Add admin to OU”. In here Global Admins can define which domains the admins can manage and in which D365 OU’s the admins will be members. This one-step-creation of admins simplifies the process of defining admins. The result can be checked anytime, like in this sample see the OU-assignment of user2. F.e. checking the OU… So best practise is to create multiple admins with common properties and assignments and then change specific permissions or assignments for special admins. ...

Die Nutzung von Visual Studio Online erfolgt zumeist mit einem Microsoft Konto. In Unternehmen, möchte man allerdings im Regelfall keine individuellen Microsoft Accounts sondern die Organisations-Konten aus der eigenen Firma verwenden, sprich aus dem Azure Active Directory. Funktioniert das? Ja, klar! Hier seht ihr wie es funktioniert und wie die grundsätzliche Verwaltung von VS Online funktioniert. Für alle jene (Unternehmens-IT’s), die Visual Studio Online noch nicht kennen und nutzen, möchte ich hier etwas ausholen und neben der Einrichtung und Verwendung von VS Online mit Organisationskonten auch die grundsätzliche Verwaltung von VS Online beschreiben. ...

The next version of Delegate365 is here! In Delegate365 version 3.9 we have even more cool features and improvements. The sync processes now offers a bunch of innovations for automatic assignments to Delegate365 OU’s and was unified with the automatic sync function. Another switch was implemented to prohibit Admins access to the user’s mailbox settings as well as the new options for branding Delegate365 with your company logo and themes and some more features. See the details here: ...

Office 365 can be automated by your own apps. There are many ways to accomplish that, so we are delivering the ways how to authenticate and how to use Microsoft’s Office 365 Cloud Services. We will upload our presentation and our code demos here shortly…!

We updated the product website Delegate365.com and implemented some improvements there to support interested parties to inform about Delegate365 and to open a trial. New Trial: We added added a new “Trial” button prominently to the menu to make it very easy to find the trial and to open a new evaluation version of Delegate365. The new form is also directly reachable with the URL https://delegate365.com/trial. In the trial form you just need to fill in your name, organization and company name. There’s also a field for optional additional comments – the same as before. After submitting the data with “Request Trial” we approve the request in the workflow and provision a new D365 tenant for you. This process may take up to one business day. ...