Toni Pohl

In addition to the many features of Microsoft Azure this platform is really cool for hosting websites, see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/web-sites/. Since we not only want to reach our websites with the out-of-the-box Microsoft domain *.azurewebsites.net we can add our custom domains as well. This article shows how this works. Update: See also Manage custom domains in Azure Websites step-by-step First switch the Azure website to a non-free mode For using one or more custom domains we need to switch the website to the (non free) web hosting plans *Shared, Basic *or Standard. You can do this in the “Scale” menu of the specific website. The screenshot shows how. ...

Diese Woche fand die SharePoint Konferenz Wien statt (siehe auch hier). Am Montag war der Start mit drei Ganztagesworkshops, Dienstag und Mittwoch waren Konferenztage mit fünf und sechs Tracks mit je drei Sessions. Es waren wieder viele bekannte Sprecher aus der SharePoint-Community dabei. Das Programm war mit etwa 50 Sessions sehr umfangreich und reichte von Architektur bis Yammer. Veranstaltungsort war wie auch im Jahr zuvor die Event Pyramide im Süden von Wien. Dieses Jahr hatten wir Frühsommerwetter und angenehme Temperaturen. Somit war das Wetter perfekt für die Konferenz (dieses Jahr funktionierte die Klimatisierung wunderbar) und auch fürs Draußen Sitzen bei der Konferenzparty am Dienstag Abend. ...

Office 365 uses Azure Active Directory for storing user information. Since SharePoint and SharePoint Online both have it´s own User Profile Service and User Store it was clear for Microsoft that some of the user properties have to be shared between these two storages. So Microsoft built a synchronization – or at least an one way transport - between the Azure Active Directory (AAD) user objects and SharePoint Online (SPO) user profiles. ...

Kommende Woche, von 16. bis 18. Juni, findet die SharePoint Konferenz Wien statt. Veranstalter ist wieder ppedv in Kooperation mit Microsoft. Am Montag ist Pre-Conference-Day mit einer Reihe von Workshops. Dienstag und Mittwoch finden rund 50 Vorträge statt, hier geht’s zur Agenda. Es sind wieder viele bekannte Sprecher aus der SharePoint-Community dabei. Event-Location ist wieder die Eventhotel Pyramide, Parkallee 2 in 2334 Vösendorf. Wir erinnern uns gerne an die äußerst coole Konferenzparty am ersten Vortragsabend letztes Jahr am Badeteich. Und für Drinnen: Beim aktuellen heißen Sommerwetter werden die Klimaanlagen in der Pyramide jetzt schon vorgetestet – diesmal sollte die Kühlung auch im Aufenthaltsbereich klappen. Schönes Wetter ist auf jeden Fall wieder bestellt, laut Wettervorhersage wird’s aber am Dienstag mit nur 15° regnerisch sein und erst wieder am Mittwoch um die 20° und Sonne haben. Wir werdens ja sehen. ...

Die Office 365 API ist relativ neu und seit Mitte Mai in einer neuen Preview-Version verfügbar. Mit der Office 365 APIs können Apps auf Daten aus Office 365 wie E-Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Files und Profilinformation eines Users zugreifen. Die Office 365 API stellt REST APIs und Standard OAuth Authentifizierung bereit und kann somit sowohl von native Apps unter Windows 8, iOS, Android und anderen Plattformen benutzt werden. Microsoft plant in Zukunft die REST APIs weiter aufzupeppen und es werden weitere APIs hinzukommen, etwa für SharePoint, Exchange und Yammer. ...

When using SQL Databases in Microsoft Azure you´re self responsible for backups. Of course, usually the SQl Azure database cluster takes care of availability – but what if an app deletes records, or you need an older consistent version of a database or you want to work with the data on your local system or in your company´s network? This article shows how to create manual and automated backups and restore them locally or in the cloud. ...

Delegate365 changelog version 2.3. This version is a major release. We made some changes in the time consuming tasks and optimized them. Performance Improvements in all user lists: If an AAD or Office 365 tenant has many thousand users loading the list of all users was time consuming. The reason is that the Microsoft GraphAPI delivers objects in slices (we take about 200 users per call to ensure there are no timeout errors) but has no filter functions we need for separating our domains and OU´s in D365. The result have been some wait time in some cases if many thousand users are existing. So we decided to improve that mechanism and add a cache layer between the AAD and our D365 client. With version 2.3 there´s an extra service added which synchronizes all new, updated and deleted user objects in our own cache. This service runs in the background and takes care of all changes in AAD. The D365 client now uses that cache and has a completely new logic with async calls and organizies the requested data page per page. So – depending on the individual page size – the client at runtime requests only the data page which is rendered. The benefit is that all user list operations like searching and paging are happening instantly in less than one second, regardless of the number of users to be shown. This performance improvement delivers a great user experience even with ten thousands of users in the user list! ...

Delegate365 changelog version 2.2. This was an internal version only for testing some new features… We rolled out that version on some of our demo clients and did some heavy testing of the performance with many thousand users and tested SMS notifications. We built in some new features which will be integrated in the next official release 2.3.

Design matters. If you want to have a good laugh see the top 15 worst logos on businessinsider.com The 15 Worst Corporate Logo Fails like… …or …or …or …or …or …and the top 10 best cxompany logos redesigns here: The 10 Best Corporate Logo Changes Of 2013 Most of the redesigned logos are strongly simplified – and more clear - that´s my personal understanding of the current trend. ...

April/May 2014 Added User Self Password Reset (SPR): Now users (not only admins) can login into D365. If the admin had deposited a notification for the specific user (email or SMS), the user can perform a self password reset. When resetting the password the user can decide if he wants to receive the necessary security-code via email or SMS (depending on the settings made by the admins). Then he receives the code and gets a temporary password on the website. With that he can login and now has to change the password to his own, individual password. This function simplifies the administrative effort when users can use this reset on their own. This feature is integrated in D365. *So IT departements have no need to buy Azure premium licenses just for their users to perform self service password reset when using D365! * SMS is a preview function. If used, additional costs for the SMS provider will be added – depending on the location (country) and the amount of SMS messages which is usually about 10 Cent per SMS. ...