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Today Microsoft Connect(); Event Day 1 took place in New York. The Keynote and the sessions can be watched or downloaded at channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2014/011. Microsoft had a lot of announcements for developers. See a short summary in screenshots here! ScottGu opened the event (in his classic red poloshirt and jeans). As of today Microsoft runs 19 datacenters worldwide (much more than Amazon and Google). Microsoft wants to push .NET and developers using .NET, Visual Studio and Azure. The numbers are impressive. ...

Very short info for Microsoft MVP´s found on Twitter during MVP Summit 2014: Telerik Offers Its Best Tools to Microsoft MVPs - for Free Simply send an email to sales@telerik.com with a link to your MVP profile. Developers, enjoy!

In the coming week there will be the next update of Delegate rolled out. This will be Delegate version 2.9 which includes these updates: New Synchronization: We improved the sync processes (for domains, security groups, distribution lists and user and licenses) which now are combined in one simple step. The user import now can be configured with rules for putting users in specific OU´s depending on special properties (country, security groups, AAD properties…) ...

In Delegate365 version 2.8 there´s a new setup wizard included (as announced here). With this function companies no longer need to create a (temporary) administrator user for doing the setup process of Delegate365 but instead can setup their Azure Active Directory on their own for working with Delegate365. Prerequisites To configure your real company AAD with Delegate365 you get two access information by atwork: The Setup-URL (which usually goes like https://[yourcompany].azurewebsites.net/setup) and a configuration password (which is in fact a code) to give you the access for the setup process. This code is important and valid for this specific Delegate365 appliance. With that code you can setup the service accounts till the code is changed. More about that later. ...

Heutzutage erwarten Anwender funktionelle und “schöne” Websites, Webforms und Tools. Auch wenn ein Entwickler eine App oder ein User-Interface mit “es funktioniert” als erledigt zur Seite legt… es gibt Hilfsmittel um ansprechende Webforms zu erstellen. Neben dem großen Angebot an professionellen Website-Templates gibt es im Web viele kostenfreie HTML-Templates wie etwa Free-CSS.com und viele mehr. Auch für das Design von Websiteobjekten wie Textboxes, Buttons, Texteffekte und Co. stehen im Netz Hilfsmittel bereit. ...

Next week there will Delegate version 2.8 rolled out to all appliances. There will be new features included: Setup-Wizard: There´s a new setup wizard included, so that each customer can do the configuration (and renewal of the service account) of his D365 version on his own. New Synchronization: moved to version 2.9 (updated) More to come in the next version(s)… BTW: We added the update date information and bullets in the style sheet (which was missing) in the changelog on https://delegate365.com/changelog. ...

Since we often create Azure Websites I want to show a step-by-step guide how to use custom domains with your Azure Website. In my case I´m using the ISP GoDaddy.com and their web-interface and the Azure portal. Custom domain To use custom domains see also our previous post Manage custom domains in Azure websites. So I want to add the custom domain office365conference.net to an Azure website with an Umbraco web (this CMS can handle multiple-domains). We already created the website with the Azure website-URL office365pillscall4papers.azurewebsites.net - sorry, I didn´t have a shorter one . ...

Designed by Developer is out. Today we expect good looking websites and webforms. Check out the enjoycss.com online CSS generator for cool (object) designs. With the generator it´s easy to create desired elements, like a nice looking textbox, button or similar objects made with CSS. The designing is easy, as you see in the following screenshot. “Get the code” generates the CSS class for the HTML object. The only thing to remember is to change the class name (because as far as I have seen they are all named .enjoy-css…). ...

This week the IT DevConnections conference takes place in fabolous Las Vegas. This is the second year where we from atwork were part of this great conference. Meeting experts and colleagues from all over the world makes this event exceptional – and, it´s in hot and sunny Las Vegas! Since we´re very deep in cloud services, our two session informed about or Top-10 list of Office 365 features and PowerBI with SharePoint Online. Here are the links to the session descriptions and to the slides on Slideshare.net. Here you find all links to more resources from our sessions. ...

In Delegate365 version 2.7 there were some minor fixes rolled out. Style Sheets and client messages were updated. The user import with an CSV file had a problem with updating the new imported users in the users list. Since D365 uses a cache layer for user objects to improve performance since version 2.3 the new users didn´t show up immediately after the file import but after the automatic sync task (which runs in the background in a predefined time frame). With this fix the new importet users now show up immediately in the users list. ...