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DSC Configuration Sharing
The community around DSC Resources has been inspiring. The PowerShell Gallery now includes more than 2000 modules/scripts. 181 of those are modules focused on DSC, that collectively include 766 DSC Resources.
With this many building blocks available, it has become easier and faster to get a DSC project through the proof of concept phase to production-ready Windows Servers built using Configuration As Code.
When the author is new to DSC, their first configuration is a complex learning experience. The modules containing DSC Resources often have an /Examples folder with Configuration scripts showing how to use Resources, but they tend to be very specific and demonstrate only the functionality that the Resource was intended to solve. It can be hard to envision an end-to-end scenario-based Configuration. That typically comes later in the maturity model of learning DSC.
So how can we simplify and go faster? We’ve already seen that the community is very good at empowering people to be successful. Sharing examples helps people to look at existing work and identify patterns that can be repeated.
A community repo for DSC Configurations
Last week at the Automation Management Summit 2017, I previewed a new set of project repositories on GitHub. The goal of this work is to document a process for sharing end-to-end scenario-based Configurations.
Here is where to get started:
http://github.com/powershell/dscconfigurations
This project includes three individual repos:
- DSC Configurations
- DSC Configuration Template
- DSC Configuration Tests
The goal of these is to provide guidance and tools to reduce the mean time to minimum viable product by iterating quickly. This was a key point of feedback at least year’s DSC Camp. The Template repo provides an example of how to layout a Configuration project. The Tests repo provides an automated solution to validate a Configuration script using Azure Automation and Azure Virtual Machines.
You will find the documentation in the submodules is still light to non-existant. I will be contributing to these as much as possible. In the mean time the community is welcome to submit Issues and PR’s to get things moving along more quickly. See the DSC Contribution Guidelines for more information.
Process change in the publishing model
I’d like to finish by pointing out an important change in process. With the DSC Resource Kit, today we follow a model where modules are authored and then handed off to the PowerShell team to be hosted in a central repository, and then published to the PowerShell Gallery. We are finding that in this model, we can actually become the bottleneck to release because it can be impossible to match pace with the throughput of so many people doing great authoring work in the community.
So with that in mind, the process for Configuration sharing will be that that the author should continue to host their code in a repo they own. Just like for Resources, they will continue to be the project maintainer. This is only a change to where the code is located on GitHub. Also just like Resources, the author can submit a request to the community for feedback and discuss their work in the monthly DSC Community Call. The end result of their work will still be to publish in the PowerShell Gallery. Additional details such as how to package Configurations and what tags to use will be documented in the DSCConfigurations project repo.
Thank you! I look forward to working together with everyone in the DSC community on DSC Configuration sharing.
Michael Greene
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Automatically create process diagrams in Visio from Excel data
Today, we’re excited to announce Data Visualizer, a new Visio feature that automatically converts process map data in Excel into data-driven Visio diagrams. This update, which is available to Visio Pro for Office 365 users, helps reduce manual steps while giving business analysts even more ways to create process diagrams in Visio.
Automatically create process diagrams from Excel data
Diagrams don’t always start in Visio. They often begin as hand-drawn sketches or—in today’s data-driven age—in Excel. Using Data Visualizer, business analysts can represent process steps and associated metadata in a structured Excel table and quickly convert that information into a visualized Visio diagram. You can do this by either using a premade Excel template or an existing spreadsheet of your own design. The premade templates—there’s one for basic and one for cross-functional flowcharts—provide a sample mapping table to populate with diagram metadata. The table includes predefined columns for process step number, description, dependencies, owner, function, phase and more. You can also customize the table with your own columns to meet specific business requirements.
Once the table is populated, Visio’s wizard helps you complete the remaining steps to transform your Excel data into a Visio process diagram. If you customize the premade template or create one of your own, the wizard helps you map certain flowchart parts, like swim lanes and connectors. The resulting diagram is linked to the Excel table, so if the underlying process data is modified, the diagram updates accordingly. Likewise, shape modifications in Visio are preserved if the Excel data changes.

Additionally, analysts can save their Visio diagrams and the underlying Excel mapping table as a single package using the “Export as a Template Package” feature. These packages can be shared and reused by others, eliminating the need to recreate the same diagram from scratch while encouraging process consistency across the organization.
No matter your preference—whether creating diagrams from a template or your own spreadsheet—the underlying Excel data travels with the related Visio Pro for Office 365 file, helping ensure your team always has the latest diagram version.
Start a free trial of Visio Pro for Office 365 to try Data Visualizer today, and visit our support page for step-by-step instructions to create your first process diagram from Excel data.
Please visit our UserVoice page to submit suggestions for new capabilities, and follow us on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for the latest Visio news.
—The Visio team
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What’s New in Office 365 for April 2017
Office 365 for IT Pros, 3rd Edition is continually updated with new information, changes and corrections. Customers who bought the book from this website can download the updated files from their purchase history. Updates applied to the Amazon Kindle version are available through your Kindle library after they are approved by Amazon.
During April Microsoft has launched quite a few new apps and features in Office 365. The new To-Do app is available in Preview, and is built by the same team that created Wunderlist (acquired by Microsoft in 2015). Wunderlist lives on while features are added to To-Do, but will eventually be shut down. As a preview release To-Do is a basic personal task list app with a few nice features such as the “My day” list of tasks. To-Do integrates with Outlook tasks but doesn’t integrate with tasks from other services like Planner or SharePoint.
Outlook Customer Manager, which is a lightweight CRM for Outlook users released last November, is now rolling out to Office 365 Business Premium customers around the world, and is also now being added to Outlook for iOS for mobile access. Interestingly it also adds the ability to delegate the scheduling of customer meetings to Cortana. It will be interesting to see the results of that. AI-driven scheduling could be very efficient, but on the other hand there’s bound to be someone who gets offended at the lack of personal interaction.
In Security and Compliance Land the new Office 365 Threat Intelligence features have just arrived in my tenant. Threat Intelligence, available for Enterprise E5 tenants or as a separate add-on license, combines threat information gleaned from industry reports, telemetry from Microsoft’s cloud services, and analytics from within your own tenant to provide you with what Microsoft refers to as “actionable intelligence”. I’m still exploring this in my own tenant, but the idea is that you can look at reports such as malware detection, identity users in your organization who are being targeted, or creates alerts when a user has been targeted by malware.
Custom sensitive information types have also been added to the Security and Compliance Center. If you’ve worked with Exchange Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in the past then you might already be familiar with the process of creating definitions based on regex or keywords to meet specific DLP requirements that aren’t covered by the built-in functionality. Creating a sensitive information type involves authoring a specially formatted XML file that is imported using PowerShell, so it’s not a simple task. But the good news is if you’ve already invested the time to define sensitive information types in your Exchange Online DLP configuration, they’ll be ported automatically to the Security and Compliance Center for use across all workloads.
A new enhanced reporting dashboard has also been added to the Security and Compliance Center. Everybody loves a good dashboard.

Office 365 Groups receives another big round of updates and improvements, including:
- The addition of guest management controls in the Office 365 admin portal and Exchange Admin Center. You can add existing guest users to Groups, or remove them. But at this stage you can’t invite new guests to your organization.
- In a big step forward for compliance, Groups can now have retention policies applied to them. Tony Redmond walks through the new capabilities, including a few gotchas to be aware of, in his article on Petri.
- The ability to upgrade Exchange distribution lists to Office 365 Groups has been added as a one-click option for distribution list owners. PowerShell scripts have also been provided for bulk conversions. Only cloud-managed, non-nested distribution lists that have no moderation or send-on-behalf settings, aren’t hidden from address lists, and only contain user mailboxes, team mailboxes, shared mailboxes, or mail users can be upgraded. That narrows the use case quite a bit, but should result in more adoption of Groups by customers.
- Groups access has also been added to the latest Outlook for iOS and Android apps, as well as Outlook for Mac. The standalone Groups mobile apps will remain available as well until Outlook has full support for Group files, calendars, and notebooks.
- The New-UnifiedGroup cmdlet has been modified to remove the SuppressWarmupMessage when creating new Groups, apparently due to confusion over its purpose.
Office 365 ProPlus received big news in April:
- Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links has been added to Office applications. Now when users in ATP-enabled tenants click on hyperlinks in documents, the links will receive the same checking that Safe Links performs on links in emails. However, unlike emails, the links themselves are not rewritten in the documents. The experience so far has been a little rough for me, with multiple timeouts on the link checks, but it seems to be improving.
- The update model for Office 365 ProPlus is changing to align with Windows 10 updates. There will now be two updates to Office 365 ProPlus per year instead of three, with the updates targeted for March and September. Support for each release is being extended from 12 months to 18 months as well. These changes should take some of the pressure off support staff who are trying to manage deployment and updates across large fleets of desktops. As part of the change, the update channels for Office 365 ProPlus are being renamed, again. For example, from September 2017 the Current Channel will now be called the Monthly Channel, and the Deferred Channel will be called the Semi-annual Channel (Broad). I don’t think the names are an improvement but I guess they were deemed necessary.
In other Office 365 news:
- The MyAnalytics Outlook add-in received an update to help you with your big rocks and dwell time.
- Planner now supports assigning multiple users to a task.
- You can now edit posts in Yammer.
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DB Navigator: Siemens übernimmt Bahn-App-Anbieter aus Hannover
Siemens baut nicht nur Züge, sondern versorgt Bahnkunden künftig auch mit Fahrplan-Informationen. Hacon aus Hannover steckt hinter vielen bekannten Apps – unter anderem dem DB Navigator.
Siemens übernimmt den Fahrplan-App-Anbieter Hacon aus Hannover. Das Unternehmen erstellt Apps für die Deutsche Bahn, viele regionale Verkehrsverbünde und zwei Dutzend ausländische Bahngesellschaften. Wenn die Kartellbehörden die Übernahme freigeben, soll diese bis Ende Juni abgeschlossen werden, teilte Siemens am Freitag mit.
Hacon beschäftigt 300 Mitarbeiter und macht einen Jahresumsatz im zweistelligen Millionenbereich. Die Kaufsumme wurde nicht genannt. Fahrplan-Software ist für den ICE- und U-Bahn-Hersteller Siemens ein neues Geschäftsfeld. „Wir wollen nicht nur Züge verkaufen, sondern auch Produkte, mit denen unsere Bahnkunden bei ihren Kunden punkten können“, sagte ein Sprecher. Der Kaufpreis wurde nicht genannt.
Der Chef der Siemens-Bahnsparte, Jochen Eickholt, sagte: „Wir setzen damit konsequent die Digitalisierungsstrategie um und eröffnen uns neue Wachstumschancen entlang der Wertschöpfungskette unserer Kunden.“ Siemens biete jetzt Software-Lösungen für Zug- und Trassenplanung, Fahrplan-Information, Mobilitätsplattformen und Bezahlsysteme aus einer Hand an.
Hacon bereits 1984 gegründet
Gegründet wurde Hacon 1984 von drei Universitätsabsolventen, die sich auf die Bereiche Personenverkehr, Güterverkehr und Eisenbahnbetriebswissenschaft spezialisiert hatten. Schon 1989 konnten die Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen und die damalige Deutsche Bundesbahn als Kunden für das angebotene Fahrplaninformationssystem gewonnen werden. Seit 1995 bietet das Hannoveraner Unternehmen auch Online-Fahrplanauskünfte an. Das bekannteste Projekt des Hannoveraner Unternehmens dürfte die Fahrplanauskunft hinter bahn.de und der App DB Navigator sein. jsa/dpa
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Nach Streit mit Elon Musk: Grohmann-Chef verlässt Tesla-Tochter
Als Tesla im November den deutschen Maschinenbauer Grohmann übernahm, planten die beiden Chefs ihre Zukunft noch gemeinsam. Doch nach einem Streit mit Elon Musk musste Klaus Grohmann nun gehen.
Als Klaus Grohmann 1963 eine Maschinenbau-Firma gründete, war Elon Musk noch nicht einmal geboren. Im November übernahm der US-Unternehmer den deutschen Familienbetrieb Grohmann Engeneering, der Anlagen für automatische Produktion verkauft. Damals hieß es, man wolle gemeinsam zusammenarbeiten und die „fortschrittlichsten Fabriken der Welt bauen“. Grohmann wechselte als Manager zu Tesla. Doch aus den gemeinsamen Plänen wird offenbar nichts.
„Ich bin sicherlich nicht ausgeschieden, weil ich keine Lust mehr habe.“
Wie die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters berichtet, hat Klaus Grohmann das Unternehmen im vergangenen Monat verlassen. Grund sollen Streitigkeiten über den Umgang mit ehemaligen Kunden des deutschen Mittelständlers sein. So soll Grohmann es abgelehnt haben, sich auf Tesla-Projekte zu konzentrieren und bisherige Kunden wie Daimler, BMW und Bosch zu vernachlässigen. Quellen betonten gegenüber Reuters, dass der US-Elektropionier seine Produktion mithilfe der neuen Unternehmenstochter hochfahren will. „Ich bin sicherlich nicht ausgeschieden, weil ich keine Lust mehr habe“, zitiert Reuters den 75-jährigen Unternehmer Grohmann.
Elon Musk hat Stress mit der Gewerkschaft
Ein Tesla-Sprecher formulierte es positiver und lobte Grohmann dafür, ein „unglaubliches Unternehmen“ aufgebaut zu haben. „Teil von Grohmanns Entscheidung, mit Tesla zusammenzuarbeiten, war, dass er sich auf seinen Ruhestand vorbereiten und das Unternehmen in gute Hände abgeben wollte“, sagte der PR-Mann gegenüber Reuters. Mit dem Fokus auf Tesla-Projekte habe man sich aber nun „gemeinsam“ entschieden, dass es die richtige Zeit sei für eine neue Management-Generation.
Für Elon Musk ist die Sache damit aber noch nicht ausgestanden. Unter den Mitarbeitern soll der Abgang für Verunsicherung sorgen. „Im November wurde uns noch gesagt, es bleibe alles beim Alten. Ende März waren wir überrascht zu hören, dass er in Ruhestand geht“, so Betriebsratschef Uwe Herzig. Die IG Metall fordert außerdem einen Tarifvertrag von Tesla. Elon Musk äußerte sich vor kurzem dazu und kritisierte, dass die Gewerkschaft seine Mission nicht teile.
- Zur Steigerung der Model-3-Produktion: Tesla übernimmt deutsches Unternehmen Grohmann
- Elon Musk wettert gegen die Gewerkschaft: „IG Metall teilt unsere Vision nicht“
Unter Strom: Mirko Borsche erlebt als Apple-Fan eine Enttäuschung mit dem neuen MacBook
US-Wahl: Facebooks versteckter Fingerzeig auf Russland
WTF: Zugangskarten zum US-Senat: Bild eines Smart-Chips statt Smart-Chip
Umfrage: Verwaltung kann die Kosten von Office 365 fast verdoppeln
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Messenger Lite: Facebook bringt abgespeckte Messenger-App nach Deutschland
Die abgespeckte Version des Facebook Messenger ist über ein halbes Jahr nach der ersten Veröffentlichung offiziell in Deutschland erhältlich. Auf einem Android-Smartphone belegt die App weniger als zehn Prozent des Speicherplatzes, den der eigentliche Messenger benötigt. (Facebook, Instant Messenger) Minister will Staatstrojaner ermöglichen
Sachsens Justizminister Sebastian Gemkow (CDU) will Staatstrojaner auf Computern und Handys ermöglichen.
Vom A350-1000XWB gibt es erst drei flugfähige Maschinen. Im Airbus-Hauptwerk in Toulouse, Frankreich, hatten wir eine kurze Gelegenheit, uns in einer der Testmaschinen umzuschauen und zu schwitzen. Und der A330neo stand zufällig daneben. Ein Bericht von Andreas Sebayang (