We have an exciting selection of webinars coming up over the next few months! Whether you're new to Flow or an automation expert -- or anyone in-between -- we've got the perfect free webinar for you, featuring experts from both Microsoft and your community. Come see what we have planned for April and May!
By default Office 365 (Exchange Online) allows users to enable an offline cache of all their email when using OWA. As you can imagine this doesn’t fit all corporate security models because OWA can be accessed anywhere and then the email can be cached on any computer. This post will cover how to edit the default Outlook Web App policy so that you can disable this feature.
For more about the user side of the experience and how to turn on/off at that level, please reference the Microsoft KB below.
In the Exchange Admin Center, click Permissions on the left navigation menu
Click Outlook Web App policies
Double click OwaMailboxPolicy-Default policy
If you have more than one policy, you may have to edit all the policies. Chances are that if you have more than one policy you also know what all those policies are for and will edit accordingly.
On the Outlook Web App policies window, click Offline Access
Check Never
Click Save
Now when we try to enable offline access for OWA under the user account, the user is blocked from doing so.
Office 365 gives users the ability to synchronize their LinkedIn contacts to Office 365. Those contacts are listed as contacts in People in Office 365. Many security conscious organizations want to prevent data leakage and the accidental forwarding of emails outside the organization. The though is that if these contacts are not synchronized, then the chances of accidental forwarding will not happen. I will leave it up to you to decide, but I have had partners ask for this to be disabled.
To learn more about this feature, visit the site below.
In the Exchange Admin Center, click Permissions on the left navigation menu
Click Outlook Web App policies
Double click OwaMailboxPolicy-Default policy
If you have more than one policy, you may have to edit all the policies. Chances are that if you have more than one policy you also know what all those policies are for and will edit accordingly.
On the Outlook Web App policies window, click Features
Uncheck LinkedIn Contact Sync
Click Save
The user experience now changes and the option to connect to social networks is now removed.
Office 365 provides the ability to have your tenant or users in your tenant be bumped up the line for new feature releases. Think of this as dropping a rock in water and watching the wave rings move outward. The closer you are to the center, you can get the new features first. Microsoft has this concept of Standard Release and First Release. In Standard Release, you get all the new features at a slower pace. In First Release, you get all the new features before Standard Release. If you opt in for First release, you can have your whole tenant (all users) get the newest updates or you can select users in your tenant. A good use case for the complete tenement being on First Release would be your lab environment. You want to see all the newest updates/features roll out here first, so that you can test how they function and the impacts on your user base. A good use case for select users being on First Release, would be a group of power users or pilot users in your production tenant. This gives the ability to see the new updates/features to a group of friendly users before they hit the rest of the production users.
For more information on Office 365 Release Preferences, see the KB below.
How many times have you received a meeting request, from someone outside your organization and it’s during a time where you are already booked. Then you play the back and forth game trying to find a time. Did you know that Office 365 allows you to publish your calendar so that external users can view it? The setting is contained in OWA (Outlook Web App), but you can link to it from Outlook
The recently announced Office 365 feature that will automatically create Groups based on manager/reports relationships in Active Directory reignited the debate about new features being enabled by default. The discussion in the Microsoft Tech Community was robust, and outlined many flaws in the proposed feature. But regardless of the merits of that particular feature, the discussion brought up the point that defaulting new features to “enabled” (or opt-out) is the wrong approach for many customers.
The issue is a big enough concern that a Uservoice item has been opened to collect votes from the community.
Tenant administrators should have the ability to specify whether or not new features such as Teams, Sway, etc. are enabled by default within their tenants. Just like there’s the ability to set a tenant to receive First Release, Admins should be able to specify how changes are introduced to their environment. It’s great that there are PowerShell commands to turn features on/off but it would be much easier to either set these new features to be off by default, or enable Admins to enable when organizations are ready to absorb those changes. Functionality like Teams is absolutely fantastic, but without the right change management planning it becomes confusing for users. For Tenant Admins that either ignore announcements of new features, or are unavailable to turn them off when they become available – this is an appropriate solution to enable organizations to effectively manage how they are consuming Office 365.
As I wrote in my article on managing change in Office 365, changes can create a burden for support staff, especially front line staff who will be hit with a wave of new questions when something changes. For organizations that have strict controls around change management, being able to control the deployment of new features is essential. I’ve heard from customers who use the ITIL framework, and they say that Office 365 has increased their costs because every single change needs to be managed in that framework. For them, being able to disable new features like Teams, or Focused Inbox, or Groups is essential. And while most new features can be disabled on a per-tenant or per-user basis so that the roll out can be managed through their change control processes, others such as the change in email sending behavior for Groups have no opt-out mechanism and are basically enforced on all customers. The ITIL organization has no choice but to adapt to those enforced changes.
The burden on IT departments is one side of the issue. There is also the impact that adding more complexity and variance to Office 365 will create. Taking the example of the email sending behavior for Groups, if that was presented as an option, that means more code is required to deal with Groups that have the option set one way or the other. The more code and complexity involved, the more development, testing and support costs are incurred, and the more risks there are of bugs surfacing. A service as large and complex as Office 365 is only possible when things are consistent and predictable across the entire environment.
We also need to consider whether innovation in Office 365 would slow down if adoption rates plummeted due to features being disabled by default. It should come as no surprise that one of the reasons new features are enabled by default is so that they are adopted faster by customers. For customers with minimal IT support, being able to use Teams, or StaffHub, or Bookings without needing an IT person to switch it on for you first is a positive thing. If features were always opt-in, those customers would simply miss out. And it’s entirely feasible that some IT consultants doing one-off projects to migrate customers to Office 365 would flip the switch to disable new features, with the justification that it’s for the good of the customer, and then walk away. I have no special knowledge of Microsoft’s internal decision making process around development of new features, but I assume that it would be difficult to justify investment in features if adoption is going to be limited.
This is an issue with no clear answer. If the option to disable all new features by default were made available, where do you draw the line on what constitutes a feature vs a change? If you call Teams a feature, and the Groups sending behavior a change, customers will still be caught out by unexpected changes if they’re not paying attention. That brings us back to what is perhaps the core of the issue – tenant admins who “either ignore announcements of new features, or are unavailable to turn them off when they become available.” Should we be advocating a change that caters to admins who are ignoring announcements? Or should the onus be on them to get with the program and deal with the reality of cloud services?
Clearly some folks are unhappy with the current situation, hence the Uservoice suggestion above. What do you think? Should there be an option to opt-out of all new features by default? Would you use that option for your own Office 365 deployments?
Microsoft is rolling out the long-awaited capability to restore a deleted Office 365 Group. When Groups are deleted they are now retained for 30 days by default in a “soft deleted” state, and administrators can restore the group within that period if desired. All of Group data including associated applications such as Teams and Planner is included in this restore capability, but as I discovered in my testing, Teams still has a few issues that need working out.
To give this new capability a test I created three new Groups using Outlook, Teams, and Planner (actually four, because of an error in Planner). The new Groups appeared in my Office 365 Groups report output as new Groups.
Next, I deleted each Group through the same application that was used to create it. Another run of the report script shows the Groups as deleted.
To view a list of soft deleted Groups we can use the Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup cmdlet in PowerShell. This cmdlet is available today in the AzureADPreview PowerShell module, and we can expect it to be added to the AzureAD module in the near future.
Microsoft warns that this process should take only a few minutes, but can take up to 24 hours in some cases. When the restore is complete, the Group will be available using Get-AzureADMSGroup.
The restored Group now appears as a new Group in my report.
One thing I noticed in my testing is that the Group members are restored along with the Group, except for the Group admin. In my case, all three Groups that I deleted using Jane Tulley’s account, did not restore her membership of those Groups. For the Outlook and Planner-created Groups, Jane was able to simply rejoin them, because they were public Groups (which is the default).
For the Teams-created Group, the Group type defaulted to private. When Jane attempts to rejoin, an approval request is sent to the Group admin, which is herself in this case. Clicking the link to “go to Group members” and add herself didn’t work.
The dialog for adding members shows that she is the admin, but won’t let her add herself as a member.
If she uses the Approve button in the email instead, then her membership is approved successfully.
However, although the rejoined Group appears in Jane’s Outlook, it does not appear in her Teams desktop client or web client. As a private Group, the Team also can’t be seen in the list of available public teams to join. However, after changing the Group from private to public, and then waiting a short time, the Team appeared as a public Team for other users who were not already members, but not for Jane Tulley who is a member and admin for the Group. Presumably the Team doesn’t appear in the list of Teams to join for Jane because she’s already a member. Eventually, a few hours later, the Team appeared in Jane’s Teams client.
This seems to be a wider issue with Teams when Groups are restored. I ran the test again, this time with a public Team that had multiple members. Again, the restored Team did not appear in any Teams desktop or web clients until the member was removed from the Group, then they could see the Team in the list. However, attempting to join a restored Team fails.
I ran through a variety of test scenarios, creating and deleting Teams. As a side note, here’s a simple one-liner for restoring all soft deleted Groups.
In some cases, public Teams that had been restored appeared almost immediately for other users to join, however could be joined by new members. The same error shown above was occurring.
After a few hours of testing, eventually all of the restored Teams were able to be accessed again, and the public Teams could be joined by new members. This may have all been just a symptom of the delays during restoration that Microsoft indicated could take up to 24 hours.
It’s good to see recovery of Office 365 Groups is now available, but it looks like there’s still a few wrinkles to iron out for Teams to smooth out the user experience.
Per Drag-and-Drop: Amazon Connect soll die Einrichtung von Callcentern in wenigen Minuten erledigen. Relevante Daten werden in der Cloud gespeichert und Anrufer werden mit Alexas Stimme begrüßt. (AWS, Web Service)
Is Windows Spotlight broken or stuck on the same image? If so, this guide details the steps to fix the issue.
Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 that uses Bing to automatically download and set new background images on the Lock screen, to keep your experience fresh every time you sign in.
The only caveat with Windows Spotlight is that sometimes it will stop working, or you'll notice that it gets stuck on the same image. Unfortunately, Windows 10 doesn't include an option to reset this feature. However, it's possible to fix the Windows Spotlight settings with this simple workaround.
In this Windows 10 guide, we show you the steps to fix Windows Spotlight on your computer and keep getting fresh images from Bing on your Lock screen.
Microsoft hat heute bekanntgegeben, dass das Windows 10 Creators Update in Form der finalen RTM-Build 15063 bereits im Release Preview Ring erhältlich ist und zwar für Windows 10 und Windows 10 Mobile. Das Update von Microsoft bezieht sich nur auf den Desktop. Danke für den Hinweis.
Damit bekommen die Windows Insider im langsamsten Ring nun ebenfalls das Creators Update und Microsoft wird nun den Upgrade-Pfad durchtesten können. Bislang waren im Release Preview Ring nämlich nur kumulative Updates für das Windows 10 Anniversary Update erhältlich gewesen. Microsoft ist offenbar der Meinung, dass die aktuelle Build 15063 trotz einiger Fehler, ausreichend stabil ist für den letzten Vorschau-Ring.
Damit Windows Insider im Release Preview Ring ein Gefühl dafür bekommen, was auf sie zukommt, haben wir im Folgenden den aktuellen Changelog für euch eingefügt.
Verbesserungen in Windows 10 Build 15063
Problem mit Microsoft Edge-Stabilität in Build 15061 wurde behoben.
Sprachpakete können auch nach der Installation von .NET Framework 3.5 heruntergeladen werden.
Verbesserungen in Windows 10 Mobile Build 15063
Bug behoben, der verhinderte, dass mitgelieferte Apps, darunter der Windows Store, nicht starteten.
Hintergrundaufgaben, darunter der Kamera-Upload von OneDrive sollten nun wieder korrekt funktionieren.
Problem behoben, dass der Anruf- oder SMS-Verlauf verloren ging nach einem plötzlichen Reboot.
Sprachpakete sollten wieder korrekt heruntergeladen und installiert werden können.
Bluetooth-Verbindung mit gewissen Autos sollte nun stabil funktionieren.
Standard-APN für LTE sollte nun korrekt funktionieren.
Bekannte Fehler in Windows 10 Build 15063
Bei manchen Insidern könnte die Fehlermeldung angezeigt werden, dass einige Updates widerrufen wurden. Um das Problem zu lösen, müsst ihr folgenden Registry Key löschen: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\RequestedAppCategories\8b24b027-1dee-babb-9a95-3517dfb9c552
Einige Apps könnten nicht funktionieren aufgrund einer Fehlkonfiguration der Werbe ID. Um das Problem zu beheben, ist es notwendig, den folgenden Registry Key zu löschen:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AdvertisingInfo
Die Erinnerung, dass ein Update ausständig ist, wird nicht angezeigt. Um zu prüfen, ob ein Update installiert werden muss, müsst ihr manuell in die Einstellungen schauen.
Bekannte Fehler in Windows 10 Mobile Build 15063
Das direkte Update von Anniversary Update-Builds auf Build 15063 des Creators Updates ist momentan nicht möglich. Wer sein Gerät mittels Windows Device Recovery Tool zurücksetzt, bekommt erst Build 15055 und danach 15063.
Seiten laden neu in Microsoft Edge während dem Scrollen. Microsoft untersucht das Problem.
Die Tastatur taucht manchmal einfach nicht auf.
Beim Öffnen der „Bluetooth-Gerät hinzufügen“-Einstellungen könnte ein Fehler auftreten.
Die Verhandlung hatte gewisses Potenzial. Was einen der Zeugen anging. Aber auch ein bisschen, was meinen Mandanten angeht. Deshalb wollte ich es der Richterin nicht verdenken, dass sie für den Sitzungstag zwei Wachtmeister angefordert hatte.
Das mögliche Gefährdungspotenzial war aber weitgehend nicht existent. Das erwies sich zum Glück sehr schnell. Was allerdings nicht dazu führte, dass einer der beiden Wachtmeister einfach mal das Sonnenlicht genoss, welches so schön durch die großen Seitenscheiben des Gerichts auf alle fiel.
Mitten in der Verhandlung, ich glaube die Richterin sagte gerade was, stand der ältere Wachtmeister plötzlich neben meinen Mandanten und beugte sich etwas zu ihm runter. Dann forderte er meinen Mandanten auf, sich gerade hinzusetzen und den Arm vom freien Stuhl neben sich zu nehmen, dessen Lehne der Mandant als Stütze nutzte.
Sicherlich saß mein Mandant jetzt nicht so da wie ein echter Wachtmeister-Kadett. Aber es konnte nun auch keine Rede davon sein, dass er durch seine etwas lockere Haltung besonders auffiel. Oder gar jemand störte. Ich erlaubte mir deshalb den höflichen Hinweis, dass es keine Pflicht gibt, im Gerichtssaal kerzengerade zu sitzen. Und schon gar nicht sei es verboten, den Arm auf die Lehne des nächsten Stuhls zu legen.
Die Vorsitzende reagierte so, wie ich es erwartet hatte. Sie sagte einfach nichts, was ja auch eine souveräne Geste sein kann. Der Wachtmeister erkannte jedenfalls sehr schnell, dass nicht er, sondern die Richterin hier das Sagen hat. Und indem sie nichts sagte, sagte sie recht viel.
Der Wachtmeister nahm wieder Platz. Die Sitzhaltung meines Mandanten hatte auch im Weiteren keinen erkennbaren Einfluss auf die Wahrheitsfindung.
Der Pizzabote ist kein Mensch: Die Schnellrestaurantkette Domino's Pizza will hierzulande Roboter von Starship Technologies einsetzen, um Essen auszuliefern. Die erste Pizza soll demnächst in Hamburg ausgeliefert werden. (Starship Technologies, Roboter)
Creativity has led the inspiration of our world’s greatest inventors, architects, educators, entrepreneurs, developers, and students, delivering advancements that move our world forward. Today, people value creativity more than ever, placing us on the cusp of a new wave of exploration, advancement, and impact.
We designed Windows 10 to empower the creator in all of us. To us, that means that everyone has the power to dream big, whether that involves starting a company, developing a lesson plan, inventing a product, developing or broadcasting games, or imagining a whole new world in Minecraft or mixed reality. And we want Windows to be the place you love to create and play, with the tools to help you make your mark on the world.
Windows 10 Creators Update coming April 11
Today, I’m excited to share our latest update to Windows 10, the Creators Update, will begin to roll out on April 11. The Creators Update is designed to spark and unleash creativity, bringing 3D and mixed reality to everyone and enabling every gamer to be a broadcaster. Beyond creativity, it brings new features to Microsoft Edge, additional security capabilities and privacy tools, and so much more.
Whether you’re already a Windows 10 customer or looking for a new Windows 10 device from Surface or our partners, here are just a few of the new features coming in the Windows 10 Creators Update.
3D for Everyone and enabling mixed reality
With the new Paint 3D app in the Creators Update, it’s simple to create 3D objects from scratch, easily changing colors, stamping textures, or turning a 2D picture into a 3D work of art.
The 3D industry is estimated to grow by over 62% by 2020, and we want to empower everyone to experience, create and share in 3D with the Creators Update.
Most of us have been limited to a two-dimensional canvas with existing tools, yet we live in a multi-dimensional world. With 3D, we can communicate ideas and express ourselves better, and learn faster because it’s much more representative of the world we live in. The 3D industry is estimated to grow by over 62% by 2020, and we want to empower everyone to experience, create and share in 3D with the Creators Update.
Windows has long been home to creation, with the original Paint seeing over 100 million monthly users as one of the most popular creation tools. With the new Paint 3D app in the Creators Update, it’s simple to create 3D objects from scratch, easily changing colors, stamping textures, or turning a 2D picture into a 3D work of art. Remix3D.com offers pre-made 3D art in a growing online library for your use or you can share your own creation with this creative community.
From 3D to mixed reality, the Windows 10 Creators Update enables immersive experiences that blur the lines between the physical and virtual worlds. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo will ship the world’s first Windows Mixed Reality-enabled headsets with the Creators Update, starting at just $299 USD later this year. These headsets will contain built-in sensors to enable inside-out, six-degrees of freedom, allowing for easy setup and free movement without the need for external markers or sensors in the wall. These devices will light up with new, immersive Windows Mixed Reality apps and experiences, which developers are creating on the recently available Windows Mixed Reality dev kits.
Watch, participate, chat and interact in real-time with Beam
Built-in game broadcasting on Windows 10. Now you can effortlessly stream your gameplay using the Game Bar—just hit Windows + G, click Broadcast, and start streaming on Beam—all without the need for additional log-ins.
We’re committed to making Xbox the best place to create and play games across Windows 10 and Xbox One. As part of that, we are unifying players across Xbox console and PC with Xbox Live and through programs like Xbox Play Anywhere, which enables you to buy a game once and play it on both your Xbox One and Windows 10 PC.
With the Creators Update, we are delivering more ways to play, interact, share and enjoy across Windows 10 and Xbox One. With Beam, we’re inviting Creators on Windows 10 PC and Xbox One to stream gameplay and interact with community in real-time using Beam’s ultra low-latency – no extra hardware or software required. With Beam, you don’t just watch your favorite game streams, you can chat, interact and participate with streamers and community in entirely new ways.
With Windows 10 Game Mode our goal is to offer the best and most consistent gaming experience on your Windows 10 PC by dedicating more system resources to your PC games. Once you’ve enabled Game Mode, you can apply it to any game. Learn more about the corresponding Xbox One update and new features here.
Microsoft Edge is faster and safer with better browsing and entertainment
Set your tabs aside for easy access; Microsoft Edge is the default reader for books in Windows Store.
Because so much time is spent online, we’ve designed Microsoft Edge to be the best browser for Windows 10. People are choosing Microsoft Edge because it is safer and faster than Chrome, with better battery life. With all the dangerous security threats online today, Microsoft Edge blocks 9% more phishing sites and 13% more malware than Chrome* – helping protect your identity and information; speed matters on the Web and according to Google’s own benchmarks, Microsoft Edge is faster than Chrome**. Finally, Microsoft Edge makes your battery last longer so you can stream up to 1.5 hours of video longer than Chrome***.
But that’s not all. With the Creators Update, we’ve added new features like advanced tab management to help you find, organize and open tabs you’ve set aside without leaving the page you’re on. You can now discover and get your favorite e-books in Windows Store and read them in Microsoft Edge across all of your Windows 10 devices. And, it is the only browser that can play Netflix movies and TV shows in 4K Ultra HD resolution ****.
From sleeping better to easily managing your children’s screen time
Sometimes it’s the little things that delight the most. And with the Windows 10 Creators Update, there are many delightful updates and features based on your feedback.
By reducing the blue light emitted by your screen, the night light feature helps you sleep better. With night light, when you’re working late your brain is more ready to power down for a good night’s sleep. Smartphone users love this feature and now, it’s coming to Windows 10 with the Creators Update.
The mini view feature lets you keep an ever-present small window on top of what you’re doing. This means you can do things like binge-watch your favorite show, carry on a Skype conversation or control your music, regardless of what else you’re working on.
With the Windows 10 Creators Update, parents familiar with screen time limits for Windows 10 will now find a similar set of controls for Xbox One. With screen time limits parents can manage how much time their children play games across the console and PC, giving you an extra hand, say, when your younger family member has played enough Forza Horizon 3 for the day. With screen time limits, parents can set a daily time allowance for each child and your Xbox One or Windows 10 PC will automatically sign them out when time is up. For Windows 10, you can even get a report telling you what your child played each week. To set up screen time limits, head over to account.microsoft.com/family, sign in with your parent account, and select “Screen time” for your child’s account.
Windows Hello can use any paired iPhone, Android or Windows Phone to detect when you step away from your PC or tablet, automatically locking it behind you for an extra measure of security and privacy. This remote lock feature works with smartphones, fitness bands or any device that’s paired to your PC or tablet.
Additional security and privacy protection
The new Windows Defender Security Center dashboard coming with the Windows 10 Creators Update gives you visibility of your device security, health, and online safety.
Customers like MARS, Adventist Health Systems, and the Australian Department of Human Services are choosing Windows 10 because it is the most secure enterprise platform. Businesses and people at home need advanced protection because security experts are seeing increased efforts to make common malware and ransomware more prevalent and difficult to track and defend against, putting everyone at greater risk. With Windows 10, we’ve built the most robust security protection into Windows to protect you from these threats whether you are visiting a website, sending an email or storing files in the cloud.
With the Creators Update, we offer a new service to help you monitor your security, the Windows Defender Security Center. It offers a single dashboard display so you can control your security options from one place – everything from anti-virus, network and firewall protection; to assessing your device performance and health; to security controls for your apps and browser; to family safety options. And there’s more: The Device Health Advisor gives you information on the vital signs of your device, and new settings give you more control over app installation. For our business customers, the Creators Update will continue to bring new tools and capabilities that help simplify IT – making it easier to better deploy, manage and support Windows 10 devices – and to help stomp security threats.
Your privacy deeply matters to us and to you, and the Creators Update makes it easier than ever to manage your privacy with Windows 10 and other Microsoft services with a new set up experience that lets you choose the settings that are right for you. A new Microsoft privacy dashboard lets you see and manage your activity data across multiple Microsoft services.
The Creators Update will start to roll out via Windows Update on April 11. We will be rolling it out in a measured way to ensure the best possible customer experience.
Surface Book and Surface Studio coming to more markets
Surface Studio turns your desk into a creative studio. It is a new class of device that transforms from a desktop PC into a powerful digital canvas, unlocking a more natural and immersive way to create.
Since we introduced Surface Studio, Surface Dial, and Surface Book with Performance Base last fall, we’ve heard amazing feedback on how these devices are transforming the way people bring ideas to life. Surface Studio has captured people’s imagination with a completely new way to create at your desk. And Surface Book with Performance Base has delivered an unprecedented combination of performance, battery life, and portability. We’ve heard from engineers, developers, Silicon Valley startups, designers, and photographers about how Surface devices not only help them get more done but to interact with their work in new ways. To help meet the demand for Surface devices as part of the modern office setting we are investing in partnerships with companies like Steelcase to help businesses unlock the full creative potential of their employees. With Surface and Windows 10 we are helping people realize their full creative potential and we are excited to bring that experience to more people around the world today.
Surface Book with Performance base is available for pre-order today in Austria, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and will be available for purchase on April 20th. And, Surface Studio and Surface Dial are available for pre-order today in Australia, Canada and New Zealand and will be available for purchase in Canada starting April 20th and in Australia and New Zealand on April 27th.*
Windows 10 Creators Update for Surface Hub
Last but definitely not least, Surface Hub customers worldwide will receive the Windows 10 Creators Update for Surface Hub. The update delivers some of the top requested features to make Surface Hub an even more powerful collaboration device. The updates include an improved new start screen that allows you to sign on with your credentials and access your Office 365 apps and OneDrive materials as well as new manageability tools to simplify large-scale deployments. Apps like Skype for Business are being improved to help you connect better and the Whiteboard app will now easily enable real-time collaboration between Surface Hubs. Expect a more detailed update on the great Surface Hub improvements coming in Creators Update before April 11th.
Stay tuned right here on the Windows Blog for more information soon about how to get the Windows 10 Creators Update. We are so excited to deliver the Creators Update to you and for more of you around the world to experience the amazing Surface devices that bring creativity to life.
Thanks,
Yusuf
*Based on NSS Labs report. **More information on benchmark here. ***Windows data found here. ****Exclusive DRM privilege to allow 4K stream for Microsoft Edge and Netflix app on Windows 10 on compatible Windows PCs.
*3/29/17: Updated to clarify date of purchase availability.
Apple liefert eine neue Version des iCloud-Tools für Windows-PCs aus, das mehrere Schwachstellen beseitigen soll. Sie ermöglichen es, Schadcode einzuschleusen und Informationen auszuspähen. Das BSI rät dazu, die neue Version umgehend zu installieren.
Es ist eine beschauliche Gegend in Ebersberg, Doppelhaushälften, Vorgärten, Natur. Auf einem der Dächer eine Photovoltaikanlage. Doch die friedliche Stimmung trügt, die Anlage sorgt für Ärger.
Mobile Advertising wird zunehmend wichtiger. Ausgereift ist die Werbeform allerdings nicht, wie eine Befragung unter Usern zeigt. Bei welchen Mobile Ads eure Kunden sofort den Adblocker installieren.
So nervig, dass man sie einfach nur wegklicken will: Gerade auf kleinen Mobile Displays können Ads User ganz schön ärgern. Während sich Studien immer wieder mit den besten Formen für Mobile Advertising beschäftigen, hat jetzt die Coalition for Better Ads (CFBA) mit einer Umfrage herausgefunden, welche der mobilen Werbeformate besonders nervtötend sind. Der Zusammenschluss aus globalen Advertisern und Business-Riesen wie Facebook und Google hat 25.000 Internet-User aus Nord-Amerika und Europa befragt, welche Werbung sie mobil am meisten abschreckt. Zur Auswahl standen den Befragten insgesamt 49 verschiedene Werbeformate, die sie nach dem Lesen eines längeren Website-Texts auf einem Mobilgerät bewerten sollten.
Mobile Advertising: Auf diese Formate solltet ihr verzichten
Bei den besonders störenden Werbeformaten gaben User sogar an, einen Adblocker installieren zu wollen. Die Umfrage der CFBA konnte acht Ads ermitteln, die User mobil am meisten abschrecken:
Diese Werbeformate sind bei Usern mobil besonders unbeliebt. (Quelle: Screenshot betterads.org)
Pop-up-Ads: Pop-ups bewerteten die Befragten als eine der nervigsten Werbeformen – selbst, wenn diese nach ein paar Sekunden vom Bildschirm verschwinden.
Prestitial Ads: Diese Werbemittel werden angezeigt, bevor der der Nutzer die Webseite sieht, und nehmen den gesamten Bildschirm ein – abschreckend für die meisten Mobile-User.
Werbeformate, die mehr als ein Drittel der Bildschirmfläche einnehmen. Ob die Werbung aus Text, Bildern oder Videos besteht, machte für die Test-User keinen Unterschied. In diese Kategorie fallen ebenfalls zu große Sticky Ads und Inline Ads, also zum Beispiel Banner und Rectangle-Formate.
Aufblitzende animierte Werbemittel: Besonders störend fanden die Befragten zu bunte und animierte Ads, die vom eigentlichen Inhalt ablenken.
Autoplay-Videos mit Ton: Dieses Werbeformat führt laut CFBA besonders häufig dazu, dass User die Website wieder verlassen. Gerade an öffentlichen Orten seien Autoplay Ads für User ein No-go.
Postitial Ads mit Countdown: Sie poppen auf und verdecken den Bildschirm, wenn der User auf einen Link klickt. Erst nach einem Countdown verschwindet die Ad und der User gelangt zum nächsten Inhalt. Diese Werbeunterbrechung bewerteten die meisten Studienteilnehmer als nicht hinnehmbar.
Full-Screen-Scrollover-Ads: Werbung, die sich beim Scrollen vor den Content schiebt, war ebenfalls besonders abschreckend. Zu den Scrollover Ads zählt allerdings keine Werbeeinblendung, die zusammen mit dem Content weggescrollt werden kann.
Große Sticky Ads: Am Bildschirmrand klebende Werbeformate fielen bei den Befragten durch. Auch hier gilt: Je größer die Ad, desto unangenehmer für den User.
Most companies now want to preserve all the data from an former employee, due to company standards or are required to hold the data for legal requirements. Office 365 provides a way to do this and not have to pay for the license. The simple process is that you want to place a hold on the mailbox (In-Place Hold or Litigation Hold) and then remove the license from the user. After that the mailbox data will be preserved.
I will cover the basic process below, if you need more details you can reference the Microsoft KB below.
Set-Mailbox <User or Email Address> -LitigationHoldEnabled $true
Verify litigation hold on the mailbox
Get-Mailbox <User or Email Address> | Format-List Name,LitigationHold*
Remove the Office 365 User Account
Depending on how your users are setup in Office 365, will dictate on how the accounts will be deleted. If you have cloud based accounts then you can simply select the user in Office 365 and remove the account. If you are using synchronized accounts from your local AD, then you will need to remove the account from local AD and then let the changes synchronize to Azure AD.
In order to recover an inactive mailbox in Office 365 (Exchange Online), you must search for the mailbox, get the Exchange GUID and then recover it to a new mailbox.
I will cover the basic process below, if you need more details, reference the Microsoft KB below.
The command above will create a new user and mailbox for John Doe and recover the inactive mailbox set in the variable above
The MicrosoftOnlineServicesID must match the PrimarySMTPAddress returned from the first step
Configure the new user
Make sure you assign a license to the newly created user
If you are using AD Connect, make sure that the user on-premise shares the same anchor value as the synchronized user for soft matching to work correctly
By default user will be required to change their passwords every 90 days and will be prompted 14 days before that. This default value can be changed at the tenant level for all users.
It’s been a year and figured I’d put out a small fix release.
The tool should now work properly with ADFS, UAG and TMG. We’ve also fixed the issue with multiple SPO tenants, where the application now prompts you each time without any cookie crumbs sticking around. You can even switch tenants without closing the tool.
As for new features I added a “Copy to clipboard” button which copies the raw JSON/XML of the result to the clipboard. Works a lot better than selecting from the raw tab.
Für seine neue biometrische Datenbank hat das FBI bereits Fotos von fast der Hälfte der US-Bevölkerung eingesammelt - ohne deren Einwilligung. Die Gesichtserkennung stieß auf scharfe Kritik in einer Anhörung im US-Repräsentantenhaus. (Gesichtserkennung, Technologie)
Microsoft hat OneDrive in den letzten Jahr immer mehr ins System integriert und die Erfolge machen sich nun bemerkbar. Einem aktuellen Bericht des Analystenhauses Ooma ist Microsoft zumindest laut den offiziellen Zahlen Spitzenreiter im Geschäft mit der privaten Cloud.
Benutzerzahlen schwierig zu messen
Da die Unternehmen nur sehr unregelmäßig über die eigenen Erfolge sprechen, ist es schwer zu vergleichen, wie viele Nutzer die einzelnen Dienste momentan tatsächlich nutzen. Google hat 2014 zuletzt bekanntgegeben, dass 240 Millionen Anwender bereits Google Drive verwenden. Laut Dropbox waren es im März 2016 mehr als 500 Millionen und Microsoft hatte die Halbe-Millionen-Marke bereits im Oktober 2015 erreicht, also kurz nach dem Release von Windows 10. Betrachtet man aber die Statistiken, so zeigt sich schnell, dass Microsoft in den letzten Jahren ordentlich auf die beiden Konkurrenten aufgeholt hat.
11 Prozent der OneDrive-Kunden zahlen für den Dienst
Nicht unerheblich für das Geschäft ist allerdings, wie viele Kunden tatsächlich bereit sind für den Dienst zu bezahlen. Bei Dropbox sind es nur 0,03 Prozent der Nutzer, die für ihren Cloudspeicher beim Unternehmen zahlen. Bei Google Drive sind es immerhin 0,42 Prozent, die bereit sind, Google für Extra-Speicher zu zahlen. Microsoft hat es mit seinem attraktiven Office 365-Angebot allerdings geschafft, Kunden auch langfristig an den eigenen Cloud-Speicher zu binden und so zahlen ganze 11 Prozent der Nutzer für OneDrive. Während allein Office 365 für Privatkunden bereits 24 Millionen Nutzer erreicht, verwenden schon 70 Millionen Geschäftskunden den Dienst.
Microsofts Office 365 Angebot zählt zu den interessantesten Abos für Privatkunden, die günstig eine große Menge an Online-Speicher erwerben wollen. Man scheint jedenfalls ein interessantes Modell gefunden zu haben, das auch die Kunden überzeugt. Während sich Google über die Finanzierung der Server wirklich keine Sorgen machen muss, da man schließlich einfach die Daten der Nutzer verkauft, hat es Microsoft reinen Cloud-Diensten wie Dropbox, die sich rein durch das Premium-Modell finanzieren, wirklich sehr schwer gemacht.
Fitbit hat mit der neuen Fitbit Alta HR auch einige neue Funktionen für die Plattform angekündigt, darunter auch die Schlafanalyse. Diese soll noch es ermöglichen, den Schlaf des Trägers noch genauer aufzuzeichnen als es bislang möglich war.
Dabei werden zukünftig nicht nur Daten des Bewegungssensors während des Schlafs aufgezeichnet und analysiert, um ein Bild des Schlafes zu generieren, sondern es wird maschinelles Lernen genutzt, um aus bislang verfügbaren Daten sowie der Herzfrequenz eine noch genauere Schlafanalyse zu ermöglichen. Es werden sämtliche Fibtit-Daten genutzt, um Trends festzustellen und auf negative Entwicklung zu reagieren. So kann Fitbit gewisse Empfehlungen machen, wie der eigene Schlaf verbessert werden kann basierend auf die eigenen Ernähungs- und Traningsgewohnheiten.
Die neuen Funktionen werden als erstes mit der Fitbit Alta HR funktionieren und dürften danach als Firmware-Update auch für die Fitbit Blaze und Fibit Charge 2 ausgerollt werden. Unter dem folgenden Link könnt ihr die offizielle Fitbit-App aus dem Windows Store herunterladen:
It has been a while since we blogged about the ability to control the behavior of Sent Items for shared mailboxes when users either send as or on behalf of shared mailboxes. Today, we are glad to share with you that this feature is currently rolling out for User mailboxes also! What does that mean in real life?
Let’s say you have the following scenario:
Mary is a delegator/manager on the team
Rob is a delegate on Mary’s mailbox; Rob has Send As or Send on behalf of rights on Mary’s mailbox.
When Rob sends an email as Mary, the email will be only in Rob’s Sent Items folder
With this feature enabled on Mary’s mailbox, Exchange will copy the message that Rob sends as Mary to the Sent Items folder in Mary’s mailbox. In other words, both Rob and Mary will have the message in their Sent Items folders.
We have heard this request more than once, and now we are rolling it out to an Exchange Online mailbox near you! The configuration and behavior of the feature is the same as for the shared mailbox.
Note: If the user has used the Outlook 2013 feature to change the folder that Sent Items are saved to, the messages will be copied to that folder instead of the user’s Sent Items folder. Users can reconfigure this by clicking the Save Sent Items To button on the Email Options tab.
Enable message copySent On Behalf of the delegatorFor emails Sent On Behalf of the delegator:
Note, you can use the Office 365 Portal to configure this for shared mailboxes, but to configure user mailboxes, you’ll need to use PowerShell (the team would like to hear if you feel it should be in the Portal too!). For various other details of behavior please see the shared mailbox post.
Next question that some might have is: What about on-premises?
Update 4/17/2016: As it stands right now, we plan to release this feature as a part of the Exchange 2016 CU6 release.
Per Drag-and-Drop: Amazon Connect soll die Einrichtung von Callcentern in wenigen Minuten erledigen. Relevante Daten werden in der Cloud gespeichert und Anrufer werden mit Alexas Stimme begrüßt. (AWS, Web Service) 
Der Pizzabote ist kein Mensch: Die Schnellrestaurantkette Domino's Pizza will hierzulande Roboter von Starship Technologies einsetzen, um Essen auszuliefern. Die erste Pizza soll demnächst in Hamburg ausgeliefert werden. (Starship Technologies, Roboter) 
Für seine neue biometrische Datenbank hat das FBI bereits Fotos von fast der Hälfte der US-Bevölkerung eingesammelt - ohne deren Einwilligung. Die Gesichtserkennung stieß auf scharfe Kritik in einer Anhörung im US-Repräsentantenhaus. (Gesichtserkennung, Technologie) 
