If I subscribe to "Microsoft Action Pack Development and Design" https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/us/Pages/Membership/subscribe-action-pack-dev-design.aspx
After subscribing do I also get a MSDN subscription?
"Microsoft has increased the value of the Action Pack in a couple of
ways: 1) by breaking it into two editions, Solution Provider for VARs
and solution providers, and Development & Design for ISVs, developers,
and web designers at companies with fewer than 100 employees; 2) by
adding a TechNet subscription to the Solution Provider edition and an
MSDN subscription to the Development & Design edition."
Reference http://blogs.technet.com/b/msuspartner/archive/2011/02/23/microsoft-action-pack-subscription-offers-benefits-engagement.aspx
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I am interested in including the dropdown-account-selection feature that's available in Azure and Office in my personal ASP.NET (core/Blazor WebAssembly) app.
This often occurs when more than one AAD account is being used, or when more than one directory is being accessed at a time.
Ideally I would have a more compact view (like Google) and one that switches as quickly too
Currently, it is not possible .Please raise UserVoice or vote for similar voice
I'm considering installing a third-party plugin inside IntelliJ IDEA to add support for another programming language. I have to accept the following message. What access to my personal data does the developer of the plugin get?
The vendor is a single person and he does not provide information regarding data processing.
Not sure if this helps, but JetBrains mentions at the end, in the
User Agreement
that
2.14. "Personal Data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
JetBrains further explains what personal data means to them in
Personal Data and Why We Collect Data and What We Collect.
Jetbrains how ever explicitly states in this section
THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE, that it will not be held responsible for Third party software.
The task I am looking at is to automate the process of creating new users on a Lync 2010 server. Looking at the Lync Server SDK, this only allows creating new phone calls and sending IM. I'm looking for an interface to automate administrative task.
What I don't want to do in first place is to parse the web interface. Does anyone know of anything that might help?
There is a certain number of PowerShell cmdlets I wasnt aware of. The complete list can be found in the Documentation.
I don't find the good step-by-step guide I once came across, but there are several others out there that descript how you connect your PowerShell to the Lync Server (like this).
I haven't tested any of these scripts, but Microsoft also provides a list of useful scripts to administrate Lync (link).
The problem I was initially looking for was: How do I hide disabled user accounts in the Lync Contact list. This can be done by ticking the checkbox "Hide user from global address list" in Exchange (Note: when this is done via e.g. VBScript it takes some time before the GAL is updated, in my case the account first vanished from GAL and the next morning it also disappeared from the Lync Contact List).
MSDN subscriptions give a developer access to Visual Studio 2010 and the latest Microsoft platforms for development and testing access.
The Microsft MSDN subscription whitepaper says that MSDN licenses obtained thru an "Enterprise Agreement" (where a company buys volume named licenses on behalf of many employees) cannot be used after license expiry (i.e. they do not have Perpetual Use Rights).
I would like to know if this is a technical limitation - i.e. the product will not work after the license expires. Or whether Microsoft is relying on the licence owner to simply stop the using the product the day it expires.
(P.S. A moderator closed off this issue when I raised it yesterday saying it had nothing to do with programming. Any one who has ever used an MSDN subscription knows that it has a lot to do with programming. Looking the FAQ page, my question satisfies "software tools commonly used by programmers". My question is relevant to all Microsoft developers.)
The Microsft MSDN subscription whitepaper (Version: August 2011) says:
Generally, MSDN subscriptions that do not provide perpetual use rights
include: MSDN subscriptions purchased through Enterprise Agreement
Subscription, Open Value Subscription, Campus Agreement, or other
“subscription” Volume Licensing programs
The Volume Licensing programs Open Subscription and Open are different.
Volume Licensing Subscriptions are like "renting" the right to use the software.
"The Microsft MSDN subscription whitepaper says that MSDN licenses
obtained thru an "Enterprise Agreement" (where a company buys volume
named licenses on behalf of many employees) cannot be used after
license expiry (i.e. they do not have Perpetual Use Rights). "
True for Enterprise subscription (it's like a lease - none of the licenses under that program are perpetual unless you do a buyout at the end of the term). Not true for the regular Enterprise Agreement. Those licenses are perpetual. You'd lose rights to get further updates or media, but you'd still be able to use what you had during the term of the agreement.
My company uses outlook as the email client and we login to an exchange server. Out address book (not individual contacts) has all the users connected to our company network.
Our company dont have IM ;-( .. I am thinking about developing an outlook plugin like Gmail's Gtalk . is this possible(technically)? Or how difficult it is? Will I be able to get the list of all users (from address book) who have opened their outlook so that I can show them in the online list?
Can I do this without a DB (just sent the message to the recepient and show them)?
Outlook development is new for me and the links in this question did not help me much (very confusing). Where can I get some basic tutorials to begin with?
Edit: I have worked with VBA in outlook. So if the above can achieved using VBA the it would be great ;-) Is that possible?
VBA is an old method of building Office plug-ins and has since been replaced with just a more straight forward VB/C# module coding method. VBA plugins from Office 2003 should work alright in Office 2007, but it's no longer the suggested method if you're looking at Office 2007 + 1.
If you're using Visual Studio 2005, look for information on the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) Second Edition add-on on MSDN. If you're on Visual Studio 2008, the VSTO packages should come with the Professional editions (or higher) by default. It'll have all the templates for building add-ons for the Office suite. Going with this new direction of coding add-ons, anything should be possible.
I've personally never tried to make any sort of server/client solution, so I'm not helpful on that front, but I thought I'd put that information out there for you to consider in your planning stage of making the chat solution.
As a note, the non-individual (Exchange) address book is also known as the Global Address List (GAL).
Outlook 2010 includes instant messaging:
Use instant messaging services with Outlook
Microsoft Outlook can be used with several instant messaging services.
You can tell if your contacts are available for a real-time online
chat, audio and video conferencing, or file sharing.
Note Online status is available for any person whose instant
messaging e-mail address that you have added to your instant messaging
contact list. In addition, online status is shown for people using
Microsoft Office Communicator, regardless of whether they are on your
instant messaging contact list.