Microsoft new Teams Pro for windows

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IT admins – How to roll out
the new Teams

Before you start, review the list of feature limitations above to decide if it’s right for your organization or your early adopters. You can manage the new Teams experience using Teams PowerShell or in the Teams Admin Center. For step-by-step instructions on how to roll out the new Teams, read through our documentation, which includes a known issues list.

Get started today

Today marks the new era of Microsoft Teams, and we are just getting started. As the world continues to evolve, Teams is here to be your modern workplace. For a sneak peek of all the new experiences we are building on new Teams, watch the video below.

Air quality monitoring system

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Bangladesh was the most polluted country, while New Delhi, India, is the world’s most polluted capital. The countries with the worst air pollution were India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, all exceeding WHO guidelines by 10 times.

Denmark. With a total EPI score of 82.5, Denmark is 2020’s cleanest and most environmentally friendly country. Denmark stands out for its high scores in several categories, including Wastewater Treatment (100), Waste Management (99.8), and Species Protection Index (100).

Particle Pollution

  • ground-level ozone
  • particle pollution (also known as particulate matter, including PM2.5 and PM10)
  • carbon monoxide
  • sulfur dioxide
  • nitrogen dioxide

The United States Environmental Protection Agency measures five major pollutants, all of which are regulated via the Clean Air Act. Of these, particle pollution is the most commonly monitored. The World Health Organization evaluated the concentration of PM2.5 particles to determine the most polluted place on Earth. PM2.5 (fine particulate matter 2.5) refers to tiny particles or droplets in the air that are 2.5 microns (µg) or less in diameter.

aerosol sprays. cleansers and disinfectants. moth repellents and air fresheners. stored fuels and automotive products.

In most guidelines, a concentration of less than 0.5 mg/m3 is deemed acceptable, along with a stipulation that any specific compound being tracked should not exceed 250 ug/m3.

When you smell a “musty-moldy” odor, it’s generally the VOC you are noticing. VOC are often considered irritants to mucus membranes, however, are also capable of both short-term and long-term adverse health effects. Symptoms of mold exposure may include headache, sore throat, runny nose, coughing, sneezing, watery eyes and fatigue. In those with asthma, asthma attacks can occur. In those with impaired immune systems, serious infection can occur.

The Sensedge is the first in the industry to use removable sensor modules to replace the traditional, costly calibration processes for long-term accuracy with minimal maintenance. Kaiterra is the company that manufacture this product.

Integrate with Building Automation System using BACnet

With support for BACnet/IP, real-time air quality data can be seamlessly integrated into existing Building Automation Systems (BAS), such as Johnson Controls METASYS, Honeywell WEBs-N4 and WEBs-AX, Schneider Electric EcoStruxure, and Siemens Desigo. 

The Sensedge supports simultaneous connections to the cloud for data reporting, and BACnet for local building automation.

A very good product that i will suggest.

Scheduled email and Delayed email from Outlook

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Microsoft Outlook Desktop or Laptop can now delay sending emails when the Microsoft Outlook app is closed / laptop is in sleep mode.

A delayed email will only send while Outlook is still open. You must set the sending time for a time when you still have Outlook running. If you try to close Outlook before a delayed message has sent, Outlook will remind you that you have unsent emails in your Outbox.

Where do scheduled emails go in outlook? Scheduled emails in Outlook can be viewed in the drafts folder, ordered by date. On desktop, you’ll find drafts in the left sidebar. On mobile and most clients, it’s tucked in the top left navigation menu under the user initials.

Delayed emails that have not yet been sent are located in your Outlook “outbox” folder. To edit an email, simply open it as usual, make any necessary changes, and then click “Send.” The email is scheduled for a delayed delivery, and will remain in your inbox until it is ready to be sent.

Schedule Send lets you pick the exact day and time you want your email to arrive. It’s very similar to Boomerang, if you’ve used that browser extension, except that it’s built right into Gmail, which makes it a million times more convenient.

How to DO? Microsoft Outlook, you can compose an email and set it to be sent at a specific time using the delay delivery feature.

  1. Open a new email message.
  2. Compose the email as you normally would, including a recipient, subject line, and email message.
  3. In the “Options” tab in the “More Options” group, click “Delay Delivery.” 
  4. In the “Delivery options” section of the Properties window, make sure “Do not deliver before” is checked.
  5. Enter the time you want the email to send.
  6. Click [Close].
  7. Click [Send].

Microsoft Team – Transition – Upgrade Policy

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If you are using Skype for business and you now started using Microsoft Teams in your organization, some of the user who send you chat from SFB and as a team user, you did not received. This is a bug and to overcome this, Teams Upgrade Policy allows administrators to manage the transition from Skype for Business to Teams.

Issue: Unable to run the power shell command for our O365 account to change user “Team-Only” mode

Summary: After running the command in SFB online powershell polcy was succesfully assigned.

Resolution steps: Download Skype for Business Online, Windows PowerShell Module.

Upgrade Policy: Click here

 

To download the Powershell module for this task: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39366

Open powershell and Run the following commands:

Set-ExecutionPolicyUnrestricted

Import-ModuleLyncOnlineConnector

For Multi Factor enabled account:

$acctName=”user@domain.com”

$sfboSession = New-CsOnlineSession -UserName $acctName

Import-PSSession $sfboSession

For non-MFA account:

$cred= Get-Credential

$Session= New-CsOnlineSession-Credential $cred

Import-PSSession$Session –AllowClobber

***********after the successful login, you are now able to execute the following command

Grant-CsTeamsUpgradePolicy -PolicyName UpgradeToTeams -Identity username@contoso.com

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This shows that the command is successfully executed.

 

Educational Purpose – Free Office 365 – UAE – Microsoft Gulf

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Microsoft has announced the free availability of Office 365 and Office 365 ProPlus to students, faculty and staff all across the world – at no charge, starting today, February 23, 2015. Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus for Education is a communication and collaboration platform available in the cloud, currently used by over 110 million students, faculty and staff worldwide.

Eligible students, Microsoft notes, will be able to sign up for Office 365 ProPlus and install Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Access on up to 5 PCs or Macs and mobile devices including Android, iPad and Windows tablets. In addition, they’ll also have access to OneDrive and Office Online.

From now on, students can check their eligibility for free Office from their school. Teachers can do the same by clicking here.

Good move from Microsoft Gulf 🙂

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Microsoft Great Plains – Marriage between GP Web Client & Microsoft Azure

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So here we go, after we have gone through a months of nightmares, here are some of the guideline for how to deploy GP 2015 web client on Microsoft Azure platform. The test starts with GP 2013…and ended up 2015. Now its working satisfactory…

History of an ERP system

The Dynamics GP product was originally developed by Great Plains Software, an independent company located in Fargo, North Dakota, which was run by Doug Burgum. Dynamics Release 1.0 was released in February 1993. In late 2000, Microsoft announced the purchase of Great Plains Software for $1.1 billion. This acquisition was completed in April 2001.

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August 2014: Now that we plan to start migrating from GP 2013 Web Client, we got an idea for moving our ON-PREM server to a proper DR site….to dream this solution; its beautiful…to implement, its a pain…

Microsoft Azure came into picture…its not just that, we have no guideline for how to slice and dice this environment to host Microsoft GP from Azure….along with Microsoft CRM Online integration. i did ask our GP community to help me..but no reply

Its a major task….and our nightmare starts….Team Spirit at its best Myself, Vaidy and Shiyas discussed our plan and submit to our Executive Director Jimmy @ Elcome International, who is there for all the help…approved our plan to go ahead.

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Planning checklist started….

  • All the Crystal reports to be converted to SSRS reports
  • Get ready to go with existing GP code to be compatible with GP desktop/web client
  • CRM should be Microsoft Online CRM
  • ERP has to be there at Microsoft Azure
  • Azure VM needs to setup…..
  • Integration between our online CRM & Microsoft GP using Scribe
  • Instead of Terminal session, use Remote Apps.
  • DNS propagation and IIS/Certificate installation
  • User training and new environment adaptation…
  • Discuss any other technical glitch for moving our critical business application cloud go-live on halt…
    • there you go….
    • Once we move our server to cloud…we are totally depend on our ISP internet connection. We have only one internet connection, 100Mpbs. Once this is down, our business halt….so we need another internet connection., that also from a different switch/route from ISP. The reason is because if the one network is down, the other network will server the purpose. What if whole internet is down? We have planned for a 4G modem route; also from 2 ISP data SIM….If this is also down, We have a backup link from Satellite to serve the purpose…but this is the last option.

So lets start moving our PAWN….boarder has been drawn…deadline has been set….

First thing first….Azure slice…We have done quite a lot of mistakes, while provisioning the SQL server…below was the primary configuration we deployed. (This was done, when Remote App @ Azure is still under preview)

  • What machines did you select, who did the sizing for you.
    • SQL Server Azure Machine Type: A7, 8core, 56GB RAM
  • Server Configuration Window Server 2012 R2 64bit with SQL 2104
    • Terminal Server (For users to access GP Client): Azure Machine Type: A7, 8core, 56GB RAM
    • Fresh Installation on Azure: ZONE: East Asia
  • How did we deploy your instances.
    • Details as mentioned above
    • Sizing: There are no documet support received from Microsoft/Partner, at this stage, so we did it ourself
    • We have raised the questions to different product blog platform from Microsoft and no response so far
  • What are the total concurrent number of users for each?
  • Terminal Server users: 40
  • Great Plains users: 60

Build number at the time of this test (September 2014): GP 2013 R2 – 12.00.1745

Testing started….

Connecting to the server took a very long time from Web Client. Rendering issues of each window…Lookup issues

Done an installation of windows client as in Dynamics GP client on-premise, then we did a testing with Dynamics GP client installed on 4 machines on-premise. These clients connected to Azure ERP (database) server. Below were the observations:

  1. Performance in terms of transactions lookup and entry was slower than Azure Terminal Server setup.
  2. Posting transactions took more time than desired.
  3. Windows rendering was not bad like it was in Azure TS setup, but field to field traverse within a window took a bit longer than on-premise TS and Azure TS setup.

October 2014: Testing still in progress and we have moved multiple scenario as to

  • Web client only – 40 users from different region
  • Web Client and GP desktop client – 20 users from the office only

Still no sign of user experience improvement…we have decided to call Microsoft Centre of Expertise for help….

Performance issues may occur because of the Datacenters latency.  This link will help you identify the latency and what is the closest datacenter to your location.

November 2014:

they are in…..done couple of testings on the existing scenario…

OUR LEARNING CURVE….with them

Best practice to consider while doing SQL server provisioning on Microsoft Azure… (I’m considering here only my region..each admin should consider their region when it comes to azure regional datacenter selection)

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So here are the facts, which needs to be taken care while provisioning the SQL server on Azure for ERP data platform. Click here to read.

Monday, November 24, 2014

As per our tests today we can conclude the following:

  1. Performance is good with 1 and 6 users test.
  2. Posting, rendering and loading are Ok
  3. No bottlenecks noticed on the RS and SQL machine in terms of Memory and Processor
  4. We noticed higher activity related to the Network and Disk I/O’s which also was in the normal range
  5. Also Nearest DC is East Asia and latency is within accepted range
  6. System is configured properly.
  7. We also found that A7 may not be needed as there are a lot of unused resources.

Based on that we discussed and agreed on the following action plan

  1. We will do another test with 30 users and will monitor the RS and SQL Server.
  2. Depending on the resource consumption we will create an A4 machine as another RDS in the same cloud service and will do another 30 users test
  3. Based on the performance results and resource consumption we will decide to use which machine.

Thursday, December 4, 2014: As per our Second round test we conclude the following

  1. Performance related to the RDS and Latency is Ok
  2. We faced 1 user latency issue and we have tested the same user from another machine and it was Ok, so I assume that this is a machine specific issue.
  3. Transaction posting, Fields lookup and populating is Ok
  4. We found out that 1 Transaction with average 50 lines was posted in around 8 minutes which is not acceptable related to previous experience and we agreed that you will perform some database maintenance checks (DBCC, Index and Update statistics) on Sunday and retest the high volume postings noting that we didn’t find any unusual bottle necks in SQL during the posting process.

Following are the observations after running DBCC checks and updates:

  • DBCC CHECKDB returned no errors on both DYNAMICS (app database) and ELDB (GP company database)
  • With GP2013, DBCC REINDEX script (to run for multiple tables) is not provided as it is configured directly on SQL.
  • “Auto Create Statistics” and “Auto Update Statistics” are also setup on both databases by default.

I then posted a GRN with 347 line items and it took exactly 7 minutes (8 minutes less than our previous testing AND 3 minutes more than on-premise). Please note that no other user(s) had logged on when I posted this transaction.

We now should consider in line with Expertise that  we can be aligned, that simulate a production scenario go with 3 servers A7 SQL, A4 RDS and A4-A5 for your web components. Please note that A5 is 2 cores and 14 GB of RAM based on the test result we may need to increase the cores but for now we can start by this configurations and see.

  • A4 machine Scenario is good and CPU average usage is way far from the A5 machine
  • We noticed that the antimalware extension installing is hanging do we removed it from the SQL Server machine and will restart it
  • For the RDS machine it will remain as it is till we finalize the Web client stress test
  • We noticed a list form that freeze, this can be due to IE temporary files and cache.
  • We cleared the cache, also we lowered the settings for the trusted zone to medium-low and installed the trusted cert from Web client and we retested the issue, it was gone.
  • From a common-best practice users can do a more filtered lookups if possible and try to minimize the scroll to end in one click to maintain the buffer for running any form related script smoothly.

Next Actions

  • We need to stress test the web server.
  • Conclude the outcome.
  • After Removing the Extension installation and restarting the SQL Server, it returned to normal
  • The Web Server had no bottle necks
  • Some of the users faced some screen freezing when they scrolled from top to bottom and vice versa quickly. (User behaviour issue)

The following are some notes regarding Internet explorer and user behaviour

  • Only Windows 8 and IE 10 are supported with GP2013, Windows 8.1 and IE 11 are supported with GP 2015
  • It is recommended to Adjust IE settings by Emptying the IE temporary files, Lower the security settings to medium low in the trusted sites and adding the Web Server URL to the trusted sites, installing the security add on prompted by the GP web Client(May require local admin privilege), update your Silverlight.
  • The most important thing is to educate the user of the face that this should happen if the user doesn’t follow the common practice.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015, Web Client both became available to Dynamics Partners/Customers from December 2014…With this deployment, this is clearing a lot of issue what we face on GP 2013 web client….So another task…replace with GP 2015

Today…Sunday, December 28, 2014

 

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So now we have come to a conclusion for how to go ahead further…..

  • Backup line is up….trying to find a device to manage multiple VPN…Cradle Point?…till then TMG
  • Few users computer needs to upgrade
  • Going for a Hybrid approach…meaning GP 2015 Web Client and GP Remote Apps (reason for this remote apps is because Analytical accounting is not supported by Web Client)

Now we start getting another issue….

While trying to access our SSRS reports from within GP 2015 web client, using Internet Explorer 10, we are receiving a critical error titled “AsyncCallBackException”. Reports are invoked programmatically using “URL Access” method and authentication is happening within same domain.

DETAILS:

We have written a plugin to invoke our SSRS reports from within GP 2015 web client. Function that we use is as follows:

  • Dynamics.Forms.SyVisualStudioHelper.Functions.DexUtilityLaunchUrl.Invoke(sReportName);
  • URL is constructed by using URL Access method by directly calling SSRS Report Server report path.
  • Report is getting generated without any issues. But once we close the browser that rendered the report, following series of errors are received:

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If we close our browser and reconnect to the session, we retain some of the errors OR some functionalities such as Lookup button, tabbing out, etc. do not work.

Kindly note that any other website could be launched with the same without any issues. There is a GP forum post which is exactly the same issue, but no resolution is posted out there:

The funny part is that GP 2015 web client works well with Google Chrome browser….we did not expect that coming…but IE issue remains same

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Severity: Critical

Summary: An AsyncCallback threw an exception.

Details:

System.Exception: An AsyncCallback threw an exception. —> System.Exception: An AsyncCallback threw an exception. —> System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: The remote server returned an error: NotFound. —> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: NotFound. —> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: NotFound.

at System.Net.Browser.BrowserHttpWebRequest.InternalEndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)

at System.Net.Browser.BrowserHttpWebRequest.<>c__DisplayClassa.<EndGetResponse>b__9(Object sendState)

at System.Net.Browser.AsyncHelper.<>c__DisplayClass4.<BeginOnUI>b__0(Object sendState)

— End of inner exception stack trace —

at System.Net.Browser.AsyncHelper.BeginOnUI(SendOrPostCallback beginMethod, Object state)

at System.Net.Browser.BrowserHttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelAsyncRequest.CompleteGetResponse(IAsyncResult result)

— End of inner exception stack trace —

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.Remoting.RealProxy.Invoke(Object[] args)

at proxy_2.EndGetDexServerMessages(IAsyncResult )

at Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.Web.Silverlight.Services.RuntimeHandler.ProcessServerMessagesCallback(IAsyncResult result)

at System.ServiceModel.AsyncResult.Complete(Boolean completedSynchronously)

— End of inner exception stack trace —

at System.ServiceModel.AsyncResult.Complete(Boolean completedSynchronously)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.SendAsyncResult.FinishSend(IAsyncResult result, Boolean completedSynchronously)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.SendAsyncResult.SendCallback(IAsyncResult result)

at System.ServiceModel.AsyncResult.Complete(Boolean completedSynchronously)

— End of inner exception stack trace —

at System.ServiceModel.AsyncResult.Complete(Boolean completedSynchronously)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelAsyncRequest.OnGetResponse(IAsyncResult result)

at System.Net.Browser.BrowserHttpWebRequest.<>c__DisplayClass19.<InvokeGetResponseCallback>b__17(Object state2)

at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object state)

at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)

at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()

at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()

at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback()

Severity: Critical

Summary: The remote server returned an error: NotFound.

Details:

System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: The remote server returned an error: NotFound. —> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: NotFound. —> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: NotFound.

at System.Net.Browser.BrowserHttpWebRequest.InternalEndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)

at System.Net.Browser.BrowserHttpWebRequest.<>c__DisplayClassa.<EndGetResponse>b__9(Object sendState)

at System.Net.Browser.AsyncHelper.<>c__DisplayClass4.<BeginOnUI>b__0(Object sendState)

— End of inner exception stack trace —

at System.Net.Browser.AsyncHelper.BeginOnUI(SendOrPostCallback beginMethod, Object state)

at System.Net.Browser.BrowserHttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelAsyncRequest.CompleteGetResponse(IAsyncResult result)

— End of inner exception stack trace —

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.Remoting.RealProxy.Invoke(Object[] args)

at proxy_2.EndProcessDexClientMessages(IAsyncResult )

at Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.Web.Silverlight.Services.RuntimeHandler.<>c__DisplayClass2.<ProcessClientMessages>b__1(IRuntimeService channel)

at Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.Web.Silverlight.Services.RuntimeHandler.InvokeCallWithMessageHeaders(Action`1 a)

at Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.Web.Silverlight.Services.RuntimeHandler.ProcessClientMessages(Byte[] data)

at Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.Web.Silverlight.MessageManagementService.FlushQueueWorker_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)

Severity: Critical

Summary: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Details:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

at Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.Web.Silverlight.Momm.CommandMessageActions.CommandAddChild(IWCDexMessage message)

at Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.Web.Silverlight.MessageManagementService.ProcessMessage(IWCDexMessage message)

at Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.Web.Silverlight.MessageManagementService.ProcessMessages(IEnumerable`1 messages)

at Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.Web.Silverlight.MessageManagementService.<>c__DisplayClass1f.<ProcessReturnBytes>b__1d()

at Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.Web.Silverlight.Extensions.ApplicationHelper.<>c__DisplayClass7.<ExecuteOnUIThreadSync>b__3()

This issue is still doing the test with Microsoft…till then i will stick to Google Chrome browser.

So far so good… learned a lot with this deployment….

No my GP 2015 is now serving from Azure cloud to all our users…Finance/Accounts users, they are using GP 2015 desktop client.

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This document will keep on updating with more and more solutions, as and when we cleared. 

Apple Yosemite – WiFi disconnection – Resolution

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After you upgrade you laptop from Mavericks to Yosemite OS, WiFi keeps on dropping….

So i tried the steps below .. After i did the below changes, it’s not dropping on my laptop.

  • From the System Preferences
  • Select Network
  • At the bottom of the window, select the Gear/setup Icon
  • Click the selector and select Set Service Order (Make Sure Wi-Fi is at the top of the list)
  • Click apply.

Enjoy!!!

Microsoft Dynamics CRM online – Middle east region opens

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Sign up for your free trial…Sign up through Microsoft Online Services to get 25 licenses and 5 GB of storage—all free for 30 days…Access Microsoft Dynamics CRM online through Microsoft Outlook or your web browser.

More info…click here