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First Week under second Covid-19 lock-down in Austria (22nd. Nov)

23. November 2020 Leave a comment

Back in Home Office

The second Corona wave hit us hard in Austria. After a very chilly summer, Corona strikes back. Compared to the first wave, testing capacities have rising up to 4x times. But even when considering a high number of unidentified cases in spring, the number of infections is much higher now and hospitals are now reaching their capacity limit.

Source: https://covid19-dashboard.ages.at/

We had a Soft-Lockdown in October with mainly restaurants closed and a pseudo-curfew from 20:00 to 06:00 but a lot of exceptions. Obviously the Soft-Lockdown came to late and had less effect, so we are now under a stricter Lockdown. Although the situation is more severe than in Spring, the restrictions are less hard now.

Notebooks are sold out

Home-Schooling and Home-Office has become a widely accepted practice. However, this results in a high demand of devices. At this moment almost all business grade laptops are sold out. No matter if you are Looking for Lenovo ThinkPads or ThinkBooks, HP Elitebooks, etc.

Webcast Marathon

Due to the pandemic our annual company event for our customers is canceled 😥 Since 10 years we are organizing an yearly event with our customers including good food, news and presentations.

This year we are presenting a day full of webcasts regarding the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain. We will discuss collaboration in times of Home Office. Moreover we will present Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate and Dynamics 365 Finance & SCM ERP projects.

Filed under COVID-19 Tagged with Corona, COVID-19, Home Office

Sixth week under reduced COVID-19 lock-down in Austria (26. April)

27. April 2020 1 Comment

General Situation

Two weeks have passed sind the first restrictions were repealed. Home depots and shops smaller than 400m² were allowed to open up again. Thankfully this did not lead to an immediate second wave of infections. One reason may be that the total number of infected persons is very low. So there is only a very small propability to meet an infected person outside. Another reason may be the rule to wear a mask in shops and public transportation to protect others.

Global Azure Bootcamp – “Corona Edition”

This weeks highlight was the Global Azure Bootcamp. At the dawn of COVID-19 the GAB was officially canceled with the option for local chapters to hold the GAB if possible. Soon GAB was shifted from local meeting to virtual presentations via Microsoft Teams. Again this year was full of good presentations. #GlobalAzure

Azure Cloud capabilities

When the COVID-19 pandemic was raising in europa an most countries announced lock-down rules, the cloud usage increased up to 700%. In this time, the azure regions West/North Europe and UK were at their limits. In particular we saw this when deploying a Dynamics 365 Finance / SCM Tier 2 which had to be moved to US-South. Now, after a few weeks it seams that cloud capabilities are normalizing. In contrast to the last weeks I could deploy a Windows VM and Ubuntu VM in West-Europe.

Windows VM deployment in Azure region West-Europe

Ubuntu VM deployment in azure region West-Europe — Windows Server 2016 and Ubuntu VM deployment in West-Europe succeeded

Contact Tracing Apps

An everlasting topic are the apps to fight the corona pandemy. After a month Accenture has released the source code for the Stopp-Corona app at Github. Since the first apps appeared, there was the discussion how these apps could be made interoperable. The euroepan PEPP-PT project first came up with an approach to make the national develop apps interoperable. The announcement of Apple and Google to implement a contact tracing API in their operating systems immediately killed PPEP-PT. The Austrian Stopp-Corona app is evaluation the use of Apple / Google API. The German government will use Apple / Google. ETH Zurich has also left PPEP-PT.

Weekly lock-down menu

Scrambled eggs, Bratwurst, Appfelschlangerl, Gemüsefleckerl, Kaiserschmarrn, Chicken filet with rice and vegetables, Vanilla pudding with chockolate, Spice meat in sauce, Schnitzel, Turkey rolls with ham and cheese.