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• Using PowerShell with Office365

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information Did you know, you can fully manage Office365 with PowerShell?What? Wasn’t Office365 supposed to be in the cloud – how do I use powershell with THAT!? Is it black magic? No not really! Office 365 uses the remote powershell functionality of Windows Powershell 2.0. It builds upon the Windows remote management service (you will find it in the services console of Vista+ or Windows2008+ by default, or installed as an addon on XP). It uses that to connect to a web service, and download the available commandlets – based on the logged in user. WHOAA!! So, what can be managed using PowerShell in Office 365? You can manage domains Security Groups Enhanced Authorizations Identity Federation Partner support – where you designate a partner to manage your Office365 And Exchange. Note that Lync and SharePoint online are not manageable via powershell. So, still sound like black magic? What are the actual steps to use Powershell in Office365? Well Read full article ....

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• Disable Password Complexity/Expiration etc. Policy on Windows Server 2008

  - by Sahil Malik

  Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). One of the things I like to do, for development environments only is to get rid of that excessively bothersome password policies. I like to have my password as something like p@ssword1, so they are easy to remember etc. etc. Obviously never do this in production. However, Windows Server 2008 comes with a password policy that expires my passwords every 90 days, and requires me to pick complex passwords, can’t reuse passwords etc. etc. Well here is how you disable password policy on a Windows Server 2008 machine - Run Group Policy Management (gpmc.msc) Expand to your domain, look for Forest\Domains\yourdomain\default domain policy. Go to the settings tab, right click on the tab, and choose “Edit”. This will open the Group Policy Management Editor, in which - Go to Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Account Policies\Password Policy, and change the policy to whatever that suits you. Close everything, and run command prompt as administrator, and issue a “gpupdate /force” command to force the group policy update on the machine. Restart, and you’re done! :) Comment on the article ....

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• RANT: SkyDrive &amp; Mesh

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information Fellow citizens of the tech world, you’re watching a good Samaritan die. Unfortunately this is not the first time, it won’t be the last. We have seen this before, sadly we will see it again. The IT industry, is a few sharks – Oracle, Apple, Google, and yes, Microsoft, and numerous small fishes around them. 10 years ago, you saw some innovating smart engineers create instant-messaging programs. There was rapid innovation and growth in that field even though internet itself was quite nascent. Remember ICQ? Well, then came around the sharks! They offered you free versions of IM programs that in the short run were actually superior. Yahoo messenger, MSN, AIM and then later on google.  Innovation in IM was pretty much stand still until a new contender like skype decided to marry IM with telephony. This prompted google to do the same. Of course, Skype was then purchased by Microsoft.  The situation still stands, lets take the example of Microsoft, it offers, Read full article ....

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• SharePoint Powers Hell

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint, WCF and Azure Trainings: more information Really? No way! Must be a typo. Really I am going to talk about PowerShell in this session. And no this is not a PowerShell basics talk. This is a practical hands on talk where Sahil will demonstrate practical usage of PowerShell in both development and production environments. This is a must attend for both Devs and IT Pros. Where: Zagreb, Croatia, SPC Adriatics When: 10/15/2014 – 9:45AM – 10:45AM More info – Full Agenda http://spcadriatics.com/2014/agenda/ and Conference site - http://spcadriatics.com Read full article ....

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• A bunch of SharePoint 2010 Videos

  - by Sahil Malik

  Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). DNRTV – Developing for SharePoint 2010 Talks about LINQ to SharePoint, and a basic intro of the dev tools. watch Telerik Silverlight Chart showing live data from SharePoint 2010. This video demonstrates the usage of a custom WCF service and a custom silverlight frontend. watch. Telerik Silverlight Grid with BCS Lists in SharePoint 2010 This video demonstrates BCS + Client Object Model + A silverlight front end. watch Telerik R.A.D Calendar shown working with an OOTB Calendar list watch Large file upload in SP using Silverlight. watch Silverlight coverflow implemented on a picture library watch Integrating Yahoo Geocoding API, Bing maps, and Bing search engine in a Silverlight UI in SharePoint watch SharePoint 2010 scalability, RBS, and related stuff. watch SharePoint 2007 and Silverlight – talks about TDD etc. watch Comment on the article ....

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• BCS with Visual Studio 2010

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  Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). BCS or Business Connectivity services is a new and much improved, and much much enhanced version of what used to be BDC in SharePoint 2007. It allows external data to be surfaced inside of SharePoint. But compared to BDC, it comes with much richer a) Presentation options – in both server and client. b) Tooling support – In SharePoint designer and Visual Studio c) Connectivity options – in conjunction with the secure store service. In my newest article on BCS, I talk about BCS in SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010. Hope you like it. There is also a whole chapter (Chapter #9) devoted to BCS in my book. Comment on the article ....

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• SharePoint Office365 and Azure &ndash; an Overview of what you can use today

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information I will be speaking on cloud related topics – an overview at one of my favorite user groups, CMAPonline on January 24th. Here are the details, When – Tuesday, January 24, 2012      7:00 PMWhere - UMBC Building 21 About - "SharePoint Office365 and Azure – an Overview of what you can use today!"Everyone is talking about the cloud. Everyone is moving to the cloud. Microsoft's cloud offering is probably the most expansive of all. But how does it really compare with other offerings? What is the featureset of Google? Or Amazon? And in the jungle of Beta, what is currently proven and production ready in the Microsoft spectrum? Most of all, how do you move from your current setup to a cloud based setup? In this session, Sahil provides a manager and architect level overview demystifying all these topics and more. Read full article ....

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• Sept 25th - SharePoint 2013 talk in Arendal, Norway

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information I am thrilled to be talking about SharePoint 2013 in Arendal, Norway over an informal user group get together. Thanks to a Doorway and Sevan Marine for making this happen, and thanks to Asplan Viak for presenting a real world implementation called "Oh behave!" I mean! Beehive :). Here is the agenda, 1800 - 1815 Welcome, the user group - a bit to bite into1815 - 1930 Sahil Malik: SharePoint 2013 - what's new? How do we get there? What challenges will we face?1930 - 2000 Asplan Viak presents their SharePoint Solution – Beehive When and Where: 1800hrs at Kittelsbuktveien 5 Read full article ....

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• NDC Magazine is out!

  - by Sahil Malik

  Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). WOOHOO!! Has an article from me in it - Here you go - http://www.ndc2010.no/ndc10.pdf Comment on the article ....

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• Custom code in SharePoint

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information Microsoft launched SharePoint 2013 with great fanfare. But what stuck out was the introductory blog post by Corporate SVP of SharePoint, Jeff Teper. You can read the blogpost titled “The New SharePoint”. But one paragraph has stuck out, “Use SharePoint as an out-of-box application whenever possible - We designed the new SharePoint UI to be clean, simple and fast and work great out-of-box. We encourage you not to modify it which could add complexity, performance and upgradeability and to focus your energy on working with users and groups to understand how to use SharePoint to improve productivity and collaboration and identifying and promoting best practices in your organization.” The keywords here is “whenever possible”. The reality is, frequently it is not possible to not customize SharePoint in order to meet the customer requirements. But you must try and minimize SharePoint customization. There are many ways Read full article ....

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• Branded Application Pages (layouts pages) in SharePoint 2010

  - by Sahil Malik

  Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). Application pages are now branded by default in SharePoint 2010. WOOHOO!!! The DynamicMasterPageFile attribute in SharePoint 2010 master pages allows application pages start using the site’s master page instead of the application master page. If you want backwards compatibility with SharePoint 2007, i.e. you want unbranded application pages, here is what you can do, a) You can change the MasterPageReferenceEnabled property to false in your SPWebApplication object, orb) Go to central administration\application management\manage web application\select your web app … go to the ribbon, look for general settings\general settings, and detach application pages from the site’s master page. I don’t see why you’d ever wanna do that, but hey if you want to .. go for it. This article was first published on blah.winsmarts.com. Stealing content is not cool. Safeguarded application pages Now for the fine print, there is something called as “Safeguarded application pages” in SP2010. These are pages, that IF IN CASE your custom master page screws up, they will automatically revert to use a master page that is guaranteed to work in the _layouts folder. Now that’s nice! That means, if you screw up, you always have a way to fix things. How nice! Here is a list of such safe guarded application pages - AccessDenied.aspx MngSiteAdmin.aspx People.aspx RecycleBin.aspx ReGhost.aspx ReqAcc.aspx Settings.aspx UserDisp.aspx ViewLsts.aspx Have fun! Comment on the article ....

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• SPD 2013 Missing design view, is it really such a big deal?

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information First, please read what my friend Marc Anderson has to say about it. More, and More and even more. Also, my friend Asif Rehmani has some views on it as well. They bring up some important points, but in short, everything that allows for Visual Editing of pages, is gone! And anything that concerned visual editing, (and there are many such scenarios), is now gone. What is the practical upshot of all this? Read full article ....

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• The right way to find a SPUser in SharePoint 2013

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint, WCF and Azure Trainings: more information Obvious stuff out of the way, SharePoint 2013 is claims and claims only. If you’re still pimping classic windows identities, you’re a fool. But this creates an interesting wrinkle. How the hell is one supposed to find a SPUser? This, especially given that a user id now looks like this - i:0#.w|ws\administrator .. all of those have a meaning .. i stands for identity 0 is the zero’th registered claims provider w before the pipe is windows and after pipe is the final username. What if I had a hotmail account called ws\administrator? You see, browsing through web.SiteUsers, is no longer enough. Not only is it error prone, it won’t work for any other identity type besides Windows. So what is a poor SharePoint developer to do? Easy. Use the cod below instead, Read full article ....

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• Setting up Windows Azure PowerShell

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint, WCF and Azure Trainings: more information Azure is in the cloud, PowerShell is on my machine, between the two lie vast oceans and dragons. What is a developer to do, to use PowerShell to work with Azure? Here is what you do, Install Windows Azure PowerShell Start WebPI, search for “Windows Azure PowerShell” – choose to add and install it. Run Windows Azure PowerShell This is easy, click on start (or whatever the hell you do in Windows 2012), and search for Windows Azure PowerShell. Connect your subscription  Read full article ....

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• Mobile Devices and SharePoint

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint, WCF and Azure Trainings: more information There is a computer in your pocket, and mine. Though lets be honest, beyond email, Organizations though are still struggling to make use of these smart devices that they are already paying for. The reason is simple, Imagine a computer, with an inferior processor, poor connectivity, smaller screen, and easily lost and used for personal purposes. Add to it, multiple platforms, and an incredibly fast release cadence. In this fast paced session, Sahil will demonstrate mobile apps targeting the SharePoint and Office 365 platforms demonstrating what you, the Microsoft developer needs to learn and be on top of going forward. And yes, you need to broaden your horizons past C# too. But don’t worry, even if you have never worked with iOS before, there is plenty to chew on in this session. Read full article ....

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• Channel 9 Video:SharePoint and WCF

  - by Sahil Malik

  Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). A VERY LONG TIME AGO :), Zhiming from Microsoft and I got together and talked a bit about why WCF is such a big deal in SharePoint. In this video we talk a bit about why SharePoint has been so successful. And why WCF in SharePoint can have a great positive impact on your productivity. A lot of what I say in that video is still applicable to SP2010, but that video was recorded before there was ANY information out in the general world about SP2010. Well, that video is now finally online .. enjoy! :) Comment on the article ....

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• Pivotal change in strategy at Microsoft

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint, WCF and Azure Trainings: more information Drop whatever you are doing, and watch this video. Here is what Microsoft’s new CEO Satya Nadella said, .. If there is anything that would define windows, I think of the cloud as being in a heterogeneous device world. It will not be limited to Windows. I think that is perhaps the biggest pivotal change in our strategy. We absolutely think of building services and infrastructure in the cloud that will be across Android, iOS and Windows, and we will differentiate windows family with user experience that is consistent across all these devices .. Read full article ....

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• Integrating Azure ServiceBus and SharePoint 2010

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information My new article is finally online. I had been waiting for this for a while. The thing is, AppFabric became .NET 4, and left SharePoint 2010 behind. But fear not, we have REST API. But that brings up interesting challenges of how we can integrate Azure Service Bus with SharePoint 2010 (yes 2010, not vNext – I’m not giving NDA information out you fool), the design patterns you can use, figuring out challenging issues like security, sessions, and just app design patterns instead. Well, I hope you like my next article, SharePoint Applied: Azure ServiceBus and SharePoint 2010 Enjoy! Read full article ....

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• GAC and SharePoint

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information GAC and SharePoint have had a funny love & hate relationship. In 2007, SharePoint and GAC fell in love. GAC was about the only practical alternative to deploying custom code. Here is a dirty secret, based on completely unscientific and unfounded research, I can tell you that 99% of SharePoint code written, ended up in the GAC. Yes, I know GAC rhymes with hack, crack, smack, and even mac, but still it was the better alternative. You could write CAS policies and put your DLLs in the bin folder, but it was mighty inconvenient to both write, and maintain. Most of us never did it. There are still some SharePoint developers out there insisting on the bin approach – well, get over it; you’re not winning the fight. CAS is about as outdated as Samantha Fox anyway. It was hot at one point though. So all that code that ended up in the GAC caused lots and lots of headache. Clearly, Microsoft had to get us off the crack, uhh .. I mean the GAC. In Read full article ....

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• Microsoft ADO.NET 4 Step by Step

  - by Sahil Malik

  Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). Many years ago, I wrote Pro ADO.NET 2.0. I still think that in the plethora of new data access technologies that have come out since, the basic core ADO.NET fundamentals are still every developer must know, and sadly they do not know. So for some crazy reason, I still see every project make the same data access related mistakes over and over again. Anyway, the challenge is that on top of the core ADO.NET fundamentals, there is a vast array of other new technologies you must learn. The important of which is Entity Framework. So, I was asked to, and I was pleased to be the technical reviewer for Microsoft ADO.NET 4, Step by Step, by Tim Patrick. This book introduces the reader not just to the basic ADO.NET principles, but also Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, and WCF Data Services. So what you may ask is a SharePoint guy like me doing with such interest in ADO.NET land? Well, that’s what the other side says, what is a hardcore data access sorta guy doing in SharePoint land? :). I have authored/co-authored 4 books so far on data access (1,2,3,4), and one on pure SharePoint, and now one on SharePoint 2010 BI. These are very intertwined topics. And LINQ to SQL and LINQ to SharePoint are almost copy paste of each other. WCF Data services are literally the same in both. And many Entity Framework concepts also apply within SharePoint. So there, I did these both for “interest” reasons. Comment on the article ....

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• Removing AppPrincipals from Office365

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint, WCF and Azure Trainings: more information So here is an annoying issue. If I have your AppPrincipal and secret, I can party as you! But as we go through our usual dev cycles, we create these ApplicationIDs. Hell Visual Studio will create them for us, to make things easy!The problem is, many a developer, and some a ITOgre, may leave these AppPrincipalIds sitting there and not clean them up when they are done playing. You can look for currently registered App Principals at https://yourtenant/_layouts/15/appprincipals.aspx The problem is, that URL shows you App Principals registered AND currently in use. Currently NOT in use App Principals are NOT shown on that page. The same issue applies on premises also, even though here I am talking specifically about Office 365. Getting rid of these in On-Prem is easy, just use the Object model (server side). Read full article ....

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• An overview of Windows Azure

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information I will be speaking on Windows Azure – an overview at one of my favorite user groups, CMAPonline on October 25th. Here are the details, When – October 25th 2011, 630PMWhere - 6021 Univeristy Blvd,  Suite 250, Ellicott City, MD 21043 About - "SharePoint Office365 and Azure – an Overview of what you can use today!"Everyone is talking about the cloud. Everyone is moving to the cloud. Microsoft's cloud offering is probably the most expansive of all. But how does it really compare with other offerings? What is the featureset of Google? Or Amazon? And in the jungle of Beta, what is currently proven and production ready in the Microsoft spectrum? Most of all, how do you move from your current setup to a cloud based setup? In this session, Sahil provides a manager and architect level overview demystifying all these topics and more. Read full article ....

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• MVP.Years++ ; // Thanks Microsoft

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information Even though today is April fools day, it is my MVP renewal date. So, there is always the chance of thinking not being renewed as an April fools joke.  Well, I get to postpone that joke one more time. It looks like, I’ve been renewed again. WAHOOO!! :) Thank you Microsoft, and thank you to everyone one of you for your support and best wishes, and most of all, thanks to our MVP lead, Melissa – many don’t realize it, but it’s a tough job she has to do. Think about it, all the people who are MVPs, those who no longer will be, and those who want to be. 11 years ago when I got my first award, my love for technology was insane. Today, it is worse.I will remain a technologist until I die, even after I retire and grow crinkly. I would want my dentures fitted with Microprocessors.Technology is what I passionately love doing. I am one of the very few people who lives 24 hours of his day doing exactly what I’d rather be doing – thinking, dreaming, and working with technology. Read full article ....

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• Keyboard settings for a Mac+PC world

  - by Sahil Malik

  SharePoint, WCF and Azure Trainings: more information I’m one of those weridos who lives in a Mac+PC world. I write code for both iOS and Windows platforms. I also travel quite a bit, and airlines and airport security are starting to weigh your carry ons, and beginning to frown on the powerplant of batteries you need to carry to power SharePoint on an airplane. This means, my main work machine has to be a Macbook Pro, since it is the only machine that can do both XCode and Visual Studio Virtualized and SharePoint virtualized nicely. The problem this causes of course, is you will literally pull your hair out when dealing with keyboard/shortcut differences. So here is my work setup, Running Mac for all my normal work Virtualizing using VMWare Fusion – and sometimes I move these VMs to my windows server so I can run them on VMware workstation. Frequently RDP’ing into VMs in the cloud or running on my home server. So, Read full article ....

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• SharePoint and Visual Studio - Replaceable parameters

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  SharePoint 2010 Training: more information What is a replaceable parameter? Sometimes you may see something like $SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$ in your code. Visual studio is doing some magic to replace it during compile/build time with the full assembly signature. The following apply to these tokens or replaceable parameters - Tokens can be specified anywhere in a line. Tokens cannot span multiple lines. The same token may be specified multiple times on the same line and in the same file. Different tokens may be specified on the same line. Tokens that do not follow these rules are ignored without providing a warning or error. The replacement of tokens by string values is done immediately after manifest transformation, thus allowing manifest templates edited by a user to use tokens. Visual studio supports the following replaceable parameters -   Name Read full article ....

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