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Back in June I kind of re-launched this blog and had promised to giveaway a book back then! Duh! Never happened… no excuses…. I just could not do it….

So here I am again

I am going to be giving away a book by way of draw on September 15 2010. This will be a SharePoint 2010 book for sure! All I ask of you to make it easier for me to draw your name is sign up for the newsletter here – that’s it!

Leaving your name in comments will not suffice or qualify you. If it fancies you, you can join us on the facebook  as well . That’s optional and again does not qualify you for the draw

So sign up and don’t worry about spam. I hate spam and won’t let you down.

Look forward to seeing your name in there At present 150 subscribers are already in… so you do have competition since these post will be emailed to the already loyal subscribers who don’t have to do anything for now…

Important Clause: If Amazon cannot deliver the book to your country, you will automatically not qualify, since I will be shipping this book direct from Amazon. Sorry!

Good luck and let the games begin…

Hola! I seemed to have disappeared! Well, to be honest I am very active on the Social Network (Twitter, Facebook) interacting with friends and followers and sharing links and resources. However, I have come to realize that not everyone is on Twitter just yet, similar to not everyone subscribe to/read RSS Feeds just like people were not into email newsletters or rather emails few years ago.

So, I have decided to make a come back with blogging, because I enjoy sharing my resources and learning’s right here on this blog.

To kick off the re-launch, I will be posting my links from twitter and other feeds that I come across – which just fly by in twitter and the retention ratio is next to zero as far as I am concerned. Plus, you may be on twitter but not all the time… no one can be. So it’s back to the basics.

In addition to my links posting, I am currently working on a plan to post few series in the coming months, plus post some slide decks and demo’s from my speaking engagements at SharePoint Saturday India and SharePoint Saturday Brisbane.

So to sign off for now and a big thank you for subscription to rss feeds and your support. I would like to ask you to sign up for the email newsletter, because in the coming months, I do plan to send out exclusives via newsletters.

Stay tuned and sign up for the newsletter, because next month (July 2010) I will be picking up a random winner to win a SharePoint Book. Since you are already reading this, you know it – sign up now for the email newsletter. I will select the winner on July 31, 2010. Next week I will email the subscribers on which book it is going to be!

At the time of writing this post day 4 of Bangalore Ignite had concluded and I had finished writing some PowerShell posts. These will go live in the days to come, when I will be on holidays with my family.

Earlier this week I had indicated on twitter, that Ignite training is not under NDA and it was great to share the information with everyone. Having said that I started taking notes and some intermittent tweets went out, however there was an information overload (for good) that I ended up with shorthand notes that I only can understand! I am hoping that I will remember these when I start compiling them and publish them early next year (given that this is the last month of the year and I am going to be on holidays).

I wasn’t planning on writing any of these PowerShell posts until next year, however Todd Klindt’s upgrade session really got me working on PowerShell scripts and since then I have been using some simple PowerShell scripts to do what you would normally do using stsadm or gui.

What we should note is that there are some tasks that you simply cannot do using Central Admin gui and you need to use PowerShell scripts to get them done. This will be obvious when I start publishing my notes from ignite.

If you are not familiar with PowerShell, now is the time to get started. SharePoint 2010 ships with an Administrator SharePoint 2010 Management Shell. From this shell you can do all the cool stuff pertaining to SharePoint!

I have extracted SharePoint cmdlets into an excel file for quick reference. Link at the bottom of the post.

I am going to be very honest, I have never worked in PowerShell and I strongly believe that now is the time to get started! So join me in the learning …  I hope that you will benefit from the short posts that will be published in days to come. If you are a PowerShell expert and if you have suggestions for me, I am all ears!

Excel File for SharePoint PowerShell

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Safe Travels, God Bless.

Wow! What a conference it has been. I am was at Las Vegas airport, returning back to Brisbane from Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, when I started writing this post. It has taken me a while to get it done.

It has been a great conference with around 8000 people at the conference from over 43 countries! The main focus of this conference was the next version of SharePoint – 2010. It was finally showcased with the Beta2 build at the keynote and subsequent sessions. This post marks the beginning of a series of recap posts of my time at the conference, which far by was the best one I have attended till date.

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Last night I could not post on this blog using Windows Live Writer. Now trying to post using ScribeFire.

Initially I could not post using ScribeFire either. So I did the same hack to .htaccess file as blogged earlier.

I can now post using ScribeFire. Tonight will check if WLW works

Once this issue is sorted, I will start posting Office 2010 Technical Preview posts. Stay tuned.

If you experienced issues viewing this blog today, I did too! Infact, I could not access my admin pages!

Error in Firefox

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete

Error in IE7

Site timed out

What happened overnight? It was working well until last night! Duh!

Resolution

1. Download .htaccess file
2. Removed this extra code,
3. Removed

1. Options +FollowSymlinks
2. Options +Indexes 
3. Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

All good now!

I know it’s been more then a month to the year 2008, but I just have to wish you all Happy New Year of 2008.

I have been away for more then 6 weeks now. First 5 weeks of my absence – blame it on US! Literally! I was away on holidays to the US of A and I enjoyed every bit of it! I even spoke to a long time supporter of this blog, Prashanth Palakollu! We could not meet, but atleast we spoke!

I resumed work in the last week of January and what a start! I got a promotion and am now a team leader – developing what could be Australia’s biggest SharePoint Portal project. I can’t give you any details at this stage, but to be honest – I could turn on a live web cast on all day for all SharePoint geeks and enthusiasts to tune in to our daily head banging, battering and conversations as we hum along… It is almost impossible to blog every bit of information or development – which is kind of super exciting.

My long due post on unattended installation of MOSS is still pending in draft. I will try to get it out of door this weekend. I am making some notes as our development progresses. Stay signed on and most importantly, convert your RSS subscription to email subscription. This year, I am going to run lots of contests for email subscribers. Stay tuned for details coming this weekend.