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• September 2nd, 2011

• Using OCS and Lync Together

  Ok so you have signed for Office 365 and would like to use Lync on your work laptop, but your company has not moved to Lync OR you have Lync for work but cannot add people outside of your organization and you would like to use your personal Lync, then what options do you have? [...]

• August 31st, 2011

• Migrating from BPOS Mailbox to Office 365

  What a pain! (Kind of, till I found out why the pain and how to work around that) I was using Microsoft BPOS since last couple of months for some of my active domains with limited users and last month, I planned to move them over to Office 365. Microsoft have a BPOS to Office [...]

• August 25th, 2011

• PowerShell Script To Change Managed Account Password

  Of all days in the week, on Sunday [August 21, 2011] I decided to tease my SharePoint 2010 development environment! I decided to change all the SharePoint 2010 Service Account(s)password. Thank you Microsoft for introducing the managed accounts, else I would be clicking away for a long time, having to go through each application pool [...]

• August 24th, 2011

• Why Office 365?

  Why not? To continue on our series on Office 365 and then you can decide if you want to move to Office 365 or not. In the previous post, we introduced the concept of the ‘in the cloud’ offering from Microsoft namely Office 365 and what is the offering under the banner of Office 365. [...]

• July 29th, 2011

• Microsoft Tech.Ed India 2011 Session Videos Available

  This year in March, 2011 I presented two sessions at Microsoft Tech.Ed India 2011 Edition in Bangalore and it was a great to connect with the Indian Tech Community! You can read more about my experience at Microsoft Tech.Ed India 2011 here and I had shared my conference slides here.

• July 7th, 2011

• Applying WIM To VHD

  This is a continuation of the series Re Imaging SharePoint VMs on the fly. Now that you have captured your bootable virtual hard drive that was prepared for SharePoint Installation, you can apply that to another active partition or a virtual hard drive and then install whichever flavour of SharePoint you please! As seen in [...]

• June 28th, 2011

• SharePoint 2010: Service Pack 1 Feature Recovering Site From Recycle Bin

  Now that SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is out… I wanted to share one of the features that is going to be much appreciated by SharePoint Administrators and Site Collection Administrators. No more attaching backups of your content database and powershell to restore the deleted SharePoint site!