Capturing VHD To WIM

June 28th, 2011

This is a continuation of the series Re Imaging SharePoint VMs on the fly. Once you have finished with the task of preparing the virtual machine, it’s time to create a Windows Image File (WIM) for re-use at a later stage. Navigate to the folder where you have imagex.exe Run this command

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Session Slides From Past Conferences

June 22nd, 2011

Yes, I have been very slack in not uploading my slides from last 3 presentations and I have heaps of excuses… but I will keep the good news in the forthcoming post. These are my session slides from Microsoft Tech.Ed India 2011 sessions and Australian SharePoint Conference 2011.

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What is Office365?

June 18th, 2011

Office 365 is the online version of the popular Microsoft suite of products that we all use everyday – Office Suite, Exchange, SharePoint and OCS (now Lync). It’s all bundled together and made available online for the organizations to get started with at will.

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Preparing Virtual Machine for SharePoint Installation

June 7th, 2011

This is continuation of the blog post series on Reimaging SharePoint VMs on the fly. Quick recap: In the earlier post, we have created a vhd and enabled the vhd to be bootable. In this post, I am now logged into the vhd and ready to prepare my virtual machine for installing SharePoint 2010.

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Life Before Office365

June 3rd, 2011

Have you tried or used Office Live? In early days since it launched, I had signed up for it and essentially what it gave me was a public facing website, ability to integrate mail (using Hotmail as the back-end platform) and also enabled collaboration with others by using their email address (via the workspace). In [...]

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Disable OfficeDotCom Templates For SharePoint

May 25th, 2011

This is one feature you are likely to disable sooner or later. Very recently I saw the first template pop up in SharePoint when you click on More Options to create content. Back in the days when SharePoint 2010 was in beta and I happened to be at the Ignite Training in Bangalore, I had [...]

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Looking forward to this Service Pack 1!

May 20th, 2011

Yes, it’s coming! If you haven’t heard, read then here is the repeat of the buzz… SharePoint Service Pack 1 is expected to be released in late June, 2011! I am interested in this service pack more then ever, for a reason – self service recovery of site collections and sites! As a site collection [...]

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