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

Alpesh — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:15:32 +0000

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!

Head over to the site collection recycle bin under /AdminRecycleBin.aspx?View=2 and restore.

View 2 is the recycle bin that only site collection administrators have access to and is the ‘bin’ which receives content that is deleted from the end user recycle bin.

In the case of site deleted, it does not go to the end user recycle bin (view=1) but straight to the site collection recycle bin (view=2)

That’s it! You now have your site that can be restored as easily as any other list or library item!

If you’d rather go with PowerShell, you now have some new PowerShell friends to get to know

Get-SPDeletedSite (SharePoint Server 2010)

Get-SPDeletedSite (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

Remove-SPDeletedSite (SharePoint Server 2010)

Remove-SPDeletedSite (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

Restore-SPDeletedSite (SharePoint Server 2010)

Restore-SPDeletedSite (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

Thank you Microsoft SharePoint Team!

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Attach VHD and boot OS in Hyper-V

Alpesh — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:51:00 +0000

Again this is a reference blog post that I am copying across from Ravi’s blog to have all steps in one place and more so for my own reference on the web, just in case I lost my drives, laptop and skydrive was unavailable in future…

This is continuing with method 2 to prepare environment for building a SharePoint 2010 Farm [Dev]

Follow these steps, once you have the VHD using method 2

Open Diskpart
Select vdisk file=C:\.VHD
Attach Vdisk
select part 1
active
Assign letter=Z
exit
Now, at the command prompt, change to Z:\Windows\System32
Run, BCDboot.exe Z:\Windows /s Z:\
Run, BCDedit /store Z:\boot\BCD /set {bootmgr} device boot
Run, BCDedit /store Z:\boot\BCD /set {default} device boot
Run, BCDedit /store Z:\boot\BCD /set {default} osdevice boot
Change directory to C:\
open Diskpart again and run
Select vdisk file=C:\.VHD
detach vDISK
Exit

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SharePoint 2010 Beta and Exchange 2010 VHD Download

Alpesh — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:07:46 +0000

Early this week (Monday), I had tweeted that SharePoint 2010 Beta and Exchange 2010 Download was available for Microsoft Partners – SDPS. If you are following me on http://twitter.com/alpesh you know about it! This download has now been made available for everyone.

To quote from the download page:

Overview

This download contains a two Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS

2. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services

3. Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

4. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate Edition

5. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition Beta 2

6. Microsoft Office Web Applications Beta 2

7. FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2

8. Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta 2

9. Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2

10. Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

Virtual machine “b” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, joined to the “CONTOSO.COM” domain

2. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Active directory has been preconfigured over 200 “demo” users with metadata in an organizational structure.

All of these user profiles have been imported and indexed for search within SharePoint Server 2010, with “contoso\administrator” granted administrator permissions.

SharePoint Server 2010 has been configured in a “Complete” farm using Kerberos authentication and the default SQL Server 2008 instance for data, and has a site collection created using the Team Site template at http://intranet.contoso.com/ and a FAST Search Center at http://intranet.contoso.com/search/.

Performance Considerations

1. If possible, unpack and run the VM image on a separate, fast hard drive (7200 RPM or better) from the operating system of the host machine. If this is being done on a laptop, a second internal drive or external eSATA drive works best, though USB 2.0 (make sure it’s 2.0, 1.1 is too slow) or Firewire is acceptable.

For absolute best performance use a second internal SSD drive.

Instructions

a. Start Hyper-V Manager from Control Panel -> Administrative Tools

b. Confirm that the local host machine appears in the Hyper-V Manager list and select it if not already done

c. Under Actions, click Virtual Network Manager…

d. Confirm that you have created an Internal virtual network named “Internal”. Internal networks limit connectivity to only VMs and the host.

If a suitable not, create one now using the following steps:

i. Click on Virtual Network Manager in the Actions pane

ii. Choose New virtual network in the Virtual Networks pane

iii. Choose Internal from the type list and click Add

iv. Enter a name of Internal and click OK v. Start menu -> right-click Network –> Properties

vi. Click Change adapter settings

vii. Find the adapter with a description of Internal, right-click and choose Properties

viii. Double-click on Internet Protocol Version 4 and enter the following values: 1. IP address: 192.168.150.6 2. Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 3. Default gateway: (leave blank) 4. Preferred DNS server: 192.168.150.1

ix. Click OK

e. Close the Virtual Network Manager dialog.

a. Under Actions, click Import Virtual Machine…

b. Use the Browse button to select the folder where the virtual machine package was extracted. Do not check

c. Click Import and wait for the Import to complete – the import status will appear in the Operations column

d. Select the newly imported virtual machine and click Settings in the right pane of the Hyper-V Manager

e. Confirm (and correct if necessary) that the Network Adapter is connected to the Internal network from step 1d.

f. Close the virtual machine Settings dialog.

Download 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta)

http://mysp.in/t10betavhd

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SharePoint Conference 2009: Recap

Alpesh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:49:13 +0000

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.

I did intend to write this as days went by during the conference, but the evening events and networking with other SharePoint geeks took precedence. This series, although, quite late, means a lot to mean, personally, since I will relive the experience again whilst writing. It is going to be a long one, but I want to put down my experience in black and white, as it means a lot to me having self funded this complete trip! Read on … it gets personal …

Logistics

I am very committed to SharePoint (ask my family) and this was going to be my chance to reach out and meet fellow SharePoint Nation citizens, with whom I have been communicating in SharePoint space and only avatars to go by.

So, I bit the bullet, postponed my Lasik Eye Surgery trading it for SharePoint Conference 2009 pass and the works to be in Las Vegas.

Let me tell you, it was more then worth my Lasik Eye Surgery!

I woke up at 0300 hours on Oct 18 2009 (Australian Eastern Standard Time), to catch the 0700 hours flight to Sydney from Brisbane Domestic Terminal. I could hardly sleep that night! Excitement or the fear of missing my flight – don’t know. Your guess is as good as mine on that! Last minute packing of my gear for the conference included the following

Business Cards
Laptop with travel adaptor
iPhone
Zune
Windows Mobile
USB extensions
Nikon D-40 SLR
Passport

At 0400 hours I called for the cab, expecting that due to shift change of the cabbies at that hour on Sunday A.M, there will be some waiting for me. That was not to be. The cab arrived in 5 minutes! Cool! I was on my way to the airport!

Bags checked in, pulled up for (random) security check – nothing new there. Happens all the time! On board Virgin Blue flight, all I did was sleep with Zune music overriding any other news, announcements and the usual chatter you would expect to here on the flights! Safe landings in Sydney, transfer to International Terminal, bags checked in again and then nothing to do as such for next 5 hours other then have lunch and wait to board the flight to Los Angeles. Fast forward 5 hours … now on board the United Airlines flight to Los Angles. I knew lunch would not be edible and how right I was! Why did I even bother disturbing my own slumber! Any ways, it was a long flight and I didn’t sleep well. Again I suppose this was more so the excitement to get to the conference, then all the noise around me.

Day 0

Safe landings in Los Angeles, but the queue at the immigration counters was devastating, especially after 14 hours non-stop flight. I was out of immigration in under an hour! Since this was the first port of entry into United States, I (and other pax) had to collect our bags, go through Customs and then hand over our bags to United Airlines again. All done and dusted, back in queue for security check. Thankfully I did not have to go through the hassles of terminal transfers here, unlike Sydney. Queue at security check point was no consolation though, took me an hour to get past and make my way to the boarding gate. All done and on board the flight to Las Vegas. I did manage to sleep all the way through to Las Vegas, no surprises there!

(iPhone Photo)

At Las Vegas airport, they had free Wi-Fi (thank you Google), that was so much appreciated since I could call up my family using Skype whilst waiting for fellow SharePoint Tweeps – Mark Rackley (@mrackley), Isaac Stith (@MrIsaac) and Kanwal Khipple (@sharepointbuzz) This was the start of SharePoint Conference for me! Meeting fellow SharePoint Tweeps for the first time in person.

The four of us headed to the car rentals, where Mark Rackley hired a car and then I suggested that we do the Conference registration first before the hotel check-in. It so happens that we were wise in doing so, because at 5:30 PM when we reached the conference venue, it was shockers! I have never seen such a long queue for registration at any event!

See for your self!

(iPhone Photo)

(Nikon D-40)

We met @jthake and few other Aussies – @mrhodes, Peter Sullivan, James Milne. I also met Joel Oleson at the registration desk. Once the meet and greet was done, we headed to the Welcome Reception where we met quite a few people.

We exited the welcome reception to go to #ShareIndian – which was jointly organised by @meetdux, myself and @eusp. Dinner was ok at Origin India, but the get together with fellow SharePoint tweeps (friends on Twitter) that mattered. I met Michael Noel(@michaeltnoel), Joel Oleson(@joeloleson), Mike Watson(@mikewat), Nick Hadlee(@nickhadlee), MO(@muhanado), Hersh Ajgaonkar, Kanwal Khipple, Meet Dux, Mike Herrity and few others. In all we were about
50, which in my opinion is a great number!

After dinner it was time to go back and catch up on some sleep!

Jet Lag? What’s that!

I don’t travel a lot so not sure if this will suit everyone or not; but I tune my mind that controls the body that it’s time to sleep Damn that jet lag! As soon as the flight takes off, I change the time on my wrist watch and I am very excited to get to the destination and visualize what it must be like there at that time! That’s just me and it helps since I don’t sleep before my flights or if it’s early morning flight, I make sure I am exhausted by the time I am seated! Eat well before the flight (since being a vegetarian, food is always an issue when not at home) and then have a wine and zzzz. Ensures that when I have reached my destination, I am ready

That’s my theory.

In days to follow, I will continue my SharePoint Conference experience!

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Outgoing email issue resolved

Alpesh — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Situation

New SharePoint deployment.
Outsourced IT operations.

Problem

SharePoint alerts not working for users.

Cause

Outgoing email address is configured to support@serviceproviders.email. This mailbox is not configured on local SMTP server (Exchange 2003). Hence SharePoint cannot send email via Exchange as open relay is turned off; as it should be.

Solution

Outgoing email address should be configured to local.user@mycompany.com -an active local mailbox. Test that you can access local.user mailbox either through Outlook Web Access or Outlook client.

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Cool Web part – Content Type Toolbar

Alpesh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:49:59 +0000

James Milne of Myriad Technologies has just released this content type toolbar today. It is free and very easy to deploy.

The content type toolbar is self configuring so you will not need to adjust any properties on the web part itself. Instead all the configuration is performed through the list of library settings. As you add or remove content types from the list or library then the content type toolbar will automatically display the appropriate entries.

Download [Here].

Source

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