Windows Azure Global Boot Camp

Windows Azure Global Boot camp event 27^th April 2013, Saturday (Full day), we lineup topics,speaker for the event and also lots of free gift from product sponsor. So feel free to register for this event. via http://gwabsg.eventbrite.com.

As of today Windows Azure Global event confirm 53 locations…

Remember to register yourself at http://gwabsg.eventbrite.com.

Attendees can sign up the azure trial before the event, print out the screenshot and exchange for limited edition dry-fit t-shirt upon onsite registration.

Attendees can activate trial by doing one of the following 3 things:

1. Create a trial account: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/

2. Activate MSDN Azure benefits: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/msdn-benefits/

3. Activate BizSpark Azure benefits: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/bizspark-benefits/

SharePoint Migration What do I expect ? (The issues and solution)

There are tons of resources on the Internet today that tell you how to migrate your SharePoint 2007 environment to SharePoint 2010.

Sometimes, achieving something becomes difficult due to of lack of information, This presentation will help you in achieving your migration goal.

You may probably have seen these articles or links that talk about

• Top 5 SharePoint Migration Pitfalls
• Database attach or Backup-SPSite / Restore-SPSite
• Understand the SharePoint Migration Schedule
• Understand Your SharePoint Customizations Before Migrating

In this presentation, I am going to cover the issue that you may discover during your migration or after migration. ?

SharePoint Migration What do I expect ? (The issues and solutions) from Mohamed Faizal

Newsfeed : we’re still collecting the latest news !!!

After you overcome My Site issue you may encounter another issue

We’re still collecting the latest news, you may see more if you try again a litter later

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After waiting few hours and restarted server and tried many ways but no help its shows me… above message…

and try this option : http://blogs.technet.com/b/mpriem/archive/2012/08/20/sharepoint-2013-preview-newsfeeds-showing-nothing.aspx no help… :-(

So i decided to investigate ULS Log, which shows displays that “No cache hosts are present or running in the farm”

Under Service notice that AppFabric Caching Service was disable, I started the service and Re-set Application Pool and Re-Set IIS server NO HELP !!!

Finally discover that “Distributed cache” is stopped on SharePoint Service on Server

Go to Central Administration, click Application Management.

In Service Applications, click Manage Services on Server.

On the Services on Server page, locate the Distributed Cache service.

If the Distributed Cache service is stopped and you want to start the service, under Action, click Start.

Click “Newsfeed” now you can view “Status update text box, newsfeeds…” enjoy…

SharePoint 2013 : My Site Something went wrong ?

After Install & configure SharePoint Server 2013. First think everyone wants to explore the new feature called “Newsfeed” on My Site.

Unfortunately, sometimes you may expected following error.

“We’re sorry, Something went wrong with your My Site setup.

Please try again later or contact your help desk.” 

This error due to root site, after Installing SharePoint 2013, you need to configure default the Root (/) site collection, sometimes you may created under /Sites/ instead of Root (/).

Now you create new Site collection  (/) Root. this will enable you to create My Site without any issue. :-)

After Root Site collection created you may able to see Newsfeed, Blog, Apps, and Tasks

Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, Office 365 and Exchange 2013 RTM

Today, Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president in the Microsoft Office Division, announced that Office solutions and other "2013"-branded products have reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage.

Some key points

• IT professionals and developers will be able to download the final version via their TechNet or MSDN subscriptions by mid-November.
• General availability is planned for the first quarter of 2013. Starting October 19, customers purchasing Office 2010 from local retailers or resellers will receive the new Office for free upon availability.
• Customers will also see a preview version of the new Office on Windows RT devices, beginning with the Windows 8 launch on October 26.
• Rolling out new capabilities to Office 365 Enterprise customers in our next service update, starting in November through general availability.
• Volume Licensing customers with Software Assurance will be able to download the Office 2013 applications as well as other Office products including SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 through the Volume Licensing Service Center by mid-November. These products will be available on the Volume Licensing price list on December 1.

Apps for SharePoint 2013

(From My SharePoint 2013 Ignite Notebook) Part 1

Think SharePoint 2013 as a Portal Platform, which help you understand the new paradigm shift, which helps lots of developer to do program using C#, Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, NodeJS. The SharePoint 2013 App model is based on web standards: HTML 5, CSS, JS, OAuth 2.0 and OData. Today SharePoint enable most of the SharePoint API functions remote accessible the remote interface is much easier to maintain and more secure. This also concept also open door for SharePoint Developer create Facebook kind of applications for SharePoint and Office.

Today Application Challenges

Till SharePoint 2010 solution deployment done either Sandbox or Farm Solutions,

• Sandbox Solution
• Limited
• Only allow to access sub set of server side APIs
• Cannot call external hosted web services
• Use client side object call hosted web services
• Supported for Online and on premise environment
•  Farm Solution
• Need big server touch
• Not possible to deploy on SharePoint Online
• IT Pro. Say Performance issue due to developer code
• Deploy file to \BIN directory or GAC folder
• Outages when deploy code
• When error occur, affect the app pool which make cause service outage
• Supported only for on premise environment
• SharePoint Apps
• Easy to deploy apps.
• Reduce the number of 99.99
• One set of server is for lots of customer
• Application no longer live in SharePoint
• Code executed in client, cloud or on-prem
• Permission via OAuth.
• Service bus EndPoint via REST / CSOM
• No Sever-Side SharePoint API for Apps
• Supports HTML5, CSS, JS and railed development

What type application we can develop?

• Contact form
• Travel request form
• Shared documents
• Contact list
• Room booking
• Visitor information
• Claims
• Leave applications
• HR related forms download
• More input look at 40 SharePoint template to develop applications

Choice of Application type

Provider Hosted Apps Windows Azure Auto-Provisioned Apps SharePoint Hosted Apps

Marketplace

SharePoint and Office apps Microsoft going to introduce a commercial public marketplace, Today Office has 75 M users, Office and SharePoint Apps concept sounds very promising. Beside the public marketplace there is also option for private corporate app catalog for enterprise

Downslide of SharePoint Apps

• The performance is depends on Network latency issues
• InfoPath form not supported as SharePoint Apps
• Timer jobs are not possible within an app
• Deep changes to the user site are not possible with an app
• Cannot have any server-side SharePoint code

AZURE USER GROUP MEETING @ 04TH OCT. 2012 7:00PM

Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 7:00 PM (SGT)

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Singapore, 018989
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Ever struggled writing or debugging multithreaded code? Join Joe Albahari, author of C# 5 in a Nutshell, for a practical session on how to write responsive applications in C# 5 without resorting to threads, locks or BackgroundWorker. We'll explore the theory as well as the practice behind C# 5's new asynchronous functions, and see why the old-school approach is not only hard work, but fundamentally broken. We'll also touch on Reactive Framework, and they'll be a question-and-answer session on all aspects of C# 5, asynchrony and multithreading.

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