Monday, July 5, 2010

Deployment error on Windows Azure

Deploy Hello World Application in the Staging Environment.

Gives a Warning Message " While your deployment is stopped, it continues to accrue charges. Please delete the stopped deployment if you no longer wish to be charged for it. For more details visit Windows Azure Pricing FAQs"

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Click Run button System will deploy your solution and enable WebRole to be ready.

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Click Website URL to test your Cloud Application….

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Singapore SharePoint Community

Date : 08 July 2010

Time :06:45 PM – 9:30PM

Location  :Microsoft Singapore Level 22 CF-12

Scalable SharePoint Infrastructure Management

William Tay, Microsoft Singapore

Come by and enjoy a highly-interactive session with William as he talks about the latest and neatest trick in the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack called PowerPivot and how it fits into the entire Microsoft Business Intelligence solution – and more importantly, how it democratize Business Intelligence in the enterprise with the Microsoft belief of BI for the Masses.

Introduction to Claims Authentication in SharePoint 2010

Chyan Yee Goh, Microsoft Consulting Services

When it comes to identity management intensive applications, it's hard to top SharePoint. Whether you are signing in a portal, accessing a document or using a webpart for reaching out to external web services, your identity is going to be the factor that drives it all.
In this session, we will give an overview of how claims based authentication is used in SharePoint 2010 and how this opens up opportunities for authentication scenarios that were not possible before.

Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of AvePoint Singapore.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Windows Azure no endpoint listening at net.pipe

While running a "Hello World" applicaition i am getting following error:

There was no endpoint listening at net.pipe://localhost/dfagent/1/host that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details

To resolve above error Goto Start –> Program –> Windows Azure SDK v1.2 –> and press Development Fabric

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Once Development Fabric started you can let’s start the application in debug mode or just press the familiar F5 button.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Windows Azure development

Windows Azure Platform

Exploring Windows Azure development training kit Hand-on-Lab to understand how to build applications that utilize Windows Azure, SQL Azure & Windows Azure platform AppFabric.

Not sure, how is market for this space… anyone has idea?

Monday, May 24, 2010

SharePoint Land Joel posted reference link

I am very happy know that SharePoint guru Joel visited by Blog and posted link on his blog 10 Tips Troubleshooting Installations for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation.

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http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0cd1a63d%2D183c%2D4fc2%2D8320%2Dba5369008acb&ID=280

Sunday, May 23, 2010

My New DELL Vostro 3400 Laptop

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Processors : Intel®  CoreTM  i3, i5 Dual Core Processors

Operating System : Genuine Windows®  7 Professional 64-Bit

8GB 1066MHz DDR3, 2 DIMM slots

Mobile Intel®  HM57 Express Chipset

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD  Nvidia®  Geforce®  310M, 512MB Graphics Display

14.0" High Definition Wide LED Anti-Glare Display

7200RPM SATA Hard Drive up to 500GB

Thursday, May 20, 2010

SharePoint 2010 IW on VirtualBox

To test SharePoint 2010 i Installed VirtualBox and downloaded SharePoint 2010 IW extract the file (CRC check issue refer to my previous post). The big surprise to me that the VirtualBox allow me attach VHD as hard disk. Refer below screen shots how to add Virtual Hard disk. 

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After Windows appear system may prompt you to activate Windows 2008 R2 server you to extend 180 day’s trail you need re-arm. As per Microsoft site

“Re-arming, after a 10 day period after which they will shut down after 2 hours of continuous operation.  To "re-arm" the Virtual Machines use the shortcut provided under Start > All Programs > re-arm > Re-arm Windows (restart required).  This will reset the grace period for 10 days.  This can be done twice.  In order to activate Windows you must add a second network card to each VM in Hyper-V and connect it to the Internet.  Once connected you can activate Windows within the Virtual Machine and the VM will run for 180 days.”

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SharePoint 2010 running on VirtualBox

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Note : After Re-arming unable to Activate Office applications….