Amar Galla's Weblog

Migrating to Office 365

Finally we have migrated the Toolagen email and intranet to Office 365. The BPOS migration schedule was after 3-4 months and being a Microsoft Partner, we just could not wait to get migrated. Hence the decision was made to manually migrate everything over and if needed delete archived content and re-create items. Will write about [...]

Office 365 now available to purchase

Just saw that the new Microsoft Office 365 site is now up and out of beta. Office 365 subscriptions are available to purchase in the UK for £4/user. We are working on a few exciting enhancements to Office 365 and can’t wait to announce them soon.

Visual Studio 2010 code formatting bug

There is a bit of an issue with VS 2010 code formatting for HTML. Be default you will see HTML code formatted as : <h3> General</h3> To fix this, go to Tools –> Options Select Text Editor-> HTML –> Formatting from the left panel. Click on the Tag Specific Options. Select Default Settings [...]

Happy New Year

Wishing everyone a very happy 2011. Every year I make a resolution to start blogging more but have failed since last few years. 2010 was an eventful year as my son was born. Hence took most of my time and energy to support my wife and enjoy the joys of Fatherhood. Another big milestone hit [...]

Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Rig

I have been researching on building the best SharePoint 2010 development environment for quite sometime now. I am happy to say that my new rig has arrived and it is a blast to work with it. Have been using it for around a month now. Will soon have a few blog posts for people who [...]

.NET Adoption in Startups

A very interesting article over at Aaronontheweb about .NET Adoption in Startups. Some really excellent comments also giving very different viewpoints. Quite an interesting read.

HTML 5 with Visual Studio 2010

If you have tried to create / edit an HTML 5 document in Visual Studio, you must have got a lot of validation errors. The current validator in Visual Studio 2010 supports HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.1 Transitional as the highest standards. To enable Intellisense to work with HTML 5, perform the following steps: Download [...]

Unable to connect to SQL Server 2008

When you first install SQL Server 2008, you are unable to connect to the SQL Server from another machine in the network. You have enabled remote connections and still whenever you try to connect, you get an access denied error. Make sure the SQL Server Browser service is running. It is required in order to [...]

SharePoint 2010 editions

If you are getting confused about which edition of SharePoint you need, there is a nice handy chart over at Microsoft. Thanks to my friend Tobias who tweeted about it. A very handy reference when you are trying to match required features with the editions.

SharePoint 2010 advanced training

If you are an existing MOSS developer, and are tired of going thru training material which tells you what a webpart is and the difference between SPSite and SPWeb, there is some good news. Just stumbled across some free SharePoint 2010 training from Microsoft specifically aimed at existing MOSS developers. Definitely worth having a look [...]