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stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs replacement for SharePoint 2010

Sahil Malik — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:30:41 GMT

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Remember stsadm -o execadmsvcjob? Our rusty trust friend that allowed you to wait for a solution to retract or deploy before proceeding with the next command?Well it’s dead in SP2010 and above. But fear not, here is a replacement for it -

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Sign on Experience with Office 365

Sahil Malik — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:14:57 GMT

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Office 365 offers two types of identities: · Microsoft Online Services cloud IDs (Cloud Identity): This is the default identity Microsoft provides you, requires no additional setup, you sign up for Office 365 and you are provided a credential. You can sign in using forms based authentication, the password policy etc. for which is stored in the cloud with the Office 365 service. The advantage obviously is no additional setup headache. The disadvantage? Yet another password to remember, and no hope of authenticated single sign on integration using this cloud identity with other services at least in the current version. · Federated IDs (Federated Identity): In companies with on-premises Active Directory, users can sign into Office 365 services using their Active Directory credentials. The corporate Active Directory authenticates the users, and stores and controls the password policy. The advantage here is plenty of single sign on possibilities and better user experience. The downside, more

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New Article - Visual Studio 2011 and SharePoint 2010

Sahil Malik — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:57:50 GMT

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My newest article is now online. This article talks about the specific improvements in Visual Studio 2011 for SharePoint 2010 development. Note, it has nothing to do with vNext :), so no NDA stuff here (if that is what you were looking for). Visual Studio 2011 is pretty awesome anyway. All the new improvements will benefit your SP development, for instance, they finally fixed that add-references annoying as crap dialog box. Anyway, this article talks specifically about SP2010 development improvements, so I hope you like it. The article

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MVP.Years++ ; // Thanks Microsoft

Sahil Malik — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:30:19 GMT

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Even though today is April fools day, it is my MVP renewal date. So, there is always the chance of thinking not being renewed as an April fools joke. Well, I get to postpone that joke one more time. It looks like, I’ve been renewed again. WAHOOO!! :) Thank you Microsoft, and thank you to everyone one of you for your support and best wishes, and most of all, thanks to our MVP lead, Melissa – many don’t realize it, but it’s a tough job she has to do. Think about it, all the people who are MVPs, those who no longer will be, and those who want to be. 11 years ago when I got my first award, my love for technology was insane. Today, it is worse.I will remain a technologist until I die, even after I retire and grow crinkly. I would want my dentures fitted with Microprocessors.Technology is what I passionately love doing. I am one of the very few people who lives 24 hours of his day doing exactly what I’d rather be doing – thinking, dreaming, and working with technology.

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SharePoint 2010 - Drives are running out of free space.

Sahil Malik — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:11:38 GMT

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You might have seen the following dreadful message - As this post on blogs.msdn.com details out, this is due to a health analyzer rule configured in SharePoint. While that blogpost does a great job explaining why this monitoring is necessary, how you can tweak it, it still becomes a nuisance on SharePoint virtual machines used for development. It also becomes a nuisance on production environments because SharePoint databases are set to auto grow. In other words, as the database is being used, it only grows, and grows, and GROWS! Seriously, how many of you have put in work to compact the database on a regular basis? Those of you who answered no, you’re sitting on a time bomb. Shame on you!

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