Archives for December 2010

Want to get into Azure for free?

December 25, 2010 by Joel Jeffery

Merry Christmas folks!

Here’s a lovely SaaSy Christmas present for you all!

In this video Steve Plank from Microsoft shows how MSDN Premium/Ultimate and BizSpark members can get some Azure services for free.

If you’re an MSDN Premium subscriber or BizSpark member, you can have 750 hours of compute a month, 10 GB of storage, 1,000,000 transactions, 5 service bus connections, 1,000,000 access control, 3x 1GB Web Edition Databases on SQL Azure.

Services by Subscription Level (no extra charge) *

Premium, Ultimate & BizSpark

Windows Azure

Small compute instance

750 hours / month

Storage

10 GB

Transactions

1,000,000 / month

AppFabric

Service Bus Connections

5 / month

Access Control Transactions

1,000,000 / month

SQL Azure

Web Edition databases (1GB)

3

Data Transfers

Europe and North America

7 GB in / month
14 GB out / month

Asia Pacific

2.5 GB in / month
5 GB out / month

So now we have no excuses, right?

PDC10 – Scott Guthrie Post Keynote Interview

December 24, 2010 by Joel Jeffery

Windows Phone 7 Developer Coolness

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft Developer Division VP and all round .NET guru, talks about the keynote at this years Microsoft Professional Developer Conference. They gave each attendee a Windows Phone 7! I’m really jealous now.

Scott also talks about the developer tools available for Windows Phone 7, Silverlight development with Expression Blend and the Windows Phone 7 SDK.

You get a sneak peek at the Twitter app for Windows Phone 7 – also written in Silverlight showing off many of the controls from the SDK.

Scott also discusses the Office Marketplace and you see a few examples of the thousands of Windows Phone 7 applications that are already available on the Martketplace.

#spthingaday

#spthingaday 003 - Information Architecture. Folde

#spthingaday 003 - Information Architecture. Folders are evil. Use metadata. #SharePoint, #Office365..
On a fileshare, all you have is path and filename. That's the only axis by which you can classify your stuff. So you nest folders, within folders, within folders. Then you pack the filename with extra bits of information - like the initials of the last editor, or the version number.
You don't need to do this in SharePoint. Use metadata.
Add columns to your libraries. Text columns, number columns, choice columns, managed metadata columns. Each file can have several of these values simultaneously. But a file can only live in one folder at a time.
Use metadata.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

#spthingaday 003 - Information Architecture. Folders are evil. Use metadata. #SharePoint, #Office365..
On a fileshare, all you have is path and filename. That's the only axis by which you can classify your stuff. So you nest folders, within folders, within folders. Then you pack the filename with extra bits of information - like the initials of the last editor, or the version number.
You don't need to do this in SharePoint. Use metadata.
Add columns to your libraries. Text columns, number columns, choice columns, managed metadata columns. Each file can have several of these values simultaneously. But a file can only live in one folder at a time.
Use metadata.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement ...

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#spthingaday 001 - Governance. Avoid death by file

#spthingaday 001 - Governance. Avoid death by fileshare #SharePoint, Teams, Planner and #Office365 projects need executive sponsorship.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

#spthingaday 001 - Governance. Avoid death by fileshare #SharePoint, Teams, Planner and #Office365 projects need executive sponsorship.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement ...

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#spthingaday 060 - SharePoint Search. Changing the

#spthingaday 060 - SharePoint Search. Changing the Search Topology. #SharePoint, #SharePointSearch.. The Search Service in SharePoint on-premise is made up of six components.

Crawl, Content Processing, Index, Analytics, Query and Administration.

Each of these components can be placed on one or more servers in your Farm.

To make any one Search component support high availability, you need to make sure there are at least two servers in your Farm running it.

SharePoint Server 2010 had only 3 types of component, and Microsoft let you manage their placement via Central Admin, in the browser.

From SharePoint 2013 onwards, this was deemed too difficult to express graphically.

For SharePoint 2013 and 2016, topology changes need to be made via PowerShell.

Tomorrow, we'll look at just what PowerShell cmd-lets you need to use.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

#spthingaday 060 - SharePoint Search. Changing the Search Topology. #SharePoint, #SharePointSearch.. The Search Service in SharePoint on-premise is made up of six components.

Crawl, Content Processing, Index, Analytics, Query and Administration.

Each of these components can be placed on one or more servers in your Farm.

To make any one Search component support high availability, you need to make sure there are at least two servers in your Farm running it.

SharePoint Server 2010 had only 3 types of component, and Microsoft let you manage their placement via Central Admin, in the browser.

From SharePoint 2013 onwards, this was deemed too difficult to express graphically.

For SharePoint 2013 and 2016, topology changes need to be made via PowerShell.

Tomorrow, we'll look at just what PowerShell cmd-lets you need to use.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement ...

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