Being a computer literate person, I usually manage well to avoid phishing and other scams that take place on the Internet every day. This is the first time I got caught up in one such scam. It happened around 11:45 PM (Friday Night). I had just arrived home tired and was about to eat dinner and wanted to see a video on youtube while having dinner. I mistyped youtube.com as youyube.com and I was taken to another site which said I had won an iPad and asked me to confirm my phone number. The site had a youtube look-alike logo and I thought it was a genuine site. I entered my number and immediately got an SMS that I will be charged $9.99 every month. I immediately knew that I had made a mistake. I searched Internet and found more stories about this youyube.com scam. I think this needs to be advertised so that people should know about it. I read comments from people who had complained about this scam and surprisingly most people did not know what to do next and how to stop being charged by these thieves. Well, I am on AT&T. I immediately called them and they unsubscribed me from this service and refunded the money that the thieves had charged. Luckily I was charged just $40. I read one post where the user had claimed that he had been charged $100. The only problem is that AT&T told me that I will have to keep an eye from now on on my bills because they can re-subscribe me without informing me and in that way they will keep stealing the money. I wish there was a way to stop this automatically but I am happy at least I got the money back. AT&T have created a special page that we can check periodically for unauthorized mobile transactions that take place on our account. We can get refunds on that site. If you didn't know this, now you are in the know. Some online comments also verified that verizon also refunded users who got caught up in this scam. So, conclusion is, DON'T BE AFRAID TO CALL YOUR SERVICE PROVIDER. THEY ALREADY KNOW ABOUT THESE SCAMS BUT THEY WON'T BLOCK IT UNTIL YOU CALL THEM. So call them now and they will refund your money. Hope this post will help someone in avoiding this BS!!!
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Friday, November 18, 2011
SOME BASIC GUIDELINES FOR WORKING WITH DOCUMENTS IN MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT (Via Alice)
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“5 Best Practices for Working with Documents and SharePoint” gives some simple guidelines for following in order to keep your SharePoint documents well organized.
“In this post I’ll try to explain what you better try to avoid when you work with documents and SharePoint. Whenever possible, I’ll also give you suggestions on what to do.”
First is filenames. Give your document a short filename in the TITLE field in Office applications. Second, do not use spaces in your filenames, instead use capitalization to indicate the beginnings of words. If you use spaces they will be replaced by underscores and will result in inconsistency later.
Third, use the built-in versioning functionality rather than including the version as part of the name. This will, however, count toward your Site Collection quota. Fourth, use SharePoint as a document management program. Send collaborators links to a file rather than the file itself to keep versioning under control. Finally, use metadata to assign properties to documents. This means that you can easily identify, sort, and group your documents.
Crank up the Power: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook Book and eBook now published by Packt Publishing
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The Windows PowerShell task automation framework is tightly integrated with the Microsoft SharePoint platform, and this vital synergy between technologies offers many great advantages for IT professionals. Creating robust PowerShell scripts is the best option for saving time day to day, so Microsoft SharePoint and PowerShell integration helps administrators and infrastructure specialists achieve common tasks more efficiently, making the most out of SharePoint configuration and management. IT professionals can now crank up Powershell and Sharepoint power with Packt’s: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook
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Birmingham: The Windows PowerShell task automation framework is tightly integrated with the Microsoft SharePoint platform, and this vital synergy between technologies offers many great advantages for IT professionals. Creating robust PowerShell scripts is the best option for saving time day to day, so Microsoft SharePoint and PowerShell integration helps administrators and infrastructure specialists achieve common tasks more efficiently, making the most out of SharePoint configuration and management. IT professionals can now crank up Powershell and Sharepoint power with Packt’s: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook.
Written by Microsoft SharePoint MVP – Yaroslav Pentsarskyy – Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook translates the most commonly found SharePoint and PowerShell scenarios into a series of immediately usable recipes. These high level tasks focus on unique business examples and distinct areas of SharePoint administration. IT Pros will extend their knowledge of PowerShell automation by following tasks for managing SharePoint list settings, PowerShell configuration of SharePoint FAST Search, creating PowerShell cmdlets and snap-ins and much more.
Mindbreeze Picks Up Where SharePoint Leaves Off (Via Stephen E. Arnold)
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SharePoint 2010 is a widely implemented application, but not one that solves every solution. The issue is explored further in, “SharePoint 2010 collaboration ISVs focus on workflow, analytics.” The author, Jonathan Gourlay, reports that users are increasingly relying on a number of independent software vendors to plug the holes in the service that SharePoint provides.
Mark Gilbert, lead analyst for Gartner Research had this to say:
“’Just because SharePoint is a lot of stuff, it doesn’t mean it’s all good stuff, but a lot of it is,’ said Gilbert, who estimates he’s spoken to 3,000 companies about SharePoint. He compares the platform to a Swiss Army Knife that allows the user to add tools. ‘To make [SharePoint] a real enterprise-class tool, you typically have to pay a lot of attention to the care and feeding of it and you have to add a lot of third-party tools.’”
Here’s the main question: if SharePoint is being advertised as enterprise-class, why do so many users need ISVs to bring it up to that level? The article goes on to argue that the opportunity for vendors to build upon the SharePoint platform is huge.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Project managers, SharePoint specialists in demand: survey
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There is a dearth of skilled Share-Point staffers in New Zealand, says Tom Derbyshire, manager for IT recruiting at Robert Walters.
Commenting on the firm’s third-quarter market update, released late last month, Derbyshire says many organizations requiring SharePoint talent are training staff internally in the Microsoft collaboration technology, rather than hiring, as there are so few experienced SharePoint candidates on the market.
“It’s getting hard to find that talent,” Derbyshire says.
The SharePoint shortage is such that SharePoint is one of the skill-sets on the “shopping list” that the New Zealand company will be taking to a seminar this month in London, seeking to attract UK candidates to New Zealand, he says.
Candidates with experience of major project work in the financial services sector will also be sought-after at the London seminar, as they have skills that are in demand in New Zealand, he says.
“We’ll be looking for project managers and business analysts from the financial services sector.”
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Slide deck from ‘Customizing the SharePoint ribbon’ talk (SPC11 and SPSUK) Via CHRIS O'BRIEN
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I’d previously published the code samples, but so far hadn’t published the slide deck for the ‘Deep Dive on SharePoint Ribbon Development & Extensibility’ talk I gave recently. This is a session I initially gave with Andrew Connell at the SharePoint Conference 2011 (Anaheim), and also as an amended version at SharePoint Saturday UK a few days ago (12th November 2011). Certainly part of the credit here needs to go to my co-speaker, this is not just my work.
What I’m publishing here is a slightly amended version of the deck I used at SharePoint Saturday UK. It has all of the goodness with a couple of simplifications, but also many screenshots which try to convey what was in the demos.
I should mention we aimed for this deck and set of code samples to be THE definitive starter pack for SharePoint ribbon development right now - hopefully it helps some folks. You can view this version of the slide deck at:
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Mindjet Connect is Sweet on SharePoint! ( Via kmiller )
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If you’ve been excited about using Mindjet Connect to collaborate with your extended team but need to protect your key documents and info behind the firewall on SharePoint servers, you’re in luck. Today Mindjet announces Mindjet Connect SP and it has got you covered.
Here’s the good news: with Mindjet Connect SP you get the combined power and administrative controls of SharePoint and the great visual navigation and collaboration capabilities of Mindjet Connect.
With Mindjet Connect SP, you can leverage our Collaborative Work Management capabilities behind the firewall in the popular SharePoint environment. It provides a simpler way navigate SharePoint and a visual way to collaborate within SharePoint. The numbers suggest that a lot of workers might find this useful. Microsoft SharePoint is installed at 78% of the Fortune 500 companies with 125 million users worldwide. The product’s success shows no signs of slowing down – growing by 20,000 users per day! Yet research suggests that a percentage of those users aren’t getting all they want out their SharePoint environment. By complementing SharePoint’s file storage, user access control, task, and calendar management capabilities we help users be more efficient and get more done. Mindjet Connect SP makes SharePoint both easier and more collaborative.
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