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June 14

[ASPUG] The Adelaide SharePoint User Group May 2013 newsletter

by ZODIAC\Daniel

on 14/06/2013 11:01 AM

Category: Adelaide SharePoint User Group; Adelaide, SA, AU; SharePoint 2013; SharePoint 2010; SharePoint 2007; SharePoint; SQL Server; Teched; Events

Greetings and Salutations,

This month the Adelaide SharePoint User Group will be on Tuesday the 18^th of June, 2013 and do we have a full newsletter this month again!

For June for our guest speaker, we have the Mr Rob Farley, MVP MCM and User Group lead of the Adelaide SQL Server User presenting on “Looking after your SharePoint data”!

Presentation Description: “SharePoint is a great repository for all kinds of data, whether it be lists of things, documents, whatever. It’s easy to push that data into SharePoint, and know it’s going to be okay.

But how do you know it’s going to be okay? What happens to that data to make sure it’s okay? Is there something that’s supposed to happen to make sure that everything is okay? You might be taking regular snapshots of your SharePoint server – is that enough?

In this talk, we’ll look at what’s going on behind the scenes with SharePoint – that is, in the SQL Server instance where the SharePoint data actually lives. We’ll look at what threats there are to that data, and how you can be confident that things are actually okay. We’ll look at strategy for managing the database, and give you some questions that you should be asking both yourself and anyone who is looking after your SharePoint instance.”

You can register for this month’s Adelaide SharePoint User Group meeting at http://aspug18062013.eventbrite.com which has a kick off time at 3:30pm. Registration allows for catering for the correct number of people.

For the latest information and agenda for 2013 of the Adelaide SharePoint User Group as it comes to hand, check out our website at http://www.aspug.org.au or our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com.au/ASPUG

We’ll see you there on the 18^th!

SharePoint Saturday is back!

That's right folks! SharePoint Saturday is coming back to Adelaide for the fourth time and this year promises to be bigger and better than ever!

So go and mark June 29^th in your calendar as the day that it is all happening because you don't want to miss this!

More information can be found at http://spsevents.org/worldwide/Adelaide

Microsoft TechEd Australia 2013 registration open

As with previous years, the Adelaide SharePoint User Group is pleased to be able to offer the User Group Discount for Microsoft TechEd Australia 2013!

The Discount price is $1700.00 AUD, this represents a $500 saving off the normal admission ticket price of $2200.

To receive the User Group discount, pleaser reply to this email with your full name and email address and I will collate them and send them off to Microsoft.

SharePoint March Public Update

The March 2013 Public Update for SharePoint 2013 should be considered the base line version of any SharePoint 2013 installations from this point forward, it has also become mandatory for all future SharePoint 2013 updates!

As always, please test all updates in your testing environment first before applying them in production!

More information can be found at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/03/21/march-public-update-for-sharepoint-2013-available-and-mandatory.aspx

SharePoint June Cumulative Update

Microsoft have also released the June 2013 updates for SharePoint 2007, 2010, SP2013 Foundation! SharePoint 2013 Server updates have been delayed.

More information can be found on Stefan Gossner’s (MSFT) blog by visiting the links below:

· SharePoint 2007 - http://tinyurl.com/mwbh9w5

· SharePoint 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/mo4vppt

· SharePoint Foundation 2013 - http://tinyurl.com/knr572c

ETA for SharePoint Server is within a week or two.

As always, please test all updates in your testing environment first before applying them in production!

Office Developer tools for Visual Studio 2012

The Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 provide broad and deep support, ranging from new templates to new designers to a whole host of integrated lifecycle tools. They enable developers to create, edit, test, debug, package, and deploy apps for Office and SharePoint, across all current Office and SharePoint hosting models and app types.

More information can be found at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/03/04/now-available-office-developer-tools-for-visual-studio-2012.aspx

SharePoint Conference

The Australian SharePoint Conference has now wrapped up for 2013.

More information can be found at: http://www.sharethepoint.com/engage/Pages/default.aspx

Congratulations goes to Andrew Pawelski who won the tree ticket to the Melbourne 2013 event!

SharePoint links

You can find more information on SharePoint 2013 at the official Microsoft Site at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/preview/sharepoint.aspx and for IT Pro’s, Technet and for Developers, MSDN.

SharePoint 2013 Videos:

· SharePoint 2013 training for IT pros - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp123606.aspx

· Developer training | Apps for Office and SharePoint - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/apps/fp123626.aspx

· Training for IT Pros – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp142366

More Links:

· Microsoft SharePoint Blog: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/default.aspx

· SharePoint Strategy Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint_strategery/

· SharePoint 2013 for IT Pro’s http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp142366

Local Groups

Adelaide Windows User Group

· Date: First Tuesday of the Month

· Venue: Microsoft - Level 12, Aurora Building, 147 Pirie Street, Adelaide

· More Info can be found here

Adelaide SQL Server User Group

· Date: 3rd Wednesday of the month

· Venue: Edge on Hindley, 128 Hindley Street Adelaide, South Australia 5000

· More Info can be found here

Adelaide .NET User Group

· Date: 2^nd Tuesday of the month

· Venue: School of Computer & Information Science, University of South Australia, IT Innovation Studio, 27 North Terrace, City West Campus (Cnr Gray St) Adelaide, SA 5000

· More Information can be found here

SAGE-AU-SA

· Date: Last Tuesday of the month

· Venue: 162 Grenfell St, Adelaide

· More Info can be found here

Adelaide Office 365 Group

· Date: 1^st Tuesday of the Month

· Venue: Microsoft - Level 12, Aurora Building, 147 Pirie Street, Adelaide

· More Info can be found here

Call for Sponsors for 2013

Is your business or company interested in sponsoring the Adelaide SharePoint User Group in 2013? If so, please contact Daniel Brown on 0419 804 099 or via email at aspug@aspug.org.au

Call for Speakers for 2013

The Adelaide SharePoint User Group is seeking a range of topics this year. If you are interested in presenting to the user group, we would love to hear from you, SharePoint 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 and all relating products are all welcome!

Don’t know what to present? Have a SharePoint environment? It’s a great way to present to the user group to show off what you or your business has done or doing with SharePoint. These practice presentations of SharePoint allow attendee’s to gain valuable knowledge on what SharePoint can be useful for by seeing first hand.

List Management

Feel free to forward these emails to others who may be interested in the Adelaide SharePoint User Group. If they wish to receive emails directly about the Adelaide SharePoint User Group, they should send a message to me at the address below.

If you would like to include meeting details in your works internal newsletter, please also feel free to do so.

Feedback

Please let us know if you have any feedback on how we can improve the user group. Also, if you would like to present to the group on your experiences with SharePoint, just let us know. I can be contacted at daniel@danielbrown.id.au or by visiting http://www.aspug.org.au

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May 21

Microsoft to light up 2 DC’s in Australia for Windows Azure

by ZODIAC\Daniel

on 21/05/2013 8:17 AM

Category: Azure; Sydney, NSW, AU; Melbourne, VIC, AU; Odds; NBN

That's right, it appears Microsoft have decided to finally put 2 data centers for Windows Azure here in Australia.

With what appears to be The primary in NSW with secondary in Victoria

This is a big change for Microsoft, and addresses a lot of data sovereignty issues which I have had in the past which have prevent me from moving some of my clients to a cloud based solution such as Azure.

As those of you who know me, I’m “big” on data sovereignty and just “who” owns my data!

But in the coming future, we will have a Australian region for Azure!

I wonder how they will tie into the NBN? *ponders*

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May 20

Adelaide SharePoint User Group meeting tomorrow!

by ZODIAC\Daniel

on 20/05/2013 9:44 AM

Category: Adelaide SharePoint User Group; Adelaide, SA, AU; Events; SharePoint 2013; SharePoint

Just a quick reminder about this month the Adelaide SharePoint User Group will be on Tuesday the 21^st of May, 2013 at 3:30pm.

You can register for this month’s Adelaide SharePoint User Group meeting at http://aspug21052013.eventbrite.com.

For May our returning guest speaker is Adam Cogan MVP RD of SSW in Sydney, who is fresh off the heels of speaking at the Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney and New Zealand who will be presenting - “I feel the love again, Access is back vs. the power user new comer, Lightswitch” on Tuesday the 21^st of May, 2013.

Presentation Description: “Fifteen years ago, Microsoft Access was the solution, for allowing power users to create, update and modify their database. Some even created monster solutions that ran their entire business. But as you know that created a booming industry that spun up to support these mammoth databases. In 2013, what’s the best solution for bringing a database to the web so that users can maintain the records?”

Registration: http://aspug21052013.eventbrite.com - Registration allows for catering for the correct number of people.

I’ll see you there on the 21^st!

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May 16

Unable to open excel workbook with Excel Services 2013

by ZODIAC\Daniel

on 16/05/2013 9:51 AM

Category: SharePoint 2013; SharePoint; Powershell; Odds; Excel

Are you receiving the error “Couldn’t Open the Workbook” while trying to open any excel file from a trusted location in Excel Services?

Besides the error being very helpful, its likely its going to be 1 of several potential errors.

The clue with my particular one was deep in the SharePoint logs, I came across:

Cannot open database "WSS_Content" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'domain\user'.

Low and behold, there is the root of the error!

Following the “Configure Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2013” article at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219698.aspx it appears that when Excel services was configured, the excel service account was not granted permission to access the content database.

The solution?

Outlined in the same article! (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219698.aspx#proc1)

A little bit of Power shell :)

$w = Get-SPWebApplication -identity http://<WebApplication>
$w.GrantAccessToProcessIdentity("<Domain>\<Username>")

After that, success, Excel workbook opens fine!

-DB

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May 15

[ASPUG] Adelaide SharePoint User Group June 2013 Early Bird registration

by ZODIAC\Daniel

on 15/05/2013 7:43 PM

Category: Adelaide SharePoint User Group; Events; SharePoint; SQL Server; Adelaide, SA, AU

June 2013 early bird registration - http://aspug18062013.eventbrite.com/

Speaker Rob Farley, MVP MCM – Topic TBA

More details to come as they are made available!

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May 12

SharePoint IIS Header value

by ZODIAC\Daniel

on 12/05/2013 6:01 PM

Category: ASP.NET; SharePoint 2010; SharePoint 2013; SharePoint Designer; Office; Odds; IIS; SharePoint Workspaces

Something curious I have came across while doing some security work with SharePoint 2010 & 2013.

The IIS header value “MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices” seems out of sync with the actual farm version.

While I cannot seem to find the official version, I suspect it is a value used by a client of SharePoint, maybe Office, SharePoint Designer or SharePoint workspaces.

The SharePoint 2013 March 2013 Public update, nor the April 2013 Cumulative update does not update the version in the IIS header value, while the core update (December does).

Like whiles with SharePoint 2010, the last time this value changed, was in the August 2012 update!

If you find out, please let me know at daniel@danielbrown.id.au!

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May 10

Unread Mail Folder in Outlook 2013

by ZODIAC\Daniel

on 10/05/2013 11:17 AM

Category: Odds; Outlook 2013; Office

Want to have a “Unread Mail” folder in the left hand side navigation of outlook?

I came across the article this morning from Microsoft!

Restore the Unread Mail folder - http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/outlook-help/restore-the-unread-mail-folder-HA010355884.aspx

1. In Mail, on the Folder tab, in the New group, click New Search Folder.

2. In the Reading Mail section, click Unread Mail.

3. Click OK.

You now have the “Unread Mail” folder!

Enjoy!

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May 08

[ASPUG] The Adelaide SharePoint User Group May 2013 newsletter

by ZODIAC\Daniel

on 8/05/2013 7:58 PM

Category: Adelaide SharePoint User Group; Adelaide, SA, AU; Events; SharePoint; SharePoint 2013; SharePoint 2010; SharePoint 2007

Greetings and Salutations,

This month the Adelaide SharePoint User Group will be on Tuesday the 21^st of May, 2013 and do we have a full newsletter this month!

For May’s for our guest speaker, we have returning speaker Adam Cogan MVP RD of SSW in Sydney, who is fresh off the heels of speaking at the Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney and New Zealand who will be presenting - “I feel the love again, Access is back vs. the power user new comer, Lightswitch” on Tuesday the 21^st of May, 2013.

You can register for this month’s Adelaide SharePoint User Group meeting at http://aspug21052013.eventbrite.com which has a kick off time at 3:30pm. Registration allows for catering for the correct number of people.

We’ll see you there on the 21^st!

Windows Azure DevCamps

Keen to get started with Windows Azure development?

Join us at our complimentary Windows Azure DevCamps in May – they’re a great place to learn about the latest Windows Azure features.

The Adelaide event will be taking place on the 22^nd of May 2013.

Events are also in Melbourne and Perth.

More info at - http://spr.ly/6039Xihv

Free Exam Second Shot Voucher

Until May 31^st 2013, Microsoft is providing the popular Second Shot offer that gives you a free second chance to pass your certification exam.

Now you can sign up for that certification exam with the confidence that, even if you don’t pass it the first time, you’ll get a second chance at success. Rush offer ends on 31st May 2013

To get your free voucher, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/second-shot.aspx#fbid=7FDyPYpk7wt

SharePoint Conference

The Australian SharePoint Conference is fast approaching in Melbourne with it kicking off on June 11 & 12! (Early Bird discount ends this Friday!)

This is a great event and has been running now for several years throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia!

Early bird registration is open; Tickets are $700 (non-early bird $875AUD), but hurry, it ends Friday the 10^th of May, while Australian Computer Society Members can receive a future discount.

Engage in person with the SharePoint Community. Connect with peers, industry experts and SharePoint specialists. These are annual ShareThePoint Conferences which attract both business and technical roles, and provide a wide range of content to learn, up skill and re-train.

More information can be found at: http://www.sharethepoint.com/engage/Pages/default.aspx (Running on SharePoint 2013!)

Also, Congratulations goes to Andrew Pawelski who won the tree ticket to the Melbourne 2013 event!

SharePoint Saturday is back!

That's right folks! SharePoint Saturday is coming back to Adelaide for the fourth time and this year promises to be bigger and better than ever!

So go and mark June 29^th in your calendar as the day that it is all happening because you don't want to miss this!

SharePoint March Public Update

As always, please test all updates in your testing environment first before applying them in production!

More information can be found at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/03/21/march-public-update-for-sharepoint-2013-available-and-mandatory.aspx

SharePoint April Cumulative Update

Microsoft have also released the April 2013 updates for SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013!

More information can be found on Stefan Gossner’s (MSFT) blog by visiting the links below:

· SharePoint 2007 - http://tinyurl.com/c3o68rf

· SharePoint 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/dyur888

· SharePoint 2013 - http://tinyurl.com/cwsh7q5

As always, please test all updates in your testing environment first before applying them in production!

Office Developer tools for Visual Studio 2012

More information can be found at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/03/04/now-available-office-developer-tools-for-visual-studio-2012.aspx

SharePoint links

You can find more information on SharePoint 2013 at the official Microsoft Site at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/preview/sharepoint.aspx and for IT Pro’s, Technet and for Developers, MSDN.

SharePoint 2013 Videos:

· SharePoint 2013 training for IT pros - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp123606.aspx

· Developer training | Apps for Office and SharePoint - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/apps/fp123626.aspx

· Training for IT Pros – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp142366

More Links:

· Microsoft SharePoint Blog: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/default.aspx

· SharePoint Strategy Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint_strategery/

· SharePoint 2013 for IT Pro’s http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp142366

Local Groups

Adelaide Windows User Group

· Date: First Tuesday of the Month

· Venue: Microsoft - Level 12, Aurora Building, 147 Pirie Street, Adelaide

· More Info can be found here

Adelaide SQL Server User Group

· Date: 3rd Wednesday of the month

· Venue: Edge on Hindley, 128 Hindley Street Adelaide, South Australia 5000

· More Info can be found here

Adelaide .NET User Group

· Date: 2^nd Tuesday of the month

· Venue: School of Computer & Information Science, University of South Australia, IT Innovation Studio, 27 North Terrace, City West Campus (Cnr Gray St) Adelaide, SA 5000

· More Information can be found here

SAGE-AU-SA

· Date: Last Tuesday of the month

· Venue: 162 Grenfell St, Adelaide

· More Info can be found here

National Events

SharePoint Saturday’s

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for ‘SharePoint Saturday’ event. SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

Website: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/

Microsoft TechED Australia

You can now also pre-register your interest for Microsoft TechEd 2013 and be the first to get information on next year’s conference as it becomes available direct from Microsoft. Register your interest for TechEd 2013 at http://australia.msteched.com/

Microsoft have also published the video sessions of TechEd 2012 which are available for download http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Australia/2012

SharePoint Conference 2013 Australia

Mark your Calendar! The Australian SharePoint Conference is to be held on the 11 & 12^th of June.

Early bird registration is open; Tickets are $700 per event, but hurry, it ends Friday the 10^th of May!

Australian Computer Society members receive a further discount!

More information can be found at: http://www.sharepointconference.com.au/

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May 08

[IT PM SIG] Realise More Benefits: A Systems Approach to Benefits Realisation

by ZODIAC\Daniel

on 8/05/2013 7:01 PM

Category: Adelaide, SA, AU; Events; Australian Computer Society

Topic: Realise More Benefits: A Systems Approach to Benefits Realisation

Speaker: Matt Williams

Date: Monday 3 June 2013, Time: 17:15 drinks and nibbles for presentation start at 17:45

Venue: Pilgrim Church Hall, (rear) 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide

Bookings and further info: https://www.acs.org.au/branches/south-australia/events/upcoming-events/event-details?eveID=10249904985676

OVERVIEW/CONTENT

In these challenging economic times, organisations cannot afford to stand still. They must continually evolve to meet the demands of a changing environment and ever more demanding customers, while cost pressure is placed on projects to deliver more with less.
In this context, what defines project success? Adherence to the triple constraints of time, cost, quality is no longer enough. A project's output must also contribute to a measurable benefit to achieving an organisation’s strategic objectives. This involves a co-ordinated approach across the entire project portfolio to converting project outputs into lasting benefits.
WHAT WILL PARTICIPANTS LEARN/GAIN/DISCOVER IF THEY ATTEND?
Attendees can learn:
· WHO Is responsible for Benefits Realisation in an organisation?
· WHAT does an organisation with a mature Benefits Realisation approach look like?
· WHEN is the right time to start harvesting benefits?

· HOW do I measure whether my projects are delivering benefits to my organisation?

Future IT PM SIG Sessions

The future IT PM SIG sessions (and major related events) are:
Mon 03/06/2013    Realise More Benefits: A Systems Approach to Benefits Realisation, Matt Williams
Mon 01/07/2013    Inherent Tensions Between Project Managers and SMEs, Doug Gillott
Mon 05/08/2013    TBA
Mon 02/09/2013    Effective Project and Program Start Up, Andrew Hoyle
Mon 14/10/2013    Organisational Change Management, Mark Hall

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May 08

Integration of SharePoint 2010 & LiveID produces Error ID4037

by ZODIAC\Daniel

on 8/05/2013 9:24 AM

Category: SharePoint; SharePoint 2010; LiveID

Last night, I was integrating Microsoft LiveID and SharePoint when I came across the following error:

“Getting “ID4037: The key needed to verify the signature could not be resolved from the following security key identifier 'SecurityKeyIdentifier’”

Needless to say, it was a little bit surprising, considering I had followed the steps to a key, but obviously I had missed something… the error gives a “slight” clue as to what the cause is, 4037

Drawing on my old school HTTP knowledge and Wikipedia, 403 is access denied. 403(.)7 is Access Denied – Client certificate required.

Considering, there where only 2 certificates in use at this stage, a self signed one for the IIS site, which worked fine and the LiveID-Int certificate, which needs to be imported to the local machine.

I had forgot to import the LiveID-Int x509 certificate to the Trusted People, Trusted Root Certificates and SharePoint certificate containers!

After I imported the LiveID-INT certificate, restarted IIS (iisreset) and tried to log in again, success!\

So remember to make sure your LiveID certificate is imported!

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SharePoint Saturday

SharePoint Saturday Adelaide

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint for ‘SharePoint Saturday’ event.

SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics.

SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

Dates for 2013

Perth: 9 March
Brisbane: 11 May
Adelaide: 29 June
Melbourne: 27 July
Canberra: 24 August
Sydney: 19 October

More information can be found at the above links

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More information can be found at:

Sydney - 10 & 11 April 2013
Melbourne - 11 & 12 June 2013