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Date : 13 January 2011 Time : 06:30PM – 09:00PM Location: Microsoft Singapore Level 21. One Marina Boulevard ** Refreshments will be provided Session Agenda Automated Installation of SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell Chyan Yee Goh, Consultant at Microsoft Consulting In this session, we will start with some PowerShell basics in SharePoint 2010. After that we will cover the reasons behind the usage of PowerShell and we will go into the challenges and scenarios when installing SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell scripting. Word Automation Service K.Mohamed Faizal, Lead Consultant at NCS This session you will lean creating custom solution to convert Word documents to PDF using document library list item event receiver to call Word Automation Services to convert Word documents to PDF when they are added to the list. The event receiver checks whether the list item added is a Word document. If so, it creates a conversion job to create a PDF version of the Word document and pushes the conversion job to the Word Automation Services conversion job queue. About Faizal: Faizal has over a decade of experience in Information Technology with a focus on enabling portals, Internet and Intranet. His area of specialization include but are not limited to evaluate and develop migration strategies for Lotus Notes application to SharePoint/.NET based solution, design content management, web-based self-service and collaboration solutions

[caption id=“attachment_2979” align=“aligncenter” width=“200” caption=“Windows Azure SG User Group”][/caption] Description: Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Singapore Community is for fans of Windows Azure, SQL Azure & Windows Azure Platform AppFabric. Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/MWAPSG Contact details: Faizal Lead Consultant, NCS (P) Ltd Email: kmdfaizal@yahoo.com Wely Azure MVP, Solution Architect, NCS (P) Ltd Email: Wely_live@live.com First Meet Up on Jan 26th 2010:

Today’s MSDN Flash newsletter has a chokful of resources to help developers get started with WP7 development. For those of you who don’t know, MSDN Flash is a free newsletter to help developers stay up to date with the latest development news from Microsoft. You can subscribe today! Get Started with Windows Phone 7! App Hub, your Windows Phone 7 developer portal, offers a single location where you can download the free Windows Phone 7 toolkit, find training and sample code, register for Marketplace, and submit applications and games. ...

{Community} Technology Update 2010 Technical Updates for the community, by the community The 7th iteration of CTU is back – Once again, the Singapore User Groups have come together to bring a full day of technical sharing ranging from topics for developers, IT professionals and database administrators. We’ve packed a full day of contents which is meant to get you up to date with the latest technologies in the Microsoft stack. If you’re one person who learns better only with practice, come on and sign up for our Hands-on Lab! ...

Congratulations to Koh Zi Han, you have won the Xbox Kinect bundle. We will also contact the rest of you who have won the GV movie tickets through email shortly. Last but not least, we would like to take this opportunity to Thank You all for participating in the Windows Azure X’mas giveaways and your support in the past year. Here’s wishing you a prosperous year ahead! (= How to win the Xbox Kinect bundle? Step 1: Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/ Step 2: Scroll down to ‘Standard Offers’ Step 3: Click on ‘Introductory Special’ and sign up. Step 4: Send us your purchase confirmation email, full name, address, contact details to v-kilaum@microsoft.com Terms & Conditions: ...

Calling all WebsiteSpark members! Want to get your hands on the latest toy in town, the Kinect? Simply follow the steps below and you could be the one who walks away with a Kinect + Xbox 360 bundle worth over S$500. *For those who has reported websites but hasn’t validated them, you are also eligible. This is the time to validate your sites!* How to win the Kinect + Xbox 360 bundle? Criteria 1: Report your websites via http://websitespark.com * Criteria 2: Submit the most number of potential WebsiteSpark partners ** * First 50 to report your sites will recieve an awesomely geeky “Make Web not War” t-shirt ** Submit at least 10 unique potential partners. If somebody submits the same contact we’ll cancel it out. These partners should qualify for WebsiteSpark, details of eligibility here. How to submit your entry? ...

Nov 24th Meet Up Agenda Date: 24th Nov 2010 Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00PM Venue: Microsoft Singapore (Conference Room SINOMB 22CF-12) 7:00 PM to 7:15PM - Registration 7:20 PM to 8:00PM – Lync Server 2010 –Voice Architecture and Planning for High Availability by David Lim 8:00 PM to 8:15PM - Toilet/Stretching Break 8:15PM to 10 PM – Lync Server 2010 Installation and Configuration Demo by David Lim ...

This post is by our Microsoft Student Partner Yan Li. Recently, I worked on an app for the Windows Phone 7 platform and submitted it to the marketplace for certification. I’ve learnt many things and gained many insights after going through this process and would like to share one of these with you, developers and potential developers of the Windows Phone 7 platform. Throughout this post, I will be making references to the official Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements document (WP7ACR) which can be downloaded at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9730558. Under Section 5.2.4 of the WP7ACR, clause a, it is stated that: ...

The Post PDC10 Viewing Party, 8th November at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, co-hosted by Hammad Rajjoub from was a smashing success as we had a good time watching PDC10 keynotes from Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia and talking about some of the technologies mentioned in PDC10. There was awesome freebies, insightful content and engaging conversations going around the room. It all ended with a scrumptious dinner that everyone enjoyed immensely and of course the grand lucky draw prize of an Xbox 360 + Guitar Hero package was given out to Veerasivanantham Paramasivam of Bank Of America Merrill Lynch. Here are some snapshots of the event: During the event, Ziriad’s (Microsoft Singapore DPE Director) keynote covered some of the key technologies such as Cloud, IE9, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 etc. which was followed by two break-out sessions. You can check out Ziriad’s slides here: [slideshare id=5774621&doc=pdc2010update-101114035258-phpapp01] First break-out session is from Mingfei (Microsoft Developer Evangelist) on Windows Azure AppFabric. Slides below: [slideshare id=5774665&doc=boacloudcomputing-101114040211-phpapp02] Second break-out session is from Hammad (Microsoft MVP, Lead of ) on Windows Server AppFabric. Slides below: [slideshare id=5741540&doc=windowsserverappfabric-pdc2010-101111065307-phpapp01]