SharePointPros.SG Meet-up on 13 Jan 2011

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

Singapore Windows Azure User Group First Meetup!

[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:

Windows Phone 7 Resources from MSDN Flash

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

{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! ...

Awesome Windows Azure X'mas Giveaways!

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: ...

Future of Silverlight Starts Now

You’re invited to a very special event on December 2nd, 2010 Learn about the future of Silverlight from Corporate Vice President, Scott Guthrie and other experts, direct from Microsoft’s HQ. Hear about our plans for the next version of Silverlight, the latest developments as well as in-depth sessions on building applications with Silverlight. Registration is free – take part in-person or online. Find out more and Register online

SQL User Group November Meetup

The Future of SQL Server I believe that there are many of you are busy migrating. Moving and upgrading from previous version to SQL Server 2008, and some of you already using SQL Server 2008 R2. There are tons of R2 features we can count on, especially on BI part. We already have countless meeting in the past talking about those BI enhancements, its benefit, and how does it improve and impact our development. Now it’s time for reflection. What we have done in the past. What we have achieved, and what are our expectation for the future. Are there any features you want to include in the next release? Do you have any idea on how to make this platform better in the future? Come and join us with 2 executives from SQL Server product team in our next meeting. This is the right time to hear about strategic direction of SQL Server directly from people who made the product. You may have some concerns, wish list and feedback. Nobody knows better other than us on how SQL Server performs in daily production. Our feedback will be very valuable for the product team to make necessary improvements. Bring your boss too; he/she may have strategic idea that will be valuable for our meeting. We will discuss the following topics: ...

WIN a KINECT with WebsiteSpark

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? ...

MessagingTalk UG meeting on 24th Nov - Lync Server 2010

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 ...

Create Theme Friendly Buttons in WP7

Check out this blog post by Bok on how you can create theme friendly buttons in WP7. He outlines how you can make sure your icon buttons are still visible after users have customized their phone color themes. This is also particularly important for the Marketplace certification process where these conditions are tested, to determine whether your app and its UI elements are still visible after user customizations. Here’s a snippet of Bok’s post. I’ll let you click to his entire post. Also check out his app up on Marketplace – “Currency 7” ...