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Hello Everyone,

My name is Lior Arviv and I'm a Senior Support Engineer for SharePoint & Office technologies at the EMEA CTS team in Microsoft Israel. Joining Microsoft is a huge opportunity for me and especially to be a part of a great team and minds. This blog is a stage for my day-to-day work, tips and other useful information. Please feel free to leave comments and ideas for my future posts.

See you soon,
Lior


Troubleshooting OneNote and Outlook Integration Issues


Lately, I came across with a case where customer tried to use the "Meeting Notes" feature through Outlook. When he looked for the icon in the Ribbon menu it was disabled. Also, clicking on OneNote button from the menu gave him a blank error message.

Sent To OneNote Blank Error

In case you have one of the mentioned issues, (and reinstalling Office did not solved the issue) consider to use the below steps for troubleshooting:

  1. Ensure that "OneNote Notes about Outlook Items" add-in is enabled:
    For more information, please read this KB article: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/919541    
    Outlook COM Add-Ins    

  2. Check if "Send to OneNote" button works from Internet Explorer or if you are experiencing same behavior. Also, check if you can print stuff from Outlook to the Send to OneNote 2010 printer. The button is available through IE menu bar.
    IE Send To OneNote

  3. Registry Entry for the Outlook OneNote add-in: you should find it in here:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\OneNote.OutlookAddin
    Check the LoadBehavior of the Add-In : LoadBehavior should be set to 3 so that the add-in gets loaded when Outlook is started.

  4. Check if the user use other Outlook add-ins, disable them & test if the Send to OneNote works afterwards
    Start -> Run -> type: Outlook /safe
    NOTE! This command will start the Outlook in safe mode to load the program without any customization files and add-ins loaded.

  5. Reinstall "Outlook Integration" feature: from Control Panel -> Office 2010 -> Change -> Add or Remove Feature -> go to Microsoft OneNote  -> OneNote Add-Ins, right click and select Run from My Computer
    Outlook Integration


2 for 1 Exam Voucher–Upgrade from Old to New


The best path to cloud certifications is to complete your Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) or Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) certification. Show your continued dedication and expertise by then upgrading to the equivalent MCSE certifications when they become available.

To help you move to the cloud, Microsoft is offering a limited time* "Two for One" exam offer. When you purchase and take a qualifying exam at full price between April 11, 2012 and June 30, 2012, you will be emailed a voucher valid for the next version exam of your chosen technology path, at no additional cost. Your voucher for the second qualifying exam will be emailed to you when the new exams release and will expire 90 days after the new Certification in your technology path becomes available.

Qualifying Technology Paths*

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*Purchase a qualifying exam at full price with the voucher code provided when you click on "Request your Voucher" above and take the exam by June 30, 2012. When you do this you will receive an email containing one exam voucher valid for any qualifying next version exam in your chosen technology path. Your next version exam voucher code will be valid for 90 days after the availability of the next version Certification.
Refer to the Microsoft Learning Certification page for exam and certification availability dates.
Individuals may purchase up to five "2 for 1" exam vouchers per technology path.

For more details about 2 for 1 exam voucher, click here.


24 Hours in a Private Cloud Virtual Event


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Every organization has the power to employ cloud technologies in their own way, at their own pace and with their own terms.  The use of private cloud technologies help transform how organizations manage infrastructure resources, provision applications and automate services for their business. It also helps them leverage and manage public cloud services that expand their current infrastructure and application capabilities. As an end result, organizations increase IT operational agility, improved business focus and achieve value-add economics that evolves their IT infrastructure into a strategic asset.

In collaboration with IEEE Computer Society, the Cloud Security Alliance and Dell, Microsoft is hosting a 24 Hours in a Private Cloud virtual event that will start May 10th, 2012 8:00AM GMT.

Over 24 hours, you will hear from top industry and technical professionals from around the world to help you better understand the private cloud technology solutions that are available today. You will hear from industry organizations about how they view the public cloud and how the role of the IT Professional will evolve as more and more organizations begin a private cloud transformation. Listen to the number of technical professionals who will be on hand talking about the required components to simplify private cloud creation and management. Talk with them and your peers about the numerous operational efficiencies that come from deploying a private cloud with the reduction of servers and the benefits of provisioning and managing virtual applications across multiple platforms.

Event Start:    May 10, 2012 8:00AM GMT
Event End:     May 11, 2012 8:00AM GMT

Register now for the event!

Keynote Speakers:

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Jim Reavis, Executive Director, Cloud Security Alliance

For many years, Jim Reavis has worked in the information security industry as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist and business strategist. Jim's innovative thinking about emerging security trends have been published and presented widely throughout the industry and have influenced many. Jim is helping shape the future of information security as co-founder, executive director and driving force of the Cloud Security Alliance. Jim was recently named as one of the Top 10 cloud computing leaders by SearchCloudComputing.com.

Jim is the President of Reavis Consulting Group, LLC, where he advises security companies, large enterprises and other organizations on the implications of new trends such as Cloud and how to take advantage of them.  He has previously been an international board member of the ISSA, a global not for profit association of information security professionals and formerly served as the association's Executive Director. Jim is a co-founder of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management, a partnership between the ISSA, ISACA and ASIS, formed to address the enterprise risk issues associated with the convergence of logical and traditional security. He currently serves in an advisory capacity for many of the industry's most successful companies and is also a partner with the MetroSITE Group.

Jim founded SecurityPortal in 1998 and has been an advisor on the launch of many industry ventures. Jim is widely quoted in the press and has worked with hundreds of corporations on their information security strategy and technology roadmap. Jim has a background in networking technologies, marketing, product management and systems integration. Jim received a B.A. in Business Administration / Computer Science from Western Washington University in 1987 and serves on WWU's alumni board.

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Dr. Dejan Milojicic, Sr. Research Manager, HP Labs

Dr. Dejan Milojicic is the founding editor of IEEE Computing Society's Computing Now. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technologies, IEEE Concurrency, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, and IEEE Internet Computing magazines. He chaired the IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems and has been involved with several other technical committees and Computer Society-sponsored conferences.

Dejan is a senior research manager at HP Labs. He has worked in the areas of operating systems and distributed systems for more than 20 years. Dejan is the managing director of the Open Cirrus testbed, a consortium sponsored by HP, Intel, and Yahoo. In the past, he has led many activities in HP Labs, such as incident reduction, shared services platform, virtual desktop systems, adaptive monitoring, service deployment standards, a number of pervasive computing projects, and multi-computer systems. Dejan has been engaged in standardization bodies, such as OMG and GGF.  He received his BSc and MSc from University of Belgrade and PhD from University of Kaiserslautern.


A Day in the Cloud on 28 Nov 2012 @ Microsoft Malaysia


 

Attend & Win Prizes!!

Have you registered yet? HURRY, seats are limited!!

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Meet Beat Schwegler, Director, Platform Strategy Group, Microsoft Corporation

Beat is part of Microsoft's Platform Strategy Group which is developing the strategies relating to platform services and service-based applications. He started to focus on cloud computing in 2008 and just loves the opportunities it provides to businesses of all sizes. In his 10 years at Microsoft, Beat was responsible for cloud platform adoption among developers in Western Europe and provided advice on software strategy and architecture across Europe Middle East and Africa. Before joining Microsoft, he was an independent architect and developer and was involved in a wide variety of projects, ranging from real-time building control systems, best-selling shrink-wrapped products to large scale CRM and ERP systems.

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Meet Giogio Sardo, Director, Windows Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation

Giorgio Sardo is a Director of the Windows Evangelism group at Microsoft Corp. Winner of the Imagine Cup worldwide championship, nominated as Best Consultant of the Year from the British Computer Society, Giorgio moved in early 2009 to the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond to focus on the future of the Web. Giorgio is a popular speaker worldwide and in the last 5 years he has presented at hundreds of conferences around the globe. His team enables developers around the world to bring breakthrough applications and games to the Web, Windows and Windows Phone platform.

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Meet Dinesh Nair, Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Malaysia

Dinesh is the new lead of the Developer and Platform Evangelism for Microsoft Malaysia. He has a career spanning 20 years in the ICT industry, with experience from ranging from entrepreneurship to working in both the private and government sectors.

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Witness the launch of Azure User Group, Malaysia.

Meet our newly formed Azure User Group, Malaysia lead by Lee Han Xue and be one of the first to join them. They will have something exciting lined up for everyone.

Join us to learn and share about the cloud

Looking for a public cloud with global datacenters with up to 99.95% monthly SLA for your business and you just have to pay as you use? Join us to find out what's NEW in our latest Windows Azure update. Microsoft Cloud is getting even richer with our infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings (you can host both Windows and Linux on Azure) as well as our existing platform as a service (PaaS). Microsoft's Windows Azure is flexible, open and rock solid. You can build and deploy applications using any OS, Language, Database or Tool.

Event Details:

When: 28 November 2012, Wednesday

What Time: 9.00am - 5.30pm

Where: Microsoft Malaysia, Level 26, Menara 3 Petronas

Who should attend: Professional Developer, IT Professional, ISV, Startups, Technical & Business Decision Maker

Why you should attend:

  1. To gain an overview of the business opportunity Windows Azure presents, and the challenges to consider when developing a business model for the cloud, through presentation and discussion.

  2. To learn how you can take advantage of the cloud for your business

REGISTER now@ https://aka.ms/CloudDay2

          

Time

Agenda

9.00am

Registration

9.45am

Welcome Remarks By Dinesh Nair, Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Malaysia

10.00am

How cloud and devices will change the application landscape By Beat Schwegler, Director, Platform Strategy Group, Microsoft Corporation

11.00am

Tea Break

11.15 am

Launching of Azure User Group, Malaysia By Lee HanXue, President Azure User Group, Malaysia

11.30am

Building for Windows 8 By Giorgio Sardo, Director, Windows Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation

12.30pm

Lunch & Networking

2.00pm

Windows Azure Cloud Services & SQL Azure By Patrick Yong, Co-founder Sharepoint User Group

3.00pm

Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks By Daqing Lee, Vice President Azure User Group, Malaysia

4.00

Tea Break

4.15pm

Developing Windows Store Apps with Windows Azure Mobile services By Aswin, Technology Advisor, Microsoft Malaysia

5.30pm

End of Event

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Cloud Computing


Cloud computing represents a sea change in how businesses use IT to innovate, differentiate, and win in the marketplace. Much as the Internet changed the way people work, interact, and play, cloud computing is changing the very landscape of computing for businesses, governments, educators, and consumers.

A set of powerful factors is driving the shift to cloud computing:

  • IT becomes more agile. Because applications and resources can be delivered on-demand, new ideas can be tried and evaluated faster than ever before, and with greater control.
  • You can focus on business, not infrastructure. Because resources are pooled and processes are highly automated, you can pay more attention to ideas than IT complexity.
  • The economics are simply unbeatable. Because hardware utilization is greater and IT usage is metered, you can achieve new levels of scale, power, and cost-efficiency.

With cloud computing solutions from Microsoft, you can realize these new benefits while also meeting your requirements for security, compliance, and compatibility.

Microsoft provides the following cloud computing offerings:

1) Private Cloud

A Microsoft private cloud dramatically changes the way your business produces and consumes IT services by creating a layer of abstraction over your pooled IT resources. This allows your datacenter to offer true infrastructure service capability as well as optimally managed application services. Microsoft private cloud solutions are built on Windows Server and System Center technology.                        

Learn more about Microsoft's Private Cloud offerings and how to get started today, click here .

 

2) Public Cloud

Windows Azure is Microsoft's public cloud computing platform. It's a place to run your applications out on the internet, at scale. With geographically distributed datacenters worldwide, applications can be built, hosted and managed around the world. With Windows Azure, you can extend and even move your datacenter services off-premises or beyond a hosted environment, paying only for the resources you use at any given time. The flexible cloud computing platform of Windows Azure lets you focus on solving business problems and addressing customer needs, not on the infrastructure.

Benefits

Microsoft's Public Cloud Platform delivers the following benefits:-

  1. A Powerful and Practical Platform - You don't need to learn new tools or a new platform to harness the benefits of cloud computing. With Windows Azure, you can easily move existing applications to the cloud and create new applications and services using technology you already know and trust.
  2. Flexibility - Windows Azure gives you the agility to take advantage of multiple application development tools, automated service management, and global datacenter presence.  This enables you to respond faster to customer needs, focus on your competitive differentiators, and reach new markets.
  3. Freedom to Choose - With Windows Azure you have the freedom to choose where and how you manage, deploy, and store data, so that you can focus on business challenges and customer needs.
  4. Simplified Approach - With Windows Azure, you can create and manage applications and services utilizing familiar languages such as .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby.
  5. Reliable Solution - Cloud computing from Microsoft means 99.9%+ uptime and 24/7 support so you can be sure you'll have the services your business needs whenever it needs them.

Try the Windows Azure platform at no cost today. When you've completed your evaluation, you can explore pay as you go subscription packages and special offers for MSDN subscribers, MPN members, and BizSpark members.

To find our more about Windows Azure, click here.


Deployment of Hyper-V, SCVMM and Windows Server 2012


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Due to popular demand, we will have a 4-days training for Deployment of Hyper-V, SCVMM and Windows Server 2012.

This session will cover Hyper-V and SCVMM comprehensively from design & planning to deployment. Included is also the ability to deploy applications through self service via AppController and protecting your virtual environment with DPM.

 

Details:

Date: 18th – 21st December 2012 (Tuesday – Thursday)

Time: 9am – 5pm

Venue: 

Iverson Associates Sdn Bhd
Suites T113-T114, 3rd Floor, Centrepoint, Lebuh Bandar Utama,
Bandar Utama, 47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

RSVP    :    Latest by 12 December, Email to voonie.wong@iverson.com.my OR Call 03-7726 2678

Special training fee : RM400/person

 

Course Outline:

Day 1: Overview and introduction of Windows Server 2012 & Hyper-V

· Design and planning of Hyper-V projects

· Deploying Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V, MS Hyper-V Server 2012

· Managing with RSAT and Hyper-V Manager

· Converting physical/virtual to virtual machines (P2V/V2V)

· MAP 7

· Setting up fail-over VM cluster in WS 2012

· Live migration without SAN

· Hyper-V Replica

Day 2: Overview of System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager& Understanding SCVMM

· Network virtualization

· Logical networks and VM networks

· Installing and deploying SCVMM

Video

· Network virtualization

· SR-IOV

· Dynamic optimization

· Power optimization

· PRO

Day 3: Deep dive into SCVMM

· Deploying and managing Hyper-V virtual machines, apps and service template with SCVMM

Video

· Deploying from bare metal

· Managing heterogeneous hypervisors

Day 4: Understanding AppController & Understanding DPM for backup, recovery and protecting Hyper-V

· Installing AppController

· Deploying apps with AppController

· Leveraging Azure IaaS for disaster recovery

· Installing DPM

· Protecting Hyper-V, virtual machines and SQL server with DPM