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I just downloaded the IE 9 beta and installed in my laptop. My first impressions -- i love it. It has got a very simple interface which is very appealing. The start up time is just amazing. Microsoft has really worked on this i guess. One thing i hate about IE 8 is the time to start up a new tab. Sometimes it just tested all my patience. But now new tabs really open up with lightning speed. Thumbnails of the mostly used tabs are shown when opening a new tab with colour coding indicating the usage. The interface is really simplified with only the required icons on the top bar. Page load times are really fast- one really necessary feature for a good browser. On a whole i just love the new browser and i am very satisfied with its performance. With the support for HTML 5 and hardware accelaration i am expecting IE 9 to be a great success for Microsoft.

The database approach is followed when the existing server does not meet the hardware and software requirements for SharePoint installation to do an Inplace Upgrade. In such a case SharePoint is installed on a new server and the content from the existing server is attached to the new server. I will be explaining how a MOSS 2007 web application can be upgraded using this method. To do the migration your MOSS installation has to be MOSS SP2 or later. If not upgrade it to SP2 or later. To do a database attach first you have to detach the database from the MOSS installation. This should be done to avoid any inconsistencies in data that may be caused due to updates to the content databases during the upgrade process. To do this Open SQL Server Management Studio Right click on the content database you want to detach, point to Tasks and click on Detach on the pop out.  Then take back up of the content database you have detached. To do this, right click on the database in SQL Server

SharePoint 2010 has made available a very useful type of authentication called Claims based Authentication. You can have a custom identity provider and make your web application use that identity provider in the places of default Windows Authentication. You can also make it use multiple authentication providers. Following are the steps to be followed for configuring a SharePoint 2010 web application to use Claims Based Authentication. I will use ADFS 2.0 to authenticate users in my domain instead of Windows Authentication.  Install and Configure ADFS 2.0 Install ADFS 2.0 on the server which can authenticate the users. Run the ADFS configuration wizard. Select create new federation server if you are using this for testing or else select the appropriate option. If you plan to use more than one ADFS select New Federation Server Farm else select Stand Alone Server. Click Next The wizard automatically picks up a certificate. If it show any error. Go to IIS manager and cre

I had to create a custom timer job in SharePoint 2010 recently, but could not find a blog which explained the complete procedure to do this. So I decided to write one. In this post I will give a step by step process to create a Custom timer job in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010. Timer jobs are created by extending the SPJobDefinition class and deployed as features. So we will create a class which extends the SPJobDefinition class. Then we will create a feature and we will handle the featureActivated() event of that feature. In that we will instantiate the class created. Let us see how to do all this. Create an empty SharePoint project in VS 2010. Give the Site Collection URL where you want this feature will be activated. Create a class in the project.   Add these namespaces using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration; class MyTimerJob : SPJobDefinition { public MyTimerJob() : base () { } public MyTimerJob( SPWebApplic