To be consciously competent in thoughts and actions we need to use accepted technologies. 

Survival of the fittest solely depends on how competent you are in today's world. 

My experience says, in an official group if everyone has communication methodology via similar apps which you don't have, means you won't be able to compete with other groups on time like we say a stitch in time saves nine. 

New Year Resolution

New Year 2017 resolution is dedicated to me, myself and my family!

Uninstalled WhatsApp - (revoked this decision in 3 days)

As we all know technology is to connect people, but today's social media like fb, instagram, whatsapp are so much connected that we are disconnected from the people around us.

Social media is very common for most of us. Texting was actually meant for sms to me a few years back when I bought my first smartphone. Texting and sharing and caring things became fun and fun became habit and habit became addiction. Technology and fun psychologically drifted my thoughts to opt from android to iphone. Transition made so much connected that while driving, while stopping @signals, while reading, while eating, while @work, @dawn, @desk and all kinds of productivity got compromised because of the so called addiction.

I have over 23 WhatsApp groups and very often getting distracted to phone. Sometimes a group filled with over scores of messages gets bombarded in a day that too with so much irritating buzzing discords. The strategy of not active in fb since last few years has saved enough time to think positively, hence at the stroke of midnight of 31st Dec 2016 a decision has been made to uninstall WhatsApp from my handheld device and that's definitely not the end of the world, I will miss it, but this was necessary. My inner conscience describes being 'myself' is when we connect to social community including family and friends 'without compromising'. 

Thanks for understanding and you can always email2rinith@gmail.com or reach me anytime over phone.

blog to follow..

resolution also includes 

..lifestyle modification 
..a cup of green tea w/o sugar

..reorganising stuff with family
..me as chef
i'm gonna write my experiences about the life style changes in the coming days

SharePoint Farm Configuration details

Make sure you have the SharePoint Farm Configuration details in your DR activity battle box

Go to codeplex website and download SPSFarmReport preferably on the SharePoint CA server (FE Server) or any one of the SP Farm

http://spsfarmreport.codeplex.com/

SPSFarmReport\SPSFarmReport\o15

Execute the PowerShell script file SPSFarmReport.ps1 via elevated PowerShell window using the account which has privilege to all farm including BE. This will generate an output XML file "2013SPSFarmReport11102016-40757.xml" in the same folder where the script file is located. Open the xml file using in IE. SP2013 Farm Configuration will be listed in detail.

Setup recovery vault for resource manager-deployed virtual machines & backup-snapshot on Azure

Taking Snapshots and VM Backups on Azure Cloud – Prepare environment by creating recovery vault on Azure portal (Resource Manager Model & Classic Model)

steps to create recovery service vault:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/backup-azure-arm-vms-prepare/

To recover a VM to a point in time follow the steps

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/backup-azure-arm-restore-vms/

Working with Shared Calendars in Outlook

Create meetings, inviting required attendees, resources, or yourself. Save as iCalendar Format, send to Employees and Track the changes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDU7HF1UAfM&feature=youtu.be

 

Eymantec Enterprise Vault: Exporting Single/ Bulk User to pst File and Deleting the Archive

Problem

How to export an archive in detail while removing items from the vault in order to expedite the delete archive process. The current process is to right click the archive and select delete. This will eventually remove the archive however this process could take up to 45 days to fully remove the archive. A faster way is described below.

Cause

Archives that are "Marked for deletion" can take 30 days or longer depending on the policy settings to actually delete the archive.

Solution

In order to delete existing archives in the shortest amount of time we must export the items to a PST while removing items from the vault.
use the PST Export wizard as outlined below to clear the archive of the archived items which will speed up the process of deleting the archives to free up needed storage.
1. Open the Enterprise Vault Console, right click on "Archives" then choose "Export". The Export wizard will open.


Select "Export Archives to PST", then click "Next"

2. Select the archive you wish to export then Click "Next".


 

3. Select the highlighted items to export all items under the root folder and remove the items from the archive. This will produce a 0 item archive that can be deleted quickly. Click "Next".

4. Choose the location to store the PST, keep in mind PST files can be rather large so ensure the destination drive has more than enough space available to store these PST files. Click "Next".



5. Select the size if you wish to burn CD media, or a single file. Also choose the type of PST to export, PSTs from Outlook 2003-2010 will us the Personal File Folder format. Click "Next".


 6. Review your PST export settings, click the "Back" button if changes need to be made. Else click "Next" to start the export.

7. After the export is complete a quick search of the archive should return "0" items exist in the vault. (From the EV server pen Internet Explorer and type this url:

http://localhost/enterprisevault/search.asp
Select the exported user archive, then click the "Search" button without entering any search criteria.

8. After verifying the archive has "0" items, then you can delete the archive.


9. Once the archive has been "Marked For Deletion" a quick restart of the storage service on the Ev server should remove the archive.

Slipstreaming Patches into SharePoint 2013

Slipstreaming Patches into SharePoint 2013

Category: SharePoint 2013

Now that the latest CU is out we have a patch to play with. And this isn’t a normal patch. This patch is important. It will have to be installed in order to install any future patches. You should consider this the base version of SharePoint 2013, especially for new farms. One of the first things I wanted to test was slipstreaming the patch. The news was good, it’s the same process we used with SharePoint 2010. Just extract the update files into the Updates directory before you install SharePoint 2013. Nothing to it.

Let’s see how it looked when I did it. Here is what my directory structure looked like:

I copied the files from the SharePoint 2013 ISO into a folder in C:\Install. On a production system you would put this on a non C drive. After I copied the files over I peeked into the updates folder to see what’s in there. This is what I found:

That sounds delightful, let’s drop a patch in there and see what happens.

Extracting SharePoint 2013 patches follows the same process as SharePoint 2010, which you can find outlined in this brilliant blog post. Those are the instructions I used when writing this blog post. First I verified the March 2013 PU supported this.

Looks like it does. Let’s go ahead and extract it to our updates folder. After we accept the license terms our updates folder gets full of patch files.

Then install SharePoint 2013 the same way you normally would.

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