Presence Information missing with Outlook 2013

People presence information with Outlook 2013
I recently installed Windows 8 on my laptop and also installed Office 2013. I installed Office Communicator 2007 on my laptop. When I opened Outlook 2013, I could not see the Presence information for people, even though I had logged into the Communicator desktop application.

The following is the fix, which worked :

1. Go to Registry editor
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IM Providers
3. You will see a sub groups : Communicator and Lync
4. In "DefaultIMApp", I saw it value as "Lync"
5. I modified it to "Communicator" [spell it same as the folder name u find in #3 above
6. Restart Outlook 2013

And it worked !!

Read my CodePlex post @ http://migratealerts.codeplex.com/

This powershell script will help you to import alerts from a CSV file into SharePoint 2010. This is particularly helpful when you are migrating from SP2007 to SP 2010 where alerts are not migrated. I have another project http://allalerts.codeplex.com/ which can export all alerts available in a Farm into a CSV file. You can then use this Script to import all alerts in that CSV file. Obviously you have to CHANGE ALL THE TARGET URLS IN THE CSV FILE BEFORE IMPORTING.

Cognizant's SharePoint CoE now has an in-house Migration Suite called CSMS[Cognizant SharePoint Migration suite]. This is set of ready to use tools and templates for doing any migration project involving SharePoint.
As part of this suite, they also have a tool for Migrating from Lotus Notes to SharePoint. This tool is cool !! No server installations required for this tool, and works using the SP out of box web services.
This tool will be a huge benefit for its customers.

Congrats to Cognizant team who built this Suite.

Enhancements and new features @ SharePoint 2010

•Sites – Robust user experience, Web Analytics, Mobile Connectivity, Tagging

•Communities – Social Networking, Enterprise Wiki, Ratings

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•Content – Compliance, Managed metadata, Document Sets, Accessibility standards

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•Search – People and Enterprise search, Scalable, FAST, Search in Context, Refinement

•Insights – Poweshell, Jquery, Calculated KPI, Char Webparts, BI Center

•Composites – BCS, Visio Services, Access Services, Sandboxed solution

MOSS 2007 Search Architecture
• There is an index server that builds the index.
• There is a physical index file that is pushed to each WFE server.
• There is a query service that runs on the WFE that queries the index file.
• There are SSPs which are to host search services and control what content is indexed.
• The BDC is used to add external data (from a database and web services) to the index.
• There is an access control list which is used to manage security to items.

Some useful links to give SharePoint professionals insight into the new SharePoint 2010 platform.

SharePoint 2010 Architecture

• Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=FD686CBB-8401-4F25-B65E-3CE7AA7DBEAB&displaylang=en
• Services in SharePoint 2010 Products - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B9CA7745-FFA4-43CA-A638-E1AD868187CE&displaylang=en
• Hosting Environments for SharePoint 2010 Products - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=326845D1-95DB-4E55-B65A-218509DEBE24&displaylang=en
• Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=FC97D587-FFA4-4B43-B77D-958F3F8A87B9&displaylang=en
• Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5141C91C-0922-44FC-AAF4-64C5156209EF&displaylang=en
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=110318EC-0238-4811-8FC7-EC4399D3C100&displaylang=en

SharePoint 2010 Development

• SharePoint 2010: Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=CFFB14E8-88A9-43BD-87AA-4792AB60D320&displaylang=en
• SharePoint 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=F0C9DAF3-4C54-45ED-9BDE-7B4D83A8F26F&displaylang=en
• SharePoint 2010: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010 Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C010FC68-B47F-4DB6-B8A8-AD4BA33A35C5&displaylang=en
• SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White Paper - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5184cb27-98d9-4cc0-bb0b-4b24d5b62db6
• SharePoint Products and Technologies: 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=94AFE886-3B20-4BC9-9A0D-ACD8CD232C24&displaylang=en
• SharePoint 2010: Developer and IT Professional Learning Plan - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AC9A3851-C298-4F4F-B7F0-63D756D2BDE9&displaylang=en

SharePoint 2010 Search

• Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D7C0091E-5766-496D-A5FE-94BEA52C4B15&displaylang=en
• Search Environment Planning for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5655EACA-22DF-4089-BCD3-38A1F5318140&displaylang=en
• Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22ffc029-2c08-457d-8311-ca457c6d160e&displaylang=en
• Design Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5A3CA177-FB9A-4901-9797-0C384277DB7C&displaylang=en

FAST for SharePoint 2010

• Planning and Architecture for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Beta) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=CA3AD5CC-3743-4CE2-AA13-EDF55CEA92D7&displaylang=en
• Deployment and configuration of FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Beta) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A65AEF6F-BC99-4B29-81BB-37FCE8AD6EA7&displaylang=en
• Site Admin and Central Admin for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Beta) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=499DBDBF-3D9B-4961-80BB-29C645E7D0C2&displaylang=enx
• Monitoring for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Beta) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1E0DDA0D-3FD8-4A4D-8650-B878B5D5FBD8&displaylang=en

Service Pack 2 Update.
The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download.
The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2.
The update is applicable to all of the products that this issue affected (see the list in the KB linked below).
Installation instructions and download links for x86 and x64 are available in this KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620
The direct download link for x86 is: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/F/5/2F51AB71-1325-49D2-9CB9-18DEC4780E99/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x86-glb.exe
And for x64: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/B/5BBD34A9-C528-42B0-8A5F-9A8997B25C32/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x64-glb.exe