Monthly Archives: July 2011

Tips: How to use the OCT to customize your Office 2010 Installation

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If you’re going to setup Office 2010 setup, it will be an easier task as it takes only a few command line switches. It is to help you configure settings for your Office 2010 easy deployment. Office 2010 includes various tools that simplify the process of customizing settings. Actually, it is included with Volume License editions of Office 2010, the Office Customization Toolkit (OCT) can provide you access the numerous customization settings. Therefore, here we have an overview of what we exactly need to know to start using the OCT in order to create a customized installation.
First of all to deploy Office 2010 in the organization, you can create a network installation point. This should be a server location that the clients throughout your organization access. For example, you can create the following folder on a server: \\server\share\Office2010. If you’ve finished creating this folder, it is required to copy all the files and folders from your Office 2010 media to this network folder. This is called the new network installation point.

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Tips: How to set privileges for using PowerShell to manage SharePoint

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We’ve already discussed that the Windows PowerShell doesn’t comprise SharePoint cmdlets. Instead, it has another feature that if you install SharePoint 2010, it will install the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell along with more than 500 SharePoint-specific cmdlets. It is a Windows PowerShell environment specifically for managing SharePoint.
If you wish to execute a command in the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, it is required to open the file Management Shell on a SharePoint 2010 server. If you’re going to execute the commands, your user account should have the necessary privileges to the SharePoint object model and to the SharePoint databases. When you are working with SharePoint objects, connections to the database are generally created with the permissions of the current user.

For configuring a user’s privileges and security, you can use the SPShellAdmin. Let’s discuss here.

To list Shell administrators:
Get-SPShellAdmin

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Rocking release from Bing: Bing Finance lets you buy, hold, compare and sell

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From the day Bing was launched, it has partnered with experts in order to bring the enhanced features along with the best search results. It helps you make more informatics decisions. Whether it’s Facebook and Twitter for the best social search experience, Kayak for comprehensive travel results or Fansnap for quick access to event tickets, our goal is to help you find what you’re looking for more quickly and help you make better decisions. In such a way, Bing is excited today to extend this philosophy to Bing Finance. It is teaming with the leading finance resources comprising Seeking Alpha, StockTwits.com, TheFlyOnTheWall and Trefis.com to help you make more informed financial decisions.



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Release: Stay updated of weather with Bing Weather Results

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Very recently Bing has refreshed the look and the feel of its weather answers and added more resources to help you plan your weekend activities and know what to pack for your upcoming trip or pick your next vacation spot.
Consider you’re planning to go to Las Vegas for a quick trip. Anyone who has been to Las Vegas before knows it is hot. So, how hot will it be this weekend? Are we packing bikinis and sandals or do we need a cover-up? Let’s find out here.


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News: Latest tpdates to Bing Road Map Style

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Have you been through the Bing Map in the last 24 hours? If so, you might have felt the different and new things about our road map style. Are able to find the changes out? Okay, Bing has made things easier to see.
Bing has made dozens of changes to improve its base road map style. It is all from based on many phases of usability testing. It is a new result and a new style designed to communicate more important information at a glance. Bing has just finished rolling out its English version of this new style and you will see French, Flemish, German, Italian, and Spanish rolling out over the next week or so.

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