I have came through below wiki article on Microsoft technet, which have a nice collection of eBooks and articles on Microsoft Technologies.

Download content for SharePoint, Lync, MS Office, SQL Server, System Center, Visual Studio, Web Development (asp.net), Windows Server, Window Azure, Windows Phone and other Microsoft technologies in e-book formats (references, guide, and step-by-step).

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Source: social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11608.e-book-gallery-for-microsoft-technologies.aspx (Monica Rush)
Source: mstechtalk.com/collection-of-e-book-and-articles-on-microsoft-technologies/ (Adnan Amin)

In last days, I was trying to restore SharePoint web application backup using PowerShell, but run into following error (although my sharepoint version was newer then the backup version)

Restore-SPSite : Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '14.0.0.5138' or later.

Following is the quick overview / steps which I followed and successfully restored the SharePoint backup. Might be this could be applicable in your case

If you have the source database files (mdf and ldf) not the SharePoint backup file then follow step 2, otherwise step 1 and 2

Step 1.

• Create a virtual machine if you don’t have
  
  
• Install SharePoint on that vm if your don’t have it on that vm
  
  
• Make the environment version same by installing the same cumulative update(s) which source server has. Once the server has the same version as of the backup, in my case it was (14.0.0.5138). (to check SharePoint version central administration -> upgrade and migration -> check product and patch installation)
  
  
• Create new web application and Restore the SharePoint backup.
  
  
• In sql server, detach the restored SharePoint database and physically copy database files (mdf and ldf)

Step 2.

On SharePoint environment where you want to restore the backup (this SharePoint version obviously needs to be later version, in my case it was 14.0.6029.1000)

• Create web application (no need to create site collection) (central administration -> application management -> manage web application-> new)
  
  
• Remove content database of newly created web application (central administration -> application management -> manage content database -> choose web application from the dropdown -> click on database name -> choose offline from database status and check mark Remove content database) (make sure you have selected the newly created web application and its content database)
  
  
• In sql server, detach that content database of newly created web application
  
  
• Physically replace the detached content database files (mdf and ldf) from the SharePoint backup's mdf/ldf file (which were taken from step1 or from the original server / source)
  
  
• Attach Database (while attaching, after selecting mdf file, Change the Database name as of file name in Database to Attach's -> Attach As textbox, then on same screen, select/browse both mdf and ldf file in database details section -> Current File Path)
  
  
• Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, and add content database using following command
  stsadm -o addcontentdb -url <URL name> -databasename <database name>
  
  
• Then follow remaining application specific restore steps (for e.g. change site collection administrators, changes in web.config, add or change global resource files etc.)

Then access web application, hope so it would restored successfully

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' patent for a phone airbag patent was recently approved. Here's how it would work: "Prior to impact between a surface and a device, a determination of a risk of damage to the device is made. If the risk of damage to the device exceeds a threshold, a protection system is activated to reduce or eliminate damage to the device.

Below is a Video of Lenovo Flying Laptop having technology something similar to this.

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 In the patent filing papers, this system utilizes the handset's integrated gyroscope, camera, accelerometers as well as other onboard sensors to determine if it is currently falling. Should a fall be detected, the system will deploy airbags to reduce potential damage - or possibly change the trajectory of its fall by firing jets of air.

 Source: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248824/Airbag-dropped-smartphones-invented-Amazon-patents-airbag-air-jet-mobile-phones

If you want to show records (Parent Child concatenation), then following SQL Server recursive query could help you in achieve. For a clear picture have a look at following snap

Recursive Query showing only child Records

with parentChildResult as

(

       select ItemId,

                     ItemDescription,

                     ItemCategoryId,

                     cast('' as nvarchar(max)) as ParentNames

       from Items

       where ItemCategoryId is null

        union all

        select i2.ItemId,

                     i2.ItemDescription,

                     i2.ItemCategoryId,

                     parentChildResult.ParentNames + ' > ' + parentChildResult.ItemDescription

       from Items as i2

       inner join parentChildResult

              on parentChildResult.ItemId = i2.ItemCategoryId

)     

 select ItemId,

              stuff(ParentNames, 1, 3, '') + ' > ' + ItemDescription as ParentNames

from parentChildResult

 where ItemId in

(

       SELECT i.ItemId FROM Items i

       WHERE NOT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM Items I2 WHERE i.ItemId = I2.ItemCategoryId)

)

order by ParentNames

Recursive Query showing All parents and Child Records

with parentChildResult as

(

       select ItemId,

                     ItemDescription,

                     ItemCategoryId,

                     cast('' as nvarchar(max)) as ParentNames

       from Items

       where ItemCategoryId is null

        union all

        select i2.ItemId,

                     i2.ItemDescription,

                     i2.ItemCategoryId,

                     parentChildResult.ParentNames + ' > ' + parentChildResult.ItemDescription

       from Items as i2

       inner join parentChildResult

              on parentChildResult.ItemId = i2.ItemCategoryId

)     

 select ItemId,

              stuff(ParentNames, 1, 3, '') + ' > ' + ItemDescription as ParentNames

from parentChildResult

 order by ParentNames

In sharepoint, if it is required to disable the filter and to keep only the sorting, then following workaround could be the solution one.
(Following change are done to sharepoint 2010 using sharepoint designer 2010, might be it works for 2007 aswell)

Please keep the copy of file(s) which you are going to change, incase if some mishap happen J

·         Open the desired sharepoint site in sharepoint designer

·         Select Lists and Libraries from the Site Objects

·         Select desired list / library

·         Select the desired view from the views list where you want to remove to remove filter

·         Click on advance mode

·         Search for the <ViewFields> inside <XmlDefinition>

·         Now add following desired attribute to all desired columns. (All column are  <FieldRef Name="ModifiedOn" />)

as

 <FieldRef Name=" ModifiedOn " LinkToItem="TRUE" Filterable="FALSE" FilterDisableMessage="No filter available "/>

After that, edit the page where the list / library webpart exists or add webpart (list / library) if not already added on the page,  edit webpart properties and select the desired view again then click apply button to reflect changes.

In above,

·         You can change the default text for disabled filter using FilterDisableMessage="No filter available " attribute

·         By adding Filterable="FALSE", now the filter will not be available

·         If you want to make a particular column clickable, then add LinkToItem="TRUE"

Pakistan has marked victory in International Cyber Drill Competition, the competition was based on tricks and techniques regarding ” Cyber Security and how to secure systems from hackers and hack attacks”. Pakistan took part in the drill for the first time and beaten experts from 28 other countries

LAHORE – IFTIKHAR ALAM - For the first time in the country’s history an eight member team of computer experts has participated in an international cyber drill and completed all the tasks successfully, various social websites and blogs reported here on Wednesday.

The Pakistani team won the competition held in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, where 25 teams of experts from 20 countries participated, it was informed. The Pakistani team comprised four members of Pakistan Information Security Association and four students of National University of Science and Technology.

The event was organised by the Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT). The annual drill was held to test the response capability of leading Computer Security Incident Response Teams from Asia Pacific economies.

It was the first time that APCERT involved the participation from the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation – Computer Emergency Response Team (OIC-CERT) in the annual drill, following a Memorandum of Understanding on collaboration signed in September, 2011.

The theme of the APCERT Drill 2012 was “Advance Persistent Threats and Global Coordination”.

The objective was for participating teams to exercise incident response handling arrangements locally and internationally to mitigate the impact of advance persistent threats that involved large scale malicious software propagation and attacks capable of impairing the critical infrastructure and economic activities. The main focus of the event was to educate the participants, who were given specific task to complete them within a time limit.

The exercise reflected a strong collaboration amongst the economies, and it also enhanced the communication protocols, technical capabilities and quality of incident responses for assuring Internet security and safety. About 22 CSIRT teams from Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, People’s Republic of China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Macao, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Tunisia, Egypt and Pakistan participated in the drill.

Courtesy : Daily Nation

Installing XP on computer with SATA hard drive

I recently come across with a problem downgrading a computer comes with Windows 7 to Windows XP, but during setup following error appears telling about Virus or Checkdisk /F bla bla bla,

***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xf78d2524, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Dont' worry, give following a try, might be it will work for you aswell,

Go to Computer BIOS by pressing F2 or F10 or Del depending on your computer

Go to Storage Option / Drive Configuration

Search for option saying SATA Emulation and change this to IDE from AHCI.

Accept / Save your setting by pressing F10 or Save and Exit

Run Windows XP Setup again

Hope it will work