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Ferdous is software Engineer and Architect/Project Manager with more than 12 years of experience in Microsoft Solution. He has done several projects, trainings and workshops on SharePoint. Prior to working with Microsoft as Tech Specialist, he worked as SharePoint Architect at BrainStation-23 (Dhaka), Sr. Software Engineer at OT Consulting (Italy), Project Engineer at Rockwell Automation (Italy), etc. Ferdous also worked as SharePoint Consultant and SharePoint Trainer for many organizations such as BASIS, Robi Axiata, etc. He was the key organizer & speaker of “SharePoint Developer’s Conference 2013” & "SharePoint Community Day 2012" jointly with Microsoft. He is the author of several technical articles at code project, MS SharePoint Tips and Dev Media. He is also founder of SharePoint Experts Bangladesh user-group. Contact: mjferdous@live.com

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Technical Speaking

Oct 15

SharePoint Installation Guide for you

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Recently I have taken a SharePoint Administration Training and SharePoint Installation demo was part of it. I am going to share this experience with you here so that it helps for your installation if you are new New in SharePoint Assume Active Directory is already Installed and running in your environment as Active Directory is required for Classic ......

Posted On Thursday, October 22, 2015 10:57 PM

May 15

SQL Server 2014 Standard and Enterprise Licensing

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Sometimes customer is confused about the latest core based license for SQL Server 2014 Enterprise or Standard Version because previously it was Processor based license till SQL Server 2008. Many queries came to me on how to calculate actually sizing for SQL Server licenses. This article will guide you how to calculate licensing before you purchase SQL ......

Posted On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:11 PM

Feb 15

Compare SQL Server Enterprise and Standard Editions

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Compare SQL Server Enterprise and Standard Editions Features Enterprise Standard Maximum number of cores OS Max 16 cores Maximum size 524 PB 524 PB Programmability (T-SQL, data types, FileTable) X X SQL Server Management Studio X X Policy-based management X X Basic OLTP X X Basic security (Separation of duties, basic auditing) X X Basic high availability ......

Posted On Friday, February 20, 2015 6:43 AM

Jan 15

Cloud & Big Data Technologies - Challenges & Opportunities

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Event Topics Cloud and Big Data technologies are being one of the major core components for building modern web applications and distributed systems. Initially utilized by big tech giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, these technologies are now being a vital part of enterprise organizations, like bank, insurance, and telecommunication companies. ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 6:37 AM

Jun 14

SharePoint user group Session at Microsoft Bangladesh

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Microsoft Bangladesh hosted a SharePoint user group Session at Microsoft Bangladesh Office today (Monday, June 23) for our local SharePoint community SharePoint Experts and Tech Forum. SharePoint Experts and Tech Forum are local user group community for SharePoint professionals to share knowledge, Tricks, Programming and anything related to SharePoint ......

Posted On Sunday, June 29, 2014 1:03 PM

Nov 13

Technology Session on Workflow Productivity at Lake Shore

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Date: 9th Oct 2013 [5PM - 8PM] Venue: Late Shore Microsoft Bangladesh organized a Technical Session on Microsoft SharePoint Workflow Productivity on 9th October 2013. There were 25+ participates in this program. The audiences were joined from various donor agencies. The program was started with Workflow Productivity Session by MJ Ferdous, Technical ......

Posted On Monday, November 25, 2013 3:55 PM SharePoint 2013 , SharePoint , Workflow

Jul 13

Session on Traditional Project Management Tips and Tricks

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Software Project Management is a hard job sometimes when things are scattered but you can make it is easier. I have managed several projects in the last 5 years of my total 9 years of experience. So I have lot of experiences with client handling, managing team members, managed deadline, etc. I have seen many successful projects and some failed projects ......

Posted On Friday, July 26, 2013 11:58 AM

Jul 13

SharePoint Installation in multi-farm Production Environment

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SharePoint Installation in Production Environment is bit challenging rather than installation in Single Server (Stand-alone Installation). Many peoples (including me) are looking for a complete guideline on “How setup SharePoint production environment”. A small server farm typically consists of at least two Web servers and a database server. One of ......

Posted On Sunday, July 21, 2013 1:47 AM

Jul 13

SharePoint 2013 Installation Guideline

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SharePoint Installation is much easier NOW than anytime in previous but still it is struggling for the new people or sometime it is bit Tricky in Production Installation. Here I am trying cover every possible steps that you require during in Installation and Configuration. Expert people follow the Text only otherwise you might get boring to see many ......

Posted On Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:35 PM SharePoint 2010 , SharePoint 2013 , SharePoint , Installation , SharePoint Installation , Configuration

Jul 13

Deploy Timer Job in Multi-Farm Environment.

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Recently I faced problem to deploy timer job in multi-farm environment. That’s why I thought to share it with you to save your time. Deployment Instruction: If you need to re-install or Remove Timer Job then do the following. It is always needed when you re-deploy your latest Implementation. To remove the Timer Job, First disable the feature and then ......

Posted On Friday, July 12, 2013 3:31 PM SharePoint 2010 , SharePoint 2013 , Timer Job , SharePoint , Deployment , Powershell

Jul 13

Microsoft Health Vault is ready to use form Bangladesh

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You are a human being and you or your family sick sometimes and go to doctor to take suggestions to recover from sickness. Doctor ask your symptoms/problems, check you old reports, ask for old diseases/history and prescribe medicine accordingly. Next time you go to doctor, you keep you all files with and carry like below. What will happen if doctor ......

Posted On Monday, July 8, 2013 8:23 AM

Jun 13

Workflow in SharePoint 2013

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Today I spoke about Workflow in SharePoint 2013 at SharePoint Developer’s Conference 2013 as My 2nd Session. SharePoint Workflow: Workflows in SharePoint 2013 allow you to model and automate your business processes. These business processes can be as simple as a document approval process with a single approver as complex as customer-facing product catalog ......

Posted On Saturday, June 22, 2013 11:58 PM

Introduction & What’s New in SharePoint 2013

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Today I spoke about Introduction & What’s New in SharePoint 2013 at SharePoint Developer’s Conference 2013. I am writing the summary of my session to share the information who were unable to attend my session Today. According to TNW (The Next Web) Report, SharePoint now brings in $2 billion annually for Microsoft About SharePoint? I was tried to ......

Posted On Saturday, June 22, 2013 11:52 PM

Jun 13

SharePoint Developer's Conference 2013 by SharePoint Experts Community Bangladesh

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The wait is over!!! The most premier event on SharePoint development hosted by SharePoint Experts and sponsored by Microsoft Bangladesh. Come and join us to learn the greatest and latest features of SharePoint design, development, deployment from the recognized local experts. SharePoint is a Web application platform developed by Microsoft, first launched ......

Posted On Monday, June 10, 2013 7:14 PM SharePoint 2013

May 13

SharePoint 2013: All SharePoint PowerShell Command List with Definition

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Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2013 | SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise | SharePoint Foundation 2010 | SharePoint Server 2010 Initial Published: May 20, 2013 Every SP Administrator need PowerShell command to do administrative job in Server Farm. There are so many commands that interact with SharePoint that it makes it nearly impossible to remember ......

Posted On Monday, May 20, 2013 12:38 PM

May 13

SharePoint 2010 Search - PDF content search configuration in multi-farm Environment

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Background: At Brain Station-23, One of my customer requirement was to configure PDF Content Search so that they can search PDF by Text using search web part. After doing some googling, I found that PDF content can be search through Adobe PDF iFilter 9. I found a complete Guideline at http://support.microsoft.co... The similar instructions ......

Posted On Monday, May 6, 2013 3:48 AM

Apr 13

Multiple way of deleting Custom Timer job

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When you develop a custom SharePoint Timer Jobs sometimes you may need to delete junk jobs created by deployment times. This article will explain you how to remove custom timer job.About Timer Job:A timer job runs in a specific Windows service for SharePoint 2013. Timer jobs perform infrastructure tasks for the Timer service, such as clearing the timer ......

Posted On Friday, April 12, 2013 4:55 PM Sharepoint 2007

Feb 13

I spoke on SharePoint Workflow Problem and its Resolution Today

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Today we arranged monthly usergroup meet-up at Microsoft by our SharePoint Experts–Bangladesh community. It is first offline meet-up with community members/ outside community (who were interested to join in the community). I spoke on "SharePoint Workflow Problem and its Resolution" with some fundamental SharePoint information as majority was unknown ......

Posted On Saturday, February 16, 2013 8:50 PM SharePoint 2010

Feb 13

Hit counter for SharePoint Internal Site

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How to create a custom hit counter webpart for SharePoint internal web portal. This is a common requirement sometimes from the client to integrate hit counter for their internal enterprise web portal. For example hit counter will show total visitor in the site as well as what are the pages accessed by IP/user/date/etc. i.e. Total Hit Count: I also got ......

Posted On Friday, February 15, 2013 2:05 PM SharePoint 2010

Feb 13

InfoPath 2010 formatting rules to compare with current logged user

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How to use formatting rules in Info Path 2010 by advance conditioning using userName() function and substring-before() & substring-after(). Scenario: I have a List Form customized by InfoPath Designer 2010 where set of rules applied based on business requirements. Another rule need to define that current user can only create item and can not do ......

Posted On Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:22 AM SharePoint 2010

Jan 13

SPD Workflow Doesn’t Auto Start for List Item created programmatically (SP 2010 RTM Bug)

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Problem Details: We have created a custom reusable workflow and added with a list on which a workflow (custom workflow) is to start automatically when the item is created. It works great when I add a new item to the list through the SharePoint UI it starts and completes as expected. We want the list item to be added programmatically, using the SharePoint ......

Posted On Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:05 PM SharePoint 2010

Jan 13

Resolving SharePoint Workflow Publish Error

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Errors were found when compiling the workflow. The workflow files were saved but cannot be run. Advanced: Unexpected error on server associating the workflow This is a SharePoint 2010 SP1 Bug and Error message is not meaningful to solve it or why this error is occurring . I found and faced a stupid SPD workflow publish Error during Last SP Deployment ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:14 PM SharePoint 2010

Dec 12

SharePoint Server Training now available in Bangladesh

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Background: SharePoint is nothing new for us as it is already Implements in the most of Large Organization in Bangladesh. Most of the Telco Providers (GP, Robi Axiata, BanglaLink etc) are already using for their Document Management & Enterprise web portal. Banking sectors also started with SharePoint Automation from the Last couple of years. Lots ......

Posted On Friday, December 28, 2012 12:11 PM

Nov 12

Update the “Created By” and “Modified By” Columns in SharePoint lists using PowerShell"?

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Sometime, it is necessary to modify the 'Created By' field value for each list item and set it to the respective user's login ID. In my case it was required to Update “Created By” field value of Comments List of Blog Site. There was 1200+ comments in the list to modify. The example simply replaced the created by field with user X to user Y. Apparently ......

Posted On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 6:52 PM

Jun 12

SharePoint Alternate access mapping Configuration

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Alternate Access Mappings is a feature of SharePoint which allows a website to function correctly under different URL scenarios, including, reverse proxies and load balancing. It is a common practice used by many companies for their internal and external users. Let me try to explain how to configure Alternate Access Mappings: Let’s say you have top ......

Posted On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:18 PM