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November 18

Thailand MVP Goes the Extra Mile to Brighten Children's Future!

Thailand Management Infrastructure MVP Suttipan Passorn has been working with the ThaiAdmin.org Community to conduct a series of free training courses for the ‘IT Training Foundation 2009: Sharpen Your Skills, Brighten Children’s Future! Program in November. All course fees that are received from the training courses are donated to the needy children in Thailand for their future education.

 

His first series of training course kicked off on Nov 7-8 where he covered ‘Best Practice Design & Implementation of Active Directory 2003 to 2008 R2', reaching out to 45 attendees.

 

His 2 other courses are scheduled to take place in late November whereby he will speak on

-   Best Practice in Operation Guide in Active Directory Backup & Disaster Recovery Windows 2003-2008 (Nov 21-22)

-   Administrative Guide in Design and Configure of Group Policy Object (Nov 28-29)

 

For more information, click here for his blog entry.

 

Regards,

SEA MVP Team

November 16

White Hackers set up 24 hour Hackers Clubhouse!

Together with 3 other enthusiasts hackers, Singapore MVP Justin Lee and his ‘hackers in crime’ created and founded the 24 hour Hacker Clubhouse called ‘Hackerspace SG’ – a place for white hackers to share ideas and brainstorm projects.

 

The brainchild of Hackerspace SG is being spearheaded by four people who hope the hacker community can get together to implement ideas or come up with projects, and perhaps commercialize them. The quartet came up with the idea of Hackerspace after reading about similar centres that have opened up around the world, including the United States, China and Japan. Unlike the stereotyped ‘black-hackers’ who are known only for carrying out illegal activities, like credit card fraud and creating malicious computer programs that wreak havoc, Justin Lee and his team is keen to raise the awareness of so-called ‘white hackers’ – someone who experiments and pushes the boundaries to create new things. It does not necessarily mean a cyber criminal.

 
Regards,
SEA MVP Team

SharePoint Experts Shine Spotlight on Portal Capabilities of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007

On November 11th, Microsoft Singapore organized and hosted a half-day session to explore the Portal capabilities of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007 with some of the best experts in Singapore. 2 Singapore SharePoint MVPs (Steve Sofian and Randy Williams) each delivered a 45 min presentation on the benefits of using SharePoint for your Internet Sites, reaching out to 80 attendees comprising of web developers, web designers and also senior IT managers responsible for application developments.

 

Steve spoke on ‘Unified Platform for your Web Presence’ where he shared how SharePoint Server 2007, not only provides an optimized business productivity infrastructure, but is also able to provide a unified enterprise platform to help business communicate, collaborate and interact with customers and partners around the world. Randy’s session was on ‘Designing SharePoint websites’ where he provided an overview on the major design considerations when branding SharePoint as your Internet-facing solution and a comparison summary of the primary design tools used..

 

Regards,

SEA MVP Team

November 13

Announcing our October Early Warning Signal (EWS) Apprentice (Part 2 of 2)

Please refer to 'Announcing our September Early Warning Signal (EWS) Apprentice (Part 1 of 2)' for the first part of this newsletter.

EWS HALL OF FAME
 

Country

EWS Apprentice

# of EWS Reported since Jan 2009 till present

Malaysia

Visual C# MVP Chan Ming Man

Malaysia

SharePoint Server MVP Chee Meng Yong, Patrick

StarStarStarStar

Malaysia

Expression MVP Kok Chiann

StarStar

Malaysia

Consumer Security MVP Donna Buenaventura

StarStarStar

Malaysia

Project MVP Eric Ku

StarStar

Malaysia

Visual Basic Wei Min Chan

Star

Singapore

ASP/ASP.NET MVP Jeffery Tay

StarStar

Singapore

SharePoint Server MVP Loke Kit Kai

StarStarStar

Singapore

Silverlight Michael Sync

StarStar

Singapore

SharePoint Server MVP Riwut Libinuko

Star

Singapore

SQL Server Pom Figueroa

Star

Singapore

Directory Services Sainath Sathya

Star

Sri Lanka

Visual C# MVP Chandana Athauda

StarStar

Sri Lanka

System Center Configuration Manager MVP Shaminda Illangantilaka

StarStar

Sri Lanka

SQL Server  PPG Dinesh Asanka

Star

Philippines

ASP/ASP.NET Vincent Maverick Durano

StarStarStar

Philippines

SharePoint Services Elczar Pelarta Adame

StarStar

Philippines

Enterprise Security MVP Joseph Felix Velasco Pacamarra

Star

Philippines

Windows Live Platform MVP Sanchez Roman Garcia Canlas

Star

Philippines

ASP/ASP.NET  John Patrick Oliveros

Star

Thailand

Access MVP Henry Habermacher

Star

Indonesia

Client App Dev Ridi Ferdiana

Star

Legend: 

Star= 1 EWS Submitted

= 5 EWS Submitted

Here is what some of our NEW EWS Apprentices has to say:

“I got a reasonable response time for my concern as it involves the MSDN team where users can't download files from MSDN despite having "active" accounts. The good thing with this one is I not only got a response from the system but gave me steps needed to address the problem.” - ASP/ASP.NET  John Patrick Oliveros

 

“ I am very passionate about windows , from kernel level to the user mode API, I keep dwelling into the processes, threads and their activity. I didn’t know that Microsoft support EWS for a long time , I understand the importance of EWS and how it will alert customers using Microsoft products and the engineers themselves in Microsoft about the issues. I am very much impressed with Microsoft Connect process” - Directory Services Sainath Sathya

I am blessed of an opportunity to share a tiny dot in the huge picture of SharePoint through the Early Warning Signal. A fulfilling boulevard that gives us a chance to advocate in the advancement of the products we are passionate with.”- SharePoint Services Elczar Pelarta Adame

“Whenever, I ran into issues with microsoft products, I used to publish to them in my blog. Then found this EWS where I will get feedback as well as it is will help community. So I think EWS is a great way to inform Microsoft about their tool so that they will improve for better usage.”
-
SQL Server  PPG Dinesh Asanka

Will November be another record breaking month for our SEA MVPs? Stay tuned! 

Announcing our October Early Warning Signal (EWS) Apprentice (Part 1 of 2)

Hello SEA MVPs,

 

It’s not every day that records are broken. Just when we thought we had achieved our highest number with 14 EWSes submitted in September, our EWS Apprentices had achieved another milestone, producing yet another record-breaking 24 EWSes this month! SEA MVPs had stood out above the rest!

 

Many may be asking ‘How did we manage to achieve this? What is our winning formula?’ Well, the answer is simple. We believed that each and every SEA MVP can make a difference to make our team of EWS Apprentices better. Each EWS submitted by our EWS Apprentices counts in helping Microsoft to identify key problems, discussions, or trends stirring within the community of which we may not be aware of.

 

A big ‘THANK YOU’ to 12 of our SEA MVPs this month for making this difference! Thank you for doing your part and making us shine. Another noteworthy accomplishment was that we had an astounding number of new EWS contenders this month – a total of 9 new EWS contenders! Never did we have so many new EWS contenders in a single month. Here are these new warriors -  Ridi Ferdiana, Elczar Pelarta Adame, Wei Min Chan, Michael Sync, Pom Figueroa, Vincent Maverick Durano, PPG Dinesh Asanka, John Patrick Oliveros and Sainath Sathya. And not to forget to mention our long-time EWS apprentices Ming Man Chan, Jeffery Tay and Chandana Nilanka Athauda.

 

So, as we basked in the glory and enjoyed the limelight, don’t let complacency seeps in. Keep the good works in effect, because you all are definitely making a difference. Step up to this challenge and join our record-breaking SEA MVPs in the month of November and submit your ‘first’ or ‘next’ EWS if you have not done so!

 

BE AN EWS APPRENTICE! FILE YOUR EARLY WARNING SIGNAL TODAY.


More about EWS:

Early Warning Signal (EWS) function gives MVPs the ability to ALERT and send Microsoft about potentially broad, hot, high impact, negative customer experiences or any new issues that they see in technical communities. To report a new issue, use the EWS submission form. All new EWS submissions are reviewed by Microsoft within 5 business days, and you will receive a response with outlining actions planned relevant to your submission. You can also view EWS submissions from other MVPs and vote on them.

 

If you need any assistance on filing an EWS or if you have any queries on the above, please feel free to approach Windy Teo or Lilian Quek  for further assistance. For a glimpse as to who are our current TOP EWS Apprentice up to date, check out the ‘EWS Hall of Fame’ on Part 2 of this blog article.


PS: EWS can be considered as one of MVP’s great contribution to the technical communities and filed in the MVP Member site. This will be used for MVP’s evaluation when a MVP’s award cycle is due for renewal.

 

EWS SUBMITTED IN OCTOBER 2009

Country

EWS Apprentice

EWS filed

# of EWS Reported

Malaysia

Visual C# MVP Chan Ming Man

ü  Error 1068: This dependency service or group failed to start

ü  Windows Media Player 12 does not find codec in Internet

ü  Why Windows Server 2008 R2 only available for 64 bit?

StarStarStar

Singapore

ASP/ASP.NET MVP Jeffery Tay

ü  Windows Server 2008 Server Manager

ü  Windows Mobile Data Access

ü  Silverlight support for 64bit browsers

ü  Silverlight 3 – SaveFileDialog

ü  Silverlight and MMS Streaming

ü  Live Meeting 2007 Restricted Control Options

Star

Sri Lanka

Visual C# MVP Chandana Athauda

ü  Package deployment services are currently unavailable

ü Some Components must be installed in {null} directory

StarStar

Indonesia

Client App Dev Ridi Ferdiana

ü  Incosistency View of SQL Server Reporting Services

Star

Philippines

SharePoint Services Elczar Pelarta Adame

ü  Page Level Document Versioning

ü  Bulk Item Management in WSS 3.0

StarStar

Malaysia

Visual Basic Wei Min Chan

ü  The Windows Mobile Facebook App is a JOKE!

Star

Singapore

Silverlight Michael Sync

ü  Cross-browser Clipboard Access in Silverlight

ü  New Behivor of Silverlight Combobox makes our existing customer confused

StarStar

Singapore

SQL Server Pom Figueroa

ü  Virtualization Challenge

Star

Philippines

ASP/ASP.NET Vincent Maverick Durano

ü  Cross Browser Support for ASP.NET WebParts Drag and Drop feature

ü  Cross Browser Support for ASP.NET WebParts Verb Menu layout

ü  WebPart Drop Cue is not user friendly

StarStarStar

Sri Lanka

SQL Server  PPG Dinesh Asanka

ü  CTE cannot be used in rdlc Reports

Star

Philippines

ASP/ASP.NET  John Patrick Oliveros

ü  MSDN Subscribers Can't Download Files

Star

Singapore

Directory Services Sainath Sathya

ü  Update IE8 Browser - Incorrect OS display

Star


Please refer to 'Announcing our September Early Warning Signal (EWS) Apprentice (Part 2 of 2)' for the second part of this newsletter.