Sharepoint 2010 Surface Pro

How to upload multiple pictures to a picture library.
Running SharePoint 2010, Client is Surface Pro.
Installed Picture Manager 2010.
Using IE "APP" does not allow the link to upload multiple
Using Desktop IE the upload multiple files link is there touching it then WebDAV connects and picture manager is launched but then there seems to be no way to select multiple images within the picture manager.

In SharePoint 2010, the multiple upload requires a few ActiveX controls, so the IE Modern UI App will not work. With Desktop IE, make sure you have an Office 2010 32bit or 2013 32bit client installed with SharePoint Support enabled during the install,
or SharePoint Designer 2010/2013 if you cannot otherwise get Office client.
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Surface Pro 2 tries to use word in browser instead of client in SharePoint 2010 library

Hi -
A user came to me with a new surface pro 2 with IE 11 and Office 2013 and sadly found that document libraries would try to default open in the browser. I do not have the word app completely configured so it is unavailable. I have a Windows 8 laptop
with IE 11 working just fine, so I am having trouble pinpointing the issue on his device.
I have checked the settings at the library level, the site collection level, as well as the farm level to assure that all areas are configured to open in client app by default.
Has anyone ran into this?
Thanks,
Jesse
Jesse A. Brandenburg

As I mentioned. You add the second account by adding SharePoint Online as a Connected Service on the File menu in Word. You also need to make sure that they have updated the copy of Office on the Surface from the Home and Student version.
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Problems opening PDFs from SharePoint 2010 with Acrobat X Pro

Is anyone else having problems integrating pdf document support into Sharepoint 2010?
I now have the icon showing for any pdf documents saved in a Document Lirary, However I don't get the options of Checking out - editing an checking in. There is also no revision control. I think that when I open a pdf document, the servers own copy of Adobe Reader opens, and not my local copy of Reader or Acrobat X pro.
I've done what it says in the Administrators guide for Sharepoint integration and I'm still unable to get this functionality to work. As we use interactivve pdfs for a lot of our internal documentation the pdf integration features are very important.
Any help from users who have already been through the pain of sharepoint integration would be really appreciated.
Regards.

Hi Bill,
Looking at your initial problem of not being able to open the SharePoint hosted PDF document from the web browser.
Could you please verify that as per the "Enterprise Administration Guide", the DocIcon.xml file of your server contains the following line:
<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="AdobePDF.png" OpenControl="AdobeAcrobat.OpenDocuments"/>
Please verify that the OpenControl attribute is also mentioned correctly. Without this the Acrobat Active X component would not be invoked.
thanks,
Shivani

Acrobat Pro 9 e-sign and SharePoint 2010 integration

Hello,
I cannot get an Acrobat Pro 9 created document with electronic signature fields to open in SharePoint 2010 so it can be checked out, signed, saved and checked back in. I have seen discussions on this subject from 2011, but have not come across any solutions. Has there been a fix to this yet?

There are several different scenarios that happen. I am testing the document before I send it out the links again to have users esign. Not every user has Pro 9. Some only have Reader 8. I am uploading the unsigned document created in Pro 9 to a SharePoint 2010 site. There are 10 different signature fields – none of them are locked. When I go to the document to sign under the “edit” function in SharePoint I get an error that says object label badly formatted when trying to save, or I am able to sign once and save, and when I got to test signature number 2 it cannot open the document. Every time I upload it to SharePoint I have to enable Reader 8 usage rights. Sometime it lets me do it, and sometimes it says “this document could not be reader enabled.” It does not seem to be stable. Sometimes it works and then just a few minutes later it has problems. Please advise. Thanks.

Adobe Acrobat X Pro Error in SharePoint 2010

I have a group of users who are unable to access PDF Files in a
Specific Folder in SharePoint 2010
They are however able to open PDF Files from emails, desktop, other shared folders and
other folders in SharePoint 2010. See the error message below.
Error Message:
There was an error opening this document. File open failed.
Note the users are currently using Adobe Acrobat X PRO. Could this be a permission issue in SharePoint?
Regards,

Hello,
In addition to permission, are you able to open same PDF from other folder or library? Just download PDF file using windows explorer and upload in any library folder and open it.
Since you are able to open other PDF files so i suspect that there is issue with specific file only. You might also try to same file in different browser.
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Issues between SharePoint 2010 == Acrobat X Pro and autosave

Hey all,
Seeing two issues with Acrobat X Pro in an enterprise environment that also uses SharePoint 2010 heavily.
#1
Crashing Acrobat X Pro not autosaving correctly when dealing with partially remote user profiles. These are user profiles that are local (not roaming profiles), but are forced via registry to consider the Documents location to be a network location (accessible via CIFS). I noticed when helping a user that has lost work that the temporary autosave files are still local, and there did not seem to be a recovered document via Acrobat for this SharePoint-loaded PDF file. The user had this file checked out and had done a few hours of work when the crash happened. Any recommendation on:
- reporting this to an Acrobat engineer, particularly the team working with SharePoint integration via the dll Acrobat uses to accomplish that
- settings to tweak to ENSURE that crashes will leave recoverable autosaves when working in Acrobat directly on SharePoint 2010 PDF files
#2
The following error is produced in Acrobat when trying to click version history documents in SharePoint 2010. "The URL you have provided could not be reached. Please verify that the URL is correct and that the network location is reachable." The revision of the document is reachable, but through typical HTTP via a web browser...but not through the SharePoint <==> Acrobat X Pro COM object magic that works fine for currently checked out documents. Please see inserted image. Thoughts on a fix?

update for anyone interested--
#1, broken autosave functionality for acrobat documents controlled by SharePoint (i.e. checked out from SharePoint and then worked on), I have duplicated this for Adobe. They have confirmed this is a bug, and have assigned it bug number 3328962. This bug means that your autosaving settings for Acrobat documents in SharePoint will not do anything-- so crashes of Acrobat, your computer, etc. while you are working on an Adobe Acrobat document you checked out from SharePoint will leave you in the state of your last manual save (with the SharePoint server).

SkyDrive Pro and SharePoint 2010

Why SkyDrive Pro can no longer sync SharePoint 2010 libraries? I was using Windows 8 with Office 2013 and SkyDrive Pro had no problems with synchronizing content from SharePoint 2010. Now I installed Windows 8.1 with Office 2013 and it doesn't work anymore.
Is there any way to fix it? My colleagues (with Windows 8 and Office 2013) still can synchronize content from SharePoint 2010.

Note that SkyDrive Pro does not support SharePoint 2010 so any issues you have with it won't be looked at by Microsoft.
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Surface Pro and Outlook 2010

I have been trying to connect my Surface Pro to my MS 2012 exchange server and have had no luck.. I have installed MS office 2010 on the Surface. When I try to connect to the server with Outlook 2010 I get an error that says. Unable to connect to
server.. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem?

Hi,
Are you trying to configure it in an internal environment or an external environment?
Do you try to configure it manually? If so, please contact your Exchange admin and make sure you have filled the right settings (Exchange server name, proxy settings, domain name, etc).
You can try to create a new mail profile in Control Panel and follow the steps in the article below to configure it again to check the result:
http://www.lovemysurface.net/setup-exchange-outlook-surface-2-rt/
Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice.
Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Regards,
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support

Unable to open Office files on SharePoint 2010 sites on Windows Server 2008 R2

Setup: Windows SharePoint Server 2010 sp1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (hosted on VMWare VSphere ESXi 5.1)
Secured using Domain SSL from GlobalSign.
Client OS: Windows 7 Professional 32bit & Windows XP SP3 32 bit
Browsers: IE10, IE9,IE8
Office: Office 2010, Office 2010 sp2 (both 32bit), Office 2007
Problem Description: Only recently, users started having issues with opening Office files (Word, Excel) on SharePoint sites. When you click on an Office file e.g. Word Document, it comes up with the option to select "Ready only" or "Edit"
and choosing either options and re-entering the login credentials results in the
application hanging. If you leave it for a while (about 5 minutes) sometimes the file opens and other times it gives the error "Could not open https://portal.com/XXX/XXX/Document.docx". Even when it opens, it's extremely
sluggish and can't do anything other than end it via Task Manager. Same with excel files.
This happens to all the users all different OS and browsers.
On XP Pro SP3 w/ IE8, when you click on the file, the login prompt keeps popping back up repeatedly and if you click cancel, the file loads up anyway but no way of saving back onto the SharePoint site.
IMPORTANT: One exception is when logged in as a Site Collection Administrator, it
works like a dream bizarrely!!!! Opens, Edits and saves back fine on the SharePoint site.
Have tried following:
1. Repaired Office 2010 Pro; Uninstalled/Re-installed Office 2010 Pro
2. Reset Browser, unticked automatically detect proxy settings.
3. Emptied OfficeOfflineCache on Client
4. Removed WebDAV from the SharePoint server
5. Added Antivirus folder exclusion (We use SEP 11) on the SharePoint Server
Note: PDF files opens fine for all users.
I would immensely appreciate if anybody has got any advice/pointers/suggestions. Desperately out of ideas at the moment.
regards,
Compter Sez No!

Hi,
According to your description, When you try to open a Microsoft Office document from a SharePoint 2010 site in a client application, the document opens slowly and you are prompted to enter your credentials multiple times.
This issue may be because of SharePoint Web Front End (WFE) server(s) has Antivirus software installed and the exceptions are not set correctly.
I recommend to remove the antivirus software or set the correct permissions for the antivirus software to resolve the issue.
To configure the antivirus exceptions, please follow the guidelines in the below articles:
KB943620:
Folders to exclude when you perform a file-level antivirus scan on a server operating system.
KB952167:
Certain folders may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning when you use a file-level antivirus program in SharePoint.
KB943556:
Recommended file and folder exclusions for Microsoft Forefront Client Security or Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010.
Best regards.
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Getting Prompt for Credentials When Opening InfoPath 2010 Form in Sharepoint 2010

I have a domain user who runs Office 2010 x32 and uses a Sharepoint 2010 site daily. Lately a specific page on that site has been randomly giving prompts for credentials when opening existing documents and creating new ones. The process can be most easily
replicated by opening the new document template in Infopath by going to Documents -> New in the ribbon bar of the SP page. Most of the time the Windows credentials for the user are passed to Infopath/Sharepoint automatically (which is normal), but on the
fourth or fifth attempt to create a new form, the prompt appears. The user can still enter the credentials and open the blank template form, but a prompt should not appear. The user is also the administrator for that page, so I'm thinking it's not a permissions
issue.
The user is running IE 9 on Windows 7 Pro x64. I have performed the following:
Reset advanced IE settings and all user cache data
Cleared cached Sharepoint credentials in Windows credential manager
Re-applied group policy for the machine using gpupdate /force
Logged in with a clean temporary profile
Logged in to another domain account using the user's Sharepoint credentials
Cleared Infopath cache
Re-installed Office 2010 x32
The problem only occurs only on this particular machine. There are no Sharepoint or authentication-related errors or warnings in the application and system event logs. There are also no error messages on-screen when the prompt appears. I also considered
the possibility of this being a performance related issue in the case that maybe Infopath was taking too long to start, causing the credential pass-through process to time out and fall back to a prompt. I ran disk cleanup, deleted some temporary files, and
checked for excessive CPU/memory load. I didn't find any issues and doing these things did not help.
I'm convinced there is another setting somewhere in Windows that is causing this. Interestingly it always happens after four or five attempts, never the first time. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Hi Titan, this sounds like an IE security setting issue. Things to do:
1. In Internet options>Security>Local Intranet, make sure "Enable Protected Mode" is not selected.
2. Under Sites>Advanced, add https://*.sharepoint.com (and make sure "Require server verification..." is not checked).
3. Under Security>Custom Level, scroll all the way to the bottom and make sure "Automatic logon with current user..." is checked.
cameron rautmann

SharePoint 2010 trial is not installed in windows 7

I have downloaded Sharepoint 2010 Server Trial from this link
http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=16631
When i am trying to install after downloading in Windows 7 System, alert message shown as "This product requires windows server 2008 service pack 2 or above"
I found one solution in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11025716/unable-to-install-sharepoint-2010-in-windows-7
I try that solution installation gets start at the end there is an error in installation when i open the setup log file
MSXML version check passed. Minimum required version is [6.10.1129], installed Version is [6.30.7600.16385].
Showing parent-less message Title: 'Setup Errors', Message: 'Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s):
This product requires Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or above.
Correct the issue(s) listed above and re-run setup.'
Message returned: 1
Error: Catalyst boot time check failed Type: 66::PreReqCheckFailure. "
How can i install Sharepoint server in windows 7 please advice. I also tried to install Windows Server 2008 R2 system it algo gets not installing and did not found the MSI log file.
Please try to solve my problem.
Thanks,
Selvakumar.S

You need the Windows 7 pro or enterprise edition. check this
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/8ab9fbfa-cbda-4631-bba7-86ef3e420e5d/sharepoint-2010-trial-version-installation-on-windows-7?forum=sharepointadminprevious
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March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in SharePoint 2010! It could be YOU!

The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
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SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider Hosted
and SharePoint Hosted) – Search (Part2) by
Melick
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good stuff - interesting approach for a JS API for JSOM"
Ed Price: "Good breakdown of methods. Could benefit from more context and a See Also section at the end."
SharePoint Online: How to change primary administrator for all site collections
using Powershell by
Arleta Wanat
Margriet Bruggeman: "complete discussion of this problem"
Ed Price: "An incredibly valuable topic!"
SharePoint 2013 : Displaying sum for calculated column in a list view using JSLink by
Jaydeep Mungalpara
Jinchun Chen: "Helpful"
Margriet Bruggeman: "This is very useful, I've seen people ask for a solution like this"
Ed Price: "Good descriptions and use of images. Great to have the code download!"
THE PROVIDED APP DIFFERS FROM ANOTHER APP WITH THE SAME VERSION
AND PRODUCT ID in SharePoint 2013 App Development by
Melick
Margriet Bruggeman: "Excellent explanation of the thought process behind solving this problem"
Ed Price: "Great topic and use of images! Could benefit from more contextual explanation and a See Also section."
SharePoint Hosted Apps - Create Enterprise WIKI page using REST API by
Kashif Pervaiz Butt
Ed Price: "Good intro, reference, and code formatting! Could benefit breaking out the code more and explaining each piece. Good to have the Reference link!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Great if you're looking for this exact code, but doesn't do much to explain what is going on."
SharePoint 2013: Deleting Orphaned SharePoint Databases by
Matthew Yarlett
Jinchun Chen: "It is useful in mose cases."
Ed Price: "Great job on the code formatting and explaining each part! "
Margriet Bruggeman: "Handy, but I'm missing some insights why this has happened"
SharePoint 2010 : Batch Updates on List Items using SharePoint Designer Workflow by
Murugesa Pandian
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The SharePoint Workflow is one of the most sought by the community resources."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I guess I expected some more depth, the intro is really nice and then the solution is presented and over before you know it."
Ed Price: "Good descriptions and great use of images! Could benefit from Headers and a TOC. "
Configure a SharePoint server in non domain(Workgroup) environment by
Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
Margriet Bruggeman: "Didn't know that that was even possible, so cool! Although I feel this has limited usefulness."
Ed Price: "Good topic, but it could benefit from code formatting, Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. The images help with clarity!"
Access SQL server database of any version of SharePoint Standalone farm by
Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
Ed Price: "Good use of images, with clear steps and good to have the Reference. Would benefit from a Reference section."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I feel there is a limited audience for this, and the complexity if the article is aslo limited. I do like the angle about sharepoint in a non-AD environment though, it's just not for me"
ADFS signout issue for SharePoint site in IE browser due to FedAuth Cookie by
Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
Margriet Bruggeman: "Very useful info, clear focus and article gets right to the point."
Ed Price: "Good write up. It's important to write articles in a Wiki perspective rather than a blog tone. Good description of the problem! Could benefit from code formatting."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
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2010 Mac Pro Boot Camp - Refuses to boot Windows after installing Boot Camp drivers

Hey all,
I have a quad 3.2Ghz 2010 Mac Pro with a Radeon 5870 and 8 GB RAM.
I have 2 10000RPM WD Raptor drives, the first drive is my Lion boot drive. The 4th bay contains the second Raptor which has Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit installed. Bay 2 has Time Machine, bay 3 has a Windows backup drive.
I had first installed Windows and the Boot Camp drivers a few months ago and everything was humming along smoothly. Monday I tried to boot into Windows and it crashed immediately after the black Booting Windows screen started to change to the login window. This happened repeatedly. Nothing changed on the system that I am aware of. Whenever I tried to boot windows again, it booted into the repair mode. That did not seem to work because after running the repair it would still not boot.
So I did what is usually required of Windows, and that was to reinstall. I reformatted the hard drive, ran Boot Camp assistant, and started the install.
Everything was peachy so far, so I tried to reinstall the Boot Camp drivers (4.0). Did a reboot. Same problem. Doh!
So I did ANOTHER reinstall, and everything was fine. But this time I tried to install the Boot Camp drivers off the os install disc that came with my Mac (3.1). Still no go!
So finally I did my third reinstall and after that I did not install Boot Camp drivers. However, I did load up the CD and individually installed drivers for the Apple Mouse, Apple Keyboard, Cinema Display, etc. No problems whatsoever. Everything is actually still humming along fine.
So it looks like running the full Boot Camp install for some reason no longer works. Which means I am missing the Apple Boot Camp control panel, but that's not really a big deal. Althought it's quite annoying to not have the functionality of the special Mac keyboard keys like volume control, etc.
Has anyone run into this? I thought it might be a hardware problem but my Mac OS X OS exhibits no problems whatsoever.
Thanks!

Thank you to The hatter.
I have a Mac Pro mid 2010 with a SSD and several internal hard disks. For some time I was trying to install Windows 7 on a fresh boot camp volume on a new WD 7200rpm 1TB hard disk. It was taking hours to install, and then I had a series of failures to reboot that proved permanent. The Window Repair utility would come up and took forever to repair the volume - but failed to actually do so, requiring completion reinstallation of the bootcamp volume. This occurred three times, between 1 day and 2 months after installation. I had already moved the Windows drive in to drive slot 1 of the Mac Pro.
Eventually I gave up and installed boot camp on a secondary partition of the SSD. This worked fine, however is limited in capacity. So yesterday I thought I would try to install Windows on the hard disk again. The Windows installer took many hours to do its thing, and eventually a message came up that the installation had failed.
I took your tip about possible hard disk failure, and ran Techtool Pro surface scan. It turns out that there are lots of bad blocks being reported. According to Micromat's documentation, the bad blocks being reported are those that may be in critical areas of the disk that cannot be mapped out. They recommend low level reinitialisation (with zeros) to map out the bad blocks, if possible. I am now running Apple's Disk Utility to do this, and fingers crossed that this reinitialisation succeeds, or I will have to replace the drive.

Microsoft TechNet Wiki SharePoint 2010 Guru - Winners for December!!

The results for December's
TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/01/16/technet-guru-awards-december-2013.aspx
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for December!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Post your JANUARY contributions here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22211.technet-guru-contributions-for-january-2014.aspx
Read all about January's competition, hopefully in a stickied post, at the top of this forum.
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - December 2013
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Managing Windows Azure BizTalk Services with REST API
Ed Price: "I'm not sure how you come up with such vital topics, but this is as important as it comes, and you nailed it!!!"
TGN: "It's almost unfair for others, Steef-Jan is a God when it comes to writing tutorials and articles, great one!"
Sandro Pereira
BizTalk Server: Grouping and Sorting Operations Inside BizTalk Maps
Using the Muenchian Method
TGN: "Very good article, I love this. Explains grouping and sorting in a good way, and by following best practice. Very good Sandro"
Ed Price: "Great explanations and fantastic formatting!"
Maheshkumar S Tiwari
BizTalk Server 2010: How to Insert Image In SQL Through Orchestration
Ed Price: "Very clear instructions through great use of images!"
TGN: "Should contain a warning around the size of the images, I do not usually recommend this way when using BizTalk due to performance."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - December 2013
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using C#
Craig Lussier: "A fantastic reference that every SharePoint developer should have bookmarked. Well done!"
GO: "Matthew knows how to write an article worthy of recognition! This is a reliable source and contains many SharePoint and PowerShell examples that will be useful for IT-PRO as developers! A big thank you for your participation and your
articles Matthew! Excellent work!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "What a handy reference!"
Ed Price: "What an epic article! From Mohammad in the comments: "this is something to add in my favourites, thanks"
Jinchun Chen: "Good guide"
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013 - Design Manager : Use of Display Templates
Ed Price: "The comments say it well. From Matthew: "Great article Benoit! I agree, it's a great feature!" From Dan: "I agree with Matthew. I can see myself refer to this article in the near future. I'm definitely
adding this to my bookmark list. Thank you Benoit for sharing your knowledge.""
Craig Lussier: "Great walkthrough of Display Templates in SharePoint 2013. Well written, great screenshots and thoughtful material. "
GO: "If you want to have a better knowledge of SharePoint 2013, Benoit is your man! Again a great article: The use of XSLT ? Done ! This article absolutely deserves a medal!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Not a big fan of design manager, but def. a nice write-up"
Nilesh Jain
Sharepoint 2010 : A Complete list of SPFile Operations using ECMA Script
Jinchun Chen: "Good getting start"
GO: "This articles show us various methods/properties associated with SPFile object! Clever article and well written! Great source!"
Craig Lussier: "Well written reference for SPFile operations with solid examples. "
Ed Price: "Solid formatting! Great comments on this article: From Matthew: "Nice article Nilesh!" From Dan: "Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm a big fan of using screenshots when writing an article and you've definitely
done a great job here. Thanks again.""
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice idea, but the reference is too short to be really cool"
Small Basic Technical Guru - December 2013
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 21694 - Font and Pen Width Change Earlier in Remote
RZ: "Very useful tip. May potentially save some frustration :)"
Ed Price: "This code is very helpful!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 22108 - Viewport of GraphicsWindow
is Narrower and Sometimes Resized in Remote
Ed Price: "The diagrams really help make this clear. Great job!"
RZ: "Again, very useful tip. And thank you highlighting them."
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 21691 - Rectangle and Ellipse Become Smaller in Remote
RZ: "Very useful tip. May potentially save some frustration :)"
Ed Price: "Your samples you wrote help give these articles an added boost!"
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - December 2013
Tim Pacl
Functional Reports: Making a Report Into a Management Tool
NN: "Terrific article! Very helpful and clean steps"
Ed Price: "Tim nails it again with a fantastic and descriptive narrative on a great topic! It could be improved with images to show what you're describing. Fantastic article!"
Michael Amadi
A practical example of how to handle simple many to many
relationships in Power Pivot/SSAS Tabular models
Ed Price: "Great topic and great formatting! The descriptions are helpful, the images and the tables help clarify. The bold text really pops! Great article!"
NN: "Great article explaining a common problem and solution"
Tim Pacl
Using a Date Picker for an Analysis Data Query Parameter
NN: "Another interesting article by Tim"
Ed Price: "Another great article from Tim. Shorter but sweet!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - December 2013
Uwe Ricken
How does SQL Server allocate space in a heap
Samuel Lester: "Amazing content, great presentation, and incredibly educational! "
DRC: "• Very nice article, very well documented. • Clear explanation of the behaviour and queries to trace the same. • This also explains the output of the queries which makes the users more comfortable while reproducing the behaviour
explained. • The only modification is to remove the .(dot) for the value “8.096” which should be 8096. "
DB: "Clear and informative explanation of details not available elsewhere."
Jinchun Chen: "Awesome"
Ed Price: "Another high-quality article from Uwe! Great formatting and even a good interaction with Shanky in the comments!"
NN: "Great and thorough article"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - December 2013
Naomi N
T-SQL: Relational Division
DB: "Clear and detailed."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very well done and well researched."
Ed Price: "The article comments say it welll. From Saeid: "Surprised with this one! This is really one of the important topics. Many questions in MSDN SQL forums are about this topic" From Carmelo: "Very good work Naomi!"
Samuel Lester: "Outstanding article again! As mentioned in the article and comments, variations of this question appear in the forums frequently and it is nice to have this article to reference. Great breadth and depth with each solution!"
Durval Ramos
How to extract data in XML to meet the requirements of a Schema
Samuel Lester: "Creative solution and great write-up! "
Richard Mueller: "The articles in this group were very close. This is a great article with outstanding links. The See Also section should only include Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Very detailed narrative that's well supported by great formatting and images! Great article!"
Saeid Hasani
Error handling within Triggers using T-SQL
Richard Mueller: "A well executed article. The trigger rules were confusing to me."
Ed Price: "Another great article from Saeid! This could be made better with more explanations for each step. Good job!"
Samuel Lester: "Great new content and nice companion to your prior article. "
Visual Basic Technical Guru - December 2013
Dewayne Basnett
Prime Number Sieve
Richard Mueller: "Amazing material that will take some study, but very clever. Donald Knuth in "The Art of Computer Programming", vol. 2, says Eratosthenes filter only considers odd integers and increments from
p*p."
SB: "Nice article, not much practical use but just details coding for the fun of solving a problem"
HomeGrownCoder
Don't Throw Out the System Brushes
Richard Mueller: "An important concept that is well explained, with lots of links. Should have a See Also section."
SB: "Nice article which address a real world issue that occurs."
Paul Ishak
Declaring numeric data types
SB: "Good simple piece helping detail best numeric types to use."
Richard Mueller: "Basic recommendations. This article could use links and a See Also section."
Visual C# Technical Guru - December 2013
Jaliya Udagedara
Loading Related Entities in Entity Framework
NN: "Very clear and helpful article! Nicely done"
DB: "Clear and informative."
Ed Price: "Fantastic article with a good suggestion in the comments. Could benefit from a TOC. Great job!"
chriga
Identifying and Resolving Shortcuts/Links of files and folders
NN: "Short and useful article"
DB: "Useful bit of information."
Ed Price: "Great formatting and article!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - December 2013
Saad Mahmood
Binding any JSON data list in your application in 10 mins.(Windows Phone)
Ed Price: "Great detail, formatting, and use of images!"
Peter Laker: "Nice simple example"
Saad Mahmood
Now Check for updates of your app inside your Windows Phone application
Ed Price: "Good use of code formatting. Could benefit from a TOC."
Peter Laker: "Great article, thanks Saad"
Ken Tucker
Convert date time received in JSON to a .Net DateTime
Ed Price: "It's valuable, short and sweet, good code commenting, and it has good interaction in the Wiki article comments. But it is a bit generic for this category."
Peter Laker: "Top tip, nice layout, thanks Ken!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - December 2013
dev hedgehog
The Myth of BindingGroup
Ed Price: "Very thorough article developed from forum questions. Great job! But why is it a Myth if it's really helpful? =^)"
Peter Laker: "Another excellent contribution from dev hedgehog. Good subject."
Shweta Lodha
Safest way to use RaisePropertyChanged method
Ed Price: "Good topic and explanations. Could be improved with black font and with a TOC. Good job!"
Peter Laker: "Nice tip from Shweta. There are various variations to this."
chriga
Binding of DataGrid column header
Ed Price: "Short and sweet! Fantastic formatting and great descriptions help sell this one!"
Peter Laker: "Useful example and welcome edition to the knowledge base, thanks chrigra!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - December 2013
Mr X
How DNS aging and scavenging works
Richard Mueller: "Very good information. The images, links, and code example help a lot."
JH: "Brilliant article, great explanations and illustrations"
Ed Price: "Explanations, links, code, images, diagrams... it's all here! It could benefit from a TOC for easier navigation. Just add headers and then "[toc]" at the top of the article."
JM: "Excellent article and a nice use of good graphics, nice work!"
Kelly Bush
Delegate Replication Rights to non-admins
JM: "This is an excellent article, nice work!"
JH: "Like how author organized and summarized a forum post and added more, like "applies to" values "
Ed Price: "Good reference, instructions, explanations, and images! Could be improved with a TOC."
Richard Mueller: "On my first reading of the articles in this section I had a 3 way tie for first. This article covers a very important concept for security. It could use a See Also section."
Mr X
How to mark an Active Directory attribute to be copied when duplicating
a user template
Richard Mueller: "Very useful and well explained information. Very good images. This could use a See Also section."
JM: "This is an excellent article, however the first sentence needs to be revised for clarity."
As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
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Congrats to Matthew, Benoit, and Nilesh!
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - December 2013
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using C#
Craig Lussier: "A fantastic reference that every SharePoint developer should have bookmarked. Well done!"
GO: "Matthew knows how to write an article worthy of recognition! This is a reliable source and contains many SharePoint and PowerShell examples that will be useful for IT-PRO as developers! A big thank you for your participation and your articles
Matthew! Excellent work!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "What a handy reference!"
Ed Price: "What an epic article! From Mohammad in the comments: "this is something to add in my favourites, thanks"
Jinchun Chen: "Good guide"
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013 - Design Manager : Use of Display Templates
Ed Price: "The comments say it well. From Matthew: "Great article Benoit! I agree, it's a great feature!" From Dan: "I agree with Matthew. I can see myself refer to this article in the near future. I'm definitely adding this
to my bookmark list. Thank you Benoit for sharing your knowledge.""
Craig Lussier: "Great walkthrough of Display Templates in SharePoint 2013. Well written, great screenshots and thoughtful material. "
GO: "If you want to have a better knowledge of SharePoint 2013, Benoit is your man! Again a great article: The use of XSLT ? Done ! This article absolutely deserves a medal!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Not a big fan of design manager, but def. a nice write-up"
Nilesh Jain
Sharepoint 2010 : A Complete list of SPFile Operations using ECMA Script
Jinchun Chen: "Good getting start"
GO: "This articles show us various methods/properties associated with SPFile object! Clever article and well written! Great source!"
Craig Lussier: "Well written reference for SPFile operations with solid examples. "
Ed Price: "Solid formatting! Great comments on this article: From Matthew: "Nice article Nilesh!" From Dan: "Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm a big fan of using screenshots when writing an article and you've definitely done a great
job here. Thanks again.""
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice idea, but the reference is too short to be really cool"
Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
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Create a wiki article about it!

Send a list item as a bulk e-mail using SharePoint 2010

My scenario is to e-mail newsletters to a group of users (running into 1000's) and we were thinking about any pro's and cons of using SharePoint here.
Preferable if the newsletter were embedded in the e-mail so there is no need to give permission to a user to visit the site (or do we have to anyway?)
Also, a functionality such that, every list item could have an option such as "E-mail to Group 1" or "Email to Group 2" that would allow the item to be mass e-mailed.
Group 1 assume to be a group of 500 individuals with only e-mail addresses known...
If SharePoint seems right, then can anyone suggest me how to go about this? If it is possible with OOTB/designer?

For you scenario, you could explore ECB Menu action using SharePoint designer.
The logic would be first fire up SharePoint designer and create an ECB menu to start a workflow ie initiate workflow in SharePoint designer (you need to create two workflows each for Group1 and Group2 to make it simple)
Next step would be to create a workflow to send an email to the selected group and use item values within the workflow to create the newletter.
here are some reference on how to -
http://sharepointyankee.com/2009/12/19/adding-custom-actions-to-the-list-item-menu-in-sharepoint-2010-using-sharepoint-designer-2010/
http://blog-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2011/10/tutorial-add-custom-list-actions-using.html
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/send-e-mail-in-a-workflow-HA010239042.aspx
Hope this helps!
Ram - SharePoint Architect
Blog - SharePointDeveloper.in
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