View on Society

Personal experience shapes ones view of society.  Case in point, a coworker who works and lives in the same area as me has a different outlook on the future of our society.  The paths to how we became coworkers are different and must have influenced our views of the same society.  We can look at one object and possess two different interpretations.

I know this seems like a "duh" post but it's a realization to me of just how different humans are.  It reminds me of the Republicans and Democrats trying to fix our financial system.  But in their case, it's a lot more people than just two.

Finding Office Web Apps 2010 for SharePoint 2010

We've been searching everywhere for Microsoft's Office Web Apps 2010 for SharePoint 2010.  After asking a sales rep, we were given the link to Microsoft's VLSC site.  Your organization has to have a volume license agreement before you can enter the site.  Once in the site, go to the Office Professional Plus 2010 with SP1 site, click on the downloads link, then you'll see "Office Web Apps 2010 64-bit English (for SharePoint 2010)."  Also be aware that it uses its own software key, not that of Office 2010 or SharePoint.  Good luck.

Appending data to a list of items in a CSV file via PowerShell

I had a list of local usernames that needed to be appended with the domain name of bc\.  Since I'm learning PowerShell, I thought I'd try to find a solution via PS.  Here is what I did:
1.  Created a CSV file with everyone's name in one column and column header name of Name.
2.  Read up on how to append objects and write the new object out to a file.
3.  Created the script:
       import-csv .\names.csv|foreach -process { out-file -filepath names.txt -append -inputobject ("bc\" + $_.Name)}
4.  The script processes each line of the names.csv column by added bc\ to the existing column object then outputs the data into a new text file named names.txt and places the text file into the same file path as the CSV file.
5.  The result changed a username of BobSmith to BC\BobSmith.

New material claimed to store more energy and cost less money than batteries

Great discovery if it can make it to market. Finally a solution for electric-powered vehicles and other technologies currently forced to use inefficient batteries. This could be a breakthrough leading us to a new way of using electrical items.

New material claimed to store more energy and cost less money than batteries:

IIS Website Redirection (IIS 7.x)

If you wish to create a website that only connects via HTTPS (port 443) but want to ensure users don't see a blank website or receive an error when they type your URL into their browser, you can create an IIS redirection site.  Here are the steps:

1. Open IIS Manager, right click on Sites, and "Add Web Site..."

2. Name the site something that will help you remember what it's for (I used Redirector) and ensure it's capturing requests going to port 80 (HTTP native port number)

3.  Click on your website and double-click on the HTTP Redirect tool

4.  Type in your redirected website name (i.e. HTTPS://www.yoursite.com) and click Apply.  Web redirection is now in place.  Obviously this not only applies to 443 redirections but pretty much any kind of web redirection -- for instance, a subsite (http://www.yoursite.com/MoreInfo) or different server (http://anotherserver.yoursite.com) altogether.