Creating Dev SharePoint 2010 Instance

I'm installing a development BizTalk 2010 environment. Part of the environment is to install a local SharePoint 2010 instance.

Like other blog postings, you'll come across using New-SPConfigurationDatabase command to create the database ad-hoc.

What you may not notice is that you need to use the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, not the base PowerShell. It's located within the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products folder in the Start Menu.

Microsoft Releases BizTalk 2010 Certification

The Microsoft team has now released the certification for BizTalk 2010.

The certification number is 70-595.

Epsilon Notifies Clients of Unauthorized Entry into Email System

I received TWO emails yesterday about a data breach. One was from my bank, the other from a well-known technology group. Both messages comment that their vendor, Epsilon, had a security breach.

Apparently "the information that was obtained was limited to email addresses and/or customer names only"...

To me, that's very important information. Who knows, even hackers might try to send an email to someone trying to spoof my email address.

Not that I don't trust my bank with security, but I don't.

I will now probably have to spend a large amount of time sifting through spam, or even more extreme - get a new email address. I've been suggesting this to many for some time: one email for personal, and a different one for the rest of the companies -like my bank- that don't take my personal data with much regard.

Curious if a lawsuit will occur...