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Update on Posts and Comments

I have seen many comments in last several months asking questions on some of the posts. First of all, I apologies for not responding on time. I had set email to receive notification for new comments but for some weird reasons, I was not getting mails at all. Since I did not check for new comments in the site itself, I did not even know that there were comments, so I could not respond to your questions.

I'm trying to fix this notification issue. Meanwhile, I'll keep checking in the site itself for any new comments.

Also I have observed, there were plenty of spam comments in the site. I had kept posting comments open but looks like spammers have taken the advantage of it for their product/service marketing. It took quite a bit of time to individually delete all the spam comments. Going forward, all the comments will be moderated. That means, it will not be published immediately. I hate to do this but this is the only way to filter spam comments. I'll also make sure to check regularly for new comments so that I can publish them as soon as possible.

Regarding the posts, It's been more than a year since I posted an article. It was a very busy schedule at both personal and professional front hence could not take out time for new posts. As an update, I've upgraded my knowledge from AngularJS to Angular, so expect some of the tips and learning on Angular with SharePoint.

As always, feel free to ask questions or share your knowledge through comments section.

Happy SharePointing!

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