Reference links for March Public Update for SharePoint 2013

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/03/21/march-public-update-for-sharepoint-2013-available-and-mandatory.aspx  

http://blogs.technet.com/b/praveenh/archive/2013/03/19/march-2013-public-update-pu-for-sharepoint-server-2013-is-here.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspfe/archive/2013/04/05/sharepoint-2013-march-2013-public-update-required-for-future-cumulative-updates.aspx

http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=398

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chhopkin/archive/2013/04/04/sharepoint-2013-updates-as-of-april-2013.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2013/04/01/why-sharepoint-2013-cumulative-update-takes-5-hours-to-install.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/jj891062.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=36987

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2767999

Windows could not start the SharePoint 2010 administration service on local computer.

Infrastructure:
SP Version: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010-SP1
Server: Windows Server 2008 R2

Problem DescriptionNot able to start the SharePoint Administration 2010 Service in services.msc

ErrorWindows could not start the SharePoint 2010 administration service on local computer. 

Adding an Email Link in SharePoint site page

There was a requirement raised by one of my user to add Email lnk to the SharePoint site page, I followed below steps to achieve this

Add Content Editor Web Part on the page and in source editor insert following code

<a href="mailto:abc@xyz.com">Email Us</a>

or 

open a site page in SharePoint Designer, select the location where you have to put the link and then insert above code

or 

if you want users to directly open email link on a page when they click on "Email Us / Contact Us" button then assign "OnClick" event to Contact Us button / tab with above code 

<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Email Us" onClick="parent.location='mailto:abc@xyz.com'">

hope this helps