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UPDATED: 8/6/2008 - Minor issue on Path I've built quite a few WSS / MOSS machines and one task that I always seem to do is create a simple CMD shell prompt on the desktop (quick launch, etc.) that gives me easy access to STSADM and has the path set correctly. ...
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Recently, I messed up a set of VHD files that were based upon differencing disks. Basically, I killed the parent drive - so, any child drives are useless. So, how do you know which drives are differencing disks and what is their parent? One way...
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I had heard on the radio a short blurb about "National Shutdown Day" being Saturday May 3rd (today). Only problem is I didn't hear about what we were shutting down. I had initially thought it was something like "National Lights...
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A while back I blogged about how Verizon was Hijacking failed DNS lookups. What I failed to realize at the time was not only is this adding to a poor experience by users but opens up the ability for ISP's to obtain private information, in the form...
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Here's a nice site that helps us Vista folk out on identifying which services are really needed, can be delayed start, or even disabled. General Service information too. While I Hibernate most of the time (shutdown -h) there are those times I need...
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There are really a whole bunch of great resources out there that help the community get up & running with LINQ. Personally, with all the additional providers that I've seen ( Qak Leaf List ) - several of which I see great use for - LINQ to SharePoint...
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Here's something that I just came across, perhaps I just wasn't looking. It's in Beta but it's ultimately a 3rd party library of add-ins, etc. for Visual Studio. No search, but you can sort on the columns in the categories. Search is there, down to the...
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Before going full blown production with a Solution, there are times that you want to validate technical, functional, acceptance, or even general interest in a solution. I find it helpful to clarify what the terms imply and what the primary focus is of...
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Here's a tool that completely slipped by me. I've been using ApexSQL for generation of SQL scripts for creating schema and data. Turns out, during the Visual Studio 2008 installation I see "SQL Publishing Wizard" pop up on the list. This...
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Now that GotDotNet has been mothballed and CodePlex is more project oriented, Microsoft has gotten back into the mix with Code Gallery. This is a community site, the content is minimal for now, and quite frankly, the interface is lacking. While there's...
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For those of us that are cheap value minded, here's a service that provides conference calling, albeit using a long distance call. But with all you can eat phone pricing we have today, who cares. They also have a Web Desktop Sharing tool, in Beta - haven't...
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Finally, I can get my DirecTV signal down to Media Center without a whole bunch of crap. I've been waiting for DirecTV's MC compatible capability for some time, this finally looks like I can get TiVo like function well integrated with MC. Using TiVo now,...
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A timely article appeared in the NY Times today ( link ) regarding Parallel computing as the next key factor in keeping up with the ever demanding needs of getting things done faster. As the article points out, the single CPU processor can't address...
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Well, Verizon seems to be high jacking the search part of my web experience. And this is not just failed DNS lookup - these are 404 errors (not found) as well. Which to me is really going to screw up support for all. I can see my 77 year Old...
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Here's a cool tool that provides an interactive LINQ environment that you can use to develop queries against LINQ sources (SQL, Objects, XML, etc.). If you're working with LINQ and need an environment that supports both expression and language statements...
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What's up with the huge update? Turns out the biggest is Office 2007 SP1 at 390 Meg... I'm guessing the Vista SP1 will be 3 Gig at this rate... ...
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If you're installing Windows Server 2008 RC1 and expected to use WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 you'll need to wait until 12/11/2007... It's blocked from running - I read somewhere it's due (WSS & MOSS SP1) December 11, 2007....
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One thing I can say about SharePoint (WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007)development is it sucks. The tools are weak from creating to debugging. Something that literally took about 15 minutes in straight ASP.NET took 3+ hours yesterday. So, I'm rethinking my perspective...
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Today, I needed a quick view of what objects in a SQL DB had changed. The following get's me that in a nice list: SELECT [name], [type], create_date, modify_date FROM sys.objects WHERE [type] in ('P', 'FN', 'V') order by Modify_Date desc...
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Well, after upgrading the hard drive on my notebook to the Hitachi 200 Gig 7,200 drive, first thing is see is the message that Winload.exe is missing or Corrupt. Turns out it's a simple fix and you can try two ways to fix. I was using Apricorn's Easy...
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I've been running Vista on a Toshiba M5 for quite some time. Since the RTM, the drivers for the 3945ABG driver from Intel have been garbage. Tried each one as they came out from Intel's site here: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Filter_Results.aspx?strOSs=All&strTypes=All&ProductID=2259&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng...
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Times are busy. If you need a little help on those little tasks that seem to interrupt and consume way more time than they should, check out www.AskSunday.com Sunday gives busy people the resources of a 24/7 personal assistant, available via telephone...
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On one of my machines, when attempting to build out a small SSIS solution none of the toolbox items were showing. Turns out there's a quick way to recreate/reset them. Just delete the "toolbox*.*" files from the "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application...
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Ryan Dunn points out on his blog how to install ADAM on Vista. Basically, the installer chokes. His approach is to install on a different machine (not Vista), then copy the files over, registry change, run the admininsall.exe, then import the LDIF schema's...
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I've been using Meta Products download express for some time now. Basically, it's a tool that if you brows to a page, see a bunch of links on that page pointing to downloads (zip, doc, rar, etc.) and you don't want to just click on each choose save and...
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