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Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:41 PM

Recreate “Show Desktop” icon in Quick Launch

Simply save the following content using Notepad at %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch as a file having extension scf; like Show Desktop.scf; it will not appear right away; you can then enable disable the Quick Launch
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Saturday, January 02, 2010 1:02 AM

Sharepoint and SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services SP2 or later can be integrated with Sharepoint. Setting it up is bit tricky. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee384252.aspx URL is must read to troubleshoot the issues. For me following worked Ensure only Windows
Posted by khurram | 1 Comments
Friday, September 25, 2009 4:18 PM

Microsoft Dynamics GP

Is anyone around has worked with Microsoft Dynamics GP product? (v10) I have an integration project and some basic training work to accountants / data entry operators and management folk for adoption (migrating from another such accounting/financial/mini-ERP
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:16 PM

StatSVN

I am stuck in pushing a project to its “end” this month…still few more steps to do..but we are seeing the end! I had a feeling that I am giving the most and doing the kind of work which I am not supposed to do…I wanted to confirm it statistically..so
Posted by khurram | 1 Comments
Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:30 PM

Windows Desktop Search 4 – Remote Queries

Windows Desktop Search 4 supports Remote Queries; if you install it on multiple machines; each indexing their local data; you can then query these multiple indexes… Simplest way is to open the network share and use the Search Box…if the particular shared
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:00 AM

Free Ebooks from Microsoft

MS Press is celebrating 25 years, this month they are offering Windows Server TCP/IP Protocols and Services by Joseph Davies If you register your copy of Visual Web Developer Express Edition , or already have registered it, visit the goodies page to get
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 2:19 AM

ThreadMaster

We have a mediocre server in production where usually the scheduled job executor kind of apps get deployed...The machine is also running one Windows Service, coded in C#/.Net, developed by me. My system administrator ranged me saying that i should get
Posted by khurram | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:41 PM

Managing Files

Last Sunday, I spared some time to manage my eBooks folder. I tried Link Shell Extension , which helped in placing single ebook in multiple folders, avoiding copying the content... Do not forget to read Wikipedia article on NTFS Junctions for some background
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 2:11 PM

Lightening and Machine

Last Saturday I was off for the weekend but my machine and few other devices were on. (I occasionally remote desktop my machine if I come across with some nice idea during my off times). We had a lightening that day and it damaged many devices in our
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:34 AM

Php Installer and IIS6

PHP's latest installer (PHP5) can setup IIS6 to use PHP; there is a small glitch if you install the PHP in the default location which usually is "C:\Program Files\PHP". The installer setup the 8.3 DOS file naming convention for ISAPI mapping
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:37 PM

Vista Tips

Hibernation To Hibernate; use >shutdown /h , I cant find any menu for this in Vista atleast here at my workstation! To disable hibernation (to save some diskspace) use >powercfg –h off Windows Desktop Search If UPS is not working; disabling
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:21 PM

Why Snmp Traps?

In continuation to my last post on highlighting Snmp Trap, mostly sysadmins uses Snmp based polling; MRTG, RRD etc...such sysadmins might ask why Snmp Traps when we already are polling? Polling is part of “monitoring”; another important pieces are analysis
Posted by khurram | 1 Comments
Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:14 PM

SNMP Traps - Low Diskspace Notification from Windows

Infrastructure Things get changed with time; having solid and generic infrastructure is must….DNS is good thing for this; ACLs should be based on DNS names instead of IPs…We should use “private DNS Servers” for our internal network devices….Use A records
Posted by khurram | 1 Comments
Friday, December 14, 2007 4:04 PM

Running Unix Apps on Windows

From last few months we have been involved in an interesting project which involved developing different tiers in different platforms. I talked about it earlier too. Data Tier C/C++, Perl, Bash Scripting, mySQL based apps on Unix Classic ASP/SQL Server
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:54 PM

Setting boot-up OS (Windows Vista / XP)

If you have installed Windows Vista and Windows XP both on single machine you must have noticed that Windows Vista has a new boot loader and doestnt use NTLDR/BOOT.INI. I access my machine sometime over Remote Desktop and recently I wanted to specify
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