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Saturday, July 28, 2007 6:57 PM

Team Explorer - Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008

I already had Orcas (Visual Studio 2008) Beta 1 and its Team Explorer Add-in installed; before installing Beta 2 of Visual Studio I uninstalled all the Orcas stuff. I am not sure if I uninstalled the Orcas Team Explorer or not. Anyways; after installing
Posted by khurram | 2 Comments
Monday, April 30, 2007 1:26 AM

Project Server 2007 and Windows Sharepoint Services v3

I have been reading few articles on 2007 Office System Server; especially Sharepoint and Project Server . I must say; they really have pilled up the things nicely on ASP.NET stack. The concept of Site Features and Shared Services in Sharepoint is great.
Posted by khurram | 0 Comments
Friday, February 16, 2007 11:31 PM

TfsWarehouse

Team System Reporting features uses SQL Server Analysis Services at its backend; it creates and maintains an Analysis Services database with name, TfsWarehouse. From few days, our reports were not working; today I invested some time in learning how the
Posted by khurram | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:04 AM

mstsc /console

Remote desktop is an awesome implementation. Sometimes you might want to remote desktop a machine’s console; its simple; simply run the remote desktop client using command “mstsc /console” The only restriction is that it only works with Windows 2003 onwards.
Posted by khurram | 0 Comments
Friday, June 23, 2006 8:56 PM

%windir%\inf

%windir%\inf (usually c:\windows\inf) folder has the "INF" (information) files of most of the components...so in case any component get screwed; simply visit this folder; right click the INF file and reinstall the component; e-g mdac.inf is Microsoft's
Posted by khurram | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:02 PM

netsh :: Opening range of ports in Windows Firewall

Today I happened to configure a machine for ACCPAC; which is an entry level ERP solution from SAGE. ACCPAC offers internet accessibility using either DCOM or .NET Remoting. For .NET Remoting it uses multiple ports where it opens up listeners as the client
Posted by khurram | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:24 AM

UnixOdbc

I am planning a solution for a small ISP who needs a cheaper and straight forward billing system. Our solution contains FreeRadius running on Linux configured with UnixOdbc having a DSN of FreeTDS driver talking to SQL Server Express running on Windows.
Posted by khurram | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 6:03 PM

Outlook 2003 / Outlook 2007

Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 dont work side by side. As Outlook 2007 updates MAPI; which breaks compatibility with Outlook 2003 (my thinking). OL2003 will not work once you have OL 2007 installed. Though OL 2007 works fine; but its not stable (being
Posted by khurram | 1 Comments
Friday, March 24, 2006 4:41 PM

Fedora 5

Fedora 5 was released last Monday; I guess this is the first “client ready” operating system having built in support of .NET (oops Common Language Runtime / CLR) support. There are even three apps built with Mono; a note taking app, a photo manager and
Posted by khurram | 2 Comments
Friday, March 17, 2006 7:53 PM

Sharepoint / ASP.NET v2 / Smart Part :: Required permissions cannot be acquired

Today I updated few internal Sharepoint based applications to ASP.NET v2 . Before using ASP.NET v2 with Sharepoint; you need to install Service Pack 2 of Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS). I was using SmartPart to use ASCX based user controls in Sharepoint.
Posted by khurram | 0 Comments
Friday, March 17, 2006 6:13 PM

Accessing the server remotely!

A kind of Slashdot post; but it’s interesting I happened to meet a developer today; he is from Karachi; and has come to Lahore on a project that we are doing for a client. (He is client representative as well). We had to decide the platform today for
Posted by khurram | 2 Comments
Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:27 PM

Could not find a part of the path

ASP.NET Compilation Model can become troublesome for system administrators; especially if they are dealing with lousy developers/clients. 99% of the time; developers don’t bother to tweak the application for deployment into production; they XCOPY their
Posted by khurram | 0 Comments
Friday, March 03, 2006 9:30 PM

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I have a Windows 2003 Sp1 box running SQL Server 2005; the box also has Windows Firewall turned on. I was going through Windows Event Logs; and found out that NETMAN service has some issues. NETMAN (Network Connections Manager) service is used by Windows
Posted by khurram | 3 Comments
Saturday, February 25, 2006 12:22 PM

MSDTC :: WIN2k3SP1/WINXPSP2 :: Windows Firewall

When you need to work with distributed resources (two databases for instances); you need distributed transactions. Generally; two phase commit technique is used in distributed transactions. Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) is one
Posted by khurram | 0 Comments
Monday, February 20, 2006 9:30 AM

Hot Patching

Over the last few years; rebooting Windows frequency is decreased. People have started making good installers. With HotPatching; Microsoft is trying to increase Windows availability to the next level. Read Kernel Mustard’s post about how they are doing
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