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Exchange 2010 Strange Error After Configuring Domain Controller

Peter De Tender — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:03:42 GMT

Peter De Tender writes, "..strange error message comes up whenever I started the Exchange Mgmt Console on my EX2010 server. Even after configuring a "fixed" configuration domain controller (from the EMC/select Server Organization/ on the right hand side "Modify Configuration Domain Controller" option is shown), the error still appeared. No matter what part of the GUI I was going through...After some digging in the profile, I found out the following file, which seemed to be the cause of the problem:.." more

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:03:42 GMT

Code Sample and Instructions WPF 4: Button Controls

Pete Brown — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:58:02 GMT

Pete Brown writes, "...one of the roadblocks folks new to WPF often hit: templating of controls. If you’re used to Windows Forms or even ASP.NET, where purpose-built controls exist for the common scenarios, doing something as simple as creating a flat image button can be somewhat daunting..." more

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:58:02 GMT

Query That Upgrades Configuration Manager Clients

Vitalie Ciobanu — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:17:22 GMT

Vitalie Ciobanu writes, "...Created a package and program with ConfigMgr client upgrade with custom command line parameters. Program command line is...Now, as system resources with older client version are members of this collection they will receive the advertisement and will silently install the latest ConfigMgr client. When the collection will have no system resources..." more

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:17:22 GMT

Why SQL Partition Merge is Slow

SQL Storage Engine Team — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:32:51 GMT

SQL Storage Engine Team writes, "...There is a workaround for this when the partitions to be merged are mapped to the same filegroup. In the example above where the intention is to drop a partition it is clear that the destination partition is always empty. The workaround is to..." more

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:32:51 GMT

TechEd 2010 Mobile Site Up and Running

Jeff Guillet — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:56:09 GMT

Jeff Guillet writes, "The Microsoft TechEd Team has created a TechEd mobile site designed in three versions to best suit your mobile device...(320 plus pixels)...(240 plus pixels)..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:56:09 GMT

Private Cloud Security is no Security at All

Sam Johnston — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:33:26 GMT

Sam Johnston writes, "...don't take it for granted that private cloud offerings are secure, and in the unlikely event that the systems themselves are secure, don't assume you or your provider can run them in a more secure fashion than a "public" cloud provider could. Incidents like this go a long way towards realising one of my predictions for 2010...in that Private clouds will be discredited by year end..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:33:26 GMT

Silverlight Code to Control the Out-of-Browser Window

Pete Brown — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:25:31 GMT

Pete Brown writes, "If your Silverlight 4 application is running with Elevated Permissions, you can control a fair number of aspects of the hosting out-of-browser window. You can change the size, location, make it top most, set window state and Activate it. Here’s some simple example code:" more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:25:31 GMT

WCF Fix for Partially Trusted Clients Using Windows Authentication

Nicholas Allen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:17:39 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "...A client with restricted permissions may not be allowed to set the UnsafeAuthenticatedConnectionSharing setting. This causes a security exception to be thrown when the setting is accessed, preventing the request from being made. You're encountering this problem if you see the following exception...." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:17:39 GMT

Tasks Automated with VMM Powershell Jobs History Garbage Collection

Kurt Roggen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:15:39 GMT

Kurt Roggen writes, "...Jobs are displayed for each action performed in VMM and can be viewed directly in the VMM administrator console...central place for monitoring actions...ability to sort, filter and group job...Each failed job has troubleshooting tips to..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:15:39 GMT

Hotfix for TypeConverters with en-US Machines - Customized Cultures

Rob Relyea — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:05:43 GMT

Rob Relyea writes, "...XAML has a major problem in v3...When you start the application, an exception is thrown by the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) parser, and then the application crashes..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:05:43 GMT

Code Comparing two Methods of Creating a Full-Size Silverlight Popup

David Anson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:04:29 GMT

David Anson writes, "...it's been my experience that the RootVisual approach is more naturally correct - by which I mean that it tends to be right by virtue of its simplicity and the fact that it hooks up to the right thing. I don't promise that it's the best choice for all scenarios, but I'll suggest that it's worth considering first for most scenarios..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:04:29 GMT

Installing Win7 x64 on a Dell Precision 690 - What You Want to Know

Philip Colmer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:45:22 GMT

Philip Colmer writes, "...recently took the step of installing Windows 7 64-bit onto my 3-year old Precision 690 workstation and, as I hit some snags, thought I would share them and the workarounds in case they affect anyone else...Prior to starting this whole process, I ran Microsoft’s compatibility checker and looked on Dell’s web site for Windows 7 drivers for" more

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:45:22 GMT

How to Move a WPF Window with Custom Chrome

Pete Brown — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:27:57 GMT

Pete Brown writes, "...how to move a window in WPF without using the built-in title bar or resorting to user32.dll, so I whipped up this quick sample...We’ll create a simple window with no built-in border or titlebar. We’ll use a border, some shapes and a HeaderedContentControl to provide stand-in titlebar/content areas..." more

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:27:57 GMT

Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter Tool

Ben Armstrong — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:50:00 GMT

Ben Armstrong writes, "...[allows you to] take the saved state files from a Hyper-V virtual machine and convert it to the memory dump format that is used by the Windows debugging tools...You can even use this tool to look at the memory state from a virtual machine snapshot..." more

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:50:00 GMT

WCF Fix Allows Customizing the Status Code when Validation Fails

Nicholas Allen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:42:24 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "...If you decide that the user name and password don't pass validation, then you can throw an exception out of the Validate method to reject the client's message. When using the HTTP transport, the error message sent back after the UserNamePasswordValidator has a status code 403 Forbidden. After installing this fix..." more

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:42:24 GMT

You Can't Get Rid of Internet Explorer

Harry Waldron — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:41:28 GMT

Harry Waldron writes, "This "tip of the day" provides key reasons why IE cannot be completely removed from Windows. Internet Explorer is more than just a browser, as other alternative browsers may occasionally use..." more

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:41:28 GMT

Temporary Fix for Foxit Previewer for Outlook 2010 64-bit

Tim Heuer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:36:29 GMT

Tim Heuer writes, "...on my Foxit PDF Previewer for Outlook and Vista/Windows 7, there is an issue in the Office 2010 64-bit Beta (specifically Outlook) for executing 32-bit preview handlers on 64-bit Outlook. I’ve got an update for those temporarily. First, I can confirm that the issue is fixed in..." more

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:36:29 GMT

TFS Interface Change Creates New Flow Configuration Data

Willy-Peter Schaub — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:28:58 GMT

Willy-Peter Schaub writes, "...in the case of the IServerPathTranslationService interface...introduced a new method that allows the platform to pass the session configuration to be passed to the Translation Service, as is the case for all other services. The new interface definition is as follows..." more

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:28:58 GMT

Check this When Running Cumulative Update 1 for SCOM R2

Marnix Wolf — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:22:16 GMT

Marnix Wolf writes, "....I wanted to run CU#1 for SCOM R2. Got an account with admin privileges on the RMS and within SCOM. I downloaded the CU...But then I got an error message during the installation of CU#...it had no access to the SQL instance..." more

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:22:16 GMT

WCF Fix for HTTP Startup Hang

Nicholas Allen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:17:38 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "...The http.sys driver is configured to automatically start so that it can begin handling requests. On some systems the http.sys driver can get into a configuration that deadlocks on startup. This causes all of the dependent services using the driver to fail to start...workaround for the problem..." more

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:17:38 GMT