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Easy Command Locates Obsolete Users and Computers

Dmitry Sotnikov — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:05:41 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "Just got easier (and faster!) in AD cmdlets 1.4! Before this release you still could manually filter user or computer records by pwdLastSet or LastLogonTimestamp – now user and computer retrieval by a bunch of attributes with an easy command like:..." more

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:05:41 GMT

Code Sample Builds a Simple Recursive Descent Parser

Eric White — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:04:06 GMT

Eric White writes, "...using LINQ to write a recursive-descent parser for SpreadsheetML formulas..." more

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:04:06 GMT

Windows Phone 7 - First Impressions

Scott Hanselman — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:24:31 GMT

Scott Hanselman writes, "...Here's some things I was impressed with:...Some things I had trouble with:...It'll take a while to get used to "it just works" from Microsoft. All in all, I'm pleasantly surprised as everything has just worked...I took a few moments and filmed some guerilla video of me exploring the phone..." more

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:24:31 GMT

Comprehensive Guide on Addressing Exchange Calendaring Issues

Jeff Guillet — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:31:06 GMT

Jeff Guillet writes, "...article covers lost appointments, duplicate appointments, odd delegate issues, etc. This article is based on the real-world experience we as a company have gained working with many organizations of all sizes...my recommendation is to adjust the Cached Mode latencies to 1 second using Group Policy. There is virtually no network performance impact and it..." more

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:31:06 GMT

Solution to Empty Graphs - Reports for NICs Based on HP Teamed NIC

Marnix Wolf — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:28:19 GMT

Marnix Wolf writes, "...Bumped into this issue at a customer. SCOM R2 is deployed, many MPs in place, among them the Server OS MP (of course). Also the Reporting component is installed...some Server reports did not show any data related to the NICs:...The server experiencing this issue is a HP server...Even with the HP Proliant MP loaded in SCOM R2 it does not collect any performance data at all.." more

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:28:19 GMT

Resolution to SharePoint 2010 Error 403 When Updating Metadata

Sean Earp — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:32:52 GMT

Sean Earp writes, "...I have spent a month troubleshooting a crazy problem with SharePoint 2010, stumping everyone that worked on it. The problem was just resolved, and it involves something I’ve never seen before, so I thought I would share...It turns out that SharePoint 2010 has a hidden list at the site collection level called… appropriately enough, “TaxonomyHiddenList”. You can access this by going to..." more

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:32:52 GMT

Powershell Script for SharePoint 2010 MUI Enabled

Joris Poelmans — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:29:21 GMT

Joris Poelmans writes, "...If you try to enable alternate languages for a SharePoint 2010 meeting workspace you will get an error stating “this site is based on a template that does not not support alternate languages”...if you want to find out which webtemplates support MUI you can run the following Powershell script:..." more

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:29:21 GMT

Replacing the Default SharePoint People Picker with a Custom People Picker

Adam Buenz — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:24:48 GMT

Adam Buenz writes, "At a recent customer of mine the question came up as to how we could replace the default people picker with a custom one that was tailored to some very particular AD queries to supplement the SharePoint calls...The easiest way around it is to toggle the visibility of the primary, OOB picker on the page to not visible, and then..." more

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:24:48 GMT

Hold off Installing OCS 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 6 & .NET 4.0 Gotchas

Aaron Tiensivu — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:23:10 GMT

Aaron Tiensivu writes, "I've heard of numerous reports of the CU6's SQL back-end update having version mismatch problems with the front-end update. One cause I can speculate on is that the web caches that Microsoft uses publish the updated bits are lagging behind...If you install .NET 4.0 Framework before installing any OCS server role, the OCS setup program will complain that .NET 3.5x is not installed, even if..." more

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:23:10 GMT

Solution to Missing Datasheet View with 64-bit Versions of Office

Sean Earp — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:20:19 GMT

Sean Earp writes, "...While 64-bit installations of Office 2010 are still relatively uncommon, there are a few known issues/growing pains...Datasheet feature on SharePoint not available for customers who install the 64-bit version of Office 2010. When clicking on the Datasheet View, the following message is displayed: The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons:..." more

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:20:19 GMT

How to Create a simple free OpsMgr Disk Space Report

Cameron Fuller — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:40:28 GMT

Cameron Fuller writes, "...steps required to create a simple free disk space report as this is one of the top three cases I am seeing for OpsMgr reporting: Show me the amount of free space on my servers over time, show me the processor utilization over time, and show me my specific counter I want gathered over time...The easy approach is..." more

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:40:28 GMT

Creating your First PowerGUI Script Editor Add-On

Dmitry Sotnikov — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:33:31 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "...a step by step tutorial on creating add-ons for PowerGUI Script Editor. It takes you from the obligatory ‘Hello World’ example...the way through creating a useful add-on...with menu item, proper clean up code..." more

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:33:31 GMT

Code Showing Table Markup in Open XML SpreadsheetML

Eric White — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:31:25 GMT

Eric White writes, "...a summary of the Open XML SpreadsheetML markup that you use to define or query a table. I’ll show the markup for the very simple table in the above screen-clipping..." more

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:31:25 GMT

"Houston" Really Helps SQL Azure Data Sync Management

Liam Cavanagh — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:28:54 GMT

Liam Cavanagh writes, "with Microsoft® Project Code-Named “Houston”, people can go directly to this web based management tool and start creating their SQL Azure databases without installing anything. Once they created their databases, they can launch the Data Sync Service to start synchronizing that database to one or more SQL Azure databases around the world." more

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:28:54 GMT

SharePoint 2010 Dev/Architect Learning Curve is Steep

Mauro Cardarelli — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:59:24 GMT

Mauro Cardarelli writes, "...I absolutely believe that while the new development features with SharePoint 2010 will allow developers to do more with less (code) the burden on the SharePoint architect is now far greater. Picking the “right” architecture has become ...The learning curve is steep but the power of the toolset is much too big to ignore…" more

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:59:24 GMT

Learn How to Extend Visual Studio 2010

Kate Gregory — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:57:30 GMT

Kate Gregory writes, "...This one is on Customizing and Extending Visual Studio. About half of it is live already...You can get your work done a lot faster if you tweak Visual Studio to meet your needs. It doesn't have to cost you money and it doesn't have to cost you much time. Take a look..." more

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:57:30 GMT

Disabling an Existing Exchange Email Address Template Objects in PowerShell

Michael B Smith — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:17:00 GMT

Michael B Smith writes, "...in this case, we are trying to take a "currently enabled" object and make it disabled, we should be able to use a reference to the existing object. ...given what we know now, what does the script look like? There are some similarities, but now it doesn't feel like a hack and it is much easier to read and understand:" more

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:17:00 GMT

How to Make Windows 7 Snappier with a RAM Disk for Scratch Space

Ken Hoover — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:43:41 GMT

Ken Hoover writes, "...This process is not for newbies. If you don't know where the "Advanced computer properties" control panel is or how to change a drive's assigned letter, you should stop reading because you can break stuff by messing with the settings that I'm describing here. You've been warned...Step 1: Set up a persistent RAM disk..." more

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:43:41 GMT

Reports Explain Collisions in TFS Warehouse and Cube

Buck Hodges — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:42:25 GMT

Buck Hodges writes, "...set of reports that help you understand what’s going on in the TFS warehouse and cube in Team Foundation Server 2010 so that you can deal with issues such as field collisions, which can be very tedious to handle since out of the box we don’t provide easy ways to figure it out. His post includes an attached zip file" more

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:42:25 GMT

CodeRush Sample: Anonymous Method Refactoring Fun

Jason Follas — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:38:22 GMT

Jason Follas writes, "...Since I was already familiar with the anonymous method syntax, CodeRush played an instrumental part in my learning Lambda expressions because I could write an anonymous method and then have it transformed into an equivalent Lambda for me...I wanted to update my older code in order to replace anonymous methods with the newer syntax, and CodeRush made it a trivial task to do this..." more

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:38:22 GMT