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  • PowerShell for breakfast, lunch and dinner

    - by Enrique Lima
    Actually, for snacks too, and it is nearly everywhere I turn. If I do Microsoft Exchange work, I know I will run into it.  Active Directory, SQL Server, TFS, SharePoint, Azure and most recently Lync. All have provided a way to work with PowerShell and it has taken off (as it should). The question many will have is, How do I get started? A couple of ways are available. There are books, sites and blogs that will help you along the way. This will be the start of a series of posts that, my intention at least, will highlight and focus on the main features I have been using with the different products I interact. Here are some useful links to get started … The Master PowerShell book from Dr. Tobias Weltner PowerShell.com Script Center @ Technet

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  • Tech-Ed 2012 North America &ndash; meet me there!

    - by Nikita Polyakov
    I’m excited to be near home in Orlando, FL next week for Tech-Ed 2012 NA. Here are the times you can come chat with me about the Windows Phone topics at the TLC stations in the main expo hall: Monday 7:00pm - 9:00pm Tuesday 12:30pm - 3:30pm Wednesday  12:30pm - 3:30pm Thursday 10:30am - 12:30pm This year I will be attending many new sessions on topics such as System Center 2012 and SharePoint. These topics are exciting and useful for me as part of my new role at Tribridge, in fact this trip is sponsored by Concerto Cloud Services where I am an Cloud Applications Engineer. Also, grab the Nikita application it should be updated just in time so you can have this schedule in your pocket :)

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  • AMR's 2010 Supply Chain Top 25 Report: Early Predictions

    - by [email protected]
    On April 6th, AMR's Debra Hoffman and Kevin O'Marah presented their annual 'Top 25 Supply Chain' predictions.  For supply chain professionals, it was a 'must-hear' event especially with the new focus on both operational excellence as well as innovation excellence.  Most people think of R&D as the primary driver for innovation, but in today's 'new-normal' firms need to constantly review, evaluate and update their workflow procedures and business processes to maintian a sharp-blade on the leading edge.  Having the right tools in place to be able to monitor supply chain effectiveness becomes paramount to firms as they compete in the global marketplace. Organizations need  user-friendly and role based dashboards with early alerts to contextualize activities and post the best-options for managers to make better and more informed decisions. 2009 Winners were 1.Apple 2.Dell 3.P&G 4.IBM 5.Cisco 6.Nokia 7. Walmart 8.Samsung 9.PepsiCo 10.Toyota 11.Schulmberger 12. J&J 13.Coke 14. Nike 15.Tesco 16.Disney 17.HP 18.TI 19.LockheedMartin 20.Colgate 21.BestBuy 22.Unilever 23.Publix 24.SonyEricsson 25.Intel    

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  • SQL Server Capacity Planner

    Apart from the capacity planner tool for System Center and SharePoint Server, I was looking for a tool which can help me to estimate the capacity of SQL Server. I found an article on Microsoft.com for SQL Server 2000 sizing but unfortunately the links are obseleted and dead: Dell PowerMatch Server Sizing Software Compaq Active Answer Resources Finally I found an article that is "close" to my interest: Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2008 If any of you...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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  • Windows Intune, Cloud Desktop management

    - by David Nudelman
    As a part of Microsoft Cloud computing strategy, Windows Intune beta was released today. Here’s a quick overview of what customers and IT consultants can do with the cloud service component of Windows Intune: Manage PCs through web-based console: Windows Intune provides a web-based console for IT to administrate their PCs. Administrators can manage PCs from anywhere. Manage updates: Administrators can centrally manage the deployment of Microsoft updates and service packs to all PCs. Protection from malware: Windows Intune helps protect PCs from the latest threats with malware protection built on the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine that you can manage through the Web-based console. Proactively monitor PCs: Receive alerts on updates and threats so that you can proactively identify and resolve problems with your PCs—before it impacts end users and your business. Provide remote assistance: Resolve PC issues, regardless of where you or your users are located, with remote assistance. Track hardware and software inventory: Track hardware and software assets used in your business to efficiently manage your assets, licenses, and compliance. Set security policies: Centrally manage update, firewall, and malware protection policies, even on remote machines outside the corporate network. And here a quick video about Windows Intune For support and questions go to : TechNet Forums for Intune Regards, David Nudelman

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  • Cannot connect Ubunto to Windows pc either direction

    - by Frank A
    New to ubuntu and really struggling with this. I want to connect to my old windows XP Pc on our home network. Searching for solutions gets complicated as at one level you are told use Connect to Server. I set to Windows Share, type in server IP address.. ... I get "Failed to retrieve share list from server" Demo on Youtube worked with no problem. Other advice in ask ubuntu is you need to install samba. Did that but nothing seems to happen when I try and run it other than it asking for admin password. (How do you tell what is running on Ubuntu?) So I try the other direction Windows XP to Ubuntu. I made the ubuntu directory within home frank shared and tried various combination such as \ipaddress\home\frank but just "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another." My entire data only drive is shared in Windows and no problems accessing that from other Win XP boxes on our network There are no alerts in Windows firewall, Ubuntu Firestarter did block but changed that to allowed... or so I thought. In firestarter I had set up Inbound traffic policy 192.168.1.1/24. And since then it has added the ip address of the win pc twice. So, I am in a state of confusion not knowing whedre to turn next so thought Ask Ubuntu :)

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  • Partner Webcast – Introducing Oracle Business Activity Monitoring - 18 October 2012

    - by Thanos
    Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM), a component of both SOA Suite and BPM Suite, is a complete solution for building interactive, real-time dashboards and proactive alerts for monitoring business processes and services. Oracle BAM gives both business executives and operational manager’s timely information to make better business decisions.  A Real-time Business Visibility Solution that allows to monitor business services and processes in the enterprise, to correlate KPIs down to the actual business process themselves, and most important, to change business processes quickly or to take corrective action if the business environment changes. Let us show you how BAM provides a powerful insight, through Real-Time Dashboards, that can be a competitive edge for all your customers. Agenda: Oracle BAM Overview Business Problems New Approach with Oracle BAM 11g Demonstration Summary & Q&A Delivery Format This FREE online LIVE eSeminar will be delivered over the Web. Registrations received less than 24hours prior to start time may not receive confirmation to attend. Duration: 1 hour Register Now Send your questions and migration/upgrade requests [email protected] Visit regularly our ISV Migration Center blog or Follow us @oracleimc to learn more on Oracle Technologies, upcoming partner webcasts and events. All content is made available through our YouTube - SlideShare - Oracle Mix.

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  • So you want a French Site?

    - by juanlarios
    I thought I would write a quick write up of how to create a french site in SharePoint 2007. I'm not talking about a Variation but just a plain French Site from the ground up. There were some gotchas that I felt were worth blogging about. First:  go to Microsoft Telnet Article and follow the install instructions. Make sure that when you get to the download page that you select "French" as part of the drop down and you download and install the right language pack. I noticed that if you did not click the "change" button enven though I selected the 'french' language pack, it reverted back to the english language pack.   Second: You will notice a couple of things. When you go to central admin you will see the following:    Now you can pick between french site or english. You will get this if you install other language packs and they will be listed in the drop down. You will notice that you now have french headings and frech listings of sites. You see "Publishing" as a heading because I have a custom site definition that I deployed as a french site. Third: As you start navigating around and trying to create document libraries or sites you will start getting errors. Errors like the following: "Cannot make a cache safe URL for "SelectorControls.js", file not found. Please verify that the file exists under the layouts directory. " Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services. Once you resolve the issue with this "js" file, you will find that there are other js files that are missing. The only problem is that if you are not fluent in French or the language you are trying to deploy, Well, you'll have a tough time understanding error messages as they will all be in the new language you are trying to deploy. So let's just talk about what happened when you installed the language pack. In the 12 Hive:  12/Template    you will now see a 1033 folder and a 1036 folder. The 1036 folder is the folder that was created and added as part of the language pack. What the above error is saying is that now that it's looking at the 1036 folder, well, it's missing some files. The nice thing is that these files are included in the 1033 folder (which is the English Language Pack). Simply copy and paste the controls from the one folder to the other. There will be more than one conflict so you will have to move serveral controls over. Can't remember how many but simply add them as error messages come up. I had to add some navigation controls and some content selectors.   Now that's all that you need to install the Frech Language pack anc reate site collections that are entirely in a another language. Do not mistake this with Variations, where you can have multiple language sites. For those of you doing a little bit extra with this, let me share what I was doing extra and what I needed to get it working for me. I had had a custom site definition which was obviously not showing up in my selection of french sites. I was under the impression that all sites in English would show up in french and that the sites were simply routed to a new Resource file for french content. And that is the case but there is a little extra that needs to be done if you have a custom site definition deployed:  First: Under hive 12/Template/1033/XML  there is a listing of site definition files that are deployed to the English side of things. If you navigate to 12/Template/1036/XML  and open one of the site definitions you will see that they are similar and reference the existing site definitions installed on the server, except that they have some french added to descriptions and names. Simply copy the xml file of your custom template to the 1036 folder to have it show up as a selection when you select French as the dropdown entry when create a site colleciton. You can go ahead and change the description and name to suit the language it's under.    Second: As part of my site definition, I packaed up several list templates, that were saved as STP files. When you navigate to the list template listing, well, the templates are for English sites, not French so I cannot create document libraries based on the template. What now? well here comes KWIzCom to the rescue! They seem to have put out a "STP language converter" where you can take a site template or list template and convert it to any target language you are after. It's a free download, Use it and you're good to go.  One thing I will mention is that when I convereted the English documents I whent ahead and converted them to French-Canadien. And it didn't work! so I finally figured out that the French Version it was expecting in the french site was "French-France". Don't know why that is, it's just what needs to be done to get that working. When I did that, I was able to use the List templates that I created in the English site for the French Site.   Hope it helps , good luck!

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  • Load Balancer impact on web development

    - by confusedGeek
    This question has it's roots in a SharePoint site that I am help with. Background on the issue I dealt with: The dev box and integration server are not setup behind a load balancer. The links were being built using the HttpRequest.Url value from the current context. Note that the links weren't relative links but full URIs. Once we deployed to testing (which has a LB, amongst other things) we received errors on the links being built since the server had an address of "http://some.site.org:999" while the address at the LB as "https://site.org" (SSL was off-loaded at the LB). The fix was easy enough by using relative URIs. The Question: Since this is the first site I've worked with that's behind a Load Balancer on I'm wondering if there are other gotcha's that I need to consider when developing a site behind one?

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  • DevConnections Conference

    - by ScottGu
    The excellent DevConnections conference will be held in Florida later this month (March 27th to 30th).  DevConnections features multiple concurrent tracks – including ASP.NET Connections, Silverlight Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Connections, and SharePoint Connections. I’ll be doing a keynote on the first day, and there will be dozens of fantastic talks that week by some of the best presenters in the .NET community.  You can learn more about the conference here. I highly recommend the conference – and hope to meet up with some of you there! Scott P.S. Use the discount code “DevCon1” to save $200 when registering.

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  • Java Spotlight Episode 106: Java Security Update @spoofzu

    - by Roger Brinkley
    Java security update with Bruce Lowenthal and Milton Smith. Right-click or Control-click to download this MP3 file. You can also subscribe to the Java Spotlight Podcast Feed to get the latest podcast automatically. If you use iTunes you can open iTunes and subscribe with this link:  Java Spotlight Podcast in iTunes. Show Notes News Apple's Java Mac OS X 2012-006 Update NightHacking Tour Across Europe Four New Java Champions Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Solaris 11.1 and Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Bean Validation 1.1 Early Draft JSR 107 Early Draft JCP Elections - Meet the Candidates GlassFish switching to JDK-7 only build Events Oct 30-Nov 1, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara, United States of America Oct 31, JFall, Hart van Holland, Netherlands Nov 2-3, JMaghreb, Rabat, Morocco Nov 5-9, Øredev Developer Conference, Malmö, Sweden Nov 13-17, Devoxx, Antwerp, Belgium Nov 20-22, DOAG 2012, Nuremberg, Germany Dec 3-5, jDays, Göteborg, Sweden Dec 4-6, JavaOne Latin America, Sao Paolo, Brazil Dec 14-15, IndicThreads, Pune, India Feature InterviewMilton Smith leads the security program for Java products at Oracle. His responsibilities span from tactical to strategic: definition and communication of the security vision for Java, working with engineering teams and researchers, as well as industry at large. He has over 20+ years of industry experience with emphasis in programming and computer security. Milton previous employer was Yahoo where he lead security for the User Data Analytics(UDA) property.Bruce Lowenthal is the Senior Director of Security Alerts at Oracle Corporation. What’s Cool Andrew Haley on an OpenJDK ARM64 Port Joe Darcy - JDK bug migration: bugs.sun.com now backed by JIRA Marcus Hirt on Using the Mission Control DTrace Plug-in

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  • Get Proactive: automatischer Support bietet Vorteile

    - by A&C Redaktion
    „Proaktiv“, das bedeutet soviel wie: handeln statt abwarten, Initiative statt Reaktion. So möchte auch die Aktion „Get Proactive“ für Oracle Premier Support Kunden einen vorausschauenden, offensiven Umgang mit Support-Fällen fördern. Die automatisierte Unterstützung der Systeme, die Oracle Partner und Kunden einen deutlichen Vorsprung vor der Konkurrenz verschaffen kann, umfasst drei Bereiche: Sie heißen Prevent, Resolve und Upgrade. „Prevent“ umfasst alle Maßnahmen der Vorsorge: Deren Ziel ist es, ein mögliches Problem aufzudecken und zu lösen, noch bevor es es sich negativ auswirkt. So können beispielsweise produktbezogene Security Alerts zugeschickt werden, ebenso auf das jeweilige System zugeschnittene Patch-Empfehlungen und Risiko-Warnungen. „Resolve“ steht für den Anspruch, auftretende Probleme schneller und zielgerichtet zu lösen. Notwendig sind dafür die passenden Diagnosetools und -maßnahmen. Spezifische Informationen für individuelle Systeme stehen im Product Information Center zur Verfügung. Zudem helfen Auto-Detect-Werkzeuge dabei, Lösungen für bekannte Probleme zu finden. Wertvolle Hinweise bieten auch die Partner und User in der Online Support Community und natürlich die umfangreiche Wissensbasis in MOS. „Upgrade“ bündelt, wie der Name schon sagt, Schritte zur Risikominimierung durch Unterstützung beim Upgrade. Jeder kann dabei selbst die jeweilige Umgebung auf zertifizierte Produkte prüfen. Tipps und Tricks verrät der Upgrade Advisor mit Best Practices für verschiedenste Produkte, Prozesse und Versionen. Der Patch- und Upgrade-Plan erleichtert die Systemupgrade-Planung. Detaillierte Informationen finden Sie auf den Oracle-Support-Webseiten – geben Sie einfach „Get Proactive“ in die Suchmaske ein.

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  • Get Proactive: automatischer Support bietet Vorteile

    - by A&C Redaktion
    „Proaktiv“, das bedeutet soviel wie: handeln statt abwarten, Initiative statt Reaktion. So möchte auch die Aktion „Get Proactive“ für Oracle Premier Support Kunden einen vorausschauenden, offensiven Umgang mit Support-Fällen fördern. Die automatisierte Unterstützung der Systeme, die Oracle Partner und Kunden einen deutlichen Vorsprung vor der Konkurrenz verschaffen kann, umfasst drei Bereiche: Sie heißen Prevent, Resolve und Upgrade. „Prevent“ umfasst alle Maßnahmen der Vorsorge: Deren Ziel ist es, ein mögliches Problem aufzudecken und zu lösen, noch bevor es es sich negativ auswirkt. So können beispielsweise produktbezogene Security Alerts zugeschickt werden, ebenso auf das jeweilige System zugeschnittene Patch-Empfehlungen und Risiko-Warnungen. „Resolve“ steht für den Anspruch, auftretende Probleme schneller und zielgerichtet zu lösen. Notwendig sind dafür die passenden Diagnosetools und -maßnahmen. Spezifische Informationen für individuelle Systeme stehen im Product Information Center zur Verfügung. Zudem helfen Auto-Detect-Werkzeuge dabei, Lösungen für bekannte Probleme zu finden. Wertvolle Hinweise bieten auch die Partner und User in der Online Support Community und natürlich die umfangreiche Wissensbasis in MOS. „Upgrade“ bündelt, wie der Name schon sagt, Schritte zur Risikominimierung durch Unterstützung beim Upgrade. Jeder kann dabei selbst die jeweilige Umgebung auf zertifizierte Produkte prüfen. Tipps und Tricks verrät der Upgrade Advisor mit Best Practices für verschiedenste Produkte, Prozesse und Versionen. Der Patch- und Upgrade-Plan erleichtert die Systemupgrade-Planung. Detaillierte Informationen finden Sie auf den Oracle-Support-Webseiten – geben Sie einfach „Get Proactive“ in die Suchmaske ein.

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  • SolidQ Journal for January (free and available now)

    - by Greg Low
    I've been travelling in Tasmania for a week or so and didn't get to post about the SolidQ Journal for January. It's our free monthly journal at: http://www.solidq.com/sqj . I promised to write a part two on controlling the security context of stored procedures but didn't get time to write this month. I'll rectify that very soon. However, in the meantime, the rest of the team have done a great job again. Guillermo Bas has described how to access SharePoint 2010 data through Windows Phone 7. Marino...(read more)

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  • Fixed JavaScript Warning - Pin to Top of Page Using CSS Position [migrated]

    - by nicorellius
    I am new to this site, but it seems like the right place to ask this question. I am working on a noscript chunk of code whereby I do some stuff that includes a <p> at the top of the page that alerts the users that he/she has JavaScript disabled. The end result should look like the Stack Exchange sites when JavaScript is disabled (here is a screenshot of mine - SE looks similar except it is at the very top of the page): I have it working OK, but I would love it if the red bar stayed fixed along the top, upon scrolling. I tried using the position: fixed; method, but it ends up moving the p element and I can't get it to look exactly the same as it does without the position: fixed; modification. I tried fiddling with CSS top and left and other positioning but it doesn't ever look like I want it to. Here is a CSS snippett: <noscript> <style type="text/css"> p. noscript_warning { position: fixed; } </noscript>

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  • Architecture Forum in the North 2010 - Hosted by Black Marble

    - by Stuart Brierley
    On Thursday the 8th of December I attended the "Architecture Forum in the North 2010" hosted by Black Marble. The third time this annual event has been held, it was pitched as featuring Black Marble and Microsoft UK architecture experts focusing on “Tools and Methods for Architects.... a unique opportunity to provide IT Managers, IT and software architects from Northern businesses the chance to learn about the latest technologies and best practices from Microsoft in the field of Architecture....insightful information about the latest techniques, demonstrating how with Microsoft’s architecture tools and technologies you can address your current business needs." Following a useful overview of the Architecture features of Visual Studio 2010, the rest of the day was given over to various features and ways to make use of Microsoft's Azure offerings.  While I did feel that a wider spread of technologies could have been covered (maybe a bit of Sharepoint or BizTalk even), the technological and architectural overviews of the Azure platform were well presented, informative and useful. The day was well organised and all those involved were friendly and approachable for questions and discussions.  If you are in "the North" and get a chance to attend next year I would highly recommend it.

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  • Shared Data Source name error underscore characters added

    - by mick
    The name of our shared data source in RS (report server) is "AF1 Live Database" (no underscore characters - just spaces between words) and is the same in report builder in VS. However, the following error pops up when the RDL of this report is uploaded onto our company site and run. (error we are receiving...) The report server cannot process the report or shared dataset. The shared data source 'AF1_Live_Database' for the report server or SharePoint site is not valid. Browse to the server or site and select a shared data source. (rsInvalidDataSourceReference) We have no idea why the error reports the shared data source as 'AF1_Live_Database' with underscore characters? As this appears to be the problem that keeps the report from running we are seeking your help, thanks.

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  • South Florida Code Camp 2011 - 02/12/2011 - Final Days to register

    - by Nikita Polyakov
    South Florida Code Camp - 02/12/2011 - Final Days to register 13 tracks, 78 sessions, 65 speakers Topics include: Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, Web dev, Architecture/Agile, Sharepoint and SQL Networking with 700 other software developers, over 800 already registered! Free breakfast and lunch Hobnob with speakers, MVP's and authors Party afterwards with attendees and speakers Convenient location at Nova University in Davie Free XBOX 360 Kinect 250 GB raffle (must be present) Free raffle of valuable software, books and swag Free Code Camp T-shirt Book swap - see site for details You get to say "I was there!" More information: http://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp   Register now at: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=150628 (some people have had a problem with this link but click again and it should work). I am presenting Windows Phone Marketplace session. Marketplace and Monetization Details of Windows Phone Marketplace and using Microsoft Advertising SDK control. Monetization strategies, rules and tips for making the best out of your post writing the Windows Phone app experience. Many speakers end up hanging out in the back and this session turns into a open discussion panel.

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  • How to use the client object model with SharePoint2010

    - by ybbest
    In SharePoint2010, you can use client object model to communicate with SharePoint server. Today, I’d like to show you how to achieve this by using the c# console application. You can download the solution here. 1. Create a Console application in visual studio and add the following references to the project. 2. Insert your code as below ClientContext context = new ClientContext("http://demo2010a"); Web currentWeb = context.Web; context.Load(currentWeb, web =&gt; web.Title); context.ExecuteQuery(); Console.WriteLine(currentWeb.Title); Console.ReadLine(); 3. Run your code then you will get the web title displayed as shown below Note: If you got the following errors, you need to change your target framework from .Net Framework 4 client profile to .Net Framework 4 as shown below: Change from TO

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  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Release

    - by Leonard Mwangi
    Microsoft is planning to release the second edition of SQL Server 2008, the new edition will named SQL Server 2008 R2 due to be released by May 1st 2010.   Amongst the change on the edition is pricing which is anticipated to go up by 25% for the Standard Edition and about 15% for the Enterprise Edition. As for the features, there are some very cool additions  including PowerPivot for SharePoint, Master Data Services and Multi-Server Administration. There is also enhancements on the Database Engine, Reporting Services and Installation Process.    More information can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500435(SQL.105).aspx   Have a happy Upgrade

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  • Short Look at Frends Helium 2.0 Beta

    - by mipsen
    Pekka from Frends gave me the opportunity to have a look at the beta-version of their Helium 2.0. For all of you, who don't know the tool: Helium is a web-application that collects management-data from BizTalk which you usually have to tediously collect yourself, like performance-data (throttling, throughput (like completed Orchestrations/hour), other perfomance-counters) and data about the state of BTS-Applications and presents the data in clearly structured diagrams and overviews which (often) even allow drill-down.  Installing Helium 2 was quite easy. It comes as an msi-file which creates the web-application on IIS. Aditionally a windows-service is deployt which acts as an agent for sending alert-e-mails and collecting data. What I missed during installation was a link to the created web-app at the end, but the link can be found under Program Files/Frends... On the start-page Helium shows two sections: An overview about the BTS-Apps (Running?, suspended messages?) Basic perfomance-data You can drill-down into the BTS-Apps further, to see ReceiveLocations, Orchestrations and SendPorts. And then a very nice feature can be activated: You can set a monitor to each of the ports and/or orchestrations and have an e-mail sent when a threshold of executions/day or hour is not met. I think this is a great idea. The following screeshot shows the configuration of this option. Conclusion: Helium is a useful monitoring  tool for BTS-operations that might save a lot of time for collecting data, writing a tool yourself or documentation for the operations-staff where to find the data. Pros: Simple installation Most important data for BTS-operations in one place Monitor for alerts, if throughput is not met Nice Web-UI Reasonable price Cons: Additional Perormance-counters cannot be added Im am not sure when the final version is to be shipped, but you can see that on Frend's homepage soon, I guess... A trial version is available here

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  • A little primer on using TFS with a small team

    - by johndoucette
    The scenario; A small team of 3 developers mostly in maintenance mode with traditional ASP.net, classic ASP, .Net integration services and utilities with the company’s third party packages, and a bunch of java-based Coldfusion web applications all under Visual Source Safe (VSS). They are about to embark on a huge SharePoint 2010 new construction project and wanted to use subversion instead VSS. TFS was a foreign word and smelled of “high cost” and of an “over complicated process”. Since they had no preconditions about the old TFS versions (‘05 & ‘08), it was fun explaining how simple it was to install a TFS server and get the ball rolling, with or without all the heavy stuff one sometimes associates with such a huge and powerful application management lifecycle product. So, how does a small team begin using TFS? 1. Start by using source control and migrate current VSS source trees into TFS. You can take the latest version or migrate the entire version history. It’s up to you on whether you want a clean start or need quick access to all the version notes and history of the bits. 2. Since most shops are mainly in maintenance mode with existing applications, begin using bug workitems for everything. When you receive an issue/bug from your current tracking system, manually enter the workitem in TFS right through Visual Studio. You can automate the integration to the current tracking system later or replace it entirely. Believe me, this thing is powerful and can handle even the largest of help desks. 3. With new construction, begin work with requirements and task workitems and follow the traditional sprint-based development lifecycle. Obviously, some minor training will be needed, but don’t fear, this is very intuitive and MSDN has a ton of lesson based labs and videos. 4. For the java developers, use the new Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 plugin (recently known as Teamprise). There is a seamless interface in Eclipse, but also a good command-line utility for other environments such as Dreamweaver. 5. Wait to fully integrate the whole workitem/project management/testing process until your team is familiar with the integrated workitems for bugs and code. After a while, you will see the team wanting more transparency into the work they are all doing and naturally, everyone will want workitems to help them organize the chaos! 6. Management will be limited in the value of the reports until you have a fully blown implementation of project planning, construction, build, deployment and testing. However, there are some basic “bug rate” reports and current backlog listings that can provide good information. Some notable explanations of TFS; Work Item Tracking and Project Management - A workitem represents the unit of work within the system which enables tracking of all activities produced by a user, whether it is a developer, business user, project manager or tester. The properties of a workitem such as linked changesets (checked-in code), who updated the data and when, the states and reasons for change, are all transitioned to a data warehouse within TFS for reporting purposes. A workitem can be defines as a "bug", "requirement", test case", or a "change request". They drive the work effort by the individual assigned to it and also provide a key role in defining what needs to be done. Workitems are the things the team needs to do to accomplish a goal. Test Case Management - Starting with a workitem known as a "test case", a tester (or developer) can now author and manage test cases within a formal test plan subsystem. Although TFS supports the test case workitem type, there is a new product known as the VS Test Professional 2010 which allows a tester to facilitate manual tests including fast forwarding steps in the process to arrive at the assertion point quickly. This repeatable process provides quick regression tests and can be conducted by the business user to ensure completeness during UAT. In addition, developers no longer can provide a response to a bug with the line "cannot reproduce". With every test run, attachments including the recorded session, captured environment configurations and settings, screen shots, intellitrace (debugging history), and in some cases if the lab manager is being used, a snapshot of the tested environment is available. Version Control - A modern system allowing shared check-in/check-out, excellent merge conflict resolution, Shelvesets (personal check-ins), branching/merging visualization, public workspaces, gated check-ins, security hierarchy capabilities, and changeset/workitem tracking. Knowing what was done with the code by any developer has become much easier to picture and resolve issues. Team Build - Automate the compilation process whether you need it to be whenever a developer checks-in code, periodically such as nightly builds for testers in the morning, or manual builds to be deployed into production. Each build can run through pre-determined tests, perform code analysis to see if the developer conforms to the team standards, and reject the build if either fails. Project Portal & Reporting - Provide management with a dashboard with insight into the project(s). "Where are we" in each step of the way including past iterations and the current burndown rate. Enabling this feature is easy as it seamlessly interfaces with existing SharePoint implementations.

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  • MOSS 2007 &ndash; WCM Blank WebPart Page Zone ID&rsquo;s

    - by Jeff Julian
    Here is the list of Zone ID’s for the Blank WebPart Page (BlankWebPartPage.aspx") that is part of the Publishing Portal with MOSS 2007: TitleBar Header TopLeftRow TopRightRow CenterLeftColumn CenterColumn CenterRightColumn Footer RightColumn I was in need of these and wasn’t able to find them with a simple search on Google so I wanted to share them with you. To get a list of WebPartZone objects for a page that a webpart lives on can be done with the following code:  foreach (WebPartZone zone in this.WebPartManager.Zones) {          this.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(zone.ID + "<br />")); } Use this code in a webpart that inherits from Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart. This is a simple way to do the equivalent of a Response.Write while having the output in the webpart zone your part resides in.  It also saves you from attaching to the process and debugging with the watch or quick watch. Technorati Tags: MOSS,WebParts,BlankWebPartPage.aspx,Zones

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  • Live Meeting error: malformed email address... or IS IT???

    - by PeterBrunone
    During a remote SharePoint training session this morning, Live Meeting presented one of our instructors with the following gem:  "An attendee email address is malformed".  This was particularly troubling since a wizard took care of adding all the entries, and they looked correct (even after being sifted through my character analysis tool).As it turns out, the addresses were indeed correct.  As sometimes happens, though, at the line breaks, it looked like there was no space between the semicolon and the following email address.  Since I'm a member in good standing of the "I wonder what this button does" school of thought, I added an extra space after each of these cramped little semicolons -- and the invitation executed flawlessly.Coincidence?  Maybe... but you can bet I'm going to keep trying dumb stuff like that when the error message doesn't make sense.  Think of it as the tech support equivalent of "Ask a silly question..."

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  • Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': The field with Id {GUID} defined in feature {GUID} was found in the current site collection or in a subsite.

    - by Jayant Sharma
    Hi all, In SharePoint 2010, This is rare error, I got when I deploy and activate Feature using VS2010. Deployment works file  but in activation process it get stuct and throws error. Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': The field with Id {GUID} defined in feature {GUID} was found in the current site collection or in a subsite. When I googled I found very good solution  from Sandeep Snahta Blog. http://snahta.blogspot.hk/2011/10/error-in-activate-features-from-visual.html As suggested in this blog, there is two option to overcome this error; Close VS2010 and restart again. Or Kill VSSHost4 Process either through Task Manager or Via Power Shell Command    stop-process -processname vssphost4 -force   Jayant Sharma

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