I’ve just finished re-reading (I’ve read if for the first time around 2000) this fantastic book which was written by Bjarne Stroustrup , who is the responsible for the design of C++. I haven’t used C++ professionally for over 6 years now! However, I’ve...
Over this weekend I have had to quickly build a Virtual SBS2008 server for one of my clients. I came across an interesting issue which took me a while to figure out, so I am plonking it up here on the blog so that others that may come across the problem...
Before we can move on and take a look at the AdoNetDataContext component, we need to talk about one more topic: creating entities and how it might be integrated with DataContext component. The DataContext exposes a createEntity method which can be used...
In 1997, our company adopted McAfee as an AV standard for all PCs and servers. Even durng these early years for the Internet, they were one of the 1st AV Vendors to use public forums to leverage support costs. I've been a member of these forums for...
Back here http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2009/11/05/creating-temporary-files.aspx or http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2595.entry I showed how to create temporary test files. We can simply create multiple...
c Optimize Exchange Server and mailboxes. Follow the instructions on pages 16 through 17 in the Microsoft migration document. c Empty the Deleted Items folder. c Archive older mail It can take a long time to migrate large Exchange Server mailboxes. It...
c Raise the functional level of the Active Directory domain and forest. Follow the instructions on pages 12 through 14 in the Microsoft migration document. To be fair this probably should have been done sooner in the steps, but it's still in the prelim...
Just a reminder of all of the key migration resources that I'll be referring to and using during these blog posts/dry run of migation that I'm doing. That first url -- www.sbsmigrationtips.com is actually a key SBS blog post entry that I got lazy...
We're back on our Migration blog post series (hint all of the Migration blog posts are tagged with "Migration" for easy reference). And now we're going to check and make sure our Exchange is ready to go: I. In the source domain, check...
When I moved the SBS 2003 over to the (unsupported) HyperV platform, one of the things I had to do was to uninstall ISA 2004 and take the virtualized box back down to one nic. Just a reminder of the steps I took -- this is from the SBS 2008 migration...
Recently, Silverlight 3 gained the ability to use custom pixel shaders as was already available in WPF. What exactly are custom pixel shaders? A shader is a set of software instructions executed on your computer's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) that...
I’ve been struggling with this issue for some time. I have a small, simple .NET application I wrote in Visual C# a few months ago – I’ve tentatively titled it “ iFetch ”, because it fetches radio shows from the BBC iPlayer . It really is very little more...
Today we’ll keep looking at the DataContext component and we’ll see how it supports deferred properties. Deferred properties are properties which are lazy loaded as “needed”. Using deferred properties means that the component will try to make a remote...
In my previous post ( http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2598.entry or http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2598.entry ) I started to look at WMI events in PowerShell v2. The win32_process...
Bob Alston, a comp.databases.ms-access newsgroup regular, asked about Access 2010. A very interesting discussion with fellow access MVP Albert Kallal with his usual lengthy and informative postings has started. Albert has posted a nice...
The old McAfee forums have been changed into the Online Support Community. This new community has areas for Enterprise users, home and home office users as well as Security Awarness and Community Help. Discussions, blogs, wikis, profiles and polls. And...
This table indicates the current support for the indicated operating systems by System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 components. Operating system Support installing the System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 management server? Support installing the System Center...
The Operations Manager 2007 R2 technical documentation helps you plan, deploy, operate, and maintain Operations Manager 2007 R2. For information about the specific guides available in the library, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498235...
The Update Rollup for Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) combines previous hotfix releases for SP1 with additional fixes and support of SP1 roles on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This update also provides database role and SQL...
There are well known methods to force an advertisement to rerun – including several add-on tools available for the SMS or SCCM console. To date, however, there are not equivalent methods to force a task sequence to rerun. Part of this...