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Make sure to check out the Microsoft Incentives web site

gary — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:24:00 GMT

Kind of like sales on Microsoft licenses: http://www.microsoftincentives.com/ For a limited time only! 15% off L&SA - Exchange Server Standard, Office Communication Server Standard, SQL Server Standard, Office SharePoint Server , Visual Studio Team...(read more)

No mapping between account names and security ids was done

gary — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:37:00 GMT

I just created a new SQL Server 2008 server with Hyper-V and was in the process of setting up my VMs complete with AD. When I got to the point of adding a SQL Server 2008 to the mix I recieved the above error when I was trying to add the domain users...(read more)

Maybe the XBox 360 does have a problem

gary — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:39:00 GMT

I just dropped off my XBox 360 at my local UPS store to get the infamous red ring of death issue resolved. Without me even saying anything the clerk behind the counter knew it was a XBox being returned! Now this is not exactly a major UPS Hub we are talking...(read more)

Recruiters, get a clue

gary — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:24:00 GMT

Update: Had another call from a recruiter yesterday. It was night and day difference! He was very professional, knew what he was going to say, and even though I turned him down he asked.....let me say that again, HE ASKED....if it would be alright to...(read more)

A word of warning with SQL Server 2005

gary — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:51:00 GMT

If you read the Installation guide for SQL Server 2005 you will find a warning about not installing it via Terminal Services. Heed that warning! It may not give you an error but there may be strange errors popping up down the line. Found out that the SQL Server I was trying to use for my TFS install was installed via Terminal Services and I kept getting install errors. Once I reinstalled SQL using a direct connection everything worked fine.

Kudos to the CRM Team

gary — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:43:00 GMT

Even though there are a few things about Microsoft CRM 3.0 that I do not like I have to admin they really impressed me in one area....customization. Not only do you have the ability to add new fields to various entities like Lead or Customer, but the actual web service that you call to interact with these entities gets modified so you can use the new fields!

So if I modify the "Lead" entity to have a "department" field and I call the new field "GB_Dept" then, after an IIS reset and update of the web service in VS 2005, I can type in

com.gary.mlcrm3.lead lead = new com.gary.mlcrm3.lead();
// Set the properties of the lead object.
lead.GB_Dept = "Lead's Dept";

Hopefully this is a sign of things to come...like maybe with a certain product I could POINT out that you use to SHARE information with?

Office 12 to support saving to PDF

gary — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:39:00 GMT

Probably old news to most of you since it was announced yesterday ;) but MS announced during the MVP summit that the Office 12 client applications will support saving to PDF files. We saw a demo of Word, Publisher, and Access saving to a PDF file with perfect results.

Phishing twist relies on bogus blogs

gary — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:03:00 GMT

Watch those links coming from Emails and IM!

http://news.com.com/Phishing+twist+relies+on+bogus+blogs/2100-7349_3-5666617.html?part=rss&tag=5666617&subj=news

Great videos on Channel9

gary — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:30:00 GMT

If you do not already know, MS has a web site called Channel9 that has some great videos describing various aspects of not only MS products but life at MS in general. The latest batch (for their 1st birthday) contains one of the most unusual but interesting ones that I have seen in a long time. In it, Bill Hill, director of advanced reading technologies, is interviewed (he was also the very first interview for Channel9) and in it he takes you on a brief tour of some of the MS campus you may not have seen before (I know I have not and I have been there numerous times). He also talks a bit about tracking animals and how this and other aspects of nature help him do his job.

While you are there you may want to check out some of the other videos too!

http://channel9.msdn.com/