Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Attention All PowerShell Gurus! Time to SPRING Into Action!

Attention All PowerShell Gurus! Time to SPRING Into Action!

April fools out of the way, now let's find an April genius!

The name "April" is derived from the Latin verb "aperire", meaning "to open", as it is the season when trees, flowers AND MINDS start to open! And.. I can't wait to OPEN and read this month's community contributions! (groan, tenuous link!)

Things are indeed heating up around TechNet. The Wiki has become a shining example of what the community has to offer, and talent is SPRINGING FORTH from all corners of our garden of knowledge. 

If you can find the time to enrich us with your latest revelations, or some fascinating facts, then not only will you build up a profile and name for yourself within the gaze of Microsoft's very own glitterati, but you will be adding pages to the most respected source for Microsoft knowledge base articles. This could not only boost your career, but would benefit generations to come!

So don't be an April fool. Please realise the potential of this platform, realise where we are going, and join us in growing this community, learning more about you, and opening the minds of others!

All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something you had to solve for your own day's work today.

Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!

This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!

HOW TO WIN

1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to TechNet Wiki.

2) Add a link to it on THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)

3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.

If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!

Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.

Feel free to ask any questions below.

More about TechNet Guru Awards

Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker


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1 article so far!

PowerShell & System Center Orchestrator - Best Practice Template by Noah Stahl

 

And 12 days to go!


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Reply:

Still the 1 article:

PowerShell & System Center Orchestrator - Best Practice Template by Noah Stahl

 

And 2 more days to go!


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Attention All SSRS Gurus! Time to SPRING Into Action!

April fools out of the way, now let's find an April genius!

The name "April" is derived from the Latin verb "aperire", meaning "to open", as it is the season when trees, flowers AND MINDS start to open! And.. I can't wait to OPEN and read this month's community contributions! (groan, tenuous link!)

Things are indeed heating up around TechNet. The Wiki has become a shining example of what the community has to offer, and talent is SPRINGING FORTH from all corners of our garden of knowledge. 

If you can find the time to enrich us with your latest revelations, or some fascinating facts, then not only will you build up a profile and name for yourself within the gaze of Microsoft's very own glitterati, but you will be adding pages to the most respected source for Microsoft knowledge base articles. This could not only boost your career, but would benefit generations to come!

So don't be an April fool. Please realise the potential of this platform, realise where we are going, and join us in growing this community, learning more about you, and opening the minds of others!

All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something you had to solve for your own day's work today.

Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!

This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!

HOW TO WIN

1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to TechNet Wiki.

2) Add a link to it on THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)

3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.

If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!

Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.

Feel free to ask any questions below.

More about TechNet Guru Awards

Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker


#PEJL
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Reply:

Hi Pete,

Thanks for your information.

Regards,
Vicky Liu


Vicky Liu
TechNet Community Support



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Reply:

1 article so far:

Implementing a faster distinct sort or aggregate in SSIS by Samir Abrahao

And 12 days to go!


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

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Reply:

Still the 1 article:

Implementing a faster distinct sort or aggregate in SSIS by Samir Abrahao

 

And 2 more days to go!


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

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Attention All SSIS Gurus! Time to SPRING Into Action!

April fools out of the way, now let's find an April genius!

The name "April" is derived from the Latin verb "aperire", meaning "to open", as it is the season when trees, flowers AND MINDS start to open! And.. I can't wait to OPEN and read this month's community contributions! (groan, tenuous link!)

Things are indeed heating up around TechNet. The Wiki has become a shining example of what the community has to offer, and talent is SPRINGING FORTH from all corners of our garden of knowledge. 

If you can find the time to enrich us with your latest revelations, or some fascinating facts, then not only will you build up a profile and name for yourself within the gaze of Microsoft's very own glitterati, but you will be adding pages to the most respected source for Microsoft knowledge base articles. This could not only boost your career, but would benefit generations to come!

So don't be an April fool. Please realise the potential of this platform, realise where we are going, and join us in growing this community, learning more about you, and opening the minds of others!

All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something you had to solve for your own day's work today.

Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!

This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!

HOW TO WIN

1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to TechNet Wiki.

2) Add a link to it on THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)

3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.

If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!

Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.

Feel free to ask any questions below.

More about TechNet Guru Awards

Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker


#PEJL
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Reply:

Hi Pete,

Thank you for your information.

Regards,
Katherine Xiong


Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support


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Reply:

1 article so far:

Implementing a faster distinct sort or aggregate in SSIS by Samir Abrahao

And 12 days to go!


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Reply:

Still the 1 article:

Implementing a faster distinct sort or aggregate in SSIS by Samir Abrahao

 

And 2 more days to go!


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Attention All SSAS Gurus! Time to SPRING Into Action!

April fools out of the way, now let's find an April genius!

The name "April" is derived from the Latin verb "aperire", meaning "to open", as it is the season when trees, flowers AND MINDS start to open! And.. I can't wait to OPEN and read this month's community contributions! (groan, tenuous link!)

Things are indeed heating up around TechNet. The Wiki has become a shining example of what the community has to offer, and talent is SPRINGING FORTH from all corners of our garden of knowledge. 

If you can find the time to enrich us with your latest revelations, or some fascinating facts, then not only will you build up a profile and name for yourself within the gaze of Microsoft's very own glitterati, but you will be adding pages to the most respected source for Microsoft knowledge base articles. This could not only boost your career, but would benefit generations to come!

So don't be an April fool. Please realise the potential of this platform, realise where we are going, and join us in growing this community, learning more about you, and opening the minds of others!

All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something you had to solve for your own day's work today.

Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!

This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!

HOW TO WIN

1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to TechNet Wiki.

2) Add a link to it on THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)

3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.

If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!

Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.

Feel free to ask any questions below.

More about TechNet Guru Awards

Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker


#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and you could win weekly awards!

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Reply:

1 article so far:

Implementing a faster distinct sort or aggregate in SSIS by Samir Abrahao

And 12 days to go!


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Reply:

Still the 1 article:

Implementing a faster distinct sort or aggregate in SSIS by Samir Abrahao

 

And 2 more days to go!


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Attention All Power Pivot Gurus! Time to SPRING Into Action!

April fools out of the way, now let's find an April genius!

The name "April" is derived from the Latin verb "aperire", meaning "to open", as it is the season when trees, flowers AND MINDS start to open! And.. I can't wait to OPEN and read this month's community contributions! (groan, tenuous link!)

Things are indeed heating up around TechNet. The Wiki has become a shining example of what the community has to offer, and talent is SPRINGING FORTH from all corners of our garden of knowledge. 

If you can find the time to enrich us with your latest revelations, or some fascinating facts, then not only will you build up a profile and name for yourself within the gaze of Microsoft's very own glitterati, but you will be adding pages to the most respected source for Microsoft knowledge base articles. This could not only boost your career, but would benefit generations to come!

So don't be an April fool. Please realise the potential of this platform, realise where we are going, and join us in growing this community, learning more about you, and opening the minds of others!

All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something you had to solve for your own day's work today.

Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!

This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!

HOW TO WIN

1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to TechNet Wiki.

2) Add a link to it on THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)

3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.

If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!

Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.

Feel free to ask any questions below.

More about TechNet Guru Awards

Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker


#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and you could win weekly awards!

Have you got what it takes o become this month's TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!


Reply:

1 article so far:

Implementing a faster distinct sort or aggregate in SSIS by Samir Abrahao

 

And 12 days to go!


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Reply:

Still the 1 article:

Implementing a faster distinct sort or aggregate in SSIS by Samir Abrahao

 

And 2 more days to go!


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Attention All FIM Gurus! Time to SPRING Into Action!

April fools out of the way, now let's find an April genius!

The name "April" is derived from the Latin verb "aperire", meaning "to open", as it is the season when trees, flowers AND MINDS start to open! And.. I can't wait to OPEN and read this month's community contributions! (groan, tenuous link!)

Things are indeed heating up around TechNet. The Wiki has become a shining example of what the community has to offer, and talent is SPRINGING FORTH from all corners of our garden of knowledge. 

If you can find the time to enrich us with your latest revelations, or some fascinating facts, then not only will you build up a profile and name for yourself within the gaze of Microsoft's very own glitterati, but you will be adding pages to the most respected source for Microsoft knowledge base articles. This could not only boost your career, but would benefit generations to come!

So don't be an April fool. Please realise the potential of this platform, realise where we are going, and join us in growing this community, learning more about you, and opening the minds of others!

All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something you had to solve for your own day's work today.

Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!

This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!

HOW TO WIN

1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to TechNet Wiki.

2) Add a link to it on THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)

3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.

If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!

Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.

Feel free to ask any questions below.

More about TechNet Guru Awards

Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker


#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and you could win weekly awards!

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Reply:

No articles yet.

12 days to go!


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!


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Reply:

Still no articles.

2 more days to go!


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

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Attention All BizTalk Gurus! Time to SPRING Into Action!

April fools out of the way, now let's find an April genius!

The name "April" is derived from the Latin verb "aperire", meaning "to open", as it is the season when trees, flowers AND MINDS start to open! And.. I can't wait to OPEN and read this month's community contributions! (groan, tenuous link!)

Things are indeed heating up around TechNet. The Wiki has become a shining example of what the community has to offer, and talent is SPRINGING FORTH from all corners of our garden of knowledge. 

If you can find the time to enrich us with your latest revelations, or some fascinating facts, then not only will you build up a profile and name for yourself within the gaze of Microsoft's very own glitterati, but you will be adding pages to the most respected source for Microsoft knowledge base articles. This could not only boost your career, but would benefit generations to come!

So don't be an April fool. Please realise the potential of this platform, realise where we are going, and join us in growing this community, learning more about you, and opening the minds of others!

All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something you had to solve for your own day's work today.

Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!

This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!

HOW TO WIN

1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to TechNet Wiki.

2) Add a link to it on THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)

3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.

If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!

Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.

Feel free to ask any questions below.

More about TechNet Guru Awards

Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker


#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and you could win weekly awards!

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Reply:

Thanks for sharing this to us. :)

Best regards,

Angie


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No articles yet.

12 days to go!


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1 article so far:

Calling the Force.com REST API from BizTalk Server - Multiple Endpoints by Muhammad Ehsan

 

And 2 days to go!


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господ

S-1-5-21-1203986295-3217744162-2437811340-1006 are somebody have the chit sheet on remote operators i need to  find who is this bastard

screensave disable for certain period of time

hello

I am trying to write a script for Windows 7 that the screen saver get disable once the user logs on and automaticaly lock up after 8 pm at night

I got he part that the screen saver does not lock up with a mouse movement 

I have a At command 

at 20:00 "rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation hoping it will lock every day at 8pm but would rather have an scritp that does that any susggestion ???


Reply:

What is the purpose? Just configure the GPO to automatically lock the computer after some period of inactivity.


-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]


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Reply:
I can't as this is for specific group of computers only

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Reply:
I can't as this is for specific group of computers only

So target the GPO to those computers only.


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Reply:

sorry this is not want we want if you cannot help guess will have to find it elsewhere


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Reply:

sorry this is not want we want if you cannot help guess will have to find it elsewhere

We point out manageable solutions instead of hacks.

If you want help with a script, you'll need to post it and exactly what you're having problems with.


Don't retire TechNet! - (Don't give up yet - 13,225+ strong and growing)


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Reply:

understood

I want to script this command

at 20:00 "rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation hoping it will lock every day at 8pm but would rather have an scritp that does that any susggestion ???

I have gotten the rest


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Reply:
What is the purpose/goal, not the intended script workaround?

-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]


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Reply:
the goal at the end it to have the screensaver disable once they logon and then by 8pm have it automatically kick in as they do not lock there screens by defaul due to the business purpose

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Reply:

I would recommend logging the user off rather than locking the workstation.

You can search for ways to do this by using search terms such as "script automatic logoff".

There may be some solutions in the repository as well.


-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]


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Reply:

first of  all seems like you do not want to assist

second I said lock the workstation not logoff as if they log off it will take 15-20 to restart all apps.

now if you do not know how to do it I would rather have this as an answer then getting the felling of run around and NO we are going GPO


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Reply:

first of  all seems like you do not want to assist

second I said lock the workstation not logoff as if they log off it will take 15-20 to restart all apps.

now if you do not know how to do it I would rather have this as an answer then getting the felling of run around and NO we are going GPO

You're not going to get someone to do your work for you.

If that's what you want, you're in the wrong place.


EDIT: Read this:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/a0def745-4831-4de0-a040-63b63e7be7ae/posting-guidelines?forum=ITCG


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Reply:
I am not as I have it almost done trying to get the at command to in the script maybe you should read all the threat before commenting

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Reply:
I am not as I have it almost done trying to get the at command to in the script maybe you should read all the threat before commenting

This doesn't even make sense.

Goodbye and good luck.


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Reply:

yup would not recommend this site to no one for help

as right now I have it done just need the force lock screen script at 8 pm and if you think it does not make sense we had one script this way for XP and not playing nice with Win7 and desktop are lock down

Get two thumbs down from me for your support


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Reply:

I can't understand either; sorry. There may be a language barrier.


-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]


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Reply:

no I think you do not want to help simple

I gotten my screen saver disable in win 7  I need it to reactivate after 8pm how stupid is this to understand


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March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in System Center! It could be YOU!

The results for March's TechNet Guru competition were posted!

http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx

Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.

Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.

Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
 

Guru Award  BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Steef-Jan Wiggers BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"

Silver Award Winner

Steef-Jan Wiggers View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"

Guru Award  Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Tracy Yu-MSFT The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."

Silver Award Winner

Wim Beck FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution. Another helpful resource"

Guru Award  Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

saramgsilva Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"

Silver Award Winner

Ken Cenerelli Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."

Bronze Award Winner

Prashant Mahajan Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"


Guru Award  Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

XAML guy Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
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Silver Award Winner

Andy ONeill Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
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Tom Mohan Zen coding with Visual Studio Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
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Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."

Guru Award  SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Murugesa Pandian Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
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Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
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Silver Award Winner

Melick JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "

Bronze Award Winner

Michaelle de las Alas Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 

Guru Award  Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Philip Munts Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
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Silver Award Winner

Yan Grenier Small Basic: Timeline for the games Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
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Bronze Award Winner

Ed Price - MSFT Small Basic on TechNet Gallery Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"

Guru Award  SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Jens Vestergaard SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."

Silver Award Winner

Ricardo Lacerda SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"

Guru Award  SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Visakh16 Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn't have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section "Files With Text Qualifiers" is also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "

Guru Award  System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Noah Stahl Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell and Twilio Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""

Silver Award Winner

Mr X How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"

Guru Award  Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Saeid Hasani T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."

Silver Award Winner

Saeid Hasani T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"

Bronze Award Winner

sql-pro T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."

Guru Award  Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Reed Kimble Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."

Silver Award Winner

.paul. Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver) Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."

Guru Award  Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Isham Mohamed Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."

Silver Award Winner

Tom Mohan .NET: Equality Features Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"

Bronze Award Winner

Vithal Wadje Constructors and Its Types in C# Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."

Guru Award  Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Davut EREN Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"

Silver Award Winner

Alan do Nascimento Carlos TechNet Wiki - Images Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"

Guru Award  Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Damien Allan Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"

Silver Award Winner

Carmelo La Monica Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8. JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"

Guru Award  Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Noah Stahl Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell and Twilio Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"

Silver Award Winner

Richard Mueller PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"

Bronze Award Winner

Dan Christian Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"

Guru Award  Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Andy ONeill Uneventful MVVM Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."

Silver Award Winner

Magnus (MM8) WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
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Bronze Award Winner

Tom Mohan Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"

Guru Award  Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Pierre-Alexandre Braeken Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID) Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."

Silver Award Winner

Mr X Netstat for Beginners JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
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Mark Parris: "Good Insight"

Bronze Award Winner

Pierre-Alexandre Braeken Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V Manager and a Synology DS412j Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
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Reply:

Congrats to Noah and Mr. X!

Guru Award  System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  

Gold Award Winner

Noah Stahl Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell and Twilio Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""

Silver Award Winner

Mr X How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"


Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)

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How to post data in orchestrator runbook using web services url

Hi 

I am creating a application and i want to pass the data to runbook using My html page but i am getting these errors

  1. OPTIONS url 401 (Unauthorized)
  1. XMLHttpRequest cannot load url No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin url is therefore not allowed access.

My Code is :

 $("#BtnPost").click(function () {   console.log("Function Hit")   var paramJsonShort = {   "RunbookId": "7f7f222a-12c0-4acf-a2d7-040871f91b15",   "Parameters": "<Data><Parameter><Name>Name</Name><ID>{d4e944cf-cb23-4db7-8eed-c686d5749413}</ID><Value>" +$("#Mobile_Number").val()+ "</Value></Parameter><Parameter><Name>Mobile No</Name><ID>{38024e52-7c51-479d-9b97-fd6b41b1c0a2}</ID><Value>" + $("#Name").val() + "</Value></Parameter></Data>"   }   var JobID;   var datastring = JSON.stringify(paramJsonShort);   var orchurl = "http://192.168.1.10:81/Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc/Jobs";   $.ajax({   url: orchurl,   async: false,   contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",   type: "POST",   data: datastring,   dataType: 'json',   success: function (json) {   JobID = json.d.Id;   alert(JobID);   },   error: function (json) {   alert(datastring + " || " + json.responseText);   }   });   });


Reply:

This sounds like a cross-origin request from Javascript issue first of all, see here for discussion.

Beyond that though, the Orchestrator web service is authenticated. so the client would need to have credentials directly to Orchestrator to be able to do this in Javascript, which is most likely not what you'd want. Rather, you want to have the web server talk to Orchestrator, not the client. So you'd want to move this functionality to the server side, and make sure the server uses credentials to connect which have been granted permissions on the target runbooks via Runbook Designer.


Noah Stahl | Automys | Downloadable Microsoft automation examples and solutions


  • Edited by Noah Stahl Tuesday, April 28, 2015 4:58 PM typo

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MSN Money Ticker Query Returns Wrong Company

I sought to do a query using Excel and MSN Money for CHL and 
it didn't return the company quote I was looking for 
(China Mobile) but another one. 

After reading this message on Microsoft technet:

msn money stock quotes : mystery

I found out that I could also search by ISIN. 

China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) ISIN of US16941M1099

(found ISIN on AdvFn.com) 

It looks like the query "CHL" now does return China Mobile. 

Looking at the results more closely I found that 
there was another query which also didn't return the 
one that I was looking for:

Embraer SA (NYSE:ERJ) ISIN of US29082A1079

So as of this posting ERJ returns Enerji Ltd. (ASX:ERJ)

One thought might be to somehow change the error message for an invalid 
query to indicate to people that they can also search by ISIN. 

I had not heard of the ISIN before looking into this more.

Other tickers could be listed in this thread that 
did not return the company that the person was looking for 

(where the idea would be that generally that would be 
the company that most people are looking for). 

The ISIN could be listed as well, and people could know that 
they can use the ISIN. 


Reply:

Query of UBS returns Urbas Grupo Financiero SA (BME:UBS).

UBS Group AG (USA) (NYSE:UBS)  ISIN of CH0244767585


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Reply:

For OTC Markets there is no ISIN.

I suspect that effort is made to try to make the ticker
unique across exchanges; but there is no way
way to guarantee this.

For example, there is a company called SHINER INTERNATIONAL
INC which is traded on the exchange OTC Markets with
ticker BEST and then also a company called BEST UNION COMPANY
traded on the Italian stock exchange Borsa Italiana
with the same ticker of BEST (ISIN:IT0004273915).

Google finance uses OTCMKTS:BEST for the former, and
BIT:BEST for the latter.

For the query "BEST" MSN Money returns information about
SHINER INTERNATIONAL.

BEST was also used for a company traded on the
London Stock Exchange called BEST OF THE BEST PLC --
as of April 2, 2015 the ticker has now been changed to BOTB.


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Build 10061 / Windows update / can't select "fast" or "slow"

After the update to 10061 I can't anymore select how the preview build are installed. Slow or fast.

There is only a this circle and it doesn't stop circling.


Achim.Unawatuna Sri Lanka


Reply:

It might sound silly to you.....

Will a couple of restarts help ?

Make sure all available Windows Updates are installed.


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Reply:

It's not silly. You never know. But, no updates available and I made 5 restarts just to be sure.

It's no big issue for me. Just wanted to report it.

Thanks for the fast reply.


Achim.Unawatuna Sri Lanka


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Why are my meeting details visibile to everyone even though I am only showing read Free/Busy time?

Super frustrating that everyone can see the details of my calendar. My permissions are set on default to Permission Level "Free/Busy time and read to Free/Busy time. I dont understand what is happening.

Reply:

Hi,

If you have granted some users specific permissions to your calendar, they may be able to see the calendar details according to their permissions.

For other users, their permission is Default: in your scenario it's "Free/Busy time", which means they can only see when you are free and busy, but can't see the event details. If these users still can see the event details, we may suspect the permission displayed in your Outlook is incorrect, please create a new Outlook profile to setup the account, check if the permission displays differently.

Or we can check the actual permission on the Exchange level. If you need help with this, I suggest you ask in the Exchange forum:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?category=exchangeserver

Regards,

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Win32_Process.Getowner() very slow on a specific machine

I'm trying to get the owner of a process by running this WMI query in powershell:

$processes = Get-WmiObject Win32_Process |where{$_.name -like "*notepad*"}  $objcol = @()  foreach ($process in $processes)   {   $owner = $process.GetOwner().User   #$owner = $process.ProcessId   $obj = New-Object System.Object   $obj |Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Owner -Value ($owner)   $obj |Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name pid -Value $process.ProcessId   $owner = ""    $objcol += $obj  }   $objcol | ft owner, pid -AutoSize |Out-String -Width 300   

But somehow on a specific machine (windows server 2008), it takes 30mins to finish this short script. If I remove the line "$owner = $process.GetOwner().User", and replace it with "$owner = $process.ProcessId", the query can finish in a few seconds. But on other machines (Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012), there is no such kind of problem. So I think it has something to do with this Win32_Process.Getowner() method but not sure how.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!


Reply:

I'm not able to reproduce the performance problem.

However, I would recommend the following more PowerShell-like construction:


get-wmiobject Win32_Process -filter "Name='notepad.exe'" | select-object `   @{Name="Owner"; Expression={$_.GetOwner().User}},   @{Name="pid"; Expression={$_.ProcessId}}  

First, you can filter the WMI query using the -filter parameter (makes the query more efficient). Second, there's no need to construct a new object and then output it when you can use Select-Object with calculated properties.


-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]


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Reply:

Are you running this against a remote machine (via either Invoke-Command, use of jobs or passing -ComputerName to Get-WmiObject) or are you running it locally on each machine? This will affect things a lot.

When you're querying WMI, you're actually asking the Windows Management Instrumentation service to do the work for you, so you're dependent on that service. If the service is busy doing other things, you will notice a slowness in retrieving info from it.

The most important thing to ascertain is... can you replicate this? As in, does it happen every time you try to run that script on that box, or just the one time? Have you retried it after restarting the server? I once had my WMI service in such a state that whatever query I ran would return immediately and produce no results at all. Fix? Restart.

I know it's a server but you're after a solution, so let's start with the basics and try giving the server a restart and trying again, ensure the problem is replicable, etc.


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Reply:

@Bill_Stewart

Thanks for your suggestions, and a question for you. If I use -filter "Name='notepad.exe'", can I use it like this: "name like '*notepad*'". Cause it does not seem to be working for me...

And actually my script's performance is good on the non-problematic machines, while it's so bad on this specific machine. So the question is what my cause such a big difference?



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Reply:

@FaustoNascimento

I'm running this script locally and also remotely. On this problematic machine, the performance is as bad no matter I run the script locally or remotely for it.

And yes, I can recreate the problem, it has been like this for quite a few months actually, just as good as the other machines. The server must have been rebooted quite a few times during the time. 

One thing to note is, the script used to be working fine on this specific machine before. But it became bad at some point. I'm doubting that there was some change on the machine which casued this but not sure what could it be...


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Reply:

Kevin,

the -Filter syntax is WQL so the correct form would be:

-Filter "Name like '%notepad%'"

There are a couple other things you can try too. If the servers are running PSv3 or higher, have a look at using the new CIM cmdlets. Even though it still relies on the WMI service, it should at least give you a way of checking where the problem is likely to lie.



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Reply:
So the question is what my cause such a big difference?

As I noted previously, I can't reproduce the problem. All I can do is point out a better way to write the code.


-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]


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FTP Site Migration from Window 2003 to 2012

Hello All,

 I am planning to migrate my FTP sites (more than 30 sites) from Window 2003 to Window 2012 R2 Operating System. Kindly share your suggestions or method of migration process.

Note: Servers are in domain.


Reply:

Hi

 You can copy files and folders with permissions kept,

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323007

also with "Robocopy"

But there is no tool to migrate FTP server settings,as IIS 7/8 FTP server is a complete rewrite.You will need to manually recreate the FTP sites.


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Reply:

Hi Burak,

 Thank you for response. If i do import & Export FTP site, is it work fine? 

 


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Reply:

Hi

 just test one of site...


  • Edited by Burak Uğur Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:29 AM

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Reply:

Hi,

Since the issue is more related to IIS, i think you could ask in IIS forums:

http://forums.iis.net/

Regards.


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Video Call from UCMA

Hi,

I would like to ask if there is any supported feature to the UCMA SDK that allows to make a video call to a lync end user.

I have managed to perform an audio call using a static mp3 file.

The call has audiovideo modality , but as far as I have understood according to the sdk the only available subclass of MediaSource is WmaFileSource, which uses a WMA file.

Is there any option to feed the VideoSource from an rtsp server?

Thanks in advance,

  • Changed type Eason Huang Tuesday, April 21, 2015 8:13 AM

Reply:

Hi,

As the issue is more related to Lync Server deploying, you might post the issue on Lync MSDN forum and more developing expert will help to verify if this can be achieved using Lync SDK. Thank you for your understanding.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/communicatorsdk/threads

Best Regards,
Eason Huang


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Eason Huang
TechNet Community Support


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Reply:

I have already posted the question.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/cbba2ecb-a75c-4739-af09-53e6ed2318f7/ucma-sdk-for-video-call?forum=communicatorsdk

any idea?


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How many powershell cmdlets are !?

Hi Folks

Anyone know how many cmdlets are !? Considering all modules and PSSnapin in PowerShell v5.0

Regards,


  Jimcesse  Principal: http://sysadmin-cr.com/  Alterno: http://blogs.itpro.es/jimcesse  


Reply:

knowing how many is trivial compared to knowing what cmdlets exist. This will tell you how many you have available on your system: (get-command -commandtype cmdlet).length

If you want to include all modules and PSSnapins, you will have to load them all before using that command.


Al Dunbar -- remember to 'mark or propose as answer' or 'vote as helpful' as appropriate.


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Windows 7 Taskbar Jumping Issue

In windows 7, if you right click any icon that is pinned to the taskbar, and then, with that program's menu displayed, left click an empty part of the taskbar and move the mouse in any direction. The taskbar (even if it is locked) will jump to the top of the screen.

http://imgur.com/eG8Xz.png


Reply:
In windows 7, if you right click any icon that is pinned to the taskbar, and then, with that program's menu displayed, left click an empty part of the taskbar and move the mouse in any direction. The taskbar (even if it is locked) will jump to the top of the screen.

http://imgur.com/eG8Xz.png


Hi

I tried but was unable to recreate the behavior you are describing.

If this is something that just started recently, you might want to try using s System Restore point to go back to a time before the behavior started.

If this does not fix the problem, try creating a new User Account, Create a user account, log on with the new account and try to recreate the behavior.

If the behavior cannot be recreated with the new user account, this may indicate that your current user account is corrupted.

If this is the case, replace the corrupted account with a new account using the instructions in the following article.
How To Fix a corrupted user profile

Let us know what you find.

Thank You for using Windows 7


Ronnie Vernon MVP



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Reply:
Since every single one of the 16 friends I know that have windows 7 have been able to recreate this issue, I can definitely say that 'you're doing it wrong.'

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Reply:
1. right click a program on the taskbar.
2. with that menu still open, left click and hold down on an empty spot on the taskbar
3. move your mouse in any direction
4. stop doing it wrong

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Reply:
Hi

Sorry for the confusion, but a left click is slightly different from a left click and hold.

I can see now that you are correct, it can be reproduced.

I haven't seen this reported before, but I will escalate this issue and see if it is a known problem.

Regards,

Thank You for using Windows 7


Ronnie Vernon MVP

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Reply:

Any update on this problem?

We have multiple PC's running the 32 bit version of Windows 7 PRO and we're having some issues with the task bar.

Anytime we right click a program on the taskbar and the menu opens, then left click on an empty spot on the taskbar while the menu is still open and move the mouse, the task bar jumps to the top.

We have the task bar locked but it still moves to the top.

I've noticed others on technet have reported the same issue.

Does anyone know if Microsoft has developed a patch for this problem?

Below are the steps to recreate this issue:
1. right click a program on the taskbar.
2. with that menu still open, left click and hold down on an empty spot on the taskbar
3. move your mouse in any direction
4. This will cause the taskbar to jump to the top of the screen.Even though the taskbar is locked.

Thanks and any information would be greatly appreciated.


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Reply:

Hi,

I borrow this old conversation but I have slightly different problem.

I have three screens and taskbar jumping between them when I start Windows (7 Enterprise).

I locked taskbar left side one of the screens (not primary) but when I start windows it could be found left side of the different screen. It is quite annoying to move it every morning to the place where I want to it be.

Have anyone any idea what is the problem?


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Unable to login to cloud services

Is there anybody else having issues with cloud services ?

We have 5 cloud services with SQL DB back end, from last one hour i am unable to login to any of our app running on these cloud services. 

Our services are located in Southeast Asia, all the 5 cloud services are having issues at the same time so i cant see any problem from our end. 

Status page says all the services are running okay.


Reply:

Hi,

  Hope your issue is resolved, if multiple services are affected, it could be a backend issue, have you contacted Support regarding this issue, if not get a support ticket created.

Regards,

Nithin Rathnakar


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Reply:

Hi Nithin,

Seems like it was backend issue as all of our deployments were affected. it is not fixed.
If i follow you URL to log a support ticket, it does not give me option to log a technical support ticket as its not included in our package, only ticket we can log is for billing support.
My question here is what if issue is from Azure side, do we still pay Microsoft to log a ticket to let you know that something is broken from your end ?


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Reply:

Apologize for the inconvenience, agree with you regarding this, however we are not sure if this is indeed a backend issue and in order to determine the cause and troubleshoot the issue, we will require the deployment ID and subscription details which is not recommended to be posted in the public forums. I would suggest you purchase a support plan and speak to a support professional who can, based on the diagnosis take appropriate actions.

You can refer to the following link which gives information about the different support plans. You can also contact the billing/subscription team with a free ticket for more information.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/support/plans/

Regards,

Nithin Rathnakar.


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