Using custom http port failes in OSD
Hi
When using an other port that standard port which is 80 we have seen that OSD failes to download data from dp because it uses 80 instead of the configured port.
There is no difference if we are using stand-alone boot media or pxe.
If we add port 80 to the binding list on the default web site of the DP it works.
Something that someone has noticed in CM2007 also or has been confirmed working in 2007?
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Is this before or after the Setup Windows and ConfigMgr task?
Are you PXE booting, using boot media, or running the TS from Software Center?
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | Twitter @JasonSandys
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Can you please post the errors you are seeing in this case? I believe there is a bug with using custom ports in CM 2012 and I want to confirm looking at you logs.
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Bhaskar
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Hi:
Can you please let me know some more info on the issue you refer to about custom ports - we are trying to use a custom port in a task sequence for OSD and it is not working. I want to make sure we are not running into a known issue.
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Mustafa
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Hey Mustafa,
Can you please give a little more details about what is not working?
Thanks,
Moiz
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Hi Moiz bhai
Sorry so late to reply.
This has been confirmed as a bug in ConfigMGr 2012 - we opened a PSS case and got this confirmed. We are trying to use a custom port in the client settings and this custom port was not being used by the task sequence - it reverts back to port 80. Once the full client is installed, the custom port works.
Let me know if you need more info,
Mustafa
Mustafa
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Metro App Store and Weather apps don't work after Sysprepping with CopyProfile set to true
FYI, in case folks run into issues with certain Metro apps crashing/hanging after a sysprep:
For our dev test machines, which get repaved often, our sysadmin has setup a sysprepped Windows 8 CP image. A number of the Metro apps, including Store, Weather and Finance, don't work when a test PC is imaged from this Win8 sysprepped image. According to our sysadmin, this is a pretty standard way of sysprepping images and one that he has used successfully on Windows 7 for the past couple of years.
The workaround is to not set CopyProfile to true in the sysprep settings file.
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Interesting, I'm going to try too.
What happen if you use an Unattended Answer File but not while you are sysprepping the machine?
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From our sysadmin - who found this issue:
>> What happen if you use an Unattended Answer File but not while you are sysprepping the machine?
I can't answer that because I just install the image with the standard unattended.xml and modify the image afterwards. I can't do all of the things I want to do in the unattended file.
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Advice needed for an existing sproc
Above is the overwhelming code for a stored procedure which I'd need to make changes to. Here is the problem I'm facing because of this code:
I used the same Campaign Code on multiple Campaigns in Salesforce. In above sproc, I'm trying to match the proper salesforce campaign id to each record I get from outside vendors. Without thinking of all the possibilities, I decided to pull MAX(id) (primary key for dbo.SFCampaigns table) by Campaign Code, which is admittedly arbitrary and doesn't follow any fixed pattern and can even be 'NULL'.
When there's a participant getting credit, there should be a record in dbo.SFRegistrations with RegistrationId that needs appended to the #extract record. It matches on campaign and participant. If I get the wrong campaign id with my MAX pull, though, I miss on campaign ID and don't pull the registration.
Proposed solution:
There needs to be a check for the existence of a different campaign id. So, if a registration exists for the same participant for a different campaign with the same campaign code, then both the registration id and the campaign id need to be appended to the #extract record. The campaign id would have to be updated from whatever I put there to keep the donation consistent consistent with the referenced registration, and that will matter when Salesforce tries to digest it.
select distinct cast(null as varchar(50)) OpportunityID, x.headerid, x.trxid, export.AccountID, recordtypes.RecordTypeID, ltrim(rtrim(case when x.supportertypeid = 1 then isnull(x.FirstName, '') + ' ' + isnull(x.LastName, '') else x.organizationname end)) + ' $' + cast(x.totalamount as varchar(20)) + ' ' + ltrim(rtrim(recordtypes.Name)) + ' ' + convert(varchar(30), x.trxdate, 101) OppName, case x.ActionId when 1 then 'Received' else 'Refunded' end StageName, x.ActionId, x.totalamount Amount, left(convert(varchar(30), x.trxdate, 126), charindex('T', convert(varchar(30), x.trxdate, 126)) - 1) CloseDate, case isnull(x.supportertypeid, 1) when 1 then 'Individual Gift' else 'Organization Gift' end OppType, case when x.trxsource = 'M' then 'Online Store' when x.trxsource != 'M' and x.solicitorid is not null then 'TeamRaiser Gift' else 'Donation' end TrxType, x.marketingsourcecode, campaigns.CampaignID, cast(null as varchar(50)) SegmentId, x.solicitorid, export.solicitorid solicitorContactID, registrations.RegistrationID TeamRaiserRegistration, x.externaltrxid, x.trxreferenceid, x.supporterid, h.referringOrganization OppSource, 0 IsAnonymous, paytypes.paytype, case when x.paytypeid = 2 then left(convert(varchar(30), x.checkDate, 126), charindex('T', convert(varchar(30), x.checkDate, 126)) - 1) else null end CheckDate, case when x.paytypeid = 2 then x.CheckNumber else null end CheckNumber, export.ContactID, case when x.paytypeid = 3 then cctypes.cctype else null end CreditCardType, ltrim(rtrim(isnull(x.HonMemPrefix, '') + ' ' + isnull(x.HonMemFirstName, '') + ' ' + isnull(x.HonMemSecondName, '') + ' ' + isnull(x.HonMemLastName, '') + ' ' + isnull(x.HonMemSuffix, ''))) HonMemHonoree, ltrim(rtrim(isnull(x.NotifyPrefix, '') + ' ' + isnull(x.NotifyFirstName, '') + ' ' + isnull(x.NotifySecondName, '') + ' ' + isnull(x.NotifyLastName, '') + ' ' + isnull(x.NotifySuffix, ''))) HonMemNotify, x.firstname, x.lastname, x.email, ltrim(rtrim(isnull(x.Address1, '') + ' ' + isnull(x.Address2, ''))) street, x.city, x.state, x.zip, x.country, campaignNames.CampaignName, case when x.marketingsourcecode = 'X000000' then p.Id else null end PledgeId, case when x.trxsource = 'M' then left(so.ID, 15) else null end OrderID into #extract from lssc.lfdtrx x inner join lssc.lfdheader h on x.headerid = h.headerid inner join dbo.SFCagingForExport export on x.headerid = export.headerid and x.trxid = export.trxid and x.externaltrxid = export.externaltrxid inner join dbo.SFRecordTypes recordtypes on recordtypes.Name = case when x.trxsource = 'K' and x.marketingsourcecode = 'X000000' then 'Pledge Installment' else 'Single Donation' end left outer join lssc.lfdpaytyperef paytypes on x.paytypeid = paytypes.paytypeid left outer join lssc.lfdcctyperef cctypes on x.cctypeid = cctypes.cctypeid left outer join (select campaigncode, max(ID) CampaignID from dbo.SFCampaigns group by CampaignCode) campaigns on x.marketingsourcecode = campaigns.campaigncode left outer join dbo.SFCampaigns campaignNames ON campaigns.CampaignID = campaignNames.ID left outer join dbo.SFContacts participants ON export.solicitorid = participants.ContactID left outer join (select * from dbo.SFRegistrations where RegistrationFee IS NOT NULL) registrations ON participants.ContactId = registrations.SFID and campaigns.campaignId = registrations.CampaignId left outer join dbo.SFPledges p on x.externaltrxid = p.hc_Sphere_Pledge_ID__c left outer join dbo.stageSFStoreOrders so ON x.trxsource = 'M' and x.orderid = so.orderid where x.trxsource in ('G','K','M')
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This is what I've added to the sproc so far:
--check for missing Campaign ID's Update e
set e.campaignid = r.campaignid,
e.TeamRaiserRegistration = r.registrationid
From #extract e
Join (select campaigncode, max(ID) id from [lssc].[dbo].[SFCampaigns] group by CampaignCode) c1 on e.campaignid = c1.id
Join dbo.SFCampaigns c2 on
c1.campaigncode = c2.campaigncode
Join dbo.SFRegistrations r on e.solicitorid = r.sfid
and c2.id = r.campaignid and c1.id <> c2.id
where e.TeamRaiserRegistration is NULL
I know this is hard to understand without looking at the full sproc code but is there some other way to approach this (providing the one I have here won't work)?
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Since we do not have the DDL, it looks like some moron who wrote ACCESS has stuck you with the magical VARCHAR(50) for things that ought to be shorter AND fixed length.
There is no such thing as a "<something>_type" in valid RDBMS; a data element can be a "<something>_type" or "<something>_id" but not a hybrid monster like that; record is also a bad word in RDBMS that implies meta data. I had to clean up a mess (nice word for it) that was based ON the COBOL variant record model.
That " INTO #EXTRACT" tells us to mount a COBOL scratch tape which happens to have a reserved word in SQL as its _name. The guy did not even know that ISNULL() does not work AND we have COALESCE() now.
CAST(NULL AS VARCHAR(50)) AS segment_id,
tells us that you can fake the COBOL FILLER option with NULLs, if you do not care about a valid schema. I also see that you do not know about the DATER data type that has been in T-SQL since 2008.
All that string processing is COBOL again! SQL passes the strings to the presentation layer. You cast a money amount to a string to put a $ in front of it! NO! Just look at how awful this is:
CASE X.action_id WHEN 1 THEN 'RECEIVED' ELSE 'REFUNDED' END AS stage_name
Actions have values, not identifiers; entities have identifier. What this shows us is a translation of a status of some unknown kind. AND THEN it changes data element _name for display. I would guess "order_status" as the ISO-11179 _name.
Is "is_anonymous" an assembly language bit flag? In SQL? Surely not!
LEFT OUTER JOINs should be rare in a valid schema. The DRI should assure that there is a complete data model that is a whole with relationships. Perhaps you might have as many 10 in a major system, like the payroll for a Fortune 500 company.
I recommend that you throw out this mess and fire the guy that did this to you. I am serious. I did not see anything worth saving. Look at my credentials and think about it.
--CELKO-- Books in Celko Series for Morgan-Kaufmann Publishing: Analytics and OLAP in SQL / Data and Databases: Concepts in Practice Data / Measurements and Standards in SQL SQL for Smarties / SQL Programming Style / SQL Puzzles and Answers / Thinking in Sets / Trees and Hierarchies in SQL
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Multi-Lingual APPS
I have an idea for Universal Any-Language Apps.
You use an interpreter / multi-colunm dictionary.
So the dictionary would have the English-Column and then a column for each language translating each english word into other language words or short sentences.
Then the APP Loader could on-the-fly translate all app,menu,button,help,error texts into the other language at load time.
It may be harder to implement than above.
But if you found a way, it would make any program written in any language usable to anyone of a different language. Without having have separate langs built into the resources part of the PE file.
Then a person speaking swahili could run an IDE/Compiler written in English,
and it would come up in their own language, where they could use their own language to write the source-code.
- Moved by Ronnie VernonMVP Sunday, August 26, 2012 5:34 AM Move (From:Windows 8 General)
- Moved by Rob Caplan [MSFT]Microsoft employee Monday, August 27, 2012 7:54 AM End-user question, not a coding question; not related to Windows Store apps (From:Tools for Metro style apps )
- Changed type Leo Huang Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:47 AM not a question
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This is more-or-less how MUI already works. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb978454.aspx
There isn't an end-user translation app, but that would be incredibly difficult to use without understanding the application and the context in which each string is used.
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The whole idea might require a dissasembly , language conversion , re-assembly
It just seems; that having a bunch of linguists from different countries to make the variuos language ports, for apps and libraries, would be too cumbersome.
There needs to be some type of conversion applcation.
So SourceCode , LIBs and APIs calls could be in a persons native language.
Currently every programmer has to learn English, in order to program , as the compilers/assemblers, use English words, like; SWITCH,BREAK,JUMP,GOTO,MOV,PUSH,POP,IF,THEN,ELSE, DOUBLE , SINGLE, CLASS, FUNCTION,ALIGN, etc...
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Application Deployments in Task Sequences
I've been doing some experimentation with Application Deployments in an OSD task sequence and come to the conclusion that the application will only install if the application is set to "Required", if the application is set to "Available" the task sequence will not install it. Unfortunately, our distributions use conditional install in the task sequence to determine if an application should be installed through a front end process of our own. The process determines if the computer should get an application and then installs it. But since only "Required" applications will installed, there is no way for us to turn on or off an application.
Our goal is to provide an installation where the computer is configured with the same applications it previously had installed. To accomplish this we need to install for some machines, but not others. At present the only solution we can come up with is to populate collections at the same time we populate the OSD task sequence deployment collection with the required applications. We can do that, but it will take a lot more effort than what we do now. So as a result we will likely stay with the older SCCM packages, possibly with applications to complement them. Unfortunately that doubles the number of packages and the work to manage an application.
I don't really expect anyone to have a solution to this problem, having this information would have saved me several hours of experimentation so I thought I would post it to save someone else all the effort.
Bob
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There's even no need of having a deployment for an application if you want to install it during OSD.
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That gave me some pause when I first saw it then I realized the deployment types would deal with it. However when I put the application into the task sequence it came back with the application is not required, and then it skipped over and didn't install it.
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Are there any requirements used in that app? Any chance that the requirements are simply not met?However when I put the application into the task sequence it came back with the application is not required, and then it skipped over and didn't install it.
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I checked and all the requirements are met. I was even able to deploy it to the workstation after the task sequence was complete. If the deployments started immediately after the task sequence completed that wouldn't be an issue, but there can be quite a delay before they do start to populate. The expectation is that the end user should be able to sit down and immediately start using their computer.
The user delivery paradigm change is going to possibly affect some of that, but at this point it's a bit too early to call. I advocate users being able to install their own software through SCCM, but IT departments don't seem convinced of it yet. Unfortunately areas where we experimented with users doing just that had very low success rates, so without training the users it might very well be impractical.
Bob
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Very interesting, looks like I need to go through the list of TS variables again and find out what other gems might be hiding in there. Not sure if it solves my issue or not since it seems like the application deployment has to be set to required. I'll have to do some thinking about it, it just might open up other ways to deal with the issue, or solve other issues.
I definitely appreciate the link.
Bob
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App deployment during TSes in 2012 is ... problematic at best. Predeploy is the product teams intended solution as this tightly aligns with their user-centric philosophy.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com
They really need a like button in the forums. That is one of the more astute comments I've seen in quite a while.
I understand where the product group is coming from, and it certainly makes sense in a lot of ways. But there are a lot of things we will always manage at the machine level. Just about everything in the OSD area is machine targeted for instance. One of the problems we face with both user and computer targeting is the idea that we know something about computers or users, unfortunately at most of my customers we don't generally know much. The only really reliable information we have is from the inventory of the machine we are using as a source, and even that may not be accurate because the user may not actually use the apps installed (yes I know combine it with metering info). Most of my customers have trouble even knowing where the machine or user are at, very few have put any information into AD, and getting the info out of HR is something I don't want to try dealing with.
What the SCCM 2012 group has done around user targeting is an important first step, that hopefully will drive getting this information into AD or other accessible systems to drive roles type based deployments. But it's going to take some time. I have a few ideas on ways to accelerate that evolution, but they are going to take some time to work out.
Bob
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Bob,
Take a look at the following post that I wrote about deploying applications:
Its about half way down the page and it should cover most of your questions. It will provide for:
- A team can deploy software to an active directory group and not have access to SCCM
- The software can check for dependancies and install these packages approperiately.
- Isolates computers from Users in software collections as needed by SCCM 2012 (when you are ready to make the move).
Hope this helps. Happy Packaging!
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Nice write up Brenton, and I've done similar things in the past. But that really doesn't really relate to the issue at hand. BTW, the stuff you are doing here is handled by Application Packages automatically with dependencies, requirements and supersedence. Of course getting the things to work in a task sequence is a different story.
Bob
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How to get task item url for emailing out
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I want to be able to send an email out from my VS workflow with the url of the task. In my task method invoking I have the following code:
private void InformCust_MethodInvoking(object sender, EventArgs e) { Inform_TaskId1 = Guid.NewGuid(); Inform_TaskProperties1.Title = "cooking time" + workflowProperties.Item.Title; Inform_TaskProperties1.Description = "Inform customer - "; Inform_TaskProperties1.ExtendedProperties["ItemId"] = workflowProperties.Item.ID; Inform_TaskProperties1.ExtendedProperties["ItemListId"] = workflowProperties.Item.ParentList.ID; } Can someone help, I think I need to use the Guid and grab the url ??Reply:
Hi
Does anyone have an idea on how to accomplish this ? In my workflow I want a url link for the Task
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You can do something like
SPWeb = <your list instance>.ParentWeb.Url; var uri = new Uri(web.Url, UriKind.Absolute); string displayFormUrl = string.Format("{0}://{1}/{2}", uri.Scheme, uri.Host, list.DefaultDisplayFormUrl); SPListItem item = <a task list item instance> string taskUrl = string.Format("{0}?ID={1}", displayFormUrl, item.ID); The taskUrl will ultimately redirect to the workflow task if the task is infact a workflow task.
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population standard rates
I need to calculate the same rates in MDX (more precisely population standard rates, I have already implement it in sql:
SELECT P5.TYPEACTIVITE,P5.AGE ,(newpi.PI* SUM(cast(P5.NOMBRE as float))/(select SUM(cast(T2.NOMBRE as float)) /* Sum Population that actvity type in 11 and 12 group by age, zipcode and sexe*/ from RP_09_TAS T2 WHERE P5.AGE=T2.AGE AND T2.TYPEACTIVITE IN (11,12) AND T2.CODGEO =P5.codgeo AND T2.SEXE=P5.sexe)) *100 AS TAUX FROM RP_09_TAS P5 inner join (select AGE,SEXE , SUM(cast(T1.NOMBRE as float))/( select SUM(cast(T3.NOMBRE as float)) from RP_09_TAS T3 WHERE T3.SEXE=T1.SEXE and T3.AGE IN(15,20,25) ) AS PI from RP_09_TAS T1 WHERE T1.AGE IN(15,20,25) group by AGE, SEXE ) as NewPI on ( NewPI.AGE = p5.AGE and NewPI.SEXE= P5.SEXE) WHERE p5.CODGEO IN('1001','1002') AND p5.SEXE=1 AND P5.TYPEACTIVITE IN (11,12) AND P5.AGE IN(15,20,25) GROUP BY P5.TYPEACTIVITE,P5.SEXE,P5.CODGEO,P5.AGE, newpi.PI order by P5.TYPEACTIVITE,P5.AGE I need to implement the calculation of "TAUX" and "PI" on my cube to obtain the same results.
As you can see it the PI calculation does not take into account the activity types ( called TYPEACTIVITE ).
The user can select on which :
- ZipCodes ( Called CODGEO in table RP_09_TAS) : at least one to all
- And actvity types ( called TYPEACTIVITE ): at least one to all
- And gender( called TYPEACTIVITE ): at least one to all
- And age categories ( called AGE ): at least one to all
he wants to retrieve data !
I have some MDX code but I didn't Know how I can implement This measures.
The Formula is PI*(Numerateur TI*Denominateur TI) and I didn't how to do:
/*CALCUL DU PI*/ WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Test] AS [Measures].[Population Sexe Age TA]/ aggregate ( ( Axis(1) ) ,[Measures].[Population Sexe Age TA] ) SELECT {[Measures].[Population Sexe Age TA] ,[Measures].[Test] } ON 0 ,NON EMPTY( {[Sexe].[Sexe].&[1]} *{ [Age].[Age].&[1] ,[Age].[Age].&[2] ,[Age].[Age].&[3] } ) ON 1 FROM [CUBESTAGE]; /*Numerateur TI*/ select [Measures].[Population Sexe Age TA] ON 0, ( ([Sexe].[Sexe].&[1]) * {[Type Activte].[Type Activite].&[1], [Type Activte].[Type Activite].&[2]} * ({[Age].[Age].&[1],[Age].[Age].&[2], [Age].[Age].&[3]}) * ({[Geographie].[Lieu].[Ville].&[1001], [Geographie].[Lieu].[Ville].&[1002]}) )ON 1 FROM [CUBESTAGE] ; /*Denominateur TI*/ select [Measures].[Population Sexe Age TA] ON 0, ( ([Sexe].[Sexe].&[1]) * ({[Age].[Age].&[1],[Age].[Age].&[2], [Age].[Age].&[3]}) * ({[Geographie].[Lieu].[Ville].&[1001], [Geographie].[Lieu].[Ville].&[1002]}) )ON 1 FROM [CUBESTAGE] where {[Type Activte].[Type Activite].&[1], [Type Activte].[Type Activite].&[2]}; Please Somebody Could Help me because I' m trying to find an issue since one week and I can't.
Regards.
Command to view MSI content
Thanks, SKGuru
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How to remove processing instructions from InfoPath XML document
We have an InfoPath form generated from a provided XML Schema and need to be able to save the completed InfoPath form as a pure XML document that does not contain the InfoPath processing instructions which appear at the top of the document and look similar to this:
<?"1.0.0.3" productVersion="14.0.0" PIVersion="1.0.0.0" href="xxx" name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:xxx" language="en-us" ?><?"InfoPath.Document" versionProgid="InfoPath.Document.3"?>
What is the easiest way to accomplish this? Its too bad there is not a Save As XML option in the InfoPath client. In our scenario, users submit the documents to a SharePoint library. I also looked at possibly using Nintex to remove the processing instructions but it seems like you can only query data within the XML document rather than reading the document as XML text.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
Estimating an Implementation Budget for System Center 2012 DataCenter using specialized System Center Consulting company
I am trying to build a very simple 2013 budget # for System Center 2012 - Datacenter (inclusive of Operations Manager + Configuration Manager + Data Protection Mgr + Service Manager + VMM+ Catalog + Orchestrator + Mobile Device Mgr + Application Controller). The intent would be to utilize a SC 2012 specialty consulting entity to manage implementation end-to-end. The basic data center environment would be similar to: I am not seeking precision ....simply an educated guess based on some degree of experience.
Question: Assuming a 2.5 Consultant implementation team ..... what would be a fair estimate of total # of Consulting Days?
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Hi
I'd suggest actually asking a few companies directly - you'll get a feel for how much they really know about the products by the types of questions they ask you. And for an engagement of this size it is best to get to meet the consultants that would be doing the implementation. Although it is relatively small in size (number of servers), the scope is very wide and on engagements like this the devil is always in the detail.
If you are based in the States then Catapult Systems and Infront have high quality consultants who are MVPs across the product suite. I don't work for either ;-)
Good Luck
Graham
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Calculating the estimated consulting days based on the number of configuration items is almost impossible. Installing the System Center products is the easy and maybe smallest part. But for instance get things working together, designing processes and automate these processes could be easy but also very complex. It's not the matter of the amount of CIs but of the grade of process design and automation.
Without more details what's in scope, what are the requirements and targets it's not possible to give a valid quote on this or even an almost realistic advice for a budget.
Andreas Baumgarten | H&D International Group
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Split for format
hello
I have an error in worksheet as below
Replaced Part: /xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml part with XML error. An attribute value must not contain '<'. Line 2, column 471498.
Removed Records: Comments from /xl/comments1.xml part (Comments)
Removed Records: Formula from /xl/calcChain.xml part (Calculation properties)
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hello
I have an error in worksheet as below
Replaced Part: /xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml part with XML error. An attribute value must not contain '<'. Line 2, column 471498.
Removed Records: Comments from /xl/comments1.xml part (Comments)
Removed Records: Formula from /xl/calcChain.xml part (Calculation properties)
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Windows 7 RC (Build 7100) Issues With Secure Wireless Connections
First, I am using Windows 7 RC 64-bit. My wireless adapter is a D-Link DWA-522 XtremeN Desktop Adapter. The drivers I am using came directly from Microsoft Update. When I first installed Win7RC it prompted me for my network information and it took it and properly connected me. I proceeded to download a few things in relation to my graphic drivers and etc. Not too long after restarting my system (possibly after a Windows Update) I started having wireless problems. Unlike the others, I can always see my router, although we all know that most home use "routers" aren't true routers... The router is an Extreme N Gaming Router. I have been telling it to connect and it prompts for my passkey. I put it in and click Ok. Windows waits for a moment then comes back with "Windows was unable to connect to (SSID)". After messing around for a good hour or so where I proceeded to uninstall, reinstall drivers, change my NIC settings, stop and start services and etc, I happened to notice in my Adapters list it would label my adapter as Attempting to authenticate (instead of Connected, Not Connected or anything like that). I watched it carefully as I put in my passkey again, and as soon as I clicked OK, it went from Attempting to authenticate to Not connected, as if it simply dropped trying to connect after I sent the passkey. I went into my router settings and completely disabled the wireless protection. I was able to get on with no errors or delay. My router was set up to use WPA or WPA2-Personal with AES or TKIP. Changing which one these were using in the wireless network manager changed nothing. It didn't prompt me for my key anymore, but it just sits there saying Attempting to authenticate.
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After further testing I swapped my wireless security to WEP and it worked! It seems to be having an issue with WPA / WPA2. I am going to try and force my router to only use WPA2 and etc to see what all is going on here. There are four other wireless devices that connect to this router that are either using Vista, Vista64, or Windows XP, none of which had this issue. My PC worked fine during the Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) right out of installation and didn't have any connectivity issues.
Reply:
Thanks,
Alok Manchanda
Microsoft Corporation
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Reply:
TKIP and AES are both enabled on the router, if you mean the NIC, then I am unsure which one it tried using. I did create a profile and tried swapping between TKIP and AES and it made no difference. Also, I removed my MAC addresses from this summary. For now I am running my network on WEP until this can get resolved. I put the router back at the original settings before running the command. Thank you for your time.
Wireless System Information Summary
(Time: 5/28/2009 9:34:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time)
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============================== SHOW DRIVERS ===========================
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Interface name: Wireless Network Connection
Driver : D-Link DWA-552 XtremeN Desktop Adapter
Vendor : Atheros Communications Inc.
Provider : Microsoft
Date : 4/8/2009
Version : 2.0.0.72
INF file : C:\Windows\INF\oem7.inf
Files : 2 total
C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\athrx.sys
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\vwifibus.sys
Type : Native Wi-Fi Driver
Radio types supported : 802.11b 802.11g 802.11n
FIPS 140-2 mode supported : Yes
Hosted network supported : Yes
Authentication and cipher supported in infrastructure mode:
Open None
Open WEP-40bit
Shared WEP-40bit
Open WEP-104bit
Shared WEP-104bit
Open WEP
Shared WEP
WPA-Enterprise TKIP
WPA-Personal TKIP
WPA2-Enterprise TKIP
WPA2-Personal TKIP
Vendor defined TKIP
WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined
Vendor defined Vendor defined
WPA-Enterprise CCMP
WPA-Personal CCMP
WPA2-Enterprise CCMP
Vendor defined CCMP
WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined
Vendor defined Vendor defined
WPA2-Personal CCMP
Authentication and cipher supported in ad-hoc mode:
Open None
Open WEP-40bit
Open WEP-104bit
Open WEP
WPA2-Personal CCMP
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============================= SHOW INTERFACES =========================
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There is 1 interface on the system:
Name : Wireless Network Connection
Description : D-Link DWA-552 XtremeN Desktop Adapter
GUID : 8da4f1e7-fa3f-4277-a173-e636ccdf89c6
Physical address : REMOVED
State : disconnected
Hosted network status : Not started
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=========================== SHOW HOSTED NETWORK =======================
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Hosted network settings
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Mode : Allowed
SSID name : "DRAX-35900"
Max number of clients : 100
Authentication : WPA2-Personal
Cipher : CCMP
Hosted network status
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Status : Not started
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============================= SHOW SETTINGS ===========================
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Wireless LAN settings
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Show blocked networks in visible network list: No
Only use GP profiles on GP-configured networks: No
Hosted network mode allowed in WLAN service: Yes
Allow shared user credentials for network authentication: Yes
Block period: Not Configured.
Auto configuration logic is enabled on interface "Wireless Network Connectio
n"
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============================== SHOW FILTERS ===========================
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Allow list on the system (group policy)
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<None>
Allow list on the system (user)
-------------------------------
<None>
Block list on the system (group policy)
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<None>
Block list on the system (user)
-------------------------------
<None>
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=========================== SHOW CREATEALLUSER ========================
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Everyone is allowed to create all user profiles.
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============================= SHOW PROFILES ===========================
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Profiles on interface Wireless Network Connection:
Group policy profiles (read only)
---------------------------------
<None>
User profiles
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<None>
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========================== SHOW PROFILES NAME=* =======================
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Profile "*" is not found on the system.
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======================= SHOW NETWORKS MODE=BSSID ======================
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Interface name : Wireless Network Connection
There are 1 networks currently visible.
SSID 1 : Home
Network type : Infrastructure
Authentication : WPA2-Personal
Encryption : CCMP
BSSID 1 : REMOVED
Signal : 42%
Radio type : 802.11n
Channel : 11
Basic rates (Mbps) : 1 2 5.5 11
Other rates (Mbps) : 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
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Reply:
Aurenas,
Thanks for your reply. Would you please try configuring your router for WPA2-PSK with CCMP ONLY (i.e. disable TKIP) and let me know if that works for you. This particular device+driver combination has a problem connecting with some routers that enable TKIP and use WEP as the multicast cipher. Typically configuring the router for WPA2-PSK with CCMP ONLY will disable WEP as the multicast cipher and then you should be able to connect. Do let us know if this fixes your issue.
Thanks,
Alok Manchanda
Microsoft Corporation
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Windows7 (and Vista) support 40 bit and 108 bit WEP (sometimes publicized as 64 bit and 128 bit respectively). Quoting from the wikipedia page on WEP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy):
"Standard 64-bit WEP uses a 40 bit key (also known as WEP-40), which is concatenated with a 24-bit initialization vector (IV) to form the RC4 traffic key. At the time that the original WEP standard was being drafted, U.S. Government export restrictions on cryptographic technology limited the key size. Once the restrictions were lifted, all of the major manufacturers eventually implemented an extended 128-bit WEP protocol using a 104-bit key size (WEP-104)."
Thanks,
Alok Manchanda
Microsoft Corporation
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Reply:
Upgrade to newer NICs that support WPA2 for your own safety.
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Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
On Fri, 29-May-09 18:17:14 GMT, wilscor41 wrote:
>I had the same problem, then I read somehere that RC7 needs 128bit encryption to network properly. This meant I could not use my older nics software, etc. When I changed all my clients to 128 wep, all has worked well since.
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My router log shows :
[INFO] Wed Jun 03 10:47:15 2009 Wireless system with MAC address REMOVED associated
[INFO] Wed Jun 03 10:47:10 2009 Wireless system with MAC address REMOVED disconnected for reason: Received Deauthentication.
[INFO] Wed Jun 03 10:47:02 2009 Wireless system with MAC address REMOVED associated
Thanks
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Reply:
Aurenas, I am not aware of any issues around this scenario. Please collect traces by running the below commands and email them to alokm at microsoft dot com. Thanks for your help here.
Alok Manchanda
Microsoft Corporation
Do the following from an administrative command prompt:
- Netsh trace start wlan_dbg report=yes
- netsh ras set tr * en
- Reproduce your problem
- netsh ras set tr * dis
- Netsh trace stop
Please send or share
Alok Manchanda Microsoft Corporation
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I have seen this with Win7RC1 and now that I have done a completely fresh install of Win7 Enterprise I am still seeing it. Here is the situation and what I am seeing. We have Cisco WAPs running WPA-Enerprise. The name of the wireless nework is GVPrivate. In the "Manage wireless networks that use (Wireless Network Connectio)" dialogue there is an entry for GVPrivate listed as "Networks you can view". The network is properly identified and shows up with no issues. However, when I click on the network icon in the task bar the list that is provide shows the public access point (called GVPublic), the the private access point shows up as "Other Network". If I attempt to connect to the "Other Network" I get a dialogue asking for the SSID. If I enter the SSID GVPrivate I get an error "Windows unable to connect to GVPrivate" and no connection. I have tried uninstalling the drive, disabling the wireless card, reinstalling the driver, deleting it from device manager and then reinstalling it... I am out of ideas, and everything I do provides the same result, e.g. GVPrivate shows up in the Manager Wireless Networks list but not in the list of networks I can connect to.
I don't believe this is an authentication issue. I believe it is an issue of Windows not being able to reconcile the connection as being valid.
Thoughts on what I can try???
Andy Atencio
andyatencio@hotmial.com
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Reply:
Hi,
I have a similar problem and I sent an email to Alokm at microsoft dot com with netsh trace info but it seems he doesn't work at microsoft any longer.
The problem is My Wireless NIC does not connect to our WPA-2 Enterprise AP and gets stuck at "Attempting to Authenticate……"
Is there anybody else who can help me with this issue? I am on Windows 7 SP1 x64 professional.
Thanks,
Tanmay.
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Licensing mobility pricing
Hello,
We would like to use the Virtual Machine to migrate existing on-premise SSRS to Azure using IaaS. Please confirm whether we can leverage existing on-premise enterprise edition license on Virtual Machine? Do we need to incur any additional expenses if we do so?
Thanks,
Shilpa
- Changed type Yi-Lun Luo Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:03 AM This is a general discussion about billing.
Reply:
According to the Overview of Windows Azure Virtual Machines page on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj156143.aspx), SSRS is supported on Windows Azure Virtual Machines. See the section on Windows Azure Supplied Virtual Machine Images - SSRS is listed in the details area next to Microsoft SQL Server.
Additionally, the Windows Azure FAQ (https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/faq/) states that if you have SA (Software Assurance), you can use license mobility to "bring-your-own-license" for VM supported server products.
Instead of going the Virtual Machine route, would using SQL Azure Reporting Services work in your situation?
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Reply:
Hi,
Thanks
We are not considering the Azure SQL Reporting service because it is too costly ($0.88 per hour per instance). We want to confirm whether we can move our onpremise SSRS license to azure virtual machine without any charges (no license mobility fee)
Thanks,
Shilpa
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Reply:
Hi,
SQL Azure Reporting service cost $0.88 per hour per instance means you need to pay for it when the reporting service generate the report, not just mean the reporting service running time, does your reporting service need generating report all the time? Here is more info about Azure billing:
https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/#data-management
Hope this helps.
Please mark the replies as answers if they help or unmark if not. If you have any feedback about my replies, please contact msdnmg@microsoft.com Microsoft One Code Framework
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Reply:
Hi,
The application does not generate reports all the time, but needs to be deployed all the time. Reports are viewed from asp.net web applicationby uses on ad-hoc basis.
This needs application to be deployed all the time. So if the reporting service is deployed, it still incurs cost..
Thanks,
Shilpa
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Reply:
Arvind,
AFAIK, the $0.88 charges are applicable for the deployed instance and for ad-hoc reporting you need to have the deployed instance of sql azure reporting services anyways. This makes it expensive deal.
Could you please confirm if "we can move our onpremise SSRS license to azure virtual machine without any charges (no license mobility fee)", I am also interested in knowing about SQL Server Licenses too.
Thanks
-Sachin Sancheti
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What are your client polling/evaluation times?
I would like to know what others have their client settings configured for in CM 2012. In my environment of about 9000 global clients with a single primary site, I plan to do the following. Anything not listed is still the default setting.
Compliance evaluation: every 1 days
Hardware Inventory: every 1 days
Software deployment re-evaluation: every 1 hours
Software Inventory: every 7 days
Software metering: every 3 days
Reply:
I have left them to default in a infra where we have 10k clients. The default settings are more than enough for me to run reporting etc.
Typically, you would bump the settings to 3 days or lesser when you are going through a big OS deployment project like upgrading to Windows 7 or Windows 8, where you would need more upto date and frequent reports about software, hardware inventory from clients.
There is a nice article about settings and configurations by Anthony - http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/socal/archive/2007/03/12/sccm-2007-how-to-site-configuration.aspx. Though the article is for CM07, still thought process would be similar to CM12.
Regards, Vik Singh "If this thread answered your question, please click on "Mark as Answer"
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Reply:
Software deployment re-evaluation: every 1 hours
That's way too agressive. I would stick with the defaults here (1x/week).
Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de
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Reply:
I thought having the software deployment setting lower was something that was easily supported. I remember seeing a demo from the early days of CM2012 where they used the term "admin intent" for an application. It showed how something a user removed will be quickly re-installed if the admin intent was for the application to be required.
If this setting is only every 7 days, the user could remove a critical application and it would not get re-installed for up to 7 days right?
I previously created a collection that was evaluated daily against hardware inventory to see if an application was installed. Machines would end up in the collection and then a mandatory advertisement re-installed the application. I was hoping the new required application model could replace that method. It's also collections like this (based on if a machine has a specific application/service) as to why I have hardware inventory set to daily.
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New way to login to Windows Azure
Hi! We're happy to announce support for "organizational" logins to Windows Azure. You can now login to Azure using the same method as logging-in to Office 365.
More details here: http://www.bilalaslam.com/2012/08/25/announcing-organizational-accounts-on-windows-azure/.
Thanks,
Azure Billing Team
- Edited by Olga Ivanova-Msft Saturday, August 25, 2012 6:22 AM
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Petition - Windows Security
Increasing vulnerability exploits over the months with indication that security threats get worst, it would be advisable to implement higher security, addressing third-party vendors who rely on plug-in architectures (Adobe Flash, Adobe Air, Java, Python, both desktop and web), to be required to adhere to the Windows Driver Signing principle.
The biggest security issues are to be found within the Adobe Flash/Air platform and even worst, Java and java script in conjunction with Windows, respectively.
Therefore, such third-party architectures need to be treated, in regards to end-user security, on driver-level or equivalent.
MCSA/MCSE Windows Server 2012 Certifications, Exams, Links, Launch Dates - All Together!
Copy and paste the information below into Word or Notepad so you have all the information together.
All of the information below is subject to change at Microsoft's discretion. For example, Microsoft might change the release dates of the exams.
I skipped the upgrade paths (there are many!) because none of the upgrade exam web pages have been created yet.
Good luck!
MCSA/MCSE: WINDOWS SERVER 2012
MCSA: Windows Server 2012
70-410, 70-411, 70-412
MCSE: Server Infrastructure
70-410, 70-411, 70-412, 70-413, 70-414
MCSE: Desktop Infrastructure
70-410, 70-411, 70-412, 70-415, 70-416
EXAMS
70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-410
Available: September 17
70-411: Administering Windows Server 2012
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-411
Available: September 17
70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-412
Available: September 17
70-413: Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-413
Available: October 16
70-414: Implementing an Advanced Server Infrastructure
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-414
Available: October 16
70-415: Implementing a Desktop Infrastructure
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-415
Available: October 16
70-416: Implementing Desktop Application Environments
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-416
Available: October 16
Best wishes, Davin Mickelson
Reply:
Hi Davin,
This is exactly the information I needed to have in one place. It's very thoughtful of you to do this. Thanks for sharing.
BTW, you've been a most prolific poster of late, dispensing helpful information all over. I therefore vote you Forum Information Officer :-)
James
- Edited by James JT Taylor Saturday, August 25, 2012 7:04 PM Merged two posts
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Reply:
Thanks, James!
I wish the Microsoft site could put it all on one page.
Best wishes, Davin Mickelson
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Reply:
Hi David,
thanks for sharing these information on several discussion posts. Great job!
Best Regards. When you see answers and helpful posts, please click Vote As Helpful, Propose As Answer, and/or Mark As Answer. This helps us build a healthy and positive community.
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Report is rendered twice on report viewer
Hi ,
Today morning , i got some strange error on my SSRS report server, while viewing the report from report viewer, it is displaying single report twice which seems me to be SSRS server problem, It is appending same report after its end and i never end up with such problem before.
can anybody please help me.
Thanks
Amit dhir.
Amit Dhir
Reply:
Hi,
Could you restart reporting services from SQL Server Configuration manager?
Cheers
Please Mark as Answer or Vote As Helpful if a post solves your problem. MCP, MCTS, MCITP
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Reply:
Hi Soheil ,
Thanks for reply, i did the same, but still same problem.
Amit Dhir
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Multiple versions of PS V.3 RC
There are multiple versions of KB2506143. Just because you have this KB installed does not mean you are on the latest version of V3. I have just upgraded my V.3 to build 6.2.8370.0, which is higher than my previous build. (I can't remember what is was).
I had to uninstall the old update, reboot the computer, and then re-install the latest version of KB2506143, reboot the computer again.
This version has improved intellisense, particularly variable completion. Type in $, and a whole list of variables drop down. I like it!
Grant Ward, a.k.a. Bigteddy
- Edited by Bigteddy Monday, August 27, 2012 11:48 AM
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