Codec issues with Windows Media player 11 - Free Codec Package Found!

Are you using Windows Media player 11?Whether you have or not yet, there are some positive upgrades such as the sleek new look, revamped playback controls, sync with your mp3 player and more intuitive media management for your large collections of video, audio and even album art.However, like with anything, take the good with bad, and for Windows Media 11 there is no exception.

After trying it myself, the first thing I went to test was video codec support. I found it to be lacking. This has been a big issue in previous versions of Windows Media players. Audio files are no problem, images, not an issue, its the video type support that falls short. Again, unless you are playing a standard AVI or WMV file for example ,there are issues with other codecs such as Xvid, DivX, Mov and so on.So whats the solution if you want to keep using windows Media player 11 you ask? A Vista Codec Pack v4.7.x has just been released containing all the codecs you would possibly need to play your new and old video files. Its a free download. With this package installed, you shouldn't need to install any other codec or filter. It does not contain a media player and it doesn't associates filetypes. With this package installed you will be able to use any media player, limited only by the players' capabilities, to play DVD's, movies and video clips of almost any filetype.Streaming video is supported in all popular web browsers.

By default you won't need to make any adjustments to enjoy a variety of media content immediately. Get it at Softpedia.com , there are instructions there to assist you in the installation.Support from the developer of the Vista Codec Package can be obtained on the MSFN Forums.

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Tip: Resetting New Performance Counters

For those of you that have installed either the Beta 2 or Beta 2 RF releases of FSOCS, you may be aware of the new set of performance counters that are available for monitoring the status and health of the product. Depending on the type of testing you may be performing with the product, it is sometimes useful to be able to reset these counters to get a baseline set of numbers. By default, most of the new counters are never reset, however the "ResetCountersOnStart" registry key can be set to override this behavior. Upon startup, all of the new counters will be reset.

    1. Create a DWORD named "ResetCountersOnStart" under: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Forefront Server Security\Office Communications Server   [Software\Wow6432Node on 64-bit systems]
    2. Set the value to 1
    3. Start (or Restart) Forefront services and OCS

NOTE: Once this is done, consider whether this behavior is something that is desired each time the service starts up. If not, be sure to remove the new key or set the DWORD value to 0 to ensure that the behavior does not occur each time the service starts up. This behavior only applied to the new performance categories:
    Microsoft FSOCS Categorizer
    Microsoft FSOCS Health
    Microsoft FSOCS Sip Traffic
    Microsoft FSOCS Scan Filter

ShreyS
Forefront Server Security (DEV)

urgent help, wrote 0 rows

i have one ssis package which does some transformation on source data and loads into sqlserver destination table, when i run the pakage it shows total of 550 rows to target but when i do a select on the destination table it shows no rows, also the execution result shows "component target wrote 0 rows",

can you p[lease help me with that.

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It seems like the rows are possibly erroring out in some way... Are you receiving any errors? Do you have the destination set to ignore failures? Could you redirect the errors to another component and put a data viewer on this?

More information would help us to help you.

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If you wish to return to this question you can go ahead and change the type back to 'Question'. Then you can edit your initial post and change the radio button at the top of the post editor window.

If the issue has been resolved, we'd love to hear your solution. By sharing your experience you can help other community members facing similar problems.

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Hi,

can you check in the execution details tab for warnings and error messages and tell us, so that it will help in understanding the scenario.

Place the data viewers(say Grid view) on the precedence constraint of the SQL destination, so that you can check whether the data is inserting to the db table correctly.

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Windows Server 2008 & Printer Redirection

Good Day All,

I am setting up an ts2008 environment and having an issue with EasyPrint/Printer Redirection. I have disabled printer redirection via the GPO and I have also disbabled it via the Device Manager. We are using an application called Jetforms Central. When the application receives the print it attempts to pass the job to the workstation that is initating the RDP connection. This does not occur in Windows 2003 and I am not sure how to disable it.

Example

Client TRO1WS00140IT host connects to a remote app, prints a document to a printer installed on the TS2008 Server TRO1AP00050TRM. The print is accepted, but its trying to print to \\TRO1WS00140IT\HPLJ4000. It fails to print to the server.

Any help would be greatly apprecaited, I am at a loss.

Changed type Morgan Che [MSFT] Monday, December 15, 2008 9:32 AM adjust no responce

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Hi,

From your description, I understand you have configured the corresponding Group Policy to prevent Printer redirection, but when running remoteapp, the application tries to use the printer on itself instead of the printer on Terminal server. If I misunderstood, please let me know.

To further assist on this issue, could you please help collect the following log files to indicate how you configured Group Policy to disable Printer redirection?

a) On the a desktop workstation, run "gpupdate /force" to reapply the group policies. Then run "gpresult /v >c:gp.txt"

b) You also You can use the GPMC (group policy management console) to collect the group policy result data:

- On the server that has GPMC installed, login to the domain with administrator account.

- In the GPMC, process the Group Policy Result wizard to collect the data of RSOP.

i) Right click Group Policy Results---> Group Policy Results Wizard…

ii) Choose Another computer to point to a client computer that user logs on and click next.

iii) Select the logon user and click next.

You also can export the Group Policy Result report and send it with gp.txt to me via (tfwst@microsoft.com) for the further investigations.

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App-V Rocks

Just a test.

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I agree about App-V :)

http://wbracken.wordpress.com

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I agree with that and may this could be the right place to create a App-V HowTo repository for virtualized applications.

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OWC Chart Multiple Y Axis

I have been working with the OWC 11 Chart component and I am trying to figure out how to programatically add 2 y axis with different scales to the chart. I have been able to figure out how to make it happen through the designer but now I want to make it happen at run time using .NET. I have 3 series and it is the third one that I want to add to the second y axis.

Changed type Cindy Meister MVP Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:36 AM As no answer was posted, but thread is resolved

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I found my own answer and I am not sure how to delete my question.

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Hi curtis

I'm glad you were able to find an answer to your question. I'll take care of removing it from the VSTO forum, but please note: The VSTO forum is not the correct place to ask questions about OWC. There is a newsgroup for that, you'll find the link in the VSTO forum's "Please Read First" message (that also outlines what VSTO is).

Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP

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Comparison chart of sqlservr.exe file sizes in SQL 7, 2000, 2005 and 2008 RTM

	x86free	x86debug	x64free	x64debug	ia64free	ia64debug
SQL 7	4	19
SQL2000	7	30			23	54
SQL2005	31	47	50	57	92	149
SQL2008	40	69	56	81	108	206

in MB.

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What is free? What is debug?

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Hello SQLUSA,

free = MSDE ( Sql Server 2000 ) or Express Edition

The little reproach i will do would be size in MB on a drive ?

Have a nice day

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excellent solution

This recommendation worked fantastically. I say this because I have spend three days on this issue. Curiously, I had this problem on my home computer running xp and tried to find answers on google at work, running vista. All I got there was answers that sent me to commercial register programs that would have cost me approx 40.00. When I searched Code 37 from my home xp computer I happened upon this anser which was quick, easy and WORKED. Thank you so much.

windows terminal server licensing 2008

Hello,

Is there any option in win2008 for installing windows terminal server licensing for trial prupose and use it for some grace period??

thanks
soma

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Hello Soma,

Thank you for your post! I would suggest posting your question in one of the Microsoft TechNet > Forums Home > Windows Server > Terminal Services located here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/threads/.

Have a great day!

Sudarshan shindode Tier 2 Application Support Server and Tools Online Engineering Live Services Team

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Unlocking policy labels (Sharepoint) in Office documents

Cindy;

I am trying to unlock a Policy Label using the Invoke method you use here in your example, my only problem is the WordApplication spawns a Accept/Cancel dialog when I run the following:

object objWB = wordApplication.GetType().InvokeMember("WordBasic", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, wordApplication, null);

objWB.GetType().InvokeMember("UnlockPolicyLabel", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, objWB, null );

How can I get this InvokeMember to automaticly accept or OK the action im trying to perform...

Thought you might know since you are so clever to have been using this type of invocation already.

Split by Cindy Meister MVP Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:25 AM unrelated to thread http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/ede895ef-2112-4ada-b119-389fdf5a5372. To be merged to iindependet thread
Edited by Cindy Meister MVP Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:30 AM Cannot currently merge to thread http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/9bf2ad60-a221-4a89-9bbc-487369050c4e, but is linked to that thread.
Changed type Cindy Meister MVP Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:41 AM Question has been answered in other thread, unable to merge the two

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I'm sorry, but I have no idea what aspect of the object model this represents. I've never heard of a "Policy Label" before. Without knowing what it is and how it works, I can't begin to guess under what circumstances this dialog might appear, or what is required to suppress it.

All I can say is that if I use this in Word's VBA "Immediate Window" it runs without error, and without displaying a message. I don't know what might make it behave differently for you, whether it's an issue with your installation or an issue with calling it via PInvoke (which shouldn't actually be the case). You might see whether using WordBasic.UnlockPolicyLabel works the same run from Word's VBA editor on the same machine...

Beyond that, I recommend posting to a newsgroup or forum that supports the technology linked to a "Policy Label" (Sharepoint)?

Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP

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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102103301033.aspx

The above explains what a policy label is, Its part of MS-Office 2007, 2007 introduced the lock/unlock aspect. The method I describe above is similiar to WordBasic.UnlockPolicyLabel Command thru VSTO. The code I provided shows how to perform this action in Visual Studio using a language called C# (C-Sharp). Since you wrote previously using this form of code (InvokeMember) from a GetType() Object I thought you may be familiar with how to pass the Accept, Enter or return to OK the dialog this call makes when word is automated.

The link above shows the dialog you see when you try and unlock a Word-DOCx file that has a Label on it created using the Policy Label insert command in the ribbon bar.

This thread goes on to: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/9bf2ad60-a221-4a89-9bbc-487369050c4e/ Which you reply you have no idea what I am talking about: Are you the Same Cindy in each thread, or did you fail to connect the two threads together?

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