Creating update lists automatically
Hi,
since the process creating update lists is in my opinion a bit painful, I have written a script which performs that task for you. The idea is to have a reference client with the Configuration Manager client installed which successfully completed a software update scan. The script then creates an update list with all software updates reported as missing for this reference client.
Maybe helpful for some of you. For details see http://cid-dc43b6dbf64a5be0.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DC43B6DBF64A5BE0!113.entry.
Cheers
Joachim
Print function not working for microsoft 2005 reporing server viewed from IE7 browser
Print function not working for microsoft 2005 reporting server when viewed from IE7 browser.
Please help us on this regard.It is an urgent requiement.
Thanks
- Changed type John Zerone Monday, November 24, 2008 12:04 PM
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This one is for bug reports on **the forum software**
Moving to the Off-Topic forum.
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no outlook login box
After doing a bit of research decided to add this information here. If you have outlook 2003 and exchange 2003 and and a Matrox dual monitor box.
If you check task manager you see Microsoft Outlook Credentials - Running but outlook never opens a login box. Go to your Matrox, desktop management, and uncheck Center dialog boxes and message boxes.
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Vista reboots without warning after update installation
I have checked the registry key on the Vista machines HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers = 1) and it appears to be set correctly.
The application log says hat the reboot is being deferred on several of the updates - right before the machines reboot...
- Changed type Eric Zhang CHN Monday, November 24, 2008 7:14 AM no response
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Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP(x2), MCTS(x5), MCP(x7), MCBMSP
Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)
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software counterfeiting
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WHEN I TURN ON MY COMPUTER I GET THIS MESSAGE
YOU MAY BE A VICTIM SOFTWARE COUNTERFEITING
CLICK RESOLVE NOW TO GET HELP WITH THIS PROBLEM
RESOLVE NOW RESOLVE LATER
PL HELP ME
REGARDS
KULDEEP SINGH
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To both Martha and Kuldeep:
How did each of you obtain your copy of Windows? Purchased, preinstalled on a PC that you bought new, preinstalled on a PC that you bought "from a guy", downloaded, ???
Kuldeep, what version of Windows? Martha said, you did not.
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SQL Server 2005 Express is NOT Supported for use with SoftGrid/App-V Virtual Application Servers in a production environment
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Because of the limitations of SQL Server 2005 Express it is not supported as a SQL server option for SoftGrid or App-v Application Virtual Servers.
SQL Express doesn't support the SQL Server Agent which means:
1. The SoftGrid/App-V database clean-up and resizing jobs will not run causing the database to grow uncontrollably overtime to the maximum of 4Gb at which point the SoftGrid Service could fail and cause a server outage.
2. The SoftGrid Management Console options to control database size and retention period for the metering data options will not work.
More Information
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Use either Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for production Virtual Application Servers.
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For more information regarding Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), please also refer to the App-V Team blog at http://blogs.technet.com/Softgrid/.
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Yes it is not supported, just like MSDE wasn't supported in earlier versions. But it definitely works for a test environment, just not production as it is not something that can be used on a sustained basis, for the reasons listed above.
mattmcdermott
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System Center Service Manager Beta 1 is Released!
System Center Service Manager Beta 1 has shipped - you can download the Beta from Connect:
https://connect.microsoft.com/SelfNomination.aspx?ProgramID=2733&pageType=1&SiteID=446
- Changed type Vladimir BakhmetyevMicrosoft employee Saturday, January 17, 2009 6:20 AM
Using a mailbox sync for Exchange coexistence with Microsoft Online
Passing on some information on a partner tool released this last week. http://www.cemaphore.com/press_release_20081117x.php
Cemahore Systems released MailShadow for Microsoft Online this last week. It is a migration and coexistence tool that will sync mailboxes from an on-premise Exchange server with mailboxes provisioned in Microsoft Online. This can be used for several reasons. First, during a trial stage it allows you to try a mailbox in Microsoft Online but still keeping a copy of all mail in an on-premise mailbox. Second, during a migration, it allows users a sync option for migrating their mailbox content to Microsoft Online. This allow them to coexist for a time period with the On-premise Exchange server while others are still migrating.
You can download a free trial from thier web-site. http://www.cemaphore.com/mailshadow_x.php
Erik
Sr. Program Manager
Microsoft
Terminal Services 2008 WAN Slowness
we found 2 things that were causing this
1) the 2k8 servers were sending out large packets to the clients (packets greater then 1500). on the vmware nic drivers there is a setting called TSO enabled. setting this to 0 turns off the necessary settings.
2) we then noticed that there were duplicate packets being sent out from the servers to the client and the client was responding twice to them(causing an additional 1/6 increase in bandwidth). we noticed that there was a bug in vmware if you are using "becon probing" as a heartbeat to detect the status of your redundant nics and switchs. Disableing this feature fixed our issue.
fixing these to issues drastically increased the speed for our client.
we are still looking into a couple of specific site related issues but if anything else arrises i will post it here.
Thomas Maine, MCP
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But hey, don't you think installing TS on VmWare is a reputation suicide?
Unless they are using just Office App's and not even Outlooks, or worse Notes and something else this will kiss the performance all together. Although I found your findings about ESX environment very valuable. Thanks!
Citrix Technology Professional, PubForum Founder http://www.pubforum.net
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Running Terminal Service on Vmware has worked out very well for us. We are running our ESX server in a cluster. The users use office apps including outlook(not in cache mode) and IE. We host there email as well on exchange 2007. We have been watching the environment and its running quite well with the 250+ users we have running on the 3 servers. we actually added a 4th one, just in case 1 went down, they wouldnt notice a degragation in performance. With the users using outlook it does add additonal performance hit, but we notice the memory hit you would take if you were running outlook in a 2003 environment is less. From what we can tell it seems to be sharing memory space. While i agree with you that its an additional tax on performance, with the right situation and as cheap as hardware is, we thought vmware was the right way to go.
Thomas Maine, MCP
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Where is the ofurm for security
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| using System.Windows.Controls; | |
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| public static PageSwitcher pageSwitcher; | |
| public static void Switch( UserControl newPage ) | |
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| pageSwitcher.Navigate( newPage ); | |
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| object state ) | |
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| using System; |
| using System.Windows.Controls; |
| public static class Switcher |
| { |
| public static PageSwitcher pageSwitcher; |
| public static void Switch( UserControl newPage ) |
| { |
| pageSwitcher.Navigate( newPage ); |
| } |
| public static void Switch( UserControl newPage, |
| object state ) |
| { |
| pageSwitcher.Navigate( newPage, state ); |
| } |
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Start Planning Your Move to Microsoft Online Services - Get Free Asessment Tools and Guidance
If it ain't broke
- Edited by Carl Bateman Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:58 AM
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I personally find the linking of the forums with social networking very inappropriate. For me the Microsoft newsgroups and forums are serious business. Social networking is fine, but it is not for me. I already spend quite enough time at the computer.
David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVP
- Edited by davewilk Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:36 PM Test edit
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www.microsoft.com/forums/msdn would be better. We all know, its Microsoft, right? And you can drop www, then it becomes Microsoft.com/forums/msdn, which is easy to remember. You just go to Microsoft, then to Forums, then to Msdn.
- Edited by Silvercode Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:49 AM Added a dot
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rebranding ??
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Not obvious to me (yes I know you are joking). I am not aware of a single social forum in the social.msdn.micrsoft.com/forums; they are all technical, correct?
It is like Windows Explorer that explores the filesystem, not windows. There are many other instances of Microsoft's need to confuse, and complaining about it encorages them.
Sam Hobbs; see my SimpleSamples.Info
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Server 2008
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/trial-software.aspx
Michael D. Alligood,
MCITP, MCTS, MCSA, MCDST, MCP, A+, Network+
The I.T. Classroom Blog
Start. Research. Plan. Perform. End. Test. Evaluate.
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Business Intelligence Studio For Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
Many people might already be knowing this, but thought of sharing with everyone the release of Business Intelligence Studio for PerformancePoint Server.
Venice Consulting Group (VCG) announced the release of Business Intelligence Studio (BIS) software for Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. BIS was developed by Orange Peel Inc., a joint venture of VCG and Solver Inc.
Website:
http://www.orangepeelcorp.com/pages/Home.aspx
Product Info:
http://www.orangepeelcorp.com/pages/Public/OurProducts.aspx
Screen Casts:
http://screencasts.orangepeelcorp.com/default.html
Please post your comments as I would really like to know what's everyone's thought on this Product. I would recommend going through the Screen Casts to get the idea on the functionality supported by this product.
Thanks,
Ajay
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thank you very much for your hint. I just had a look at some screencasts. This studio seeems to be very interesting for me. For me especially i found some very interesting great features:
- dropdown boxes and checkboxes in the intersection-area
- line-items (adding some new members to a dimension)
It seems to me that this tool uses not the default techniques of performancepoint. For example the filters use the drop-down boxes of excel and not that popup window we know from the perfomancpoint forms. The dropdown boxes are much more comfortable in my opinion. The "look and feel" seems not to be the original performancepoint one.
Perhaps this is a reason not to use it. Because I don't want to have just another tool with another bugs. On the other hand they will use the performancepoint api in the background.
I am very keen on testing it in my current project.
best regards
Joachim
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Hi,
i too do like the features of the software. But what is the price of the software? Some ten days ago i sent an emali to orangepeelcorp about the price of the software but still did not get any answers on that.
I hope someone of you knows or at least has some information on the pricing models for this software.
Cheers
Marko
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I have the same problem. I wrote an email some weeks ago to solverusa and got no answer yet. Yesterday I wrote an email to orangepeel.
I have no clue about their pricing model.
Let's hope for a reaction :-)
Cheers
Joachim
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Dear Forum,
I am glad you like the videos of Business Intelligence Studio for PPS 2007. We have just updated the website, so the links on here are broken.
You can find the videos on here if you go to:
http://orangepeelcorp.com/products/demos.htm
I am sorry your emails got lost. Please feel free to email me at per@orangepeelcorp.com and I will be happy to answer your questions and provide demo downloads.
Regards,
Per Solli
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Working script that creates PTR records in Reverse Lookup Zone from A records in Forward Lookup Zone
So, when I started at the organization I work at, I inherited a very funky split-brain DNS heirarchy. This created an issue with reverse lookups in general, and the vast number of RLZ PTR records that needed to be created made this script absolutely necessary.
Hope it helps!
AK
P.S. Hey, scripting guys! Why no Perl syntax highlighting?
| #! perl |
| use Win32::OLE('in'); |
| use constant wbemFlagReturnImmediately => 0x10; |
| use constant wbemFlagForwardOnly => 0x20; |
| my $codomain = "new.domain.com"; |
| my $vlcodomain = "old.domain.com"; |
| my $ReverseBroomfieldDomain = "250.10.10.in-addr.arpa."; |
| $computer = "DC.new.domain.com"; |
| $objWMI = Win32::OLE->GetObject("winmgmts:\\\\$computer\\root\\MicrosoftDNS") or die "WMI connection failed.\n"; |
| $colA = $objWMI->ExecQuery("select * from MicrosoftDNS_Atype where DomainName = 'new.domain.com' OR DomainName = 'old.domain.com'","WQL",wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly); |
| $colPTR = $objWMI->ExecQuery("Select * from MicrosoftDNS_PTRtype where DomainName = '250.10.10.in-addr.arpa'","WQL",wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly); |
| $objRR = $objWMI->Get("MicrosoftDNS_ResourceRecord"); |
| my @existingPTR; |
| my $objOutParam; |
| foreach my $objPTR(in $colPTR){ |
| my $RecordData = $objPTR->{RecordData}; |
| push(@existingPTR, $RecordData); |
| } |
| foreach my $objA (in $colA){ |
| my $OwnerName = $objA->{OwnerName}; |
| my $exists = CheckForExistence("$OwnerName", @existingPTR); |
| if ($exists eq 0){ |
| print "$OwnerName needs to be created...\n"; |
| my $ip = $objA->{IpAddress}; |
| my @splitIp = split(/\./, "$ip"); |
| my $reversedIp = $splitIp[3] . "." . $splitIp[2] . "." . $splitIp[1] . "." . $splitIp[0]; |
| my $recordToAdd = $reversedIp . ".in-addr.arpa IN PTR " . $OwnerName; |
| my $strNull = $objRR->CreateInstanceFromTextRepresentation($computer, $ReverseBroomfieldDomain, $recordToAdd, $objOutParam); |
| my $objRR2 = $objWMI->Get($objOutParam); |
| print "Created $recordToAdd\n"; |
| } |
| } |
| sub CheckForExistence{ |
| my ($Candidate, @existing) = @_; |
| my $retval; |
| foreach my $item (in @existing){ |
| if ("$Candidate" eq "$item"){ |
| $retval = "1"; |
| }else{ |
| $retval = "0"; |
| } |
| } |
| return $retval; |
| } |
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After XP SP3 Update Scanner Not Found
After install of XP SP3, my HP 5470c scanner is not detected. Also, Device Manager is empty. I have Norton Internet Security 2008 installed. It was disabled during the SP 3 install. I uninstalled, and re-installed, the scanner software to no avail. Why were these problems not found, and fixed, during the beta test? I am not a "power" user. If extensive registry modifications are required, this is beyond my capabilities. I need a fix from Microsoft. Where does the buck stop?
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Not that it will be much consolation, but I am having the same problem.
I recently upgraded to SP3.
I had never tried to install my old HP 5470c on this system, but had tried to install a VuPoint digital film scanner.
It would NOT recognize the new hardware. That is when I tried to install the HP 5470c with the same results.
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I don't think the buck will stop anywhere. On some of my machines SP3 seems to fit right in, one machine will not run at all with SP3 installed. The machine that won't run with it is the newest one I've built.
SP3 is a band-aid for an ouchie that doesn't exist.
As long as you have all other critical updates installed I wouldn't even bother with SP3.
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Guests cannot access host
This has to be a common issue as I am seeing it in 30-40% of the installs of late.
Anyone else?
virtualfailsafe
ISA server and authentication methods
Are there any plans for supporting extra authentication methods for web publishing rules, for example OpenID?
The reasoning behind this is that hardware tokens are becoming much more reasonably priced and are starting to take off in a big way.
It would be very cool if for example you could issue a device like the Yubikey (http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey/ - a small usb stick that pretends to be a keyboard and generates a one time password string), and then in the FBA capture a username, password & onetime password. This would then be authenticated and allow the user through.
I can see this being very helpful for us publishing our CRM system to the internet etc...
Thoughts anyone?
Ben.
- Edited by Bibbleq Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:41 PM spelling errors!
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Not crazy at all - many folks like such devices.
This is actually somthing that is more targeted towards IAG and UAG, since they have much more flexible authentication (and nearly everything else).
Jim Harrison Forefront Edge CS
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SendEmail ACtivity - BindProperty Vs regualr string assignment
I'm struck in understanding the way of using the SendEmail activity in the Sharepoint Workflow.
Can someone please throw some light on on using the Bind property vs direct assigment of the parameters like To, CC From,,
I mean, I can directly use the value assignment via -- this.sendEmail.To = xxxxx@adcb.com in the sendemail_methodInvoking.
I need to understand the advantages of first assigning the bind property to the param "TO" and then providing the data to that ,, like.,,
sendEmail_to1=xxxxx@adcb.com in the sendemail_methodInvoking.
All the Bind Property is helping is casting the Params<to, cc, bcc, subject> as public string,,but I'm not sure if it does have any other advantages,,Would be great if some help me understand this.
Thanks in advance...
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You can do either, If you check out Robert Shelton's videos, he binds the properties to new fields, then alters those properties in a code activity before the the send email activity. So I guess the advantage is that you only need one sendEmail activity.
If, for example you have an if else activity and the branches of that activity decide this contents of an email. Rather than using 2 separate email activities, one for each branch, you can use one at the bottom of the if else and manipulate the new fields in a code activity.
Robert's the man for this, I advise that you check these out as they were a great help to me.
http://www.sheltonblog.com/archive/2007/11/04/series-of-sharepoint-workflow-how-to-videos.aspx
Cheers
How much of your life do you spend watching blue bars?
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Looks like a ggud collection of videos which should be of great use to me ,,I will go thru them..
Thansk,
Mash
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sound card
I HAVE NO AUDIO ON MY COMPUTER. I THINK EITHER THE SOUND CARD OR DRIVER IS MISSING. I HAVE TRIED SYSTEM RESTORE BUT THIS DID NOT HELP. IS THERE ANY WAY TO DOWNLOAD A NEW CARD OR DRIVER. SORRY IF THIS SEEMS A STUPID QUESTION BUT I AM A COMPUTER VIRGIN AND KNOW JACK ABOUT THEM.
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Please let us know the exact make and model number of your computer.
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all it says on the pc is amd sempron
i dont know the make soz
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Did not see the answer on the post, but I have the same problem with having no sound. I believe my daughter (somehow) 'deleted' the sound driver
I am running with XP/Compaq Presario 6000. I am really hoping that there is a download out there to get my sound back.
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I have no audio on my computer I think either the sound card or driver is missing. Could you please help.
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