Gain full control of Server 2008 with a Chinese Input Method
You can see video demo here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8n8Z5WdA4g
Users might be able to gain full control of a system if a Chinese Input Method(freeime build 2007.2.26.0.98, http://www.freewb.org/) is installed.
Welcome to discuss with me: http://www.us-soft.com/
The same has happen before in Windows 2000, Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-069), http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-069.mspx , I think MS should not give that power to a Input Method.
Users might be able to gain full control of a system if a Chinese Input Method(freeime build 2007.2.26.0.98, http://www.freewb.org/) is installed.
Welcome to discuss with me: http://www.us-soft.com/
The same has happen before in Windows 2000, Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-069), http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-069.mspx , I think MS should not give that power to a Input Method.
GDI+ is not properly initialized error randomly happening on web site
I have 5 almost identical web sites on a server (Windows server 2003 Standard). About once a month or so, one of them will give the "GDI+ is not properly initialized" error, even though I haven't made any changes to the web site code or uploaded any files. Restarting IIS doesn't fix the problem.
When this happens, I can fix it by copying the files from one of the other web sites to the one that's giving the error.
This seems very strange.. why would one of the web sites start giving this error when there haven't been any changes? And why on just one site when all 5 of them have the same code?
The site was developed with Visual Studion 2008, asp.net. The server is running IIS 6. There is one single code base for all 5 sites. The differences are either in graphics files in the images folder or in the web.config. None of this changes from month to month.
How can I track down what is causing this problem?
---Selden
Selden
When this happens, I can fix it by copying the files from one of the other web sites to the one that's giving the error.
This seems very strange.. why would one of the web sites start giving this error when there haven't been any changes? And why on just one site when all 5 of them have the same code?
The site was developed with Visual Studion 2008, asp.net. The server is running IIS 6. There is one single code base for all 5 sites. The differences are either in graphics files in the images folder or in the web.config. None of this changes from month to month.
How can I track down what is causing this problem?
---Selden
Selden
Reply:
Hello Selden,
Thank you for your post! I would suggest posting your question in one of the MS Forums,
Home › ASP.NET Forums
located here: http://forums.asp.net/ or for IIS related issues i would suggest IIS forums,
Located here: http://forums.iis.net/
Have a great day!
- Edited by Shrikant Maske Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:49 AM Format
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something is wrong with the ReportingEvents.log
hi,
i have looked at the reportingevents.log in SoftwareDistribution and
i think something is wrong with the reporting events.
i think, this caused by for-loop of the automatic update :rolleyes:
then, its like a "stairs". here an example of it.
security update (KB955069)
security update (KB955069) - security update (KB958644)
security update (KB955069) - security update (KB958644) - security update (KB954600)
and so on ....
Download ReportingEvent
German Windows XP Home/Professional Hologram SP2-CD
i have looked at the reportingevents.log in SoftwareDistribution and
i think something is wrong with the reporting events.
i think, this caused by for-loop of the automatic update :rolleyes:
then, its like a "stairs". here an example of it.
security update (KB955069)
security update (KB955069) - security update (KB958644)
security update (KB955069) - security update (KB958644) - security update (KB954600)
and so on ....
Download ReportingEvent
German Windows XP Home/Professional Hologram SP2-CD
Reply:
hi,
i have reinstalled my system and the issue is always there.
thx.
German Windows XP Home/Professional Hologram SP2-CD
i have reinstalled my system and the issue is always there.
thx.
German Windows XP Home/Professional Hologram SP2-CD
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Reply:
hi,
... really nobody knows about this issue ?
German Windows XP Home/Professional Hologram SP2-CD
... really nobody knows about this issue ?
German Windows XP Home/Professional Hologram SP2-CD
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Test thread
description
Open word application from c#.net-Default IIS Version: 5.1. issue
Hi,
I am trying to open word document from share point site programmatically. I am using below code for it. I am using Visual Studio 2008.
string Doc="Name of my share point site like http://sharpoint/sites/doc/wordapp.doc";
object oread = false;
object oFile = Doc;
Word._Document oDoc = oDocs.Open(ref oFile, ref oMissing,ref oread, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing,
ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing,ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing,
ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
this.Visible = false;
oDoc.Close(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
oDoc = null;
oWord.Quit(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
oWord = null;GC.Collect();
My issue is when I select Visual studio Default IIS from application properties, my code is working fine. I am able to open word successfully. But when I select IIS web server my code fail and give me below error.
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800A1499): The document name or path is not valid. Try one or more of the following: * Check the path to make sure it was typed correctly. * On the File menu, click Open. Search for the file using this dialog box.
Any one have idea why its not working with IIS web server. I am using IIS 5.1
Thanks for all your help.
I am trying to open word document from share point site programmatically. I am using below code for it. I am using Visual Studio 2008.
Word.
ApplicationClass oWord = new Word.ApplicationClass();Word.
Documents oDocs = oWord.Documents;string Doc="Name of my share point site like http://sharpoint/sites/doc/wordapp.doc";
object oread = false;
object oFile = Doc;
Word._Document oDoc = oDocs.Open(ref oFile, ref oMissing,ref oread, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing,
ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing,ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing,
ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
this.Visible = false;
oWord.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = Word.
WdSeekView.wdSeekCurrentPageFooter;oDoc.Close(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
oDoc = null;
oWord.Quit(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
oWord = null;GC.Collect();
My issue is when I select Visual studio Default IIS from application properties, my code is working fine. I am able to open word successfully. But when I select IIS web server my code fail and give me below error.
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800A1499): The document name or path is not valid. Try one or more of the following: * Check the path to make sure it was typed correctly. * On the File menu, click Open. Search for the file using this dialog box.
Any one have idea why its not working with IIS web server. I am using IIS 5.1
Thanks for all your help.
- Changed type Michael Sun [MSFT]Microsoft employee Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:03 AM off topic issue
- Moved by Michael Sun [MSFT]Microsoft employee Monday, January 12, 2009 11:00 AM off topic (Moved from Visual C# General to Off-Topic Posts (Do Not Post Here))
Reply:
The problem is probably with security. Your web pages run on a special user that will not be able to run Word. The workaround is to set up IIS to use a normal user for the web page.
Under web site properties, open Directory Security, Edit Authentication and Access Control and if you allow your users anonymous access, edit the user name and password they would use. Enter your own user name and password for testing. If that works, it would be wise to have a special user account for that.
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they answered your question :)
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Reply:
Thanks for your reply.
I did same as you mention above. But not resolve issue.
I think the issue is with IIS 5.1. Same code is working for IIS 6.0 with same access rights.
Still I am trying to find what's wrong with IIS 5.1
I did same as you mention above. But not resolve issue.
I think the issue is with IIS 5.1. Same code is working for IIS 6.0 with same access rights.
Still I am trying to find what's wrong with IIS 5.1
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Parameter missing a value Error when calling another report from within a report
Hi ,
I have two reports(Report1 and Report2 resp) which are interlinked. Report2 gets called from Report1. Report1 is a chart report showing bar charts. When the user clicks on a particular bar the bar value is passed to Report2. Along with this, there are two additional parameters which the query for the Report2 takes. These two parameters are to be taken as an user input along with the first parameter which is passed from Report1.
This is happening from the Visual Studio IDE . But once I deploy the reports on the Report Server and then try viewing the Report2 from Report1 , I get an error "Parameter is missing a value".
Please suggest .
Prashant Shekhar
I have two reports(Report1 and Report2 resp) which are interlinked. Report2 gets called from Report1. Report1 is a chart report showing bar charts. When the user clicks on a particular bar the bar value is passed to Report2. Along with this, there are two additional parameters which the query for the Report2 takes. These two parameters are to be taken as an user input along with the first parameter which is passed from Report1.
This is happening from the Visual Studio IDE . But once I deploy the reports on the Report Server and then try viewing the Report2 from Report1 , I get an error "Parameter is missing a value".
Please suggest .
Prashant Shekhar
Reply:
When you have a link and it goes to other report you need to pass the parameter. If you go into properties of your link and see the navigation, u ll see jump to report and other options. U can see the parameter button and see that parameter. As you said one parameter is coming from the report so that should be =Parameters!fields.Value. Other parameter should be fields!fieldname.value. Please check that parameter is having all 3 values if you have 3 parameter.
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Measures - Dispay Folder and Calculation performance
Hi All,
I have a cube with 4 fact table and, accordingly, 4 measures group.
I have to display all the measure under the same folder and I have to display only 1 measure group called 'Measures List'.
To do so, I have hidden all the measures of three of the four measures groups (so that only a measure group is visible) and I have recreated them in the 'Calculation Tab' (measures.old = measures.new) and then I have modified the Calculation Properties.
But, I think that performance has worsened !!! (consider that 2 of the fact table have about 30 millions of record)
Is it possible that the cube with the original measures is faster than the cube with the calculated measure? (that id equal to the original measure)??
Thank you in advance,
SimonaP
I have a cube with 4 fact table and, accordingly, 4 measures group.
I have to display all the measure under the same folder and I have to display only 1 measure group called 'Measures List'.
To do so, I have hidden all the measures of three of the four measures groups (so that only a measure group is visible) and I have recreated them in the 'Calculation Tab' (measures.old = measures.new) and then I have modified the Calculation Properties.
But, I think that performance has worsened !!! (consider that 2 of the fact table have about 30 millions of record)
Is it possible that the cube with the original measures is faster than the cube with the calculated measure? (that id equal to the original measure)??
How does the cube with measures calculated?
Thank you in advance,
SimonaP
Reply:
Hi,If you recreate your fact measures as calculated measures, you will get worse performance for queries.
HTH
Thomas Ivarsson
HTH
Thomas Ivarsson
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Reply:
Thomas Ivarsson said:
Hi,If you recreate your fact measures as calculated measures, you will get worse performance for queries.
HTH
Thomas Ivarsson
Hi Thomas,
Can you please explain this more? When you say Cal_Measure=Base_Measure, I didnt expect a huge performance difference. I thought all the aggregations will be used from the base_measure whenever a query is being fired?
Simon - Have you tried setting the non_empty behavior="base_measure" for your calculated measure?
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Reply:
Ok. Thank you Thomas for your answer.
I have nocided a degradation of performance.
But ... is there an other solution to view only a measure group with all the measure of the 4 different fact tables???
I have nocided a degradation of performance.
But ... is there an other solution to view only a measure group with all the measure of the 4 different fact tables???
My customers do not want to see 4 distinct measure group!! :-( :-(
SimonaP
SimonaP
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Reply:
Not yet.
Now I'll try!
Thank you Prakash!
Now I'll try!
Thank you Prakash!
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Reply:
Hi Simona,
I have not been able to read posts in this news group depending on an issue between my live messenger and the log in here.
Calculated measures have always been slower than real fact table measures since the first release of SSAS, called Olap Services in 1999.
If you think of a table and a view in the relational world you will get better response time when you query a table than a view.
There are different ways of tuning calculated measures but no general approach. Mosha, the father of MDX have a lot of discussions on his blog
You can always build a view of the fact tables, in the data source, or a named query, in the data source view in BI Developer Studio, if they have the same granularity(leaf level) for the measures.
HTH
Thomas Ivarsson
I have not been able to read posts in this news group depending on an issue between my live messenger and the log in here.
Calculated measures have always been slower than real fact table measures since the first release of SSAS, called Olap Services in 1999.
If you think of a table and a view in the relational world you will get better response time when you query a table than a view.
There are different ways of tuning calculated measures but no general approach. Mosha, the father of MDX have a lot of discussions on his blog
You can always build a view of the fact tables, in the data source, or a named query, in the data source view in BI Developer Studio, if they have the same granularity(leaf level) for the measures.
HTH
Thomas Ivarsson
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Reply:
Thank you Thomas for your answer.
Unfortunatelly I cannot build only one fact table because my facts have different granularity.
I'll read Mosha blog to find out a solution to my problem.
What about Prakash suggestion abot the Non_Empty_Behaviour property? Can it increase performance?
Thank you in advance.
Simona
Unfortunatelly I cannot build only one fact table because my facts have different granularity.
I'll read Mosha blog to find out a solution to my problem.
What about Prakash suggestion abot the Non_Empty_Behaviour property? Can it increase performance?
Thank you in advance.
Simona
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Reply:
Hi Simona,
The Non_Empty_behaviour can help if you set it correctly.
The best explanation for how to use it is in the "Analysis Services 2005 Performance Guide"
http://sqlcat.com/whitepapers/archive/2007/11/19/analysis-services-2005-performance-guide.aspx
Here is an example of what can happen when it is not set correctly.
http://www.ssas-info.com/analysis-services-faq/27-mdx/86-ydt-function-sometimes-return-incorrect-results-for-measure-with-non-empty-behavior
HTH
Thomas Ivarsson
The Non_Empty_behaviour can help if you set it correctly.
The best explanation for how to use it is in the "Analysis Services 2005 Performance Guide"
http://sqlcat.com/whitepapers/archive/2007/11/19/analysis-services-2005-performance-guide.aspx
Here is an example of what can happen when it is not set correctly.
http://www.ssas-info.com/analysis-services-faq/27-mdx/86-ydt-function-sometimes-return-incorrect-results-for-measure-with-non-empty-behavior
HTH
Thomas Ivarsson
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Reply:
Thank you Thomas.
I think that the only solution to my problem is to redefine the base measure as calculated measure and to define the correct non_emty_behaviour.
I hope that query performance is not much worse!
What about AS2008 and "display folder" measures properties? Is there in AS2008 the possibility to assign the measure to measure group that are different than their own?
Ciao,
Simona
I think that the only solution to my problem is to redefine the base measure as calculated measure and to define the correct non_emty_behaviour.
I hope that query performance is not much worse!
What about AS2008 and "display folder" measures properties? Is there in AS2008 the possibility to assign the measure to measure group that are different than their own?
Ciao,
Simona
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Reply:
Hi Simona,
I do not think that this has changed in SSAS 2008, regarding assigning measures to other measure groups.
An importan change though is that the Non_Empty_Behaviour property is much less important in SSAS 2008.
Happy Holiday.
Thomas Ivarsson
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Trying to count sessions based upon a time stamp need help with a query. I have sample data in blog to help
I have a table that contains rows that looks like this Below. What im trying to get from this data is a sum of NoOfActiveSessions at a moment in time. So that moment in time would be like 11-22-11:49 Pm. So basically accumulate all machines NoofActivesessions. Theirs sample done every hour as you see in the dateandtime.
The only way i can get this data that i know of is
Select
Sum(NoOfActiveSessions) from table where dateandtime between '11-22-08 11:49 pm' and '11-22-2008 11:50 pm'
is their a better way to get this without having to create a super long query by a date between deal.
| MachineID | MachineName | NoOfActiveSessions | Dateandtime |
| 5289 | rhwweb145a | 6 | 11-22-08 11:49 PM |
| 5290 | rhwweb145b | 5 | 11-22-08 11:49 PM |
| 5291 | rhwweb145c | 4 | 11-22-08 11:49 PM |
| 5292 | rhwweb148 | 0 | 11-22-08 11:49 PM |
| 5293 | rhwweb145a | 8 | 11-23-08 12:49 AM |
| 5294 | rhwweb145b | 6 | 11-23-08 12:49 AM |
| 5295 | rhwweb145c | 5 | 11-23-08 12:49 AM |
| 5296 | rhwweb148 | 0 | 11-23-08 12:49 AM |
| 5297 | rhwweb145a | 7 | 11-23-08 1:49 AM |
| 5298 | rhwweb145b | 7 | 11-23-08 1:49 AM |
| 5299 | rhwweb145c | 4 | 11-23-08 1:49 AM |
| 5300 | rhwweb148 | 0 | 11-23-08 1:49 AM |
| 5301 | rhwweb145a | 8 | 11-23-08 2:49 AM |
| 5302 | rhwweb145b | 8 | 11-23-08 2:49 AM |
| 5303 | rhwweb145c | 5 | 11-23-08 2:49 AM |
| 5304 | rhwweb148 | 0 | 11-23-08 2:49 AM |
| 5305 | rhwweb145a | 8 | 11-23-08 3:49 AM |
| 5306 | rhwweb145b | 6 | 11-23-08 3:49 AM |
| 5307 | rhwweb145c | 6 | 11-23-08 3:49 AM |
| 5308 | rhwweb148 | 0 | 11-23-08 3:49 AM |
Reply:
do you mean
SELECT DateAndTime, Sum(NoOfActiveSessions) FROM Table GROUP BY DateAndTime
Ewald
SELECT DateAndTime, Sum(NoOfActiveSessions) FROM Table GROUP BY DateAndTime
Ewald
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How the changes will happen in reports after the DB get affected?
Hi all
i am using analysis services to generate my reports. if there is any affect in my Database then after i process my cube it will get affected My doubt is when the change will happen in reports.
i am using analysis services to generate my reports. if there is any affect in my Database then after i process my cube it will get affected My doubt is when the change will happen in reports.
Reply:
Hello Maya,
not sure I understand your question correctly. By default, reports are executed live in Reporting Services. I.e. reports that are started right after the processing of your cube finishes will see the updated data.
In addition, Reporting Services enables to setup cached executions, and schedule-based caching.
Does this helps?
Robert
Robert Bruckner; http://blogs.msdn.com/robertbruckner; This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
not sure I understand your question correctly. By default, reports are executed live in Reporting Services. I.e. reports that are started right after the processing of your cube finishes will see the updated data.
In addition, Reporting Services enables to setup cached executions, and schedule-based caching.
Does this helps?
Robert
Robert Bruckner; http://blogs.msdn.com/robertbruckner; This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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Reply:
Thank u Robert but still i am having doubt
once the data is changed in cube how the change will happen or seen in reports?
once the data is changed in cube how the change will happen or seen in reports?
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Keyword filtering in ForeFront
Attempting to create keyword filters in ForeFront to block spam. My question is this. Is there a way to string several keywords together and have it check a number of words at one time? The way I have been doing it is to create a webmail _AND_ information filter, for example, and this works great. The problem with this is there are many combinations so that my filter list is going to be unmanageable.
How does everyone else do this?
How does everyone else do this?
Reply:
- Have you concidered using the following example:
John
_HAS[#]OF_ (Frequency). Specifies the minimum number of times the text must appear for the query to be considered true. For example, _HAS[4]OF_•get rich quick. If the phrase 'get rich quick' is found in the text four or more times, this query will be true. This operator is implicitly assumed and has a default value of 1 when it is not specified.
John
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Reply:
Thank you for the reply. I have looked over the Microsoft documentation on Keyword list syntax rules. I find that they could be a little more robust. Such as, to eliminate all the words updated, updating, updates, I should be able to say updat* <Operator> account or some other combination. This just stands to reason that you should not have to put each variable of a word in the filter.
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Suggestion for Beta
First of all microsoft (if your listening - lol) great job! The new Windows Live Messnger beta is great considering the fact that it is in BETA state. Just one suggestion(atm): Windows live messenger is currently tuned for a general machine so your allowing for old pcs being able to use it... thats great, my Pentium 3 450mhz can run it.. but i also have a gaming machine (3gb ram, dont worry my point is coming) and would like more customisable advanced options, like system cache and ram usage because i frequently find it annoying that my Pentium 3 takes the same time to load WLM as my Core 2 Duo system.
Just a thought and I might be wrong. Once again great work... only reason why I am not using it anymore is that polygamy doesnt support the Windows Live >.< (but thats not your fault)
Just a thought and I might be wrong. Once again great work... only reason why I am not using it anymore is that polygamy doesnt support the Windows Live >.< (but thats not your fault)
- Moved by Jason A. Garza Wednesday, January 7, 2009 6:05 PM Related to Messenger not My.live.com (Moved from My.Live.com Suggestions and Feedback to Off-Topic Posts (Do Not Post Here))
This forum has migrated successfully on December 10, 2008
As part of the migration, posting of new threads and messages is no longer allowed on the Forums 2.x platform.
For reporting bugs on the Forums 3.x Platform, visit: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/reportabug/threads/
For making suggestions on the Forums 3.x Platform, visit: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/suggest/threads/
Thank you for your patience during the migration.
Alicia
- Edited by Alicia CalesMicrosoft employee Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:49 AM
- Changed type Alicia CalesMicrosoft employee Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:50 AM
Reply:
Thanks Alicia, everything looks moved over now.
Arvind
arvind
Arvind
arvind
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Statistics not updating
The statistics do not change. At least in the newly ported forums.
Regards,
Lucian Baciu, MCTS, http://studentclub.ro/lucians_weblog
Regards,
Lucian Baciu, MCTS, http://studentclub.ro/lucians_weblog
help distortion when recordin audio in mic in
I cant find line in i know the mic in is pre-amped thats whats causing the distortion any help please. I have a hp dv9000
Reply:
Hi,
Before moving on, could you please offer more information about the problem?
1.When the issue occurs?
2.Could you please offer detail description on the problem?
3.Does you want to find Line-in port on the computer?
Then, I suggest you take the following steps to troubleshoot the problem.
Suggestion 1: Disable Stereo Mix
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1.Right-click on the speaker icon on the system tray.
2.Select "Recording Devices".
3.In the resulting dialog, ensure that the "Recording" tab is selected.
4.In the middle of the dialog, right click on the empty area and select "Show Disabled Devices". The Stereo Mix device will be selected.
5.Right click on the Stereo Mix device and select "Disable".
Suggestion 2: Shutdown MIC Boost
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1.Right-click on the speaker icon on the system tray.
2.Select "Recording Devices".
3.In the resulting dialog, ensure that the "Recording" tab is selected.
4. Double click Microphone,
5. Choose Custom tab
6. Please ensure "MIC Boost" is unchecked.
Then test this issue again.
Does it work?
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BizTalk Adapter Pack CTP released
The BizTalk Adapter Pack team has released a CTP of the adapter pack v2.0 . Please see the announcement on the blog here .
The post has a full list of features which include the 2 new adapters (SQL server and Oracle EBS) and other minor updates for the 3 adapters shipped in the Adapter Pack 1.0.
Do try it out and post feedback on this forum.
The post has a full list of features which include the 2 new adapters (SQL server and Oracle EBS) and other minor updates for the 3 adapters shipped in the Adapter Pack 1.0.
Do try it out and post feedback on this forum.
Merry Christmas
Hi,
I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And all the best for 2009 for your friends and family.
I enjoyed this forum very much. Discussing issues with Microsoft and non Microsoft participiants was very inspiring.
Feel free to write comments !
Bye
ThorstenWujek
new forum for window backup
folks there is new forum for windows backup and windows server backup related questions and discussions. it is the right place for complete pc backup/recovery, vista backup/recovery and windows server 2008 backup/recovery, system state backup / recovery topics.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/threads/?ppud=4
HTH
------- this information is provided as-is without any warranties, implicit or explicit.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/threads/?ppud=4
HTH
------- this information is provided as-is without any warranties, implicit or explicit.
new forum for window backup
There is new forum (link below) for windows backup and windows server backup. this is the right forum for the questions related to complete pc backup and restore, vista backup/restore, windows server 2008 backup/recovery questions/discussions.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/threads/
------- this information is provided as-is without any warranties, implicit or explicit.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/threads/
------- this information is provided as-is without any warranties, implicit or explicit.
Forum feedback
Feedback on the new forums site:
1- Searching - doesn't show results when there are clearly matching posts. eg look at this forum you'll see posts with BHO in the title, but they're not found if you search on 'bho'. Similarly taking a few words I find in some posts (eg synchronize) and searching on them brings back no posts. Kinda important!
2- Searching - when you search within a forum your search string gets changed to something unreadable like "bho meta:Search.MSForums.ForumID(46f63ce5-4a0c-4354-9ca8-82ea8d765775)". Would be much better to read "bho forum:Internet-Explorer-Extension-Development" or similar.
3- When I Submit a reply to an existing thread the section of the window with my reply disappears (correctly), but my reply doesn't show up on the thread. I have to refresh the page manually to see it, otherwise it appears as if my reply has just disappeared.
4- Format Code Block doesn't have an option for C++
5- If I type some code, select it, then click Format Code Block it puts "<br>" in place of newlines. Very annoying!
6- The 'hyperlink manager' takes a while to load. Long enough I'm put off using it, even though it's just a matter of about 1s. I like that you can open it with CTRL-K, perhaps it would be good to put that in the tooltip text of the button.
7- When I click on the Hyperlink Manager I can't immediately paste my link using CTRL-V. I don't know where focus is but it should be put into the url box, and then ENTER should perform the OK action.
8- The Internet Explorer Extension Development forum still shows a sticky 'Forum Lockdown Notice' which incorrectly says posts are disabled.
9- Forums are currently showing an alert at the top relating to scheduled maintenance for yesterday.
10- I'm not receiving email alerts to a new post I just created and have had a reply from.
11- The forums don't say which email will be used for email alerts. I'm guessing it's the same as the windows live email address as there's no way I can see to edit it in the Forums profile.
12- I just changed my Display Name and while threads I created show up in my profile, when I look at the thread it shows my old display name as the Thread Starter, and clicking through on that profile name doesn't take me to a profile. Perhaps this is just caching or desired behaviour, which I guess is fine.
13- The thread-listing for a forum doesn't correctly show the latest post, perhaps it's caching a little bit too much. eg Last reply on top thread here is wrong as a more recent post was added over an hour ago. I've tried force-refreshing my browser and using a different browser, to no avail.
(I'm using Firefox 3 on XP)
thanks,
- Rory
1- Searching - doesn't show results when there are clearly matching posts. eg look at this forum you'll see posts with BHO in the title, but they're not found if you search on 'bho'. Similarly taking a few words I find in some posts (eg synchronize) and searching on them brings back no posts. Kinda important!
2- Searching - when you search within a forum your search string gets changed to something unreadable like "bho meta:Search.MSForums.ForumID(46f63ce5-4a0c-4354-9ca8-82ea8d765775)". Would be much better to read "bho forum:Internet-Explorer-Extension-Development" or similar.
3- When I Submit a reply to an existing thread the section of the window with my reply disappears (correctly), but my reply doesn't show up on the thread. I have to refresh the page manually to see it, otherwise it appears as if my reply has just disappeared.
4- Format Code Block doesn't have an option for C++
5- If I type some code, select it, then click Format Code Block it puts "<br>" in place of newlines. Very annoying!
6- The 'hyperlink manager' takes a while to load. Long enough I'm put off using it, even though it's just a matter of about 1s. I like that you can open it with CTRL-K, perhaps it would be good to put that in the tooltip text of the button.
7- When I click on the Hyperlink Manager I can't immediately paste my link using CTRL-V. I don't know where focus is but it should be put into the url box, and then ENTER should perform the OK action.
8- The Internet Explorer Extension Development forum still shows a sticky 'Forum Lockdown Notice' which incorrectly says posts are disabled.
9- Forums are currently showing an alert at the top relating to scheduled maintenance for yesterday.
10- I'm not receiving email alerts to a new post I just created and have had a reply from.
11- The forums don't say which email will be used for email alerts. I'm guessing it's the same as the windows live email address as there's no way I can see to edit it in the Forums profile.
12- I just changed my Display Name and while threads I created show up in my profile, when I look at the thread it shows my old display name as the Thread Starter, and clicking through on that profile name doesn't take me to a profile. Perhaps this is just caching or desired behaviour, which I guess is fine.
13- The thread-listing for a forum doesn't correctly show the latest post, perhaps it's caching a little bit too much. eg Last reply on top thread here is wrong as a more recent post was added over an hour ago. I've tried force-refreshing my browser and using a different browser, to no avail.
(I'm using Firefox 3 on XP)
thanks,
- Rory
- Edited by Rory__K Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:49 PM Numbered problems and added #13
- Moved by Mike Kinsman Friday, December 19, 2008 2:22 PM Off Topic (Moved from MSDN Site Feedback to Suggestions and Feedback for the Forums)
Reply:
Rory,
I moved your post to the forums feedback forum as it seems most relevant here.
Thanks,
Mike
MSDN and TechNet Subscriptions Support
I moved your post to the forums feedback forum as it seems most relevant here.
Thanks,
Mike
MSDN and TechNet Subscriptions Support
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Reply:
Hello,
For myself, you are right about the points 1 and 2 ( the worst is Live Search which is an horror )
Point 3 : i was thinking the same thing like you upto i discovered that there is an automatic refresh after 5 or 10 seconds ( maybe the time necessary to register the reply, reread the database where all the replies are stored , to build the new page and display it ( i have not too much this problem when i am posting the morning before 8:00 for the americans , i am in Europe and it is easy )
Point 4 : VC++ = VC# ( it could be precised ). Both are coming from C
Point 13 : exact and really annoying ( we could think that the reply is not kept ). Caching : odd , a thread has been updated 3 or 4 days later....
Point 9 : the alert has been visible 3 days. But nothing about lockdowns of one hour 3 days ago.Maybe it would be nice to create automatically a post on each forum which has been lockdown ( and not to maintain after a certain slice of time )
There are some things to better the new forums ( but they are easier to use ) but for the moment, it is the period of Christmas/New Year , and maybe the MSDN forums teams might hope some rest and holidays.
Well, "wait and see"
Have a nice day
Please remember to click 'Mark as Answer' on the post that helped you. Unmark if it provides no help
For myself, you are right about the points 1 and 2 ( the worst is Live Search which is an horror )
Point 3 : i was thinking the same thing like you upto i discovered that there is an automatic refresh after 5 or 10 seconds ( maybe the time necessary to register the reply, reread the database where all the replies are stored , to build the new page and display it ( i have not too much this problem when i am posting the morning before 8:00 for the americans , i am in Europe and it is easy )
Point 4 : VC++ = VC# ( it could be precised ). Both are coming from C
Point 13 : exact and really annoying ( we could think that the reply is not kept ). Caching : odd , a thread has been updated 3 or 4 days later....
Point 9 : the alert has been visible 3 days. But nothing about lockdowns of one hour 3 days ago.Maybe it would be nice to create automatically a post on each forum which has been lockdown ( and not to maintain after a certain slice of time )
There are some things to better the new forums ( but they are easier to use ) but for the moment, it is the period of Christmas/New Year , and maybe the MSDN forums teams might hope some rest and holidays.
Well, "wait and see"
Have a nice day
Please remember to click 'Mark as Answer' on the post that helped you. Unmark if it provides no help
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- Edited by Alicia CalesMicrosoft employee Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:19 AM
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Reply:
Is the forum open for business again? There seems to be one new post, but I kind of expected this message to disappear/be updated when the migration was complete...
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