Updated Exchange Server 2007 Help Content Available
I just wanted to let everyone know that we've updated the online help content for Exchange Server 2007 available on TechCenter. To access the updated help, click on the following link:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69434
We're continuing to add new content and incorporate help bug fixes.
Please continue to send us your feedback both via the forums but also please be sure to submit feedback via the rating mechanism built into the help topics both online and in the product help file. When you submit feedback via the help topic rating mechanism (where you can also submit comments), your feedback is entered directly into a database and it is automatically assigned to the writer responsible for the topic for evaluation. Your feedback is incredibly important to us and this make sure we see it all.
Thanks very much,
David
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What about the downloadable .CHM file, has that one been updated as well? I like to the .CHM format better (better searching etc.)?
Update
It seems to have been update too :)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=555f5974-9258-475a-b150-0399b133fede&DisplayLang=en
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Updated Exchange Server 2007 Help content available
hi everyone.
I just wanted to let everyone know that we've updated the online help content for Exchange Server 2007 available on TechCenter. To access the updated help, click on the following link:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69434
We're continuing to add new content and incorporate help bug fixes.
Please continue to send us your feedback both via the forums but also please be sure to submit feedback via the rating mechanism built into the help topics both online and in the product help file. When you submit feedback via the help topic rating mechanism (where you can also submit comments), your feedback is entered directly into a database and it is automatically assigned to the writer responsible for the topic for evaluation. Your feedback is incredibly important to us and this make sure we see it all.
Thanks very much,
David.
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Thanks for the pointer.
Can you clarify if the Help at the link you gave more up to date than the .chm for Beta 2? Or do you mean that the online Help has been updated to be in line with the downloadable .chm?
Thanks
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The help content that was published last week is more up to date that what's available in the help file that you download with Beta2.
David.
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Problems when SQL is restared
Yesterday we experienced which I'd like to share here. Secondly, I don't know how and where to report possible bug, so if someone could direct me, please....
We have AS instance with query logging enabled. Problems started when underlying SQL engine service was restarted, with qury log table placed in that instance. Since that moment olap started to generate dumps virtually every minute (huge files >GB), which really hindered performance. To me it seems like some internal sql connection was closed and that it wasn't able to reconnect for any reason (bug?). Every thown exception then forced generation of that dump file (with sqldumper.exe).
Win2003 64b SP1, SQL+AS 64 bit SP1, running on same box.
Thanks,
Radim Hampel
Trouble with Impersonate User, ODBO and Analysis Services
I apologize if this question is a bit vague, but I'm trying to address an issue in some code I've inherited from a colleague who is on vacation and unfortunately, it deals with ODBO, COM and Analysis Services, three topics with which I'm pretty unfamiliar. Having said that here is the situation as best I can explain it: the code uses the C++/COM interface to ODBO to access MSAS. The code works fine in general but there is a problem when accessing an MSAS server located on a machine other than that on which the client is running which deals with the security context under which the logged in user functions. Our end users (optionally) pass us a set of credentials (username/domain/password) which (when passed) they would like to serve as the authenticating credentials for Analysis Server. In an effort to address the original issue before leaving for vacation my colleague added a call to LogonUser( ) followed by a call to ImpersonateLoggedOnUser( ) before the call to CoCreateInstance or any of the ODBO initialization calls. The two new calls are only made when we're passed credentials by the end user. When I test the code with passed credentials, neither call fails, but it seems that they don't have the desired affect.
Here are my observations based on running my test code and then browsing the security event log on the machine on which Anlaysis Services is running:
(1) If credentials aren't passed and LoginUser/ImpersonateLoggedOnUser aren't therefore called, then the event log indicates two events, one 538, one 540 both corresponding to the user logged onto the client machine.
(2) If credentials are passed and as a result we make the calls to LoginUser/ImpersonateLoggedOnUser, then the event log indicates an event 538 by user 'Ananymous Logon'.
A few questions then:
(1) Is there anyway to tell from the security log, which application logged the events? I'd hate to think that I'm on a wild goose chase and that these aren't Analysis Server events I'm looking at. On a related note, is there anyway to view a history of who has logged on through one of the MSAS management tools?
(2) Obvisouly, my real problem is scenario (2) above. What we've done doens't seem to work, so the question is: is there some other way, given a set of network credentials, to use them to authenticate through ODBO against a remote Analysis Services server?
If anyone could shed any light on any of this, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance for any replies.
-exits
- Changed type Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Monday, May 11, 2015 5:18 AM
Evolving an OLAP schema
One way of doing this is to write AMO code. However, I'm curious if there's an easier way that I'm missing. Ideally there would be a way to generate a "change script" that would apply a series of transformations to an existing cube set (add a measure here, tweak a dimension attribute there, etc) without mucking with existing customer customizations.
Does such a mechanism or tool exist?
- Changed type Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Monday, May 11, 2015 5:19 AM
Currency conversion
Hello,
Somebody can tell me how to use the scripts that are generated by the "Add Business Intelligence\Define Currency Conversion" in the MDX.
Thanks,
Dunia
- Changed type Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Monday, May 11, 2015 5:19 AM
Urban legend - SqlSvrExpress Works in Production Web Site!!
After days of trying to deploy my web application along with the ASPNETDB database I am convinced this is actually just an attempt on the part of the MSFT developers to drive us nuts.
It simply will not work. As reported by everyone in all of the forums, it works fine in development but does not work when deployed. If I move my data to a full SQL Server instance and modify all of my connection strings accordingly, it works fine, as well. It just does not work when I publish the app and try to run it using the AttachDBFilename methodology. I am convinced that only Santa Claus or an honest lawyer can make it work.
Let's recap the steps: first, I create the folder that I want to use for production and give Modify permissions on that folder to <machine>\ASPNET and NETWORK SERVICE. Then I open up IIS Administrator and create a new virtual directory that points to that folder and set its permissions to include Write. I check the ASP.NET tab and it's set for 2.0. Now I switch back to VS2005 and publish my web application directly to the target folder.
Feeling optimistic, I go right to IE and bring up the site. Looks good until I attempt to login. That's when I get the first error - Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in copying database files. The connection will be closed.
From there I start through the forums and try every one of the solutions proposed, even though none of them specifically identify this error wording. I know I should have used the wording from the Exception "Details" - except they state exactly the same thing - what was I thinking? I thought the .NET developers did away with the error message authors from the old days but it looks like they're back with a vengence.
Somewhere along the way I am able to get past that first error. Unfortunately, I've made so many changes I don't know which combination actually worked. But it doesn't matter because now the database is refusing to let <machine>\ASPNET login! Okay, so I use SSME and create a login attach the database and create a user (none of which is supposed to be required for UserInstance=true). Detach the database and try IE again. You guessed it - still won't work. Now it can't generate the user instance because a database by that name already exists, or the user doesn't have permissions, or it's Friday and the machine wants to leave early - I give up.
So, at this point, I'm pretty much finished with SQLExpress for anything other than my development environment.
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I have several systems using sql express in a productions system, one of these is DotNetNuke... With all of these I have not had a problem installing and running the user instances. One idea might be to have you system create the database objects for the Memberships system into the same database that you are using for your site.
Here is a link to some articles on the membership system that might have some links on deploying that you could look at. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/24/438953.aspx
Another choice might be to have a look at the membership forums on http://forums.asp.net as the guys who post there use the system every day.
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Understanding attribute relationships and aggregations
Our calendar hierarchy is moderately deep - Year > Month > Day > Hour > Minute (where minute is actually a 15 minute time window). The dimension table columns are the key, minute (0,15,30,45), hour of day (0-23), day of month (0-days in month), month (1-12), year. Originally there were attributes defined for each of these columns, with each attribute using its corresponding column as its KeyColumn, and with all attributes related directly to the key. A user hierarchy provided navigation from the year down to the minute. Performance, in a word, sucked (drilling down in the cube browser to a low level in the hierarchy could take as long as 45 minutes!).
I changed the KeyColumn for each attribute below year to be a composite of each higher level attribute (so the KeyColumns in Month were Year and Month, for Day they were Year/Month/Day, etc). Then I set the attribute relationships accordingly. I'm not sure if this is the most efficient way to define the attributes, but it seemed to be the only way to do it with our current dimension table schema.
Once I made this change and re-processed, drilling through the hierarchy went from 45 minutes to less than a second. Not a bad improvement. :) However, there's still some things that I'm unclear on.
* The performance seems to be about the same (that is, pretty fast) whether the aggregations are set to 0% or 70%. That confuses me - I thought that setting up the relationships is what allows the aggregations to be computed. But why would no aggregations perform so well?
* I'm assuming that by setting up these relationships, I'm giving up some flexibility in my queries. Is that true? For example, what if I want to compare how January compares to February, across all years. Are those aggregations not longer being performed, because of the attribute relationships? If so, what's the best way to deal with that? Or am I misunderstanding something?
* I'm looking at making similar changes to a different dimension, but that dimension has two different user hierarchies that combine the same attributes in different ways. Does defining a natural hierarchy through attribute relationships limit your ability to combine those attributes in different navigational hierarchies?
Thanks,
Kevin
- Changed type Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Monday, May 11, 2015 5:19 AM
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Cannot create a task with the name .....
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Great point well made. BOL does make a nod to this here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms403356.aspx
-Jamie
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My specific purpose was to use a free object (that I've disassembled and etherealed) to create a custom FTP object that replaces the built in FTP object. I needed access to Passive mode that works, or at least one that works with the FTP server I have to connect to.
Anyway, its been a great lesson for me. I've totally just hacked through by replubming the object, and since have had to work through delegates, and will probably have to takle some threading. Thanks for the samples, the process would have been much harder without them!
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Failed to Acquire Connection using ADO.NET in SQL Execute Task
This one is somewhat interesting and thought I would pass it along to the community...
Last week I was running a package that succeeded 3 days in a row and on the 4th (and subsequent) day it began to fail giving the "Failed to Acquire Connection" message. I was able to get the connection manager and acquire a connection manually but when the connection was used in the Execute SQL Task it would fail.
When I got back to work this Monday the problem no longer happened and so I was kind of confused as to why this would be happening. There were no event log messages or any other items that were noticably odd so I let the job run again for this week and today it began failing again (all without ANY code changes or system changes).
I just happened to be on the server and saw a notification popup that disk space was below 200 megs on the system drive. Hmmm...
I cleared a bunch of backup files that were taking up significant space on the system drive and thought I would take a shot at running the job again now... Well the job succeeded again once the files were cleared off the system drive giving it more than 200 MB.
I still do not know how this correlates specifically to ADO.NET connection and Execute SQL Task but that is where it was failing.
Fred
Datamining or OLAP cubes or just plain old relational sprocs
Hi,
I have a hi-level design question that I was hoping someone could help out with.
I have a requirement to come up with a processing engine which takes into account mulitple sets of rules or filters, such as follows:
Rule1: Find all claims which have one of these diag codes (D1, D2, D3), which also have one of these procedure codes (P1, P2, P3), and belong to one of these divisions (V1, V2, V3)
Rule2: Find all claims which have one of these diag codes (D7, D8, D9), which also have one of these procedure codes (P3, P4, P5), and belong to one of these LOBs (V4, V5, V6)
Rule3: Run Rule1 and Rule2; Find all claims which are common in both Rule1 and Rule2
Rule4: Rule Rule1 and Rule2; Find all claims in Rule1 which are NOT in Rule2
Rule5: Find all claims which are of types (Inpatient, Outpatient), and have one of these diag codes (D4, D8, D9)
Rule6: Run Rule3 and Rule5; find all claims which are common to Rule3 and Rule5
...
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RuleN
where N > 2000
Our current system has a whole bunch of sprocs where each sproc corresponds to a rule and they are run one after the other. The parameters for each rule are hard-coded into the sproc. We do not parameterize the input values for the rules, other than changing the sql in the sproc.
New system: I am trying to come up with a standardized UI where the user can set the input parameters for each Rule above. Then the processing engine runs in batch mode where it processes each of the rules one-by-one by filtering the claims in our datamart against these rules and producing output.
For the new system, I need some guidelines on which would be a good way to go about it.
1. Can this be addressed using SSAS datamining (basket analysis or something else?)
Note: Have no idea about datamining
2. Or can each rule be an MDX query against an OLAP cube?
Note: We do have cubes for the claims and some basic MDX queries for analysis. But nowhere near as complex as what is needed for the rules above (if its possible at all).
3. Or do I come up with a SSIS package which will denormalize the data for all the rules, then use phases containing relational queries to link the denormalized rules data against the claims data, and then filter the claims in each phase?
Note: I have kind of started off on implementing option 3, but I wanted to know if there was a more elegant way to do this.
If anyone has done something similar, kindly share your knowledge\findings.
Thanks,
JGP
- Changed type Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Monday, May 11, 2015 5:19 AM
Windows Authentication problem with App_Data sources
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You'll have better luck with this question on http://www.asp.net. There are forums in the ASP.NET site that are dedicated to web development in VS 2005 that should meet your needs.
Mike
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Multi-Merge Transform
I would like a component that has the following functionality (if this already exists, let me know):
Pretty much, I want a multiple input merge join transform that joins X number of inputs so long as they have the same sorted key value. I only care about inner joins.
The reason for this component is that I have a data flow that is having to perform a LOT of lookups. Having to do them one after another is incredibly slow, so I thought that I could multi-cast them and perform several at once, which works fine, but merging the army of split inputs is messy with multiple sorts and merge join transforms. I can live with it this way, but having a single transform to collect all the inputs would look a lot nicer and a lot less to configure.
Cheers!
Brandon
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Does the 'Union All' component not work for you?
-Jamie
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I may be wrong, but doesn't the union all only merge homogeneous data? The transform I have in mind only has a key column that is the same and all the data in the various inputs is different.
Thanks!
Brandon
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It sounds as though multiple MERGE JOINs may be the way you have to go. Although without knowing your specific requirement - perhaps the MERGE transform will suffice?
Have you identified where the performance bottleneck is occurring? Is disk spooling occurring in the pipeline?
-Jamie
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MIIS 2003 Backup and Restore and Documentation
I am a technical writer with the MIIS Documentation Team and I wanted to ask all who are interested what documentation would you like to see regarding the backup and restore procedures for MIIS 2003. For example, there are ways to back and restore management agents, server configurations, and the MIIS database. Are there any other backup and restore procedures that you or customers would like to have documented? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Davanand Bahall
MIIS 2003 Writer
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Hi Davanand,
I recently did a 2-tier Microsoft PKI implementation at a hospital. It's not something I do daily so I had to brush up some knowledge. I found this paper and it made me happy during the project because it's so complete and thorough, nothing is left out as it seems. The project was succesful. It's a remarkable paper.
The Microsoft certificate authorities are backed up automatically with the NTBackup' systemstate backup, that file is backed up on the corporate backup device etc etc. There is even a very nice .wsf/.vbs script solution that helps to collect all sorts of stuff (also for backup).
What I am trying to say is to describe ways to script MIIS parts to backup instead of having to go through the interface. For instance, the PKI solution comes with scripts to schedule collects, run ntbackup etc etc.
Now I understand MIIS is a bit more complex (from my perspective) but maybe some scripts would help to do some daily tasks in a breeze.
Thank you,
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Thanks for request - providing some scripts and processes for general backup and disaster recovery would be great. In addition, I would like to see something published regarding the processes required to transition the (1) Server, (2) MA, and (3) Schema from a development MIIS server to a production one. I don't believe everyone is familiar with these processes and when to use each procedure.
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Hello,
I was wondering if there is any existing documentation available (best practice etc) about MIIS backup and recovery.
I need to write out this chapter in more detail in my design paper. I am worried I am maybe overlooking things.
My solution design has the database seperated and is using a MIIS cold stand-by.
Thank you.
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Have you seen this doc yet?
Cheers,
Markus
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ANN: VistaDB 3 as world's first managed SQL database engine for .NET and Compact Framework
Read more:
http://www.vistadb.net/Press_060801_VistaDB3_CTP_Released.asp?ref=200608forum
Windows Vista Beta 2 – Is Silence Really Golden?
It would appear that no native sound drivers exist in ether Windows Vista Beta 2 32 or 64 bit platforms. For the average user that installs Windows Vista Beta 2, all you are going to hear from this multi-media powerhouse is the sound of silence.
I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and I did download and try both the 32 bit and 64 bit drivers for Windows Vista, but they do not work with Beta 2. Finally I did get sound to work in the 32 bit Vista version after loading the Windows XP drivers, but they don't really work properly. Any attempt to play a video or music file longer than two minutes finds the audio to first become distorted and later it just shuts down completely. I don't recall a Windows Beta OS in the past that did not include any native audio driver support. A whole lot of changes must occur before Windows Vista will be worthy of even a release candidate version.
Here are the full details with my experience with Windows Vista Beta 2:
Computer Hardware Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ CPU
ASUS A8N-VM motherboard (built-in Sound, Network and Video are Disabled)
2 gigabytes of RAM
300 Gig Seagate PATA hard drive
NVIDIA (BFG Branded) 6600 GT OC w/128 megs of RAM video card
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound card
D-Link DFE-530TX+ PCI 10/100 Network Card
Memorex Dual Layer 16x DVD/CD Burner
1.44 meg 3.5" Floppy Drive
Present Partition Configuration:
4 Partitions Setup in Dual Boot between Windows Vista Beta 2 (HD0,0) and SuSE 10.1 Linux (HD0,4). Partition 2 is a FAT32 Logical data storage volume and Partition 3 is a Linux Swap Partition.
Installed Version:
I am presently using Windows Vista Beta 2 32 bit version. I actually have loaded the 64 bit version twice and the 32 bit version once. The total load times on my PC for the two versions were:
Windows Vista Beta 2 32 bit load time – 40 plus minutes total
Windows Vista Beta 2 64 bit load time – 70 plus minutes total
Both versions did successfully load the first time. However, after being unable to get sound to work with the 64 bit version, I decided to try the 32 bit version. I have sound working now, but only because I have loaded the Windows XP driver which does not really work properly.
Windows Vista Beta 2 64 bit Problems:
1. I could not get sound to work even after loading the Creative Labs Windows Vista 64 Sound driver. I think the driver does not work because it was not intended for use with beta 2.
2. I did not get the networking to work until I went out and purchased a D-Link network card that included both Windows Vista and Linux networking.
3. When I tried to load the NVIDIA Video Driver, it failed to load and told me I was not running Windows Vista.
4. I downloaded and installed the CA eTrust free antivirus software but real time virus protection did not work.
5. After two loads of 64 bit and no sound I gave up on the 64 bit version.
Windows Vista Beta 32 bit Problems:
1. I could not get the Creative Labs Windows Vista Sound Driver to work and did not get sound until I loaded the Windows XP drivers. The XP drivers do not really work properly and sound becomes distorted after running for a couple of minutes and many times sound just stops working.
2. The D-Link 10/100 network card I purchased worked properly with the Vista 32 bit version as well as the 64 bit version.
3. The NVIDIA Windows Vista 32 bit video driver loaded properly and without a problem.
4. The CA eTrust antivirus software did load and appears to work properly.
5. When the selected screen saver kicks in, the computer just beeps and the monitor goes blank. The keyboard and mouse are unresponsive and you must hard reset the computer to gain computer operation.
Comments:
Of course we know this is beta software, but the present version is not really usable in any meaningful way and just a curiosity to look at and play with to see what the future of Windows holds for us all. Much more work is thusly required by Microsoft and hardware driver writers to get this product ready for shipment.
I shall continue to see what works and what does not work in Windows Vista Beta 2. I have ordered MS Office 2007 beta and will load it on top of Windows Vista.
That should be interesting…..
James D McDaniel - Austin, Texas
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James,
For what it's worth, I'd say I'm a fairly "average" user - at least as far as my needs are concerned. Your blanket statement about not having ANY sound drivers for Beta 2 is quite erroneous. Granted, I don't have a Creative Labs sound card, but I do have sound with my Gigabyte K8N51-GMF-9 board which has a surprisingly rich 8 channel sound output. And Vista had the drivers for this version in it's store of drivers.
Just for grins and giggles if you feel up to the challenge - take the Audigy card out and renable the onboard sound and let Vista find the hardware and supply the needed drivers. I'll wager you just might hear something.
As you said, this is beta software. And an EARLY beta at that. It's not ready for prime time by any stretch of the imagination. Drivers are now and always have been an issue during beta phase - so this IS the time to get the issues reported directly to Microsoft so their programmers can fix the issues before release day. You can do that by clicking the Feedback icon on the Vista desktop and installing the Problem Reporting Tool (aka the Microsoft Beta Client) and by using it to report the issues you're having with the sound and other drivers.
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I don't think this will be Microsoft's problem. Most of the high end sound card companies will be the ones who create the drivers to use on Vista.
Just like how ATI for graphics card has already put out a beta driver for vista.
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First off I do thank you for taking the time to post a reply. I do very much want to hear how other users of Windows Vista Beta 2 are doing.
If you go into the Add hardware function in the Control Panel and elect to manually select your hardware and select sound, video and game controllers you will only find a single Microsoft Entry that indicates it is a dummy place holder for file copying. There are no other brands of sound cards to select from.
Since you have a Gigabyte motherboard you may have inserted the motherboard disk into your computer and Windows Vista then loaded the Windows XP driver. Further, this driver may actually work unlike the one from Creative. Or, you may have downloaded a driver directly from the internet or Microsoft may have had one online not included on the DVD. A few people may get lucky. However, a lot more will not be so lucky.
When I did the same function for network cards I found several to select from. I did not own any of them at first, but a card that would work with Windows Vista and Linux was only $15 at Fry's. When using Beta software I am used to having to buy hardware from a very small selection. In the case of sound cards, not including anything from Creative Labs, perhaps the largest supplier of add-in sound products seems to be a bad choice. We don't know just how Microsoft and Creative work together, but something is not working right.
A good part of the Windows experience depends on sound. A fully public beta release must do better than this if you are trying to impress people into going with Windows Vista when it finally comes out. Again, this is Beta Software, but perhaps letting out a more ready product would have been a wiser choice to make. As always, this is just my opinion and I do thank you for letting us hear yours.
James D McDaniel
Austin, Texas
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James,
Actually.. NO. The only disk with drivers that has been placed into the DVD drive on this computer was the Win Vista Beta 2 DVD. In fact, it's found EVERY piece of hardware with ONE minor exception - the NForce SM Bus driver - which was found immediately when I got to the Windows Update site.
For what it's worth, as someone else on this thread mentioned, many vendors of high end parts may opt to wait until Vista's gone Gold and is RTM (Released to Manufacturing) until they decided it's time to start pulling some all nighters in getting drivers ready for the January release. Given Beta code tends to change and often breaks stuff, I don't blame them.
Sound is actually only important for home and other non-business users. Most places I've done work at do NOT supply speakers to workstations. Especially where phone calls are an important piece of the business plan. In that case, silence really IS golden.
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I've managed to get my X-Fi Fatal1ty to work under Vista, but not Diskeeper 10 Professional (with XP64bit support). Likewise Avast AV installed first time but Nforce SM bus failed to install - giving a message that the 32bit uninstaller was incompatible ? Logitech 64 bit drivers for the G15 keyboard and G7 mouse installed OK also. BTW my install seemed flawless with no hiccups - so I guess all my grief is yet to come 
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I have a very similar machine to the person at the top of this thread. However, I am receiving the following issue:
:\windows\system\32\nt0skrnl.exe
Status: 0xc0000098
Info: Windows failed to load because the kernel is missing, or corrupt.
I get this frustrating message each time I go to install. I have removed the partition and re-created it. Any ideas why I might be getting this?
thanks,
Dan
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here is my specs
athlon 64 3500
asus a8v deluxe
1024 corsair
sound blaster audigy 2
74 gig WD raptor = vista install
120 maxtor= xp pro install
when i first installed vista i had alot of problems but i did an upgrade only when i did a fresh install on a
different hard drive did i get vista up and running perfectly
audigy card works fine
i think if you do a clean install without all the partitions and other os installs you might have less issues
just my 2 cents
i only have problems with some games not working other than that i love vista its great
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And did you load the Windows XP drivers for the Creative Audigy 2 and they work OK?
I did do a clean install of Windows Vista, three times. I don't feel data located on other partitions has any effect on Windows. Since each computer is a custom combination of hardware, different addin cards can work in one setup and not another. The basic problem is not having the correct Windows Vista Beta 2 driver for the Audigy 2 soundcard and the fact that no such driver exists in the native load of Windows Vista 2.
Thank You,
James D. McDaniel
Austin, Texas
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Ce la vie.
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i used the beta driver for vista at creatives site
there isnt a driver in xp either for a sound blaster card
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Basically, there will be no further Creative Labs sound driver support for any Windows Vista Beta product until the final Vista software is released. We can only hope that the support will actually show up on time. Further, I have read that Bill Gates himself says that there is now a 20% chance Vista will be delayed again from the general public release in January of 2007. I would say that anyone supporting a Creative sound product should reconsider. This may even be the time to go with some version of Linux. Linux supports all internal versions of Creative sound cards except the very latest version X-Fi. Creative has not seen fit to release the required Open Source information to allow drivers to be written for the X-Fi sound card and Linux. I have been using Novell SuSE 10.1 with an Audigy 2 and it works great! As for Vista, I did get sound to work using the older Windows XP driver, but sound fails after a few minutes on ALL applications. Get used to having no sound for at least six more months in Vista, perhaps even longer.
Thank You,
James D. McDaniel
Austin, Texas
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Off thread/topic? Hardly. Sounds like you're experiencing the same growing pains as the thread's originator has been going through.
Not sure which sound card you might want to consider, but, the smart move would be to visit their site and find out if they've got beta drivers available before buying. Unfortunately, THE biggest name in sound - Creative Labs - seems to not be willing to jump into the Beta foray and publish some drivers for Vista.
I'd recommend the one I'm using but given it's built into the motherboard, I don't think that would quite be what you had in mind. If you CAN find an aftermarket sound card based on the Nvidia chipset - those DO have drivers. In case you do get desperate enough - I've got a Gigabyte motherboard (K8N51GMF-9) which supports 939 pin AMD processors. It also sports the Nvidia NForce4 430 chipset and there are drivers for everything - sound, lan, bus controllers, etc... available.
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Bug?
When I have two connection managers in the DFT and OLEDB source and destination component.
Associating the different conneciton managers to source and destination seem to go through fine with the code below, but the package generated does not have the connection manager associated with the destination.
I get this error on the destionation on opening up the package in the designer.
<Error> A connection Manager has not been assigned to the runtime connection (24) </Error>
SourceOrDestinationComponent.RuntimeConnectionCollection[0].ConnectionManager =
DtsConvert.ToConnectionManager90(pkg.Connections[ConnMgrName]);However when I assign the ID using the code below it seem to work fine. The documentation doesn't mention needing this step, so is this a bug or a documentation issue?
SourceOrDestinationComponent.RuntimeConnectionCollection[0].ConnectionManagerID = pkg.Connections[ConnMgrName].ID;
Also is the BOL documentation being updated for how to program/configure various tasks in SSIS? Without which it is extremely time consuming with a trial and error method if at all impossible to use them (programmatically)
-tim
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Tim,
That step is definately needed and the documentation should say so. If it doesn't say it then use the Send feedback link to tell them. You may be surprised at how effective this is.
If you need anything extra in BOL then ask them for it. It is constantly being updated.
-Jamie
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Thanks Jamie, I know the folks working on BOL content appreciate the comments.
This seems like a great opportunity to point out the recent/July refresh of BOL
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Thank you both. The new documentation still does not include the required step.
Craig, BOL seem to have provided clearified some of the existing samples , but it still does not contain samples to how to programmatically most components eg: SCD. Can we expect more samples to be updated to BOL going forward?
Till that time what is the recommended way for people to figure out how to use these apart from trial and error
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We are continually updating BOL and I will pass along a note on this one and as Jamie noted, using the feedback mechanism for BOL is really the best way. I can certainly suggest/ask for doc changes but requests from customers always carry more weight. One complication is that every connection mgr may behave differently. Connections and data providers are tricky as each has its own behavior.
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July Shipment of MSDN Subscription include the Vista beta2 disc.
Please note, the July shipment of MSDN Subscription include the English Vista beta2 DVD disc. The disc no. is 3613.
For the CD-Key, you can go to the MSDN Subscription website and login with your MSDN Subscription passport account. After login, you can go to the request CD-Key page and request the CD-KEY for Vista beta2.
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If you have MSDN subscribtion. Just logon to the subscriber web site at msdn.microsoft.com
You will Vista in it.
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Learning SQL/AS Deployment
So, I'm trying to convince my company (with mountains of data that's a real mess with the current system we have) to adopt this (analysis and reporting services) approach. If Express and Standard editions won't work, what might I use to show them towards going in this direction would be of benefit? (We have custom programming for each level of aggregation, I mean, it's really hideous!) That is, what might I use that doesn't mean my personally buying Enterprise edition out of my own pocket.
- Changed type Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Monday, May 11, 2015 5:20 AM
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