Windows 10 Shortcuts on the Desktop
Personally I hate desktops littered with shortcuts and files. I'm sure many of us have to deal with end users that just have to have shortcuts on the desktop. I thought this would be a helpful article for those that needs to make shortcuts to certain settings.
http://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-desktop-shortcuts-specific-settings-windows-10
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windows update fails on server 2008
I have several windows server 2008 r2 machines and only one will not accept updates from the windows site. It fails with a generic error 8000FFFFF. Get help with this error shows nothing.
I attempted several internet suggestions such as stopping the service and renaming the windows softwaredistribution file, and the catroot2 file to no avail. I downloaded the 10 critical updates manually and attempted to install individually they each failed. I am at a complete loss as to where to turn next without rebuilding the machine completely but since this is my DNS server I am reluctant to do that.
I also ran the fix it program from this link
support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/windows-update-issues/en-us
which appeared to find error, correct them and then the problem persists.
The problem happens on the latest .net updates but the system will not let me update anything.
Any direction would help greatly.
Jay
Scheduled task on Windows 2008 R2 produces account lockout
We are trying to create a scheduled task on a W2K8 R2 server (not a DC). The security options of the task are set to run under an Domain service account that was created, which has local admin rights on the server. The task is set to "Run whether user is logged in or not" and the actions are to run a .bat file.
After entering all the information and clicking OK, we receive the following error message:
An error has occurred for task Test. Error message: The following error was reported: The referenced account is currently locked out and may not be logged on to..
Prior to entering the task, the account is fine, but once you try to OK the task, the account is locked. Using the account lockout tool, we were able to find that the lockout first occurred on a W2K3 DC that is also our Exchange server. The event ID is 675, Failure Code: 0x19
On the server itself, Event 4656 is listed "A handle to an object was requested." as a Audit Failure, followed by ID 4625 showing that the account is locked out. The object C:\Windows\System32\taskschd.msc
We are stumped because (1) We don't understand why the account is seeking pre-auth from the Exchange DC in the first place (2) Why the account seems to be without permissions to access taskschd.msc
What makes matters worse is that the task can be successfully scheduled if done as an existing Domain Admin, but adding the new service account to the Domain Admin group (as a test) produces the same lockout.
Any insights on how to resolve this would be very much appreciated.
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Are you absolutely positive that you type in the password correctly when scheduling the task? Does the account in question have "Log on as a batch job" user right on the local server?
hth
Marcin
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Yes, the password is correct.
In regards to account rights - the service account in question is a member of the the Administratrors group on that server, and according to the results of the local security policy on that server, the following groups have "Log on as a batch job" rights: Administrators, Backup Operators, IIS_IUSRS, Performance Log Users
I would assume that the rights are inherited as a member of the group listed - however, we could change that policy and add the service account directly to rule out that being the issue.
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Have you tried to log on to the server interactively using the account in question and launching the task interactively? If so, what's the outcome?
hth
Marcin
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Just another bit of information, one of our network admins noticed that using this serivce account does not prompt for credentials to run the job - it just immediately throws up the error "The following error was reported: The referenced account is currently locked out and may not be logged on to.."
If you schedule the job with a domain admin account, it prompts you to enter the credentials with the typical logon dialog box.
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Have you tried my earlier recommendation?
Marcin
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Sorry, lag in browser updating...
In regards to the interactive login - yes, in fact the scheduled job is being attempted under the interactive logon of the same account.
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There seems to be a contradiction between your two most recent responses - can you clarify?
More specifically, based on the second one, it seems that the task completed successfully...
Marcin
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Sorry, I'm replying to your post seperately so it probably is confusing.
The account that was being used to schedule the task, was also used to login interactively to the server. The task was scheduled to run interactively ("Run when user is logged on") and was successful (both scheduled and run).
Now here is another twist... we can now alter that successful task to run as batch ("Run whether user is logged on or not") and we now get prompted for credentials and once they are entered (with service account creds), the task schedules successfully and runs...
Go figure...
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Does this mean that you are no longer seeing the behavior you described in your original post?
Marcin
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Correct.
If we schedule the task as an interactive task first, it works. We can then go back in and edit the properties of the task and select to run as batch and get prompted for credentials and once those are entered, it successfully schedules (and runs).
While this provides the work around we are looking for, it doesn't asnwer the question as to why you can't schedule a batch task without going through the steps described above. It's almost as if the server is request a Kerebose authentication of the account without prompting for the credentials... very strange.
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We are seeing this same issue, however Anonymous IT's solution isn't working for us. I attempt to create a task on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box that runs a batch file. The task is set to run as another user that does have log on as a service rights for this server. When set to 'Run only when user is logged on', it works fine. As soon as I set the task to 'Run whether user is logged on or not' and enter the credentials for the service account, that account gets locked out and Task Scheduler notifies me of this and refuses to accept the credentials.
If I set the task to run as a domain admin account, it works.
I've verified that I can manually run commands on this server as the service account that I'm trying to use.
Any further ideas? The fact that I can use some accounts to do this and not others points to something that Windows doesn't like about the account I'm trying to use, but I'm not clear what that might be. I thought the only right required for this purpose was log on as a service. Further, I'm baffled as to why the account would be locked out even if it doesn't have the rights to do what I'm seeking to do--I am definitely providing the correct credentials, so worst case I would expect some form of 'Access is Denied' rather than a lockout.
Thanks for any assistance!
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I'm having a similar issue. If I change a task, e.g., update the email notification address, Task Scheduler locks out the account I am using to run that task !!even though the task ran successfully before I made the changes!! It locks out the account after 1 attempt of prompting me for the password for the account. And yes, I am typing the password in correctly; I have gone back and reset the account, re-attempted the task modification and when prompted for the account password, V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y and carefully typed the password. It fails and locks out the account.
After about 3-4 attempts, it succeeds
Very annoying..
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Any solution on this issue ?
I've the exact same issue, and it is a pain, I have to deal with more than 70 DCs
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This is what I done, when the password prompt comes up aftermaking changes to the task and clicking ok, I unlocked the users account before inputting password and clicking ok.
This worked for me.
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We are seeing the same thing one one or two servers (of many dozens of WS08 R2 servers!). We're actually trying to CHANGE the account the task runs as. With the old account, no problems, we try to use the new account and we see the same symptoms AnonymousIT is reporting. If I try two or three times (unlocking the account again and again) I can get the task to accept the new username without locking it. But that isn't very useful when the application owner who is supposed to be updating these task user accounts doesn't have rights to unlock user accounts.
We've tried domain admin accounts (locked), local admin accounts (locked), changed passwords (locked).
Pretty frustrated with this! This could end up holding up a major migration project for us.
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I just stumbled across a hotfix that supposedly addresses this issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2548120
I have not yet had a chance to apply this hotfix to any server.
I will try to remember to post again when I do a chance to apply the hotfix!
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Nice find! I've been running into this issue on several Windows Server 2008 R2 machinesI just stumbled across a hotfix that supposedly addresses this issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2548120
I have not yet had a chance to apply this hotfix to any server.
I will try to remember to post again when I do a chance to apply the hotfix!
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1) Please check the service account's account tab for log on to option , add the computer name to logon /or check all computer.
2)check the local policy - Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment for deny Log on as a batch job (if it is enable then the account does not able to run any bat file form the schedule task )
3) check run with highest privilege form the task scheduler job setting under general tab .
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Excel for Android
Dear,
now Microsoft release Excel for Android then installed it i face this error as long as set up the APP
is this the right forum that i should direct to get an answer.
sorry i can't adjust the attached Pic size
thanks a lot,
- Edited by Ahmed M Abdel Kader Friday, June 26, 2015 3:59 PM
Provider Hosted APP with MVC development issues and solutions
this is mainly used SharePoint provider hosted apps discussion:
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setting value to model control using jquery
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Name, new { htmlAttributes = new { id = "modelId"} })
@section Scripts {
$("#modelId").val("sdfsdf");
}
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ANOTHER HOTMAIL ID HACKED I NEED TO IMPORT DATA
- Edited by pkkapoorandco Friday, June 26, 2015 8:50 AM
Efficient Group Policy Preferences at Multiple Sites
We have 100+ locations (schools), each with its own OU. We need to use Group Policy to deploy printers at all the sites.
Is processing more efficient to put a GPO at each location OU with just their printers, or to have one GPO on the parent OU with all the printers and use Item-Level targeting to assign printers to the right locations?
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Greetings/Grüße, Martin
Mal ein gutes Buch über GPOs lesen?
Good or bad GPOs? - my blog…
And if IT bothers me - coke bottle design refreshment (-:
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Resting users from renaming Local Administrator Account
HI,
Is there any way to restrict the users from renaming built-in local admin account using Computer Management console or using Manage user Accounts under control panel. Can make change only using command line not through GUI.
Regards,
Prasad Kuber
Business Intelligence Developement Studio
Hi ,
I am working on Business Intelligence ssrs,ssas
I am facing a violation of constrained exception when i called dashboard from asp.net using report viewer
Power View Drill Through To SSRS
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Hi Avanade,
In current release, we can add a hyperlink to a text box in a sheet or view in PowerView report. If a field in your data model contains a hyperlink, add the field to the sheet or view. It can link to any Internet or email address. However, it seem that we cannot create a drill-though report in PowerView like that in SSRS report using action property. We cannot give you the exact time when will the products be related in way that will support Power View drill-through to SSRS reports. If you have any concerns about this feature, you can pay more attention to the link What's new in Power View, if the feature was released, Microsoft will announce it on that link.
Thank your for your understanding.
Regards,
Charlie Liao
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TechNet Community Support
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Hi Charile,
Any update here? Is it going to get supported in Power View (PowerBI)?
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http://sqlwithmanoj.wordpress.com
MCCA 2011 | My FB Page
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- Edited by Prajwal DesaiMVP Friday, June 26, 2015 5:19 AM
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T minus 28 Days & Counting
Windows 10 is coming SOON!!
If you are eligible for the free Upgrade offer you can reserve the DL for the GA. You will need W7 SP1 or W8.1
Make sure your machine or machines are clean & healthy. Always backup, backup & backup. Recommend making a Sys Image just prior to final release
GA-Day is July 29
Cheers,
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PS: Did I mention backup?
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- Edited by Drew1903 Saturday, June 27, 2015 6:03 PM
Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10149
- Changed type MakeMeLaugh Friday, June 26, 2015 1:00 AM
Reporting a bug in Windows Update
Build 10130 Pro
A little while ago, under View Your Update History, we had this " require restart to finish installing " message after a few particular updates were installed via Windows Update. And, no matter how many times restarted was done, that message remained there.
Now there is message of " Fail to install " under View Your Update History.
I have 6 of them.
Yet, under Programs & Features > View Installed Updates, those 6 are listed, meaning they were successfully installed.
Here are my list:
Cumulative Security Update for Windows 10 Insider Preview June Update (KB3058515)
Security Update for Windows 10 Insider Preview June Update (KB3070675)
Update for Windows 10 Insider Preview June Update (KB3069069)
Update for Windows 10 Insider Preview June Update (KB3070677)
Security Update for Windows 10 Insider Preview June Update (KB3070641)
Security Update for Internet Explorer Flash Player for Windows 10 Insider Preview June Update (KB3065820)
- Edited by david hk129 Wednesday, June 24, 2015 2:46 PM
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" require restart to finish installing "
I have seen something like this in W8.1.2. My workaround was to pick one update, install that and restart with it. Then magically everything else started working again. Also, I guess this was before I switched to allowing automatic updates (for another issue). BTW when I did that (allowed automatic updates) it appeared that for some time updates had been installing but not applying, which would also be related to your case. So, regardless of how you are allowing automatic updates my suggestion would be: try doing whatever you need to do to use my workarounds as described above. There are obviously some deficiencies in the update process which we need to work around in various ways.
BTW have you figured out how we are supposed to use the Event log equivalent of WindowsUpdate.log? Fortunately there is still a text version available under a different name...
C:\WINDOWS\WindowsUpdate_AU_deprecated.log
Or is that gone now? FWIW I'm stuck on Build 10122 until I can get my Hyper-V problem in W8.1.2 fixed.
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
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Exact wording and error code would identify where MS team should start to work.
Try to use clean boot and when there are updates for download on download catalog, download them and install manually.
W 10 are in preview version and some hurdles may appera any time. Be prepared.
HTH
Milos
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What exact wording" and "error code"?
They are under View your update history. There is no error code.
Why do I need a "clean boot" when all updates are installed ?
The trouble is WU's failure to sync.
Settings > Update & Security > Advanced options > View your update history....................
- Edited by david hk129 Thursday, June 25, 2015 11:05 PM
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Programs and Features > View Installed Updates...............
- Edited by david hk129 Thursday, June 25, 2015 10:45 PM
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You are showing us what was "installed" but not necessarily proving that they were all "applied" to your running OS. If the latter does not happen then you would have an example of why there would be a loop in procedure. BTW some updates do require reboot to achieve the final transition from "installed" to "applied" even if they do not prompt for one. That's one of the many quirks of WU. ; )
Robert Aldwinckle
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It's the same issue a while back when updates installed " require restart to complete install ", but that message remained in the View your update history no matter how many times restart were performed.
Garbriel Aul tweeted about that issue...... That was some time ago.
The issue of " failed to install" appears to be similar and most likely the same bug.
https://twitter.com/TheJoeFin/status/609424519267139585/photo/1
- Edited by david hk129 Friday, June 26, 2015 3:00 AM
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TERRIBLE time with Intune desktop operating system subscription
We have been using a subscription for Intune with Desktop OS for almost a year now. We have activated around 200 Windows installations. Suddenly the MAK key has stopped working for activations. It says that the limit has been reached.
I have tried adding more licenses to my subscription twice now. That still hasn't helped.
I have spent over a week trying to talk with the right person at MS to solve this. I have been transferred over 25 times. The technical support department says they don't have access to the licensing, and I need to talk with Billing. The Billing department says that technical support needs to solve it. This is by far the worst support experience I have had in my life. I have probably spoken to over 15 different contacts at MS, and nobody is able to solve this problem. They just want to put me on hold for long periods and then transfer me to another department.
Now they are telling me that engineering needs to look at it, and that will take another three days.
- Changed type DayneBramaged Thursday, June 25, 2015 10:03 PM Question was never resolved
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I know this is old but I'm trying to clean up old posts. Did you ever solve this? If so it would be good if you could post the solution to assist others.
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- Edited by Gerry HampsonMVP Monday, April 20, 2015 6:06 PM
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Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Sandro Pereira | BizTalk DevOps: Monitor your BizTalk environment using PowerShell | Ed Price: "BizTalk DevOps! With PowerShell??? Man, talk about a hot topic with valuable content! Fantastic job on this one!" Mandi Ohlinger: "Nice job Sandro. Great solutions using PowerShell. " LG: "It is realy practical and high value article." |
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| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Chervine | Big Data Analytics using Microsoft Azure: Hive | JH: "I love the article from Chervine. Hope to see another one from this series very soon." Ed Price: "Truly magnificent! The depth here is astonishing! Love the diagram. Great code formatting. Thorough References section!" |
| | Ken Cenerelli | Custom Telemetry Events with TrackEvent in Microsoft Application Insights | Alan Carlos: "Wow! I love AppInsights and this article is fantastic! Congrats!" Ed Price: "I love the topic of App Insights! Great formatting throughout this article! The red arrows/callouts in the images help a ton. Great ending with the References and See Also sections!" JH: "Great article about App Insights. Would love to see more detailed ones about it." |
| | Ken Cenerelli | Azure PowerShell cmdlets version updates | JH: "Nice, short and simple. Seems to be the time for me to check my Azure PowerShell version." Ed Price: "Great topic with PowerShell! This is such a beautifully formatted article that's incredibly easy to read and understand. Fantastic job!" |
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| | Carmelo La Monica | Read the temperature with Arduino Uno | Philippe Levesque: "Really refreshing content and well explained" Richard Mueller: "Great images. We need more references." |
| | Danish Islam | Microsoft Office Sway | Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines. I liked the detailed steps to get started and the references." Philippe Levesque: "Good introduction to Sway!" |
| | Pooja Baraskar | Moisture sensor with Windows on Galileo | Philippe Levesque: "Great job on this content" Richard Mueller: "Great images." |
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Dan Christian | SharePoint 2013 External List from Oracle Database | Hezequias Vasconcelos: "It is important to see the integration of SharePoint 2013 with other platforms not Microsoft. This shows the confidence that the business environment has on the product." KB: "Very detailed and a lot of screenshots. Nice work!" TN: "Helpful article to connect SP & Oracle database" Ed Price: "This is fantastic! I love how the three videos walk you through the steps as well!" |
| | Inderjeet Singh Jaggi | What is a Web Application in SharePoint? | Ed Price: "Great description and use of PowerShell commands." |
| | Danish Islam | Excel Services Issue in SharePoint 2013/2010 | Ed Price: "This is very clear, with a helpful solution. A combination of the text of the error message and the image help add the clarity. Great formatting. It could benefit from a See Also section." |
| Small Basic Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Ezra94 | Small Basic: Optimization | Michiel Van Hoorn: "This is really usefull and great reading for developers who looking for more complex application and want to avoid pitfall.s" Ed Price: "Ezra and Nonki did an amazing job on this article! I was recently going through these issues with some various users, and this article has helped give us a ton of ideas! Great article! Great formatting on the sections and code snippets, and I love all the resources at the end! That Bill Gates article is a fun one!" RZ: "Very nice! And very engaging. Much more fun than just talking about Optimization. :)" |
| | Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Kinect for Small Basic Extension Library | Michiel Van Hoorn: "For those lucky guys with a kinect sensor on their pc: get busy. For others: buy a sensor!" Ed Price: "A reference doc for the Kinect Extension. Great! And I love the picture! Also, good visibility in the See Also to show the other extensions available!" RZ: "Excellent as usual. Yeah, Kinect! What else needs to be said? :)" |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Andy ONeill | Developer Friendly XML Extraction From SQL Server | DRC: "Good article for developers to extract the SQL data in XMl format for processing. The SQL Server instance name in the BCp command should be "-S" [Upper case]. Else we encounter the error: C:\temp>bcp.exe "SQLquery" queryout c:\temp\xmlFileName.xml -w -T -s<Hostname\Instancename> bcp.exe: unknown option s We get the below error if we don't specify the servername as it always tries to connect to default instance on the machine on which the command is executed.So "-S" parameter need to be included. bcp "EXEC [AdventureWorks2012].[dbo].[XML_Extract_Employees]" queryout D:\test.xml -w -T C:\temp>bcp "EXEC [AdventureWorks2012].[dbo].[XML_Extract_Employees]" queryout c:\temp\test.xml -w -T SQLState = 08001, NativeError = 2 Error = [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server]Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [2]. SQLState = 08001, NativeError = 2 So the commandd should be: bcp "EXEC [AdventureWorks2012].[dbo].[XML_Extract_Employees]" queryout D:\test.xml -w -T -S<hostname\Instancename> " Durval Ramos: "An interesting article, but need to add more XML examples and other structures, including attributes and special characters (encoding)" AM: "Great introduction to FOR XML feature." |
| System Center Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | GerryHampson | Analyse your ConfigMgr data with Microsoft Power BI | Alan Carlos: "Great article and content." Ed Price: "Great job on the detail and some very helpful images! It could benefit from a TOC, section headers, and a See Also section. Great article! Powerful topic!" |
| | Sridhar Vishwanatham | Optimizing rule in scom 2007/2012 | Ed Price: "Good topic with great info. It could benefit from a TOC, bigger section headers, and a See Also section that links to related Wiki articles. Good diagram! It's very easy to follow along through the details!" |
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| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Ronen Ariely | T-SQL: Sort data by multiple languages | Richard Mueller: "Good explanation. I like the highlighted notes." Durval Ramos: "This article is very interesting, and demonstrates effectively how to work with UNICODE data. Very well detailed article and also have T-SQL script to download on TechNet Gallery." |
| | Saeid Hasani | T-SQL: Make a Read Copy of Database by Using Synonym, Trigger and SQL Agent Job | Durval Ramos: "Very useful, this article is well structured over an interesting scenario. I have read many threads about copy of a database on Forums. Also have T-SQL script to download on TechNet Gallery." Richard Mueller: "We need links/references." |
| Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Emiliano Musso | Geolocalize a device and store coordinates on Webserve | Ed Price: "Wow! This is such an amazing article! The detail, images, formatting, and everything are all fantastic! I'd love to see a See Also section and Wiki cross-linking, but this is a fantastic article!" JH: "Location-aware apps are very important nowadays. I like the approach in this article to not use the complete Microsoft stack, instead to use PHP and MySQL. Would be cool to see it with more technologies, such as Node.js." |
| | Lee McPherson | Leverage Continuum feature to change UI for Mouse/Keyboard users using custom StateTrigger | JH: "I like it when an app behaves 'native' on different devices. Hope that the times where I can't use my big fingers are gone." Ed Price: "Great descriptions and execution on formatting each section!" |
| | Pooja Baraskar | Localization in Windows Universal Apps | JH: "Localization and Globalization is something most apps have their problems with. This article shows how easy it can be. Love it!" Ed Price: "As Danish mentions in the article comments, it's very easy to understand! The images are helpful and the explanations are thorough!" |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | tommytwotrain | VB.Net: High resolution printouts of the Chart control by using a Metafile | MR: "Very helpful article!" Richard Mueller: "Good work. We need links/references." |
| | Emiliano Musso | Sort and Filter CSV files with DataTable and DataView | Richard Mueller: "Good use of TOC." MR: "Great article on intro to Data Tables" |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | .paul. | Multi-page DGV Printing | Carmelo La Monica: "Very great content and detailed in all parts!" Jaliya Udagedara: "It would have been great, if explanations were provided for each method in the provided code." |
| | Yan Grenier | C# : Windows Service in console mode for debug and admin | Jaliya Udagedara: "I really enjoyed reading this article. Well explained with images, code snippets, and the source code is available in MSDN Code Gallery. It's just perfect!" Carmelo La Monica: "I don't know very much about Windows Service, but this article is for me and other users a good starting point, congrats!" |
| | Tom Mohan | Getting Started With WCF | Jaliya Udagedara: "Detailed article about WCF which I am sure beginners will find quite interesting." Carmelo La Monica: "Very helpful article, and great demo for to understand how to use WCF service, congratulations!" |
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Andy ONeill | Why YOU should enter the Technet WIki Guru Competition | PG: "Nice, useful article" Durval Ramos: "This article provides good arguments to encourage our Community to share knowledge. Congrats on your initiative, Andy!!!" Richard Mueller: "Great topic and well written. Good use of guidelines for articles." |
| Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Arleta Wanat | SharePoint Online content types in Powershell: Add | Richard Mueller: "Well written. Good links. I needed more explanation/examples." Chen V: "Excellent Article! Great Explanation with Related Links! " |
| | sridhar vishwanatham | SCOM 2012: Bulk override creation for monitors and rules using PowerShell | Alan Carlos: "Wow, great tip!!!" Chen V: "Good script to keep SCOM healthy!" Richard Mueller: "Needs links/references." |
| | Arleta Wanat | Manage SharePoint Online Access Requests using Powershell | Richard Mueller: "Interesting." Chen V: "Good Article - Screen shots makes it clear." |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Andy ONeill | Dependency Property Default Double Trouble | KJ: "I love these kind of articles. this has bit me in the past." Ed Price: "Love the end-to-end perspective!" |
| | Tom Mohan | Data Input Validation In WPF : Validation With Exception | Ed Price: "Valuable contribution!" KJ: "short and sweet - nice." |
| | Andy ONeill | Animating a ViewModel | KJ: "neat stuff! very fancy!" Ed Price: "Great topic with powerful depth!" |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - May 2015 |
| | Richard Mueller | Active Directory: Large Integer Attributes | JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your continued contributions" Mark Parris: "Excellent insights." Philippe Levesque: "Well written article and well explained !" |
| | Manjunath Sullad | How to Identify "Shared" and "Non-Shared" disks on cluster nodes | Philippe Levesque: "Good technical tip !" JM: "This is a very good article on cluster node HDDs, good job" Mark Parris: "Good tidbit." |
| | Darshana Jayathilake | Useful powershell commands for manage servers & desktops | Mark Parris: "Good knowledge to have." JM: "This article provides a great basis for a topic to which many folks can contribute their favorite PowerShell commands" |
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Suggestions for Improvements to Excel
I use Excel for technical stuff.
- First, could you PLEASE make it so that if I type
A1 = avg(range); Excel knows what I mean? You don't make me type out "StandardDeviation", Excel knows what "stdev(range)" means, please let us use "avg" as an abbreviation for "average"!
2. Suppose I have a discontinuous range of cells that I want to average, e.g.
cell A1=average(B1,C1,D1)
If I want the standard deviation as far as I know I have to either retype the range OR select and copy the range from A1 and then paste it in to my formula. Both these option are a pain.
Make Excel smart! If
A1=average(range)
then if I type
A2=stdev(A1)
Excel should pop up a dialog box that says "Did you want me to use the range that was used in A1?" Then I can answer YES or NO. This could be generalized to any function that wants a range - if a single cell is entered as the range Excel asks if I want to use the range that is in that single cell. Simple but effective!
Bob
Reply:
Re: want more technical stuff
Jim Cone
Portland, Oregon USA
https://goo.gl/IUQUN2 (Dropbox)
- Edited by James Cone Wednesday, October 26, 2016 2:13 AM
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Certificate Server is installed
Since it is not possible to remove the role from server manager, I used powershell with the following commands.
Remove-WindowsFeature ADCS-Web-Enrollment
Remove-WindowsFeature AD-Certificate
Once removed roles restart the server.
Now you can continue with the installation of new dc.
- Changed type Athos Ghidoni Thursday, June 25, 2015 5:49 PM Check the prerequisites for the Promotion of the domain controller failed. Server certificates installed.
Why there is no share option in Windows 10 Mail app?
Hi
We have created a C# Windows Store app for Windows 8.1 and uploaded in the Windows Store. From Mail app we used to select content and share to our app and display the shared content in our app for printing the content.
In Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview the Mail app does not have share option, so how to share the mail content from Windows 10 Mail app to our app.
Please help. Mail app with Share option is very important for our app.
Regards,
Ashok
- Moved by Rob Caplan [MSFT]Microsoft employee Thursday, June 25, 2015 5:39 PM
- Changed type ashok.kumar1974 Friday, June 26, 2015 4:20 AM
Reply:
For questions or feature requests for in-box apps please post on the Windows Insider Preview forums on http://answers.microsoft.com .
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