Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

Dedicated Server v/s Cloud Server: Know the Difference

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In a world where everything is speedy and top notch, the technology around you needs to be better and faster. Here I will tell you which is better between ...

Debugging PCI bus with Windows CE

This time I will write about something I don't understand :-( Or at least not completely. Some time ago I was debugging a new Intel hardware platform (Adlink ETX-BT, Celeron J1900) and I experienced unexpected ...

Office 365: Authentication

When we’re talking authentication the first thing that pops up in our minds is Active Directory. For years, active directory has been the staple identity provider for most companies and the foundational ...

Exchange Hybrid deployment scenarios

Hybrids: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Whether Exchange or Lync, hybrids are the wave of the future, something everyone will have to start dealing with at one point ...

Windows 10 – how to change Workgroup

Let’s say you have machines in an old school workgroup without a domain and you want to change the name of that workgroup. In the Windows 10 user interface, where should you go? Is it Settings? Where you ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 11: References & Sync Script

· How to license FIM 2010 & MIM 2016 http://social.technet.micro... · Global address list synchronization walkthrough: https://technet.microsoft.c... ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 10: Configuring Free/Busy

 Note: In order for Free/Busy to work Outlook Anywhere needs to be enabled in both forest and auto discover needs to be functioning properly. Additionally, the external URLs for EWS need to be configured. ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 9: Synchronization!

 Note: The entire list must be run through in order and progression to the next step cannot be done until the current step has completed for all Management agents! Step 1: Right click the management agent, ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 8: Enabling Provisioning

 Step 1: Open the “Synchronization Service Manager”. Step 2: Open the Options from the Tools menu. Step 3: Under Metaverse Rules Extensions, verify that Enable metaverse rules extentions box is checked. ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 7: Creating Synchronization Agents

US GALMA – Exchange 2010 Step 1: Open the “Synchronization Service Manager”. Step 2: Click on the “management Agents Button. Step 3: From the Actions menu, click Create. Step 4: In “the management agent ...

Writing your first MapReduce program

Before we delve into the IDE and start writing code lets understand a bit more about the MapReduce. The MapReduce computation takes a set of input key/value pairs, and produces a set of output key/value ...

Hadoop installation for Development

The best way to learn about Hadoop is getting your hands dirty with real Hadoop programs and their execution. In order to do so we first need a Hadoop installation in local development box. Steps to install ...

Introduction to Hadoop

Apache Hadoop is a framework which supports distributed processing and distributed storage of very large data sets on clusters of commodity computers. The distributed processing is achieved through MapReduce ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 6: Installing the MIM 2016 Synchronization Service (GALSync)

Step 1: In the unpacked MIM installation folder, navigate to the Synchronization Service folder. Step 2: Run the MIM Synchronization Service installer. Follow the guidelines of the installer and complete ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 5: Preparing the GALSync Server

Installing the MIM server Prerequisites  Note: The exchange 2007 management tools need to be installed on the MIM server for it to be able to provision users correctly.  Note: In order for the GALSync ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 4: Preparing the US Exchange 2010 environment

Create receive connector Step 1: Open the exchange management console Step 2: Click on Hub Transport under Server Configuration Step 3: In the Actions pane click on New Receive Connector… Step 4: In the ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 3: Preparing the UK Exchange 2007 environment

Create a scoped send connector Step 1: Open the exchange management console Step 2: Click on Hub Transport under Organization Configuration Step 3: Click on the Send Connectors Tab Step 4: In the Actions ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 2: DNS Forwarders

Creating conditional forwarders Step 1: Open DNS manager Step 2: Select Conditional forwarders Step 3: Right click “Conditional Forwards" and select “New Conditional Forwarder…” Step 4: Enter the dns name ...

Coexistence between Exchange forests (without trusts…) -- Part 1: Conceptual

Imagine a scenario where you acquire a company in a different country and they don’t want to be absorb in your IT environment (because they don’t like it, have regulatory requirements that can’t be met ...

Incoherent versioning

To check my PC is up to date on Windows 10 display drivers, I installed the “Intel Driver Update Utility”. After a quick scan, I was surprised to see I was apparently 5 major versions behind current! So ...

Debugging - Remote JVM

Most of the JAVA IDE like Eclipse or InteliJ allow configuring the application through Debug configuration to attach a remote JVM and debug the code libraries. Let’s walk over this configuration and understand ...

Windows 10 – Looking for updated HP drivers

Decided to check that my HP Compaq Elite 8300 at work had all the latest drivers and updates on it for Windows 10. The network card NDIS driver has now become unreliable with the latest Insider Preview ...

Demystifying Regular Expressions

When you first come across regular expressions they can be totally confusing. This article from SitePoint gives a gentle introduction and some resources to go to once you’ve dipped your feet into the water. ...

Generate custom build numbers in TFS Build vNext

Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2015/10/15/generate-custom-build-numbers-in-tfs-build-vnext/

Resx strings can be technical debt

I’m working on a project that requires translation using .Net’s Resx capabilities. This project is 2 years old and counting and our duplication and disorganization of our Resx strings are very apparent. ...

Can Sketch Noting Help You Keep Up With Technology?

I saw a post from someone who had created a Sketchnote of one of Scott Hanselman’s talks. It was the first time I had seen this as an defined process for note taking. As I get older and technology moves ...

Member not found jsorter error

If you are using jsorter with compatibility mode enabled, you may receive a "member not found" error. I'm not entirely sure what causes this error, but it seems with some poking around online, I was able ...

A Brief Guide on Dedicated Server Hosting

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Most of us are aware of several types of web hosting solutions that exist, but what most of us are not aware of is which one will ...

ISS Astronauts contact with Corpus Christi Catholic School

Here's a video posted Chris Brushie KB3TQO of the ISS Astronauts contact with Corpus Christi Catholic School 10.06.15, at the Capitol theater in Chanbersburg PA. CVARC coordinated the contact Via amateur ...

Set Up a Virtual Test Device (WEC7 or WEC2013) on Windows 10

The following links from Microsoft are close but not currently up-to-date with respect to Hyper-V and getting set up on a Windows 10 host computer / development system. Set Up a Virtual Test Device (Compact ...

JSPM and the company proxy

I was going to try out Aurelia’s skeleton navigation project again and ran into company proxy issues. Aurelia uses JSPM instead of just NPM, so this is some new territory for me. It took some Bingooling ...

GDB - notes from the field

Last year I spent some time debugging Qt C++11 code using the GNU Debugger GDB https://www.gnu.org/softwar... (as well as profiling with Valgrind http://valgrind.org/ ).To skill up on this, I read the ...

How to start a TechMasters club

I sometimes get this question when I tell people about TechMasters, so I thought maybe it’s time for a blog post on the topic. What is TechMasters? It is Open Toastmasters club for Geeks, with the focus ...

SSIS Expression – Convert Seconds to HHH:MM:SS Format

It is a SSIS developer snack. Today on the MSDN Forums I came across a post in which a person asked for help converting an arbitrary number seconds to HH:MM:SS format. I quickly reached out to my SSIS ...

Creating a SharePoint list item from an app/add-in part - fun with form digest

Ok, I will try not to make this a rant, but after knocking my head against the proverbial wall for several hours, that is going to be a tough one, LOL.The problem was seemingly trivial: Create a SharePoint ...

Solidsoft Reply needs your talent...

Solidsoft Reply is in recruiting mode. We are the UK’s leading integration specialists on the Microsoft Platform with a decade and a half experience of hard-core development using BizTalk Server and related ...

How To Install Couchbase In Microsoft Azure For Test Purposes

In this blog, I will show you how to install and configure an instance of Couchbase (http://www.couchbase.com/), a powerful NoSQL database, on a Microsoft Azure A0/A1 server configuration with the smaller ...

Azure Sketchnote Collection: Pt 1

I recently started sketchnoting to better understand topics with as many new technologies and languages come out every day. This post is simply a collection of Azure related sketchnotes that I created. ...

Earn Your Playing Time

It is aggravating being a coach and a parent watching other parents complain that their child doesn’t get their fair share of playing time. I could have done this with my own son this season, but instead ...

How Effective Data Center Solutions Can Add Value to Your Business?

Today, data centers are helping organizations greatly in not just hosting their mission critical data but also in handling their multiple tasks on-demand, based on the varied model of the services as provided ...

Large mailboxes & managing multiple mailboxes…. Ohhhh My!

Recently I got involved with a client who had made the jump from their on premise Exchange deployment to Office 365 Exchange Online. Awesome! Only this client started experiencing some serious performance ...

Making WPA Simple - CPU/Disk/Memory and Wait Analysis

Last time I have shown how to have a look GC issues with my simplified WPA profile. But there is much more in this profile which will make it a lot easier to analyze standard issues. In general when you ...

I get this message: profile name is not valid [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 14607) using sp_send_dbmail. Why?

The most likely reason is that your profile has not been configured, or you are using an incorrect name under the @profile_name parameter. To determine your profile settings, use this query:SELECT [profile_id] ...

Angular Toolkits: Customizable Bootstrap Tabs

Bootstrap provides a component named Tabs, which provides tab container and tab pages. In order to make it easy to use in Angular.js, Angular UI team created a directive called "ui.bootstrap.tabs". By ...

Hey, Windows, where are my VMs?

My work machine has been happily upgrading through the various Insider Preview builds for some time now. Finally I’ve met one that’s irritated. Step forward, Build 10547. First thing I noticed was no mouse ...

Why Dedicated Servers are Known as Smart Investment and Technology Management Move

Dedicated Servers In India: A Smart Investment and Technology Management Move- In an ever-dynamic changing eCommerce landscape, a long lasting user experience has become a ‘must-have’ in a business strategy. ...

Adventures in Windows IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2

Ever since I won a Raspberry Pi 2 at Microsoft Ignite I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with it. This week I decided to look at the Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2 and see what I could do ...

Learning The Azure Cloud

The cloud is everywhere around us and if you are building systems in the Microsoft space the cloud means Azure. So how do you get started. To my way of thinking you need to understand the front end, batch ...

What Should Your Goals Be When Developing

This post was prompted by a number of Twitter posts that were discussing if developers thought about who would be maintaining the code they wrote. Of course the answer is “it depends” as any good consultant ...

Watch OS2

Please to announce that Bin Collections is ready to run on iOS9 and Watch OS 2. Many thanks to Scott for sending me a pic of it running on a real watch ...