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Tips on Manually Adding a Virtual Machine Configuration File to Hyper-V
Ben Armstrong writes, "People have been asking for a while for a way to add a virtual machine configuration file (.XML) directly to an instance of Hyper-V without first needing to export and import it. Some key things that I want to point out about t... more

Fix for Issue When Trying to Load Report Manager
PSS SQL Engineers writes, "...Our string length is 256. This happens to be length at which ASP.NET currently truncates the UserAgent string. We can definately see that the UserAgent is being truncted. So, how do I fix it. The items within a UserAg... more

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AGPM Least Privileged Scenario for AGPM Service Account
Kurt Roggen writes, "When installing the AGPM 3.0 Server, there are two options when choosing the AGPM Service account: LocalSystem or a domain user account used to run the service....For the AGPM Service to work properly with “Least Privileges”, assign following privileges, rights and/or group membership to the AGPM service account:" more

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:58:31 GMT

SharePoint Tip on Using Data View Web Part
Mauro Cardarelli writes, "What if we created a Promotions list that had a couple of fields, 'Image URL' and 'Redirection URL'? We could create a DVWP...that shows the image and sets the redirection. This way, when the promotion changes the business user simply needs to edit a list. You can repurpose this for many pages...include expiration dates and/or scrolling promotions...the snippet" more

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:35:52 GMT

TFS Installation Troubleshooting Guide
Brian Harry writes, "..new Troubleshooting Installation of Team Foundation Server guide. If you are having a problem installing TFS, this is a good resource to check out..." more

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:31:28 GMT

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:31:27 GMT

Microsoft Regional Directors 2009 Predictions
Guy Barrette writes, "The Microsoft Regional Directors have posted their 2009 predictions. You can read them here:" more

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:31:25 GMT

Stop Brute Force Listing of HTTP OPTIONS With Network Side Scripting
Lori MacVittie writes, "...python script for brute forcing the HTTP OPTIONS on directories. One of the reasons someone would want this information is because if you're...allowing PUT methods on any directories, someone can upload something nasty and potentially execute an attack. The availability of PUT makes XSS attacks simple even for script kiddies, for example..." more

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:40:27 GMT

Powershell CTP3 Remote Access cmdlets List
Richard Siddaway writes, "The ability to administer remote machines was one of the biggest requests for PowerShell v2. As well as the ability to use PowerShell remoting through WSMAN a number of PowerShell cmdlets get direct access to remote machines by having a –ComputerName parameter. Get-WMIObject had this in PowerShell version 1 and the ability has spread. To find out which cmdlets have this paramerter try this..." more

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:14:46 GMT

SQL Allocation Bottlenecks Why They Occur
SQL Storage Engine Team writes, "As you can now imagine, if there is significant allocation/deallocation activity in a SQL Server database, multiple threads may need to wait to acquire X or SH latch in non-conflicting mode which can lead to allocation bottleneck. Starting with SQL Server 2005, the caching mechanism for objects in TempDB has been improved significantly..." more

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:08:08 GMT

Unicode Support and IronRuby
Ben Hall writes, "It turns out that Ruby 1.8 (which IronRuby is targeting) doesn’t have support for Unicode characters. When creating a text file using Visual Studio, it automatically saves it with unicode support. The quickest solution appears to be that you shouldn’t use Visual Studio to create Ruby files – at least until the editor has IronRuby integration. The other solution..." more

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:01:39 GMT

How to Build Line Of Business Enterprise Apps With Silverlight
Philippe Destoop writes, "Part 1 illustrates screen pop notification, the asynchronous programming model, Silverlight dialog boxes, and cross-domain TCP policy server implementation. Part 2, will discuss application security, Web service integration, application partitioning, and a number of other aspects of the application." more

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:41:29 GMT

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Joel Oleson

Joel is at Quest Software guiding the SharePoint group strategy and is working on new designs for tools to help IT administrators. Joel previously worked at Microsoft as a senior technical product manager for IT professionals around SharePoint. He designed the first Microsoft Intranet global deployment of SharePoint, as well as the extranet collaboration and hosted SharePoint deployments at Microsoft. Leading up through the release of SharePoint 2007, Joel is in Salt Lake City, UT. more

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:02:41 GMT