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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 introduces some great new form customization capabilities. One of my favorites is the ability to remove Navigation bar links from a form. Prior to 2011, the only way to remove nav bar links was to use jscript to hide them. This complicated form customization, and also made...

It is possible to retrieve data from Active Directory and process this data in SSIS 2005 and 2008. In this article, I will look at methods for retrieving and processing this data, and give step by step procedures for accessing this data in SSIS. At the end, I will give an example of importing data...

Here's a script that sets the following default settings for all the print queues on your Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 print server. Currently, you can set the following default settings: color, mono, twosided, onesided, and staple. What would you do to improve this script...

Table of Contents Summary Lucene.NET The Azure Library for Lucene.NET Using the Library Using Lucene.NET to index SQL Database Searching the Lucene.NET catalog References Summary Lucene.NET is a .NET implementation of the Lucene full-text search engine. This article describes how you can use...

This article describes the import and export features in the Microsoft SQL Server “Denali” Data-tier Application Framework 2012 RC0 to import and export data with SQL Database. The import and export features provide the ability to retrieve and restore an entire database, including schema and data,...

Table of Contents Introduction Prerequisites Workflow Step 1: Install Master Data Services Step 2: Install Visual Studio Step 3: Optionally Install SharePoint Step 4: Create a Local User for the MDS Integration Service Create a local MDS Workflow service user account Grant stored procedure...

I get asked about this every once in a while so I thought I would post it here in case it’s something you might find helpful as well. This report will contain the last login time on a particular computer along with the user who logged in to it as well as some additional details. To create the report...

Introduction This walkthrough will show you how to build a data provider and corresponding query that can be used by an Operations Manager 2012 (OM12) Widget that can be used in a dashboard created in the Operations Console. In this walk through you will learn the following: Create a [ DataProvider...

How To Calculating the next maintenance window in SCCM is a bit troublesome as you normally have to use WMI to get the data structure that makes up the schedule. What if you want to write a SCCM report? The following table-valued function will calculate the next date/time of a maintenance window...

VMM 2012 SP1 supports the same storage arrays that were supported in VMM 2012, plus the SMP provider . For more info : ( http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4583.scvmm-2012-storage-and-load-balancer-provider-downloads-en-us.aspx ) Below are the steps to install and connect...

Table of Contents Before beginning Why to code in native language for EWS Why to NOT use native language for EWS The setup used What you will need What to do Reference Other Languages Before beginning English is not my native language, so feel free to correct me. I will use the acronym...

This document is part of the Operations Manager Management Pack Authoring Guide . Table of Contents Overview Product Versions Prerequisites Revisions Sample Code Details Authoring Console Procedure Visual Studio Authoring Extensions Procedure See Also Overview The following...

This article is regarding creating " SharePoint Custom Workflow Activity " through Visual Studio 2010. First, let's us have look on what is Custom Workflow Activity, what is need to create custom workflow activity? When creating workflow, SharePoint designer supports out-of-box...

Step 1: Create a Setup project right click and select Sql server 2008 as prerequisite. In VS2008 Sql Server 2005 available as prerequisite. Here are the steps to install sql server database with setup using custom action. Step 2: create a text file that contains a...

Scenario: There is an incoming claim ( or user attribute ) that is being sent to a relying party When the claim is sent, the value must not exceed a certain character limit Data that exceeds this limit must be truncated to accommodate this requirement Example: Incoming claim http...

Table of Contents Explorando resultados Extraído del post original en mi blog. Volviendo a lo que espero sea una larga serie de artículos sobre la API de Windows , hemos visto al detalle ya cómo utilizar las funciones de RegCreateKeyEx para crear una sub-clave de registro y RegSetValueEx...

PART 1 (FIX IN PART 2) Another SharePoint boggling issue. I defined a Page Layout as illustrated below. It has two columns left and right with 80% and 20% width respectively. When deploying this page on my local system I found that creating a page resulted in an error. Entering web part maintenance...

The interpreter pattern is a design pattern that is useful when developing domain-specific languages or notations. The pattern allows the grammar for such a notation to be represented in an object oriented fashion that can easily be extended. The interpreter pattern is a behavioral design pattern...

A command pattern is a design pattern that enables all the information for a request to be contained within a single object. The command can then be invoked as required, ofte as a part of a batch of queued commands with rollback capabilities. There are three key terms which needed to be explained...

If you are following the Software Design Principles while developing an application, the first thing that comes to your mind is the Interface Segregation Principle. The idea for this principle is to use customer centric interface. When a customer wants some set of operations, we need to provide only...

If you are following the Software Design Principles while developing an application, the first thing that comes to your mind is the Single Responsibility Principle. The Single Responsibility principle says that there should be never be more than one reason to change a class.. "A class should...

If you are following the Software Design Principles while developing an application, the first thing that comes to your mind is the Liskov Substitution Principle. In this principle it is stated that the base class objects can always be substituted with the derived class objects. "Derived...

If you are following the Software Design Principles while developing an application, the first thing that comes to your mind is the Dependency Inversion Principle. "High level modules should not depend upon low level modules, rather both should depend upon abstractions" The line...

Table of Contents Debug of Cache $serviceInstance.Unprovision() Allocate Memory on Distributed Cache Service Change the Memory allocation Add or Delete a server on a Distributed Cache Cluster Graceful shutdown of the Distributed Cache Service Change the Managed Account Repair a Cache host What you need...

A PowerShell script to copy access entries from one user to another user might look something like this: $oldUser = [System.Security.Principal.NTAccount] 'DOMAIN\User01' $newUser = [System.Security.Principal.NTAccount] 'DOMAIN\User02' $acl = Get-Acl -Path 'C:\Program...