Archive for the ‘Microsoft Tools’

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    Migrating TFS 2005 projects to TFS 2008 system
    Is there is a solution for importing existing projects from TFS 2005 server to a new TFS 2008 instance? Yes and this solution is without upgrading original TFS 2005 server to 2008. Solution: While installing TFS 2008 on new server, when wizard prompts you to input SQL server instance for storing data, you can point to database containing TFS 2005 data, this would cause...
    by Nauman at April 8th, 2010 at 05:04 am
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    How to make XP look like Vista-Longhorn
    So, how many of us are bored of looking at user interface of XP? Most of us, because Microsoft has only released 2-3 themes for XP from its launch. There are many different websites that allows to download themes for XP that are not developed by Microsoft. But by downloading them and adding them in windows directory does not usually guarantee theme to work properly. Following...
    by Nauman at December 23rd, 2009 at 09:12 am
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    TFS Migration Guidance Document
    Team Foundation Server (TFS) product group and the Team System Rangers started a project on CodePlex called TFS Integration Platform, to facilitate the development of tools that integrate TFS with other systems. Currently, this tool allow to enable TFS to integrate with other version control and work-item/bug tracking systems, but the eventual goal of this project is to...
    by Nauman at November 21st, 2009 at 11:11 am
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    How to list checked out files — TFS 2008
    What is the procedure to list all the files checked out from team foundation server for a particular project? Also needs to traverse directories and sub directories for listing all files that are checked out. There is a simple solution for this issue, provided through a command line tool of VS 2008. Open Visual Studio command prompt and use tf.exe application. All checked...
    by Nauman at November 18th, 2009 at 09:11 am
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    Disable UAC in Windows 7
    User Access control was a new feature introduced in windows vista, but has become increasingly annoying due to extra security clicks on performing simple windows operations. Microsoft has changed User Access control features a little bit in Windows 7, and now it is some what better than its previous version of windows vista. Windows 7 UAC has options to set the level of...
    by Nauman at November 5th, 2009 at 12:11 am
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    Configuring SSL for a website on IIS
    To remove the issue of sending/receiving data on http, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is used to encrypt data for transmission. In order to implement SSL successfully on your IIS, you need to get a Server Certificate. Server Certificates can be obtained from a trusted 3rd party CA such as VeriSign or Thawte. Steps for Configuring SSL To configure SSL on your IIS web server...
    by Nauman at November 5th, 2009 at 12:11 am
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    Hibernate – Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API
    This annoying error comes up when a user tries to hibernate its system, and this error pops up and now the hibernation option is not available until system restarts.         This problem occurs because the Windows kernel power manager cannot obtain the memory resources that are required to prepare the computer to hibernate. A Microsoft KB article...
    by Nauman at November 5th, 2009 at 12:11 am
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    Project not opening in Read/Write mode – Project Server 2007
    Sometimes it happens that when a user want to open a project schedule from project professional it does not open in write mode. This is because that last time the project was opened it was not checked in properly. There are two ways to overcome this problem: First, do not retrieve all projects from Server, instead get the local copy of that is displayed in recent projects....
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    Connect Project Professional to Project Server
    Follow the steps to connect project professional 2007 to Project server 2007: Open Project Professional. Goto Tools -> Enterproze Options -> Microsoft Office project server Accounts                     When clicked , following window is opened that shows the current accounts from which project professional...
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    Sorted timesheets in Import Timesheet – Project Server 2007
    By default when we see the dropdown list of timesheets in the Import Timesheet page, they are not really sorted. And it is quite difficult to select the appropriate timesheet you want to import for your tasks to be updated. Follow the steps below to sort the timesheets: Go to "ProjectServer_Published" database. In Stored Procedures find the procedure named:...
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    Project Server 2007 migration steps to new server
    Some of the pre requisites for above mentioned operation are: The new machine should have all the pre reqs for Project server installation (Sharepoint Central Administration, Web application, Project Application Service etc.) Same service packs/Patches are to be installed on the new machine. New machine has got same databases restored on it DB. Content Database is...
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    open sharepoint websites in mozilla firefox
    If you use Firefox along with Internet Explorer, each time you want to open up an internal network site or SharePoint or Team System Web Access etc…you have to provide your windows credentials or log in with some valid details. This will repeat with every page you access and have to use Internet Explorer to stop Firefox annoying you.                   You...
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    Job Queue hangs – Project Server 2007
    If you are working on a project using Office Project 2007 to list out all the tasks and when you publish the project after completion, there might be a indefinite pause for publishing the project. The Resources allocated might not be notified of the changes. If you notice the office project status bar. What happens is, the job stays in the queue on the project server....
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    Service Unavailable – Error message
    When you configure your IIS webserver and find the following message Service Unavailable Then the first solution to the above error is http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=823552 but if this does not solve the problem try doing the following stuff. Open the IIS Manager, right click Web Sites and select properties:                       Switch...
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 07:11 am
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    Remote Access Timeout
    When using remote access you may find that uploading or downloading a large file or a group of files will cause the connection to time out before the operation finishes with the error message "The remote connection to the computer timed out. Please connect again." By default, remote access is configured to timeout after 20 minutes, which is adequate for uploading/downloading...
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 07:11 am
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    Security Certificate problem
    If you are using a computer without the connector (console) software on it (e.g. at work trying to access your home server) and you try to connect to the web interface of WHS then the following error appears: If you are using a computer without the connector (console) software on it (e.g. at work trying to access your home server) and you try to connect to the web interface...
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 07:11 am
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    The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections
    When a user establishes a Remote Desktop connection to the WHS this connection will remain active until the user selects "Log Off" from the Start Menu. If a user simply closes the remote desktop window when they’re finished, that username will still remain logged on.         The software running on the WHS to facilitate the Remote...
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 07:11 am
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    How to update Quick Launch links programmatically in SharePoint and WSS 3.0
    Updating quick launch navigation in SharePoint is much simpler with WSS 3.0 Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation API. Please refer to the following sample code that will help you to iterate through all quick launch links in SharePoint sites and update them as per your liking. private static void Traverse(string top, string from, string to) { SPSite topSite; ...
    by Nauman at November 3rd, 2009 at 07:11 am
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    Passing Querystring Parameters to a Silverlight Control
    The approach to passing Querystring parameters to a Silverlight 2.0 Control that works for me is pretty simple. We check for the presence of Querystrings in the app.xaml Application_Startup using the Silverlight HTML Bridge and pass those values to the page’s constructor. APP.XAML ——————————– private...
    by Nauman at November 1st, 2009 at 09:11 am
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    TFS Credentails
    I was trying to connect to a TFS server in another domain, but without success. I could connect to the TFS web services through FireFox after providing the correct credentials, but Visual Studio was simply failing with a TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team foundation Server: tfs.               Click OK and the moment of truth… ...
    by Nauman at November 1st, 2009 at 09:11 am
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