Iggy Mwangi

When the Forward Compatibility GDR for Visual Studio 2008 shipped, a change was made to the Team Foundation Server 2010 code that blocks incompatible clients. That means that after TFS2010 beta2, clients that don’t have a forward-compatible patch installed, won’t be able to connect. For more information on what features will & won’t be available, see the TFS2010 Compatibility Matrix. When a client connects to TFS, the UserAgent is checked against a list in the TFS registry and if it matches any of these, an error message specific to that client is returned to the user. For example: Team Foundation services are not available from the server. Technical information (for administrator): TF253022: You must update your client with the Forward Compatibility Update in order to connect to the Team Foundation Server that you selected. To obtain this update, go to the Microsoft Web site: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink... The list of UserAgent’s that is checked is defined in the... - Iggy Mwangi

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 include an updated version of Robocopy that includes a multi-threaded copy feature. /MT[:n] :: Do multi-threaded copies with n threads (default 8). I’ve been using this for a while now and I’ve been seeing excellent results. Be careful with who you share a switch with though – I managed to saturate my 100Mbit switch so badly that my fellow switch neighbors started getting timeouts. My favorite usage is: robocopy \\server\share\folder C:\Temp\folder /S /MT /Z This copies the contents of the remote folder, with 8 threads in restartable mode – great for when you’re on a slow or unreliable link.  Also note that the progress monitors don’t seem accurate in multi-threaded mode. It starts copying 8 files at once, but only shows you the progress of 1 of them. - Iggy Mwangi

For a little over a month, Windows Update was failing on one of the servers in the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab). Specifically, KB 970892 simply would not install on JUBILEE -- my Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 VM, that I use to monitor a number of physical and virtual machines. Here's the first event I found regarding this error: Log Name: Application Source: MsiInstaller Date: 10/27/2009 3:03:49 AM Event ID: 10005 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: SYSTEM Computer: jubilee.corp.technologytoolbox.com Description: Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (64-bit) -- Error 29528. The setup has encountered an unexpected error while Setting reporting service and share point exclusion path. The error is: Fatal error during installation. This was quickly followed by another error in the event log: Log Name: Application Source: MsiInstaller Date: 10/27/2009 3:04:55 AM Event ID: 1023 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords:... - Iggy Mwangi

Scott Mitchell wrote a great series of articles where he describes how to use Microsoft Chart control from simple binding to more complex scenarious. I highly recommend to read his articles for everybody starting working on the control: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/article...  Alex. - Iggy Mwangi

Александр Яхнин, статьи которого мы неоднократно переводили в русском блоге windows mobile, сегодня ( 8 декабря) будет выступать на юзер группе в Санкт Петербурге. Ссылка на регистрацию тут http://sp.ineta.ru/Events...   Не упустите редкую возможность задать вопросы мировому эксперту по Windows Mobile. crossposted from http://blogs.msdn.com/mbakiro... - Iggy Mwangi

Александр Яхнин , статьи которого мы неоднократно переводили в русском блоге windows mobile , сегодня ( 8 декабря) будет выступать на юзер группе в Санкт Петербурге. Ссылка на регистрацию тут http://sp.ineta.ru/Events...   Не упустите редкую возможность задать вопросы мировому эксперту по Windows Mobile....(read more) - Iggy Mwangi

Symptom: When clicking “Add/Remove Windows Components” in control panel, it shows error “setup was unable to load the master information file” and rejects further action. Troubleshooting: This error occurs when master information file %windir%\inf\sysoc.inf is missing. This can happen when system is restored from an invalid backup or malicious software has deleted important system files. You can restore the INF file from another Windows 2003 server with the same service pack. Some components like IIS may still be missing from the check list after restoring the INF file. You can try to restore %windir%\inf\iis.inf from a reference server to add IIS. Resolution: Restore the INF files mentioned above to fix the issue.   Regards, Juntao Zhu - Iggy Mwangi

Note: This post is based on Beta 2 and is subject to change in future releases. I highly recommend to review the Services in SharePoint 2010 Products diagram, Managed metadata operations (SharePoint Server 2010) and Plan for large Pages libraries (SharePoint Server 2010) on SP 2010 TechNet site before trying the following steps. In this post I am going over steps required to configure content organizer by leveraging managed metadata service to automatically organize publishing pages based on the metadata selected by author when creating pages. These steps have been validated against Beta build (4536.1000) and is subject to change for RTM release. 1. Add a new column and set the type to “Managed Metadata”. 2. Assuming that you already configured your enterprise taxonomy through a managed metadata service application in your farm, select the desired term-set and click on “OK” to provision the column. 3. Add the new site column to the desired content type (e.g. Base Page) used for... - Iggy Mwangi

In this video, Ryan Linton (a Senior Program Manager on the Library Experience Team), walks us through a demo on how to enable Help in the Visual Studio 2010 Isolated Shell. Watch the video:  Enabling Help in the Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) You can find more details in the Help topic The Visual Studio Shell, Integrated Mode and Isolated Mode and download Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) Beta 1 Redistributable Package.   --Kathleen - Iggy Mwangi

The talk Bob and I gave at the p&p Redmond summit in October is now available for online viewing. In it we discuss and demo (use time breakpoints  to fast forward to a specific topic): the overall theme of the release – simplicity & improved user experience (00:00) data accessors (06:25) higher performing logging (18:00) fluent configuration interface (20:32) config tool facelift and making it easier to plug in custom extensions to the config tool (30:18) – honouring validation attributes between VAB and System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations (41:08) tackling external and internal complexity with architectural refactoring and resulting testability improvements  (42:16) container independence (43:34) Enjoy! If you like what you see and want to play with EntLib5.0, download the most recent bits from entlib.codeplex.com and provide your feedback. Enterprise Library v5 preview at the p&p Summit 2009 Related videos: Unity, Prism 2 - Iggy Mwangi

They’ve announced the winners of the 14th Annual Computerworld Singapore Readers Choice Awards and Microsoft has some awards to take home: Product Name Category Microsoft SQL Server Database Management System Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Patch Management Software Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Collaboration Platform Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Enterprise Content Management Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office Communications Server Unified Communications Software Suite Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Enterprise Content Management For more winners, check out http://www.computerworld.com.sg/rca-200... - Iggy Mwangi

Welcome to Go With The Flow blog, where we focus on all aspects of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in .NET Framework, including technologies, news and various events. Through this blog, we hope we can have more communication and interaction with all of you .NET developers and help you have a better understanding of WF. The idea of creating this blog has been there for a while. Now it has been one and half months since Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta2 released, which for us is a perfect time to make this blog on line. Therefore, we are very exciting to launch it with this first post! We are from Microsoft AppServer Developer eXperience team (ADX) which is one of the key product teams belong to Microsoft (China) Server and Tools Business which allocates in Shanghai. The goal for our team is to help developers implement distributed, service-oriented enterprise application in a simple and efficient way. Currently, we are focusing on two categories of products: WCF tools WF... - Iggy Mwangi

A premium media service partner Origin Digital ( http://www.origindigital.com ) who I work with regularly is looking for a contracting position to be filled right away in northern NJ. They require superior Silverlight development skills.   If interested please send your resume to tfrench@origindigital.com directly. Please do not send them to me, or respond to this entry with your resume....(read more) - Iggy Mwangi

(Before he left for a week of laying on various tropical beaches with drinks in his hand, Dallas asked me to post this for him. Since I'm stuck in the rainy Northwest and had nothing better to do, I was happy to oblige him.) The ribbon has unified the command surface inside of SharePoint. It is now the primary point of entry for working with items inside of SharePoint. As such the ribbon is extensible through the use of declarative XML in a Feature. This post will cover how to add a new tab to the ribbon in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. It will also, by necessity, cover how to create a group, controls, template, and scaling behavior. I will build this solution in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and as a sandboxed solution for the ease of deployment. The following will appear in a future version of the SDK. It is preliminary documentation and subject to change. First, you will want to create a new project. Click on File, New, and then Project. Under Visual C#, choose Empty SharePoint... - Iggy Mwangi

As I mentioned, over the past few months I’ve been working on a number of activities related to the Windows Azure Platform. In particular, I’ve been working with several partners as we prepared for the PDC’09 conference. While we were preparing for the conference we welcomed a few partners to a deep-dive event in Redmond where they did some architectural reviews and met with various members of the product team in the final sprint to releasing solutions. While they were in Redmond I took advantage to record a few videos for Channel 9. Kelley Blue Book stands out as they were featured on the main stage during Bob Muglia’s keynote on day 1 of PDC (Andy comes on at about 1:27). In this video with Andy Lapin, Director of Enterprise Architecture spent a few minutes showing off the site and then discussing some of the lessons the KBB team learned as they ported their site from a hosted facility to the Windows Azure Platform. Channel 9: Azure Lessons Learned: Kelley Blue Book Technorati Tags:... - Iggy Mwangi

영상이 보이지 않으면 이곳을 클릭해서 실버라이트를 설치하세요 LA 현지 Hilton 호텔에서 올로케한 Winkey의 PDC Attack  침대토크 그 두번째 이야기!! 장현춘, 김재우 두 부장님과 함께 허심탄해한 PDC 뒷 이야기를 들어봅니다! - Iggy Mwangi