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Aug 27 17:16:56 basestar bootpd[568]: interface en0: ip 10.100.10.161 mask 255.255.255.0
Aug 27 17:16:56 basestar bootpd[568]: interface en1: ip 10.100.12.55 mask 255.255.255.0
Aug 27 17:16:56 basestar bootpd[568]: bsdpd: re-reading configuration
Aug 27 17:16:56 basestar bootpd[568]: bsdpd: shadow file size will be set to 48 megabytes
Aug 27 17:16:56 basestar bootpd[568]: bsdpd: age time 00:15:00
Aug 27 17:16:56 basestar bootpd[568]: bsdpd: no sharepoints defined
Aug 27 17:16:56 basestar bootpd[568]: bootpd: NetBoot service turned off
The catch is no one and nothing has touched this server in that time. This has happened twice now. The first time I did tons of searching and reading and could find nothing on the topic. I tried changing settings but to no avail. The first time I unchecked all options stopped the service, removed the service from server trashed every preference I could reference restarted and selected the image and client volume and still got the same error. As this was a machine only for this purpose I wiped it and started over and successfully brought the server back and the images. Now the exact same thing has happened again. This worked last week come back today to try it and find this.
This time however every time I hit the save button on the NetBoot window to attempt to reselect the image location it blanks out and I cannot get a response.
I found in another forum about running a fullstatus of netboot from the terminal and this is my output:
netboot:state = "STOPPED"
netboot:stateTFTP = "RUNNING"
netboot:readWriteSettingsVersion = 1
netboot:netBootConnectionsArray = _empty_array
netboot:logPaths:netBootLog = "/var/log/system.log"
netboot:dhcpLeasesArray = _empty_array
netboot:stateDHCP = "STOPPED"
netboot:stateHTTP = "STOPPED"
netboot:serviceCanStart = 0
netboot:timeOfSnapshot = "2012-08-27 22:20:41 +0000"
netboot:stateNFS = "RUNNING"
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:0:_array_index:0 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:0:_array_index:1 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:0:_array_index:2 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:0:_array_index:3 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:0:_array_index:4 = 2
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:1:_array_index:0 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:1:_array_index:1 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:1:_array_index:2 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:1:_array_index:3 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:1:_array_index:4 = 2
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:2:_array_index:0 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:2:_array_index:1 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:2:_array_index:2 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:2:_array_index:3 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:2:_array_index:4 = 2
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:3:_array_index:0 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:3:_array_index:1 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:3:_array_index:2 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:3:_array_index:3 = 0
netboot:stateImageArray:_array_index:3:_array_index:4 = 2
netboot:servicePortsRestrictionInfo = _empty_array
netboot:servicePortsAreRestricted = "NO"
netboot:setStateVersion = 1
netboot:startedTime = "2012-08-23 18:22:32 +0000"
netboot:stateAFP = "RUNNING"
There were some lines about previous clients I removed from the paste because I figured they dont really matter at this point.
If anyone can offer me a solution that wont involve me refreshing the server again I would appreciate it, especially since this seems to be something that is reoccurring for some strange reason.
Thanks in advance. Hopefully this is enough information.
Here are before and after screen shots of the NetBoot settings window.
One last bit of info. There is only one hard drive in this machine. I have yet to change that variable, as I didnt see it as much of an issue considering the configuration. Tell me if I am wrong though.

You missed the part where I said at this point I cannot select images, the screen blanks out when I do (see the screenshots).
Yes they are both connected as this machine hosts across two different network segments in different ranges.
Like I said, it worked. For some reason it just stopped working with no input from me or anyone else (I am the only one managing this server and the only one with Admin creds). There were no machines booted to these images either. Literally changed over the weekend apparently on its own.

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groupNameAlternateSearchAttribute="samAccountName"
groupMemberAttribute="member"
userNameAttribute="cn"
dnAttribute="dn"
groupFilter="(&(ObjectClass=group))"
userFilter="(&(ObjectClass=person))"
scope="Subtree" />
</providers>
</roleManager>
<membership defaultProvider="i">
<providers>
<add name="i" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.Claims.SPClaimsAuthMembershipProvider, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
<add name="LdapMember" type="Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LdapMembershipProvider, Microsoft.Office.Server, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"
server="ldap.server.address"
port="389"
useSSL="false"
connectionUsername="cn=ldapserviceid,ou=sharepoint,ou=test,ou=location,o=validobject"
connectionPassword= "validpassword"
useDNAttribute="true"
userDNAttribute="dn"
userNameAttribute="cn"
userContainer="OU=people,O=validobject"
userObjectClass="person"
userFilter="(ObjectClass=person)"
scope="Subtree"
otherRequiredUserAttributes="sn,givenname,cn" />
</providers>
</membership>
With all of this configured, I can go to the new test site, I do see the form where I can choose either Windows authentication or Forms authentication. I can successfully login with Windows authentication, but forms authentication gives me me an error.
The server could not sign you in. Make sure your user name and password are correct, and then try again.
I can successfully login to a LDAP management tool, using the same credentials I entered on the form, so I know the username and password being submitted are correct. I get the following items in the event viewer
8306 - SharePoint Foundation - The security token username and password could not be validated.
in the SharePoint trace logs - Password check on 'testuser' generated exception: 'System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.FailedAuthenticationException]: The security token username and password could not be validated. and
then this:
Request for security token failed with exception: System.ServiceModel.FaultException: The security token username and password could not be validated.
at Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.ReadResponse(Message response)
at Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.Issue(RequestSecurityToken rst, RequestSecurityTokenResponse& rstr)
at Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.Issue(RequestSecurityToken rst)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurityContext.SecurityTokenForContext(Uri context, Boolean bearerToken, SecurityToken onBehalfOf, SecurityToken actAs, SecurityToken delegateTo)
I monitored the LDAP server and did a packet-trace on the communication happening between the SharePoint server and the LDAP server and it is a bit odd. It goes like this:
The SharePoint server successfully connects to the LDAP server, binding the ldapserviceid+password
The LDAP server tells the SharePoint server it is ready to communicate
the SharePoint server sends an LDAP query to the LDAP server, asking if the name entered in the form authentication page can be found.
The LDAP server does the query, successfully finds the entered name and sends a success message back to SharePoint
The LDAP server sends notification that it is done and is closing the connection that was bound to theldapserviceid+password
The SharePoint server acknowledges the connection is closing
... and then nothing happens, except the error on SharePoint
What I understand is that the SharePoint server, once it gets confirmation that the submitted username exists in LDAP, should attempt to make a new LDAP connection, bound to the username and password submitted in the form (rather than the LDAP service account
specified in the web.config). That part does not seem to be happening.
I am at a standstill on this and any help would be greatly appreciated.

OK, our problem was resolved by removing any information about the ASP.NET role manager. Initially, we had information about a role manager defined in three different web.config files, as well as in the SharePoint Central Administration site, where there
is the checkbox to Enable Forms Based Authentication (you see this when you first create the new SharePoint app, or afterwards by modifying the Authentication Provider for the app.) In either case, you will see two text boxes, underneath the checkbox item
for enabling Forms Based Authentication:
"ASP.NET Membership provider name"
"ASP.NET Role manager name"
We entered a name for Membership provider, and left Role manager blank.
In the web.config for the SharePoint Central Administration site, the SecurityTokenServiceApplication app, and the web app we created with FBA enabled, we entered the following:
<membership>
<providers>
<add name="LdapMember"
type="Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LdapMembershipProvider, Microsoft.Office.Server, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"
server="ldap.server.address"
port="389"
useSSL="false"
connectionUsername="cn=ldapserviceid,ou=sharepoint,ou=test,ou=location,o=validobject"
connectionPassword="validpassword"
useDNAttribute="false"
userDNAttribute="dn"
userNameAttribute="cn"
userContainer="OU=people,O=validobject"
userObjectClass="person"
userFilter="(ObjectClass=person)"
scope="Subtree"
otherRequiredUserAttributes="sn,givenname,cn" />
</providers>
</membership>
<roleManager>
<providers>
</providers>
</roleManager>
useDNAttribute="false" turned out to be important as well.
So, for us to get LDAP authentication working between SharePoint 2010 and Novel eDirectory, we had to:
leave anything related to the role provider blank
configure the web.config in three different applications, with the proper connection information to reach our Novel eDir
Ensure that useDNAttribute="false" was used in all three on the modified web.config files.
Since our eDir is flat and used pretty much exclusively for external users, we had never done any sort of advanced role management configuration in eDir. So, by having role manager details in the web.config files, SharePoint was waiting for information from
a non-existent role manager.

Sharepoint 2010 on Windows 2012R2 and claims based authentication

Hello,
We have installed a sharepoint 2010 SP2 CU dec 2014 on a Windows 2012R2 server.
The installation went without problems.
However, we want to use claims based authentication on a certain web app pool.
Therefore some configuration on IIS is required.
The first issue we ran into, is the web application pool uses ASP.NET 2.0, which is the default settings.
However, using this ASP.NET Version 2.0 the feature "Providers" and ".net users" are invisible.
When changing the .net version to 4.0, the features comes back again.
I can fill in the connection strings without problem.
The providers feature however, gives me the following errors:
There is a duplicate .... sections defined.
When googling on this error, it seems that on .net 4.0 these sections are already globbally defined in the machine.config, So i removed these entries in the machine.config
These are the lines that are "double"
<section name="scriptResourceHandler" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingScriptResourceHandlerSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" requirePermission="false"
allowDefinition="MachineToApplication"/>
<section name="jsonSerialization" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingJsonSerializationSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="Everywhere"
/>
<section name="profileService" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingProfileServiceSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="MachineToApplication"
/>
<section name="authenticationService" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingAuthenticationServiceSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" requirePermission="false"
allowDefinition="MachineToApplication" />
So after removing these lines, i can get into Providers feature in IIS.
but, when i click on "Add..." i get the following error:
Add Provider
There was an error while performing this operation.
Details:
This method cannot be called during the application's pre-start initialization phase.
OK
I spent to much time already to solve this issue and i hope that someone can give me some advice to address this issue.

The STS web.config:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.serviceModel>

<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="SecurityTokenServiceBehavior">

<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />

<serviceThrottling maxConcurrentCalls="65536" maxConcurrentSessions="65536" maxConcurrentInstances="65536" />
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>

<services>
<service name="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustServiceContract" behaviorConfiguration="SecurityTokenServiceBehavior">

<endpoint address="" binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="spStsBinding" contract="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.IWSTrust13SyncContract" />

<endpoint name="ActAs" address="actas" binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="spStsActAsBinding" contract="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.IWSTrust13SyncContract" />

<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
</service>
<service name="Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.Claims.SPWindowsTokenCacheService">
<endpoint address="" binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="SPWindowsTokenCacheServiceHttpsBinding" contract="Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.Claims.ISPWindowsTokenCacheServiceContract" />
</service>
</services>

<bindings>
<customBinding>
<binding name="spStsBinding">
<binaryMessageEncoding>
<readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="1048576" maxArrayLength="2097152" />
</binaryMessageEncoding>
<httpTransport maxReceivedMessageSize="2162688" authenticationScheme="Negotiate" useDefaultWebProxy="false" />
</binding>
<binding name="spStsActAsBinding">
<security authenticationMode="SspiNegotiatedOverTransport" allowInsecureTransport="true" defaultAlgorithmSuite="Basic256Sha256" messageSecurityVersion="WSSecurity11WSTrust13WSSecureConversation13WSSecurityPolicy12" />
<binaryMessageEncoding>
<readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="1048576" maxArrayLength="2097152" />
</binaryMessageEncoding>
<httpTransport maxReceivedMessageSize="2162688" authenticationScheme="Negotiate" useDefaultWebProxy="false" />
</binding>
<binding name="SPWindowsTokenCacheServiceHttpsBinding">
<security authenticationMode="IssuedTokenOverTransport" />
<textMessageEncoding>
<readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="1048576" maxArrayLength="2097152" />
</textMessageEncoding>
<httpsTransport maxReceivedMessageSize="2162688" authenticationScheme="Anonymous" useDefaultWebProxy="false" />
</binding>
</customBinding>
</bindings>
</system.serviceModel>
<system.webServer>
<security>
<authentication>
<anonymousAuthentication enabled="true" />
<windowsAuthentication enabled="true">
<providers>
<clear />
<add value="Negotiate" />
<add value="NTLM" />
</providers>
</windowsAuthentication>
</authentication>
</security>
<modules>
<add name="WindowsAuthenticationModule" />
</modules>
</system.webServer>
<system.net>
<connectionManagement>
<add address="*" maxconnection="10000" />
</connectionManagement>
</system.net>
<connectionStrings>
<add connectionString="Server=sqldb_qa_sharepoint2010;Database=SG_SHP_Claims_Authentication;Integrated Security=true" name="SHP_Claims_Authentication" />
</connectionStrings>
</configuration>
I have backupped the machine.config and restored it (the file i edited was in the following dir: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Machine.config)

SharePoint 2010 TechNet Gurus Announced for June 2014!

The Results are in! and the winners of the TechNet Guru Competition June 2014 have been posted on the
Wiki Ninjas Blog.
Below is a summary, heavily trimmed to fit the size restrictions of forum posting.
BizTalk Technical Guru - June 2014
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server: Custom Archiving
TGN: "This one was my favorite this month. Archiving is a topic that is brought up often. Well done explaining it simply and how to do it according to best practice"
Sandro Pereira: "Love the topic, well explain and with everything you need, my favorite."
Mandi Ohlinger: "Another great addition to the Wiki. "
boatseller
BizTalk: Reducing and Consolidating WCF Serialization Schema Types
TGN: "Very good, keeping the code clean, and only referencing what you need and consolidate it is important!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "Great solution to somewhat-annoying behavior. Nice addition to the Wiki!"
Sandro Pereira: "Great article."
Murugesan Mari Chettiar
How to Implement Concurrent FIFO Solution in BizTalk Server
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough in your explanations! Great formatting. Good job!"
TGN: "First in, first out. Great article Murugesan!"
Sandro Pereira: "Good additional to the TechNet Wiki, good work."
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - June 2014
Remi Vandemir
Custom Reports in FIM2010R2
AM: "Great step-by-step guide for generating custom reports. Thanks for taking the time to put this together."
PG: "Nice article, in an area that is less known!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Very comprehensive."
Ed Price: "Great job on the intro, and a lot of images really help clarify all the steps!"
GO: "Thank you "
Eihab Isaac
FIM 2010 R2: Review pending export changes to Active Directory using XSLT
Ed Price: "Great introduction, great steps, and great job on the image and code formatting!"
GO: "An introduction, a sample code, images, a TOC and a conclusion. Nothing here to preserve the GOLD medal!"
PG: "Nice article!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice and precise"
Scott Eastin
A Practical Alternative to the PeopleSoft
AM: "Thank you for sharing. Great (and probably superior) alternative for those using PeopleSoft as import-only data source."
GO: "Amazing article, love it so much"
PG: "Would like to see more elaborated details in this article."
Søren Granfeldt: "A little more technical stuff would be nice"
Ed Price: "Some good community collaboration in removing blog-like personalization. This is a great topic with some good holistic thinking!"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
Configuration of WATM (Windows Azure Traffic Manager) for Web Portals hosted
on Azure VMs
JH: "Two simple words: Love it! The detailed explanation on how Traffic Manager works is awesome."
Ed Price: "Wow! Incredibly well written, with beautiful diagrams and a great use of images and tables! Great topic!"
GO: "This is a great article! Thanks Mr.X"
Mr X
How to use Windows Azure as Traffic Manager for Web portals
hosted in multiple on-premise datacenters
JH: "Very detailed! Great explanation at the beginning followed by a good step-by-step guide."
Ed Price: "A much needed article! Great job on the formatting and images!"
GO: "Thanks again, MR.X"
Mr X
How to connect Orchestrator to Windows Azure
GO: "I really enjoyed reading this article, clever and well written. Lovely done!"
JH: "Great article! I especially love the amount of pictures provided in the article."
Ed Price: "Good procedural article! Great use of images!"
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
How to open Visio files without Visio
AH: "This Article is pretty basic and lacks details. Visio Viewer doesn't just open in IE but also in Outlook and File explorer. The writer should include the link to http://blogs.office.com/2012/11/28/download-the-free-microsoft-visio-viewer/
this blog which has lot more details "
Ed Price: "Good. I think the SEO on the title will drive more awareness of the Visio Viewer."
GO: "Thanks you Mr.X! Again a great article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - June 2014
Ed Price - MSFT
Yammer: Announcements Feature
TGN: "Wow, not only is this a good way on how to write annoncments on Yammer, but in generel. Really, really great write-up Ed! T"
GO: "Tord says on the comment section: "Very nice article, Ed. I really enjoyed reading it and you had a great set of tips. Thanks for sharing!".. I only can respond AMEN! Thanks Ed!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good discussion of announcements feature."
Anthony Caragol
Backing Up and Restoring Lync 2013 Contacts
Margriet Bruggeman: "Short & Sweet"
GO: "Great article, but I'm missing, examples, images, definitions etc for a huge section like "backup and restore""
TGN: "Very good, Lync has eaten up the market and is a key product in most companies, articles like this is very valuable. Great work Anthony!"
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - June 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : Working with People Search and User Profiles
Benoît Jester: "A very good article, a must-read for those interested by SharePoint Online and the use of search and user profile API."
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent. Just a tip, if you would like to improve the performance, please use the Search Service to search user profiles"
Craig Lussier: "Good walkthrough and code example for getting started with People Search!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good starter for working with search and profiles"
Jaydeep Mungalpara
Creating Bookmarks in Wiki Pages - SharePoint Rich Text Editor Extension
Margriet Bruggeman: "Really cool! In the past, I was actually looking for this and its a nice implementation of this functionality. This article gets my vote!"
Craig Lussier: "Great solution for extending out of the box functionality. I like the synergy between the TechNet Wiki and TechNet Gallery!"
GO: "Simple but powerfull. We should all take an example about how this article has been written. This article has a TOC, headings and even a code! Well done!"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. "
Benoît Jester: "A simple button which can save a lot of time!"
Dan Christian
PowerShell to copy or update list items across SharePoint sites and farms
GO: "The best artice for June! Thanks Dan, you deserve the GOLD medal!"
Benoît Jester: "A good article with useful scripts, as they can be used fior many scenarios (data refresh, migration tests, ...)"
Jinchun Chen: "Good and low-cost solution. To be automatic, we can use EventHandle instead. "
Craig Lussier: "Nice PowerShell script solution and explanation of the scenario. Consider using functions with parameters for easier reuse so input parameters are not hard coded."
Margriet Bruggeman: "This script can be useful, although typically migration scenarios are more complex than this. Having said that, I probably end up using this script some time in in the future"
Small Basic Technical Guru - June 2014
litdev
Small Basic: Sprite Arrays
Ed Price: "An important topic that's well described with fantastic examples! Great article!"
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great starter for Sprite Fundamentals and how to handle them. Briljant start point for greating you 2D shooter"
Jibba Jabba
Small Basic - Monthly Challenge Statistics
Ed Price: "Jibba Jabba brings us astonishing insights and data about LitDev's Small Basic Monthly Challenges!"
RZ: "This is very nicely done and showed all the statistics visually"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Challenge of the Month
RZ: "This is very nicely done and organized all challenges of the month in one place"
Ed Price: "Although this is very basic, it's incredibly helpful to get all these in one list and to access all the great challenges!"
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Good explainer on fundamental structures."
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - June 2014
Anil Maharjan
Using Power Query to tell your story form your Facebook Data
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting. I liked this best"
PT: "Plenty to like here"
Ed Price: "Great! I love to see Power Query articles like this! Great formatting and use of images!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS Expressions: Part 1 - Program Flow
PT: "A very comprehensive article about program flow expressions. Nice job. I'm sure many will benefit from this article. Just a little feedback about some terminology that could be more clear: The entire statement that
is typically used to set a property value for an object in an SSRS report is an "expression". Each of the three programming constructs you've mentioned (e.g. IIF, SWITCH & CHOOSE) are "functions" and not expressions or statements."
Jinchun Chen: "Perfect! Good article for SSRS newbie."
Ed Price: "The table and images help bring it more value. Great job!"
Anil Maharjan
How to Schedule and Automate backups of all the SSAS catalogs within the
Server Instance
PT: "This is a very useful article about automating multiple Analysis Services database backups using an SSIS package and the SQL Server Agent. Nice job."
Jinchun Chen: "Good."
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could be improved with better code formatting. Good job!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - June 2014
Shanky
SQL Server: What does Column Compressed Page Count Value Signify
in DMV Sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats ?
DB: "Interesting and detailed"
DRC: "• This is a good article and provides details of each and every step and the output with explanation. Very well formed and great information. • We can modify the create table query with “DEFAULT VALUES". CREATE TABLE [dbo].[INDEXCOMPRESSION](
[C1] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [C2] [char](50) NULL DEFAULT 'DEFAULT TEST DATA' ) ON [PRIMARY]"
GO: "Very informative and well formed article as Said says.. Thanks for that great ressource. "
Durval Ramos
How to get row counts for all Tables
GO: "As usual Durva has one of the best articles about SQL Server General and Database Engine articles! Thanks, buddy!" "
Jinchun Chen: "Another great tip!"
PT: "Nice tip"
Ed Price: "Good topic, formatting, and use of images. This would be far better if the examples didn't require the black bars in the images. So it would be better to scrub the data before taking the screenshots. Still a good article. Thank
you!"
System Center Technical Guru - June 2014
Prajwal Desai
Deploying SCCM 2012 R2 Clients Using Group Policy
Ed Price: "Great depth on this article! Valuable topic. Good use of images."
Mr X
How to introduce monitoring and automatic recovery of IIS application
pools using Orchestrator
MA: "Good job Mr X, However I would like to see this runbook integrated as a recovery task with Operations Manager IISapppools Monitors in order to maintain a standard way of notifications and availability reporting."
Ed Price: "Good formatting on the images, and great scenario!"
Prajwal Desai
How to deploy lync 2010 using SCCM 2012 R2
Ed Price: "Great job documenting the entire process!!!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - June 2014
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Generate Random Passwords
JS: "I loved the article, well structured, to the point. Not missing any caveats that might occur, really good in the end. I would suggest changing the function to accept a whitelist / blacklist as well as a length of
the password to be created. This would be the cherry on the pie :-)"
Samuel Lester: "Very nice writeup for a real world problem!"
Richard Mueller: "Clever and apparently well researched. I liked the detailed step by step explanations."
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent!"
Manoj Pandey: "A good and handy utility TSQL that I can use and levarage if I have to use similar feature in future."
Hasham Niaz
T-SQL : Average Interval Length
Richard Mueller: "A good article, but I need more explanation of the concepts."
Manoj Pandey: "A handy TSQL script that I can use and levarage if I have to use similar feature in future."
Visakh16
T-SQL: Retrieve Connectionstring Details from SSIS Package
Manoj Pandey: "Good shortcut by using TSQL with XML to read metadata information from SSIS XML file."
Samuel Lester: "Handy trick, thanks for posting!"
Richard Mueller: "Good code, but more explanation needed. Could use a See Also section."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - June 2014
The Thinker
Better to Ask for forgiveness then permission
Richard Mueller: "Good use of images and code. The humorous title might be better in a blog."
MR: "Great topic!"
GO: "Well, to be honnest, many people worked on that article, but still, the owner "the thinker" should receive the credits! muchos gracias "The Thinker" for the Most Revised Article"
Visual C# Technical Guru - June 2014
Jaliya Udagedara
Entity Framework Code First - Defining Foreign Keys using Data Annotations
and Fluent API
Ed Price: "Wow. Good descriptions, great code snippets, and great job highlighting sections on your images!"
GO: "Thank you."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - June 2014
XAML guy
History and Technology Behind the TechNet Wiki Ninja Belt Calculator
Ed Price: "It's amazing to see all the details of what this tool does. Great job on the descriptions and formatting the images and text!"
Richard Mueller: "Great documentation. Good links to explain everything."
GO: "I love your articles XAML guy! Always clear and always a pleasure to read! Thanks for you help and commitment for this tool."
Durval Ramos
HTML5 Portal
Ed Price: "This is great to see this HTML5 resource!"
Richard Mueller: "A great contribution to our collection of portals"
GO: "The HTML5 Portal is A-W-E-S-O-M-E !"
João Sousa
ASP.NET Portal
Ed Price: "Good job on this portal! The Return to top links are helpful!"
Richard Mueller: "More should be done to distinguish this portal from
here."
GO: "Thanks Joao!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - June 2014
Dave Smits
Theming of your application
Peter Laker: "Another great article from the mighty Dave. Very useful. Not sure if MS like us want us to work around the accents so much though ;)"
Ed Price: "Very useful topic and great formatting on the code! Could benefit from more explanation on the code toward the bottom and a See Also section. Great article!"
saramgsilva
Creating Windows Phone and Window 8.1 applications using Microsoft App Studio
Peter Laker: "A great introduction! Nice walkthrough, and plenty to look at!"
Ed Price: "This is good. I love the narrative and use of images! Good conclusion!"
Carmelo La Monica
Create Universal Application with Windows Phone App Studio (en-US).
Peter Laker: "Sensational article. A real attention grabber and written very clearly."
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the narrative and images. Some amazing articles this month!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - June 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: How To Tab Between Items In a ListBox
KJ: "This article seemed very useful to me. The kind of thing that I might need and here's the answer."
GO: "Thanks for that great article!."
Ed Price: "Another amazing article from Magnus! Great job on the topic choice (very needed scenario), formatting, code, explanations, and See Also section. Fantastic article!"
Sugumar Pannerselvam
Lets forget about limitations and temprorary fix... Think about 4.5 features
KJ: "Wish there were code samples and more flushed out scenarios"
GO: "Why second place? the layout and way to explain didn't convince me. Doesn't mean that the article is bad. The article is awesome; but it's missing something."
Ed Price: "Short and sweet. Could benefit from adding in some code snippet examples and images. Good topic choice."
Windows Server Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
DHCP on Windows Servers – Why are the expired IP addresses not getting re-assigned?
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Important information with good explanation. Needs a See Also section."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I like how it's explained versus Windows Server. An image with the DHCP's process could be a good addition for reference. (DHCP OFFER, DHCP ACK, etc..)"
Mr X
How to force a DHCP database cleanup for expired leases in a specific scope
GO: "I'm actually thinking that nobody can defaut you Mr.X"
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I would add that changing the lease time to be shorted could help too."
JM: "A very good article, however you might consider adding this content as a section in your article about expired IP addresses in DHCP"
Richard Mueller: "More good information. Should be linked to the other DHCP article."
GL: "This is OK but a better solution for a highly utilized DHCP scope would be to shorten the lease time and/or configure a superscope."
Hicham KADIRI
Windows Server Core 2012 R2 - Initial configuration
GL: "This is good required information. I would really like to see information added about how to add a server role. You might consider providing PowerShell alternatives to the netsh and other commands."
JM: "This is a great to-the-point article on how to configure a Core install of Windows Server, nice work."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of useful tools. Some could use images, more detail, or examples. The example sections could be added to the Table of Contents."
GO: "Well, our new french MVP! Well written Hicham! Do not forget to pray attention for the layout! It's capital for readers and judges!"
Philippe Levesque: "I like the article, a good resumé of the command you need to do to configure a server."
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Congrats to Geetanjali, Jaydeep, and Dan! Great articles from all the contributors!
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - June 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : Working with People Search and User Profiles
Benoît Jester: "A very good article, a must-read for those interested by SharePoint Online and the use of search and user profile API."
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent. Just a tip, if you would like to improve the performance, please use the Search Service to search user profiles"
Craig Lussier: "Good walkthrough and code example for getting started with People Search!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good starter for working with search and profiles"
Jaydeep Mungalpara
Creating Bookmarks in Wiki Pages - SharePoint Rich Text Editor Extension
Margriet Bruggeman: "Really cool! In the past, I was actually looking for this and its a nice implementation of this functionality. This article gets my vote!"
Craig Lussier: "Great solution for extending out of the box functionality. I like the synergy between the TechNet Wiki and TechNet Gallery!"
GO: "Simple but powerfull. We should all take an example about how this article has been written. This article has a TOC, headings and even a code! Well done!"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. "
Benoît Jester: "A simple button which can save a lot of time!"
Dan Christian
PowerShell to copy or update list items across SharePoint sites and farms
GO: "The best artice for June! Thanks Dan, you deserve the GOLD medal!"
Benoît Jester: "A good article with useful scripts, as they can be used fior many scenarios (data refresh, migration tests, ...)"
Jinchun Chen: "Good and low-cost solution. To be automatic, we can use EventHandle instead. "
Craig Lussier: "Nice PowerShell script solution and explanation of the scenario. Consider using functions with parameters for easier reuse so input parameters are not hard coded."
Margriet Bruggeman: "This script can be useful, although typically migration scenarios are more complex than this. Having said that, I probably end up using this script some time in in the future"
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Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice problem description and solution, very clear"
GO: "Thanks buddy!"
Benoît Jester: "Thanks for the tip!"
Craig Lussier: "Thanks for the troubleshooting tip - I am sure this will help others in the field."
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Adding URL to Task in Visual Studio / C# SharePoint Workflow 2010

I have a custom SharePoint Workflow (2010) using Visual Studio.
During my task creation, I am populating my task using the .ExtendedProperties. I get how to do it with strings, numbers and boolean.
Now I want to add a URL (link) to the task. I have the URL type defined for one of the fields of the task, but I'm not sure how I would format the values to pass in.
MyworkflowTask.Item.ExtendedProperties["OriginalItem"]=??
Since I need to pass in both the URL and description, not sure how to format this.
Thanks

You can use the SPFieldUrlValue class.
SPFieldUrlValue value = new SPFieldUrlValue();
value.Url = "http://www.certdev.com";
value.Description = "very cool";
MyworkflowTask.Item.ExtendedProperties["OriginalItem"] = value;
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