Spotlight Indexing on Windows server? vs Xserve.
Hello,
I need some help defending the purchase of an Apple Xserve running 10.5 server and 10.5 clients. We need to upgrade from 10.3 server to 10.5 to take advantage of Spotlight Indexing and fast searches. The Enterprise I.T. folks are saying we can use a Windows file server to do the same thing for less $$$.
1) does Spotlight indexing work on Macintosh file services for windows.
2) Is the indexing done workstation side or server side, what are the advantages of doing the indexing on the server side with Spotlight server (services) on the OSX server.
I need help----their closing in on me....I'm out numbered in the thousands.
Thanks,
Rick
You might try editing your registry so that *.cfm, *.cfc, and other ColdFusion related files are treated as text files by the Windows search feature. See link below.
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_bad_search.htm
Disclaimer: I am not a Windows system admin. You might try posting this question to a Windows specific forum.
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Do I just use the RAID Admin to setup the drives then mount the array on the PC (assuming I have still to format and assign letter)?
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Hi All,
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Hi Guys,
We're looking to completely replace 4 servers, 2 are windows servers and the 2 are linux servers. We require to keep running those windows services for clients for now. Can Xserve run Windows Server in a VM properly?I don't know why any small shop would buy a Windows box to run Windows.
It can be done better on the Mac with virtualization.
Read this link:
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It's loud and hot. -
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please do not multi post the same question Already given an answer in
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Slow remote request on 7.6.03.15 on Windows server 2008
Hello all,
I have install MAXDB on Windows server 2008.
When I made request from a remote computer on the database with SQLStudio requests are very slow.
For example I request an empty table :
SELECT * FROM <TABLENAME> the request seem fast.
but this one is very slow, I only replace * with all columns
SELECT ArcState, Comp_date_time, ContFlag, Deferred, SndAccount, SndAddress, SndCompany, SndName, SndType, RcpAddress, Msn, Notif, OwnerID, OwnerPB, PreviewMessage, PreviewVisible, Priority, Purged, DIST_ABORTED, DIST_ABORTEDCOUNT, DIST_OWNER, DIST_NUM, DIST_VERSION, Status_str, State, Subject, Sub_date_time, SATID, RcpCompany, RcpName, Viewed FROM <TABLENAME>
This request takes 0.3s, and the table is empty. Everything work find if sqlstudio is running on local computer even if I use XSERVER
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If you have any idea that could help me, let me know.
Thanks for help.
Yann.Hi Markus,
Here is the result of explain.
ESKDBADM DBM350_AC AC_SUB_DATE_TIMED INDEX SCAN 1
RESULT IS NOT COPIED , COSTVALUE IS 2
QUERYREWRITE - APPLIED RULES:
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Keep in mind that the table is empty,
If I excute this request on remote computer.
SELECT ArcState, Comp_date_time, ContFlag, Deferred, SndAccount, SndAddress, SndCompany, SndName, SndType, RcpAddress, Msn, Notif, OwnerID, OwnerPB, PreviewMessage, PreviewVisible, Priority, Purged, DIST_ABORTED, DIST_ABORTEDCOUNT, DIST_OWNER, DIST_NUM, DIST_VERSION, Status_str, State, Subject, Sub_date_time, SATID, RcpCompany, RcpName, Viewed FROM DBM350_AC WHERE (((ArcState IS NULL OR ArcState != 4) AND (PreviewMessage IS NULL OR PreviewMessage = 0 OR PreviewVisible = 1))) ORDER BY Sub_date_time DESC WITH LOCK ISOLATION LEVEL 0
on an empty table, it always take 0,608s, I can type several time on F8, It always take 0,608s.
You said
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I think there is something wrong in Windows2008, but I don't kwon what.
Yann. -
MDS running when Spotlight indexing is off
Ok. So I have a Mid 2009 MBP running Mavericks.
When I turn indexing on, I get the endless indexing thing others have reported along with the mdsync server launch failure message repeated every 30 seconds in Console.
So, while we wait for a fix from Apple, I turned off Spotlight indexing for all volumes and then used the -a -E Terminal command to erase the indexes.
Is there a reason why the 'mds' process would still run with no indexes and indexing turned off? Sometimes the 'mds' process runs at up to 30-40% of CPU. How is this possible when it has nothing to do since indexes are gone and indexing is off?Step 1
If you have more than one user account, this step must be carried out as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender mdworker -o -k Sender mds | grep -v 'boxd\|Norm' | tail | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.
If any personal information appears in the output, anonymize before posting, but don’t remove the context.
Step 2
Enter the following command as in Step 1 and post the output:
mdutil -as | open -ef
You can then quit Terminal.
Step 3
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Terminal. In the Console window, look under the heading DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION on the left for crash reports related to Spotlight. If you don't see that heading, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar. A Spotlight crash report has a name beginning in "mds" or "mdworker" and ending in ".crash". Select the most recent such report, if any, from the System and User subcategories and post the entire contents — the text, please, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post any other kind of diagnostic report, such as hang logs — they're very long and not helpful. -
Spotlight Indexing, Systemstats, Missing File, All After Mavericks Upgrade
Dear Mac Support Communities,
The upgrade to OS X 10.9.4 has crippled my computer.
My main question is: should I reformat, or should I wait for a patch to come out to solve whatever is wrong with Mavericks? I explain below.
Spotlight is constantly indexing. The mdworker is all over the place on the Activity Monitor—4% and then it explodes to 85% of CPU usage. Systemstats kicks in randomly (connected to spotlight perhaps?) and eats up 90% of my CPU and 3gigs of RAM. Time Machine takes AGES to backup.
I have not been able to stop Spotlight's endless indexing. I have moved my hard drive and my Time Machine backup into the 'private' filter in 'Spotlight Preferences.' I have also tried the "sudo mdutil -a -i off" trick to stop indexing altogether. But Spotlight Indexing goes "off" and then automatically turns "on" in Terminal. Spotlight carries on, and the computer performance is choppy.
I've run disk repair. First, I repaired permissions. Then I verified and attempted to repair the the hard drive. There is a missing file apparently, and I therefore must reformat. This is very first issue I've ever had with the hard drive since I bought the computer. Considering how awful Mavericks has been—I have been reading other Support Communities posts—I'm nervous about something going wrong, or that all these problems will persist after the reformat.
All of this has occurred three days after my upgrade to to OS X 10.9.4. I have heard of numerous people having problems with Mavericks. All similar problems concerning missing files, haywire spotlight, systemstats devouring any remaining CPU power and memory space, and slow Time Machine back-ups.
Anyone with the same problems? Care to theorize some solutions?
I have a late 2008, 15inch MacBook Pro., 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, running OS X 10.9.4 (13E28).
Cheers! I appreciate the help.Older Macs have more troubles under Mavericks. Considering the age of your Mac, it's not uncommon to start have hardware issues like drive failure.
To repair the drive you must boot from the Recovery Drive.
Boot into the Recovery Drive by holding down Command R when restarting.
Run Repair Drive and Repair Permissions using Disk Utility in Recovery.***
Next Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs following directions here This will serve two purposes. It will reset YOUR permissions. Not the same as Disk Utility reset permissions and it will cause Spotlight to re-index your drive when restarting.
Restart
Download and run the combo updater to refresh your OS X files.
OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 Update (Combo)
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1755
MORE INFO ON WHY RUNNING COMBO FIXES ISSUES
Apple updates available from the Software Update application are incremental updates. Delta updates are also incremental updates and are available from Apple Downloads (software updates are generally smaller than delta updates). The Combo updates contain all incremental updates and will update files that could have become corrupted.
Combo updaters will install on the same version as they're applying--no need to roll back or do a clean install.
"Delta" updaters can only take you from one version to the next. For example: 10.9.3 to 10.9.4. If somehow the 10.9.3 is missing something it should have, and that something isn't changed between 10.9.3 and 10.9.4 it will still be stale after the delta update.
***If Disk Utility is unable to repair you will have to copy your data to an external drive first. Reformatting will erase the drive. You should have a backup regardless, if your data is important to you. Just like a seat belt and an air bag protect you in different ways when driving, you need both Time Machine and a clone for full protection. If you don't have an external drive for backup, I can give you some suggestions to get you started.
Both of these applications can be used to create a clone.
SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
CCC http://www.bombich.com/download.html -
Installation problem with windows server 2003 64 bit
I downloaded all hyperion components from e-deleivery for windows server 2003 64 bit when i tried to install it a message said that some component are not compatible when i removed stratigic finance and FDM components the installation started and completed .in the configuration phase many components failed to configured and here's a copy of the log file:
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:25:51 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.adapter.WizardFormAdapterPanel, ERROR, The specified database is already configured.
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:30:34 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Error:
java.lang.NumberFormatException: null
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Unknown Source)
at com.hyperion.hit.registry.ServiceComponentImpl.getPort(ServiceComponentImpl.java:45)
at com.hyperion.hub.HubAppServerDeployer.checkOpenLDAPFromRegistry(HubAppServerDeployer.java:282)
at com.hyperion.hub.HubAppServerDeployer.updateOpenLDAPPort(HubAppServerDeployer.java:175)
at com.hyperion.hub.HubAppServerDeployer.preDeploy(HubAppServerDeployer.java:113)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.AppServerDeployer.preDeploy(AppServerDeployer.java:205)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.executeAppDeploymentTask(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:604)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.execute(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:215)
at com.installshield.wizard.RunnableWizardBeanContext.run(Unknown Source)
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:41:18 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:43:35 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:45:21 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:45:21 PM), com.hyperion.awb.config.AWBDBConfigurator, ERROR, Error:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementImpl.normalize(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementImpl.normalize(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementImpl.normalize(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementImpl.normalize(Unknown Source)
at com.hyperion.awb.config.PIRegistartionXMLWriter.updateHubDetails(PIRegistartionXMLWriter.java:265)
at com.hyperion.awb.config.AWBDBConfigurator.configure(AWBDBConfigurator.java:249)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.executeDbConfigTask(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:658)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.execute(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:202)
at com.installshield.wizard.RunnableWizardBeanContext.run(Unknown Source)
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:45:21 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Error:
com.hyperion.cis.config.ProcessingException
at com.hyperion.awb.config.AWBDBConfigurator.configure(AWBDBConfigurator.java:275)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.executeDbConfigTask(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:658)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.execute(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:202)
at com.installshield.wizard.RunnableWizardBeanContext.run(Unknown Source)
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:47:29 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.CmsRegistrationUtil, ERROR, There is no logical instance of Shared Services web application in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:47:29 PM), com.hyperion.awb.config.AWBAppServerDeployer, ERROR, Error occured in deRegisterOldProductInstance(): null
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:47:29 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.CmsRegistrationUtil, ERROR, There is no logical instance of Shared Services web application in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:47:29 PM), com.hyperion.awb.config.AWBAppServerDeployer, ERROR, ERROR:
com.hyperion.cis.config.AppDeployException: CMS Client cannot be created
at com.hyperion.awb.config.AWBAppServerDeployer.publishBPMAInstanceDocument(AWBAppServerDeployer.java:704)
at com.hyperion.awb.config.AWBAppServerDeployer.registerProductInstance(AWBAppServerDeployer.java:796)
at com.hyperion.awb.config.AWBAppServerDeployer.postDeploy(AWBAppServerDeployer.java:350)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.AppServerDeployer.postDeploy(AppServerDeployer.java:336)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.executeAppDeploymentTask(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:610)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.execute(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:215)
at com.installshield.wizard.RunnableWizardBeanContext.run(Unknown Source)
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:50:11 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:51:11 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:54:20 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:58:04 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:58:16 PM), com.hyperion.essbase.config.EssbaseAgentTaskProcessor, ERROR, Error in executing the script to register Essbase as a service: exitCode = 1
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:58:54 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:59:15 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:59:16 PM), com.hyperion.planning.HspDBConfigurator, ERROR, Error happened: Index: 0, Size: 0
(Nov 21, 2010, 02:59:16 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Error:
com.hyperion.cis.config.ProcessingException
at com.hyperion.planning.HspDBConfigurator.configure(HspDBConfigurator.java:209)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.executeDbConfigTask(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:658)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.execute(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:202)
at com.installshield.wizard.RunnableWizardBeanContext.run(Unknown Source)
(Nov 21, 2010, 03:03:06 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 03:05:34 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 03:19:29 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Shared Services Registration task can not be executed because Shared Services instance is not available in Registry
(Nov 21, 2010, 03:19:30 PM), com.hyperion.hfm.config.HfmDbConfigurator, ERROR, Error while configuring HFM DatabaseEntry does not exist for these parameters in tnsnames.ora file.
(Nov 21, 2010, 03:19:30 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Error:
com.hyperion.cis.config.ProcessingException
at com.hyperion.hfm.config.HfmDbConfigurator.configure(HfmDbConfigurator.java:151)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.executeDbConfigTask(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:658)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.execute(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:202)
at com.installshield.wizard.RunnableWizardBeanContext.run(Unknown Source)
(Nov 21, 2010, 03:19:39 PM), com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction, ERROR, Error:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.hyperion.hfm.config.HfmAppServerTaskProcessor.execute(HfmAppServerTaskProcessor.java:105)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.executeCustomTask(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:741)
at com.hyperion.cis.config.wizard.RunAllTasksWizardAction.execute(RunAllTasksWizardAction.java:188)
at com.installshield.wizard.RunnableWizardBeanContext.run(Unknown Source)
if any one installed hyperion EPMS on windows server 2003 64 bit please i need your help
thanks in advanced
Edited by: eng3m on Nov 21, 2010 3:32 PMHi,
EDGE/Crystal Reports Server and Enterprise are no native 64bit applications. That does mean that they only run in 32bit mode. But you can install it on a 64bit hardware with a 64bit OS.
Regards
-Seb. -
EPM 11.1.2.1 Installation problem on Laptop (Windows Server 2008 R2 x64)
Dear All,
I hope someone can help me here with EPM 11.1.2.1 installation problem on my notebook - Windows Server 2008 R2 x65, 8 GB RAM, running SQLServer 2008 Express.
I installed Hyperion Foundation. The installation and configuration went through successfully.
I am facing two problems:
Problem 1
When I try to access the workspace through the URL http://hostname:19000/workspace/index.jsp, I get error:
Quote
Failure of server APACHE bridge:
No backend server available for connection: timed out after 10 seconds or idempotent set to OFF.
End-quote
Problem 2
Also, the service "Hyperion EPM Server" service not able to start. When I try to start, I get error message:
Quote
The Hyperion EPMA Server service on Local computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs.
End-quote
I tried checking everything but can't seem to figure out what's going wrong.
I have uploaded (1) EPM Config Manager screenshot (2) EPM System diagnostic report (3) EPM Registry editor output and (4) system services listing at
http://www.mediafire.com/?pr9l1v99w4d9u4r,c3vggxeibqkxbo2,lyzclu2aggbn8qh,8kur9gxal5b361z
It would be very grateful if someone can have a look and help me.
Many thanks in advance for any help / pointers / suggestions.
- NeilHi Pablo,
Thanks to your suggestion for database, problem #2 seem to be resolved. I am now able to start EPMA Service.
Re: Problem 1
a) Log for C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\diagnostics\logs\services\HyS9FoundationServices-sysout is as below
-----<start>--------
<Feb 15, 2012 4:04:47 AM > <Info> <Security> <BEA-090905> <Disabling CryptoJ JCE Provider self-integrity check for better startup performance. To enable this check, specify -Dweblogic.security.allowCryptoJDefaultJCEVerification=true>
<Feb 15, 2012 4:04:47 AM > <Info> <Security> <BEA-090906> <Changing the default Random Number Generator in RSA CryptoJ from ECDRBG to FIPS186PRNG. To disable this change, specify -Dweblogic.security.allowCryptoJDefaultPRNG=true>
<Feb 15, 2012 4:04:47 AM > <Info> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000377> <Starting WebLogic Server with Oracle JRockit(R) Version R28.0.2-11-135406-1.6.0_20-20100624-2119-windows-x86_64 from Oracle Corporation>
<Feb 15, 2012 4:04:48 AM > <Info> <Security> <BEA-090065> <Getting boot identity from user.>
Enter username to boot WebLogic server:
------<end>-----
I am intrigued by the last line "Enter username to boot WebLogic server:" - is there anything wrong going here?
Log for C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\EPMSystem\servers\FoundationServices0\logs\FoundationServices0 is as below:
-----<start>--------
####<Feb 15, 2012 12:49:49 AM <Info> <WebLogicServer> <RCPL02> <> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <> <> <> <1329324589459> <BEA-000000> <WebLogic Server "FoundationServices0" version:
WebLogic Server 10.3.4.0 Fri Dec 17 20:47:33 PST 2010 1384255 Copyright (c) 1995, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.>
####<Feb 15, 2012 12:49:49 AM <Notice> <Log Management> <RCPL02> <> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <> <> <> <1329324589568> <BEA-170019> <The server log file C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\EPMSystem\servers\FoundationServices0\logs\FoundationServices0.log is opened. All server side log events will be written to this file.>
####<Feb 15, 2012 12:49:49 AM <Info> <Log Management> <RCPL02> <> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <> <> <> <1329324589584> <BEA-170023> <The Server Logging is initialized with Java Logging API implementation.>
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Windows Server TechNet Guru News: October Winners Announced
All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, October 2014 !!!!
For a full list of winners,
see the full blog post, as runners up had to be removed from this post to fit the forum max length restrictions.
BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2014
Agustín Mántaras
Visual Basic script to deal with BizTalk Suspended Messages
Mandi Ohlinger: "A quick and easy way to handle suspended messages. I'm a fan!"
Ed Price: "Great article! Thanks for including an MSDN Gallery link, a See Also section that links to the Wiki portal, and some great example snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice script, in my opinion it will be best to write this in PowerShell script. Well written, well formatted (some minor improvements can be made)"
Johns-305 [boatseller]
BizTalk: EDI Features Not Just For HIPAA
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great walkthrough including the screen shots. Nice addition to the Wiki. "
Ed Price: "Good use of images and color in the code snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice start be this article should be explained better. Article format can be improved."
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 3
Sandro Pereira: "Another excellent article in this series on Sentinet API Management. Well written, well formatted with nice pictures, great article and I love the topic."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth on this article!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2014
Wim Beck
Event Driven Scheduling of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) using a Windows Service
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on formatting, the code, and all the explanations! The TOC and References are a nice touch!"
PG: "Nice innovative solution, that is a nice add-on to existing solutions. "
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Creating and Querying Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
JH: "DocumentDB is one of my favorite new services on Azure. It's cool to see that someone seems to be excited as I am. Hope that this article is just the beginning of a whole series about Azure DocumentDB."
Ed Price: "Great use of images and code snippets. Good conclusion! Great topic!"
Chilbeto
Publishing Multiple Azure Environments
TN: "Great "
JH: "This topic is normally forgotten when talking about Cloud development. I had a hard time to find an appropriate mechanism myself. This article provides one of the better ways how you can deploy multiple environments to Azure."
Ed Price: "Great overview article. Good diagram at the top! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Good job on the conclusion!"
saramgsilva
Microsoft's Windows AppStudio: Add Support For Push Notification
Ed Price: "Great introduction and incredibly thorough. Great job!"
JH: "A new article about AppStudio focusing on push notifications. Push notifications in my opinion, when done right, makes an app alive. Would love to see a complete example with all features mentioned in the related articles published
on GitHub."
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - October 2014
Mr X
Unattended installation of Visio 2013
Ed Price: "Great job, Mr X! Good use of images!"
AH: "It gives good instructions with the help of the pictures but its still missing detailed information if some user needs it. Need to provide a wiki/msdn references that are available something like http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx.
Overall decent article"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2014
Brian Nadjiwon
How to Create and Use Classes in PowerShell
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concepts. It would help to name the objects something like "Jim" rather than "Person", for example. There should be a See Also section, and more links to references."
Ed Price: "Great topic and explanations of the classes!"
Andy ONeill
Visual Studio: Snippetty Tip
Richard Mueller: "Great idea with some good advise."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the code snippets! Fun topic! As is mentioned in the comments and in the article, many people don't know this is possible!"
saramgsilva
How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Good use of images!"
Richard Mueller: "Good images and a good step by step explanation. Needs links to references and other Wiki articles (See Also). We should try not to use first person."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve
TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve"
Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!"
GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work."
Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!"
Jinchun Chen: "Great."
Steven Andrews
Building a list specific search with JavaScript
TN: "Great tip for mid-dev"
Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!"
GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice work"
Dan Christian
No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list
Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!"
GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well"
Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Rotation Centers for Shapes of Triangle and Line
RZ: "Excellent article. This is a must read if you want to make an object move. You need to understand the coordinates and the rotation center."
Ed Price: "Great use of images!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 26992 -
GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(X, Y) Doesn’t Work Properly If X Or Y Has after the Decimal Point in Remote
Ed Price: "Good recommended workaround!"
RZ: "Yeah, another bug in Small Basic that might get you and need to be fixed :)"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: International Resources
Ed Price: "Oh, yeah. This one is so amazing! Thank you for making this and organizing the resources so well!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
Jan D'Hondt
Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
RB: "interesting work-around."
Anushka Weerakkodyge
Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
RB: "nice walkthrough"
Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
System Center Technical Guru - October 2014
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager
in 06 Steps
Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!"
GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Behavioral Difference of IIf Function in T-SQL Compared To SSRS
Richard Mueller: "Nicely done with code examples. The "See Also" section should only link to Wiki articles."
GO: "Wonderfull article thank you!"
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting comparison "
Ed Price: "Good topic. Very clean and clear. Great article!"
JS: "Good writeup, though I would bring the comparison with the table to the top and reference the samples from there."
Ronen Ariely
INSTEAD OF Triggers
Ed Price: "Good depth here. Great explanations of the code! Great job interacting in the comments and improving the article!"
JS: "Use object qualifiers (schema name to make sure that the right objects will be picked, e.g. dbo.) Outline ab bot more the things what not to do in production! Be aware that although people read this, they tend to use it anyway. If
triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch They are executed each statement not batch, miswording here."
Richard Mueller: "Good article. The "See Also" should only include Wiki articles. Some of the "Resources" could be moved to "See Also". Grammar needs work."
GO: "Thanks"
Praveen Rayan D'sa
Find the Database where user defined object located and where it is being referred.
GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal THANKS!"
Jinchun Chen: ""
Richard Mueller: "Good topic. Grammar needs work. "Caution" states undocumented stored procedure is safe for production, but later states it is not."
Ed Price: "Great article. We should include the technology in the title. Good descriptions, and great References!"
JS: "Although the outlined solution is interesting and shows the public the usage of the "new" system views finding the right dependencies, it is not recommended to describe the usage of undocumented features such as sp_msforeachdb
as there are alternatives, especially in this scenario. You could generate a query using the sys.databases view and let it print out the database name along with the use statement. In addition to this and as the statement has to be run with a high privileged
account as schema information is secured as well, it should be made safe to SQL injection. In many case in the statements there is just a concatentation of values used. You can easily inject code in here, Also make sure that names / object identifiers are
quoted with [] in order to allow also special characters like spaces in the names"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
.paul.
Image balloonTips
Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. Great idea. The "See Also" section should only include links to Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Great solution. Good explanations!"
.paul.
Image Arrow Pointers
Richard Mueller: "Interesting idea. Need more links. Don't use first person."
Ed Price: "Creative solution! It would be good to break up the code more, to explain it. Great article!"
Paul Ishak
Visual Basic Graphics Frame Class (Easily Converted to C#)
Ed Price: "Good solution! Could benefit from more explanations of what the code is doing."
Richard Mueller: "Don't use first person. Could use more description, explanation, and links."
Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Using XML Serialization with C# and SQL Server
Ed Price: "It goes on for quite a while! Great job breaking out all the code snippets and explaining them well! Could benefit from a References or See Also section. Great TOC!"
Søren Granfeldt: "In these days of generic data, this serves as a good example of storing unstructured data"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Through discussion of the topic"
DB: "Interesting"
Magnus (MM8)
C#: Generic Type Parameters And Dynamic Types
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice example of diving into generic code and extensibility"
DB: "Good walkthrough of generics and reflection"
Ed Price: "Important topic! Great descriptions."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good, I like the way the article covers various sides of the problem"
saramgsilva
File exporter for IEnumerable of T
Ed Price: "Another great article from Sara! Great job on the TOC and code snippets!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Great idea; could use a little more generic approach on the formatting of values"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice example of applying generics"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2014
Durval Ramos
Summit: Principles of International TNWiki Summit
Richard Mueller: "A great writeup and introduction to this fantastic idea. Well done."
Ed Price: "Great depth and planning for this event!"
GO: "This is one of the best Portals that I've ever seen! Thanks"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - October 2014
saramgsilva
How to Integrate Cortana in the Menu App
JH: "I got three words for you: I love Cortana! This article shows nicely how to integrate Cortana into your own app. Would love to see more."
Ed Price: "That's what I'm talking about! Way to go for a "What's Next" topic and nail it! I expect this article to gain a lot of interest. Fantastic article!"
Carmelo La Monica
The class GeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Lots of code examples about a feature some apps should be use more. Geocoding becomes more and more important, so this article fits perfectly into this."
Ed Price: "This is an important class with a lot of possibilities. Great execution on this article! Could benefit from a References or Additional Resources section. Good job wrapping it up with the conclusion."
saramgsilva
Export To CSV for Windows Store apps
JH: "Most people laugh when they hear about CSV export of data. A database would be a better place for the data of an app. In my opinion this is not always true (because CSV is small and can be used in different ways),
so most apps should have the capability to export data into the CSV file format. This article shows how this can be done."
Ed Price: "Another very important article. I love the Source link to the MSDN Gallery. Great job!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2014
Andy ONeill
WPF: Entity Framework MVVM Walk Through 1
Ed Price: "Very well formatted, clear sections, and lots of depth and clear explanations! The TOC, code snippets, Summary, and Further Reading links all help round out this great article!"
KJ: "awesome"
saramgsilva
How to binding a ResourceDictionary to a Lisbox in apps based in XAML
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and fantastic topic! The TOC and Source link to the Gallery item help provide more value!"
GO: "She did it again. Great article."
Shweta Lodha
PopUps with Interactivity [Prism 5.0]
KJ: "handy"
Ed Price: "Good clarity and use of code snippets and images. Could benefit from a TOC and References/See Also. Great job!"
GO: "Layout could be better, but still valualble article."
Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
Darshana Jayathilake
Some useful features with Windows Group policies
JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
GO: "I like the article; so great written"
Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
Mr X
How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
GO: "Merci, Mr X"
Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
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A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to October's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in
November 2014's listings?
If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's
your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Richard, Darshana, and Mr X!
Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
Darshana Jayathilake
Some useful features with Windows Group policies
JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
GO: "I like the article; so great written"
Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
Mr X
How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
GO: "Merci, Mr X"
Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
Windows Search Service Crashes on Windows Server 2012 R2
Hi,
I'm running Windows Search service on a Windows Server 2012 R2 (24GB RAM, 8-core proc). The index catalog has a little over 2 million items (files and folders indexed).
Every once in a while this service crashes, and either remains in limbo or automatically recovers and restarts the index from zero. I'm trying to find out information about what may be causing the crashes and about how to prevent them. Unfortunately, I don't
seem to be able to find much about the Windows Search service on Windows Server 2012 R2. So anyone who may have input on this, please chip in.
Additional info:
- As mentioned above, the server OS is Windows Server 2012 R2. This is a physical server with 24GB RAM, 8-core proc and over 2TB of storage.
- This server acts as a DC and as a File Server. In addition to this and Windows Search service, there are no other major services running here
- Symantec Endpoing protection is installed and running on this server, but I've made sure to exclude the Window Search database from SEP
Here are some of the errors that are generated when the issue happens:
The error below may show up in the event logs. If it shows up more than once, the indexing service has likely crashed and won't recover.
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 1/23/2015 3:32:15 PM
Event ID: 7011
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the WSearch service.
I attempted to stop the indexing service, but it didn't stop. I noticed though that the indexing GUI started responding as soon as the
the service stop command failed. The indexing service seems to have picked up where it was (~300K items) and continued indexing.
Logs sequence:
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:01 PM
Event ID: 102
Task Category: General
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine (6.03.9600.0000) is starting a new instance (0).
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:01 PM
Event ID: 300
Task Category: Logging/Recovery
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine is initiating recovery steps.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:01 PM
Event ID: 301
Task Category: Logging/Recovery
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine has begun replaying logfile X:\IndexingService\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\edb0053D.log.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:01 PM
Event ID: 301
Task Category: Logging/Recovery
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine has begun replaying logfile X:\IndexingService\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\edb0053E.log.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:02 PM
Event ID: 301
Task Category: Logging/Recovery
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine has begun replaying logfile X:\IndexingService\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\edb.log.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:02 PM
Event ID: 302
Task Category: Logging/Recovery
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine has successfully completed recovery steps.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:02 PM
Event ID: 105
Task Category: General
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine started a new instance (0). (Time=1 seconds)
Internal Timing Sequence: [1] 0.000, [2] 0.000, [3] 0.000, [4] 0.032, [5] 1.046, [6] 0.094, [7] 0.000, [8] 0.000, [9] 0.000, [10] 0.000.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:02 PM
Event ID: 326
Task Category: General
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine attached a database (1, X:\IndexingService\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb).
(Time=0 seconds)
Internal Timing Sequence: [1] 0.000, [2] 0.000, [3] 0.016, [4] 0.000, [5] 0.000, [6] 0.000, [7] 0.000, [8] 0.000, [9] 0.000, [10] 0.000, [11]
0.000, [12] 0.000.
Saved Cache: 1 0Hi,
Thanks for your post.
To resolve this problem, use the Registry Editor to change the default timeout value for all services.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13765.event-id-7011-service-timeout.aspx
Please note before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data.
Regards.
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Mac keeps trying to log into a Windows server with old password.
My iBook for some reason is trying to log into a server at work we use to share files on (let's called it Xserver). I recently discovered through logging my network traffic on my router at home, that my machine was still trying to access XServer.rr.com Xserver.socal.rr.com even when I was not in the office. It doesn't stop trying, over and over and over it goes, trying to find XServer. I was wondering why my account on XServer kept becoming Locked Out (Windows Server), and this is obviously the answer because it's not using the correct password.
How can i find out where OSX is instructed to connect to XServer automatically and keep trying, and tell it to stop?Look in SystemPreferences>Accounts>yourAccount...and then into Login items. see if this server login is set to be automatic there.
If it's just a wrong password you need to fix, look into Utilities>KeychainAccess...see if this server is in there, remove it. Or do Keychain FirstAid.
There is an automount function somewhere, but I forget where that is. -
Calling all Windows Server users! May TechNet Gurus announced!
The results for May's
TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/01/16/technet-guru-awards-december-2013.aspx
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for May!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Post your JUNE contributions here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/24692.technet-guru-contributions-for-june-2014.aspx
Read all about June's competition, hopefully in a stickied post, at the top of this forum.
Below is a summary of the medal winners for May. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - May 2014
Peter Lindgren
BizTalk 2010: Call SSO from Orchestration
TGN: "I bet a few people will love you for this, I often see this question at the forums, and you answered it well. Good work!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "Great topic and great explanation. It also makes SSO seem less scary :)"
Sandro Pereira: "Very useful sample, well explained with all the necessary code "
boatseller
BizTalk: Using an Orchestration Sync or Async
Sandro Pereira: "Good sample provide by boatseller and well explained."
TGN: "Hey, great work man! This is a well done article and I love it!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Exposing data through BizTalk Service Hybrid Connections
Sandro Pereira: "Nice article with a good overview about BizTalk Service Hybrid Connections and how you can configure them."
TGN: "Good article, well explained and good pictures. Again Steef-Jan, you know what you're doing!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "Nice set-up overview. "
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - May 2014
Sheldon.Jaquay
Forefront Identity Manager - RCDC - Regular Expression
AM: "Great contribution! Option C is clever, and the other examples are also a useful reference. Thanks for sharing your work with the community."
Ed Price: "Nice short article. Great topic, and great blend of code, color, and images!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice with a little focus on RegEx with FIM and good help for people wanting to have the portal be just a little more company specific"
GO: "Thanks for the article, but the images weren't clear enough."
Scott Eastin
Installing Oracle MA for FIM R2 on Windows 2012
GO: "EX-CE-LL-EN-T article!"
AM: "Very nice article with clear step-by-step instructions - thanks for putting this together. "
Ed Price: "I love the sections with numbered bullets at the end. They're very clear and easy to read!"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - May 2014
João Sousa
Microsoft Azure - Remote Debbuging How To?
GO: "Clever. Well Explained and written. Thanks! You absolutely deserve the GOLD medal."
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic and great use of images!"
Alex Mang
The Move to the New Azure SQL Database Tiers
Ed Price: "Great depth and descriptions! Very timely topic! Lots of collaboration on this article from community members!"
GO: "great article but images are missing"
Alex Mang
Separating Insights Data In Visual Studio Online
Application Insights For Production And Staging Cloud Services
Ed Price: "Good descriptions and clarity!"
GO: "great article but images are missing"
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - May 2014
Mr X
How to export your Orchestrator Runbooks to Visio and Word
Ed Price: "A basic tip, but very helpful. Good job!"
GO: "Thanks for that!"
SR: "Nice "How To" article explaining the basic steps."
AH: "This article is to the point takes a simple tasks and describes it accurately.
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - May 2014
Dan Christian
Build a loop workflow using SharePoint 2010
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent article. Personally speaking, the biggest challenge is SharePoint Designer workflow is “while-loop”. Many customers had the same scene as this article set. I am sure they are like this article.
Benoît Jester: "An AWESOME, huge, detailed article by Dan. Did I mention the videos? Thanks Dan!"
GO: "Great article Dan! Thanks!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Detailed explanation which I admire, but wouldn't be using a vs workflow be more logical in this case?"
Geetanjali Arora
Export User Profile Properties using CSOM
Benoît Jester: "Great article on this new SharePoint 2013 development capability. I appreciate the code explanations."
GO: "This is a great article. Love the way how you explain it."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I will use this piece of code in the future!"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. How about customized properties? It would be nice more, if a CSOM script version can be attached. "
Inderjeet Singh
Unable
to restore site collection issue
GO: "Simple. Good Written. Clear and Clever. Great article."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Quite handy reference for this particular problem"
Benoît Jester: "Good explanation on the site collection deletion process."
Small Basic Technical Guru - May 2014
Philip Conrod
Programming Home Projects with Microsoft Small Basic: Chapter
1: Writing Programs Using Small Basic
RZ: "Very systematic introduction."
Ed Price: "Good overview article that covers all the basics!"
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Nice introduction into the history of Basic. Needs to be updated to reflect current support for Windows version (Windows NT? LOL )"
Philip Conrod
Programming Home Projects with Microsoft Small Basic: Chapter 6: Flash
Card Math Quiz Project
Michiel Van Hoorn: "This article (or book chapter) is excellent material to learn how to envision, design and build your program. The actual example program is also very usable."
Ed Price: "I love how this tutorial keeps building on itself as it goes!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Variable
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the concept of variables!"
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Clear explanation and not frills"
Ed Price: "Great article with fantastic formatting!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - May 2014
Durval Ramos
SSIS - Event Handling with "OnError" ou "OnTaskFailed"
Ed Price: "The images are very helpful! Could use a grammar pass. Great descriptions!"
GO: "This article has everything. A conclusion, reference, see also, other languages section. everybody should write actually like this."
NN: "An interesting topic and article but unfortunately a bit hard to understand due to grammar problems"
PT: "This is a good article on a useful topic. Please have your article reviewed and edited for proper language."
S Kamath
Expansion of Time dimension in Analysis Service
PT: "Your article is concise and to the point, and contains useful information. It would be good to conclude with a short summary and perhaps compare this technique to others, discussing best practices."
Ed Price: "Good details on Time Dimension. The images help us understand as we go."
GO: "I like this one, but something is missing. Do not know what, but I had a blast reading the other two's. Does not mean that this one is bad, but there is something missing, maybe my knowledge..."
NN: "Good article, but seems to be missing conclusion. It will also benefit from adding See Also section"
Sherry Li
SSAS – Ignore unrelated dimension or not
NN: "Good and interesting article based on the blog"
GO: "Wonderful article!"
PT: "This is an important topic and contains helpful information but this is a simple topic that can be explained in fewer words. I found this article to be overly detailed and hard to read. I suggest having it reviewed and edited for
proper language."
Ed Price: "Good descriptions. Could be shorter. Good use of images!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - May 2014
Shanky
Curious Case Of Logging In Online and Offline Index Rebuild In Full Recovery
Model
Jinchun Chen: "Good article. Thank you!"
GO: "One of the best Wiki Articles ever! Thanks buddy!"
DRC: "-- This is a great article which provides in-depth information on internals of Online & Offline rebuild index and Transaction logging. -- The following statement need to be re-written for more clarity. “The less logging can be
attributed to the fact that no information about page allocation is logged information about de-allocation is logged please see below figure 13. Also if you compare amount of record returned in this case we had output containing just 64 rows while offline
index rebuild had ____ rows.” -- Overall, a great article, thoroughly enjoyed reading it."
NN: "Very interesting article, another great contribution by Shanky"
Ed Price: "Thorough descriptions and great solution! Good article!"
Uwe Ricken
SQL Server: Be aware of the correct data type for predicates in queries
Ed Price: "Incredibly well formatted! Great breakdown of sections!"
GO: "Whoo, this is a wonderful article!"
DRC: "-- This article explains the Query execution behaviour when the Query is not optimally written which could cause increased execution time. Great article. -- This topic is clearly explained and documented using a simple example and
sample output which is easy is understand. -- Simple, very well written and great article to read. "
NN: "Very good, easy to understand article and important information to know to all SQL Server developers"
System Center Technical Guru - May 2014
Mr X
Central Management of DSRM password on Domain Controllers using Orchestrator
Ed Price: "The images really carry you through this article. Great execution!"
GO: "Great article. I like your article Mr X! Thanks for your passion!"
Kevin Holman: "Nice to see real world examples of Orchestrator in action solving problems that all customers have. This was very simple, but provides an excellent solution."
W P Chomak
System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Customizing E-Mail Notifications
AB: "Easy reading info that can help many"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet. An incredibly valuable topic and needed addition to the Wiki!"
GO: "Clever and well written. Thanks"
Christoffer S
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 - Install applications in a task sequence based on AD-Groups
Ed Price: "Good mix of code, images, and information. Could use more in-depth descriptions. Great article!"
GO: "Clear and simple! Thank you!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - May 2014
Naomi N
T-SQL: Random Equal Distribution
Jinchun Chen: "Nice."
JS: "The crucial thing about such a procedure is to check the data before the randomization and afterwards. You might encounter situations where "John Smith" and "John Meyers" might have exchanged their First names
which is technically correct, but logically and obviously wrong. So make sure that there is one additional check afterwards that makes sure that eventual privicy concerns will not survive the random process. Normally this would not happen, but I have already
checked this is one of my older blog entries, where we exactly had that problem obfuscating data to make that operational and live data will not be recognized afterwards. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jenss/archive/2009/04/08/when-is-random-random-enough.aspx In
addition to this some attributes are sticky to each other like gender and First Name. You also have to make sure that your distribution might change statistically in relation to other attributes."
Richard Mueller: "Very instructive. Perhaps the See Also section should have more links."
Ed Price: "Great formatting and topic! Could benefit from more descriptions. Great article!"
GO: "Naomi, your article is nice. Simple to understand the 'problem' and execute the 'solution""
Manoj Pandey: "Nice article with a different way to resolve a given problem. I think this can also be done by using NTILE() function. I've added the code in comments section."
Rogge H
Extending SYS.Geometry to Utilize Temporal Data
GO: "Great article, I enjoyed reading it. Thank you"
Manoj Pandey: "I like the idea, but it took me some more time to understand the overall logic as I'm new to Geo datatypes, Thanks."
JS: "For me not using this sort of things regularly, I don't see the problem and the benefit. I have no doubt that this is a brilliant explanations how to cope with a problem, but for me this is missing yet the red line. More pictures
would be helpful describing the problem and outlining the results produced."
Richard Mueller: "Needs more explanation, and perhaps an example. There should be links to relevant references."
Ed Price: "Good job on the opening descriptions! Could benefit from breaking up and explaining the code more. Images and references would be helpful. Good article!"
Hasham Niaz
DataCleanUp() Function Implementation in MS SQL Server
Jinchun Chen: "Good."
JS: "-Does actually not work for Case senstive areas where I want to remoce certain Upper/lower case characters. This might be not interesting for some people, but is extremely important and relevant to other people. The limitation is
that I can´t pass multiple values to be removed from the string, right ? Could this be implemented as well as many people wash out their data from unused / unimportant control characters. "I have tested it on a table which has got more than 11 Million
rows and it executed fine returning the correct results. Since this is a scalar function you will notice decrease in performance." Once you want to maintain the old data and keep the new cleaned up one seperately, you could suggest something like persisting
the data in a computed column which could be indexed and then help improving the performance. This would not be the case for any adhoc queries though."
Richard Mueller: "Very clever and also very useful. There should be links to references, for example to explain the PATINDEX function."
Ed Price: "Great job on this article! Very clear and well executed! See JS's comments for some thoughts about what's possible. Great article!"
Manoj Pandey: "A good utility Function that I can use and tweak for my future needs, Thanks."
Jaliya Udagedara
Calling WCF Service from a Stored Procedure in Microsoft SQL Server 2012
GO: "Gold Winner. For sure!"
Ed Price: "Amazing article! The depth, images, and code formatting make this fantastic!"
NN: "Great article, thorough explanations, great interaction in the comments - very useful tutorial"
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice work."
João Sousa
ASP.NET MVC 5 - Bootstrap 3.0 in 3 Steps
GO: "Thanks for that great article"
Ed Price: "Great formatting! Good use of images!"
NN: "Nice introduction to Bootstrap in ASP.MVC project"
Søren Granfeldt: "Just a little more technical explanation would be nice"
Critical_stop
Using 64-bit shortcuts from a 32-bit application
NN: "Good and short article, right to the point"
Søren Granfeldt: "Mixing and matching 32/64 bit always seems to give people a hassle. This will help those having issues."
GO: "good one!"
Ed Price: "Good article. Short and sweet."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - May 2014
XAML guy
TechNet Guru Competition: Judge System Explanation
GO: "No one could do it beter than you Pete! Thanks!"
Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of the judging system. Perhaps could use a See Also section."
Ed Price: "Good quote from Shanky in the comments, "Awesome....Kudos to your for your beautiful work" -- Great job!"
NN: "Very good article. It may also benefit from See Also section"
Payman Biukaghazadeh
TechNet Wiki Persian Council
GO: "Go Persion GOOO!"
Richard Mueller: "The Persian Council is an excellent idea. The link to "How to Write an Article" should be in a See Also section, along with other articles."
NN: "Great article, missing a link to other portals and councils pages"
Ed Price: "Thank you to Payman and the Persian community for jumping in! The Wiki is warm!"
Durval Ramos
Wiki: Best Practices for building TechNet Wiki Portals
Ed Price: "Fantastic job from Durval on helping us standardize the portals!"
NN: "Good article, but unfortunately a bit hard to read and understand due to bad grammar. "
Richard Mueller: "Excellent and important topic. Grammar still needs work. I like the links and See Also."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - May 2014
Sara Silva
Authentication using Facebook, Google and Microsoft account in WP8.0 App (MVVM)
Ed Price: "Great article! Great code formatting and good use of code comments for descriptions of what your code's doing! Could be improved by breaking out the code with more descriptions in the article (in addition to
the code comments). Very in-depth article! "
Peter Laker: "An excellent article, pulling together all the bits you need to make this happen"
SubramanyamRaju.B
WindowsPhone Facebook Integration:How to post message/image to FaceBook Fan
Page(C#-XAML)
Ed Price: "Good topic! Code blocks would help with the formatting. Good job on this article!"
Peter Laker: "Love this, very useful to many I'm sure, thanks!"
Saad Mahmood
Creating a custom control in Expression Blend with Custom Properties (WindowsPhone
& Store)
Ed Price: "This has a good mix of descriptions and clarity! The images help a lot!"
Peter Laker: "A nice introduction to our beloved Blend. Great work!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - May 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF/MVVM: Merging Cells In a ListView
KJ: "Ah the collectionViewSource -- never used it myself but this looks like a good reference article if I ever needed to..."
GO: "Thank you!"
Ed Price: "Great formatting and good descriptions. Short and sweet! Another fantastic entry from Magnus!"
Peter Laker: "Thank you again Magnus"
Windows Server Technical Guru - May 2014
Mr X
How to implement User
Activity Recording for AD-Integrated Critical Servers by combining the use of Group Policy, Powershell and Orchestrator
Philippe Levesque: "Really good information and detailed step."
JH: "brilliant, love how it combines different technologies to achieve a solution, clearly written and well illustrated."
JM: "Another excellent article, thanks again for your many great contributions"
Richard Mueller: "Very creative solution. Great to have such detailed steps and images."
GO: "I like the conclusion. Thanks"
Mr X
How Domain Controllers are located in Windows
GO: "Super article Mr X! Merci!"
JM: "Yet again, excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Good documentation. An explanation of how the priorities and weights are determined would help. A See Also section would also help."
Philippe Levesque: "Good "In deep" information. Good to know to help diagnose computer problem in AD's site."
JH: "another good article, great diagrams. Some repetition but it does help clarify a complex issue. "
Mahdi Tehrani
Detailed Concepts:Secure Channel Explained
JH: "great article. This fills an important gap in this content space. Editing is a little rough, but diagrams and explanations are clear."
JM: "This is a very good article, however you need to provide more detail in the section on how to fix a broken Channel."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic. Grammar needs work. Good images. Could use a See Also section."
Philippe Levesque: "Really good explanation of the secure's channel, I like the debugging step included ! "
GO: "Thanks for this, not everybody know about secure channel."
As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
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You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
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Windows Server Technical Guru - May 2014
Mr X
How to implement User
Activity Recording for AD-Integrated Critical Servers by combining the use of Group Policy, Powershell and Orchestrator
Philippe Levesque: "Really good information and detailed step."
JH: "brilliant, love how it combines different technologies to achieve a solution, clearly written and well illustrated."
JM: "Another excellent article, thanks again for your many great contributions"
Richard Mueller: "Very creative solution. Great to have such detailed steps and images."
GO: "I like the conclusion. Thanks"
Mr X
How Domain Controllers are located in Windows
GO: "Super article Mr X! Merci!"
JM: "Yet again, excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Good documentation. An explanation of how the priorities and weights are determined would help. A See Also section would also help."
Philippe Levesque: "Good "In deep" information. Good to know to help diagnose computer problem in AD's site."
JH: "another good article, great diagrams. Some repetition but it does help clarify a complex issue. "
Mahdi Tehrani
Detailed Concepts:Secure Channel Explained
JH: "great article. This fills an important gap in this content space. Editing is a little rough, but diagrams and explanations are clear."
JM: "This is a very good article, however you need to provide more detail in the section on how to fix a broken Channel."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic. Grammar needs work. Good images. Could use a See Also section."
Philippe Levesque: "Really good explanation of the secure's channel, I like the debugging step included ! "
GO: "Thanks for this, not everybody know about secure channel."
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