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LINQ to SQL in multi layered + service apps
Guy Barrette
writes "....this is by no means the only way to achieve the goal of using LINQ to SQL in a multi layered application. It’s just simple and easy. Feel free to comment and share your findings and thoughts....Referencing the DAL objects from the presentation layer is bad because you’re creating a strong bond between these layers that are supposed to be decoupled. The rule states that the presentation layer must not be aware of the data access layer. What you really need to do is create a transport object layer that will be referenced by the BAL and the DAL. These objects are just plain POCOs..."
Windows Explorer Has a New Preview Pane
Windows Team
writes "....you may not be aware that Windows Explorer also has its own Preview Pane that extends beyond the live icons you may have noticed when navigating folders in Windows Explorer. Different than Windows XP's individual menus, toolbars, Navigation Pane and Task Panes, Windows Vista has merged them all into a single interface -- take a look:"
Reusing the SMS GUID in a New Computer deployment
Ben Hunter
writes "When performing a refresh based deployment using Zero Touch BDD will retain the computers current SMS GUID. This is very handy if you want to rebuild a computer but not lose any information associated with the computer SMS....This also has the effect of reducing the number of duplicate records in SMS.....So that's how it done. Hopefully you will find this process useful, I certainly do."
Still Very Much Alive and Kicking - netsh
Desmond Lee
writes "netsh.exe is a nifty little command-line utility that is part of each and every copy of Windows since Windows 2000. It supports configuration of core networking parameters such as settings for TCP/IP, Windows firewall, network access protection (NAP), winhttp and IPSec....As the configuration of the majority of Windows Server 2008 Core settings typically gets executed on the command-line, netsh will once again play a pivotal role on this optimized platform..."
Sticky Sessions aka Affinitization in the Load Balancer
Nicholas Allen
writes "How can I use reliable messaging together with a load balancer?"
Determining Whether Tests Passed in Team Build Orcas
Aaron Hallberg
writes "....last year I described how to use a custom task to determine whether tests had passed in Team Build v1. In Team Build Orcas, you should be able to accomplish this same goal using the new built-in task GetBuildProperties. The following XML snippet in your build script (TfsBuild.proj) should do the trick:"
SQL and the wizard of AWE
Brandon George
writes "....let's talk about something that can be one of the first things that will bring improvement to most Any SQL Server install....you have to enable AWE, or Address Windows Extensions. AWE enables a 32-bit program, via the OS, to allocate more than the default max of 2 GB for a given process in memory. So adding more RAM, and then enabling AWE, will increase your page life expectancy...."
Failure to Think Big
Hunter French
writes " ....to develop audio and visual web-based training for our clinical staff. In theory it sounds good. It is only now that people are realizing that the concerns raised by the IT staff when we were selecting the vendor are valid. Our e-learning provider did not consider the impact of their application on our network infrastructure...."
Command Lines for Exchange 2007
Nathan Lasnoski
writes "The following command line will provide you with a list of the Exchange 2007 send connector max send sizes....set the Exchange 2007 send connector settings....list of the Exchange 2007 receive connector max send sizes....set the Exchange 2007 receive connector settings...."
Know what Privileges are Built into Vista Ultimate x86
writes "Windows ships with a large number of processes built-in....iit is highly interesting to know what privileges these processes have, what accounts they have in their tokens, and what the access control list (ACL) on the process itself is. This document summarizes these parameters for a stand-alone Windows Vista Ultimate x86 system with all optional components installed."
dcpromo Changes II In WIndows Server 2008
Desmond Lee
writes " Following a required system restart after the successful run of dcpromo, you will notice that there are 2 new server roles installed on the domain controller, both mapping to Active Directory Domain Services and DNS Server as part of the dcpromo setup process."
How to Retrieve TFS SMTP Server Name
Mickey Gousset
writes "You can associate Team Foundation Server with a SMTP mail server. You can do this during the initial install, or you can modify the TFS web.config at a later date. This allows you to have Team Foundation Server email project alerts out to subscribed users. Let's say I want to write some custom code to send some emails...."
How to Integrate Mass Storage Drivers into your XP image
Ben Hunter
writes "....these must be integrated when the client is syspreped. You cannot add drivers to an image after it has been created. (This is a limitation of XP that is now solved with Vista).The rest of this post will detail how to integrate the Intel mass storage drivers into your image....Once you have performed all of these tasks you must rebuild your image then sysprep and capture it. This is a bit of a hassle I know, but there is another solution, use Vista!"
Moving/Cloning a SQL Server Instance
Alexander Wechsler
writes "There maybe circumstances, where you want to use a backed up / cloned OS image including SQL Server and rename the system....Very often SQL Server is having a problem, because it stores the original name of the machine in its system database. Several of my RD colleagues, Kimberly, Venkatagaran and Scott have found a way to solve this very elegantly via stored procedures. Thanks a lot guys!"
Windows Server 2008 dcpromo Changes
Desmond Lee
writes "In Windows Server 2008, the setup of a domain controller in an Active Directory network has undergone a couple of notable changes. Let us walk through the setup of a brand new Active Directory infrastructure to illustrate this."
Solving Internet Explorer crash when editing documents in SharePoint Server 2007
Joris Poelmans
writes "A while ago, a customer experienced some issues whenever he tried to edit a document or create a new document from withing SharePoint Server 2007. This article - Internet Explorer crashing when launching documents Office documents from SharePoint Server and WSS suggested performing a reinstall of the "Windows SharePoint Services support" in Office 2007 but fortunately one of our SharePoint gurus found a quicker workaround:"
Windows Live Quick Apps
James ONeill
writes "Steve Ballmer announced today two example apps that show off how to put the Live Services we have on offer to use...."
How to Sysprep Windows
James Kovacs
writes "Every time I need to set up a bunch of virtual machines, I have to go back and look up where to find the Sysprep tool and how to use it. Here are the details so I can find it in the future..."
Workaround for issue with July 2007 Vista Application Compatibility Update
Aaron Tiensivu
writes "July 2007 Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update kills Deterministic Network Extender which can in turn disable your network interfaces....Solution to the problem if you have already installed KB 935280? You can do one of the following:"
Windows Server 2008 dcpromo Changes
Desmond Lee
writes " In Windows Server 2008, the setup of a domain controller in an Active Directory network has undergone a couple of notable changes. Let us walk through the setup of a brand new Active Directory infrastructure to illustrate this....Tested on Windows Server 2008 June 2007 CTP"
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