Lotto Redux: Finding Winning MegaMillions Tickets
Last year during the big PowerBall mania I had some time stuck in DC for a client to write up a quick Excel spreadsheet for checking a bulk supply of tickets. Well, now it seems the changes to MegaMillions has ballooned the jackpot up near where the November 2012 PowerBall was at and again people...
Yammer and Social Integration in CRM 2011
As a part of the December 2012 update to CRM 2011, which also brought us the new and improved Polaris UI experience, Microsoft has gone all-in on the social integration with Dynamics CRM. Before we were given the ability to highlight new deals and signed business using the Post entity and the Activity Feeds views...
Finding Winning Power Ball Tickets
It seems nowadays everyone has an office pool for the Power Ball, pooling cash into a large pot and buying enough tickets to cover the cost of them so you all share in the massive jackpot. But the pain with having a lot of tickets is the fact that there are winners other than the...
Outlook Social Connector for Outlook 2010
This week I upgraded my desktop to Windows 7 and Office 2010. My laptop has been running both for about 2 months, but I finally broke down and installed it on the desktop. Don’t think it was because I have a problem with 7 or 2010. On the contrary, I love them both…they’ve reignited a...
Photoshop: A First Experience
I’m an old school Dreamweaver user. I’ve been using it since the Macromedia days, starting out with version 2 in high school. Because it always tightly integrated into their suite of applications, I never had need to dust off Photoshop because I had Fireworks. It always served its purpose, but when Adobe bought Macromedia back...
Rename a Server Core Install or Hyper-V Host Computer
I recently needed to rename a Hyper-V server (which is essentially a server core install of Windows Server 2008 R2). It took so doing, but I found the command. [code]Netdom renamecomputer oldname /newname:newname /userd:someuser /passwordd:*[/code] Replace the computer names with valid ones and a domain admin user, and the command will prompt for your password....
Remove Exchange 2007 Public Folder Database Forcibly
I’ve been beating my head against the wall for a week on trying to forcibly remove a corrupted Exchange 2007 install on one of my servers. The AD Configuration tree became corrupted and a restore did not fix it, so I rebuilt a new server and migrated the mailboxes there. Problem solved! Except, now how...
Anonymous LiveMeeting in OCS 2007 R2
This one drove me nuts for four days before I figured out what was going on. A client is deploying OCS 2007 R2 in their environment and ditching WebEx and GoToMeeting, as well as the other conferencing and collaboration features of the product. However, the main goal of getting users outside of the organization to...
Upload SQL Backup File via FTPS
Recently, a client was looking to backup the primary database for one of their acquisitions to their home office. Because of security concerns, they can’t combine the users on the office network with their corporate network until their team can fully integrate the systems, but a full, regular off-site backup is needed ASAP. Since the...
Path to SQLCMD
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\SQLCMD.EXE...