Active Directory domain controllers out of sync

We ran into a problem with one of our domain controllers that was not connected for an extended period of time where it could not sync changes properly when available again.  There is a solution from Microsoft to resolve this issue. We have repeated the knowledge base article here just in case it is not available on Microsoft’s site.  The … Read More

Fix Outlook Web Access (OWA) on Windows 7 and Vista

There is an issue using OWA on Windows 7 and Windows Vista which makes Outlook Web Access (OWA) unusable.  To fix this requires a hotfix to be installed on the Exchange Server.  The details of this hotfix can be found at the below link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911829

Interesting feature within Windows 7

Windows users are excited over the discovery of a hidden “GodMode” feature that lets users access all of the operating system’s control panels from within a single folder.  In order to enable this feature all you need to do is to create a new folder and then rename the folder to the following: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Once that is done, the folder’s … Read More

Mail Merge from Microsoft Outlook

Created a short video about how to do a Mail Merge from Microsoft Outlook using the Categories option for Contacts. See all the details here

Custom Parameters with ObjectDataSource and SqlDataSource

Found a decent article about custom parameters for data sources in ASP.NET.  It was written by Eilon Lipton who has been on the ASP.NET team for quite a while at Microsoft.  The article discuss how to insert your own custom parameters and has easy examples and a good explanation.

How to Setup LogMeIn Secondary Users

LogMeIn is a platform that we use internally for our own computers as well as all our clients. One of the most useful features of the LogMeIn offering is the ability to setup a secondary user to allow access to one or more computers in your account.  It is pretty easy to setup this feature. By creating Secondary Users in … Read More

Lenovo Discounts

Found some discounts on Lenovo laptops (and some desktops) and thought I would pass it along. Promo Code: USPENTERAIN3 Save an additional 10% + Free Shipping There are some pretty decent laptops available.

Creating Insert Statements for SQL Server

Ran across an interesting approach to generating insert statements for SQL Server 2005 (and other variants).  If uses a less well known function called master.dbo.fn_varbintohexstr. The approach that was taken was to use the fn_varbintohexstr function to encode the data so you did not need to use cursors or any fancy parsing to handle unicode and quotes in the generated … Read More

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Samples

Most of you probably have already experimented with the Control Toolkit, but just in case you never ran across it, take a look at these Toolkit samples If you have any questions about them, drop me a comment here.