August 2006 Entries
Notes for TFS Single-Server Deployment on a VPC, Always refer TFS Installation guide for any details. Create the user accounts and give them the appropriate permissions as listed in the installation guide. Run windows update. Install SQL Server 2005 (choose all except Notification services). I did apply SP1 and the TFS installation wasn't interrupted. Install the SQL Server and .NET 2.0 hotfixes that can be located in the TFS setup folders. Run 'Reporting Services Configuration Manager' and refer...
A cool online tool (broadband connection testing site) http://www.speedtest.net/
Microsoft's BizTalk group is presenting a webcast to talk about BizTalk R2 and other future releases on Wednesday the 30th, August 2006. Here is the event link: http://msevents.microsoft.c
That's right, long awaited BizTalk 2004 SP2 Beta is out. Go to Microsoft's Connect site and click 'Available Connections' link on the left menu. Archiving and Purging has been added which can automatically manage both the purging and the archiving of the tracking database. Some of the most important fixes that are included in this service pack are:- * Performance issues with different orchestration scenarios * EDI transmit fails with certain structures of outgoing messages * Disassembling large flat...
MSDN Webcast: Drill Down into Visual Studio Team System: Foundation Server/Third-Party Integration. Download the PowerPoint Presentation here
CCleaner - Read the review on cnet. It is indeed a pretty cool system optimization and registry cleaning tool
Microsoft Team Foundation Server - I read a lot about it and I've always wanted to have one VPC image. Now that I've downloaded the trial version, I've started building a VPC for it. I've almost got a clear install of Windows 2003 Server, SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition and Windows Sharepoint Services SP2. For somereason, my VPC has allocated itself only 20 gig of total space and I have to have 8GB to run TFS. I hope I could get it installed and running...
Windows Live Writer - A simple and easy blogging tool Update: Looks like the below error was caused by the Blog server. I was'nt successful in posting new blogs or editing the existing ones. Whenever I click on the Publish button, I get the 'Blog Server Error' popup windows which says: Server Error 0 Occurred The type initializer for "Dottext.Framework.Provider... threw an exception...
Check out Matt's post re some quick notes on BizTalk 2006 http://blogs.conchango.com/
List of On Demand BizTalk Webcasts List of all on-demand webcasts available from Microsoft.com MSDN Webcast: Creating Your First BizTalk Server Application (Level 200) New to BizTalk - check this webcast first MSDN Architecture Webcast: Manage and Monitor Enterprise Deployments with BizTalk Server 2006 (Level 200) For the IT Pro's MSDN Webcast: Implementation and Tuning Best Practices for BizTalk Server Solutions (Level 300) Another for the IT Pro's MSDN Webcast: End-to-End Scenarios: Creating Service-Oriented...
Get Connected with the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Coming up on September, 21st Click here to Register...
I thought I should give a little intro about myself before start blogging... Hmmm...Where to start? Its been almost 4 years since I started working on BizTalk. I started as a programmer back in '99 and invovled in a bunch of relatively small in-house projects for a newly started IT company in Chennai, India. ASP, VB, SQLServer are few of the technologies I had some hands-on experience with. Then, in '02, I was fortunate to work on Commerce Server 2002 and that started my passion over Enterprise related...