Technology

Buzzwords in Practice…

microsoftian — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:31:12 GMT

Its been quite long time I haven't wrote much due to lot of travelling and non-core area related work (non connected systems, SOA & BPM work).

Now, I am back and the good news is I will be drinking, eating and breathing some of the buzzwords..(because of the solutions I am concentrating and architecture of current project I am in)

So, Some Buzzwords I am really gonna look/work and more deep dive areas are mentioned below…

1) SOA – Service Oriented Architecture, The most controversial Architecture name in current IT world

2) ESB – Enterprise Service Bus, One of the SOA Infrastructure Component, thinking of exploring more from Microsoft technology stack

3) BPM – Business Process Modeling, Love to see something really in BIG action…

4) EDA – Event Driven Architecture, considered to be the next generation of SOA

5) CEP – Complex Event Processing

6) Oslo – Code Name for Modeling platform from Microsoft

7) Azure – The BLUE cloud coming from Microsoft

8) Dublin – Code Name for the Forthcoming Application Server from Microsoft for WF and WCF Services hosting

9) Governance – Widely used across different technology stack like MDM, SOA etc..

10) MDM – Master Data Management, this is also one more BIG Buzz word like SOA and criticized across the industry

11) Web 2.0/RIA and beyond – Next Generation Internet/Rich Internet Applications, I started my career as a UI guy and then shifted more towards middleware. I would like to see my footprints future. so this still being one of my favorite area all time!

12) and finally SharePoint 2010 is also on my list :) (Google Wave in this list too…)

13) Android/iPhone platform – my techie gadgets are based on these two. (myTouch and iTouch). (ChromeOS and open source are in the parking lot)

14) A.R.Rahman – my favorite music composer who just got into Hollywood and got 2 Oscars for his debut Hollywood flick (Slumdog Millionaire). I am looking forward for more of these in future..(both Oscars and compositions )

I am sure there are many more keywords/buzzwords like REST, SOAP, BI, SOI, SLAs …and hell..from the above 13 elements and beyond..

Currently thinking of stopping with this Buzz now…!

OK, now you might think of a great phrase (At least I could think of…) “Jack of all trades is master of none!”

and of course, my intensions are also not to master everything from the above list, but it is interesting to see these buzz words coming in my current projects and I really like to see them in action.

So, I am also looking forward to see some thoughts from my side through next couple of years and beyond (Don't know what BUZZ I will hear next!, fed-up with lot of stuff already :))

How to Run as different user for any type of file on Vista

microsoftian — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:37:46 GMT

Problem:

Recently, when I was trying to run an InfoPath form (.xsn file) as different user from a client vista machine, which doesn't have the SQL server database access which the InfoPath form needs.

The problem is more specific to InfoPath (as it allows only two types of authentication to SQL Server through InfoPath (NT and SQL User).So when you design InfoPath form to use NT access which is not a SQL User, it must run InfoPath natively as the NT user who have access rights on SQL User. But if you design InfoPath form to use a SQL User account, any NT user can access the SQL Server using the InfoPath.

But this solution is generic for any file (not just .exe or xsn file).

First, here is the screenshot when you try to access without using run as but enter the required user credentials using InfoPath.

so, when you use the checkbox, it takes the credentials of logged user(which will be YOU), where you/customer may not have access on the database directly.

When we don't use the checkbox, it will become a SQL authentication. If the credentials you are entering is not a SQL user on the database.it won’t authenticate.

Solutions:

So, what are the alternatives?

1) Login to the machine as the same NT user who have access

2) Use “runas” feature, which is not straight forward.

Now, I will talk about the 2nd solution which I mentioned.

Download ShellRunAs exe file from sysinternals site.

here is the commandline to open the file. You give the path of client application which opens that file type (in my case I MUST mention the path of InfoPath exe. Without that it wont work. for ex: if you are opening notepad, you must mention the notepad in the command line argument)

Then it will prompt you to enter credentials using which you will get NT user access to the Database.

so, this kind of things can be applied to any client applications, which needs actual NT authentication without switching users on your vista machine.

HTH

Technorati Tags: InfoPath,SysInternals,Vista

Watch Microsoft SOA Conference 2009 sessions online!

microsoftian — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:25:00 GMT

If you ever dream of attending SOA conference 2009, which happened in Seattle this January, now you should feel lucky!

More than 30 videos/Presentations are online on Windows live spaces. Check them out @ http://soaconference2009.spaces.live.com/default.aspx

Key things to observe are..

· BizTalk 2009
· ESB Guidance 2.0
· Oslo, Dublin and Cloud platform
· Some good SOA scenarios/case studies and best practices (patterns & practices) using Microsoft Application platform (Please try to adopt these if you gone through similar business cases)

The conference is basically divided into 3 tracks and you can find the slide decks here…

Oslo/BizTalk Bloggers Guide

microsoftian — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:43:42 GMT

Alan Smith launched a new community site "bloggersguide.net" a community site that will host resources for BizTalk Server and the up and coming Oslo technologies.

If you have lot of questions regarding BizTalk and Oslo technologies...go there..almost everything answered!
You can find the latest bloggers guides (Oslo and BizTalk) in the download section.

Make sure to remove the "%20" (space) character from the downloaded file names to open them properly.
You may also needed to unblock the file content from file properties to view the chm content.

Houston TechFest 2008

microsoftian — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:44:04 GMT

It’s been almost an year, The "Houston Tech Fest" came again!
Contrary to last year, this year there are several Non-Microsoft tracks added to the event.
Overall there are          1) 3 .NET tracks
                                2) 3 Java tracks
                                3) 2 General tracks
                              4) a special Silverlight track
                                5) 1 Security track
                                6) Alt.net track
If you are nearby Houston, this is one of the cool event to attend to know your community. Register now, if you haven't so far!

Looking at the agenda, you can see SOGETI presenting in every time slot

11:30 AM    A look into the Ajax Framework          Mohammad Azam (MVP)
12:30 PM    Lunch / Birds Of a Feather
1:30 PM      Parallel Computing with .NET :               Timothy Rayburn (MVP)
1:30 PM    Building a blog with ASP.NET MVC        Ben Sheirman
2:45 PM      LINQ to SQL and Gotchas                     Mohammad Azam (MVP)
4:00 PM    Creating Services which Rock               Timothy Rayburn (MVP)

How to configure more than one exchange account in Microsoft Outlook

microsoftian — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:18:15 GMT

Ever wondered, how to configure two Microsoft Exchange accounts on single outlook mail client?
How to configure more than one exchange account (different exchange servers, without creating different profiles and accessing both at a time) in outlook?!
We face this issue, whenever we are at client location and want to access both your employer e-mail account and Customer email account.
Here is the easiest way, which will enable you to do that. (Thanks to Neil Bedekar, my colleague from whom the idea is generated and helped in getting this done)..
Most of us tried to set up a new Microsoft exchange account when you already have one on your outlook, but outlook doesn't allow to create a new exchange account when you already have one!
So, what is the way?

Simple… create an IMAP or POP3 account (provided, they are enabled on Exchange server), instead of selecting exchange account though you are going to setup a exchange account.

I choose to create IMAP account and here are few screen shots which tells you how to do that... Here are some friendly screen shots which are easy to follow..

Go to Tools-->Account Settings

Click New

Leave the default selection and click next

Check The option shown in below figure and click next

Crucial section…Leave the default selection (Internet E-mail) and click next. (So many times I came to this option and selected Microsoft Exchange… Now tried something different (Thanks Neil))

Now fill the simple form and click more settings to enter domain credentials

'On the outgoing server tab, enter domain settings

Be sure to check this under folders section, so that one mail box's sent items save in other

Boom! Once you are done you can try Test Account settings Internet E-mail settings screen shot which gives you the confidence that it’s gonna work!

'Now, whenever you send the mail, you have the option like below how cool is that?!

You can see your mail boxes on your left menu like this….