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Blog Posts of the Week (9th - 15th June 2013)

2013-06-17T14:14:12Z

Developers

Horizontal and vertical scrollbar in HTML5 and CSS3

By Jalpesh Vadgama published on 06-09-2013

In earlier version of HTML and CSS if we have to put only horizontal or vertical scrollbar that was not possible. Because there was no such properties….(more)

Claim based Authentication

By Brij Mishra published on 06-10-2013

Just to brief, In federated scenario, two Identity Providers comes into the picture: one is Identity Provider (where user puts its credentials) and another is Federated Provider….(more)

What is Model and ViewModel in MVC Pattern?

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 06-10-2013

Let's assume, we want to implement a view page that will have three textboxes for Username, Password and Re-enter Password. To achieve this we could design….(more)

PoshUtils: Retrieve Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) to physical disk mapping

By Ravikanth Chaganti published on 06-10-2013

Last week, I was looking for a way to retrieve the Clustered Shared Volume (CSV) to physical disk mapping on Windows Server 2012 using PowerShell….(more)

Scaling Node.js Real-time Apps with Windows Azure Service Bus

By Shiju Varghese published on 06-10-2013

In this post, I will demonstrate how to scale out real-time Socket.IO apps with Windows Azure Service Bus by leveraging the Node.js module Socket.IO-ServiceBus….(more)

Enum operations for name value attributes

By Amit Choudhary published on 06-10-2013

Enumerations are basically used to write clean and readable code for a set of constant values. I won’t be explaining about the basics of Enumeration but going to….(more)

What is Lazy loading and how this will benefit your project?

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 06-11-2013

Let’s suppose you built an application which loads records in a Grid in a paginated manner. But when you loaded thousands of records….(more)

Inspecting SharePoint 2013 ContextToken and Refresh Token

By Sundararajan Narasiman published on 06-12-2013

We know that there are couple of tokens, namely Context-Token and Refresh-Token are involved in the life-cycle of SharePoint 2013 App Authentication….(more)

IT PRO

Cannot synchronize with the corporate address book in Lync client

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 06-10-2013

Cannot synchronize with the corporate address book. This may be because the proxy server setting in your web browser….(more)

Fix: Windows 8 Live Tiles Not Working or are Blank

By Anand Khanse published on 06-13-2013

Typically static tiles on the Windows 8 start screen will show the name of the program and its icon. A Live Tile will flash the latest news or content which….(more)

Fix Component Store Corruption or Repair Windows Image in Windows 8

By Anand Khanse published on 06-14-2013

In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, the Inbox Corruption Repair brings the functionality of CheckSUR into Windows. You do not require a separate….(more)

Get fiscal year dates corresponding to a date value

By Visakh Murukesan published on 06-14-2013

Quite often we need aggregations to be done based on fiscal years rather than on financial years. My preferred method always has been on storing….(more)

Office 2013

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Mini Toolbar

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 06-10-2013

Making edits to your slide objects quickly can be an asset for your time -- but awesome slides are created painstakingly, and use a large amount….(more)

Blog Posts of the Week (2nd - 8th June 2013)

2013-06-10T11:52:06Z

Developers

Rounded corner div with HTML5 and CSS3

By Jalpesh Vadgama published on 06-08-2013

So In this post we are going to learn how we can create rounded corner div with HTML5….(more)

XML Configuration Files Effect in SSIS Package

By Joydeep Das published on 06-02-2013

When we are creating the package we are using different types of variable or property values….(more)

IT PRO

Lync-Skype Connectivity

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 06-02-2013

Now Lync- Skype connectivity is possible and you will get your access your contacts between Lync and Skype….(more)

Get the latest weekday of month in SQL 2012

By Visakh Murukesan published on 06-04-2013

Recently there was a requirement to get latest weekday of a month. I made use of a solution based on….(more)

Load Balancing Exchange Server 2013

By Ratish Nair published on 06-05-2013

Load Balancing is the distribution of workload across different available servers, so as to accomplish optimal resource utilization, maximized throughput, minimized response time….(more)

Block Syncing of Personal Phone Contacts in GAL through Social Connector

By Manu Philip published on 06-06-2013

I have received a question on Exchange 2013 about the syncing of personal contacts in Outlook on GAL. For example, a user that has their own personal….(more)

Things to Know before you Upgrade to Windows 8.1

By Nirmal T V published on 06-06-2013

Windows 8.1 will deliver improvements and enhancements in key areas like personalization, search, the built-in apps, Windows Store experience, and….(more)

Office 2013

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Views

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 06-06-2013

Your slides remain the same -- yet exploring the same slides using a different view makes sense, depending upon the tasks….(more)

Blog Posts of the Week (26th May'13 - 01st June'13)

2013-06-03T11:58:38Z

Developers

Protecting your Azure Blob Storage Items using Shared Access Signatures

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 05-28-2013

Share Access Signatures are conceptually similar to OAuth access tokens. A common example to explain the scenario is having a padlock….(more)

Windows Authentication in MVC4 with IIS Express

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 05-29-2013

MVC4 gone through some major changes in Windows Authentication functionality with IIS Express. In this article you will learn how to enable Windows Authentication….(more)

Edge.js - Running Node.js and .NET in One Process

By Shiju Varghese published on 05-29-2013

C# is the most powerful static type programming language which can be used for developing wide variety of applications. Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform….(more)

How to auto publish a website each time a #TFS build succeeds?

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 05-31-2013

You might have already created the build definition in your TFS server for either manual or automated build (compilation of your source code) and to reduce your effort of deployment, now you want to automate….(more)

Kill all processes by database name instead of spid

By Raghav Khunger published on 05-31-2013

How often you have to kill processes of a database and run "sp_who2" command and then "kill <spid>" to kill each processes? This is a tedious task. I have written a Stored procedure….(more)

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Step By Step Hiding Ribbon Button in MS CRM 2011 Part1

By Mahender Pal published on 05-26-2013

Sometime there some system ribbon button which is not required by our client, so if we need to hide them we have two….(more)

How To Automatically Preview Songs In WMP12

By Soumitra Sengupta published on 05-28-2013

Open Windows Media Player in Library mode….(more)

Rebuild the Full-Text Index Catalog of Exchange Database

By Manu Philip published on 05-30-2013

Recently, I have noticed one issue showing ‘Database Content Index State: FailedAndSuspended’….(more)

What to Look for in Windows 8.1

By Nirmal T V published on 05-30-2013

Windows 8.1 will deliver improvements and enhancements in key areas like personalization, search, the built-in apps, Windows Store experience….(more)

Exchange 2013 Public Folders – A step toward high availability & moving to Sharepoint

By Prabhat Nigam published on 05-31-2013

Public Folder which has always been hard to troubleshoot or you have problems in adding the replica or one of the subfolder you missed to replicate and other country office reporting….(more)

Big Data, NoSQL and MapReduce

By Niraj Bhatt published on 05-31-2013

As name suggests Big Data is about huge and fast growing data, though how huge and how fast is left to one’s discretion. Big Data initially attributed to search….(more)

Third party content-The paradoxes of the web

By Krishna Chaitanya published on 05-31-2013

When the World Wide Web started, it was just a bunch of static HTML pages which are interconnected by hyperlinks. More importantly, each website had content….(more)

Unable to send Links via Lync or OCS

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 06-01-2013

When you Lync Server configuration not allowing the hyperlink including http, https, www sharing through Instant Messaging or….(more)

Office 2013

Attributing Creative Commons Pictures in your PowerPoint Slides

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 05-27-2013

First let us decide what exactly the attribution statement should contain – we will base our example attribution statement on content….(more)

Blog Posts of the Week (19th - 25th May 2013)

2013-05-27T10:12:05Z

Developers

Add heading and link to SharePoint Global Navigation through Powershell

By Sundararajan Narasiman published on 05-19-2013

I was wondering whether there is a way to add the heading and link to the Top Navigation of SharePoint site using PowerShell Script. It is feasible, here is the full workable script….(more)

Inject Controller Libraries Dynamically at Runtime in ASP.NET Web API using Custom Assembly Resolvers

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 05-20-2013

An introduction to Web API’s Custom Assembly Resolver feature that enables you to add Controller libraries dynamically at run time. To add some….(more)

Basics of Caliburn Micro in WPF mvvm–Part II Binding

By Amit Choudhary published on 05-20-2013

Now in this part we’ll see how to start creating new pages in the application and how the binding and events are being defined….(more)

How to create custom XMLNS namespaces to keep your XAML clean?

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 05-20-2013

XAML namespace is an extension of XML namespace and conventionally written as “xmlns” in XAML pages. We use it on all XAML pages in….(more)

Replace line breaks in C#

By Jalpesh Vadgama published on 05-22-2013

In recent days I was working on a project want to replace \r\n to a new character but it was giving very strange behaviour. It was not replacing….(more)

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Personal Identification Number (PIN) A phone number has not been configured for you. Please contact your support team with this information

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 05-20-2013

To setup PIN for Lync online Meeting, client must have Phone number updated on Active Director and in Lync account….(more)

Detail Map feature of Maplytics

By Roohi Shaikh published on 05-20-2013

This blog will demonstrate a very useful feature of our product Maplytics, called “Detail Map”. Through Detail Map you will be able to plot any entity records on the map….(more)

Enable F8 key & Safe Mode in Windows 8

By Anand Khanse published on 05-20-2013

Microsoft has reduced the time-periods for F2 and F8 keys to almost near-nil intervals – less than 200 milliseconds if you want to know – as a result of which the chances….(more)

Windows could not start the SharePoint 2010 administration service on local computer

By Amol Ghuge published on 05-21-2013

Tried starting the service by means of farm account in the services console with respect to the server where it was failing but got the error message….(more)

System returns an error message when you try to Select/Enter Role center ID in New Profile Card page NAV2013

By Mohana Krishna published on 05-21-2013

System returns an error message when you try to Select/Enter Role center ID in New Profile Card page. The problem happens because in localization databases….(more)

Error “Applying template "BICenterSite#0" to web at URL “when trying to create a Business Intelligence Center site

By Amardeep Singh published on 05-22-2013

According to the error in the ULS Logs message, it seems that issue was caused by some features not activated. So tried to activate….(more)

Exchange 2013 CAS Role Demystified

By Ratish Nair published on 05-22-2013

Even though the client access server roles where very much present in the exchange 2010 and exchange 2007, it has been transformed a lot in the latest exchange release. Exchange 2013 CAS role consists….(more)

Fixing Windows Media Player cannot rip one or more tracks from the CD error

By Soumitra Sengupta published on 05-23-2013

Any time that I try to rip any CD on my laptop I get a message that “Windows Media Player cannot rip one or more tracks….(more)

Office 2013

Create a Pivot Table from multiple individual ranges without using ancillary columns

By Ashish Mathur published on 05-21-2013

To use this PowerPivot solution, you need to be using the PowerPivot add-in for….(more)

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Eyedropper Option

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 05-23-2013

Although PowerPoint lets you choose almost any color you want, it is often difficult to choose the same color as a picture on the….(more)

Blog Posts of the Week (12th - 18th May 2013)

2013-05-20T10:09:42Z

Developers

Windows Azure SDK 2.0 For .Net – Taking A Second Look At Windows Azure Diagnostics

By Gaurav Mantri published on 05-12-2013

In this post, we’ll talk about WAD in more details. We’ll talk about improvements in SDK as well as changes in the….(more)

Consuming Windows Azure Mobile Services REST API from ASP.NET Web API App

By Shiju Varghese published on 05-12-2013

Windows Azure Mobile Services lets the developers to use structured storage, user authentication and push notifications….(more)

Method Overloading in WCF: WCF Interview Series #1

By Dhananjay Kumar published on 05-13-2013

Method or Operation overloading is one of the most important feature of OOPS. In programming languages like….(more)

Retrieve crm users based on Team

By Mahender Pal published on 05-14-2013

If you are looking to get all crm users based on the teamid then….(more)

Hosting your ASP.NET Web API Services without IIS

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 05-18-2013

This article gives us an overview of how to host Web API services without IIS using it’s built in Self Hosting….(more)

IT PRO

Deletion of Subsite, Site Collection, Document Library, SharePoint List- SharePoint 2010

By Amol Ghuge published on 05-12-2013

GUI mode will be the easiest mode to do any functional activities associated with them. In this article….(more)

How to display picture on Lync without Ad?

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 05-12-2013

Recently I have received many queries regarding picture on Lync client. Actually people want to display picture on….(more)

Bug Check 0×116: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR Troubleshooting Tips

By Shyam Sasindran published on 05-12-2013

Bug Check 0×116: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR mostly happen due to Graphics card or display card related issues. So first….(more)

Bing Maps for pre Polaris install

By Roohi Shaikh published on 05-13-2013

Polaris form provide a feature of Bing Maps that shows Map on an Individual entity record. This is a feature available in Polaris but….(more)

How to use Order by MONTH name of data type CHAR/VARCHAR in SQL

By Asheej T K published on 05-14-2013

The reason why the programmer required this option is he/she is storing Data, month and year in 3 different fields in the database….(more)

Business Intelligence Center site template missing: SharePoint 2010

By Amardeep Singh published on 05-15-2013

After spending allot of time understanding the Performance Point Service and its functions as per the links given….(more)

Windows.edb file in Windows 8

By Anand Khanse published on 05-15-2013

The Windows.edb is a database file of the Windows Search service, which provides content indexing, property caching, and search results….(more)

Office 2013

How to transpose a values in a row to column using formulas

By Purnachandra Duggirala published on 05-14-2013

When entering data for credit cards, I use one column per card. But in my report view, I want to show credit card details in rows….(more)

Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Word 2013

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 05-15-2013

An outline encompasses the text content within your presentation slides. In some ways, this text is the story of your presentation….(more)

Blog Posts of the Week (5th - 11th May 2013)

2013-05-13T12:49:50Z

Developers

Continuous Deployment from Source Control to Windows Azure Web Sites using Local Git Repository

By Shravan Kasagoni published on 05-05-2013

In this article I am going to discuss about continuous deployment from source control to windows azure web sites using….(more)

Windows Azure Cloud Services, Extensions and Service Management API – Fun with Remote Desktop

By Gaurav Mantri published on 05-06-2013

Fire up Visual Studio, create a simple Windows Azure Cloud Service and then without making any changes….(more)

Unobtrusive validations in ASP.Net 4.5 Web Forms

By Jalpesh Vadgama published on 05-06-2013

With the release of ASP.Net 4.5 web forms there are tons of features added in the ASP.Net and Unobtrusive validations support….(more)

File Upload and Download to Azure Blob Storage

By Rami Vemula published on 05-10-2013

In this tutorial we will see how to upload and download a file to Azure Blob storage. Azure blob storage is a service which can be used to save any unstructured….(more)

Uploading Multiple Files in Chunks from ASP.NET MVC app to Azure Blob Storage

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 05-10-2013

Demo showing how to send files ‘chunked’ to an ASP.NET MVC Web Application which in turn stores the files in Azure Blob storage….(more)

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Enable-CsUser: Specified SIP domain is not vaild. Specify a valid SIP domain and then try again

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 05-05-2013

While using “Enable-CsUser” cmdlet peoples are getting above error message. Error message itself stated….(more)

Checking database access rights for a user in a sqlserver instance

By Visakh Murukesan published on 05-05-2013

There was a recent requirement in one of my projects to check the access for particular user in all the databases….(more)

Fix: Bluetooth Mouse disconnects randomly in Windows

By Shyam Sasindran published on 05-06-2013

One of the common issues which users, including myself, face is that the Bluetooth mouse gets disconnected randomly….(more)

How to turn off Media Streaming for Guest Account

By Soumitra Sengupta published on 05-08-2013

My Guest Account still shows up as streaming media from my PlayStation 3. If I disable the account….(more)

Problem Importing UR12 customizations with Web Resources added in a Pre-UR12 environment

By Roohi Shaikh published on 05-08-2013

With UR12 Microsoft included new fields and dependencies that prevents us from importing a solution exported out of a UR12/Polaris environment….(more)

The file that you are trying to use is too large Error message while Importing

By Mohana Krishna published on 05-09-2013

I have created a XMLPort to import data from a CSV file(comma-separated values) which is 36MB file….(more)

How to perform patching for Exchange 2010 in DAG Environment

By Prabhat Nigam published on 05-10-2013

Windows and Exchange Application patching is an important regular requirement for the any Environment and this also requires….(more)

Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 Interoperability

By Ratish Nair published on 05-10-2013

Lync is gaining more popularity than ever and Microsoft’s made great efforts for seamless Interoperability between Microsoft Lync and….(more)

Fix : Stop error 0x000000A0 after resuming from hibernate in Windows 8

By Shantanu Kaushik published on 05-11-2013

After reading this post you will be able to fix an issue with your Windows 8 PC, where, when you resume your computer from hibernate power state….(more)

Office 2013

How to create a column chart with background image in Excel ?

By Purnachandra Duggirala published on 05-06-2013

In your data, add a column which gives the difference between column values & axis maximum. For our test data….(more)

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Working with Guides

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 05-09-2013

Consider Guides as a Grid on your slide that you create -- each single Guide can be moved, added, or deleted. Guides also have snap options….(more)

Blog Posts of the Week (28th Apr'13 - 04th May'13)

2013-05-07T11:26:06Z

Developers

Loading the partial views using Ajax for Beginners

By Brij Mishra published on 04-28-2013

So as I worked on a POC using with ASP.NET MVC initial version long back so I was excited working on it. I had to display multiple user controls….(more)

Attribute based routing in ASP.Net Web API

By Rami Vemula published on 04-28-2013

Most of us already knew the traditional routing concepts in Web API which we configure in WebApiConfig file. This approach solves most of the basic routing problems….(more)

Understanding JavaScript Closures

By Vasu Jain published on 04-28-2013

Javascript closures are considered an advanced topic in Javascript and understanding closures is essential to….(more)

Introducing Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .Net

By Gaurav Mantri published on 04-30-2013

Windows Azure Diagnostics (WAD) is a crucial part of any cloud service deployment and unfortunately it was really tough to get diagnostics working….(more)

Sending and Receiving Messages in Windows Azure Storage Queue with JavaScript Serializer

By Shiju Varghese published on 04-30-2013

In this blog post, I will demonstrate sample code for sending and receiving messages in Windows Azure Storage Queue….(more)

Web Sites in Perspective of Windows Azure

By Shravan Kasagoni published on 05-01-2013

Web Sites is the higher level of abstraction, most simplest way to host applications on Windows Azure. If we use Windows Azure Web Sites….(more)

How to batch clean up the Visual Studio solution folder? (bin, obj etc.)

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 05-01-2013

Sometime the Visual Studio’s clean project command does not return as expected and maximum time people used to manually delete….(more)

Message Box Viewer (MBV) Integration with BizTalk 360 v6.0

By Rohit Sharma published on 05-02-2013

Leaving Execute(Kovai.BizTalk360.InfoTrack.ActivitiesImpl.MBVSvc.MBVActivityImpl). Fatal exception in generating Message Box Viewer Reports….(more)

Server.Map alternative in WCF - HostingEnvironment.MapPath

By Jalpesh Vadgama published on 05-03-2013

If you are ASP.NET programmer then you already know about Server.MapPath. It is used to map….(more)

Preventing CSRF Hacks in ASP.NET WebAPI

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 05-03-2013

Use ASP.NET MVC's AntiResourceForgery token mechanism and extend it to Web API via a delegating handler….(more)

Programmatically executing packages in SSIS 2012 project deployment model

By Visakh Murukesan published on 04-28-2013

The usual way to execute SSIS packages programmatically was by invoking Dtexec utility until SQL 2012. With the arrival of project deployment….(more)

SSIS Dynamic Flat File Connection

By Joydeep Das published on 05-01-2013

Think about a situation where we have a folder and a text file is copied in that folder every day and we have to load the text file….(more)

SQL Server NTILE Function

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 05-01-2013

The SQL Server NTILE() function divides the result set into a specified number of even sized group….(more)

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Create New Mailbox Database in Exchange 2013 CU1

By Prabhat Nigam published on 04-29-2013

Due to the changes in Exchange 2013 CU1 there is a task addition which needs planning before the creation of the new DATABASE….(more)

Repair Master Boot Record in Windows 8 | 7

By Shyam Sasindran published on 04-29-2013

One of the effective troubleshooting steps, to fix boot issues is to repair Master Boot Record, or MBR. One of the common reasons….(more)

You cannot sign in to Microsoft Lync 2010 using the version installed. Do you want to download the currently support version?

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 04-30-2013

This issue occurs because Lync 2010 incorrectly handles the web ticket that is issued by the Lync Server 2010 front-end server….(more)

Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013

By Mohana Krishna published on 04-30-2013

The Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is a tool for identifying issues that can prevent you from successfully deploying a three-tier environment….(more)

Office 2013

Share PowerPoint Presentations on Social Sites (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn) using SkyDrive

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 05-04-2013

Lately, Microsoft has been providing many options for sharing Microsoft Office documents online -- previously we showed how you can share….(more)

Blog Posts of the Week (21st - 27th April 2013)

2013-04-29T14:58:00Z

Developers

Populate Selected Item in DropDownList in Edit Mode MVC

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 04-21-2013

I am going to show you the best possible way to achieve this using Code First approach. Here is what we are going to….(more)

Server.MapPath variations

By Jalpesh Vadgama published on 04-21-2013

Those are working on in web technologies like ASP.Net and ASP are already familiar with….(more)

WinJS.Binding.optimizeBindingReferences for Windows 8 App

By Vasu Jain published on 04-21-2013

The Optimized Binding References test detected the following errors: Impact if not fixed: When using bindings, WinJS.Binding.optimizeBindingReferences….(more)

Error: Schema referenced by Map has been deleted. The local, cached version of the BizTalk Server group configuration is out of date.

By Rohit Sharma published on 04-22-2013

Schema referenced by Map '<Namespace>.<MappName>' has been deleted. The local, cached version of the BizTalk Server group….(more)

Building Windows Azure Cloud Services App with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus

By Shiju Varghese published on 04-22-2013

Windows Azure Cloud Services, provides a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for building multi-tier, highly scalable….(more)

Solved Exception in Passing Relative URI to Windows Runtime

By Dhananjay Kumar published on 04-22-2013

While working today on a Windows Store Application I had a requirement to work with URI. Business class was….(more)

Add heading and link to SharePoint left navigation through powershell

By Sundararajan Narasiman published on 04-25-2013

I was wondering whether there is a way to add the heading and link to the left navigation of a SharePoint site using Powershell script….(more)

Lifecycle of an ASP.NET Web API Message

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 04-27-2013

ASP.NET Web API, as we know now, is a framework that helps build Services over HTTP. Web API was introduced as a lightweight service….(more)

IT PRO

How to overwrite or disable the List View Threshold value for particular list in SharePoint 2010 Using PowerShell

By Amol Ghuge published on 04-22-2013

If you want to overwrite or disable the threshold limit of List View items for particular list then execute the following cmdlets….(more)

Exchange Server transport: Shadow Redundancy, Bifurcation and Duplicate detection

By Ratish Nair published on 04-22-2013

Introduced for the first time in Exchange 2010, Shadow Redundancy is a feature that provides redundancy for messages so long as they are….(more)

Lagged Mailbox Database Copy-Exchange 2013 Enhancements

By Manu Philip published on 04-23-2013

A Lagged Mailbox Database Copy is a mailbox database copy configured with a replay lag time value greater than….(more)

Show Calendar in workplace post Polaris

By Roohi Shaikh published on 04-24-2013

This blog post addresses the way one can add Calendar on workplace which was previously available on CRM 2011. This can also be achieved….(more)

Office 2013

Select a large data set which has blank rows and columns without using the Shift and arrow keys

By Ashish Mathur published on 04-24-2013

Assume a large data set spanning many rows and columns. In the data set are entirely blank rows and….(more)

PowerPoint Friendly Audio Formats

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 04-27-2013

Different PowerPoint versions support a number of audio file formats – obviously, the new PowerPoint versions support a larger number….(more)

Blog Post of the Week (14th - 20th April 2013)

2013-04-26T04:18:45Z

Developers

Setting up Dependency Injection for ASP.Net Web API

By Rami Vemula published on 04-14-2013

We use Unity IoC container to achieve dependency injection for Web API. Create a ASP.Net MVC4 Project and its associated Class Library as shown….(more)

Host ASP.NET MVC Apps on Azure WebSite Without Spending a Cent on Databases

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 04-15-2013

Host an ASP.NET MVC Web Application on Azure Websites for free and use a SQL Backing Store that you are not paying for separately….(more)

Dynamically adding Cascading Style Sheets from within a Javascript file

By Vasu Jain published on 04-17-2013

In this post I will discuss how to add Cascading Style sheets pragmatically from a Javascript file….(more)

IT PRO

Multiple management objects were found for Identity. When enabling Lync users.

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 04-14-2013

Error itself says multiple management objects found means either Alias or first name / Last name same with….(more)

Start SSMS with a instance connected and logged in with a user at Windows Start

By Raghav Khunger published on 04-14-2013

Whenever I start my Windows. I open SSMS, select server, select user and database to connect to database. This process I have to do….(more)

Exchange 2013 Safety Net Vs Exchange 2010 Transport Dumpster

By Ratish Nair published on 04-15-2013

Safety net and transport dumpster are two features of Exchange 2013 and 2010 respectively. In fact, safety net is an improved version….(more)

Microsoft Silverlight Application Storage & Configuration Options

By Vasudev Gurumurthy published on 04-17-2013

Many of us have Microsoft Silverlight installed on our system, but we rarely make use of its configuration options. In this post we will see its configuration options….(more)

Fix : Media Player Server execution failed in Windows 8 , 7 , Vista, XP

By Shantanu Kaushik published on 04-17-2013

This post will help you fix an issue with your Windows PC, where you get an error “Server Execution failed” when trying to play….(more)

Public Folders Migration from Exchange 2007/2010 to Exchange 2013

By Prabhat Nigam published on 04-18-2013

Public Folders has been discussed before and after every new Exchange server release but there are many Microsoft customers who are using….(more)

Office 2013

The SharePoint Health Analyzer detected an error. One or more services have started or stopped unexpectedly

By Amol Ghuge published on 04-15-2013

To stop or start a service managed by SharePoint, use the SharePoint service management interface in the SharePoint Central Administration….(more)

Locate PowerPoint 2013

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 04-15-2013

You cannot locate PowerPoint 2013 on your computer? Or you are not sure if there are any other versions of PowerPoint on your computer….(more)

Determine cumulative expenses per employee when per diem rates vary by block of dates

By Ashish Mathur published on 04-16-2013

Assume per diem travel rates vary by block of dates (from and to). So, assume the per diem rate for travel dates between….(more)

Blog Post from the Week (7th - 13th April 2013)

2013-04-15T17:54:07Z

Developers

Nested Collection Models in MVC to Add Multiple Phone Numbers

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 04-10-2013

In this article (multi-part article) you will learn how to create MVC application that will allow adding multiple phone numbers….(more)

Getting CRM User Date and Time Format Setting in Silverlight Microsoft CRM 2011

By Mahender Pal published on 04-10-2013

If you are working with Silverlight web resource and you need to get current crm user date time format then you can query….(more)

Fetching Windows Azure Mobile Services Data in XAML based Windows Store Application

By Dhananjay Kumar published on 04-11-2013

In this post we will take a look on fetching records from table….(more)

Using async/await with Windows Azure Service Bus Client SDK

By Shiju Varghese published on 04-12-2013

The Windows Azure team has recently released Windows Azure Service Bus 2.0.0-beta which lets the Windows Azure developers to….(more)

Dependency Injection for Multiple Concrete Implementations of an Interface

By Rami Vemula published on 04-13-2013

Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control (IoC) are one of the key players in today’s web architectures. DI improves code reusability and guarantees loosely coupled systems….(more)

IT PRO

Exit code: ERROR_NO_DB_DRIVE_ACCESS (-42)

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 04-08-2013

While updating Lync Server 2010 Cumulative Update on SQL database you will see the above error. After updating Lync Server 2010….(more)

Using mouse efficiently

By Dr. Nitin Paranjape published on 04-08-2013

We have been using a mouse for decades. Now there is apparent competition from various touch devices….(more)

Looking for more real estate on Dynamics CRM page

By Roohi Shaikh published on 04-09-2013

This articles shows various ways in which you can increase the space on Microsoft Dynamics CRM home page….(more)

Windows Azure Primer–Basics

By Gaurav Mantri published on 04-12-2013

Through these series of blog posts I will try and explain Windows Azure as I understand it to users who are just starting out with….(more)

Developing a Responsive Web Design (RWD) layout

By Vasu Jain published on 04-13-2013

With the number of mobile devices and varied screen resolutions, there is a great need for a layout for….(more)

Office 2013

Summarise data from multiple sheets with multiple conditions

By Ashish Mathur published on 04-07-2013

Assume date wise revenue data has been shown on two sheets – Sports wear and Fitness equipment….(more)

Interactive USA Map Chart using X Y Scatter and Pie Chart

By Ashish Koul published on 04-08-2013

If you want to show pie images as markers on the map….(more)