So, I’ve been screwing around with the data view webpart a bit more and figured this bit of code I came up with would come in handy for others. What it does is compare two fields and if they match doesn’t show one of the fields. If they do match it shows the full date span of the two fields.
This post is nothing but a rant about how incredibly backwards update priority using Windows Updates is. I just did a fresh install of Vista x64 on my development machine yesterday, and I had it go ahead and download updates off of our local WSUS server. Now I’d personally expect Windows Update to go and install the Service Pack first, since all updates up to the point of SP1’s release are included in SP1. No, I’d be wrong. Instead it grabbed roughly 3.5GB of updates and addons (86 in total), none of which were the service pack. So I went and spent the next 3 hours letting those install. Reboot and run Windows Update again. 34 new updates show up, again, no service pack. I would just go onto the WSUS update share and grab the service pack there, rather than download the 700MB+ x64 edition service pack off of Microsoft’s website, but WSUS uses near random GUID’s for the filenames of every update rather than the KB# with version. So I’ve now spent about 4.5 hours waiting for windows to install updates and I haven’t even gotten to the service pack I wanted to start with!
Is it really so hard to give priority to roll-up packages and service packs?
I always like getting reminded why I’ve basically stopped bothering to submit bugs to Microsoft. Namely because they’re all closed with no real feedback or reason given. They also no longer typically give real builds of the software, rather they generally do forks for major milestones so a bug you submit may have been fixed in an interim build months ago. But below has to be one of the best responses I’ve ever gotten. Doing build to build upgrades of 2008 Beta (build 7000) to RC (7100) does not work. Nor does a domain upgrade from 2008 SP2 to 2008 R2 RC work either. But instead of testing or looking at the bug I submitted instead they sent me what you see below. I just absolutely love knowing precisely where testers stand.
Alright, I’ve gotten a lot of questions from people who aren’t familiar writing code on how to actually implement my active directory search web service I posted a long time ago. So here is a fully working sample. This is a self-contained ASP.NET 2.0 page that will search through the current domain it belongs too and return user’s FullName and Phone number as defined in there Active Directory profile. Only change that needs to be made is change:
So I saw this little gem on the Windows 7 Beta Program website. In previous builds there was a submit feedback tool, which while cumbersome and unwieldy worked and did what it was supposed. However in the RC they’ve disabled it out of box and instead expect all testers to follow this procedure when trying to help fix issues. Am I the only one that see’s this as a bit absurd? Further shows how Microsoft really feels about listening to feedback on there beta programs.
Just a quick little post about how to make Outlook display reminders automatically for a SharePoint calendar. I couldn’t find any documentation about doing this online but with a little digging I got it working by moving where Outlook places the shared calendar in it’s local folder tree over to the Calendar folder from the SharePoint Folders area.
So lately I’ve been getting reports of a recent update making it so outlook no longer handles MAILTO: links causing all sorts of confusion in other office programs so I cooked up a little registry file that seems to fix it. This registry file is for office 2003 but changing OFFICE11 to OFFICE12 should make it work for office 2007 as well.
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