TweetDeck: The Best of The Worst

Although I never liked Adobe AIR, TweetDeck on AIR was easily the best Twitter client for Windows.  After Twitter bought TweetDeck last May, the company began the process of replacing TweetDeck on AIR with TweetDeck on HTML5. Unfortunately, the new version of TweetDeck regressed in functionality.  At first I couldn’t believe Twitter would release...

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Microsoft Product Identification in SharePoint 2010

You can determine which Microsoft products (SKUs) are available in a SharePoint 2010 farm using the following GUID values.   Value Product 84902853-59F6-4B20-BC7C-DE4F419FEFAD Project Server 2010 Trial ED21638F-97FF-4A65-AD9B-6889B93065E2 Project Server 2010 BC4C1C97-9013-4033-A0DD-9DC9E6D6C887 Search Server 2010 Trial 08460AA2-A176-442C-BDCA-26928704D80B Search Server 2010 BEED1F75-C398-4447-AEF1-E66E1F0DF91E SharePoint Foundation 2010...

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Debugging .NET-based Windows Services

We haven’t needed to implement a Windows Service in a while, but certainly have experienced the pain of debugging them when run by Service Control Manager (SCM).  Here are a couple of links to good tools and discussion on the topic: Run Windows Service...

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Get-Sysinternals–Not for Windows Servers

I recently posted about Keeping SysInternals Up-To-Date. Since then I’ve had trouble getting it to work on any of our Windows Server machines.  I couldn’t find much info on this online, so maybe it’ll be helpful to raise the problem here. There is a...

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Keeping SysInternals Up-To-Date

Keeping SysInternals Up-To-Date

Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, has a good article on TechNet about automatically keeping your local SysInternals files up-to-date.  If you use the SysInternals tools, you know that they are updated fairly frequently – often due to suggestions from outside Microsoft.  If you aren’t...

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“A Pass on PaaS”–Strategy That Won’t Last

Meme Today I noticed a @CloudBlogs tweet along the lines of “Taking a Pass on PaaS.”  My first thought was, “That’s not a good idea!” Then I thought, “This must be a reverse psychology tweet crafted to make you take a look.”  So, in...

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