I was trying to install SP2 for Office 2010 Professional Plus on an older workstation. The installer was asking for the location of ProPlusrWW.msi – for some reason, the MSOCACHE folder was missing.
Resolution:
Copy all files from office 2010 setup disk
D:\Ms_Office_Catalog\ProPlus.WW\
to folder
C:\MSOCache\All Users\{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}-C\
and rerun update.
http://www.pallareviews.com/2657/office-2010-sp2-update-kb2687455-fails/
The following post is a useful guide on how to modify a Boot-to-VHD image to work in Hyper-V:
From the command prompt, enter the following commands:
DiskPart
select vdisk file=C:\<VHDFILENAME>.VHD
attach vdisk
select part 1
active
assign letter=Z
exit
Z:
cd Z:\Windows\System32
BCDboot.exe Z:\Windows /s Z:\
BCDedit /store Z:\boot\BCD /set {bootmgr} device boot
BCDedit /store Z:\boot\BCD /set {default} device boot
BCDedit /store Z:\boot\BCD /set {default} osdevice boot
C:
Diskpart
select vdisk file=C:\<VHDFILENAME>.VHD
detach vdisk
exit
I purchased two WD My Passport portable external hard drives recently. When I connected both of them to my computer, only one would show up as a drive.
Looking in Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management, the 2nd drive was shown as offline due to a signature collision. These are the steps I used to fix this problem.
I recently had a problem with updating apps from the Windows Store on a new laptop. They would end up stuck in a Pending state. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app but they still ended up in the same Pending state.
I resolved the problem using the following steps:
Open a Command Prompt as an Administrator
(Go to the Start screen, type "cmd", right-click on Command Prompt and hit "Run as administrator")
Run the following four commands in the command prompt:
net stop wuauserv
cd %systemroot%
ren SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
net start wuauserv
BizTalk is optimized for throughput, not latency, by default. If you have low volume and want to speed up processing of individual messages, the following settings have helped one of my clients improve how long it took to run a message through BizTalk from several seconds to under a second:
· To decrease HTTP request-response latency, define a DWORD registry key named HttpBatchSize and set the value to 1. Create this registry key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BTSSvc.3.0\HttpReceive folder.
This setting specifies the batch size that the HTTP receive adapter uses to submit requests to BizTalk Server. Ordinarily, the HTTP receive adapter waits to accumulate multiple messages to submit at once. It submits messages to BizTalk Server when the maximum batch size is reached, or at the preset waiting time periods. Setting the HttpBatchSize value to 1 causes the HTTP receive adapter to submit messages as soon as they are received.
· To decrease end-to-end latency, reduce the MaxReceiveInterval value in the adm_ServiceClass table of the BizTalkMgmtDb database from the default value of 500 to a value less than 100 (or any positive integer) for the following service classes:
· XLANG/s
· Messaging In-Process
· Messaging Isolated
These settings specify the maximum polling interval (in milliseconds) at which the messaging agent polls the message box. Microsoft does not support the direct modification of these values; you must use the tool at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=30076
The tool mentioned in the 2nd bullet item only lets you decrease the MaxReceiveInterval to 100. To decrease it to 50, you will need to run the following SQL command:
use BizTalkMgmtDBReading the information above, you might wonder why this wasn't set this way from the beginning. I found a web page where Scott Woodgate says...
go
update adm_serviceclass set maxreceiveInterval = 50 where id IN (1,2,3,4)
go
so it seems the default settings are configured to process batches of messages, not blazing fast responses to single messagesTuning for Low Latency
It is possible to get sub-second transactions. BizTalk is built for throughput and not latency. At 50-60% CPU utilization, latency goes through the roof. If you can aim for 30-50% CPU utilization you can still attain low-latency.
The MaxReceiveInterval setting controls the latency of each message and HttpBatchSize can be set to 1 to guarantee each message gets processed as it comes in. Lastly, PollingInterval can set to 50-100ms to force frequent polling of the message box to achieve low latency.
Helping out an old friend and former co-worker, we ran into an issue where he was unable to save anything in session state between requests in ASP.NET.
Well, we eventually figured out the issue - his server had an underscore in the name....
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;316112
PRB: Session Variables Do Not Persist Between Requests After You Install Internet Explorer Security Patch MS01-055
After you install security patch MS01-055 for Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6.0, you may encounter the following problems:Note These problems can also occur after you install a more recent patch that includes the fix that is provided in security patch MS01-055.
• Session variables are lost. • Session state is not maintained between requests. • Cookies are not set on the client system. CAUSE
Security patch MS01-055 prevents servers with improper name syntax from setting cookies names. Domains that use cookies must use only alphanumeric characters ("-" or ".") in the domain name and the server name. Internet Explorer blocks cookies from a server if the server name contains other characters, such as an underscore character ("_").
Because ASP session state and session variables rely on cookies to function, ASP cannot maintain session state between requests if cookies cannot be set on the client.
This issue can also be caused by an incorrect name syntax in a host header.
One issue that a web developer may run into is how to toggle hiding/showing a row in an HTML table using JavaScript that works in both sets of browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla/FireFox/Netscape. In IE, you can set the style.display to "none" for the row, but this doesn't work in Mozilla.
One approach that woks in both browsers is to dynamically assign the class for the row using the following css styles:
<style>
.hide {display: none;}
.show {display: table-row;}
</style>
And here is the entire html for a test page that demonstrates using this approach....
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Hiding tables rows in IE and Mozilla!</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1">
<meta name="vs_targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5">
<style>
.hide {display: none;}
.show {display: table-row;}
</style>
<script>
var myBody;
function start() {
// get a list of all the body elements (there will only be one)
myDocumentElements=document.getElementsByTagName("body");
// the body element itself is the first item of the list
myBody=myDocumentElements.item(0);
}
function hideRow() {
mytable=myBody.getElementsByTagName("table").item(0);
mytablebody=mytable.getElementsByTagName("tbody").item(0);
myrow=mytablebody.getElementsByTagName("tr").item(0);
myrow.className="hide";
}
function showRow() {
mytable=myBody.getElementsByTagName("table").item(0);
mytablebody=mytable.getElementsByTagName("tbody").item(0);
myrow=mytablebody.getElementsByTagName("tr").item(0);
myrow.className="show";
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="start()">
<P>Hiding tables rows in IE and Mozilla!</P>
<TABLE border="5" ID="Table1" >
<tbody>
<tr >
<td >cell is row 0 column 0 </td>
<td >cell is row 0 column 1 </td>
</tr>
<tr >
<td >cell is row 1 column 0 </td>
<td >cell is row 1 column 1 </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</TABLE>
<BR>
<INPUT id="cmdHide" type="button" value="Hide Table Row" name="cmdHide" onclick="hideRow()">
<INPUT id="cmdShow" type="button" value="Show Table Row" name="cmdShow" onclick="showRow()">
</body>
</html>
Here are the steps to set SOAP headers in a web service request using BizTalk Server 2004 (BTS).
1. Make sure your web reference in your BTS project is up to date.
2. Open the Reference.xsd for the wsdl of the web service. Look for the name of the root node for their Soap Header. Here is the example I'm using...
<soap:Header>
<AuthenticationHeader xmlns="http://www.acme.com/WebService/">
<strUserName>string</UserName>
<strPassword>string</Password>
</AuthenticationHeader>
</soap:Header>
3. Copy the name. Close the file.
4. Create a new item for the BTS project. Select "Property Schema" NOT the regular schema.
- In the properties for <schema>,
Change the target NameSpace to http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/SOAPHeader
- In the properties for the root node,
Rename the root node the same as the one is step 2 ("AuthenticationHeader")
Change the Property Schema Base drop-down to "MessageContextPropertyBase"
5. Save the file as "SoapHeader.xsd" and Close the file. (Update: It doesn't matter what the name is as long as the TYPE NAME property of the xsd file is not the same as the root node name. Otherwise, you'll run into a compilation error)
6. Go to your orchestration. There should be a Construct Message shape that creates the web service request. There should be a shape inside of it - either a Transform or a Message Assignment.
If it is a Transform, add a Message Assignment below that in the SAME Construct Message shape.
If it is a Message Assignment, do nothing as we will reuse the existing one.
7. Edit the Message Assignment from step 6 and add the following as one line....
SampleWS_Request_Msg(MyBizTalkProject.AuthenticationHeader) =
"<ns0:AuthenticationHeader xmlns:ns0=\"http://www.acme.com/WebService/\">
<ns0:UserName>MyName</ns0:UserName>
<ns0:Password>NotSoSecretPassword</ns0:Password>
</ns0:AuthenticationHeader>";
Where
- "SampleWS_Request_Msg" is the message variable name in the Orchestration for the external web service.
- "MyBizTalkProject" is your project name
- "AuthenticationHeader" is the name of the property schema
Note: Once you type the message name and the first parentheses "SampleWS_Request_Msg(" an intellisense drop-down list appears and the property schema you are looking for should appear.
Note 2: There is another option to use an existing SOAP header from another message, but I had to use this approach as the incoming message was a Flat File.
Note 3: If you are using SOAP over standard HTTP, please keep in mind that the above message contents (including SOAP Header) can be clearly viewed by others monitoring internet traffic. I don't advocate this as a security measure - but since this is not my web service, I have to play along.
