Author: devonenote

  • Install Remote Server Administration Tools on Windows 7 SP1

    Remote Server Administrator Tools (RSAT) is not compatible with Windows 7 SP1. If you install Remote Server Administration Tools on Windows 7 SP1 slipstreamed media, you will get following error. The update is not applicable to your computer That’s because current RSAT version only supports Windows 7 RTM. To workaround this issue, you can Install…

  • Configure WordPress to Use Proxy

    If you setup a WordPress site on a server in intranet behind a proxy, you might get following error when you search plugins and themes in admin console. An Unexpected HTTP Error occured during the API request. This is because WordPress does not know the proxy server to talk to external internet. To resolve this,…

  • WordPress Remove Admin Bar

      Admin bar is one of new features in WordPress 3.1. It’s automatically enabled for all logged-on user. To disable the admin bar in WordPress 3.1, append the following code into functions.php file, you can find function.php under the theme folder. remove_action( ‘init’, ‘wp_admin_bar_init’ );

  • Common TFS commands

    tf.exe is Team Foundation source control command-line tool which can be used to perform source control operations without GUI interaction. Here are some common tf commands I use in my daily work. You can run command tf /? to view more or visit MSDN TF Command Line Tool Reference Common tf commands sync Sync files…

  • How to debug msbuild issues

    To debug msbuild build failures, you can run following from VS command prompt to get more build log output msbuild /v:diag <solutionname> If you want to log messages for debug during build, you can use Message tasks. For example, use Message task inside a target <Target Name="DisplayMessages">   <Message Text="Project File Name = $(MSBuildProjectFile)" />…

  • Fix The Windows Search service is not installed error in Windows Server 2008 R2

    If you use Windows Server 2008 R2 as work station for daily work. You might notice that outlook search very slow. This is because by default Windows Search Service is not enabled on windows server 2008 R2.

  • OneNote for iPhone

    Earlier we mentioned that OneNote Sync is lived with SkyDrive. With SkyDrive people can save OneNote to SkyDrive directly and access it from any pc. But it used to impossible to access OneNote from iPhone due to technical safari limitations. Today Microsoft releases Official OneNote for mobile completely free for a limited time. Following are…

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 New Features

    Other than rolls up all previous released windows patches since RTM, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 contains two new features. Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX. Dynamic Memory Dynamic Memory is a memory management feature for Hyper-V VM administrators. Dynamic Memory allows administrator allocates a range of memory to indivual VMs and windows system will automatically adjust…

  • SQL Server Version History

    By default you can’t restore a sql backup that was taken from a higher version sql server. Otherwise you might get following error when doing restore. System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The database was backed up on a server running version 10.50.1600. That version is incompatible with this server, which is running version 10.00.2714. Either restore the database on…

  • Enable/Disable ipv6 in command line

    By default IPv6 is not enabled on windows XP Pro and Windows Server 2003. However, its very easy to enable IPv6 with netsh (net shell) command line tool. Enable ipv6 netsh interface ipv6 install Disable ipv6 netsh interface ipv6 uninstall To verify if ipv6 is enabled, run ipconfig /all and see if ipv6 address is…