After the announcement of the Azure Services platform at PDC 2008 in LA, James Conard and the Microsoft DPE Team has just released the Azure Services Training Kit. I’m proud to say that I was part of the team at Southworks who helped them achieving this amazing milestone The kit includes labs for: Windows... read more
Hi everyone, Johnny and I in conjunction with the SQL Server guys Zach, Anthony and Moe have been working hard towards tomorrow Tech Ed kick off. It’s all set and we are ready to go. During our rehearsals we’ve met some fellows around and bellow you’ll find some pictures: From left to right:... read more
Hi everyone, During the past two weeks I’ve been working in Microsoft Redmond getting ready for Tech Ed 2008. This was my first time in MS Corp. and it was an extremely valuable experience. This week I’ll be pretty busy attending Tech Ed 2008 as part of the SQL Booth staff with Johnny and Tim,... read more
Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team has just shipped a new version of their LitwareHR Sample Application. I’m proud to say that I was part of the team who helped them to achieve this amazing milestone Among other things, this release includes: You can download the sample application from Codeplex using this link. Eugenio Pace... read more
Last weekend I’ve been researching and learning about the new features in SQL Server 2008. I’ve focused my research on features like Sparse Columns and specially, Spatial Data. In this post you’ll find the results of my research with useful links and information. Note: By the time this was posted, SQL Server 2008 latest release... read more
If you need to change the proxy settings for the any of the system account like Network Service you can use the “bitsAdmin” command as shown in the following example: bitsAdmin /Util /SetIEProxy NETWORKSERVICE MANUAL_PROXY [myProxy]:[myPort] You can find the complete reference for this command at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa362813.aspx Thanks, Lito
Last week I faced an issue when trying to download a clickOnce application using IE7. After browsing the download link, IE did nothing but showed a blank page, or actually it got closed. Finally, I realized that this was caused because some security settings where missing. In order to workaround this, use the following steps:... read more
Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team has just shipped a new version of their LitwareHR Sample Application. I’m proud to say that I was part of the team who helped them to achieve this amazing milestone Among other things, this release includes: Upgraded platform to VS 2008 Beta 2 and Windows Server 2008 RC0 Upgraded codebase Simple... read more
When trying to install ADAM on Windows Server 2008 RC0 (aka Longhorn) Enterprise Edition, Build 6001, I faced the following error: After doing some research, and playing around with the installation, I found the following workaround: 1. Install ADAM on a non-Longhorn machine such as Windows Server 2003. 2. Copy the %WINDIR%\ADAM folder that is... read more
There are situations in which you might need to use or send a message in an orchestration within an exception handler block, but get a compiler error because the message was constructed in the associated scope outside the exception handler block. For example, consider the following orchestration: As you can see, I’m trying to send... read more
