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Roadmap for Windows Server Products
Windows Server Roadmap 1. Windows Server 2003 approaching end of support in July 2015. 2. Support for Windows Server 2008 ends in Jan 2020 SQL Server Roadmap 3. Support for…
Deleting a large number of pages in Microsoft word
What I wanted was to be able to select a few pages (say pages 1 through 3 – and DELETE everything ELSE – – INVERT The selection. Unfortunately, amongst all…
Create database permission denied in database master
First , login as an admin user- then try executing this script. USE master; EXECUTE sp_addsrvrolemember @loginame = N'MyWindowsDomain\MyUserName', @rolename = N'dbcreator'; If this doesn’t do it, find this LOGIN…
Google Business Email to get rid of spam on your custom domain email
With my own vanity domain name (), I had my own email address – and was happy until last year. Suddenly, the spam volume to my custom email account was…
asp.net 4.0 and 4.5.1 on IIS6 ( Windows Server 2003)
Two points to note: .NET runtime applications ARE supported on IIS (Windows Server 2003) . .NET appears as an extension in IIS ; You do need to ENABLE this extension.…
Tfs Server (2012 and above) installation and Configuration gotchas
Tfs requires SQL Server to be installed - and of late, it more or less mandates SQL Server Reporting Services be installed as well. I learnt this the hard way…
Sql versus NoSQL
This is a set of evolving thoughts and discoveries about NoSQL – when to use it – when not to… At a high level , the table shows the…
SOA Challenges–State Maintenance, Security
APIs Computer to computer interactions (see 2-way certificates for Web Service Security). APIs are tightly integrated into client code – Web Services work through a proxy – nothing from the…
Workaround for session fixation
Tomcat A new security feature for Apache Tomcat 7 is Session Fixation Protection. Essentially, when a user authenticates their session, Tomcat will change the session ID. It does not destroy…
WordPress – multiple wordpress user groups with their own Sandboxes ( multiple private blogs within a wordpress installation )
Here is a simple use case : You are building a community of users to do collaborative document editing ( create word, excel documents collaboratively – multiple authors can edit…