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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…
TFS 2012–Features, Typical Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Hosting
TFS 2012 has a lot of new features to ; Adding project management features to make it a one-stop solution for larger projects, it now offers Agile and Scrum templates.…