Rahul's Blog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/feed.xml Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:26:37 GMT en-US hourly 1 Download our free Office 2013 Quick Start Guides https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/download-our-free-office-2013-quick-start-guides Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:28:37 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjohri/2013/02/04/download-our-free-office-2013-quick-start-guides/ Thinking about making the change to Office 2013?

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]]> Finally we have a Download Manager in IE!! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/finally-we-have-a-download-manager-in-ie Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:09:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjohri/2010/09/15/finally-we-have-a-download-manager-in-ie/ With the release of IE 9 beta, we release a much awaited feature in IE – Download Manager Open-mouthed smile..

Download Manager is a powerful new feature that keeps a running list of the files you download from the Internet and notifies you when a file could be malicious. It also lets you pause and restart a download—if you have a slow internet connection—and shows you where to find downloaded files on your computer

The other features included in the beta release are :

Go ahead and download your personal copy of the beta Open-mouthed smile from here.

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]]> Insufficient available memory to meet the expected demands of an operation at this time, possibly due to virtual address space fragmentation. https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/insufficient-available-memory-to-meet-the-expected-demands-of-an-operation-at-this-time-possibly-due-to-virtual-address-space-fragmentation Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:07:19 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjohri/2010/06/28/insufficient-available-memory-to-meet-the-expected-demands-of-an-operation-at-this-time-possibly-due-to-virtual-address-space-fragmentation/ Are you getting the above error while performing a cut or copy operation in your Visual Studio 2010. If “yes” , a patch has been released by the Visual Studio team which can help you fix the issue and is available here.

If you are interested to read more about the issue, you can refer to the Visual Studio Team blog here.

]]> Is my data secure on Azure?? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/is-my-data-secure-on-azure Wed, 05 May 2010 02:18:32 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjohri/2010/05/05/is-my-data-secure-on-azure/ Recently, I have been hearing lot of concerns from organizations regarding security of their data for the services hosted on Windows Azure. I would like to address the concern by providing some details regarding Security and regulatory compliance for Windows  Azure.

The security for Microsoft Cloud is managed by Online Services Security and Compliance team, which maintains the security control framework and develops policies and programs for ensuring compliance and managing security risks. The Microsoft cloud undergoes annual audits for PCI DSS, SOX and HIPAA compliance, as well as internal assessments throughout the year. The Microsoft cloud has obtained ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certification and SAS 70 Type 1 and II attestations.

For more details on Microsoft approach to cloud security , read on..

]]> Java supported on Windows Azure https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/java-supported-on-windows-azure Mon, 03 May 2010 01:18:19 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjohri/2010/05/03/java-supported-on-windows-azure/ Java) and development tools (Visual Studio or Eclipse), along with the interoperable approach, which does make it a strong contender in Java development niche market.

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]]> “Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read” https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/some-of-the-properties-associated-with-the-solution-could-not-be-read Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:29:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjohri/2010/03/11/some-of-the-properties-associated-with-the-solution-could-not-be-read/ One day I noticed that all of a sudden an message pops up with text “Some of the properties associated with the solution could not be read”,  when I try to open my project in Visual Studio 2008. I remember that I had changed some build settings at the solution level, but was not sure what this message was all about.

Tried binging for results and figured out that people have faced this issue in VS 2003 and VS 2005. I followed the discussion, which eventually lead to opening up the .sln file in a text editor and figuring out what has really changed. I noticed that under the “Global” section, we have “GlobalSection” section, which actually has the number of projects in the solution along with the .csproj information in it.  I was surprised to see that this section was repeated in my .sln file with different information (the SccNumberOfProjects attribute shows 68 at one place and 69 at other place). As I knew that my solution in fact had only 68 projects, I deleted the section with the incorrect information.  And that was it!!! . The error went away ..

]]> <project.dbproj> cannot be opened because its project type (.dbproj) is not supported by this version of the application. To open it, please use a version that supports this type of project. https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/project-dbproj-cannot-be-opened-because-its-project-type-dbproj-is-not-supported-by-this-version-of-the-application-to-open-it-please-use-a-version-that-supports-this-type-of-project Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:40:28 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjohri/2009/11/15/project-dbproj-cannot-be-opened-because-its-project-type-dbproj-is-not-supported-by-this-version-of-the-application-to-open-it-please-use-a-version-that-supports-this-type-of-project/ Recently, I saw this error while trying to open up a .dbproj project file on my Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite. I thought that team suite might support all the project types, but that was not the case. I tried to figure out what’s the issue here and figured out that we need to install “Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR” to get the .dbproj project support to Visual Studio.

You can download the VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR from here.

Please note: The database project is supported only in Team Suite and Database Edition on Visual Studio 2008.

]]> Microsoft My Phone Service https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/microsoft-my-phone-service Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:55:05 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjohri/2009/10/11/microsoft-my-phone-service/ Microsoft released Windows Mobile 6.5 last week.  With the release of 6.5, Microsoft also provided couple of new services namely Windows Marketplace for Mobile (With Windows Marketplace for Mobile you can find and download the latest apps for your phone) and Microsoft My Phone (Service to sync your phone and data to the web so it’s backed up and accessible).

The My Phone service provides some interesting features which can pretty useful. I have summarized some of the features as below:

  • Backup Phone content automatically to web
    • Information from your Windows Phone is backed-up to a password protected (Windows Live ID) site. In case you loose/ upgrade your phone you need not copy all contacts/messages from old phone to new, but you can just sync it with the web and your new phone is ready with all the required information.

 

  • Send Photos to your PC and Social Networking site
    • Most of us would have liked to click a photo from your mobile and upload it instantly to Facebook/Flickr/MySpace or Windows Live site. WM 6.5 provides this much awaited feature.

 

  • Finding your lost phone
    • The My Phone service can show you the last known location of your phone on a map (based on where it last synced or shared photos using My Phone).

 

  • Access Contacts/text message/appointment online
    • How many times have we lost charge on our phone/forgot phone in car and want to call a friend but does not have his/her contact number. As the My Phone Service syncs up all this information online, you can just view all the data online.

 

In case you want to know more follow the link.

]]> Disable or Enable Hibernation in Windows 7 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/disable-or-enable-hibernation-in-windows-7 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:33:55 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjohri/2009/10/11/disable-or-enable-hibernation-in-windows-7/ I was using the Beta version of Windows 7 from couple of months (upgraded to RTM couple of days back).

Recently I figured out that the space available on my C:\ drive was exhausting. I remembered the XP days, wherein I can go and delete the hibernation file from my system (using Disk Cleanup) and gain around 3-4 GB of space on my drive. So I ran Disk Clean and was surprised to see that we do not have the option for removing hibernate file from my system. I tried figuring out the file, but without any success.

Binged around on the web and figured out that we have a tool powercfg (was actually available from Vista/2003 timeframe)  for enabling/disabling hibernation in Window 7. The tool can be used to control power settings and configure computers to default to Hibernate or Standby modes. Thus you can use the following commands for enabling/disabling hibernation on Windows 7.

Enable hibernation

  • powercfg –h on

Disable hibernation

  • powercfg –h off

 

]]> A Bootable USB: Utility to Create Bootable USB Drive to Install Windows Vista, Server 2008 and 7 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/rjohri/a-bootable-usb-utility-to-create-bootable-usb-drive-to-install-windows-vista-server-2008-and-7 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:54:12 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjohri/2009/08/03/a-bootable-usb-utility-to-create-bootable-usb-drive-to-install-windows-vista-server-2008-and-7/ Imagine a situation where you need to install Windows Vista or 7 in a system but you don't have access to DVD drive. We all know Windows Vista, Server 2008 or 7 comes in DVDs and you'll need a DVD drive to install them. Then how will you install them? The solution is, you can create a bootable USB drive which can be used to install Windows without using DVD drive. Download it here.

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