The latest and greatest code snippets, design ideas, and general ramblings from NerdyHearn based on programming and web design in C#, PHP, ASP.NET, jQuery and SharePoint. http://www.nerdyhearn.com Copyright 2003 - 2013 Thomas Hearn. All Rights Reserved. Nerdyhearnhttp://feedburner.google.com We've released our newest product: Active Directory Permission Compare. ADPC will allow developers and administrators to compare to Active Directory objects to determine differences in permissions (both inherited and explicit). We've set the price at $29.99 and we also lowered the price of Active Directory Object Compare to be the same for the time being. Happy AD Debuggin! The NerdyHearn Team...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/xa0Zgf9Fgfo" height="1" width="1"/> We've released our newest product: Active Directory Permission Compare. ADPC will allow developers and administrators to compare to Active Directory objects to determine differences in permissions (both inherited and explicit). We've set the price at $29.99 and we also lowered the price of Active Directory Object Compare to be the same for the time being. Happy AD Debuggin! The NerdyHearn Team... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/xa0Zgf9Fgfo/232 Tue, 12 March 2013 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/232 We have been writing some automated jobs at work to pull user data and compare against Active Directory using WCF services for SharePoint. The important part of working with Active Directory, is of course, the dreaded username (aka sAMAccountName). We noticed that when we pulled user information from a list, the ModifiedBy, CreatedBy, etc were all blank. They did, however, have a ModifiedById and CreatedById which was a single integer. As it turns out, there is a list in the DataContex...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/L0P5jcK_Rbo" height="1" width="1"/> We have been writing some automated jobs at work to pull user data and compare against Active Directory using WCF services for SharePoint. The important part of working with Active Directory, is of course, the dreaded username (aka sAMAccountName). We noticed that when we pulled user information from a list, the ModifiedBy, CreatedBy, etc were all blank. They did, however, have a ModifiedById and CreatedById which was a single integer. As it turns out, there is a list in the DataContex... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/L0P5jcK_Rbo/231 Mon, 4 March 2013 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/231 We have released a minor version release (4.2) of IPhone SMS To Gmail to fix a known bug in how Apple stores emoticon data in their backups, which was affecting some users and locking their program from continuing. This update is free for existing 4.X customers. Happy Backing! The NerdyHearn Team...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/r0X4PXYhW7M" height="1" width="1"/> We have released a minor version release (4.2) of IPhone SMS To Gmail to fix a known bug in how Apple stores emoticon data in their backups, which was affecting some users and locking their program from continuing. This update is free for existing 4.X customers. Happy Backing! The NerdyHearn Team... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/r0X4PXYhW7M/230 Mon, 18 February 2013 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/230 I was recently working on a client site and had developed a SharePoint MOSS 2007 application to iterate through some data on their local SharePoint installation. I had compiled and tested on a local environment of mine but when I went to run the application on their system I was receiving the error "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b)". After looking into a number of recommendations from Google I eventually ran out of options and decided to try compiling the applicatio...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/lG8y3bCz__c" height="1" width="1"/> I was recently working on a client site and had developed a SharePoint MOSS 2007 application to iterate through some data on their local SharePoint installation. I had compiled and tested on a local environment of mine but when I went to run the application on their system I was receiving the error "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b)". After looking into a number of recommendations from Google I eventually ran out of options and decided to try compiling the applicatio... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/lG8y3bCz__c/228 Fri, 28 December 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/228 I've been working on a client site for a few weeks and coming into the project they knew absolutely nothing about their current environment asides from the server name. This meant we didn't have the Farm admin password, and didn't have any current employees as farm or collection admins. To regain control of the environment I went through the following steps: 1. Reset the service account passwords by following the Microsoft KB article <a href=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934838">here</a> ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/Jd_VCNEoM0U" height="1" width="1"/> I've been working on a client site for a few weeks and coming into the project they knew absolutely nothing about their current environment asides from the server name. This meant we didn't have the Farm admin password, and didn't have any current employees as farm or collection admins. To regain control of the environment I went through the following steps: 1. Reset the service account passwords by following the Microsoft KB article <a href=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934838">here</a> ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/Jd_VCNEoM0U/229 Thu, 27 December 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/229 We recently had a user who was being constantly harassed by a particular number and requested that we block this number from calling. We didn't like the idea of having the phone company block the number as that is a permanent resolution and requires a lot more intervention on the services side. In doing our research there are 2 commonly-used methods to accomplish a block at the PBX level: 1. Create a VDN and read the ANI (if your CM supports this) and disconnect, or play a message to the us...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/zeZTlV4ORj0" height="1" width="1"/> We recently had a user who was being constantly harassed by a particular number and requested that we block this number from calling. We didn't like the idea of having the phone company block the number as that is a permanent resolution and requires a lot more intervention on the services side. In doing our research there are 2 commonly-used methods to accomplish a block at the PBX level: 1. Create a VDN and read the ANI (if your CM supports this) and disconnect, or play a message to the us... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/zeZTlV4ORj0/227 Wed, 31 October 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/227 A very quick post from us today on something which was extremely annoying. When trying to import into Office 365 from an Excel spreadsheet we were receiving the error "The specified file is not a valid spreadsheet or contains no data". The simple fix: Open up Internet Explorer Options, go to Security, Trusted Sites, and add the site to your trusted sites (you may have to un-check the SSL option). Restart your browser and try again: voila. 365in' Tom Out....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/3A5btL-pXwI" height="1" width="1"/> A very quick post from us today on something which was extremely annoying. When trying to import into Office 365 from an Excel spreadsheet we were receiving the error "The specified file is not a valid spreadsheet or contains no data". The simple fix: Open up Internet Explorer Options, go to Security, Trusted Sites, and add the site to your trusted sites (you may have to un-check the SSL option). Restart your browser and try again: voila. 365in' Tom Out.... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/3A5btL-pXwI/226 Wed, 24 October 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/226 Today we have released the latest and greatest version of IPhone SMS To Gmail. Among the many bug fixes, this update also includes full support for the newly-released iOS 6. Users who are not currently upgraded to iOS 6 should not upgrade to this version. We are releasing v4.0 at $9.99. This release was a large effort and essentially an application re-write as Apple drastically changed how their messages are stored in their latest iOS release. Happy Backing! Cheers, The NerdyHea...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/A8NSskN1zjA" height="1" width="1"/> Today we have released the latest and greatest version of IPhone SMS To Gmail. Among the many bug fixes, this update also includes full support for the newly-released iOS 6. Users who are not currently upgraded to iOS 6 should not upgrade to this version. We are releasing v4.0 at $9.99. This release was a large effort and essentially an application re-write as Apple drastically changed how their messages are stored in their latest iOS release. Happy Backing! Cheers, The NerdyHea... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/A8NSskN1zjA/225 Sun, 23 September 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/225 We are pleased to announce the release of our 1st Active Directory product: Active Directory Object Compare. This new application will allows IT administrators and developers alike to compare attribute values and entries between two different Active Directory objects, and even servers. This is perfect for administrators and developers trying to debug issues in program functionality and comparing the differences between two separate users. The program is available for a free trial with limite...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/_La2QEyciFY" height="1" width="1"/> We are pleased to announce the release of our 1st Active Directory product: Active Directory Object Compare. This new application will allows IT administrators and developers alike to compare attribute values and entries between two different Active Directory objects, and even servers. This is perfect for administrators and developers trying to debug issues in program functionality and comparing the differences between two separate users. The program is available for a free trial with limite... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/_La2QEyciFY/224 Sat, 18 August 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/224 We recently encountered an issue where we were running an application to export granular permissions using the SharePoint 2007 object model before migrating to SharePoint 2010. In order to verify we planned to run the application on SharePoint 2007 before migration, and later run the same program on SharePoint 2010 to run a WinDiff and make comparisons afterwards. The program is fairly basic and loops through the web apps and webs underneath each web app. The start of the program opens wi...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/c35UxVwIa0M" height="1" width="1"/> We recently encountered an issue where we were running an application to export granular permissions using the SharePoint 2007 object model before migrating to SharePoint 2010. In order to verify we planned to run the application on SharePoint 2007 before migration, and later run the same program on SharePoint 2010 to run a WinDiff and make comparisons afterwards. The program is fairly basic and loops through the web apps and webs underneath each web app. The start of the program opens wi... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/c35UxVwIa0M/222 Wed, 8 August 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/222 We recently encountered an interesting issue with OCS 2007 in which OCS was enabled with Remote Call Control (RCC) and was working for some users, but not working for others. When logging in and trying to call users integrated through OCS, our "broken" users would receive the error message "Cannot connect to the phone system". We are running OCS 2007 R2 and our phone system is integrated through an Avaya 8800 AES server through a direct connection (with no sip gateway in between). ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/4Oqi2K83rks" height="1" width="1"/> We recently encountered an interesting issue with OCS 2007 in which OCS was enabled with Remote Call Control (RCC) and was working for some users, but not working for others. When logging in and trying to call users integrated through OCS, our "broken" users would receive the error message "Cannot connect to the phone system". We are running OCS 2007 R2 and our phone system is integrated through an Avaya 8800 AES server through a direct connection (with no sip gateway in between). ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/4Oqi2K83rks/223 Mon, 6 August 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/223 Today we are very excited to announce the release of IPhone SMS To Gmail V3.0. Version 3 adds many bug fixes as well as a feature many users have been requesting since our original release: MMS message and iMessage attachments. All attachments included with any message to your IPhone will now be included with the text message during backup. V2.X users can upgrade for $4.99, new users can purchase V3 for $9.99. Thanks! The NerdyHearn Team...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/rDsB7b5zLlo" height="1" width="1"/> Today we are very excited to announce the release of IPhone SMS To Gmail V3.0. Version 3 adds many bug fixes as well as a feature many users have been requesting since our original release: MMS message and iMessage attachments. All attachments included with any message to your IPhone will now be included with the text message during backup. V2.X users can upgrade for $4.99, new users can purchase V3 for $9.99. Thanks! The NerdyHearn Team... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/rDsB7b5zLlo/221 Fri, 3 February 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/221 We are placing all of our products on sale today through the end of January for 50% off. Buy 1 for $4.99, 2 for $8.99, or all 3 for $11.99. This includes IPhone SMS To Gmail, IPhone Calls To Calendar, and IPhone Voicemail To Gmail. Happy Backing! Cheers, The Team at NerdyHearn...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/OVWa2PQE1jM" height="1" width="1"/> We are placing all of our products on sale today through the end of January for 50% off. Buy 1 for $4.99, 2 for $8.99, or all 3 for $11.99. This includes IPhone SMS To Gmail, IPhone Calls To Calendar, and IPhone Voicemail To Gmail. Happy Backing! Cheers, The Team at NerdyHearn... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/OVWa2PQE1jM/220 Fri, 20 January 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/220 We have released a new version of IPhone SMS To Gmail to address a bug with the proper year output while parsing the date of an iMessage. This bug did not affect pure SMS messages. Users of version 2.0 or greater will automatically be prompted to update their software. V1.X users will need to upgrade in order to receive these updates. Thanks! The NerdyHearn Team ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/-S3ArrqZOQc" height="1" width="1"/> We have released a new version of IPhone SMS To Gmail to address a bug with the proper year output while parsing the date of an iMessage. This bug did not affect pure SMS messages. Users of version 2.0 or greater will automatically be prompted to update their software. V1.X users will need to upgrade in order to receive these updates. Thanks! The NerdyHearn Team ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/-S3ArrqZOQc/219 Thu, 5 January 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/219 We have released an update to include timezone offsets for users of our IPhone Calls to Calendar application. For those of you who have already purchased the program this is classified as an optional update although we highly recommend that you do so. Happy New Years to all! Cheers, The NerdyHearn Team...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/qQIrBjXSyvc" height="1" width="1"/> We have released an update to include timezone offsets for users of our IPhone Calls to Calendar application. For those of you who have already purchased the program this is classified as an optional update although we highly recommend that you do so. Happy New Years to all! Cheers, The NerdyHearn Team... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/qQIrBjXSyvc/218 Mon, 2 January 2012 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/218 We are pleased to announce the release of our 3rd product based on the IPhone: IPhone Voicemail to Gmail. This new application will upload all of your backed up voicemail messages to a folder in Gmail to allow for lifetime archiving of your important voice messages. We are offering this product under our normal pricing structure for $9.99 for the individual product, $14.99 for the purchase of 2 products, and $19.99 for the purchase of all 3! Thank you all for your continued support! ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/NDg0cFj613I" height="1" width="1"/> We are pleased to announce the release of our 3rd product based on the IPhone: IPhone Voicemail to Gmail. This new application will upload all of your backed up voicemail messages to a folder in Gmail to allow for lifetime archiving of your important voice messages. We are offering this product under our normal pricing structure for $9.99 for the individual product, $14.99 for the purchase of 2 products, and $19.99 for the purchase of all 3! Thank you all for your continued support! ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/NDg0cFj613I/217 Sat, 12 November 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/217 We have released a new version of IPhone SMS To Gmail to address a new feature request as well as a few bug fixes: - Ability to ignore address book and use pure numbers (as V1.X behaved) - Bug fix for iChat messages when users do not have a phone number as an address (IPad and IPod where user IDs are not a phone number) - Bug fix for error message "Domain contains illegal character" Users of version 2 will automatically be prompted to update their software. V1.X users will need to upgrade...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/Bzx_r4hCVKM" height="1" width="1"/> We have released a new version of IPhone SMS To Gmail to address a new feature request as well as a few bug fixes: - Ability to ignore address book and use pure numbers (as V1.X behaved) - Bug fix for iChat messages when users do not have a phone number as an address (IPad and IPod where user IDs are not a phone number) - Bug fix for error message "Domain contains illegal character" Users of version 2 will automatically be prompted to update their software. V1.X users will need to upgrade... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/Bzx_r4hCVKM/216 Mon, 7 November 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/216 We are pleased to announce the first release of our brand new IPhone Calls to Calendar. This new product has a number of useful features for IPhone users: - Backup IPhone calls to Google Calendar - Includes start and end time of calls, as well as duration - Integrates with address book for names in Gmail and Google Apps - Will read all IPhone backups from a single run - Will distinguish between incoming, outgoing, and missed calls We have been overwhelmed by the demand for IPhone SMS ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/bfr2CD-v4S8" height="1" width="1"/> We are pleased to announce the first release of our brand new IPhone Calls to Calendar. This new product has a number of useful features for IPhone users: - Backup IPhone calls to Google Calendar - Includes start and end time of calls, as well as duration - Integrates with address book for names in Gmail and Google Apps - Will read all IPhone backups from a single run - Will distinguish between incoming, outgoing, and missed calls We have been overwhelmed by the demand for IPhone SMS ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/bfr2CD-v4S8/215 Sat, 5 November 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/215 In the spirit of the halloween season we've made a large number of upgrades and released v2.0 of IPhone SMS To Gmail. Among the new features are: - iChat support for iOS 5 - Users will now show up in Gmail as their true names if their number is in your address book - Bi-directional view (users now show as senders or receivers) - Ability to automatically mark messages read - Ability to reset your counter if you want to re-sync your entire SMS backup - A number of bug fixes. We've put ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/zDrOrZ-FCns" height="1" width="1"/> In the spirit of the halloween season we've made a large number of upgrades and released v2.0 of IPhone SMS To Gmail. Among the new features are: - iChat support for iOS 5 - Users will now show up in Gmail as their true names if their number is in your address book - Bi-directional view (users now show as senders or receivers) - Ability to automatically mark messages read - Ability to reset your counter if you want to re-sync your entire SMS backup - A number of bug fixes. We've put ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/zDrOrZ-FCns/214 Sat, 29 October 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/214 We have released an updated version of IPhone SMS To Gmail which makes the program compatible with iOS version 5. The new installer is available here: http://www.nerdyhearn.com/files/installers/IPhoneSMSToGmail.exe. Thank you all for your continued support! iOS5' Tom Out. ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/W3zW_8P7EZA" height="1" width="1"/> We have released an updated version of IPhone SMS To Gmail which makes the program compatible with iOS version 5. The new installer is available here: http://www.nerdyhearn.com/files/installers/IPhoneSMSToGmail.exe. Thank you all for your continued support! iOS5' Tom Out. ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/W3zW_8P7EZA/212 Sat, 15 October 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/212 I am proud to announce that IPhone SMS To Gmail now fully supports Mac OSX. Thank you to all of the users that have waited so patiently for this addition and our apologies it took so long. A number of interesting bugs and issues were discovered and they are now all fixed! You can download either version for Windows or Mac OSX <a href="http://www.nerdyhearn.com/smstogmail.php">here</a>. Cross Platformin' Tom Out....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/klKxoM29P4A" height="1" width="1"/> I am proud to announce that IPhone SMS To Gmail now fully supports Mac OSX. Thank you to all of the users that have waited so patiently for this addition and our apologies it took so long. A number of interesting bugs and issues were discovered and they are now all fixed! You can download either version for Windows or Mac OSX <a href="http://www.nerdyhearn.com/smstogmail.php">here</a>. Cross Platformin' Tom Out.... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/klKxoM29P4A/213 Sat, 15 October 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/213 I often find myself looking for the proper syntax while attempting to do a search and replace in MySQL, and figured that I would help out by posting the syntax for someone else in the same situation: UPDATE `schema`.`table` set column = replace(column, "find", "replace"); That syntax will find any values "find" within the schema and table, and replace them with "replace" A pretty short post but hopefully helpful to some of you out there. Replacin' Tom Out....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/qzhN53ChZk4" height="1" width="1"/> I often find myself looking for the proper syntax while attempting to do a search and replace in MySQL, and figured that I would help out by posting the syntax for someone else in the same situation: UPDATE `schema`.`table` set column = replace(column, "find", "replace"); That syntax will find any values "find" within the schema and table, and replace them with "replace" A pretty short post but hopefully helpful to some of you out there. Replacin' Tom Out.... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/qzhN53ChZk4/211 Sun, 9 October 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/211 We have released an updated version of IPhone SMS To Gmail with a number of bug fixes. The old program will not run unless you update with the new installer from http://www.nerdyhearn.com/files/installers/IPhoneSMSToGmail.exe. Please note for those of you who had previously backed up messages: We changed how the last backed up message is stored in order to allow users with multiple phone backups under a single profile to behave properly. ALL users will have their last message backed up r...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/HlQmM4nxwfQ" height="1" width="1"/> We have released an updated version of IPhone SMS To Gmail with a number of bug fixes. The old program will not run unless you update with the new installer from http://www.nerdyhearn.com/files/installers/IPhoneSMSToGmail.exe. Please note for those of you who had previously backed up messages: We changed how the last backed up message is stored in order to allow users with multiple phone backups under a single profile to behave properly. ALL users will have their last message backed up r... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/HlQmM4nxwfQ/210 Fri, 26 August 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/210 We have released an updated version of IPhone SMS To Gmail with a number of bug fixes. The old program will not run unless you update with the new installer from http://www.nerdyhearn.com/files/installers/IPhoneSMSToGmail.exe. Please note for those of you who had previously activated licenses: You will need to activate your license again. If you have lost or deleted the email please contact support and we'll be glad to send it to you again! Mac Users: A new zip file has been posted...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/ecC1_ZynRhw" height="1" width="1"/> We have released an updated version of IPhone SMS To Gmail with a number of bug fixes. The old program will not run unless you update with the new installer from http://www.nerdyhearn.com/files/installers/IPhoneSMSToGmail.exe. Please note for those of you who had previously activated licenses: You will need to activate your license again. If you have lost or deleted the email please contact support and we'll be glad to send it to you again! Mac Users: A new zip file has been posted... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/ecC1_ZynRhw/209 Sun, 14 August 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/209 First of all, for those of you that have been sending questions about when IPhoneSMSToGmail will be ready as well as those of you that have been helping with beta testing and sending files, thank you. I have been very humbled by the response of those interested and the amount you have all been willing to help in the testing process. I released the first version of IPhoneSMSToGmail almost a year ago and after Apple changed the format they used to store data I thought the project would die. I r...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/uyg0M9nyp4U" height="1" width="1"/> First of all, for those of you that have been sending questions about when IPhoneSMSToGmail will be ready as well as those of you that have been helping with beta testing and sending files, thank you. I have been very humbled by the response of those interested and the amount you have all been willing to help in the testing process. I released the first version of IPhoneSMSToGmail almost a year ago and after Apple changed the format they used to store data I thought the project would die. I r... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/uyg0M9nyp4U/208 Tue, 26 July 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/208 After a long time of not blogging I figured I would share my issue with a recent LastPass re-installation now that I have my new super nerdy machine. I installed LastPass as I have normally on the past 5 computers I've used, but for whatever reason Chrome wasn't like the recent install. I'm running Chrome on Windows 7 x64. I tried reinstalling a number of times, repairing, using different options, but the popup to install the extension was still not working. I ended up digging into the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/V0Bk03cS3MY" height="1" width="1"/> After a long time of not blogging I figured I would share my issue with a recent LastPass re-installation now that I have my new super nerdy machine. I installed LastPass as I have normally on the past 5 computers I've used, but for whatever reason Chrome wasn't like the recent install. I'm running Chrome on Windows 7 x64. I tried reinstalling a number of times, repairing, using different options, but the popup to install the extension was still not working. I ended up digging into the... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/V0Bk03cS3MY/207 Sun, 10 July 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/207 We have been working on resolving a faxing issue with our new Avaya system over the past 3 weeks which has been an interesting problem at best. We are running dual 8800 servers, with CM 5.2 and MM. Upon our original deployment faxes over SIP were working perfectly, and roughly a week after the implementation (and a number of different hardware changes) they were no longer functioning properly, returning a denial event 2378 (RejReqT38) in the trace snippet below: 14:48:39 SIP>SIP/2.0 100...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/A1tbbQeRVGQ" height="1" width="1"/> We have been working on resolving a faxing issue with our new Avaya system over the past 3 weeks which has been an interesting problem at best. We are running dual 8800 servers, with CM 5.2 and MM. Upon our original deployment faxes over SIP were working perfectly, and roughly a week after the implementation (and a number of different hardware changes) they were no longer functioning properly, returning a denial event 2378 (RejReqT38) in the trace snippet below: 14:48:39 SIP>SIP/2.0 100... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/A1tbbQeRVGQ/206 Mon, 28 February 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/206 We recently came across an issue which all new SSL certificate applications were failing and presenting users with an SSL Handshake error. IIS was accepting the certificates properly but there was still an error on the user end. Upon a lot of further investigation and a support call from Microsoft we determined that someone had revoked permissions on the following path: C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftCryptoRSAMachineKeys Resetting to the default ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/rWxINM4yxZg" height="1" width="1"/> We recently came across an issue which all new SSL certificate applications were failing and presenting users with an SSL Handshake error. IIS was accepting the certificates properly but there was still an error on the user end. Upon a lot of further investigation and a support call from Microsoft we determined that someone had revoked permissions on the following path: C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftCryptoRSAMachineKeys Resetting to the default ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/rWxINM4yxZg/205 Sun, 13 February 2011 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/205 I recently came across a scenario in which we created a new workflow for a list that had over 5,000 items, and as a result of having to start the new workflow for each list item I didn't want to manually have to click all the workflow initiations, so I went to the trusty ol' console. The console app is .NET 3.5-based and will work as follows: 1) User provides the site, list name, and workflow name in the App.config 2) The console app will open the site, then the web, then the list and ite...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/8wdLe9PzqaA" height="1" width="1"/> I recently came across a scenario in which we created a new workflow for a list that had over 5,000 items, and as a result of having to start the new workflow for each list item I didn't want to manually have to click all the workflow initiations, so I went to the trusty ol' console. The console app is .NET 3.5-based and will work as follows: 1) User provides the site, list name, and workflow name in the App.config 2) The console app will open the site, then the web, then the list and ite... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/8wdLe9PzqaA/201 Thu, 14 October 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/201 We are currently working on standing SharePoint 2010 to start working on our migration paths internally, and I encountered an odd error. I followed the instructions provided by Microsoft verbatim and SharePoint 2010 Enterprise installed properly, but once I was ready to configure the farm after selecting my services, I received the error "The given key was not present in the dictionary." Some messing with options finally let me to the service account itself. Go to your AD account in Active ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/EAtJKKEXLOc" height="1" width="1"/> We are currently working on standing SharePoint 2010 to start working on our migration paths internally, and I encountered an odd error. I followed the instructions provided by Microsoft verbatim and SharePoint 2010 Enterprise installed properly, but once I was ready to configure the farm after selecting my services, I received the error "The given key was not present in the dictionary." Some messing with options finally let me to the service account itself. Go to your AD account in Active ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/EAtJKKEXLOc/200 Wed, 13 October 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/200 Determining an overall view of SharePoint's permissions can be quite a nasty task. Without the use of paid tools it becomes almost impossible to view the breakdown of an entire Site Collection's permission structure. We recently came across the need to determine permissions of a number of sites that are customer-facing as we are going to re-organize the site and I decided it was time to build a tool to help us in this process once and for all that we could use in the future (as this is not a...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/-1ncBDb85oc" height="1" width="1"/> Determining an overall view of SharePoint's permissions can be quite a nasty task. Without the use of paid tools it becomes almost impossible to view the breakdown of an entire Site Collection's permission structure. We recently came across the need to determine permissions of a number of sites that are customer-facing as we are going to re-organize the site and I decided it was time to build a tool to help us in this process once and for all that we could use in the future (as this is not a... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/-1ncBDb85oc/202 Wed, 6 October 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/202 I've been a remote desktop power user for as long as I can remember (at least back to when I started coding and working on multiple servers). Since that time Windows RDP has slowly improved to include encryption, proxying for RDP servers (via RD Gateways) and the list goes on. While these are all great, the RDP client has changed very little in the past 10 years. I spend a decent amount of time each day on anywhere between 5 and 20 servers via the remote desktop client, so I was thrilled ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/gszWRaZk4-A" height="1" width="1"/> I've been a remote desktop power user for as long as I can remember (at least back to when I started coding and working on multiple servers). Since that time Windows RDP has slowly improved to include encryption, proxying for RDP servers (via RD Gateways) and the list goes on. While these are all great, the RDP client has changed very little in the past 10 years. I spend a decent amount of time each day on anywhere between 5 and 20 servers via the remote desktop client, so I was thrilled ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/gszWRaZk4-A/199 Mon, 4 October 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/199 It's been a long time since I've updated the blog, and I apologize to those of you who have been so great in providing feedback and ideas for my blog over the past few years. The lack of blogging doesn't come without reason, as I started a new job 3 months ago. I left Rho looking to expand my career horizons beyond what they were and challenge myself to take things to the next level. I will greatly miss the incredible IT team at Rho and wish them all the best. My new role is IT Manag...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/pcxq9JczgHU" height="1" width="1"/> It's been a long time since I've updated the blog, and I apologize to those of you who have been so great in providing feedback and ideas for my blog over the past few years. The lack of blogging doesn't come without reason, as I started a new job 3 months ago. I left Rho looking to expand my career horizons beyond what they were and challenge myself to take things to the next level. I will greatly miss the incredible IT team at Rho and wish them all the best. My new role is IT Manag... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/pcxq9JczgHU/198 Sat, 10 July 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/198 I recently came across an issue while attempted to debug some MOSS workflow. My workflow was terminating with an error, but upon doing some deeper digging into the log files I realized that the only error appearing was "Tracing Service lost trace events. Current value 1." An incredibly useful and descriptive SharePoint error, as expected. This occurs when the SharePoint tracing service is erroring for whatever reason. Restarting the service named "Windows SharePoint Services Tracing" fi...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/F5SC7hOrSyw" height="1" width="1"/> I recently came across an issue while attempted to debug some MOSS workflow. My workflow was terminating with an error, but upon doing some deeper digging into the log files I realized that the only error appearing was "Tracing Service lost trace events. Current value 1." An incredibly useful and descriptive SharePoint error, as expected. This occurs when the SharePoint tracing service is erroring for whatever reason. Restarting the service named "Windows SharePoint Services Tracing" fi... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/F5SC7hOrSyw/197 Sat, 1 May 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/197 Patrick Smacchia recently sent me a free license to try out <a href="http://www.ndepend.com" target="_blank">NDepend</a> v3 and I have to say I am impressed with the product. NDepend basically allows you to query against your code base, and can be used to run a number of different rules pertaining to structuring of classes, functions, interfaces, and a plethora of other factors. Providing these metrics allows a developer to determine the portability of their code, while at the same time ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/6SsYLZ8flKo" height="1" width="1"/> Patrick Smacchia recently sent me a free license to try out <a href="http://www.ndepend.com" target="_blank">NDepend</a> v3 and I have to say I am impressed with the product. NDepend basically allows you to query against your code base, and can be used to run a number of different rules pertaining to structuring of classes, functions, interfaces, and a plethora of other factors. Providing these metrics allows a developer to determine the portability of their code, while at the same time ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/6SsYLZ8flKo/196 Tue, 16 March 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/196 I recently came across a situation in which a user needed files that were on a site that was deleted from a SharePoint site collection. Normally documents can easily be recovered via the recycle bin, and worst-case scenario via the second stage farm recycle bin, but because an entire site was deleted, the recycle bins could not be used, as recycle bins are based on the site. I had a recent backup of the SharePoint server's content database, so it was possible to attach the content database to ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/HfSnAE8IToE" height="1" width="1"/> I recently came across a situation in which a user needed files that were on a site that was deleted from a SharePoint site collection. Normally documents can easily be recovered via the recycle bin, and worst-case scenario via the second stage farm recycle bin, but because an entire site was deleted, the recycle bins could not be used, as recycle bins are based on the site. I had a recent backup of the SharePoint server's content database, so it was possible to attach the content database to ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/HfSnAE8IToE/195 Wed, 24 February 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/195 I recently created a small javascript project to allow NewForm.aspx and EditForm.aspx client-side validation in SharePoint using jQuery and a custom javascript class. SharePoint has no builtin validation that can be used to verify fields without posting back to the server, so I figured it was time to implement this myself. I put the project up on CodePlex <a href="http://sharepointvalidator.codeplex.com/" target="_cp_">here</a> so that anyone who wishes can contribute. This class allows...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/8rLEbhbnkec" height="1" width="1"/> I recently created a small javascript project to allow NewForm.aspx and EditForm.aspx client-side validation in SharePoint using jQuery and a custom javascript class. SharePoint has no builtin validation that can be used to verify fields without posting back to the server, so I figured it was time to implement this myself. I put the project up on CodePlex <a href="http://sharepointvalidator.codeplex.com/" target="_cp_">here</a> so that anyone who wishes can contribute. This class allows... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/8rLEbhbnkec/194 Tue, 2 February 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/194 Recently I have been doing some more client-side validation to spice up the required fields and the format of required fields while a user creates a new list item, edits a list item, and a few other operations. Obviously to do this using jQuery the first step is to actually embed the jQuery library so it can be used in SharePoint. There are really 2 different approaches that I find feasible, each one has it's advantages and disadvantages. There are a few other options that I found while Goo...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/0xdTSbcLr4U" height="1" width="1"/> Recently I have been doing some more client-side validation to spice up the required fields and the format of required fields while a user creates a new list item, edits a list item, and a few other operations. Obviously to do this using jQuery the first step is to actually embed the jQuery library so it can be used in SharePoint. There are really 2 different approaches that I find feasible, each one has it's advantages and disadvantages. There are a few other options that I found while Goo... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/0xdTSbcLr4U/193 Thu, 14 January 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/193 I was recently deploying a workflow using Nintex Workflow which each submitted item first required the user's approval using the "Request Approval" action before the workflow would continue down the path. The problem we encountered was as each user was receiving their task announcement, they would go to the Nintex workflow approval page, they were receiving the error "* You are not authorized to approve this item." This was odd as the first action in the workflow was giving the user full permi...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/6Mnr472Dqeg" height="1" width="1"/> I was recently deploying a workflow using Nintex Workflow which each submitted item first required the user's approval using the "Request Approval" action before the workflow would continue down the path. The problem we encountered was as each user was receiving their task announcement, they would go to the Nintex workflow approval page, they were receiving the error "* You are not authorized to approve this item." This was odd as the first action in the workflow was giving the user full permi... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/6Mnr472Dqeg/192 Wed, 13 January 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/192 I came across a need to validate a windows username and password explicitly against a domain server for the purpose of verification. I have had to implement just about every other scenario with regards to authentication in the past already, but normally because the user is already authenticated, .NET will handle Domain negotiation on it's own so you don't have to get into this, until you reach the scenario that you want to verify the user's credentials in whatever type of application. This t...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~4/TgeJvLOeaAA" height="1" width="1"/> I came across a need to validate a windows username and password explicitly against a domain server for the purpose of verification. I have had to implement just about every other scenario with regards to authentication in the past already, but normally because the user is already authenticated, .NET will handle Domain negotiation on it's own so you don't have to get into this, until you reach the scenario that you want to verify the user's credentials in whatever type of application. This t... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nerdyhearn/~3/TgeJvLOeaAA/191 Fri, 8 January 2010 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles http://www.nerdyhearn.com/blog/191