Computers Archive
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How to Override and Set the Correlation Id of a SharePoint Request
Posted on February 11, 2013In SharePoint it is easy to get lost in the huge amount of logging. Correlation Id can help in many situations, but when you have a complex Ajax requests in addition to a page request, you have lots of correlation Ids that should be related. By setting the correlation Id, you can make it easier to read your logs. -
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The Worst Trend Ever: Technical Video Tutorials
Posted on January 21, 2013Videos are the absolute worst medium for presenting technical information like programming or other computer related technology. If I have to look at another video where you watch a programmer programming on a screen to teach you how to do something, I am going to go insane. Use your writing skills people! -
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SharePoint 2010 KPI Web Part ListURL Weirdness
Posted on January 14, 2013The SharePoint 2010 KPI Web Part can be instantiated in code, despite the limited documentation, however beware of a little nasty issue with trying to set the ListURL in code as you instantiate or edit the web part. SharePoint can do some weird things when dealing with this property that don't make any sense, but getting around it is quite easy once you know what it is doing. -
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AD FS 2.0 Service Communication Certificate Lost
Posted on November 28, 2012How to address a problem with Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (AD FS 2.0) loses its Service Communication certificate, which can happen if the certificate is deleted from the computer store without first removing it from the AD FS 2.0 Management console. -
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Windows Vista – Doing a Clean Install with an Upgrade Version
Posted on June 18, 2007There is a workaround for the silly way in which Vista checks to make sure that you are actually upgrading a previous version of Windows. I wrote about this previously,... -
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Vista Tips – Customizing the Send To Command
Posted on June 9, 2007Alright, I went to add notepad and wordpad to my Send To folder like I always have for each of the previous operating systems. Thanks to the “simplified” (and admittedly... -
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Windows Vista 64 Bit Downgrade to 32 Bit Woes
Posted on June 7, 2007An alternate title for this post could be “How I managed to memorize my Vista key in one day.” In previous versions of Windows when you purchased the Upgrade version...