Partition + Data recovery nightmare (Error C10000B6) - Thank God it is over!!!

by rahul 12/9/2008 3:21:15 PM
It all started last evening when I turned on my PC. I used to have a lot of partitions (Total 9) in my 2 160 GB HDD. Today when I started my PC, it showed me only 6 drives. The other HDD was present and Windows could recognize the HARD DISK. The problem was that although the Disk Management utility ... [More]


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DYK #2 - Sharepoint DSN is stored in registry

by rahul 12/2/2008 11:09:44 PM
Office Server stores its DSN at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Secure\configdb\DSN I went ahead and tried connecting to DDLAB\Microsoft##SSEE but got an error message... TITLE: Connect to Server------------------------------ Cannot connect to DDLAB\... [More]


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Failed to create feature receiver object from assembly

by rahul 9/23/2008 11:49:33 PM
I was learning to develop a feature in Sharepoint, and started with Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by Tedd Pattison. It is a really awesome book. But this post is about a problem which really frustrated me and I ended up wasting some precious minutes struggling over a non-issue. I ... [More]


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Cannot remove folder? It is being used by another person or program… but Who??

by rahul 9/17/2008 1:32:30 PM
The following dialog box is not very uncommon. You might have seen this while trying to delete some file/folder from your machine. How do you deal with it? Well, the main challenge here is that the dialog box doesn’t tell you which person or program is causing the issue. So, let’s start with find... [More]


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ASP.NET:How to write error messages into a text file using a simple httpModule

by Rahul 7/18/2008 12:56:11 AM
In one of my previous posts, I mentioned about how to troubleshoot some issues with the use of a module. In this post, I will show you how a similar module could be of use when you want to log all the errors in a text file for troubleshooting purposes. Please ensure that C:\Temp folder has Write acc... [More]


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Logparser Scenario 8:Find out what is the peak time for your IIS Server

by Rahul 7/15/2008 4:02:22 PM
This post is a continuation of this article. Scenario 8:Find out what is the peak time for your IIS Server How can you find out what is the peak time (peak hour) for your Website using Logparser? Answer: Logparser "SELECT quantize(time,60), count(*) as Frequency from ex080716.log GROUP BY quantize(t... [More]


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Logparser Scenario 7:Checking the traffic/requests between a specific client and server

by Rahul 7/15/2008 3:59:14 PM
This post is a continuation of this article. Scenario 7: Checking the traffic/requests between a specific client and server Why would you do it in the first place? You may want to troubleshoot an authenticate issue for that specific client for the error that s/he reported to you. May be that's why! ... [More]


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Logparser Scenario 6:Searching files for culprits when you don't have Visual Studio on the Server

by Rahul 7/15/2008 3:55:12 PM
This post is a continuation of this article. Scenario 6: Searching for any specific text in all the files of a folder. A small background of the problemRecently we saw a very interesting problem. Users of a web-site were seeing other user's data in ASP.NET. There is cool blog entry about it by Jerry... [More]


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Log parser 2.2:How can you use Log Parser for analyzing IIS Log files.

by Rahul 7/15/2008 3:47:49 PM
I have written an article on Log parser a while ago at Log Parser 2.2 and ASP.NET. Please read it before you continue on this post... Here are some of the other scenarios in which you could use it... Scenario 5: Analyzing the IISlogs to see if there is any pattern for errors A small background of t... [More]


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Run a batch file as a specific User (or Administrator) from ASP.NET...

by Rahul 7/12/2008 9:02:21 PM
...well first of all, I am NOT recommending it, but sometimes it could be necessary! Now, let's proceed to the code... 1. Create a page called RunBatchFile.vb and paste the following...Imports System.Diagnostics Imports System.IO Partial Class RunBatchFile Inherits System.Web.UI.Page Dim... [More]


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