Flashing Android

Flashed my HTC Desire HD today. Since it is/was branded I had to make a GoldCard first. After that I was able to work magic

I used the info on the following links, in succession:

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-make-gold-card-for-htc-desire-hd/

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905003

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-permanently-root-htc-desire-hd-complete-guide/

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-gain-s-off-radio-and-engineering-on-htc-desire-hd/

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840040

Oh, this one came in handy as well!! – https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7cvmjy71pagq39/ROMs

ThunderCloud?

I’ve been busy migrating from BPOS to Office365 last weekend. Manually.
Everything went smooth, until one of the COs complained he was missing his appointments in his calendar.
I made a backup of every mailbox before moving the items, of course (NOT), and he used his laptop/Outlook after I moved the items from his old mailbox to his new mailbox, so his local (offline) copy was empty as well.

Recovery by the BPOS-team wasn’t an option either, because the mailbox hadn’t been deleted, nor disconnected, which are the only two scenarios where they can actually be of any service.

Today, while looking for a solution, I ran into this link, which saved my day, as well as the lost calendar-items.

Not sure it the actions described in this link are a pre-requisite, but I’m saved. That’s what counts for me.

So, what have we learned from all this?

- BPOS doesn’t provide real backups; when they do a recovery, it will be to the point of where the mailbox was disconnected or deleted

- Don’t forget to make backups of mailboxes before moving stuff from it, or copy items, instead of moving them

Microsoft Cloudmail-server being blacklisted MY problem???

One of our users got a notification today after sending an email. Said a server with a certain IP-address is listen on a blacklist with Trend Micro RBL+.

So I thought to do the right thing (besides requesting to be put off the blacklist) and contact Microsoft Technical Support about it, since this has potential to affect their other customers as well.

Basically, I was told I should request for the IP-address to be removed from the blacklist, even though it’s their server….. Weird…..

Facebook and stuff

Twiddling a bit with Facebook…

Ran into this link, which helped me to get the authentication from a WinForms-application working…

Tabified SharePoint

While looking up some stuff, I ran into this article. Something to try out someday soon, if you ask me.

Change of direction

Well, it seems that, at least for now, my direction in IT will be changed… again…

At the end of this year, my contract at my current employer will expire and it will not be extended. At the moment, I’m very close to signing a contract with a different company, where I will be a system administrator once again, with a hint of SharePoint and network administration, at least for now.

My hopes are that in the (near) future, programming will once again be part of my job. Until then, I’ll (try to) keep it as a personal interest and maybe even start dabbling with Java and/or Objective-C. (Yes.. I’m an Apple fanboy.. Everyone has their flaws, don’t they?)

I’ll try to keep this blog updated with relevant information…

Active Directory and MembershipProviders

This link helped me some in handling password GPO-settings as well…

Might clarify some things from the previous post.

Active Directory and changing passwords through ASP.NET

When using an ASP.NET-application to change have a user change his/her password, Password Complexity can act up.
Or better said… ASP.NET apparently doesn’t look at the settings set in Active Directory :-/

While looking for a solution, I ran into this (series of) article(s)….

My solution: write a custom MembershipProvider, derived from the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.
That way I don’t have to actually plug things in the standard-controls, just provide a custom membership-provider…

UpdatePanel-updates and losing focus

I’m currently fiddling around a bit with UpdatePanels (again), and noticed that focus is lost when the UpdatePanel is updated.
Luckily, I found the following site that solved my problem.

Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010

While attempting to find a fix for the migration-thing, I ran into a problem while connecting to the SharePoint site.

First I got an IOFileNotFoundException, stating that the Web application was not found…
So.. Visual Studio 2010 is set to x86 by default… and SharePoint 2010 is a x64-application. Got that one fixed thanks to this webpage.

Next, I got an error saying .NET 4 cannot be used for SharePoint…
So I had to change the target framework to .NET 3.5…
Thanks to this page for kicking my brain back into gear…

Oh.. and VS2010 needs to be run as an administrator…