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TFS How to change the computer name or owner for a workspace

emma — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:34:40 +0000

The owner and computer name of the workspace are not editable in Visual Studio 2010. However, you might need it when you renamed your machine or your account is renamed. To do this, open a Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010) from program files, and cd to your workspace, then run following

Change the computer name for a workspace

tf workspaces /updateComputerName:<OldComputerName> /collection:

You need replace to your actual old computer name and to your actual TFS collection URL.

Change the owner for a workspace

tf workspaces /updateUserName: /collection:

Common TFS commands

Using SCVMM 2012 Cmdlets in PowerShell

emma — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:39:23 +0000

SCVMM Cmdlets allow SCVMM admin/users to do everything they can do in SCVMM AdminConsole in windows PowerShell command line. In SCVMM 2008 R2, you can run following command in PowerShell to run SCVMM cmdlets.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager

But this does not work in SCVMM 2012 as SCVMM 2012 uses PowerShell module. For SCVMM 2012 now you need run following in PowerShell instead

Import-Module "C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\Virtual Machine Manager\bin\psModules\virtualmachinemanager\virtualmachinemanager"

(This assumes that you have SCVMM 2012 installed on the default location C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 )

The PowerShell cmdlets in SCVMM 2012 change a lot in SCVMM 2012, you can get a list of all SCVMM 2012 cmdlets by typing the following at the PowerShell command shell prompt

Get-Command -Module virtualmachinemanager -Type cmdlet

And you can run Get-Help on any of the cmdlets to get the syntax for that cmdlet.

Get-Help -detailed

Update: Microsoft has published the SCVMM 2012 cmdlets help to TechNet, check it out http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh801697.aspx

How to install DotNet 2.0 or 3.5 on Windows 8

emma — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:48:21 +0000

Windows 8 Developer Preview includes the 2.0, 3.5 and 4.5 versions of the .NET Framework. However, only 4.5 is available for immediate use after a clean install. The versions 2.0 and 3.5 of the framework are not installed by default. If you open the Add/Remove Windows Features dialog you’ll see the “Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1” listed, but disabled.

To install DotNet 2.0 or 3.5 on Windows 8,

Go to Control Panel – Programs
Turn Windows features on or off
Check ‘Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1′
Click OK.

This Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5.1 feature contains both the 2.0 and 3.5 versions of the Framework, so you won’t install standalone 2.0 Framework.

Actually for .NET 3.5, you don’t need to manual install it. When user runs an app that requires .NET 3.5 runtime, Windows 8 will prompt automatically Turn Windows features on or off dialog walk thru user enable .NET 3.5.

Alternatively, you can enable dotnet 3.5 from command line, just run following from elevated command prompt

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /all

Find VM Host Name

emma — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:41:22 +0000

To identify the host machine from the virtual machine, just access the virtual machine’s registry HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters\PhysicalHostName Related posts: IDE/ATAPI Account does not have sufficient privilege to open attachment How to Install Hyper-V HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Error when install Windows 8 Developer … Continue reading → Related posts:

Install PowerShell From Command Line

emma — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:42:04 +0000

To install PowerShell on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, following features needs to be installed.

NetFx2-ServerCore
NetFx3-ServerCore
MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell

Because Powershell is built on DotNet framework, DotNet 2.0 and 3.5 has to be installed prior to PowerShell installation.

To install PowerShell from command line, run following from elevated command prompt

DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx2-ServerCore DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3-ServerCore DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell

Or run following command if it’s an 64bit machine

DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx2-ServerCore-WOW64
DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3-ServerCore-WOW64
DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell-WOW64

Manual Uninstall Windows Desktop Search

emma — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:03:34 +0000

Here is how to uninstall Windows Desktop Search (WDS) as it is not visible in add-remove programs

Manual uninstall Windows Desktop Search 3

Click on the Start Menu, then Run.
Type cmd in the box and click OK. This will bring up the command line.
Type the following and press enter
%windir%\$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe /q /promptrestart
A box will now appear to confirm the WDS has been uninstalled and asks you to restart. Once you have restarted the PC WDS will be gone.

Manual uninstall Windows Desktop Search 4

Click on the Start Menu, then Run.
Type cmd in the box and click OK. This will bring up the command line.
Type the following and press enter.
%windir%\$NtUninstallKB940157$\spuninst\spuninst.exe /q /promptrestart
A box will now appear to confirm the WDS has been uninstalled and asks you to restart. Once you have restarted the PC WDS will be gone.

Remove Earlier Version of Windows boot option

emma — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:52:14 +0000

After I upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7, I see two options at boot up, one is to logon to Earlier Version of Windows, the other is Windows 7. The default option is boot into Windows 7.

There is a workaround to remove the Earlier Version of Windows option from the boot up screen so that it will boot straight into Windows 7 instead of asking users to choose which OS or waiting for 30 seconds and boot into Windows 7.

Click on Start, All Programs, Accessories.
Right click on Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator.
Type the following command and press enter. Be sure to include the brackets around “{ntldr}”.

Bcdedit /delete {ntldr} /f

You should see a message The operation completed successfully after that, then restart your computer, you will not see Earlier Version of Windows boot option any more and now your computer will boot directly into Windows 7.

How to Install Hyper-V

emma — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:05:41 +0000

What is Hyper-V

Hyper-V is Microsoft’s supported form of machine virtualization. It allows you to run any number of guest machines on your host machine. Each guest thinks it’s running on its own hardware, and is unaware that it’s just a simulation.

Hyper-V also provides an easy way to snapshot and rollback virtual machine to an old saved stage.

Hyper Installation Prerequisites

Operation System – Hyper-V is only available in 64 bit versions of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Hardware – Processors should include a virtualization option. For example, Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V).

If you are not sure if your computer processor supports hardware virtualization, you can checkout Microsoft’s Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool. The tool also checks if virtualization is enabled on the processor.

Hyper-V Installation

Log on to the system using an account with administrative privileges.
From the Start / Administrative Tools, run the Server Manager snap-in.
On the User Account Control dialog click Continue.
Navigate to the Roles node and click Add Roles.
On the Before You Begin page, click Next.
On the Select Server Roles page, select Hyper-V and click Next.
On the Create Virtual Networks page, click on the network adapters you want to make available to virtual machines and click Next.
On the Confirm Installation Selections page, click Install.
Click Close to finish the wizard, and then click Yes to restart the computer.
After the Resume Configuration Wizard completes the installation, click Close to finish the wizard.

Note: The Hpyer-V in Windows Server 2008 media is a pre-release version. If you used the Windows Server 2008 x64 RTM as host operation system, you will need to upgrade the Hyper-V to RTM version by installing the Hyper-V Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB950050).

Download and install the Windows6.0-KB950050-x86.msu update from the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6F69D661-5B91-4E5E-A6C0-210E629E1C42&displaylang=en
Restart the system.

CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2010

emma — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:23:18 +0000

CopySourceAsHtml is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 that allows you be able to quickly get your code as HTML from Visual Studio, just like being able to save it as a HTML file from the Save As dialog. It’s very helpful if you frequently post code to blog or send code in email.

I recently switched to Visual Studio 2010 and noticed this plug in is not ready for Visual Studio 2010 yet. Here is how you can get it work for Visual Studio before CopySourceAsHtml owner releases an official update to support Visual Studio 2010.

Download latest CopySourceAsHtml msi and install it

By default it will be installed toC:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins
Create a folder named Addins under C:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio 2010 and copy CopySourceAsHtml.AddIn here.
Modify Line #5 and #9 change 9.0 to10.0
Launch Visual Studio 2010 –> Tools –> Addin Manager, if you see CopySourceAsHtml shows up, then it’s enabled successfully.

6. Now you can select the code and get html by clicking Copy As Html

This is an example. CopySourceAsHtml also provides options to show/hide control line number, word wrap and so on.

 
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
5
namespace HelloWorld
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// My first application
System.Console.WriteLine(“Hello, World!”);
}
}
}

WordPress Keyword Description

emma — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:09:59 +0000

In most of WordPress themes, there is not meta description and meta keywords handle. This result every page of site has a empty description and keyword in page header, which is not good from search engine’s perspective.

This can be workaround by installing plug All in One SEO. But for those who concern plugin will slow down their sites, here is a simple hack, all needs to do here is just adding a few lines in header.php.

Firstly open header.php, find this line ” />

Secondly, add following code after it.

$description = substr(strip_tags($post->post_content),0,220);
$keywords = “”;
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
foreach ($tags as $tag ) {
$keywords = $keywords . $tag->name . “, “;
}
}else{
$description = “REPLACE W HOMEPAGE DESCRIPTION STRINGS“;
$keywords = “REPLACE W HOMEPAGE KEYWORDS“;
}
?>
” />
” />

Here is how it works, when a web page is loaded, wordpress will check page type, if it’s a single post, tags strings will be set as keywords and the first 220 letters of post will be set as descriptions. Otherwise, a hard coded keyword and description strings will be set.

Now giving up adding keywords and description in every single post and get rid of All in One SEO.