June 2009 - Posts
I’ve been seeing a number of reports on an error while synchronizing with ACT, with an error message indicating something along the lines of: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime The errors have thus far come from Germany and The Netherlands.
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A few weeks ago, I sat down with Wayne Applehans to record a session for our TechNet IT Managers “The Big Show” – it’s posted here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itmanagement/default.aspx Here is the transcript, if you prefer to read rather than
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I have had the Stock Viewer Shim Demo application available for over a year now, and I'm delighted at how much impact it has had. I see people using this all the time! But previously it was available only in English. Well, no more - it has now been (mostly)
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I’m still catching up on my conference recaps… TechEd US was another busy conference this year, with a ton of great interactions and lots of activity around Windows 7 to keep things interesting. We ran a Windows 7 application compatibility lab again,
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I’m a wee bit behind on reflecting on the conferences that I was fortunate enough to participate in, but I like to spend the time to think about it. I guess to some extent it’s probably fairly selfish of me, because I think that the most frequent user
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I have an ongoing conversation with a customer whose application is now popping up a Program Compatibility Assistant dialog box, where it didn’t used to before (on either Windows Vista or Windows 7 beta). What’s going on? Well, when I cracked the resources
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This Thursday, June 18, 2009, my friend Mark is hosting a virtual roundtable on Windows 7 Application Compatibility. Alas, they didn’t think to check my schedule, and I have a customer commitment this week (and I do not ever turn my back on a customer)
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I’ve seen this error come up a few times now, and there’s a (dirty, ugly) hack you can use to fix it. So, for those who are fans of dirty, ugly hacks, here you go. If you see the error: ACM encountered the following error while performing synchronization:
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Since I’m using Mark’s tools, I figure I may as well steal his blog title scheme… I had a customer come to me with a question on Standard User Analyzer (SUA), looking for an explanation for why it was coming back with the following error: Failed to load
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