13 August 2009
Moved on...
At the beginning of this year, I moved onto a different company. I have joined Zillow as a Software Engineer. I will now be blogging at http://ferozedaud.blogspot.com. Hope to see you there. Cheers! Read More...
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20 December 2008
Test-UMConnectivity Primer
Exchange 2007 Ships with a tool called test-umconnectivity that can be used to verify the health of your Exchange Unified Messaging installation. It has a couple of modes of operation: Local Voice In this mode, the task will run on a machine that has Read More...
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03 November 2008
Encapsulating Enumeration
While writing a unit test for a particular feature, I was faced with an interesting problem. My unit test has different scenarios. These scenarios test that a certain data item is propagated all the way down from the called function. For eg, I have a Read More...
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22 October 2007
AutoAttendant: What do the various Greetings mean
This post is going to give an explanation of what the various greetings mean, for the autoattendant. The posting will be divided into two sections. First, I will describe the common structure. Next, I will describe how this manifests itself at runtime Read More...
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15 March 2007
PowerShell script to get the reason why a Unified Messaging worker process recycled
If you are the administrator of an Exchange Unified Messaging server, you might want to know why the UM worker process is recycling and how often. The following one line PowerShell script will print out all the reasons why the process recycled: get-eventlog Read More...
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22 September 2006
Viewing eventlog files in the absence of resource strings.
Many a time, I had to look at eventlog files sent by a customer, or those from a test run that happened some time back. These files (.evt) are offline copies of eventlogs. To view them, you open them up with eventviewer. However, you might sometimes notice Read More...
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04 April 2006
Attaching VS to a process on startup.
I have been stumped from time to time on how to attach VS debuggers to a process on process startup. I knew how to do it with Windbg, by setting ImageFileExecutionOptions for the target process. However I did not know how to do it for VS. Well, I need Read More...
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26 October 2005
Ping Part IV: Adventures in Socket programming using System.Net
In this part, we will add some networking code to the code we have thus far. When we get done, we should have a working Ping utility. Take the program that we wrote in the Ping: Part III and add the following code. using System; using System.Text; using Read More...
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24 October 2005
Ping Part III: Adventures in Socket programming using System.Net
In Part II of this article, we saw how we are going to use the ICMP protocol to implement a simple Ping client. We also saw a skeleton of this program which showed how to translate the ICMP packet specification into a C# structure. In this part, we will Read More...
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23 October 2005
Ping Part II: Adventures in Socket programming using System.Net
If you see the ping utility that comes with your OS, you will notice that it has many options. However, the one we are going to develop will just take one argument: C:\ping>ping <hostname> | <ipaddress> Example: ping www.contoso.com Example: Read More...
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20 October 2005
PING: Adventures in Socket programming using System.Net
After a long hiatus, I am back to posing to my blog. I am going to start out with a series on Socket programming. In this series, I will show you how to implement a simple Ping client using classes from the System.Net.Sockets namespace. It should be an Read More...
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18 October 2005
Decoding Printer Tracking Technology
In a previous blog post, I wrote about how printer manufacturers are embedding tracking information in their printers. Well, today, via Slashdot, I learned that folks at EFF have figured out the encoding in atleast one printer (those made by Xerox). The Read More...
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22 September 2005
Tracing in System.Net (contd..)
Durgaprasad, the test lead for System.Net has a very informative entry on using Tracing facilities in whidbey. http://blogs.msdn.com/dgorti/archive/2005/09/18/471003.aspx Read More...
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12 May 2005
Enabling Tracing for System.Net
In whidbey, System.Net has a cool retail tracing implementation. It writes most calls made to public API's to a TraceListener. You can setup your own tracelisteners, or use the config file to setup a default listener. This facility is very useful in debugging Read More...
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31 March 2005
HttpWebRequest and Host Headers
A user posted on the newsgroups asking about how to set Host headers in HttpWebRequest. HttpWebRequest does not allow the host header to be set by the user. It is set automatically from the URI supplied to HttpWebRequest constructor. However, it turns Read More...
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