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IIS Express and windows authentication
How to control the IIS Express Authentication settings To set the windows authentication parameters for you MVC applicaiton there are two ways to do this […]
How to activate Windows Server 2012
Issue Windows Server 2012 will not activate when you try to use the UI to activate a license key. Solution Open a command prompt and […]
Azure Web deployment task failed. Make sure that the process (“Web Management Service”) is started on the remote computer.
Issue Recently I was playing around using Azure and Visual Studio 2013. I was attempting to deploy my website to azure using the Publish wizard. […]
SSIS Convert between datetimeoffset and datetime
The Problem I had a sql table that was storing data in a DateTimeOffset(7) datatype, DateDeleted. I was trying to use SSIS to sync the […]
Google Hangouts showing phone number not contact name
The Problem I recently upgrade my phone and am using “Google Hangouts” as the default SMS client. Some of my contacts appear with their phone […]
SQL Server Enable User
The problem You have a SQL Login created for your account usr_test Everything appears fine, but you cannot connect. When you look in the users […]
SQL Sever DB Mail Logs
If you use SQL Server Database mail sometimes you will have trouble and you want to see a log of all the emails that have […]
WordPress 3.8 – update plugins prompting for FTP Login
The Problem After upgrading to WordPress 3.8, trying to update plugins fails with the prompt for FTP login credentials. The error message reads: “To perform […]
Visual Studio SQLCompare does not Compare SQLCMD Variables correctly
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