Kit Kai's Tech Blog

Some of the pitfalls of windows 7 M3 build you need to be aware of

2008-11-13T20:37:00-06:00

The two major ones are Losing Sleep (If you load all your daily-used applications and use it like a production OS) Whenever my windows 7 laptop goes into sleep or hibernation, when it tries to wake up, you get BSOD. On a bare minimum Windows 7, you won't get this. Unlocking the hidden features of Windows 7 www.withinwindows.com shares that there are hidden features in the M3 build that is not available to people who are not under Microsoft's payroll. Workaround are given to unlock those features...(read more)

Went against common sense and ran a pre-beta product in production!

2008-11-12T20:37:00-06:00

And that product is, Windows 7 M3 Build! In fact, I am so happy with the performance of this build that I have actually killed all instances of Vista on my home network! (Ok, I only had one Vista which my wife uses on her laptop, since I deployed Windows 2008 on all the machines I use because of HyperV). There are a lot of things I like in Windows 7. The most important one is performance! Anyway, I'm going to list down all the points I like and dislike. Performance Performance increases by a...(read more)

Social Computing at it most niche!

2008-10-29T03:58:00-05:00

Now your plant also have an online presence! http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronics/add2/?cpg=80H...(read more)

For those who think SharePoint is a Mickey Mouse portal,

2008-10-23T09:30:00-05:00

Or I quote someone today, who says "SharePoint is not a real portal", here are some statistics I emailed internally to change the perception. Sites Profile No of users Education http://www.cps.edu/ http://www.quantcast.com/cps.edu 45.1k https://www.ocps.net/Pages/default.aspx http://www.quantcast.com/ocps.net 249.5k Government http://www.marines.mil/news/Pages/marinestv.aspx http://www.quantcast.com/marines.mil 131.7k Healthcare http://www.nhs.uk/ http://www.quantcast.com/nhs.uk 733.5k...(read more)

Wiki Discussions - Part 1 and Part 2 is ready

2008-10-22T02:20:00-05:00

Wiki Discussion - Factors that leads to this design talks about the factors which I have considered when I came out with this design. Wiki Discussion - Preparing the storage talks about how to create a new link in the wiki page library settings page, and how do I go about preparing the storage....(read more)

Discussion on a Wiki Page

2008-10-19T09:07:00-05:00

I'm in the process of building a SharePoint community within the company I'm in, and I'm being aided by Ting Fong , one of the bright chap I had the pleasure of training, and microlau , my friend and colleague whom I'm sure you are no stranger to. He is working on enhancing the forums, to be able to mark a post as answer, as well as rating the thread. While he is working on the forum, I am working on the wiki, to provide the ability to have a threaded discussion on the wiki page itself...(read more)

Something interesting when creating a Discussion Thread

2008-10-13T11:54:00-05:00

I always thought that a discussion thread is just a special content type that inherits from folder. So I thought creating a discussion thread is just as easy as adding a new item into a discussion board, and set the content type to thread. So I created a lookup field with the name "related" to use the discussion board as a storage for discussions done in a wiki library. Using the UI to create a thread, and link to a wiki page works perfectly, so my definitions are correct. However, creating...(read more)

Search crawler reports access denied, even though default content access account has rights via policy

2008-10-02T05:56:00-05:00

I had a single server moss setup on a windows 2008 virtualised box, and it was crawling fine. I don't do much search, it was until when I wanted to install iFilter for pdf from FoxIt, I realised the crawler is hitting access denied error. Application log as captured warnings from Office Server Search, while nothing in is captured in the Security logs. Did a search, and found that it got to do with loopback check, which prevents the crawler from authentication as the fqdn doesn't match the...(read more)

Unable to upload big files when running SharePoint on Windows 2008

2008-09-26T04:08:00-05:00

I had that problem for quite a long time. Changing the maximum allowable file size in SharePoint, or web.config doesn't help. I will just keep hitting a 404 error. Very frustrating indeed. It was until recently, I found this KB, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944981/en-us . It states that you will not be able to upload files bigger than 28mb, unless you add the following into the web.config, which will allow you to upload 50mb file into SharePoint, the default configuration. <system.webServer>...(read more)

Interesting how Microsoft and other vendor differs when it comes to positioning ESB and BPM products.

2008-09-08T10:28:00-05:00

I have a slight background in BizTalk, after having the luxury of working with a BizTalk Expert in one of the projects. BizTalk doesn't really differentiate short running processes from long running processes by requiring the architect to first categorise the business processes, and then use either ESB or BPM to host them. Unlike the other camp, (OK, I haven't really went through IBM's training, just Oracle because of the recent acquisition) which requires you to do so, as ESB does not...(read more)

Running HyperV, and miss your sleep?

2008-09-04T08:00:00-05:00

http://blogs.technet.com/robse/archive/2008/09/03/not-the-best-work-around-for-getting-sleep-back-wiht-hyper-v.aspx...(read more)

NDP Preview 08 Photos

2008-08-03T10:27:00-05:00

Just wanted to share some of the better shots I took when we watched NDP (National Day Parade) Preview (which is one week before the actual day) 08 @ Microsoft's Singapore Office. This show made me dream even more for Nikon D300... D70 is simply too obsolete for me... This is a shot showing the flag flyby. The background is Marina Bay, with the Esplanade, which locals sometime call the Durian... Lower right is where the audiences are sitting, hence the flag is mirror images, just for the benefit...(read more)

For those who are considering getting HTC branded mobile phones...

2008-08-03T10:03:00-05:00

According to this entry , after I upgrade my TytnII to Windows Mobile 6.1, I should be getting more than just threaded message conversation. But I'm not getting any of the fanciful home page features. A site has been going on to hit HTC on the video drivers issue, but HTC doesn't seem to bother... My keyboard is getting more and more unresponsive. Picking up calls is slow... Wrote to HTC, and I get no response after waiting more than a month... From now on, I will probably active avoid HTC...(read more)

SCVMM2008 is able to see virtual machines on a HyperV host, but Host status shows Connection Status not responding

2008-07-27T20:23:00-05:00

This is a very "pull-hair" problem, and once you find the cause, the cause is totally unrelated to any network issue! Having received my new laptop, I want to move my Mobile Domain Controller to my laptop, so that if I do not have vpn access back, I still have my domain controller with me for demo purposes. Love SCVMM with HyperV, as one of my host at home can serve as a virtual machine library with all the different configuration syspreped, and software library to mount onto various virtual...(read more)

Press seems to focus on two pages of Forrester's reports.

2008-07-24T14:13:00-05:00

Do a google on "Now Is The Time To Determine SharePoint’s Place In Your Application Development Strategy", you will find two links on top of the search results to buy the papers, and followed by many reports that says BEWARE, WARNING, followed by the word CHAOS... Friends who have access to the report told me that the short comings are only two pages out of the twenty two... Isn't this an overkill? Seems to me that competition is really scared about what SharePoint can do. Seems...(read more)