STSADM

STSADM is a command line tool which we can use to perform administrative tasks on SharePoint Server, this is very powerful since it provides features that are not available in the Central Administration site.
You will be able to find this executable at,
%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\
For example - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN

To learn more visit the following TechNet link.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261956.aspx
Following link will have the list of operations and properties.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263384.aspx

STSADM Error

Recently I faced a curios error while using the STSADM.exe command line tool.
If anyone of you are not knowing wht STSADM is please refer my earlier post with links to get more information.
However powerful STSADM is, while using it suddenly Windows might tell you that STSADM is not a valid Win32 application.
If you check the file you will also notice that the Windows icon of that exe is disappeared and also the file size is 0.
The good thing is that you will be able to get the file from another SharePoint installation and replace, then everything will start working normally.

Flight Simulation

After some pause I again started my flight simulation activities.

To celebrate I thought to put some nice screen captures I made on one of my flights.

WSUS

Recently I had to install and configure WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) on our company.

I feel this is a very handy way to distribute the software updates through out the company.

In configuring it the following articles was helpful to me so thought to share them with you.

This is the main Microsoft site for WSUS,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx

This is the main TechNet site for WSUS,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc706995(WS.10).aspx

Following pages show how to configure clients,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708574(WS.10).aspx

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/chakkaradeep/4564

Editing NTFS Drive Contents on Mac OS

In Mac OS if you mount a disk formatted in NTFS file system, you will be able to view the contents and even to copy contents from that disk (Read) but you will not be able to save, delete or paste (Edit) anything.
To enable editing in the disk you will be needing to install the NTFS driver.
If you are searching for a driver, download NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver from NTFS-3G.

How to Hard Reset i-mate JASJAM

Different phone has different key combinations to perform a hard (factory) reset.

In i-mate JASJAM you need to press the 2 soft keys together while pressing the reset whole.

Then it will show options, letting you proceed or cancel the reset. Remember hard resetting will wipe all the applications and data in your device, so remember to backup everything before performing a hard reset.

Distributing BlackBerry Applications Over Internet

BlackBerry applications that you develop can be distributed over the internet quite easily when you know what you need to do. In this method users need to browse to the web URL and click on it so the BlackBerry will download and install the file automatically.

Step 1 - Prepare the Files
When you compile the source code of the application you will be getting a .cod file.
Check the file size of it, if the cod file is less than 55KBs then you can use it without doing anything more.
If that is larger than you need to do the following trick to make the application distributable over the internet.

• Change the extension of the cod file to zip.
• Unzip the zip file.

You will now see a set of cod files with names like App-1.cod, App-2.cod, App-3.cod, etc.

Step 2 - Prepare the Server
To make BlackBerry devices correctly identify and download the files you need to add or update the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) types in your web server. The required MIME types are as follows.
File Name Extension - MIME Type
cod - application/vnd.rim.cod
jad - text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor
jar - application/java-archive

If you need more details on how to set MIME types in different web servers please contact me, I will try to provide you with more details.

Now place the cod files we prepared in Step1 in the server.