https://www.matthemsteger.com/categories/computers/ Recent content in computers on Matt Hemsteger's personal site Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:25:02 +0000 https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/windows-vista-64-bit-downgrade-to-32-bit-woes/ Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:47:34 +0000 https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/windows-vista-64-bit-downgrade-to-32-bit-woes/ > Thoughts from the future: + Microsoft can still be stupid. - Windows. Long live Linux. An alternate title for this post could be “How I managed to memorize my Vista key in one day.” In previous versions of Windows when you purchased the Upgrade version of the new operating system you could always just insert the CD of the previous version during the install to verify that you indeed had a previous version and were eligible for the upgrade version. https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/vista-tips-customizing-the-send-to-command/ Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:54:24 +0000 https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/vista-tips-customizing-the-send-to-command/ > Thoughts from the future: + Wow in retrospect Vista was terrible. - Windows. Alright, I went to add notepad and wordpad to my Send To folder like I always have for each of the previous operating systems. Thanks to the “simplified” (and admittedly cleaner) users folder and the disappearance of settings, I could not find the way to customize the Send To command. A search in the Vista help produces basically nothing. https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/windows-vista-doing-a-clean-install-with-an-upgrade-version/ Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:37:10 +0000 https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/windows-vista-doing-a-clean-install-with-an-upgrade-version/ > Thoughts from the future: + Wow in retrospect Vista was terrible. - Windows. There is a workaround for the silly way in which Vista checks to make sure that you are actually upgrading a previous version of Windows. I wrote about this previously, where I actually had to install Windows XP to use the 32 bit upgrade of Windows Vista after I had “mistakenly” formated over my XP installation to install a clean copy of Windows Vista. https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/ad-fs-2-0-service-communication-certificate-lost/ Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:09:44 +0000 https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/ad-fs-2-0-service-communication-certificate-lost/ Ran into this today when trying to troubleshoot why our AD FS 2.0 instance was not working. Basically, through a series of events the certificate that was being used as the service communication certificate in AD FS 2.0 became expired. Then it was deleted out of the computer store completely. When this happens AD FS 2.0 shows this in the GUI. Figure 1: Set service communications certificate fails through the GUI as well. https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/sharepoint-2010-kpi-web-part-listurl-weirdness/ Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:31:15 +0000 https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/sharepoint-2010-kpi-web-part-listurl-weirdness/ In one of my projects I was adding web parts to a SharePoint page and then configuring them depending on various conditions, one of which was an out of the box KPI Web Part (from the Enterprise Version of SharePoint 2010). The API of this web part is not particularly well documented and a lot of it has the ominous “for internal use only” stamped all over it, but since we really needed this functionality (we did the same thing with the Excel web part), it was necessary to give it a try. https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/the-worst-trend-ever-technical-video-tutorials/ Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:21:04 +0000 https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/the-worst-trend-ever-technical-video-tutorials/ I still struggle to understand the logic behind these. So we take content that could literally fit in a couple of paragraphs and create a video of someone navigating a computer and coding something, or doing some other highly technical work. In many cases, since the video stands alone, the video actually contains large amount of text itself. It is like “reading” a novel by watching a video of someone turning the pages, and it is utterly ridiculous. https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/how-to-override-and-set-the-correlation-id-of-a-sharepoint-request/ Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:20:13 +0000 https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/how-to-override-and-set-the-correlation-id-of-a-sharepoint-request/ Figure 1: Your typical SharePoint error message. A tiny bit more helpful with the correlation id. In SharePoint 2010 Microsoft introduced a “Correlation Id” that was stamped on an SPRequest object (essentially). This means that for every SharePoint request, there was a unique Guid associated with it that was the correlated with log entries that were also marked with the Guid. This makes it easy to produce an error message in SharePoint, put the correlation Id on it, and then the administrator can quickly pinpoint what happened by searching the logs for the correlation Id instead of sifting through thousands of log entries for the users request. https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/using-spribbon-in-sharepoint-2013-html-master-pages/ Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:25:02 +0000 https://www.matthemsteger.com/posts/using-spribbon-in-sharepoint-2013-html-master-pages/ When you create a minimal master page in SharePoint 2013, it creates a nice HTML master page that is supposed to allow people that do not have experience editing the normal ASP.NET master pages design your site easily. Whether this task is “easy” or not is a matter of opinion, of course, but the ribbon is one of the headaches that I encountered. You will find something that resembles the following in your new HTML master page.