My training for Eindhoven is on schedule. For this I’m using RunInfo (dutch) and Trello.
The schedule from RunInfo can be printed or saved to PDF, but as a developer I prefer a more interactive solution. I created a board that shows the training as cards. With the calendar power-up the schedule is displayed beautiful and adds a iCalendar feed.
Have a look at my Marathon Eindhoven Board.
Now all I have to do is Train, Race, Beer. See you in Eindhoven.
Last week recap and links:
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Our project uses IIS to host custom web applications. We received an issue: when creating a web application some COM Exception is logged.
To reproduce the issue we created a console application that connects to IIS metabase. The Find method was the source for the COM Exception, so we tried some scenario’s and logged the outcome. See the listing below.
var directory = new System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry(
"IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1");
try {
var child = directory.Children.Find("Root", "IISWebVirtualDir");
Console.WriteLine("Found directory {0}", child.Name);
}
catch(System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException) {
// child is not found (even when schemaclassname is wrong)
Console.WriteLine("Directory not found");
}
catch(System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException ex) {
// 0x80070003: system cannot find the path (use connection
// IIS://localhost/W3SVC/13)
// 0x80070005: access denied (run without Administrative right)
// 0x800706BE: metabase corrupt (edit applicationhost.config)
// 0x80005000: unknown error (use iis:// instead of IIS://
// or add / at end of connectionstring)
// 0x80005008: Find with IIsWebDirectory as schemaclassname
// (wrong argument) and item is present
Console.WriteLine("COM Exception {0}: {1}",
ex.ErrorCode.ToString("X"), ex.ToString());
}
catch(Exception ex) {
Console.WriteLine("Something is wrong: {0}", ex.Message);
}
Together with our metabase corruption repro we get a list of errorcodes. This list goes into our Knowledge Base with an advised next step.
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We’re using Office 365 to support Choose Your Own Device. On my Windows laptop I’ve installed it. There is no option to remove unneeded programs after the installation. To save some room (like on a SSD) you can configure which programs to install.
First you’ll need to get the Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-run (download page) or search for it on microsoft.com downloads.
Run the tool with /extract option. This will put the setup.exe and configuration.xml files on disk.
officedeploymenttool /extract:d:\Personal\Downloads\office
Now edit the configuration.xml to exclude applications you don’t want. Microsoft has a technet article about the options. Below is mine
<Configuration>
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="nl-nl"/>
<ExcludeApp ID="Publisher"/>
<ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath"/>
<ExcludeApp ID="Access"/>
<ExcludeApp ID="OneNote"/>
<ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive"/>
</Product>
</Add>
<Updates Enabled="TRUE"/>
<Display AcceptEULA="TRUE" Level"None"/>
<Logging Path="d:\Personal\Downloads\office"/>
</Configuration>
Only two more commands and you’re done
setup /download configuration.xml setup /configure configuration.xml
The first command will download the installation files. The second will do the installation. Both take in account only the programs you want to have. You might also want to do a (Windows) update.
No more unwanted programs = extra free space on your drive. And we all love free space!
Last week recap and links:
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What are your best reads this week? Leave them in the comments below.
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