Category Archives: Microsoft
Visual Studio App Deploy Error: DEP0700: Registration of the app failed. [0x80073CFB]
Severity Code Description Project Path File Line Suppression State
Error DEP0700: Registration of the app failed. [0x80073CFB] Another user has already installed an unpackaged version of this app. The current user cannot replace this with a packaged version. The conflicting package is 88D96A69-2E7E-4358-A75D-97B980372496 and it was published by CN=[USERNAME]. [APPNAME]
Slowly migrating away from dependance on Microsoft Products
For many decades we have been strictly Microsoft evangelist (where Microsoft had solutions that matched requirements), We became particularly excited when Microsoft announced Windows 10 mobile and Nokia designed mobile devices. Mobile we saw as a positive direction to encompass all our server and desktop efforts with mobile support. We put three years development effort into this direction and Microsoft continued to make positive statements and promised features that gave us confidence to expense time and effort. Customers started purchasing Microsoft phones. The almost overnight, suppliers did not have stock and Microsoft started to drop support for models that where under 12 months old and finally they announced that they have stopped all mobile development.
Generic MemoryCache revisited
We revisted our Generic MemoryCache for VB.Net to with improvements for both performance and reuse.
MemoryCache to optimize database lookups.
Using MemoryCache in VB.Net
In this example performance is increased by putting the object into cache (which happens to be a row of data from a database), if that data is not accessed within a sliding expiration time (in this example 1 minute) it will be removed from the memory cache and if accessed later will re fetch from the database and once again place it in the cache.
Disk Defragmentation: Do you need a third party product?
For many years now we have kept a third party disk defragment tool in our tool kit, the product was UltraDefrag.
We started with version 6 in the days when Microsoft's built-in defrag did a pretty poor job and using the free version of UltraDefrag delivered a noticeable performance boost. Begin a free tool we could install it temporarily on clients computers when being serviced and recommend the product to customers. Many of our customers reported that they installed UltraDefrag and made a donation to the author.
Windows Server 2016 Health Monitoring – ignore/delete alert issue
A long standing issue with Windows Server 2016 Essentials Health Monitoring dashboard has never been resolved by Microsoft, it's now 2018!
The issue relates to deleting or ignoring various alerts shown in the dashboard.
Word: Adding a date picker in a Microsoft Word Document
How do I add a date picker into a Microsoft Word Document? Configure Word First we need to set up Word to allow you to add content controls to your documents Open Microsoft Word Select File then Options Select “Customise Ribbon” On the right panel select “Developer” Click “OK” You will now see a new menu option on the ribbon called “Developer” Placing a date picker control in your document Place your cursor at the position where you want to insert a date picker control. Read More +
Excel: Sorting a table of names by surname
How to sort data in Microsoft Excel
A quick tutorial on sorting data in Microsoft Excel.Windows Defender not updating definitions on Windows Server 2008 and SBS2011
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Edition and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Windows Updates repeatedly fails to install "Definition Update for Windows Defender".
Manually updating definitions through Windows Defender but this fails.
Running "mpcmdrun.exe -RemoveDefinitions -All" and then "mpcmdrun.exe -SignatureUpdate" but this fails with the error "ERROR: Signature Update failed with hr=8050A005".
sfc /scannow finds no errors.
Windows: The folder contains items whose name is too long for the recycle bin.
When you try the delete a folder i.e. folder_to_delete you get an error message: The folder contains items whose name is too long for the recycle bin.
The folder contains files that have names that are longer than windows can handle and is an issue that has existed since Microsoft introduced long file names, these files may also not have short file names (8.3)
