If you have a large number of laptops with all of thier home directories using offline caching to a networked share and that share fails or is migrated then you are in deep trouble.

With several machines lots of forced GPUpdate /Yes etc just didnt do the trick.  Even if you did manage to get your home directory to connect to the new server then all the registry links for applications like VS2005 still need to be changed.

After spending a lot of time trying to fix this I used 2 tools to assist.  The first is a Client-Side Caching Command Line Tool from Microsoft.  This includes the ability to change the share that cached files reference and the exporting of the whole or just modified versions of files in the cache to a specified location. The Microsoft KB article here

The second is a registry editing app from Macecraft software called JV16 power tools that allows you to find and replace registry entries.  It found 69 entries and replaced them intelligently saving a couple of hours hunting around manually.  JV16 has a suite of other useful utilities beyond find and replace as well - highly recommended!  (obviously use at own risk....;)

          
            Peter
   Maddern
          
           posted this entry about OneNote
   2007 searching in the 
          
            Microsoft.Public.OneNote
          
           discussion
        

          (Note
   this is pre Beta2TR)
        

          For
   a couple of days, searching my newly downloaded OneNote 2007 multiple notebooks using
   Windows desktop search 3 didn't work for me at all.  I was able to search within
   the page I was in but not in multiple notebooks. I tried every combination of actions
   to fix this, for example, uninstalling WDS3, rebooting and reinstalling as well as
   repairing OneNote 2007. I did the following and it fixed things for me:- Control panel
   Indexing options Modify Deselected all folders except my OneNote folders (I figured
   that I only wanted to index my OneNote folders - indexing my whole hard drive was
   unnecessary and too time-consuming and in any case, I use Yahoo desktop search for
   that) Advanced File types Scroll down to file type ".one" Select "Index Properties
   and File Contents" in the button selection area at the bottom Close I left indexing
   to run overnight. Result - full OneNote indexing now worked well and was extremely
   fast too! Prior to this procedure I had selected "Index Properties and File Contents"
   and thought that this selection applied globally to all file types.  Then I realised
   you have to make that selection for each specific file type.
        

Visual Xpath is a free Visual Studio addin that helps you test your XPATH statements against a source XML file.

One of my current projects is to use Microsoft SSIS to import a complex type XML file into SQL.  As I only need certain types and data from the XML file, an XPATH query using the SSIS XML Task seems like a good idea. Trouble is I have to learn XPath.  I'll add any good references I find to this post.

A good allround tool for XML work is http://www.stylusstudio.com

Reusable Functions for Reading and Writing Variables in SSIS Script Tasks

This utility takes ASCII source code and performs the following operations

• It substitutes HTML entities for all non-ascii characters and HTML reserved characters
• It colour-codes the SQL according to the classic style of the Query Analyser
• It substitutes hard spaces for tabs
• it converts all SQL Keywords to upper case

All you need to do is to paste your code in the SQL window, and the results are rendered in the results window. You can click between the windows using the tabs.

SELECT c.*, s.*
FROM tblasd c
left outer join tblS s on s.St = c.Ct
where Office ='London'
order by s.St, c.ca

Becomes......

SELECT c.*, s.*
FROM tblasd c
LEFT OUTER JOIN tblS s ON s.St = c.Ct
WHERE Office ='London'
ORDER BY s.St, c.ca  

Bakers Hall is a fantastic venue for a Lodge meeting and dinner.  It is just round the corner from the Tower of London.  The CITO Lodge is extremely friendly and myself and my 2 guests had a very humorous and enjoyable evening.  Somehow we found our way home by train at about 2am after finishing the Dalwhinnie single malt scotch.

VNC (an abbreviation for Virtual Network Computing) is a great client/server software package allowing remote network access to graphical desktops. http://www.tightvnc.com/intro.html

I'm very fortunate to be recently acquainted with Charles Hughes, the president of the BCS.  He is a very genuine and passionate chap, and I was pleased to be able to join him for his BCS residents dinner at "The Banqueting House" in Whitehall.  It was designed in 1619 and completed in 1622 with the ceiling paneling decorated with paintings by Rubens.  The guests of honor were the Duke of Kent and Lord Sainsbury.  After dinner entertainment was most spectacular with the band of the Royal Corps of Signals marching up and down between the tables playing excellent marches and other tunes.

I never went on a Rugby Tour when I was at school, however Im making up for it now with Marlow Rugby club and my 2 boys.  This is our fourth tour (2 to Brean Sands and last year to Eindhovan).  This year we visited the Hague and Oisterwijk RFC and had a fantastic time.  There were a few hickups, such as when I left Luke in Calais whilst I sailed across the channel with Oliver, but it all turned out fine in the end.

Full details and pictures at http://www.iwaszko.com/RockersRevenge2006

In the versions of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services that are earlier than Windows SharePoint Services SP2, you could write a document library event handler that used the object model without explicit impersonation to access Windows SharePoint Services.

I spent 4 hours wondering why I couldnt get this to work and then found the following MS article saying that SP2 had "changed this behaviour by design !"

Full Article at: Document library event handlers that use object model code without explicit impersonation fail with the "Cannot complete this action" error message after Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 is installed.

(I found it via another very helpfull blog by Mike Walsh of WSS FAQ from a goggle list of WSS updates )