Free Upgrade for Microsoft Certified IT Professionals

For those who with the following certifications:

MCSA: Windows Server 2008 

MCITP: Virtualization Administrator 

MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 

MCITP: Lync Server Administrator 

MCITP: SharePoint Administrator 

MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator


You can get free vouchers to upgrade to:

MCSE: Desktop Infrastructure
MCSE: Server Infrastructure
MCSE: Private Cloud

So what are you waiting for? Grab the link here and start preping for the exams! By the way, these exams comes with Second Shots!


*These vouchers expire on Dec 31st, 2013. All exams and retake exams in the pack must be taken by December 31st, 2013.*

Windows Server 2012 Upgrade Jump Start

For those who are looking for training videos on Windows Server 2012, you might be interested in these videos for jump start training here.

These videos are intended for those who would want to upgrade their MCITP certifications to MCSE: Desktop Infrastructure, or MCSE: Server Infrastructure, or MCSE: Private Cloud. 

The partner transaction manager has disabled its support for remote/network transactions

As a lesson learned, when doing two way replication on SQL Servers, make sure to enable Network Access to MS DTC. To enable it do the following steps:

1. Go to Run > dcomcnfg.exe
2. Expand Console tree and find DTC
3. Click on local dtc > properties
4. Go to Security Tab
5. Enable Network DTC Access 
6. Check inbound & outbound (whichever is required)
7. Check Client Administration 
8. Use compatible authentication, mutual has the highest security.

Reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753620(v=ws.10).aspx 

Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created

What a pain! This error has been bugging me since morning and thankfully I have found a way of resolving this.

*Note: This has been tested on Windows 2008 R2 while installing SQL 2008.

The problem seems to be on the .NET 3.5 installation that you did as a prerequisite for SQL 2008. To resolve this we need to add another feature.

1. Go to Server Manager
2. Add a new feature
3. Select Windows Process Activation Services 
4. Check .NET Environment
5. Install SQL 2008 again

Some users find that closing all running applications except the SQL Installation works.

Transferred from Weebly!

I'm transferring my blog to Blogger.com because buying a domain with weebly is too much of a pain. So hold on while I transfer all the contents of my blog to this new one.