SQL Server is amazing, its rich tool sets makes DBA’s, Devs and Engineers life easier and easier each day that passes, now with Azure its even more amazing! One of the best features of SQL is its ability to replicate from On Premise to Azure and there are many ways to achieve this, from Always… Read More »
The problem when you use Custom Errors declared on your web.config is that the Application_Error on your Global.asax does not fire. So if you have some log4Net logging methods on the Application_Error section then you are out of luck, it will never log your exception anymore but there are work around and here is how… Read More »
What will you do if your Mac broke down and your Apple Configurator setup is in there? You have no option as the hard drive crashed on you. Then suddenly you just remembered you have several iPads that are managed by that Mac and you want to remove the single app mode on those iPads,… Read More »
Well its been quite sometime now since our last post, was so busy with lots of things now that I manage three teams, Development, Operations and Project Management. My programming activity drastically went down as I do a lot of juggling between three roles plus managing them, imagine a portfolio of 63 projects last year… Read More »
If you are using Citrix Director not on a Platinum Edition and you want to report on your trends beyond last month then most probably you are out of luck as the Citrix Director web interface only supports the following time periods: Last 2 hours, Last 24 hours, Last 7 days and Last Month. It became… Read More »
Have you even wondered how do establishments lock down their iPad’s so it only uses their application or website? Well with iPad there is a kiosk mode where you can lock-down the device to just use a single app and basically disable all physical buttons. It is not hard as you think you just need… Read More »
OKTA is such a powerful solution to provide identity management and SSO to any of your applications and we started to use it recently and it works really great if you use the usual Employee ID, SAM account name, SAM account name + domain, User principal name, Email and Email Prefix AD attributes as your Application… Read More »
You are migrating your SSIS Packages from an old version SQL Server to a new SQL Server version, it worked perfectly fine before but once it was deployed on the new environment you get an error similar to this one. Message Executed as user: YourDomainYourUser. Microsoft (R) SQL Server Execute Package Utility Version 13.0.1601.5 for… Read More »
Have you ever encountered this error when you are trying to add a database on your Always On Availability Groups? “This database is encrypted by database master key, you need to provide valid password when adding it to the availability group.” You get this on the Wizard after warning you that a Password is required… Read More »
Since I started using Azure and Office 365.I love it more and more as the days pass, with new functionalities on board everyday I guess development of simple applications will become obsolete. Most of the times before if someone assigns me to make a simple form my go to solution for a quick and dirty… Read More »