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24 Hours of PASS registration open

24 Hours of PASS registration open

Registration is open for 24 hours of PASS in March! Go to http://bit.ly/fMzarY to register. This one is “Celebrating Women in Technology” and has some great sessions lined up, including discussions on T-SQL, SSRS, SSIS, performance, MDX, even Twitterdata in Azure! You don’t want to miss this!

24 Hours of PASS – March 15-16 2011

24 Hours of PASS – March 15-16 2011

The 24 Hours of PASS is returning March 15th-16th 2011, and they’re looking for feedback on which sessions to include! If you’d like to participate, the link to the survey can be found here. I chose the ones I’d like to see, be sure to stop by and make your selections for your favorites! I’m looking forward to another great set of informative sessions! If you haven’t done the 24 Hours of PASS yet, it’s definitely worth attending! If you…

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Office Communicator custom presence in R2

Office Communicator custom presence in R2

I upgraded my Office Communicator 2007 to R2 last week, and my custom presence stopped working. Turns out R2 will assume default security for transport, which is set to High, and then requires your custom presence XML file to be an HTTPS URL. Even if you set your registry entry to be an https path it still won’t work. The link to the articles that did help can be found here: Defining custom presence states for Office Communicator 2007 R2Communicator…

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USB to 5VDC wiring diagram

USB to 5VDC wiring diagram

I can never remember what the pinout is to get 5VDC from a male USB-A connector, and being color-blind having a true wiring diagram helps a lot. Sure I could Google and Wikipedia search it, and combine the results, but hey, why not use my blog as a repository of stuff I’ve learned, right? Here is a link to a PDF document including pictures and data polarity/voltages. Basically, you want pins 1 and 4. Looking at the male connector head-on,…

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