Mitch Vanhelden: Windows

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vrijdag 1 juni 2012

New blog site: Windows Azure Road trip

There is a brand new developers' blog site on Windows Azure, called windows azure roadtrip. three specialist developers, each in thier own programming language, will be posting some blogs regularly.

Maarten Balliauw (a .NET developer) kicked it off with the very first blog post 'Winsows Azure when you code .NET: what & Why'.
The other blog writers are Michelangelo van Dam (a PHP developer) and François Hertay (a Java developer).

Keep a close eye on this webiste, more useful blog posts to come.

Resource: https://www.azure-roadtrip.be/

dinsdag 13 maart 2012

Task Scheduler failed to start: Error Value: 2147943645

We have a script scheduled using the Task Scheduler. Now we realised however that the script hadn't run for a while.

when analyzing the scheduled task, we couldn't find any issue... the task was currently running.
However, when we reveiwed the history of the task we noticed there was an error each time it tried to run the task.
The error just said : 'Task Scheduler failed to start "YourScript" task for user "yourUser". Additional Data: Error Value: 2147943645.'

The error message doesn't say much useful. But what does it mean?
Turned out the solution was quite simple: it just means you are trying to run a job with the “Run only when user is logged on” flag set.

This also explains why the job was running succesfully when we checked the task, since we were logged in as the configured user. A real simple solution for a meaningless error message.

woensdag 14 september 2011

BUILD conference keynote summary

Here you can find a summary of the Windows BUILD conference keynote on Windows 8:
BUILD conference: impressions of Windows 8 keynote news - ctodx

donderdag 14 juli 2011

Dependency service or group failed to start

I got following error when I tried to start the SQL Server service:

My SQL service is running on my domain user account, and this is the reason I got the error. To be able to run any services using a domain account, the Netlogon service must be started.
For some reason (I blame the windows updates that were installed) this services startup type was changed to Disabled. Reconfiguring the Netlogon service to automatic and start the service solved the problem.

info
Netlogon: Maintains a secure channel between this computer and the domain controller for authenticating users

dinsdag 10 mei 2011

interesting vids

I've been to the Microsoft Techdays a few weeks ago.It's been an amazing experience and learned some new things.

Too bad though that some interesting sessions took place on the exact same moment. So I could only follow one of them.
Luckily however, they announced that all sessions would be recorded and placed on the channel 9 web site to view later.

Well, I'm still waiting for those sessions to appear on the website...
I've found some other Microsoft technology event sessions of this year that were on channel 9 already. So for now, I won't have any evenings not knowing what to do :).

Devdays 2011 Netherlands

MIX 2011 Las Vegas

techdays 2011 Belgium (only developer keynote on line yet)