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Configuring Exchange 2007 Impersonation (Exchange Web Services)
27 Feb
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Configuring Exchange 2007 Impersonation (Exchange Web Services)

Exchange 2007 and 2010 differ in how to configure Impersonation to allow users to send as other users via EWS. This link is the 2007 way: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exchange/bb204095(v=exchg.80).aspx This link is the 2010 way: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/bb204095.aspx The user to give impersonation rights to is the user id the application or service is being run with, not theRead more about Configuring Exchange 2007 Impersonation (Exchange Web Services)[…]

Getting XML Serialization and Webservices to work with SQL CLR
21 Nov
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Getting XML Serialization and Webservices to work with SQL CLR

Microsoft SQL server has built-in security which prevents the dynamic loading of serialized assemblies. What this basically means is that an assembly which utilises Webservices and XML.Serialization will dynamically load the code and compile at runtime and SQL Server doesn’t like that. This is the error you will receive when running functions or procedures in such an assembly. Read more about Getting XML Serialization and Webservices to work with SQL CLR …

Adding the Microsoft Exchange Webservices SQL CLR assembly the easy way
03 Oct
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Adding the Microsoft Exchange Webservices SQL CLR assembly the easy way

If you try and load the Microsoft Exchange Web Services dll (Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll) as an assembly in Microsoft SQL Server, you will receive errors relating to dependent assemblies not being loaded in the SQL catalog.
The MSDN article for CREATE ASSEMBLY states

Besides the root assembly specified by assembly_name, SQL Server tries to upload any assemblies that are referenced by the root assembly being uploaded. If a referenced assembly is already uploaded to the database because of an earlier CREATE ASSEMBLY statement, this assembly is not uploaded but is available to the root assembly. If a dependent assembly was not previously uploaded, but SQL Server cannot locate its manifest file in the source directory, CREATE ASSEMBLY returns an error.

BUT this isn’t always the case. The first rule is Read more about Adding the Microsoft Exchange Webservices SQL CLR assembly the easy way …

How to automate the uninstall of Java from Windows PC’s
05 Sep
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How to automate the uninstall of Java from Windows PC’s

The following script will identify all versions of Java installed on a Windows computer (it may have several different versions installed) and then proceed to silently remove them. This script can be setup as part of a group policy to run at either Windows Startup or Shutdown. By using a group policy Java can be mass uninstalled across a large number of Windows computers at once. Read more about How to automate the uninstall of Java from Windows PC’s …