Sometimes its become critical to troubleshoot the WMI related issuesWe can use the Os Inbuilt tool called WBEMTEST.exe for troubleshooting the basic issues. More issues are because of missing objects or corrupt of WMI classes Step 1:On a Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 machine, verify whether WMI has a… Read more »
How to Schedule TeamBuilds to run on various Schedules As far as we know, we only have couple of options to schedule to the TeamBuild 2010. a. Manual Builds – Manual Interventionb. Continious Integration – After each Check-Inc. Rolling Builds – After Check-in but on accumulation of Check-Insd. Gated Check-Ins… Read more »
If we are familiar with any of the programming languages, we know the scope of Variables defined in Global/Parent scope and private scope. A Variable defined in Global can be used in Parent implementations and its own child implementations. There will be facility to update the global value inside the… Read more »
One of the major access denied issues we face during automation on Win7/Win2k8 is because of UAC [ User Account Control] settings enabled on the servers. ex: when i try to copy execute Copy Command from my automation script Solution: Disable the UAC Control policy on the serverfollow the steps:… Read more »
During Automation, we normally encounter some scenarios writing vbscripts using which we try to update the registry values.Below is the snippet provided just to give the foot step to proceed further activities. ‘PolicyEdit.vbs‘Version: 2.0 Set objFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) ‘ CONSTANTS‘REGISTRYconst HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002 ‘FILESYSTEMConst ForAppending = 8Const… Read more »
Normal in our coding, we encounter this situation that we need WebsiteId and all further actions are dependant on Website ID Inorder to retrieve WebSiteId from webSitename , here is the code. /// /// Get website id on websitename /// /// Name of the IIS server e.g. localhost /// Name… Read more »
IIS Start and Stop: Automation Calling IISReset will stop the W3svc Service and all related Services and Start Services. This is ok, if we are using it to do in DEV or Test boxes. When we reach production, this is not valid as there might be case that there are… Read more »
Wix code for Calling the Custom Exe’s or System Build-In Exe’s for performing the Action a. Calling CACLS.exe for setting the Permissions <CustomAction Id=”NTPermission” Directory=”TARGETDIR” ExeCommand='”cacls.exe” “[TARGETDIR]*.*” /T /E /G “MyCustomUser:R”‘ Return=”check” />b. Calling CACLS.exe for Removing the Permissions<CustomAction Id=”NTPermissionUninstall” Directory=”TARGETDIR” ExeCommand='”cacls.exe” “[TARGETDIR]*.*” /T /E /R “MyCustomUser”‘ Return=”check” />c. Calling… Read more »
If anyone of you working on Outlook 2003/2007 and creating Addin’s using VS2003/vs2005 would have faced this issue previously. Everyone will try to see some workaround for this problem Following is one of the solution in my hand a. Get the Outlook.exe location. this will be in the Registry once… Read more »
Creating the WebSite using WIX includes some simple issues as we some time cannot expect the QA, UAT and Prod environment Installation and their topology.As we know there is simple way to create WebSite and Virtual Directoy using wix, Extension of this targets creating without any issues irrespective of Website… Read more »
