Microsoft Training Kit

When ever I go for technical session with Dev community, they ask for what is the new feature in the products.  I recommend the Training Kits for that purpose, here is the list of latest kits

Training Kits

• Windows 8
• Windows Phone 8
• SQL Server 2012
• SharePoint 2013
• Windows Azure

The old versions

• Sharepoint 2010 Developer Training Kit
• SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Kit
• SharePoint and Windows Azure Development Kit
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (December 2011)
• SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (May 2011 Update)
• SharePoint and Silverlight Training Kit
• Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers - RTM Refresh
• Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit
• Silverlight 4 Training
• Web Camps Training Kit
• Identity Developer Training Kit
• Internet Explorer 10 Training Kit
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit
• Office 2010 Developer Training Kit - June 2011
• Office 365 Developer Training Kit - June 2011 Update
• Dynamics CRM 2011 Developer Training Kit
• PHP on Windows and SQL Server Training Kit (March 2011 Update)
• Windows Server AppFabric Training Kit
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Developer Training Kit - July 2009

Windows Restart

I was trying to install SharePoint 2013, the setup was complaining about a pending system restart.  Even after multiple restart / Shutdown.  The error message is same, it is confirmed that I need some tweak in Windows to make it working.

Here is the solution which worked for me

1. Open Register Editor using Run "regedit" .
2. Find the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager"
3. Rename the "PendingFileRenameOperations" value to "PendingFileRenameOperations2"

The magic worked, the setup program is no more complaining about pending windows restart.

Happy coding.

XBox Live connection

I am excited to connect XBox to internet and want to stream video directly in TV.  But configuring XBox to connect XBox Live had some hiccup. 

To connect XBox live, XBox required update and for update it needs to connect XBox live, the cyclic dependency made it stuck.

Update Failed

Can't download the update.  To test your connection, open System Settings and select Network Settings, Test Xbox LIVE Connection.

If the problem persists, go to
www.xbox.com/support.

Status Code:335A-0000-0000-0300-8007-2751

The error message description pointed me to change the MTU settings minimum to 1364.  This URL helped to get the MTU setting.

ping www.expedient.net -f -l 1492

My router MTU setting was higher than the minimum required.  So there is no clue, Connected XBox support chat, waited for 30 minutes.  No response, I was keep searching solution on the web for the problem, In the XBox update site it is mentioned that we can do update using USB, DVD.  Wow… that looked like good plan.  Yes, it was I downloaded the XBox updated to USB drive and loaded to XBox device.  boooom it updated and connected to XBox Live.

Thrilled to see XBox live videos, to my surprise all the video had some price tag!!