Buttar

Azhar Ali Buttar has 20 years of experience working in different domains within IT industry. From network protocols to server hardening, he knows about multiple areas and has been working side by side with MNCs to provide cost-effective security and infrastructure solutions. Azhar’s expertise lies in off-site and hybrid infrastructure deployment using multiple platforms which includes, but not limited to, Azure, AWS, Google and Private Clouds. He has also been leading several infrastructure and security teams to deploy and perform security optimization in multiple projects, and now leads Nocastra with his decision-making and client-oriented skills.

Microsoft Project Server Publish Job 0% Complete Expected Wait Time 0s

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Microsoft project server publish job 0% complete, expected wait time is zero seconds, if you are facing this error while publishing any project on Microsoft Project Server, the solution is given as under: There is no need to search here and there and check for the new names and entering everything again and again. Just … Read more

How to Shrinking Log File to a Specified Size in Microsoft SQL Server

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USE Database_Name; (Replace the Database_Name with your actual database name) GO — Truncate the log by changing the database recovery model to SIMPLE. ALTER DATABASE Database_Name SET RECOVERY SIMPLE; GO — Shrink the truncated log file to 1 MB. DBCC SHRINKFILE (Database_Name_log, 10000); GO — Reset the database recovery model. ALTER DATABASE Database_Name SET RECOVERY … Read more

Free Anti-Virus For Windows Server

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Most virus protection softwares are for windows client side operating systems and do not support the server side operating systems like windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 servers but I would like to share a very good anti-virus software that can help you save your server from most recent virus attacks and its completely free (standard edition) but if you like to go for the professional addition you can purchase it and get the firewall protection free.

Rising Anti-virus

Protects your computers against all types of viruses, Trojans, Worms, Rootkits and other malicious programs. Ease of use, Active Defense technology, Patented Unknown Virus Scan&Clean technology and Patented Smartupdate technology make RISING Antivirus ‘ install-and-forget ‘ product that lets you focus on what you really want to do.

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How to Use Activity Monitor in Microsoft SQL Server 2008

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The Activity Monitor gives us a  view of current connections on an instance. The monitor can be used to determine whether we have any processes blocking other processes. To open the Activity Monitor in Management Studio, right click on the Server in the Object Explorer, then select Activity Monitor. 1. Session ID: The unique number assigned to … Read more

How To Disable Hibernate On Windows 2008 Server

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Windows 2008 server came with very exciting features and one of them was the by default hibernation. Hibernation on a production server doesn’t make any sense but Microsoft logic, hibernation can take as much as space required by the page file and even greater so it may lead to a complete space blockage at the … Read more

Most Memorable Quotes of Steve Jobs

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"It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them." "I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building." “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to … Read more

Could Not Load File or Assembly

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Many reader of this bog will definitely think about this post being published because this is an IT blog, not a web development blog or a forum. I would like to make a point that IT is not the name of only installation and configuration of operating system and server but its the name of a complete IT system where deployment of new applications and component even being developed under the development house also included. I was deploying a project where we have to deploy it on a 64bit Windows 2008 server when we faced this issue and it almost took more than a day to figure out and solve this problem.

This problem may arise when you are developing the application on a 32bit windows architecture and deploying on a 64bit windows architecture. We faced this issue while deploying a FAX project to send the fax using our own application.

Could not load file or assembly ‘Interop.FAXCOMEXLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

Solution is very simple, follow the under given instructions.

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Keyboard Layout Problem

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If your keyboard layout is behaving crazy and you are not able to find the proper place of keys specially the special characters like @, “ then you have to change the keyboard layout of your system to get rid of this problem.

Please follow the under given instruction to change the keyboard layout of your system:

If you are using windows 7 or windows vista follow instructions below:

Windows 7 or Vista

  • Go to Start Menu, and enter intl.cpl in the Start Search box, press ENTER.
  • On the Keyboards and Language tab, click Change keyboards.
  • Click Add.
  • Expand the language that you want. For example, English (United States).
  • Expand Keyboard list, select the United States-International check box, and then click OK.
  • In the Default input language list, click Language name – United States-International and then click OK two times.
  • In the Regional and Language Options dialog box, click OK. 
  • Click the Language bar, and then click United States-International on the shortcut menu that appears.

The United States-International keyboard layout has been selected on your system. Now check the location of keys on your keyboard hopefully they are in the same order as printed on the keyboard.