The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1} to the user TESTSPS\svc-sharepoint-dev SID (S-1-5-21-3914637029-2275272621-3670275343-1145) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
A typical error…uhhh
To rectify this error…first you need to do this on the SPS server..Windows Server 2008 R2, you must first take ownership of the corresponding registry key and grant Administrators permissions to update the configuration. If you do not take the ownership and try to add the user, pop-up window will appear and will say “ACCESS IS DENIED”
To grand permission to the configuration of the IIS WAMREG Admin Service to be changed using the Component Services console:
- Click the Start menu, type regedit, and then click regedit.exe. If prompted by User Account Control to allow the program to make changes to this computer, click Yes.
- In the Registry Editor window, search for “61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1” to find HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1}.
- Right-click on the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1} key and then click Permissions.
- In the Permissions for {61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1} dialog box, click Advanced.
- In the Advanced Security Settings for {61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1} dialog box:
- Click the Owner tab.
- In the Change owner to list, click the Administrators group.
- Click OK.
- In the Permissions for {61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1} dialog box, click the Administrators group, then click the checkbox to allow the group Full Control, and click OK.
- Close the Registry Editor window.
Now you have granded the Administrators group to sufficient permissions, now how to change the IIS WAMREG Admin Service. If you don’t do the previous step and go directly to the component service, all the fields are disabled.
Next step is refered in the KB article KB920783 from Microsoft…which is as follows on your SPS server….
Click Start, click Run, type dcomcnfg in the Open box, and then click OK. Expand Component Services, expand Computers, expand My Computer, and then click DCOM Config. Right-click IIS WAMREG admin Service, and then click Properties. Click the Security tab. Under Launch and Activation Permissions, click Edit. In the Launch Permission dialog box, click Add. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, change the location to the local server. Then, type the local security group WSS_WPG, click Check Names, and then click OK. In the Permissions for UserName list, click to select the Allow check box that is next to Local Activation, and then click OK Hope this will help you
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Exchange server 2010 – ActiveSync – Issues on Administrative group members

For your information, When you are running Exchange server 2010 active sync on a mobile device, make sure that the user you are testing is not a member of any administrator group. In Exchnage 2010, by default if a user is a member of any Administrator group, then he will not be able to sync his mobile device..
Make sure that you have to open TCP Port 443 on the firewall to listen.
If you have to test a user, who is falling under any administrative group, then on active directory users and computers –>view menu select Advanced options–>then user properties->select the security tab->click advanced and ensure that inheritable permissions check box has to be checked
Folder redirection – Syncronization issue using Group Policy – Solution
When you have My Document folder redirection using Group Policy, and you have change the location from A drive to B drive, few of the client will have the folder syncronization issues. How to resolve it!!!
First of all, A drive will have to give the sharing and security permission, as before, Log on to the client machine, with his credentials..Let the sync happen on the old (A) drive and once it is finish, goto Start->Control Panel->Folder Options->and go to tab Offline files. At the bottom of this tab, you can see a DELETE FILES… button. Hold down Ctrl+Shift key and then click the button, there will be a window pop up
Click YES and close the folders, and then restart it..do not unshare the A drive sharing…once the client machine gets restarted, it starts syncronization with the new drive (B) and if you rightclick on the My Document properties, you will see the new My Document folder redirection path, as mentioned in your Group Policy. Once the syncronization is done, you can unshare the A drive.
Now user is on the New My document re-direction path….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a typical scenario of XP machines. When it comes to Windows 7, you need to go to Start->Control Pannel->Sync Center… Here you have full options to select it.
Microsoft 2010 – Office, Sharepoint, Projects, Visio… release-to-manufacturing (RTM)

RTM is the final engineering milestone of a product release and our engineering team has poured their heart and soul into reaching this milestone. Volume License customers with active Software Assurance (SA) on these products will be one of the first to receive the 2010 set of products. They will be able to download the products in English via the Volume Licensing Service Center starting April 27. Customers without SA will be able to purchase the new products through Volume Licensing from Microsoft partners starting May 1. More info Click here http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/
Microsoft CRM4 vs Microsoft GP10 and Microsoft Adaptor for Dynamics
Last week we were having the implementation plan for Microsoft GP10 with Microsoft CRM4. For this we need to have the Microsoft Adaptor for Dynamics.
The Adapter is FREE!!! However, customers will need to have an active/current Microsoft Dynamics GP Enhancement/Support plan. In addition, the customer will also need an active/current Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software Assurance (SA) Support Plan. The Adapter can be obtained by the partner organization placing the order for the customer through the standard Microsoft Dynamics GP ordering system. The Adapter will not be compatible with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 or Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 or any other previous versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP or Microsoft Dynamics CRM. In order to utilize the Adapter, the customer would be required to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Service Pack 4 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup #5. This is a completely new tool, redesigned from the ground up. The main integration engines/services used for the Adapter are web services to eConnect (web services to web services)
This version 1 release of the Adapter is only for US English for use in the USA. It is not suitable for use with an International English system at this time. If you require International English, you will need to wait for version 2 of the Adapter. There is no timeframe set for when version 2 will be released. The adapter is a tool built in Web Services and eConnect – The Adapter is not a product – it is a toolset to help integrate – an out of the box, lightly extensible integration tool (at least for v1). Customers looking for Advanced Integration functionality should still look to ISV’s.
Information About The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Integration Tool, Click here
Now in my scenario, This adaptor will not work in Windows server 2008 R2 64bit platform for their prerequisits..few workarounds required
The Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services role must be installed on the computer before installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Service.
Windows Server 2008 x64 or x86 and Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 only – Web Services Runtime Workaround
Click Start, click Run, and then type REGEDIT.
Locate the following registry subkey, and then follow these steps:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
a. Right-click the registry subkey, point to New, click Key, and then name the new key ADAM_Shared.
b. Open the ADAM_Shared folder.
c. Right-click the ADAM_Shared folder, point to New, and then click String Value.
d. Name the new string value InstalledVersion, and then type 1.1.3790.2075 as the value data.
Reference related to GP/CRM Click the following blog, which really will help you out. Sivakumar Venkataraman and Vaidhyanathan Mohan
But when you do the CRM to GP adaptor mapping, few issues starts. If you really going to use CRM only for Customer activities which GP database holds the master and needs to replicate it…Adaptor gives you errors on mapping. We have done the in-house workaround as the adaptor is still premature, our in-house workaround works great…!!!! Thanks to my team…
Moral of the story ” Depend on your own, with your friends…like my boss says ” Assumption is the mother of all screwups”
New outlook 2010 – cool feature

Did you know that the upcomming Outlook 2010 support 3 Exchange account to configure on a single outlook!!!
MySpace for Outlook enables you to view activity updates for friends and colleagues in the People Pane, synchronize your MySpace contact list to your Outlook contacts, and get one-click access to profiles
To know more about the Outlook/Exchange blog – Click here
Watch this page for Social connector for Outlook 2010 – Click here or click here
MySpace for outlook – Click to know more
Exchange Server – Autodiscovery – A New turn on Exchange14/2010

As you are aware of the autodiscovery feature from Exchange server 2007, with outlook 2007, this feature has gone a far ahead to reduce the RPC over HTTPS configuration headaches or the outlook configuration for client which is part of the network and is sitting outside the firewall…good na. Here i’m talking about the server in a domain…autodiscovery works a bit different on Non-domain platform..configuration is slightly different.
When you upgrade Exchange server 2007 to SP2, this is going to be a bit demanding task. clients connecting from outside and inside starts demanding for authentication…in which you need a SSL certificate with Subject Alternative Names (SAN) specified..
Once the upgrade is done, Autodiscover information is stored in a so called SCP or Service Connection Point. You can view this SCP using Active Directory Sites and Services after you have enabled the “View Services Node” option. (When installing the Client Access Server (Autodiscover is part of this Server Role) the SCP is automatically created in Active Directory and configured with the default values. If you have multiple CAS Servers there will be multiple SCP’s as well)…now will see how to configure Microsoft Exchange services, such as the Availability service, for the Autodiscover service on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 computer that has the Client Access server role installed. When you enable Outlook Anywhere, you must also configure external access to Microsoft Exchange services for the Autodiscover service. This includes the URLs for the Availability service, Exchange Web Services, Unified Messaging (UM), and the offline address book. If you do not configure the external URL values, the Autodiscover service information provided to the Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 client may be incorrect for clients that are connecting from outside your network. They may be able to connect to their Microsoft Exchange mailbox. However, they will be unable to use Exchange features such as Out of Office functionality, the Availability service, Unified Messaging, or offline address book downloads. Generally, the internal URL is configured by Microsoft Exchange Setup. However, the external URLs must be configured by using the virtual directory cmdlet for each component
In general – Autodiscover service provides the following information to the client computer that is running Outlook 2007:
- The user’s display name.
- Separate connection settings for internal and external connectivity.
- The location of the user’s Exchange 2007 server that has the Mailbox server role installed.
- The URLs for Exchange features such as free/busy information, UM, and the OAB.
- Outlook Anywhere server settings. Outlook Anywhere was formerly known as RPC over HTTP.
So when a user starts Outlook 2007 for the first time, they no longer have to specify any information if their computer is joined to the domain. Outlook 2007 will start, gather the information automatically, log the user on to their mailbox, and begin retrieving information from your Exchange deployment.
* Exchange Management Shell to configure the external host name for Outlook Anywhere for the Autodiscover service
Enable-OutlookAnywhere -Server HnC01 -ExternalHostname “mail.company.com” -DefaultAuthenticationMethod “Basic” -SSLOffloading:$False
* Exchange Management Shell to configure the external URL for the offline address book for the Autodiscover service
Set-OABVirtualDirectory -identity “HnC01\OAB (Default Web Site)” -externalurl https://mail.company.com/OAB -RequireSSL:$true
* Exchange Management Shell to configure the external URL for Unified Messaging for the Autodiscover service
Set-UMVirtualDirectory -identity “HnC01\UnifiedMessaging (Default Web Site)” -externalurl https://mail.company.com/UnifiedMessaging/Service.asmx -BasicAuthentication:$True
* Exchange Management Shell to configure the external URL for Exchange Web Services for the Autodiscover service
Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -identity “HnC01\EWS (Default Web Site)” -externalurl https://mail.company.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx -BasicAuthentication:$True
To troubleshooting your Autodiscover configuration, ther is a site which is developed by a few guys from the Microsoft Exchange Product Team to test Remote Analyzer that is available on the Internet

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ Live Migration
Live migration is integrated with Windows Server 2008® R2 Hyper-V™ and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2. With Hyper-V™ live migration, you can move running VMs from one Hyper-V™ physical host to another without any disruption of service or perceived downtime.
Hyper-V™ live migration has very similar requirements to Hyper-V™ Quick Migration. For organizations already using quick migration, the shift to using live migration should be simple. The physical hosts that will participate in live migration must be configured with Microsoft Failover Clustering Services as a Failover Cluster and must use shared storage. In addition, the physical hosts must use the same processor type. For example, to use live migration to move a VM from one Hyper-V™ physical host to another, both physical hosts must use processor(s) from the same manufacturer. It should be noted that there are no differences in storage requirements between Quick Migration and live migration.
For Articles and White paper from Microsoft click here
New and Updated Features in Windows Server 2008 R2..click here
Below is a complete list of the requirements for Hyper-V™ live migration:
Hyper-V™ live migration is supported on the following editions of Windows Server 2008 R2:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Enterprise Edition
- Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Datacenter Edition
- Live migration is also supported on Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2.
- Microsoft Failover Clustering must be configured on all physical hosts that will use live migration
- Failover Clustering supports up to 16 nodes per cluster
- The cluster should be configured with a dedicated network for the live migration traffic
- Physical host servers must use a processor or processors from the same manufacturer
- Physical hosts must be configured on the same TCP/IP subnet
- Physical hosts must have access to shared storage
Recommendations and Notes:
- A clustered shared volume is recommended for VM storage in a cluster where live migration will be used.
- One live migration can be active between any two cluster nodes at any time. This means that a cluster will support number_of_nodes/2 simultaneous live migrations. For example, a 16-node cluster will support 8 simultaneous live migrations with no more than one live migration session active from every node of the cluster.
- A dedicated 1 Gigabit Ethernet connection is recommended for the live migration network between cluster nodes to transfer the large number of memory pages typical for a virtual machine.
The cluster configurations that have been validated by vendors can be found through the listings in the FCCP program under the heading of The Microsoft Support Policy for Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters ..click here
Piracy Detection update – Windows 7 users
The Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7, the Windows Genuine patch is designed to detect more than 70 known and potentially dangerous activation hacks, according to a February 11 post about the update on the Windows Team blog. They are planning to push the update first to Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise users via Windows Update later this month, and also plans to make the update available for download via the http://www.microsoft.com/genuine site starting February 16 and on the Microsoft Download Center as of February 17.
Microsoft Exchange server 2010 Deployment Assistant
A good tool…
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 introduces the Exchange Deployment Assistant or ExDeploy, a new Web-based tool that can help you with your Exchange deployment. ExDeploy asks you a few questions about your current environment and then generates a custom checklist and procedures that help simplify your deployment.
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You can use ExDeploy for the following scenarios:
- Upgrade from Exchange Server 2003
- Upgrade from Exchange 2007
- Upgrade from mixed Exchange 2003 and Exchange Server 2007
- New installation of Exchange 2010
For more info click here

