Colt Kwong Blog

Enable Office Communicator Chat History in Outlook

I sent some information to a colleague via OCS 2007 R2 client recently, and I can't find it back when I look at my Outlook client today. Then I notice that the option of "saving chat history in Outlook" is disabled (by default) since I install OCS!

Enable the chat history archive:

• Tools > Options > Personal > Personal Information Manager

Result:

SQL Server Capacity Planner

Apart from the capacity planner tool for System Center and SharePoint Server, I was looking for a tool which can help me to estimate the capacity of SQL Server.

I found an article on Microsoft.com for SQL Server 2000 sizing but unfortunately the links are obseleted and dead:

• Dell PowerMatch Server Sizing Software
• Compaq Active Answer Resources

Finally I found an article that is "close" to my interest:

• Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2008

If any of you heard of any tools in capacity planning or sizing for SQL Server, please drop me a message.

Thanks,
Colt

Multiple projects in Visual Studio 2008

This is obviously a well-known secret (option) in Visual Studio 2005 / 2008: 

1. After creating a Web project in Visual Studio
   
   

   
   
2. Go to Tools > Options > Show All Settings > Projects and Solutions > General > Check "Always show solution"
   
   
   
3. You can now add any new projects to the solution
   
   

Install IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2

IIS 7 is not installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 by default, and below is a good reference which helps us to add Web Server (IIS) role to the server.

• Install IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2

Regards,
Colt

Work with 64-bit VM in Windows 7

I attended a Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010 HOL 1 day workshop last week and wanted to setup a VM to try the new features in my own laptop. The presenter in the workshop implicitly mentioned a tool called VirtualBox (because it's not a MS product?) but I have no clue what it is at that moment.

Until today, I saw a very useful blog and thanks to Guy and Rolly. I know what to do next in order to setup the VM in my Windows 7 safely now. :)

MSDN File Transfer Manager

I often visit MSDN site and download tools for my development / evaluation use, but I always interrupt the download process and forgot how to resume it. So it's nice to jot down the command as a reminder to myself that can start the MSDN File Transfer Manager manually:

1. cmd
2. %SystemRoot%\Downloaded Program Files\
3. TransferMgr.exe

Regards,
Colt