Sunday, November 20, 2005

My favorite tennis players




They just had a clash in Shanghai's master cup final. As I expected Nalbandian defeated Federer...

posted by Jonathan Wu. CFA, FRM, MCTS @ 11:33 AM 0 comments

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Incremental Configuration of BizTalk 2006




The configuration tool becomes extremely easy compared to BizTalk 2004 ConfigFramework.exe. One of the nice features you will find very useful is incremental configuration. If you make a single mistake in BizTalk 2004 configuration, the whole configuration process will fail and requires you to unconfig the whole thing. Often time you will have to delete the auto created databases BizTalk windows account before you can re-configure the framework.



BizTalk 2006 made framework incrementally configurable. Config error in one step won't adversely affect the other steps unless other steps depend on that step. You could incrementally commit your configurations. Above are some screen shots.

posted by Jonathan Wu. CFA, FRM, MCTS @ 9:45 PM 0 comments

StartCache: Error 0x80070002: failed to get download: 90A40409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9

Ran into a HUGE installation problem when I attempted to install SQL Server 2005 RTM on my personal computer. I had SQL Server 2005 Beta CTP installed before. I kept getting the OWC11 installation failure message. I ended up manually install the OWC11 component with logging turned on... The log file tells me it's the infamous : 1603 problem.


Action ended 21:33:45: ProcessComponents. Return value 1.Action 21:33:45: StartCache. Starting cache of cabinets to local installation sourceAction start 21:33:45: StartCache.StartCache: Error 0x80070002: failed to get download: 90A40409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9Action ended 21:33:45: StartCache. Return value 3.Action ended 21:33:45: INSTALL. Return value 3.Action ended 21:33:45: ExecuteAction. Return value 3.Action 21:33:45: TheFatalError.Action start 21:33:45: TheFatalError.


I ended up cleanning two registry keys which finally made it work:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Delivery\90A40409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Delivery\SourceEngine\Downloads\90A40409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9

Hopefully it will help if you run into the same problem.

posted by Jonathan Wu. CFA, FRM, MCTS @ 7:32 PM 0 comments