If you are like me, who like to “experiment” with random software downloaded from Source Forge, CodePlex or anything alike … on top of working on bunch of side projects in different work environments … and you have a “bug” in your mind which make you learn anything and everything .. then I am sure
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Editing MSI with OCRA
If you have worked with MSI then you probably know that it uses an internal database to store all kind of information and you can actually directly modify this information by using a great tool OCRA. It is tiny utility released by MSFT. But unfortunately it is not “that” simple to get OCRA because it
Remotely execute file on another machine
As usual, I was searching something over internet and going through random crap to look for something (I don’t remember now what was that) and I somehow found that there is really great utility available in good ol’ Sysinternals Suite which literally allows user to remotely execute any application on another machine !! That utility
Use of SYSPREP to duplicate windows image with new SIDs
From past some time I am trying to create windows domain in home computer with bunch of VMs using Windows Server 2008 R2 for “educational” purposes … my ultimate goal was to setup clustered windows system and have SQL Server in that environment. I want to lean about how SQL Server behaves in clustered systems
Creating Application Shortcut in Programs for Windows Installer Project
It has been while since I posted something. Actually I was on very long vacation for almost 2 months and during that time all I did was eating, traveling, sleeping and eating again … and now it is ended and I am back .. I think I have gained few pounds… so (just like every
Importing Fixed Width file into database using SSIS package
Ok, few weeks back I posted how to create a fixed width file using SSIS for test purposes. Then after that I posted TSQL way to import it into database, and now today I am going to show how to import it using SSIS package… I have used same database (which I used to generate
Advance MSI creation … Part II
In First part of this How To I explained essential component required to manipulate MSI installation process and create funky installation process. In this part I will use that theory of 1st part and create an advance installation process which will do following steps as part of installation process … 1) Install a file at