Windows Resource Kits
The Microsoft® Windows Resource Kit Tools are a set of tools to help administrators streamline management tasks such as troubleshooting operating system issues, managing Active Directory®, configuring networking and security features, and automating application deployment.

Task and Responsibilities

• Deployment
• System administration scripting
• Directory services
• Networking and internetworking
• Internet services
• Custom and automated installations
• Registry
• Security
• Policy-based administration
• Server management
• Clustering and load balancing
• Performance management
• Troubleshooting

About the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit
Once you have download and installed the resource kit (very easy process), you are pretty much set up, now all you need to do it work with each tool so you know what they can do, and that’s the intention of this article series.

After the installation, go to Start => All Programs => Windows Resource Kit Tools => Command Shell

Download – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=17657

If you do a dir, you will see the directory listing for all the files listed here. Each file has a brief description of what it does:

Clearmem.exe: Clear Memory
Compress.exe: Compress Files
Confdisk.exe: Disk Configuration Tool
Consume.exe: Memory Consumers Tool
Dh.exe: Display Heap
Delprof.exe: User Profile Deletion Utility
Diskuse.exe: User Disk Usage Tool
Gpmonitor.exe: Group Policy Monitor
Instsrv.exe: Service Installer
Memmonitor.exe: Memory Monitor
Vrfydsk.exe: Verify Disk

Reference – http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles-tutorials/windows-2003/Windows-Server-2003-Resource-Kit.html

What is Windows Service?
Windows Service applications run for a long time and are mostly used in server environments therefore they are usually called long-running applications. Capability to create windows service is one of the powerful features of .net.

Windows Service applications do not have any user interface or they do not produce any visual output. Services can run in the background while a user is performing or executing any other task in the foreground. If any user messages are generated, they are written to the Windows Event Log.

Windows Services are controlled by the Service Control Manager that helps to start, stop or pause the windows service, as needed.

Examples of windows services include task scheduling, running message queues, file indexing, plug and play device detection etc.

In the source code, Windows Service extends the System.ServiceProcess.Service class.

All Windows Services that are built in .NET need to extend this class. Visual studio includes the following methods by default, which are overridden by the service when it is created.
Dispose – clean up any managed and unmanaged resources
OnStart – control the service startup
OnStop – control the service stoppage

How to create Windows Service?

• Select a new project from File menu.
• Expand “Visual Basic” tab and select “Windows”.
• Then select Windows Service in it and specify the name of the service.
• Then right click on the form and select Add Installer.
• Project Installer gets added.
• Select ServiceInstaller1, go to properties and set DisplayName, ServiceName and set StartType as Automatic.
• Then select ServiceProcessInstaller1 and set Account property as LocalSystem.

Windows troubleshooting For Build Issues

• OS Environment issues
• Application Configuration settings
• OS Memory Utilization
• Disk I/O activies
• Services running
• Network issues

Chkdsk
The Windows Chkdsk (check disk) utility can find and fix common problems with disks and storage devices.

Disk Cleanup utility
The Disk Cleanup utility is a simple tool in Windows XP and Windows Vista that can remove temporary files from your PC, thus freeing up hard disk space.

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IBM Rational ClearCase Version 7.1.1 release

This information provides a brief description of the new features and restrictions in IBM Rational® ClearCase® Version 7.1.1
What’s New

For a list of new features available in this release, see What’s New
Announcement
The Rational ClearCase Version 7.1.1 announcement is available at www.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss. See the announcement for the following information:

Detailed product description, including a description of new functions
Product-positioning statement
Packaging and ordering details
International compatibility information

System requirements

For information about hardware and software compatibility, see the detailed system requirements document at http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21302974 .
Installing Rational ClearCase Version 7.1.1
For installation instructions, see this topic in the information center:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cchelp/v7r1m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.rational.clearcase.cc_ms_install.doc/topics/c_deploy_container.htm

Known problems

Known problems are recorded in individual documents in the Support knowledge base. As problems are discovered and resolved, the knowledge base is updated and maintained with new information. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems. To learn about the known limitations and problems in this update, and any workarounds that are available, see: http://www.ibm.com/support/search.wss?&q=clearcase+RN7.1.1.
iFixes and Fixpacks
To learn about features and fixed defect fixes in Fixpack and iFixes:

Go to http://www.ibm.com
Click Support & downloads
In the Select product or service type for support box, select the software category and then the product category.
Under Choose your task on the left side, click Downloads.
In the Featured download links box, click View all download links.
Click the link for an iFix or Fixpack.

Source: Click here

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Apache Subversion 1.7 has Arrived

Subversion 1.7.0 has been officially released today.  With the release of Subversion 1.7 comes the release of Subversion Edge 2.1.0.  This release of Subversion Edge brings you the server binaries for Subversion 1.7.0 as well as the latest release of Apache httpd.  In addition to the inclusion of the Subversion 1.7 server binaries this release of Subversion Edge brings a number of other nice improvements including the addition of a complete 64-bit Windows binary stack.  As with all previous Subversion Edge releases you can simply update your existing installation from the Subversion Edge web console.  There are no other special considerations, the update mechanism handles all details.

I encourage all users to update their Subversion Edge servers to this release so that you and your users can enjoy the new features brought from this release as well as the improved performance and fixes that comes with Subversion 1.7.  Look for updates to your favorite Subversion clients to follow shortly.

Source: http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/2011/10/subversion-1-7-0-released/

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Perforce 2011.1 released 11/07/2011

Perforce Release 2011.1 is now available. Check for platform and component availability.

Source: http://www.perforce.com/aggregator/sources/2

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Stable CVS 1.11.23 has been released. Stable releases contain only bug fixes from previous versions of CVS. This version includes an efficiency fix that reduces checkouts of very old revisions from an O(n^2) operation to an O(n) one, as well as yet another Windows file time stamp handling fix (bug #22781), and some other minor fixes and efficiency improvements. We recommend this upgrade for all CVS clients and servers!

Please take a look at the NEWS file from the CVS source distribution and the CVS 1.11.23 manual for more information about the changes contained in this release.

CVS can be downloaded from the GNU download server within four hours of this announcement or one of the mirrors after 24 hours or so (make sure to check the ”’non-gnu”’ directory on the mirrors). (This release may be obtained from Savannah download server prior to appearing on the GNU download server, but please don’t use the already heavily loaded Savannah download server unless you have to.) For other ways to obtain CVS, please read How to get GNU Software.

URL: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/cvs

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#INCLUDE <SS path>\SRCSAFE.INI

3. Create the following environment variable:

SET SSDIR=<path to VSS directory>

(such as SET SSDIR = \\MyServer\MyVSSdir)

While it is possible to do this with Visual SourceSafe 5.0, in is not necessary. Simply open the database using file->open.

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Introduction to CVS

CVS is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of sources files, and documents. It fills a similar role to the free software RCS, PRCS, and Aegis packages.
CVS is a production quality system in wide use around the world, including many free software projects.
While CVS stores individual file history in the same format as RCS, it offers the following significant advantages over RCS:

• It can run scripts which you can supply to log CVS operations or enforce site-specific polices.
• Client/server CVS enables developers scattered by geography or slow modems to function as a single team. The version history is stored on a single central server and the client machines have a copy of all the files that the developers are working on. Therefore, the network between the client and the server must be up to perform CVS operations (such as checkins or updates) but need not be up to edit or manipulate the current versions of the files. Clients can perform all the same operations which are available locally.
• In cases where several developers or teams want to each maintain their own version of the files, because of geography and/or policy, CVS’s vendor branches can import a version from another team (even if they don’t use CVS), and then CVS can merge the changes from the vendor branch with the latest files if that is what is desired.
• Unreserved checkouts, allowing more than one developer to work on the same files at the same time.
• CVS provides a flexible modules database that provides a symbolic mapping of names to components of a larger software distribution. It applies names to collections of directories and files. A single command can manipulate the entire collection.
• CVS servers run on most unix variants, and clients for Windows NT/95, OS/2 and VMS are also available. CVS will also operate in what is sometimes called server mode against local repositories on Windows 95/NT.

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