Comments for Nick Heppleston's BizTalk Blog

Comment on How-To: Clone or Copy a VirtualBox Virtual Disk by Devarishi

Devarishi — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:36:16 +0000

The command has changed to “sethduuid” (I am using VirtualBox 4.1.8 version):

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid “C:\CentOSDup.vdi”
UUID changed to: ac3f7a4d-da4f-4077-be7b-4fcac9fd9f88

Comment on Re-sizing a VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image File by Vadim

Vadim — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:37:03 +0000

Thanks Nick! The most concise and friendly solution description I could find on the net. Worked for me!

Comment on Renaming a SQL Server Instance by Rafeek

Rafeek — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:08:23 +0000

I have changed the instance name (ex: from servername\A to servername\B) using above script and restart machine. While execute “select @@servername”, display new instance name. but while connect using new name it’s not connected (SSMS–> Connec –> Servername\B).. Pls help me how to resolve this…

Comment on No support for ‘Well Formed Xml’ and ‘DTD’ in the Generate Schemas wizard ‘out of the box’ by swaminathan

swaminathan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:15:27 +0000

Thanks Saravanan…

After copied the dlls to this folder “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010\Developer Tools\Schema Editor Extensions”

its worked for me too…thanks a lot.

Comment on How-To: Clone or Copy a VirtualBox Virtual Disk by kham

kham — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:37:44 +0000

To clone an entire VBox do we have to to the same for all created files ?

Comment on How-To: Clone or Copy a VirtualBox Virtual Disk by kham

kham — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:36:21 +0000

I’am new to VirtualBox … this is a great post.

Thanks

Comment on Re-sizing a VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image File by CA

CA — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:47:16 +0000

Ran across this and thought I would add my 2 cents.

I think someone else mentioned this but figured I would state it again. I am running Mac OS X (not by choice) and set up a Windows 7 Home Premium virtual os. Of course I stupidly took the default 20 GB dynamic disk option. After installing some of my development stuff, I was basically out of space.

So these were the steps I did to resize the partion.

1) Shutdown the virtual Windows OS.
2) In terminal, ran “VboxManage modifyhd –resize 80000 nameofimage.vdi”
3) Startup the virtual Windows OS again.
4) Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management
5) Disk 0 showed the 100 MB partition, 20 GB NTFS C:, and 60 GB unallocated.
6) Right click the “C:” partition (either up in the list or the graphical representation) and select “Extend Volume”.
7) It came up with 1 or 2 screens that I did not make any changes on and just clicked through them (sorry didn’t think it would work so didn’t keep track of their names and such).
8) Partition now extended to 80 GB (in just a few seconds).

I didn’t need to run any other utilities except VboxManage. Also this was from a default partitioning of a Win 7 install. I hadn’t converted the partition to a dynamic disk or anything else.

Hope this helps.

Comment on Correctly Installing a Certificate for Two-Factor Authentication via the HTTP Send Adapter by Kir

Kir — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:19:15 +0000

After dozen of articles, hundreds of tries I’ve finally got it working.
Here are the steps:
1. Install public cert (.cer file) into Local Computer store under Other People. This will enable you to choose your certificate in SendPort properties window on the Certificate tab. You also need to copy your certificate footprint onto the Authentication tab of the Transport Type Properties window.
2. Install public cert into your Current User Personal store(if you’re using different account than the corresponding Host Instance account). This will enable you to select your certificate on the Certificate tab of the Host Properties window)
3. Login as the user of you Host Instance. Install your public cert into Current User Personal store. This will enable the Host Instance account to use the cert for encryption of outgoing messages.

Note: the address of the send port should be exactly the same as the address that your cert is issued to. For example, if your cert is issued to yourserver.yourdomain.com then you cannot set localhost or IP for the send port address, even if you can access it like that.

Comment on How-To: Clone or Copy a VirtualBox Virtual Disk by Amir

Amir — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:39:06 +0000

Thank you so much. This helped me a lot. cloneHd wasn’t working for whatever reason. But sethduuid worked out. Much quicker!

Comment on Renaming a SQL Server Instance by steve baker

steve baker — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:27:48 +0000

use master
exec sp_dropserver @@SERVERNAME,’droplogins’
exec sp_addserver ‘NEW_MACH_NAME’,'local’

If you use distribution execute this command as well.

use msdb
update sysjobs set originating_server =’NEW_MACH_NAME’

Restart SQL Services.