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As a true techie I always look to find computer solutions that can help me save time and money.  I decided to tackle putting down tile in my basement and wondered if there was any software that could help me plan the layout.  I was pleasantly surprised to find TileGem, a freeware app.  After taking measurements I added in the walls, chose the tile, and set the grout size.  Once the room was set up it was easy to drag around the tile grid to find the best way to completely the layout. http://www.tilegem.com

Recently I had to replace an expired certificate on my ADFS 2.0 machine.  I followed the instruction on the TechNet wiki found here. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2554.ad-fs-2-0-how-to-replace-the-ssl-service-communications-token-signing-and-token-decrypting-certificates.aspx The instructions were great but there is one more step that you need to complete before your website will connect correctly. Once you have the thumbprint of the certificate you are using for ADFS 2.0 you must then update the web.config of each website that is utilizing ADFS for authentication.  Be careful when copying the thumbprint from the certificate properties window.  Make sure to remove all the spaces between the data before pasting it into the thumbprint property of the web.config.

  To import a certificate to the RD Gateway server in the (Local Computer)/Personal Store Open the Certificates snap-in console. If you have not already added the Certificates snap-in console, you can do so by doing the following: Click Start , click Run , type mmc , and then click OK . If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue .. On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in . In the Add or Remove Snap-ins dialog box, in the Available snap-ins list, click Certificates , and then click Add . In the Certificates snap-in dialog box, click Computer account , and then click Next . In the Select Computer dialog box, click Local computer: (the computer this console is running on) , and then click Finish . In the Add or Remove Snap-ins dialog box, click OK . In the Certificates snap-in console, in the console tree, expand Certificates (Local Computer) , and then click Personal . Right-click t...

After uninstalling an update rollup and rebooting the machine CRM starting coming back with a 404 Page Not Found error when trying to access the site. The trace log showed the following error: Crm Exception: Message: Invalid license. PidGen.dll cannot be loaded from this path C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\Server\bin\PidGen.dll, ErrorCode: –2147167677 This machine was set to NOT automatically install windows updates.  To solve my issue run windows update and get all the current updates other than any new CRM Update Rollups you do not wish to install.  After the windows update and another reboot everything was working again.