Google Cloud Platform Windows Server 2012 activation - windows

I have a GCP instance based on Windows Server 2012 R2. Windows was activated from the start but a week ago apears like not activated. How can i fix this issue? I don't have high level support that i can use.

It looks like you are running a GCP free tier according to this.
In any case, like normal usage of Windows the use of the software have cost. I would recommend you to review the specifications you need, and estimate the cost it would have to run your VM on a payment model. Take a look at this calculator, it will help you in your estimation.
In addition Google Cloud Platform offers you significant discounts if you make the commitment to use the same type of VM and/or software for a long period of time. You can see the details here.
Getting back to your answer is not an issue, it's just the normal limitation of the free trial.

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What's the drawback of using Camunda Community edition vs Enterprise, in a production environment?

I've recently started to get into Camunda (version 7). I have already develoiped a few workflows, and everything is running smoothly, including the basic Cockpit, which I find highly useful.
Now I want to put my workflows into production. What are the limitations of doing so, using only the Community edition, instead of the Enterprise one? Am I losing out on something important by not going for the full commercial service?
Will I encounter any limitations down the road that will block my workflows?
You can find a comparison of Camunda 7 CE and EE here:
https://camunda.com/enterprise/
There is no (e.g. volume) limitation on engine level you will be surprised by later on. Apart from commercial support, the additional Cockpit features are very useful and Optimize to add business analytics to your environment may also be of interest.

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I am trying to learn Dynamics 365, but the trials https://trials.dynamics.com/ are not long enough. What other alternatives do I have for a sandbox style environment for me to learn Dynamics, ideally something which is a lot longer than 30 days or if I have to pay, something which is not going to cost me an arm and a leg.
Are the following options (ideally without paying) in the hope that I get longer trials:
Use on-prem hyper-v servers to install and configure Dynamics 365 myself
Use the 1 year Azure trial to install and configure Dynamics 365 myself
A docker solution which has everything pre-configured for a 1 year Azure trial for Dynamics 365
Any other solution which I have not considered?
If any of the above options are possible, detailed instructions on how to get these configured would be highly appreciated.
Dynamics 365 purely works on licensing model & short trial period for prospect try-outs. Without license the show cannot run for long time, even for learning purpose. Forget about a year long free try-outs (or learning environment), the Dynamics online will give a 30 days with a possibility of another 30 days extension in trial environment. You can always take out the Customization (solution backup), data backup too and restore in another new 30 days trial to go on.
When we talk about on-premise environments, say Dynamics installed on local server or Azure VM - you will still get a roadblock with key or expiring trial licenses, probably 90 days (IIRC).
Installing D365CE 9.0 – step by step instruction by Andrew Butenko
One thing I remember is Dev Community Plan - I heard in one of the UG meetings, that it's available for a year but neither tried and not sure. This will fit you as this purely for Developer individual use.
If you want to build skills and learn more about Power Apps, Power Automate, and the Common Data Service, the Power Apps Community Plan is the right plan for you. The Power Apps Community Plan gives you a free development environment for individual use, where you can:
Learn to build business apps and workflows with the full
functionality of Power Apps and Power Automate.
Connect to any data source by using our 100+ out of the box
connectors or by creating your own custom connectors.
Explore how you can use the Common Data Service to build powerful
business apps with the common data model and the SDK.
Export the solutions you create in your individual environment, and
list them on AppSource so your customers can test-drive them.
TL;DR Buying a real Dynamics cloud environment with a couple of licenses to do learning/dev is probably simpler/cheaper.
On-prem
MSDN enterprise standard subscription gives you access to an on-prem Dynamics installation with no limit.
As far as I know, only the highest tier provides this. The spreadsheet from the pricing page shows that Dynamics is only for Enterprise, and the pricing page implies that access to those software is for a standard subscription - not monthly.
Pricing: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/
Access to Microsoft software for Dev/Test use (Windows Server, Windows
SQL Server, and more
Links to: https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/5/4/15454442-CF17-47B9-A65D-DF84EF88511B/Visual_Studio_by_Subscription_Level.xlsx
With the subscription, you can install everything needed to get one (or more) VM environments running, including Windows Server, SQL Server and Exchange.
Downside with on-prem is that many features are cloud-only nowadays (PCF, Flow/PowerAutomate, etc.) and the version is lagging behind even though cumulative patches are released regularly.
If you go this route, installation instructions are provided on MS Docs. Getting a basic HTTP configuration to work is simple enough, but to get the full functionality (incl. Outlook App on Exchange) it is a bit more involved: you'll have to setup HTTPS domain certificates and ADFS to enable IFD. I suggest to run ADFS5 on a Server 2019 VM if you ever plan to develop with the CRM web api in this configuration, eg to query from VsCode using tokens.

Changing profile after a specific time interval on windows phone 7.5

this question comes out a necessity that belongs to me! I want my profile to changed say everyday at 7:00 PM in the evening to ringing+vibrate from silent.I am not sure if it can be achieved as Microsoft has abstracted some features and prohibited access to them.
I would like to have it as an app,that allows me to set time for a particular period for a profile to stay active.Is it actually possible?Any experts having worked on this platform,please give your valuable suggestions as I am still a newbie in this town of mobile development.
No, the Windows Phone SDK does not allow you to change profiles from your application.
Now, since this is not your first question of this manner, I would highly recommend starting with MSDN documentation for Windows Phone development to see what is supported on the platform.

SharePoint - Developing on a standalone machine without sharepoint server

I want to start learning SharePoint and I need my system setup.
I know I need a SharePoint server, whether on a physical server or a virtual machine. I have done this in the past for the company I worked for. But now I want to use my system to develop but the requirements doesn't meet the SharePoint server specification
I have seen this link and several others on serverfault and they always recommend the Virtual Machine approach
Where is the Location of Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll
I have also obtain a link to Microsoft Hyper-V pre-installed virtual machine but it's too heavy for my machine.
I have read article that says I should download dlls from a SharePoint server and paste in a replica directory structure on my system
http://www.techerator.com/2011/02/how-to-perform-sharepoint-development-on-a-client-workstation/
I see that a lot of developer are faced with this challenge and I wish to know if there is now a workaround. Also, what are the limitations?
Do yourself a big favor and upgrade your development box so that it can handle a VM with SharePoint. Hardware is cheap these days, and a SharePoint capable laptop doesn't break the bank.
The amount of time you spend on trying to come up with a working Gaffa tape solution will soon fall apart again when you need to debug something in a real life scenario. That time is then wasted and you wish you had gone for a proper setup instead.
Check out CloudShare. It is worth the price. There is a 14 day trial.

What is a "Cloud OS"?

The term is getting 'hotter' with Microsoft Azure and Windows 7.
What are the benefits + how does the status quo of desktop computing now change? Does the machine no longer need an OS installation (or a highly stripped down version of a typical OS)... what is needed to interact with the 'Cloud' ?
Update: Received my first RTFM on SO today.
To elaborate.. I'm interested in knowing how different is the 'new way' w.r.t. the services provided by a typical desktop OS today (read Win XP/Vista, linux flavors galore, etc.)... NOT the benefits of cloud computing.
Two buzzwords.
Basically its Microsoft's form of competition against Google's recent web-apps boom. So if you want to know what it's all about just open up google docs and gmail, and there you go :)
Now on a personal note, I'm glad Microsoft and Apple(Mobile Me) are trying to fight back against Google. We need the competition, so us the users can choose and get better apps.
Also I'm really not a fan of any corporation, so I'm not all that excited about Google killing off everyone else any more than Microsoft doing the same to others.
When Microsoft says Azure is a Cloud OS, what they mean is that it provides the same kind of services to developers targeting the "Cloud" abstractions that are akin to what a Desktop OS provides developers targeting desktop.
Amitabh Srivistava gave a great interview on Channel 9 explaining it. Basically, if you want to write a notepad application for a desktop user, you don't have to be concerned with writing code that interprets key strokes from the keyboard, or that sets up communications with a printer. This is due to the desktop os. Similarly, Azure lets a developer focus on their cloud app better by abstracting things like load balancing, authentication and authorization, failover, and a lot of concerns that one would normally have to address when developing for the Cloud.
Old school network diagrams always showed the internet as a cloud. Microsofts approach is still a client-server model, although a real 'cloud' os in theory would be a SOA architecture of loosely fit components interconnecting and working together without really being aware of eachother. Example: creating services for email, document authoring, file storage, etc- which could all be interconnected by different services that don't erally need to be aware of the final product.
So different way of thinking of it: the 'system' exists in the network- not one single location.
Gains: Transparency, redundancy (not only of each service, but for replacing parts if vendors drop out) and availability (as long as you are also connected to the network).
Losses: Vendor lock-ins, vendor's dropping out, interoperability nightmare, as far as I know- there are no real standards for this model.
Microsoft did not coin 'cloud' computing term. Please refer to the wikipedia entry for a more specific definition and etymology.
whats with the RTFM questions on SO lately? unless I'm missing some deeper meaning, your questions are obvious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
Cloud computing is Internet-based
("cloud") development and use of
computer technology ("computing"). The
cloud is a metaphor for the Internet
(based on how it is depicted in
computer network diagrams) and is an
abstraction for the complex
infrastructure it conceals.[1] It is a
style of computing in which IT-related
capabilities are provided “as a
service”,[2] allowing users to access
technology-enabled services from the
Internet ("in the cloud")[3] without
knowledge of, expertise with, or
control over the technology
infrastructure that supports them.[4]
According to a 2008 paper published by
IEEE Internet Computing "Cloud
Computing is a paradigm in which
information is permanently stored in
servers on the Internet and cached
temporarily on clients that include
desktops, entertainment centers, table
computers, notebooks, wall computers,
handhelds, sensors, monitors, etc."[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Services_Platform
Microsoft's Azure Services Platform is
a cloud platform (cloud computing
platform as a service) offering that
"provides a wide range of internet
services that can be consumed from
both on-premises environments or the
internet"[1]. It is signficant in that
it is Microsoft's first step into
cloud computing following the recent
launch of the Microsoft Online
Services offering.
...
The idea and push from Microsoft to
compete directly in the software as a
service model that Google's Google
Docs have offered is increasingly seen
by them and others as an important
next step in application development.
In this idea, a software doesn't have
to be installed and managed on the
user's computer. It also allows files
and folders to be accessed from the
web.
So far, it looks like the idea of having software & your data hosted at msft's data centre.
SOA seems to be related to what cloud is offering.
No need to have local software (office will run from internet, your docs will be saved there. so that, you can access it anywhere). I think, the target could be big companies - thereby giving them services (software + hardware (data storage + processing power)) on subscription basis.
An expert can shed light on how this can be useful?
Will people be willing to put everything in the cloud?
Cloud is Time Sharing. Us old timers remember those days. You either wrote your own apps and ran it on their (the Time Share/Cloud providers) systems or you use the software they supplied. Usually word processors and accounting apps.
Google Apps is cloud. And since you get HD space you can already serve up your own app running on their systems.
Time Share was all the rage in the 70's and 80. Cause maintaining a system of your own wasn't cheap. Back then the smallest system any company ran was a mid-range (like Honeywell, AS400, Dec, etc, etc). Fell out of favor as the PC became popular. I remember when Lotus 1-2-3 came out and everyone predicted it would destroy what was left of Time Sharing. And it (along with dBase and other aps) did.
It's funny how we re-invite everything.
PS: Forgot one thing about Time Sharing. Since the Net wasn't around, you had to schedule your time. SO your staff would go to the providers Data Center and work. It was like renting space and the systems. Time Share and Cloud operate differently, but the function is the same.
Well like many new terms, there can be more than one answer. Frequently it can be defined as a compute platform, where the developer doesn't have to worry about resource management, scalability or hardware failures, because the cloud infrastructure handles it. Here is a link to some information the company I work for has:
http://www.appistry.com/resource-library/index.html
There are some good white papers linked here that might be helpful to you.
-Brett
A cloud operating system primarily manages the operation of one or more virtual machines within a virtualized environment.
Microsoft Windows Azure and Google Chrome OS are among current examples of cloud operating systems.
Azure App Service is one of the common and most used services. While it is possible to immediately deploy apps, jobs etc., to the app service, a common factor that baffles decision makers is the wide spectrum of the tiers (options of plans) available in the marketspace. To know more details,visit:https://www.impigertech.com/blog/azure-app-service/

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