The Techy Boy

I was having trouble with same issue, I was using Connect-CrmOnline method to connect. But I fixed the issue and am able to pass custom timeout value. I am able to import a solution to Dynamics Online which takes around 22 minutes. I hope this will help. Here is the code: #1  Create ConnectionString $cs = "RequireNewInstance=True" $cs+= ";Username=$($Cred.UserName)" $cs+= ";Password=$($Cred.GetNetworkCredential().Password)" $cs+= ";Url=$CRMServerURL" $cs += ";AuthType=Office365" $cs+=";SkipDiscovery=True" #2  Create a connection using ConnectionString (for Online) $Conn = Get-CrmConnection -ConnectionString $cs -MaxCrmConnectionTimeOutMinutes $CrmConTimeOutMinutes #3  Import Solution Import-CrmSolutionAsync -SolutionFilePath $path -conn $Conn -MaxWaitTimeInSeconds $maxWaitTimeInSeconds -ActivateWorkflows -PublishChanges -BlockUntilImportComplete

I love to use Powershell and post-git module for day to day work with git. Sometimes, I have to rename my branches and I have this quick way to do to it. I love to write shortcuts in PowerShell's Profile to save time. Add this function in Powershell Profile.ps1: function RenameLocalBranch { param ( $ NewName ) $ currentBranch = git rev - parse -- abbrev - ref HEAD git branch - m $ NewName git push origin : $ currentBranch $ NewName git push origin - u $ NewName } save the profile.ps1 and open a new go to repo path call the function and give it a new branch name, it should update local and remote branch for you. here is the successful output: C:\Repos\proj [ name1 ≡ ] > RenameLocalBranch name2 Total 0 ( delta 0 ) , reused 0 ( delta 0 ) To https: // xxxxxxxxx.visualstudio.com / _git / xxxxxxxxxx - [ deleted ] name1 * [ new branch ] name2 -> name2 Everything up - to - date Branch ' name2 ...

I was cleaning my closet and found my HTC Incredible S (which I had bought in 2011). I gave the phone some juice for few hours and booted it, surprisingly it was working :) I thought about rooting it and flashing with new rom in market. I searched xda fourm and found this  (Cynogen 13 based Rom for Incredible S). I started to flash it. but, my bootloader was still locked. I went to HTCDev to unlock the bootloader. but Fastboot was not able to detect my phone. After 3 hrs of internet searching I found this simple fix. I think this can work with all the android phones. you need to create a registry entry (below) and reboot the system(PC). [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\usbflags\0BB40FF00100] "SkipBOSDescriptorQuery"=hex:01,00,00,00 after the registry fix, it worked liked a charm. Thanks

function GetRandomPassword { $ strSrc = ' 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!@#$^&(){}[],. ' $ max = $ strSrc.Length $ strPass = '' for ($ i = 0 ; $ i -lt 20 ; $ i += 1 ) { $ index = Get-Random - Minimum 0 - Maximum $ max $ c = $ strSrc [$ index ] $ strPass += $ c } return $ strPass } create the above function in your powershell profile and you can generate random password at anytime. Happy Coding!!

I was having hard time to find the reason why I was not able to find a custom method in a .Net DLL. Find your Assembly: PS C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts > [appdomain]::currentdomain . getassemblies() | Where - Object FullName - Match "MyAssembly" GAC Version Location --- ------- -------- False v4 . 0.30319 C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts\Tools\MyAssembly . dll PS C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts & gt; $ a = [appdomain]::currentdomain . getassemblies() | Where - Object FullName - Match "MyAssembly" PS C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts & gt; $ a GAC Version Location --- ------- -------- False v4 . 0.30319 C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts\Tools\MyAssembly . dll When I was trying to get the Types in the assembly, I was getting the exception: PS C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\_DevOps_CI\Scripts > ...

If you want to save credentials in a file and later want to use it in a script here is the trick. You can use  PowerShell's built-in XML serialization (Clixml): #1. Get The Credentials $cred = Get-Credentails #2. Save the Credentails as a file $cred | Export-CliXml "MyFileName.xml" #3. Read the Credentials back from file $myCred = Import-CliXml "<Path>/MyFileName.xml"

I came across this simple query which can list out all the references columns of a particular column SELECT t.name AS table_name, SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS schema_name, c.name AS column_name FROM sys.tables AS t INNER JOIN sys.columns c ON t.OBJECT_ID = c.OBJECT_ID WHERE c.name LIKE '%ColumnName%' ORDER BY schema_name, table_name; It will give all the reference tablename and schema name along with column name as well