Android and windows,hotmail contacts not syncing.

I recently had to get a new phone because my trusty old Nokia WP stopped charging altogether. I broke the USB port on the phone.

They really should be having a backup port on the phones. It takes a whopping amount to repair once they are out of warranty.

Anyways, I got this new Android phone and added my Hotmail account. The contacts synced perfectly the first time. But then I had to factory reset it once and when I added the account I could not see any contact syncing. Not matter how many times I reconfigured my account on the phone. The contacts just did not sync. I stumbled on this post which talks about making changes to my windows live account.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-oapps/outlookcom-not-syncing-all-my-contacts-to-my/5a30f3dc-1bfb-475a-a67c-b282d1cd9c89

But sadly I did not have the time for someone to make changes to my account. So, I made a backup of my account contacts by logging to the account from a computer. Then deleted all the contacts from my windows live account. Waited a couple of minutes, signed out.

and signed back in. Not really sure if that was required, though. Imported all the contacts from file after cleaning up the duplicates using MSExcel's "Remove duplicates button" and without reconfiguring my account on the phone all the contacts started syncing.

Pool Manager Issues

When an OpsMgr 2012 architecture is « big » and when we have Pool manager issues, the following keys should be created on all MS HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\HealthService\Parameters\PoolManager PoolLeaseRequestPeriodSeconds DWORD 600 PoolNetworkLatencySeconds DWORD 120

Taken from below link.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2714482

Manually run partitioning and grooming on SCOM database

The following query if run on the SCOM db will run the grooming on all the partition tables. There are 122 partition tables in SCOM 2012. This will run for each one of them as their Iscurrent value is set to 1.

/*-------------------------------*/

declare @counter int  set @counter = 0  while @counter < 122

begin

exec p_PartitioningAndGrooming

set @counter = @counter + 1

print 'The counter is ' + cast(@counter as char)

end

/*-----------------------------*/