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The help forum does not really help:

The phone registration service returned an unexpected ErrorCode value.
Try this:
Check App Hub site for service alerts and/or retry after a few hours.

I have discovered that when the phone is connected to Zune, the internet connection in the telephone is broken, although it has wifi connected. So I became suspicious and finally started Wireshark. And indeed, Wireshark has answer to all your network questions. Zune bypasses proxy settings of the Windows 7 system. My setting say, it should neither use proxy nor try to discover one. I do this on purpose, because the default company proxy is too restrictive (Facebook blocking). But hey, this is not a forbidden site:

CONNECT developerservices.windowsphone.com:443 HTTP/1.0
Host: developerservices.windowsphone.com:443
Content-Length: 0
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache

HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required (Access is denied)
Via: 1.1 GFI WebMonitor Proxy
Proxy-Authenticate: Kerberos
Proxy-Authenticate: Negotiate
Proxy-Authenticate: NTLM
Connection: Keep-Alive
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 0

Of course, it bypasses settings, discovered a proxy but it is not able to authenticate – even though it offers NTLM!

In order to make any debugging even worse, it does some connections directly. So Zune will let you login to your account. It just uses different way how connect your phone to the internet – it will not let you even update the software if you are connected over proxy which requires authentication.

Registration of the company developer account has been a nightmare too, days of waiting. Support finally contacted us, but apparently things got fixed without their intervention.

Should I mention 10 steps of software update, which took 30 minutes, 3 automatic restarts and at the end told me it has more updates for me? How many of them were there waiting in the queue? Cancel.

If you want to remove password expiration do the following:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Type wmic
3. Right click listed program wmic and “Run as Administrator”
4. Now you can list accounts that have password expiration set:
   path Win32_UserAccount where PasswordExpires=TRUE get Name
5. And you can disable it – you will be prompted to confirm the change:
   path Win32_UserAccount where PasswordExpires=TRUE set PasswordExpires=FALSE

This is not really a missing answer, however, there are plenty of solutions which do not work well, or contain typos – mostly because of different quotes used in the command. This script allows changing the expiration at once for all users that have it set – and it does not contain any quotes

Anyway, this is so far the biggest failure I have encountered when using Windows 7 Home Premium edition: Force password expiration in home environment and do not provide a GUI how to disable it.

Error during signature verification.
Error encountered while validating:
Internal cryptographic library error.
Error Code: 0×2711

– Czech equivalent —
Chyba v průběhu ověřování podpisu.
Při ověřování se vyskytla chyba:
Interní chyba šifrovací knihovny.
Kód chyby: 0×2711

There is no info available on the internet what does it mean, so I contacted support and the answer was easy – I was signing the document with backup of my private key – there was no certificate present in that file, so there was not way how to calculate hash of the document. The solution is to export the private key including your certificate.

if [ -n "${SUDO_USER}" -a -d "/home/${SUDO_USER}/.vim" ]; then
alias vim="/usr/bin/vim --cmd \"set runtimepath+=/home/${SUDO_USER}/.vim\" -u /home/${SUDO_USER}/.vimrc"
fi


It took me quite a lot of googling to find the right combintation of $VIMRC, $VIMRUNTIME, $VIMINIT, $VIMHOME – and finally as you can see, none of those variables is used. Very usefull during debugging was to run vim with -V. to see where it looks for its configuration. And yes, I have tried putting the code to set the runtimepath to the .vimrc, but it would have to be conditional and this seems more clean.

# Or use just when needed
LC_TIME="POSIX" sar

sar is a command from systat package. It provides output in AM/PM format by default. Setting the locale LC_TIME to POSIX changes the time format to 24.

# Switch back to DHCP
netsh interface ip set dns "LAN" source=dhcp
ipconfig /flushdns


All this is done to work with the real domain names already during development – no worry, we do some things by changing the top level domain to .dev, but I simply need both.

Now I need a tool which tells me quickly whether I’m in prod or dev. I was using ShowIP Firefox Extension , but it somehow behaved incorrectly for me – mainly looked like some caching problems.

So I decided to write my own extension which would be dead simple and would simply show me the current IP address of the domain loaded in the current tab. So I wrote it using Mozilla Add-on Builder. It took me less time than to write this post (ok, I have spent 2 years developing AllPeers and some months as Mozilla contractor on Firefox 3).

After installing the SiteIP Extension customize your toolbar and add the star icon (the default icon for extensions) to your toolbar.

Missing drivers

When enabling the features, the installation requested usbhub.sys and usbd.sys. The first file was recommended by MS to be taken from the Windows XP SP3. I have downloaded the SP3 and extracted the file using 7zip:

7za x WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe i386\usb*.*

But the installation requested another file – usbd.sys, which is not part of the XP SP3 – so I have copied the file from my Windows 7 (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\usbd.sys).

Password prompt

With enabled integration features the VPC asks for password. As it turned out, it tries to do remote desktop connection to itself. It suggests Admin user but Password1 does not work – apparently the Admin account is missing completely. IE User does not work either, because this user does not have password and cannot make remote desktop connection to this PC. So the solution is to give IE User a password and to save the credentials during start up (you may need to delete credentials of the Admin user before using properties on the .VMC files.

This way I have solved all the problems I did not have when running the Compatibility images on Windows Vista with earlier images.

Zatím jediný způsob jak se toho nadobro zbavit pro mě byl zásah v registrech – smazal jsem rozložení z registrů:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts\00020409]
“Layout Text”=”United States-International”
“Layout Display Name”=”@%SystemRoot%\\system32\\input.dll,-5026″
“Layout File”=”KBDUSX.DLL”
“Layout Id”=”0001″