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I am thinking about the process of tracking Win Services that are developed by the company. The tracking information will go to a central location (database, text file, ...) and would include details such as: Name, location, Start/End DateTime, Current User, and any other details that may come up during the discussion.
This is coming from the fact I am working at a company that has several custom Win Services running across several servers and, dare I say, possible, local machines.
I have been tasked with modifing a Win Service that monitors an inbox on an Exchange server and process incoming emails. This service eventually moves the email from the inbox to another folder. The service is currently running in the test environment and moving the emails. This keeps me from testing my code, because the emails are being moved by the other service that is running "somewhere"
My thought is to create a class library that could be added to a Win Service that would allow this tracking to a central repository. Then create a UI for easy viewing of retime information for ALL custom developed services across the network.
Would love some input on this idea. I hope I gave enough details to get my thoughts across.
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At one place where I wrote a bunch of Windows Services I baked that in from the beginning, with a central database table to contain configuration and some runtime info (last start, last stop, etc.); I don't know how you could add it to existing systems, especially if you don't even know which systems are running what to begin with.
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My thought is to really push this moving forward with new services. As we go back and modify the older services we could add this.
If it works out well, maybe they will create a project to go back and modify the older ones. At least the critical ones. 
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You could use the WMI to scan the network list out all of the services on every machine. Little parsing to figure out a common list of normally installed services to expose the random creatures?
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Good call.
I did put together a WMI query to find the services. The goal is to use this to get started with the tracking process. Then use the class library in each service to "register" and/or "unregister" themselves from a central repository.
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Now, I already got banned for the stream of jokes I posted. Just today someone is going through and marking them as spam/abuse.... even though it's old news.
Curious now if I could get rebanned for it. I'm not so sure that should be an automatic process.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Here's an idea.... Stop posting things that could get you banned?
Just a thought.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I did. This is old news, otherwise I wouldn't bother saying anything about it.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Send an email to the webmaster/Chris and team, if you are concerned about someone giving you a hard time.
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Slacker007 wrote: hard time
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I'm not sure, but I think as far as abuse votes go it's one sock-puppet-one-vote against the member, no matter how many different messages the SP marks as abuse. Certainly, I haven't noticed serial abusers or spammers disappearing any faster when I abuse vote a dozen or more of their "offerings".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Time does not heal bad jokes, once a stnker, always a stinker. So somebody just stumbled on to your old jokes and they were found to be still offensive.
Curious though, how is it you got banned but the jokes remained?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I'm not sure.
I don't really mind the votes, I just remember that the banning is automated. Seeing a few of the posts got the vote, It got me thinking if it could happen again.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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loctrice wrote: It got me thinking if it could happen again
You want for us to test that out for you? 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Curious though, how is it you got banned but the jokes remained?
This is the bit that confussed me - sure the hamsters have it in their power to restore a user but squash the offending items...
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Just edit the messages and remove the content.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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hey, there's an idea. Wonder why I didn't think of that.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Why not delete the old messages ?
By the way, I forgive you 
cheers, Bill
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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Haven´t paid attention to your specific jokes, but I regularly get an abusive report for the MQOTD too. I can imagine some people being self-righteous enough to be trigger happy with the spam/abusive button. That´s life I guess.
You do know about the soapbox, right ? 
If I´m in doubt about something I usually post it there...
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Yeah, that's where I posted them at. I understand that the nature of comedy leaves people offended sometimes, so I wouldn't typically post a joke anywhere else. Even if I think it's harmless.
It seemed to be a string of baby jokes that made people get all Upset[^]
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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We've employed some apprentices at work, I've been prepping materials for them. One essential skill is the correct use of sites such as this.
I'm trying to write guidelines about using* code from dev sites. The slide I've produced looks like:
You must understand any code you “lift” from the interwebz.
It has to be maintainable - cobbling stuff together is not acceptable.
It would be pretty unusual for the code to be exactly what you want, it will probably need some tailoring, and to do this you will need to understand it.
Two questions:
I'm about to state that not all answers that appear helpful actually are - you need to make a judgement call on this. Does anyone have an example in Q&A- Any other hints - the must be more guidance
* I've a separate slide about using the site generally, including about being a good citizen (such as following site guidance).
[Edit]
I've found my bad answer - I won't list it here as it was an honest attempt to help the OP. Wrong, but honest.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
modified 11-Sep-14 11:58am.
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Keith Barrow wrote: I'm about to state that not all answers that appear helpful actually are - you need to make a judgement call on this. Does anyone have an example in Q&A
Almost anything from He Who Must Not Be Named... 
Keith Barrow wrote: Any other hints - the must be more guidance
Include links and references to where you got the material from.
Don't use "clever code" - if you can't understand it fairly quickly then it's just going to waste more time when it needs alteration.
Comment it! Tell us what you are doing, not what the code is doing.
Follow good practices: naming conventions, private fields - public properties, parameterised queries, ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Almost anything from He Who Must Not Be Named.
I need wrong, not regurgitated - I've found a relatively decent recent example of incorrect guidance.
OriginalGriff wrote: Include links and references to where you got the material from.
This one is quite useful actually, at my great age I don't tend to lift from the Internet any more, but when I do I'm working on an unusual case- I do leave a link under these circs. The clever code bit I've added too.
[Edit]
Forgot my original purpose - to say thanks!
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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You're welcome!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I question a team/team member that has to be told this. Not one person on our software team needs this discussion.
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