Not able to connect Dell BH200 headset from vista

I was trying to connect my Dell BH200 headset from my Dell Inspiron1525 installed with vista OS. I was facing several problems and had to spend bit time to troubleshoot and make it work.

1. In case if you are facing similar problems this steps may help you and save your time.
   When i tried to connect the Bluetooth Stereo Audio from Bluetooth settings--> Audio tab, It tried connecting but disconnected again immediately.
   I fixed this by enabling this device in checking the Controlpanel-->Audio settings-->Headset properties and set that as defaut. [The device gets disabled sometime if it is switched-off while connected with the system].
2. Another point to be takencare is when we try to add this headset using "Add new bluetooth device option" the device should be in the pairing mode. In Dell BH200 we need to keep pressing the power button till the Blue LED flashes quickly. Because during the first press it will be in power-on mode(Blue LED solid On) and not in pairing mode.
   

Windows advance search missing

Unlike the WindowsXP era we do not have the straightforward option to get the advancesearch option in vista and windowsserver2008.

Here is a small shortcut to get the advancesearch option.

1. Click on the start menu
2. Type something in the search box and click search.
3. We can see a link called "Search Everywhere". Click on the link.
4. We will get an explorer window with AdvanceSearch options enabled.

Other option is we need to wait till the search is over. But generally it will take time and it will be bit frustating to wait for it.

InfoPath form .udcx data connections not working

We are using lot of InfoPath data connection .udcx files for populating the drop down boxes used in the InfoPath forms. During one of the deployment we found that the changes made in the connection string was not getting updated and the InfoPath forms were keep throwing the errors.

While trouble shooting the issue we found that the Approval status of the Data connection files were showing the pending status. We made the files approve and the InfoPath forms were able to take the latest changes from the .Udcx files.(Publishing features were activated in our site)

We found that there is a way to make the .Udcx connections working even with the "Pending" status. We should modify the logged in user's permission level to have the "Approve" access in the Site Settings-->Advanced Permission --> Settings -->Permission Levels-->[permission level name (for eg contribute)

Edit in Datasheet view is not working

As part of one of our deployment we had to modify lot of data in a SharePoint list, which was used by the InfoPath forms for populating the dropdowns. To make the deployment steps short we gave the steps to use the Edit in Datasheet view option. But when the deployment team was executing the steps, they were not able to use the Edit in Datasheet view and they were getting some activeX related issues.

We were troubleshooting this issue and found that this problem is mostly related to a office component which corrupts because of some reason. We followed the steps mentioned below and it resolved the error.

1.Go go to this directory:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12
2.Then delete OWSSUPP.DLL after taking a backup
3.Then run Microsoft Office Diagnostics (Start-Programs-Microsoft Office-Microsoft Office Tools - Microsoft Office Diagnostics).It will verify your installation and recreate the OWSSUPP.DLL file.

w700i flight mode settings

I was trying to use my mobile phone Sony ericsson w700i in flight mode and it took a while to find out the settings. By default these settings will be turned off. So we can't use the phone in case the SIM card is not there or if we would like to use it in the areas where the mobile phone transmitters must be turned off. Check out the following simple settings

Menu-->Settings-->General tab-->Start-up menu