Almost bought iPhone

11 Jul, 2008  Technology 

Yes, almost. I did not stand in queue for hours, nor did I pay a deposit to get my hands on this most sought after gadget of 2008. However with all the media hype, I was tempted to get one since I am looking for a new device. I already have Nokia E65 which is really my nerve centre of communication currently and I needed another phone for work related activities.

It so happens that I got my hands on an iPhone after all, despite ‘sell out’ at Optus World. This was at a Vodafone store around 15 km from my home. I had the phone in my hand for 15 minutes and the verdict was – this is not for me.

7 reasons, I didn’t pick up the phone.

  1. Copy Paste – Just can’t do it! Now that is ridiculous, how can you not have such a basic feature? I was stoned! I am so used to doing this for my emails, messages on my (now retired) HP iPaq 6365, that I just refuse to accept from a device that is hyped to be the gadget one must have this year!
  2. GPS – Another disappointment! Just dumping Google Maps and giving you directions is not good enough. Where is the voice command that will guide you? Can we have a proper GPS system in place please? I don’t want to be driving around trying to read directions, it is worst then talking on the mobile and driving!
  3. Bluetooth – Do you use Bluetooth to transfer photos, files or maybe connect to your laptop and possibly use as a modem? Then you are going to be disappointed! As of now, all you can use Bluetooth on the iPhone for are headset voice calls, period. Now that is not good enough for me. Thanks, but no thanks.
  4. MMS / Video – Such basic functionality is missing.You cannot send images via MMS, I know not a big thing, since you can email these, but still.  In addition to this, iPhone won’t record video for you. Duh! Another basic tossed out.
  5. Hello – Where is voice command? As mentioned above, GPS does not help you get to your destination using voice command and likewise you cannot use voice dialling.
  6. WAF – Wife acceptance factor. Even without taking the iPhone in her hand, she dismissed the phone. She’d rather I get HTC TyTN II. Being a technologist better half :) she has always had this ‘sixth sense’, one up on me. She can just look at the laptop or mobile phone and come to a conclusion – to buy or not to buy! Despite me having asked her last night, what phone should I pick up and the verdict being HTC, I went to check out the iPhone. She was right, iPhone does not technically appeal. All clear now for HTC TyTN II.
  7. Vodafone – Did nail it ultimately for me. I might have considered buying the iPhone, but the store declined to honour the AU 29$ Jumbo Cap Plan. Sorry, online store offer only. Well that might sound reasonable, but they had actually used black pen to scratch out the cheapest plan! Ridiculous!

What do you think?

Despite all these shortcoming and given that we are tech-savvy, would you give into the media hype and still buy the iPhone?

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Alpesh Nakar's Blog » Blog Archive SharePointv2: Access Denied After Changing AD Password

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SharePointv2: Access Denied After Changing AD Password

I have come across an issue when using SharePoint (SPS and WSS) with Windows XP.

Yes, we are not even into enterprise wide planning for SharePoint 2007 as yet. Wssv3 is a different story, which you may have been following through my posts and will continue to over coming months…

Coming back to Wssv2 issue/Project Server 2003. On our network we have a password policy, so users are required to
change their password every 60 days.

I have noticed a few times now that some users, after changing their network password, are prompted by SharePoint (SPS and WSS) for their credentials. After entering the information 3 times they are given an “Access Denied” error. This was also then performing an AD “Account Lockout” on their account and preventing them from accessing their email and other network services.

If the user logged onto a different machine with their new network password there would be no problem accessing SharePoint and no prompt was displayed, which meant the problem was a local issue.

It seemed as though the old username and password was being cached somewhere. This issue only seemed to affect some users and not everyone who changed their password.

After much investigating I found the cause and a workaround to resolve the issue.

Cause:

What seemed to happen was it was storing the old information in the
Password list under the Manage Passwords section under “User Accounts”.
(Start > Settings > Control Panel > User Accounts)

If a user who had ever tried accessing an Area or document library in
SharePoint where they didn’t have permission, they were getting
prompted for their credentials, and the information was being stored in
this list.

When the user changed their network password after 45 days, then went
to log back on to SharePoint, it was still recognising their old
credentials from the cached password list, so when they typed their new
password it wasn’t authenticating, because the passwords matched.

Resolution:

1. Click “Start” > “Settings” > “Control Panel”
2. Double click “User Accounts”
3. Click on the “Advanced” tab
4. In the “Passwords and .NET Passports” area click “Manage Passwords”
5. Remove everything there.

Also, delete everything in this directory:

C:Documents and SettingsYOURUSERNAMEApplication DataMicrosoftCredentials

and everything in this directory:

C:Documents and SettingsYOURUSERNAMELocal SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftCredentials

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 8:00 am and is filled under: Error, SharePoint