Eclipse Neon - now with installer

Eclipse now has a new version with very nice plash screen.

This version of Eclipse marks the eleventh release from Eclipse Foundation. Among a large number of new features, the installer file is also made available now to give you a better installation experience. More details can be seen here: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.6/.

MB2-712 Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Customization and Configuration - Passed

Just passed the MB2-712 Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Customization and Configuration exam today. The questions covered almost every corner, especially including CRM Online ones too.

[Android SDK] CPU acceleration status: HAXM is not installed on this machine

When launching an AVD with hardware acceleration one may get following message:

CPU acceleration status: HAXM is not installed on this machine

even if the respective tool is shown as installed already in Android SDK Manager.

The fix for this error is to run the intelhaxm-android.exe file in the "extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager" directory under Android SDK to finish installation.

SQL Server 2016 - A different installation experience

SQL Server 2016 has just been released and it introduced a different installation experience. Management Studio is no longer part of the main installation process, .i.e not a built-in feature for you to select in the installation wizard.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is now a stand-alone tool with new installation UI as well.

One annoying thing is that it does not allow you to specify the installation folder.

Apache mod_authnz_ldap: syntax for AuthLDAPBindDN Directive

When configuring authentication for Apache against Active Directory, one may have to specify value for AuthLDAPBindDN.
Apache documentation here http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html#authldapbinddn does not mention about the syntax of this setting. Most of people will think of a DN string like "CN=,OU=,DC=my,DC=company,DC=com". 
But that's not the case.
The syntax should be: userid@MY.COMPANY.COM

Note that the realm here should be in all uppercase.