Crystal Report 10.2.3600.00 on Windows Server 2008 R2

After trying almost everything on net to make Crystal report work , finally i got it working on our Production Server which had the following Configuration

OS : Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 bit)
IIS : 7.5

• Just install Crystal Reports Redistributable Package for 64 bit
• In IIS, set Application Pool as Classic
• Set Allow 32 bit Application as FALSE
• Set Connection User as the NetworkService
• Assign the user  NetworkService to have write access to your Windows/Temp folder.
• Assign the user  NetworkService to have write access to your Website folder (if you are writting temporary Crystal Reports inside your application folder as we were doing).  

And that's it :) after delaying the GO LIVE activity for a week, finally found the above settings can  solve the issue :)

Recollecting Memories

26th Dec 2010 - Sunday 
Time : 06:30 DST (GMT + 4)

My phone starts ringing , i thought it was just the alarm as i had the same ringtone . so its office time... oh wait.. its a call ? call from Abbas bhai (my brother-in-law) from Pakistan .. *did the kids dialed it accidently? * . I waited for couple of more seconds... then OK lets just pick it up...

Abbas Bhai : Murtaza are you awake?
Me : yea was just abt to get up for office
Abbas Bhai : Murtaza ur father's health isn't well. We are in Agha Khan and they've take him for angioplasty. wait aunty wants to talk.
Mom : *in a low voice* Murtaza  .. ya papa wasn't feeling well so we are here.  we woke u up right? ok talk to Abbas bhai
Me : errr okkay.
Abbas bhai : Murtaza, its better that you come back to Pakistan as earliest as possible. Conditions is little critical  plus ajao toh acha hai . I'm about to call ur elder bro (Abbas) aswell.
Me : *thinking that i have no idea wat is angioplasty still this is critical. They would have never asked me to come back even though they know its my business trip and its a working day and i have arround 15 more days work left*
Abbas bhai : If you can change your ticket then it would b great else get a new one ok?
Me : ok
 *call finished*

*moving from here to there, thinking what to do? Pack my luggage? Call Project manager that I need to go back? How to get a new ticket? Will my current will get converted? Do I have enough money to get a new one? Ok I’ll start dumping my luggage*

I knew my family was alone in khi so who could help them? Give support ? be my substitute? My friends J just them I smsed my friends (Umair , MIT , Zeeshan) the people who can arrange a car and reach there asap and inform other close friends :)

Called Khuzeema bhai to ask him how he used to deal in such situation while working at Avanza, then called Shoaib (Admin Avanza-ME) then called my current Project manager and told him the entire scenario and that I have to leave.

*2^nd CALL from Pakistan*
Abbas Bhai: Murtaza, did u get the ticket?
Me: Trying to get all the things lined up but I’ll get it somehow.
Abbas bhai: ok get it soon as doctor is taking him for surgery as they can’t do angioplasty at this stage.

Around 8 DST, when almost everyone had woke up, everyone was trying to help me to book the tickets. Thanks a million to Sajid Bhai who kept making calls and at last got me to a conclusion that thought my visa was EMIRATES only but since I have an emergency and there are no tickets available, I can leave from PIA but need to send my visa copy to emirates after reaching Pakistan. I can still remember how I rushed to PIA’s office and booked my ticket. Was dying to get the ticket and didn’t care about anything. And I finally had my ticket in hand at 11am DST.

By 11:30/12:00 am my Project manager came to the apartment to get the updated code which I was supposed to deliver on 26^th at the client’s end. Recharged my mobile balance and spend 2 hours thinking WHAT TO DO NOW… ALL PACKED.. FLIGHT IS AT 2:30. HOW WILL BE DAD?

Called Karachi that I have my ticket with me and I’ll be reaching around 5:30 PST.

Time: 1 pm
*Umair’s call from Karachi*: hey murti. How’s uncle? I just woke up cuz of Sunday
Me: np bro. but the last time I talked, they were taking him for the operation.. bro handle things there ok? I’m reaching at 5:30.
Umair: don’t worry bro, we’ll reach asap. And we will pick u up from airport aswell. No need for taxi
Me: alright. Keep me updated.

I don’t know how I passed those 2 hours at the airport and the entire flight. Stupid PIA people were only showing the DISTANCE and time left on the screen and those small kids shouting errrr I wanted to SHOUT idher tension hai tum logo ko shor suja howa hai :@

*Karachi Airport*
Finally reached Karachi airport and my friends took me first for the dinner (as per my mom’s order) then to the hospital where we stayed for 2 weeks. Dad had a open heart surgery and was still critical (mashallah sey fine now). I guess I can discuss the hospital stories in some other post. I am thankful to have my gr8 friends with me; Faizan , Arsalan , Mehdi , Maria , Umair , Zeeshan who were there at that time. And thnx to those who also donated some blood. And Mohammed Ali and Shahrukh who couldn’t reach but did call :) And not to forget Sajid bhai

Dua Kumail & Ziyarat of Imam Hussain (AS) by Jan Ali Kazmi - p2

  Dua Kumail & Ziyarat of Imam Hussain (AS) by Jan Ali Kazmi - p2

worth listening.. it tells how less important is our sorrows against those of Imam Hussain (A.S) and his companions 

The Promise

This would be the final and concluding part of my previous poem "it was never 'us' it was always you and me" 

All those pieces of my heart

which were shattered far apart

I kept trying to bring them near

and to put the life in next gear

Today I had to break up a promise

which I did to myself last year

not to come alone

and have a friend with me along 

I wasn’t so strong to handle this so early
the sparking smile and the memories
all came back to me within seconds
and will haunt me for more years

I can only wish you; a good life
with all the happiness and prosperity 

after all it was never ‘us’ always you and me :)

- Murtaza 

Life changing Dates

19^th Jan 2008: If-Then-Else Clause of Life  :)

29^th Oct 2010: Implementation of the If clause

30^th Jan 2011: Evaluation # 1 of if clause.

8^th Feb 2011:  Evaluation # 2 of if clause.

13^th Feb 2011: Result day, condition failed, threw an error resulting neither in If clause nor in Else clause.

And i still remember the dates !!! :)

Everybody Hurts

Posting another lyrics of a song Sang by REM and a beautiful cover done by THE CORRS. great lyrics :)


When your day is long
And the night
The night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough of this life
Well hang on

Don't let yourself go
Cause everybody cries
And everybody hurts
Sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it's time to sing along
(When your day is night alone)
Hold on, hold on
(If you feel like letting go)
Hold on
If you think you've had too much of this life
Well hang on

Cause everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts

Don't throw your hand
Oh, no
Don't throw your hand
When you feel like you're alone
No, no, no, you're not alone

If you're on your own
In this life
The days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much
Of this life
To hang on

Well, everybody hurts
Sometimes, everybody cries
And everybody hurts
Sometimes

And everybody hurts
Sometimes

So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
(Everybody hurts
You are not alone)

2nd Dec 2010

heard this funny poetry on some tv channel in dubai

"kon kehta hai key tum befawa ho
ya or baat hai key tum muj sey khafa ho
or agar tum khafa ho toh
jaldi sey idher sey dafa ho "









lol