Monthly Archives: September 2006

This just in, new rules for liquid ban.  You can now bring 1 quart sized plastic bag of liquid in your carry on.  Plus, you can take liquids purchased from the concession stores after you have passed through security… TSA … Continue reading →

Best Practices for Windows Clustering   Also, if you use automated monitoring, you should disable event log replication… Cluster  /prop EnableEventLogReplication=0

In this line of work, one of the things that normally comesup is having 3rd-partyapplications that would like to authenticate agains AD.  Here are some questions that should be asked when such a requirement lands on your plate:   1. … Continue reading →

I like free so here goes the list… Best Freeware Utilities PC World’s 101 Best Free Utilities

Holy Grail of Synchronization

Some KB articles to look at for transferring logons between SQL instances or databases and orphaned accounts…   KB 246133: How to transfer logins and passwords between instances of SQL Server   KB 246133: "Troubleshooting Orphaned Users" Topic in Books … Continue reading →

From Brian Madden’s web site, authored by Michael Burke   http://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?ID=269

I have loaded RC1 of Vista on my DV6000 laptop.  So far, so good.   I have not experienced the lockups that were happening in the previous build.  I was also able to successfully load the following software:   VMWARE Server … Continue reading →

If you missed Teched 2006 as I did, here are some Technet sessions posted on the web…   Teched 2006 Sessions