Being a lazy administrator as I am, I try to minimize the amount of mouse-clicks I need to make to retrieve information about something on a Windows platform. As I have been using Microsoft Hyper-V on a bunch of my test machines, I always check if a VM is up and running before I power […]
I have been out of my non-tech blogosphere for quite some time as my current job is taking a lot out of me. Still, I manage to keep my Twitter account updated which, for me, is like my tiny version of this blog. With all of the changes that happened to me in the past […]
I get to deal with this type of error on a regular basis and, most of the time, end up recommending updating the SQL Server server principal name (SPN) using the setspn utility or simply rebooting the server. I was reading thru the SQL Server CSS blog today and found out another reason for this […]
I did a demo fest on installing SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster on a Windows Server 2008 system a few weeks back for a user group event and the attendees requested that I post more information about how to do a slipstream of service pack in a SQL Server 2008 installation. With Windows Server 2008 […]
A lot of you may probably ask why the need to enable wireless on a server operating system. Well, if you’re like me who runs a server operating system on a laptop for testing purposes, there’s a thousand and one reason why you would like to have it enabled. Now, since my Windows XP work-machine […]