I was working on a server when I noticed an error in the Windows Event Log in this format Event Type: Error Event Source: DCOM Event Category: None Event ID: 10016 User: Computer: SERVER1 Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {ABF05265-635E-44B0-A28F-AEA45247ACA0} to the […]
It took me a few weeks to get back to blogging due to a lot of changes happening. But then, again, great ideas are always worth spreading.A few weeks ago, I was privileged to assist Microsoft Singapore in providing software assistance to non-profit organizations. Normally, it only required reading thru some documentation and providing some […]
I made a mistake of not having a backup of my base virtual image for testing and back in the old days, I used the NewSID tool from Sysinternals. Unfortunately, I am not back in the good old days as the tool is only supported to run on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 whereas […]
This was from my old blog entry from way back November 2006 and remembered how easy it was to fool SQL Server when trying to replace disks. I was configuring a clustered SQL Server 2008 on a Windows Server 2008 and testing the disk resources for failover. I tried failing over one of the disks […]
And so I was asked to blog about it. I have posted the details in here. This is part 1 of a 3 part series on building a Windows Server 2008 Cluster. Feel free to post comments and questions regarding this blog post as I am still working on the full details based on this […]