>I wish this was available years back – SQL Server 2005 Always On Technologies Part 1

>In response to requests made after I did a presentation on TechEd Asia 2007 on SQL Server 2005 Always On Technologies, I’ve made the content available on my blog. In as much as we want to, there are not as many options in SQL Server 2000 to address disaster recovery caused by human errors. And […]

>Classic Active Server Pages Allowed? I have ASP.NET 2.0

>During my installation of System Center Configuration Manager 2007, I intentionally had the Active Server Pages setting to Prohibited in IIS 6.0. This is because I always limit my configuration to only those that I use. Since I assumed that .NET 2.0 is required to install SCCM 2007, I was assuming that it is using […]

>Installing SCCM 2007 Clients using Software Update Point

> After installing System Center Configuration Manager 2007, we need to deploy the SCCM client. There are a lot of ways to deploy the SCCM client but I will be focusing more on using the Software Update Point as I have been using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for patch management. The first thing you […]

Making a fool out of MSDB

I was restoring a SQL Server instance on a different server for DR purposes – including system databases. What I have overlooked was the fact that restoring the msdb database would mean keeping the existing settings of the old instance into the new one. While I was trying to delete the database maintenance plans and […]