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For anyone that works with IIS, and needs to build some automation — there is help! I did some searching and I came up with a few useful commands (amazingly from MS itself). First is “HOW TO: Manage Web Sites and Web Virtual Directories by Using Command-Line Scripts in IIS 6.0” — This is great…
Last night I was trying to install Service Pack 1 for Windows 2003 on our main developement server — it took three (3) hours to finally get it installed. I had the problem where it was hanging on the step “Backing Up Registry”. It did this to me twice, I tried rebooting, shutting down services…
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I ran across the concept known simply as “Microsoft Free Fridays”. Originally I belive it was written as an apache module, but thats too much work. On the other hand I like mod_rewrite — so I shall use that. So starting from now on most all of my websites will be MSIE Free Fridays. mod_rewrite…
Windows Vista I ended up installing Windows Vista on a different machine than I claimed previously. The machine its installed on is yet another server (P4 2.4GHZ, 1GB RAM, Onboard GPU, Gigabit NIC & 40GB Harddrive). First I’ll say I like the installer for the most part. Its a beta still, but it is graphical,…
I’m sure anyone stopping by here has already read that IE7 Beta 1 & Windows Vista Beta 1 have been released to MSDN. Nifty for me, I have an MSDN subscription so I’ve downloaded both. Vista is a 2.4gig download (and obviously is an ISO for a bootable DVD). I’m currently installing vista on an…
So you bought Per User CAL’s for Windows 2003 Terminal Service and they dont work? Well, I’ve been there. I spent two hours figuring out why they didn’t work because a number of my users were getting disconnected with the message: “The remote session was disconnected because the local computer client access license could not…
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