This was a booger, as the install kept bombing, even thought it said I needed latest SP.

This was the FIX: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969985 

Took me a few to figure that out, and find this KB article !

Install piece of cake after that.

Archived from http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/   What version of SQL Server do I have?

This unofficial build chart lists all of the known KB articles, hotfixes and other builds of MS SQL Server 2008, 2005, 2000 and 7.0 that have been released.

Useful articles:

321185 How to identify your SQL Server version and edition913089 How to obtain the latest service pack for SQL Server 2005Microsoft SQL Server HomeMicrosoft SQL Server Developer CenterMicrosoft TechNet: Microsoft SQL Server TechCenterMicrosoft Knowledge BaseSqlservr.exe versions...

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These errors for me were occurring when trying to change the “log on as” user for SQL Server via SQL Server Configuration Manager

WMI Provider Error [call to WMI Provider returned error code 0x8007481d]

To work around this problem, add the user account to the SQLServerMSSQLUser$ComputerName$InstanceName group. To do this, follow these steps:

Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers. In the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in, click Users.  (or in the local groups in computer manager) ...

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To add environment variable overrides, so IIS doesn’t read the system environment variables, but rather reads it from a reg key Do the following (from a dos prompt, or manually but the key in)

REG.EXE add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\IISADMIN\Parameters\Environment" /v TMP /t REG_SZ /d "C:\windows\temp" /f

REG.EXE add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\IISADMIN\Parameters\Environment" /v TEMP /t REG_SZ /d "C:\windows\temp" /f

Then do an ‘iisreset’ / restart IIS to force IIS to re-read the variables and activate it.

VOILA !

I found this when troubleshooting a Microsoft Jet DB error.  Jet uses environment variables for “TEMP” which in recent SP’s for Windows 2003 get set to ‘%CURRENTUSER%\Application Data\Temp” which doesn’t exist for “Network Services” or whatever the IIS app pool is running as, so the easy override is to force it back to c:\windows\temp. Note: Sometimes, the temp variables get reset when adding new applications/sites to IIS, or when doing...

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READ COMPLETELY BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING

 

Here was the error I received when running a maintenance plan

Request to run job XYZ (>) refused because the job has been suspended.

I checked in the ~/MSSQL/Logs/SQLAGENT.OUT And I get: Subsystem 'SSIS' could not be loaded (reason: Access is denied) AHA, now to troubleshoot that

I opened up procmon, and started a watch excluding Operations containing Reg, and only including path containing my MSSQL folders…Set autoscroll, and restarted SQL Agent… I found: ~ MSSQL\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn\SQLDTSSS.DLL  QueryOpen SUCCESS Odd, that meant it’s not an NT permission error (to me) But I still got “Subsystem 'SSIS' could not be loaded (reason: Access is denied)” in the SQLAGENT.LOG folder humm… Reading more in the procmon output.. I find a “FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS” on MSSQL\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn\SQLDTSSS.DLL Maybe this is it???  Google finds nothing (Great) and to humor myself, neither does...

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Shell commands are used when you want to access relatively inaccessible locations in Windows. They can also be used to create desktop shortcuts.

Windows 7 has a few new shell commands.

Some of the useful ones are:

shell:CommonRingtones
shell:Device Metadata Store
shell:DocumentsLibrary
shell:ImplicitAppShortcuts
shell:Libraries
shell:MusicLibrary
shell:OtherUsersFolder
shell:PublicSuggestedLocations
shell:User Pinned
shell:PicturesLibrary
shell:Ringtones
shell:UsersLibrariesFolder
shell:VideosLibrary

Source: TheWindowsClub

Ever wanted a way to get to rather useful shortcuts, without having to go through a very awkward way to access them?

Try making a shortcut on your desktop (or wherever) give it a good looking icon, to the following commands.. or just run them from the run command.

Enjoy!

(found these online, and absolutely needed to archive them here)

Add/Remove Programs RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL appwiz.cpl,,0

Content Advisor RunDll32.exe msrating.dll,RatingSetupUI

Control Panel RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL

Delete Temporary Internet Files: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8

Delete Cookies: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 2

Delete History: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 1

Delete Form Data: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 16

Delete Passwords: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 32

Delete All: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess...

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Fixing the IE 8 warning - ‘Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?’ In IE 7 and ealier, this dialog would cause annoyance to users but generally didn’t cause any other significant problems. This was because it was worded in such a way that most users would click on the Yes button and allow non-secure content to be downloaded.

However, the wording in the IE 8 version of this dialog has changed:

To download the content a user would now have to click on the No button. As we know, most people using the web only scan text and avoid reading it if at all possible! They will usually go for the Yes button if there is not an OK button

Some sites are going to find that their secure pages in IE 8 have the following problems:

Any non-secure HTTP image beacons used for analytics...

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This blog post is just a test on using Windows live Writer on my workstation.

Kewl

Hopefully this means I will be posted more blogs now, it’s soooo frickin easy.

(Even easy upload of pics) I love it!

I got the how-to on using LiveWriter on my site: This link at DNNprofessor. (Thanks)

I was having problems purging my data using

exec sp_delete_backuphistory @oldest_date='1/1/2010'

in my msdb database, so I instead ran the following code to purge the data successfully

Just run on source, then run the output on destination.  Voila!

1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press ENTER.
5. Type exit, and then press ENTER.

Be able to Right Click on any directory, and make a "filelist.txt" file for that directory.  So simple, I do not know why this hasn't always been around!

Get a directory listing of all files in a directory and automatically output it to a txt file.

Quick down and Dirty script to clone hard Drives in the free version of ESXi (assuming you have ssh access)

Just a snippit I needed to run to resolve an issue - it is a dos script that re-takes ownership of a roaming profile, then re-sets up the user security, so it still runs

BE CAREFUL

A bunch of notes I found online about terminal services roaming profiles

(targeted at a 2008 TS, at least that is what the article is referencing)

Is This Possible?  NO, but you CAN ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL YOU WANT ANYWAY...Sorta, but it works !!!!

Getting queries to use multiple clustered indexes.

Determine the MTU Size Limits of the full path of an internet route

Can't figure out how to Activate Windows 2008 Server - If you installed from a Volume License CD, it never prompted you for the license key, so it will not activate.  Here is how to change the Product Key & then Activate the server.. easy!
(I've also included a number of other common activation stages you can "jump" to - and a shortcut on how to activate a windows 2008 core installation)

how to use gdb to debug something in asterisk (I used this to help the chan_sccp_b developers to find a bug in the module unloading/loading process

Force Windows to recheck and fix any "Windows File Protection" files - just a reminder of sfc commands

Find Windows netstat port usage by Process id/name

Just a "hack" way to fix this issue, without restarting the entire machine.

Here is the quick how-to on easily installing NLB (which is no longer installed by default in 2008)

I needed to disable AJAX on the profile pages in DNN due to a 4.8 bug, but I was using ajax in lots of other places, and didn't want to turn it off everywhere, so heres the fix.