We have a weird issue at work where an import task will occasionally hang waiting for nothing. This can sometimes be harmless, and othertimes disastrous. When it’s disastrous, it causes the main table in our database to be locked, denying other services/users from performing any inserts, or updates, or even selects. This [...]

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This year, all chaos and mayhem is going to break lose. Well, at least that’s the theory. This year the Government decided to bump the DST from April to March. This isn’t too bad, until you start to think of the impact of all the computers having the wrong time. Fortunately, [...]

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Currently I am in the process of replacing all of our servers. I just got to our FTP server, and have to replicate the data on it. xcopy and robocopy are two tools I’ve used in the past, and will be using for this too. Today, I discovered a nice little add-on [...]

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As I have an MSDN license, I am allowed access to Microsoft’s software for development reasons. I gave Office 2007 a demo run while it was in beta, and was running it inside a virtual server. The initial view on it was… “interesting“. The change of layout for most of the office [...]

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Apparently Microsoft hasn’t really considered the “user” when thinking of remote exploits. The Register has an article about another exploit that could allow a local user to elevate their privileges (Secunia have the original article). I cannot count the number of times I’ve had to handle a user issue where they opened an [...]

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Whilst moving out data center from AT&T hosting, to our corporate office data center, we kept stumbling on a bit of a problem. IIS6 had terrible performance compared with IIS5. Basically it’s been keeping myself, and several of the data center techs up all night (2-3am). The behavior of the problem is [...]

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We’ve been having a nightmare of a time migrating to the new corporate mail system. Everything from missing accounts, to bounced emails. We’ve managed to whittle the issues down, but one kept on coming up. One particular user had issues with receiving emails, and it seemed rather sporadic. When emailing her, [...]

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It’s always been one of those items on my list to try, operating entirely at work without Microsoft Windows (r) on my laptop. Yesterday I think that possibility became all the more viable. With the move of our production servers to our corporate office, and there being no direct link to the servers, [...]

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Recently we had a need to start looking at other solutions for the SQLMail service in SQL Server 2000. The service is unreliable, depends on Microsoft Outlook (2000 before SR1 preferable), and an email server. Corporate suggested a new solution called SqlAnswersMail. It is a drop in replacement for SQLMail service, and [...]

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Short of purchasing a volume license for MS Office, or deleting registry keys on every new clone, does anybody know of a way to get MS Office to change the reg key on build from a clone? Something like sysprep for office?

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