I needed to look at some low-level HTTP traffic this morning, so I fired up Fiddler -- my tool of choice for this kind of thing. Unfortunately, I found that as soon as I enabled Fiddler, my browsing experience slowed to a crawl. Page requests that previously...
Since I appear to be on a roll with my blog this morning, I figured that I should write one more post about SQL Server before I get back to my "day job." I typically use SQL Server Management Studio to configure and schedule database backups, because...
Last week I discovered that many of my servers were no longer updating successfully from my intranet Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server. Looking in WindowsUpdate.log file, I noticed errors similar to the following: 2008-03-22 18:53:24:377...
As I described in my previous post , I found myself with a paltry 320 MB of free space on a 20 GB partition after installing Windows Vista and a handful of programs (which although I specified to install on a different partition, ended up "bloating" my...
Today I rebuilt my laptop to allow me to dual boot between Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. To enable this configuration, I created the following partions on my hard drive: 20 GB - Windows Server 2008 x64 20 GB - Windows Vista Ultimate...
Yesterday I had to rebuild our Test environment (TEST) to replace a VM (running on VMWare) with a physical server, due to very poor performance of the VM. When I was copying files from the VM to a different server in order to deploy our solution, robocopy...
This is a little embarrassing, but I captured numerous screenshots back in April while rebuilding my SharePoint development VM, but I never got around to writing a blog post to actually share this information with anyone. Well, it's long overdue, but...
In my previous post , I talked about splitting our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Development environment (DEV) into multiple VMs. What I did not mention, however, is the nasty bug in Windows Update that I encountered along the way. ...
One of the tasks that I completed this week was splitting our Development environment (DEV) into multiple VMs -- one SQL Server VM, one Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 VM for the SSP, and another MOSS 2007 VM for the front-end Web server...