... to Windows Server 2003 is that the ASP.NET tab had taken a walk. Even running aspnet_regiis -i did nothing to solve the problem. Up till now I had no cause to fix it, but today I had to troubleshoot one of our apps that is (still! ..... more »

Such seems to be the lucky break that both Microsoft and FAST Search and Transfer caught in the recent acquisition of FAST by Microsoft. FAST needed fast relief from crippling cash flow problems generated in part from a sales strategy ..... more »

For some reason tracking the Microsoft releases has become a bit of a fixture on this blog. Anyway, I've written about the delay in the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - it's not going to be ready in time for "Heroes Happen Here" ..... more »

Microsoft and Emirates said yesterday they would set up an Innovation Lab in Dubai to develop products and services for the travel industry using Microsoft's technologies and tapping Emirates' expertise and experience in developing IT ..... more »

Business technology site InformationWeek have a comprehensive review of Windows Home Server. The 6 page article discusses the features available within the software and for those of you that don.. more »

In Windows Server 2003, everywhere you look you find wizards and tabs and configuration screens with a location for adding comments. It seems like every little setting in Active Directory could tell its own story through its attached ..... more »

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-643): Configuring Windows Server® 2008 Applications Infrastructure: 9. huhtikuuta; MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-646): Windows Server® Administration: 7. toukokuuta; MCTS Self-Paced ..... more »

What is the name of the Windows anti spyware product that started life as GIANT AntiSpyware? 20. What Windows Vista feature is able to take advantage of external storage such as USB memory sticks to take some of the load away from the ..... more »

In this screencast, discover how easy it is to get PHP up and configured on your IIS7 webserver using FastCGI. The popular PHP-based blogging application, Wordpress, is used to demonstrate... more »

I would complete phase 1 of the installation, only to have phase 2 fail with the following error:. SQL Server does not exist or access denied. I searched the Sonicwall tech support web site and forums, but could only find one document ..... more »

To me this looks like either a server encoding issue or an issue with the myODBC driver. We still use the myODBC 3.51.12 as we have found a number of issues with the newer drivers when used on Windows server 2003 SP2, with the IIS app ..... more »

Hi, This is my first posting and actually I have big problem which I need to resolve immediately: I have a 38 GB Database on my SQL Server which I want to full-backup. Until now backup was created on the same volume where the database ..... more »

error 503 service unavailable from error 5031 error 5036 error 504 error 504 file not found error 504 gateway time out error 504 itunes error 504 partition magic error 5042 error 505 error 5050 error 507 error 507 blackberry error 507 ..... more »

Consider the following scenario:• You use the Microsoft AJAX 1.0 Control toolkit for Microsoft ASP.NET or the AJAX 1.0 Extensions for ASP.NET to create a custom Web Part for a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site or for a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site.• The custom Web Part contains an UpdatePanel control that .. more »

I am experiencing difficulty in exporting Windows Mail messages from my homecomputer to my Exchange Server at work. When I originally setup Windows mail,I neglected to check the "Save a copy of messages on the server" button.Therefore, all the messages in my Inbox at work were transferred to my WindowMail on my home computer, and are no longer in .. more »

We reach in and pull out interesting Microsoft news and commentary suitable for a dress down Friday.... .. more »

I am going to write an article soon about an actual Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 migration.My first impression of Exchange 2007 - it still half baked in terms of GUI and some functionality. Not as bad as Exchange 2000 was, but still some things are missing. A lot of things can be done only via scripting or CLI (basically, a command prompt) which .. more »

http://live.pirillo.com/ - You’ve seen me review the new Halo 3, and play the Oddballs custom game. This time, GamerAndy and I are going to try Slayer. I received an advance copy of Halo 3 hanks to my friends at Edelman PR... more »

I just got an error message from Microsoft Word I've never seen before: "Saving the Autorecovery file is postponed for Normal.dot". The choice with the alert is "OK". What demented Microsoft engineer thought that was useful? What half-baked Microsoft product manager wasn't paying attention?.. more »

The Cisco CCIE lab exam fee has been hiked by $150 USD, which does not include travel or lodging.Cisco CCIE Lab Exam Locations:Bangalore,.. more »