Even though I am not a web designer, I get several dozen requests a year to relocate a customer’s website to a new hosting provider. This is something I am happy to do for a customer if they have a relatively simple website, otherwise I refer them to a web design firm. Some things you [...]
I ran into an instance today where I had deployed SQL 2005 Standard edition (using default options) onto a server that was going to be a dedicated server for a line of business application for one of my clients. Once the software vendor had migrated the database onto this server and configured the LOB app [...]
I had an instance where I configured patching for one of our clients. The patching mechanism would cause the server to reboot automatically-as necessary at the scheduled patching time. The problem was that, when it rebooted, it never came back up. I contacted the client and found that the only way to get it back [...]
Changing the Administrator password is a pretty common and simple task. As it would seem in almost all IT oriented tasks, there are easy things to overlook. I suggest following these steps to be sure you have covered all the necessary bases.
1.) Services: Open the services management console and sort by “Logon as”. Any [...]
