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How Windows Handles Applying Service Packs and Patches
My programming god, Raymond Chen, has written an article on TechNet Magazine about how everything is kept straight and organized when you apply security patches and service packs to Windows 7. It’s a...
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Setting Up Multiple VLAN’s in the Juniper SRX
By default, the Juniper SRX100 and SRX210 set up fe-0/0/0 as your Internet connection interface and the rest of the interfaces (fe-0/0/1 – fe-0/0/7 on the SRX100) as switching ports on a single vLAN....
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SharePoint 2010 Foundation–The Website Declined to Show This Webpage
After doing an in-place upgrade of SharePoint 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010, you may receive this error on both your SharePoint site and the Central Administration Tool. The cause of this problem...
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Raymond Chen: The TEMP Directory
Mr. Raymond Chen of Microsoft has made an interesting post on his blog regarding the TEMP directory in Windows. In his post, he states that “The TEMP directory is a dumping ground of random junk.”...
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Recovering from a Lost SUSDB
Imagine the following scenario: You installed the Windows Internal Database role on Server 2008 64-bit. You installed the WSUS role on the same server and set it to use the Windows Internal Database....
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The Windows Directory Consumes a Lot of Disk Space
I got a call from a colleague who was asking why the Windows directory on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine was taking up almost 40GB of disk space. I checked one of my servers and noticed almost the...
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Error Installing Office 2010 Service Pack 1 on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP
After your attempt to install Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 fails, you may see this error in your application event log: You may also see this error as well: There is nothing wrong with your group...
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2012: My Blog Stats
Check out the 2012 stats for my blog. Not bad for a new blog but I do hope to get that number up for 2013. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about...
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Handling Truncation in SSIS
Truncation is what happens when you try to fit a string of one length into a field that holds a string of a shorter length. In most cases the last characters of your string are cut off so it will fit...
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WIMFSF.SYS PAGE-FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
If you get this blue screen during installation of Windows, one of the most likely causes is bad media. Replace your DVD or download a new ISO image. If you get this error installing Windows 7 in a...
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My Thoughts on BYOD
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is one of those new trends I have seen come up in the IT world over the past 2 years. Basically, the idea is that instead of the company you work for buying you the...
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The Retirement of the TechNet Subscription
It’s been April since I’ve posted to my blog. My apologies. It’s time to get back on the ball. I’d like to start with my opinion on the recent announcement by MS to retire the TechNet Subscription....
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My Second Thoughts on the Retirement of TechNet
Previously, I wrote about the retirement of the TechNet Subscription and voiced some disagreement about Microsoft’s decision. However, I have begun to rethink my disagreement because of two reasons:...
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The Dangers of Giving Vendors too much Power
Back in the 90′s I worked for Sonoco. The capital project I was on was to install a new maintenance management software in an entire division of the company in order to, mostly, bring down the cost of...
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Older Emails Missing After Upgrade to Outlook 2013
If you have upgraded to Outlook 2013 from 2010 or earlier, you may notice that emails from more than 12 months ago may be missing. If that is the case, you should read the following article:...
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\MSExchangeIS Mailbox\Messages Queued for Submission is not making progress –...
If you get reports from users that their emails are stuck in either the Drafts or Sent Items box and are not being sent, you should run the Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant. If you get the...
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Revisiting old times
I was going through my closet in my home office over the holidays doing some cleaning and ran across these gems. I have to admit, I miss these days. JamesNT
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SSIS: Why You Should Use Temporary Tables
There seems to be some debate about the use of temporary tables in SSIS. I, for one, highly recommend using temporary tables rather than trying to pull data from different sources straight into your...
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Why Windows Server 2003 Will Be Around A While Longer
Hello, Everyone. It’s been just over a year since my last post on my blog. Things got really interesting last year both on the professional and personal fronts. As time moves on, I’ll discuss many of...
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SSIS: Why I’m Standardizing on ADO.NET Connection Managers
When connecting to a database with SQL Server Integration Services, you will most likely use ADO.NET, OLE DB, or ODBC. Until I find reason not to, I’ll be standardizing on ADO.NET connection managers...
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