Virtual appliances — prebuilt virtual machines that include all of the components necessary to get a service running — abound. There are free appliances and paid appliances available to meet most needs. Get up and running quickly and avoid the hassle of installing a system on your own.
Microsoft SQL Server’s identity column generates sequential values for new records using a seed value. Seeding and reseeding an identity column is easy and relatively safe, if you do it correctly. Susan Sales Harkins shows you how it works.
This tip walks you through the process of disabling the Customer Experience Improvement Program scheduled tasks in Windows Server 2008.
Microsoft released the first version of Office Communications Server in 2007. A good start for inter-organizational collaboration, OCS omits capability to include outside collaborators. Scott Lowe would be thrilled to see OCS replace his Nortel conferencing bridge as his Nortel PBX will be vanishing soon from campus. In the meantime, the service will be replaced with a third party conferencing provider.
Steven Warren provides you with a quick look at the new user interface of Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0. Find out what you can do in the UI.
Tim Chapman shows how to create system stored procedures that will allow you to loop through and execute statements against any type of object in SQL Server 2005.
As an IIS MVP with Microsoft, I thought I would begin to share some of the new features of IIS 7.0.
If you’re running out of drive letters, one trick is to use a mount point for each logical drive that you are going to bring into Windows; this way, performance can be contained to a logical drive and still conform to your drive letter standards. There
Here’s a look at how you can use two built-in system stored procedures — sp_msforeachdb and sp_msforeachtable — to iterate through SQL Server tables and databases.
Windows Server 2008 introduces a new way that drivers are passed to the installation program during the install process. The good news is that you don’t have to press [F6]; the bad news is that it is a completely different process.