You think you will never need to deal with such an old thing like Windows 2000 computers because we are already in 2011. But in reality, you may still have to without many choices. For example, I just recently had to move 2 ancient Windows 2000 machines to vSphere server. Not as easy as you do it on any recent […]
After the long period of wait with 4 releases of Platform Preview in between, Microsoft finally decided to open the door and unlock the beauty of the web by its first beta of IE 9. Unlike the last 2 releases on 7 and 8, this time, it looks promising. Even after 10 minutes of use, I am already impressed, in […]
The new combination of Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 makes a lot of new things that are impossible to do in the previous versions possible. Offline domain join is one of them. It becomes possible because of the new command tool, djoin.exe, that comes with the system. Actually, what makes more interesting is that it doesn’t require Windows […]
It happened lately in my office that emails sent to certain domains first got delayed and then failed with a SMTP error code 4.4.7 in the final NDR. Error code 4.4.7 usually indicates that the message in the queue has expired and usually the problem is on the receiving server. However, that is obviously not the case this time. Also […]
Scenario 1, one record is completely identical to another Meaning that there is no way of identifying them who is who. Usually, it happens when the table doesn’t have a unique id field due to the poor database design. Because of that, there is no way in SQL to delete one of these duplications without deleting them all first. You […]
We heard the good reviews of this new version of IE, and we also saw bad words of it as well, just like all other new things. Unless you try it out yourself you can never tell who is right and who is wrong, or they could be all wrong. So I went ahead and downloaded the package and installed […]
One resolution I made for new year is to get more hands on experiences on varies Microsoft new releases, including OS, Servers, and Applications, since I haven’t been able to do so for last a couple of years. So once I saw the news saying the new Windows 7 was released the beta version to the public. I told myself […]
This blog is powered by subText which runs MS SQL database in the back, which also requires me to remote manage the database from time to time when something need to be tweaked behind the scene. But recently, I was having trouble logging in through Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. The login attempt was rejected due to the following reason. […]