SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 013Unlucky 13!Credit for this one goes to my friend and teammate Matt Hester... Q: How do I upgrade SQL 2005 beta to the Full SQL 2005?A: There will not be a setup-based upgrade from preRTM to RTM. You will need to un install the preRTM and then install RTM. The un install … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 013
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 012An even dozen Tidbits.Credit for this one goes to my friend and teammate Matt Hester... Q: In Mirroring with automatic failover, how do the SQL Client applications fail over when the mirror fails?A: It really depends on the client application and how it was written. Client applications written using ADO.NET 2.0 will automatically … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 012
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 011SQL Tidbits Galore!Credit for this one goes to my friend and teammate Matt Hester...Q: Can I put Visual Source Safe components into SQL 2005?A: Yes. If you have installed the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 client components on your machine, SQL Server 2005 Management Studio will automatically detect that the VSS plug-in … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 011
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 010Number Ten! Credit for this one goes to my friend and teammate Matt Hester...Q: How does SQL 2005 handle online databases during the upgrade, what about the applications that are in use?A: This questions was very interesting to me so I did some checking. The best bet to see how this … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 010
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 009Ooops.. missed a day. Well.. let’s get back into these!I got this from my coworker and friend, Matt Hester...Q: Can you upgrade Small Business Server SQL 2000 to SQL 2005?A: The feedback I have gotten is that technically you can upgrade to SQL 2005 but it is not supported!. However, Windows … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 009
“OOoo!” We’ve extended support for Software Update Services 1.0.Originally the drop-dead end of support was going to be at the end of June next year, but due to the timing and customer needs, the date has moved to December 6. In fact, as of a couple days ago, you could no longer download SUS.“My brain … Continue reading SUS 1.0 Support Extended
Greetings! Here is the promised “Best of” Q&A from the webcast I delivered yesterday (Aug 24, 2005) on Windows Server 2003 System Administration (Part 2 of 2). A huge THANK YOU to Harold Wong and Kelley DuBois for handling the Q&A. They get most of the credit for these awesome answers. Cheers!-Kevin—“The website for MBSA … Continue reading Q&A from the “Windows Server 2003 Administration Webcast (Part 2 of 2)”
The SBS Support team has launched their own blog, with the promise of doing a podcast in the near future, too.And here is their first post.Of course you might also want to subscribe to the “SBS Diva”.
…or for anyone who wants to learn more about the tools available for Security Update management, there is what looks to be a very useful webcast getting into greater detail about using MBSA 2.0, WSUS, and SMS going on tomorrow. “Hey! Those are three of the four topics you discuss today!”Right! My session (a part … Continue reading For attendees of my Windows Server 2003 Admin (part 2) webcast…
As you know, a new CTP (Community Technology Preview… call it a Beta) of the next Service Pack (SP2) is available for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. My friend and colleague Keith “KingCobra” Combs has posted an excellent description of one of the key new anti-spam features, the Sender ID Framework. Give it a read! He … Continue reading Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and the Sender ID Framework
Absolutely Full of I.T. 