
Fixing SKU Errors in SQL Server 2008 on Win 2008
A weird issue happened to me when installing SQL 2008 on a 4Node cluster Windows 2008 x64 clusterAfter having issues installing from an extracted ...

Microsoft Cloud Computing Strategy: Microsoft Azure
Azure Services Platform combines the growing power of the Webbased cloud and todays computers and devices with a suite of services designed to hel...

Using a UNC Network Share to Store Hyper-V Virtual Disk (VHD)
Performance tips when you must resort to SMB 20I previously covered the storage options for HyperV and described the many choices between direct...

Testing SMTP Mail Flow Using Exchange 2007 Pickup Folder
Neil fromhttpsmsexchangeorghttpsmsexchangeorgblogs about using simple text files to test Exchange 2007 SMTP mail flowIf you dont ne...

Best Practices on Windows DNS Scavenging
Scavenging will help you clean up old unused records in DNS Since clean up really means delete stuff a good understanding of what you are doing ...

Manual Uninstall of SQL 2005 Server or Express with Reports
I had issues uninstalling the 32 bit SQL 2005 Express and SQL 2005 Standard from a customers machine running Windows 2003 64bit This was due to Sys...