Here’s an awesome Event Log error I found on a client’s server yesterday: An application pop up happened. From an application. Problem is, it doesn’t tell me what the popup said — or what application popped it! I was amused.
Help me, Lazyweb! I’m looking for ideas on setting up some sort of real-time mirroring or sync between folders on a couple Windows servers. Years ago I used FolderShare for this, but that’s gone; folded into Windows Live Sync and I suspect my folders are too big for it (but … Continue reading
Back in February I mentioned that I was reconfiguring my IIS 6 web servers to shutdown the App Pools after 2 hours of inactivity. That seemed a much better option than the brute force iisreset that I’d been scheduling as a nightly event. Turns out I wasn’t quite done yet. … Continue reading
I have spent the past few days working on migrating a bunch of classic ASP web applications from a Windows 2000 server to a Windows 2003 server. A long overdue task, but one who’s time has finally come. The hardware under the Windows 2000 box has been acting up a … Continue reading
Sometimes you just have to give credit… Earlier today I installed VMware Server on a machine at work and then built a client Windows 2003 server on it. The install went smoothly, but once it was up and running I found I couldn’t get it on the network. In fact, … Continue reading
