For those who didn't notice it yet, but I've upgraded my site to a new version of Telligent's Community Server. I will be tweaking the configuration for the coming days, so stay tuned. R....

I have been doing a lot of performance analysis lately. Nine out of ten times the bad performance is caused by a not optimized storage solution. Why? When data doesn't fit into the memory of a server, it has to come from disk sooner or later. In my experience...

Not to be... (at least not always) Why? Simple, try to image, you are a real time mail server, doing 5000 I/O's per second and you're interrupted everytime by Anti Virus (AV) software when you try to write, or even worse try to read to and from a storage...

I'm often faced with the following customer situation: "I added additional CPU's to the system because the average CPU utilization exceeded 80%, but the application doesn't run any smoother. Why is that?". Well, let me try to explain. To determine a...

Several weeks ago I wrote a small utility, based on MSDN sample code, to backup and restore Microsoft Cluster Service configuration database information. I experienced some problems with restoring information, so I wanted to be sure a backup existed that...

The last months I am more and more engaged in accounts who often experience serious performance issues. By the time I am called on to the scene, they status of the account is usually at a critical level. After I have done my research, I often write a...

While I was searching for a way to determine the backup status of SQL databases, I came across the following Stored Procedure: "sp_readerrorlog". However, it's not documented in the SQL Servers books online. After some googling, I decided to use...

Last couple of days I have been setting up and tuning Windows Server 2003 clusters. When performing the various fail-over tests as part of a test plan, one of the cluster nodes suddenly experienced a complete system hang. This happened when I tried to...

Microsoft has posted Windows Vista beta 1 on MSDN subscriptions.  ...

Microsoft has annouced the official name of Windows with the codename "longhorn"... From the Microsoft site. Bringing clarity to your world. Today we live in a world of more information, more ways to communicate, more things to do. There is more you...

When working with Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 one has probably run into BSOD's (Blue Screen Of Death) on more than one occasion. Some BSOD's (or Bug Checks or Stop Screens), appear more often than others. One of the most appearing bug checks is...

While experimenting with SQL 2005 I found out the following: SQL 2005 does not grant the user SA, DB Owner (DBO) role when a new database is created. When creating a SQL 2005 user account, the option "User must change password at next logon"...

Yesterday I installed MPS 4.0 x64 Edition. In my previous post I quoted part of the readme from the CD stating the following: "(Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition supports up to eight CPUs on one server)". Since the R2 beta code requires a...

Yes, I have it! Probably one of the first here in The Netherlands. As part of a PoC (Proof of Concept) I'll be doing some testing and preparing demo's on x64 based Windows environment. According to the readme, Microsoft suggests one needs or prefers???...

As of now, Collosumus.NET has a complete new interface, servered using Community Server 1.1 built on ASP.NET. As result, changes to the site layout will be made. All hosted sections are still accesible via the main site, but will find...

I had problems with the e-mail function of CS 1.1. The cs_Exceptions table in the CS database had the following exception entry logged: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040211): The message could not be sent to the SMTP server. The transport...

I often come across environments where databases perform poorly. When I do analyses of those environments (one needs to analyze an entire E2E chain instead of just one component before drawing any conclusions), I often run into poorly configured systems....

It happened to me several times now, that when working with IE my favorites suddenly disappear. The solution to this is very simple, but I keep forgetting it so I decided to write it down. The problem with the disappearing favorites is, is that...

I found a very cool Calender control for Scott's .Text blog engine, which I implemented when I saw it. You can read about it here. And a French locale fix, here.  ...

Windows 2000 language and keyboard settings Door de onderstaande regels hard weg te halen en terug te zetten met met de waardes die je wilt kan je de taal isntellingen met bijbehoorende keyboard isntellen via registry   Windows Registry Editor...

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I don't know about you, but the Windows XP Search Companion annoys me a lot. I like the look and feel of the Windows 2000 Search option a lot better. If you want to change the XP Search Companion to to look like the Windows 2000 search option, execute...

  With Remote Desktop on Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003 (in Windows 2000 Advanced Server, this feature was called Terminal Services in Remote Administration Mode), you can have access to a Windows session that is running on your...

  wmic /node:"Computer Name (FQDN)" /USER:"username" RDTOGGLE WHERE ServerName="Computer Name" CALL SetAllowTSConnections 1  ...