administration

How many service accounts do you use for SharePoint 2010?

Hi there, we're deploying SharePoint 2010 the first time for production and are not sure how many accounts we need. Currently we plan to use the following accounts: Admin-Account - For use of administration tasks and installation WebApplication-Account - Will be used by web applications ServiceApplication-Account - Will be used by ser...

How to hide my data stored in database from domain administrator of web server?

I want to make a secure website using ASP.NET, but when I publish it, the domain administrator can see all the data stored in my database (SQL Server). I want to hide my data and code from the domain administrator too. Are there any procedures to do that? Please give me the address of a good domain I can use, which will give me all admin...

Resume batch script after computer restart

I have a bunch of old machines running Windows 2000 Pro and IE 5.0 which I want to upgrade to IE 6 with Silverlight. I downloaded the IE6 and Silverlight installers from Microsoft's web sites and fortunately they both have command line options to allow them to run in "silent mode". I put the two commands in a DOS batch script and ran i...

Team Foundation server (TFS) restore, Missing services?

Hi, I'm testing out the backup and restore of TFS, before migrating to it for our source control. Problem is, I'm getting confused with restore part of the msdn documentation. In particular, the part where we are required to update the service accounts (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252458.aspx#UpdateAccounts). You mus...

Why ulimit can't limit resident memory successfully and how ?

I start a new bash shell, and execute: ulimit -m 102400 ulimit -a " core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 20 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 16382 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory siz...

Add style switcher to Rails App admin section?

Hi Everyone, I have been working on a Rails template recently called BaseApp2. You can see it on GitHub here: http://github.com/dannyweb/BaseApp2 There is an administrators section setup which allows the management of Users and I am working on the ability to add announcements to the public site via the admin section. What I would rea...

Difference between login and user in sql server

CREATE USER [anc] WITHOUT LOGIN WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA=[anc] GO what is the difference between the user and the login. i am not clear as to y do we create these kind of users?? ...

Are users active or inactive?

I'm trying to decide which is better: is a user inactive (can't login) or active (can login)? Do you have a flag which makes a user inactive so they can't login or do you have a flag which makes a user active so they can login? Which one makes more sense to the user and administrator? Which one do you do? Yes as Peter commented: Do y...

How to Trace JAR file execution is hosted on IIS6.0 Server.

We are using few JAR files in our web-application hosted on IIS6.0 Server and those files are used in somepages, we want to trace the execution of those files (both in client and server side) however tools like httpwatch/Fiddler...are not helping us in this. Do we have any specific tool to trace the execution of the JAR files in IIS Envi...

GConf Problem gconftool --spawn doesn't work

Last time I started to having problem with gconftools, I'm using Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04 LTS When I make command gconftools-2 --spawn I've gor an error: Failed to spawn the configuration server (gconfd): Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ...

How can i check if MySQL and Tomcat are running?

Hello, I've created a Java application that is split in different subcomponents, each of those runs on a separate Tomcat instance. Also, some components use a MySQL db through Hibernate. I'm now creating an administration console where it's reported the status of all my Tomcat instances and of MySQL. I don't need detailed information, ...

Cataloging web/db/app servers in an organisation - Excel/Wiki/???

I've inherited "ownership" of various servers (the hardware itself and server software that runs on in - lots of Apache/Oracle/MySQL) with a wide variety of configurations. I'm a developer - I've been thrown into a Team Leader/Systems Support role for some very unfortunate reasons. Do any of you guys in the SysAdmin world have any trick...

whats meant by 'path' in adsutil.vbs

I am trying to start and stop a website hosted in IIS with windows batch file and found that there is an option that with cscript.exe you can make use of adsutil.vbs file with START_SERVER option. I know that the following command will do that, but I don't understand what I am supposed enter for 'path' cscript.exe adsutil.vbs START_SE...

Java administration panel

Hi, I'm looking for an administration panel for database written in java that would be similar to Django admin panel. I know that one can generate the forms from entities but I'm searching for a better, customizable solution. Thanks for any help! Best Regards, sass. ...

What API will allow me to detect and end the session of someone using "mstsc /console"?

I'm having a very difficult time listing and closing the sessions of folks using Mstsc /admin. Does anyone know the API to use if the server is a normal server and not a terminal server per-se? ...

Add/remove programs in Windows XP with Python script

I would like to add add/programs like adobe acrobat reader and other application in windows XP using Python script. Kindly looking for some help. Thanks in advance! Everest. ...

How to set default process scheduling priority ('nice' value) for all remotely logged users?

My desktop allows remote access. I work locally, sometimes other people log in, using ssh/telnet/ftp/rsh. Their processes get the same priority as my own. I would like to set priority ('nice' value) of all processes for people logged in remotely to some higher value, e.g. 10. How can I do that? I tried using pam_group to dynamically as...

Uninstall and Install Programs in windows using python script

Possible Duplicate: Add/remove programs in Windows XP with Python script I am a newbie in python and basically do windows sysadmin tasks and sometimes write batch script. However i am trying to learn python by implementing the scripts in windows tasks. The actual task i want to do is a follows: To remove acrobat reader or acro...

admininstration section

I'm building my first web application(i mean first huge web application)using php but i have some questions about admin section.what are the ways for making admin i mean i thought i could make it this way: First make an array: $pages = array('post' => 'posts.php', 'category' => 'categories.php'); And then read get var check if it's in...

Should you include non-development tasks in your Scrum backlog?

We're having trouble incorporating certain types of tasks into our product and sprint backlogs: Meetings with clients Training and knowledge-sharing Administrative tasks Some of these aren't directly related to the project, so it's easy to put them aside and refer to them as administrative overhead (thereby reducing the doable story ...