I am unable to bring a project collection on line due to a fault in the SQL database The server has multiple Project collections that have been imported from TFS2008. These project collections contained duplicate projects as they had been imported from the same server but the source code belonged to different parts of the business, the...
My server is running on windows server 2008, IIS 7. My client is Windows server 2003 or Windows XP. I want to start/stop websites remotely. I easily managed to do it interactively using IIS 7 manager on my clients machines (cf http://blogs.iis.net/bdela/archive/2007/10/08/remote-administration-managing-iis-7-rco-from-windows-xp-2k3-and-...
Hi all, Our hackerspace (091labs.com) is getting a few software projects started at the moment, and we're using Trac and SVN for bug tracking/source control. However, every time I set up a new projects I've to go through the whole speil in the command line of creating the Trac project, creating the SVN repository, configuring auth, edi...
Because of the economic crises in this country, getting job has been more difficult. Because of that I am looking for good suggestions for ways to build a portfolio on a hobby basis, so that I can show it on a possible interview. Type of job I'm looking for is basically IT consultant / system administrator area. I’m not sure what of s...
Hi, I am thinking about some issues which may match the term software integration best. Assume there is a machine running an operating system and some programms A, B and C. Now all programms somehow store data on the filesystem. Lets say A uses Apache Derby, B uses PostgreSQL and B uses XML files. Now there are three ways to store d...
Hi, We have an in house developed web-based admin console that uses a combination of C CGI and Perl scripts to administer our mail server stack. Of late we have been thinking of cleaning up the code (well, replacing most of it), making the implementation more secure, and improving the overall behavior. I don't have much programming kno...
WE are a MS shop (yes, we have TFS 2K8 and 10). I am the system administrator, not developer, so my POV is a bit different than most articles on deployment and config pre/post build tasks. I need to manage about 40 different applications/site, each with its own config settings, but within 2-3 concurrently operating dev, 2-3 concurrently...
I am interested in having a web configuration/admin page for a website. Is it more common to store a websites configuration in a database, xml, or .properties files? What does the data model (classes) usually look like? If stored in a file, is concurrent access typically handled and how? Are there any good examples for a generic site a...
Is there a complete instruction for deploying an asp.net application on windows server 2008 r2? I've got to send some instructions to admins who are not experienced with using Win/IIS, but I'm not willing to write it myself, because I'm not good with server administration too. I've googled the topic for a number of times, but didn't find...
Does anyone know if you can do this by default rather than having to use context menu? ...
When you start perfmon*, it loads running 3 counters: Memory "Pages/sec", Physical Disk "Disk Queue length" and Processor "% Processor Time". How can I change that to be counters I care about? *To start perfmon, either type "perfmon" at a command prompt or under "Administrative Tools" select "Performance" ...
Hi, After adding a destination(Queue) to Destination Resources from Admin Console at Resources/JMS Resources/Destination Resources, no physical destinations are displayed at server(Admin Server)/JMS Physical Destinations .Instead, the following error message is displayed below the heading: An error has occured Unable to list JMS Destin...
What is the best way? Or at least... an easily managed one? I am routinely creating shell and python scripts that need to always be running in the background. Any recommendations on packages that simplify this? In the past I would stick a shell script in cron to check for the running process, but this feels like a hack. I recently re...
I am researching if ADLDS or ADAM is suitable for handling the users of a company product. Currently we are using AD, but we are planning to scale to more customers without needing to buy CALs. I got how to use ADSI Edit to add User & Groups, but I couldnt find any tool to do that like "Active Directory users and computers", and I would...