contingency

When Something Goes Wrong: Good contingency planning?

I work at a small firm with little technical skill/knowledge. One colleague had a hard drive die without any backup, and we recently had a virus come through and infect our test server (the gumblar.cn one) which we may or may not have transferred to a client's server. After these two events, management danced around promoting good prac...

An event log source that's always available for writing?

Is there an event log source that's always available for writing by an ASP.NET webapp? Backstory, in case anyone has a seemingly unrelated solution: Our ASP.NET webapp uses its own event log source, but it doesn't have the rights to create it. So, if the event log source doesn't exist when the webapp tries to write the entry (install ...