Virtualization and the SMB – Part 1
Virtualization is a big buzz word in technology. New for some, old hat for others, it is always changing and evolving. A lingering question for many people, though, is...
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Upgrading ColdFusion Java on Windows
I made the attempt to upgrade the Java Runtime used on one of our ColdFusion servers to the latest Java 1.6 Runtime. I thought it would be a simple, download the latest JRE, install, update the jvm.config java.home variable to point at the new JRE,...
ASP.NET Active Directory Membership Provider – Connection String Tomfoolery
Ran into an "interesting" problem this week with the ASPNetActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider configuration. In the connection string you'll usually see: LDAP://server:portThe important thing to note is that the "LDAP" MUST BE CAPITALIZED. A transmission protocol that is case sensitive? Way to go, Microsoft. Hountowa okashii ne. ...
Now You Can See Your Congressman’s Spending
HouseSpendDataSmallUSCongressExpensesV3As part of our Federal government’s commitment to greater transparency, The US House of Representatives released its Statement of Disbursements (SOD) in electronic format, late November, covering July 1, 2009 through September 20, 2009. The government has been required by law to publish this...
Web Development Services for Agencies
Those of you working with InterWorks already know this secret: We do a great deal of web development services for advertising, branding and marketing agencies. It isn't necessarily a market that we targeted in our early days, so how did we earn the honor of...
SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services install option is greyed out
A client recently requested that we add Reporting Services to his existing install of SQL Server 2005. I didn't think much of this task until I ran the setup and found that the checkbox for Reporting Services was greyed out. After some amount of digging...
Wave Extension for Chrome Gets An Upgrade
Google Chrome and the associated workflows are really getting better everyday. I fired up Chrome this morning, saw my Wave notification icon and clicked as I normally would. Look what magically appeared: Now when Chrome detects an update, you can single click on the W notifier...
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Information Store may fail to start after reboot
I found the following article while trying to figure out why a new SBS 2008 server install would not automatically start the Exhange information store after a reboot. The steps resolved the issue for anyone who has experienced this problem, Microsoft seems to have a...
Pearltrees Visualizes you Web Bookmarks
Ben Parr at Mashable posted an interesting article on a new service called Pearltrees. This tool provides a visual way to organize your website bookmarks. It also includes aspects of social media, allowing you to share your Pearltrees with other registered users. It's a very different...
Restoring Blackberry Enterprise Server functionality when migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2007
Migrating from Exchange 2000 or 2003 to 2007 can be a daunting task for any network administrator. A great deal of time and planning must go into the migration to ensure data is moved successfully and users retain all of their messages. With all of...
CTRL ALT DEL on vSphere 4 Console
If you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL on ESX 4 console, the server will reboot even if there are running VMs and it doesn't matter if the server is not in Maintenance Mode. To disable this yourself: 1. Open /etc/inittab (vi /etc/inittab) 2. Search for "CTRL-ALT-DELETE" or "ctrlaltdel" (hit escape, "/",...
Tulsa Tech Fest 2009
Last Friday (11/6/2009) I attended the Tulsa Tech Fest held as OSU-Tulsa. Overall the speakers were very good and I learned quite a bit so I would consider it well worth my time. There were several times that I couldn't see everything I wanted due...