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 supporting several great agencies? In an effort to better […]
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 I found the answer. IIS is a prerequisite for installing […]
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 and get a window showing you what is […]
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 solution to your dilemma. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555859 The following knowledgebase will […]
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 way to view this kind of information. I can […]
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 the thought going into the Exchange migration itself, often times […]
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, “/”, and type “ctrlaltdel”) 3. Comment out the line […]
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 to overlap, but I suppose that also shows how good […]
Finding Color for your Blog or your Home
This weekend I’ve been playing with the new WordPress site which will become the home for The Data rEVOLUTION blog. I’ve been playing with color schemes, CSS and found some good tools for identifying color combinations and hex codes. The first tool is called Kuler. Kuler is fun, allowing you to link with Flickr […]
What Programs Do I Run?
So today is the big day. My trusty laptop running XP will get wiped to a clean and shiny virgin install of Windows 7. Like most, I am excited at a new OS and the ‘positive’ buzz around this product makes it seem like the time to leap. So, here we go. In the process […]
