I recently had one of our Windows 2003 server lose it's disk mirrors and locked up. When it was restarted it has two (virtually idenitical) drives C: and E:. It booted off the primary mirror disk (C:) and all seemed OK except SQL. I also tried booting off the secondary mirror (E:) but this would not boot (this drive it …

If installing the Cassini Personal Server on a PC you will often get the "Cassini managed web server failed to start listening to port 80. Possible conflict with another web server on the same port." error. You of course think this is a firewall, other web server or anti virus port blocker problems IT IS NOT! …

Today I moved this blog server from an old server to our nice shinny new ones. This meant splitting it so the DB to the dedicated SQL server and the front end to the new web server box. This cause a few problems. The actual move was fine, just back and restore the DB and copy over the ASP.NET web contents. I then …

Time for a bit of a follow up on my server name issues with TFS. As expected there is correct way to alter the names of the various TFS servers, it involves editing the contents of one of the TFS database tables, not any config file. The best documentation I have found is that for setting up the new ISAPI filter …

I got the West Yorkshire British Computer Society branch news letter today and I saw there is an extreme programming club being set up locally, the first meeting is in Leeds on Thur 8th Feb at Victoria Hotel, Great George St at 7pm. You can find the blog for the group at http://extremeprogrammingclub.blogspot.com/ I …

My plan for editing the local copy of the RegProxyFileCache.xml to change the name of the TFS server is OK until you restart the system. I need to look further into this......

I have previously posted on the fun I had getting TFS running in our office. Well thus far it has been stable, other than some 'user too stupid' errors, and we have been fairly happy. The next stage was to expose the TFS server out through our firewall to allow home working. This turned out to not be too bad (expect …

I was given a copy of JPod by Douglas Coupland for Christmas, now I will not be adding anything to the range of reviews to say it is very much Microserf V2.0 - similar story but it is just that people seem not to work as hard (but are still in the office as they have little life outside work) and the strange things …

Yesterday I posted about problems with accessing remotely the Virtual PCs from the Virtual Server console. It turns out the problem was domain name related. We had a different name on the internal DNS to that on the external side. In effect the server was trying to call: vmrc://virtualserver.mydomain.co.uk:5900/my pc …

We have been moving over to ISA Server to allow better management of internet resources, one problem we have had is publishing our Virtual Server so our tele-workers can get remote access to the test systems. The ISA application publish rule works fine to allow access to the main Virtual Server console page (can …