I recently posted about a 3 Month Free Trial of Windows Azure on Facebook Soon after a friend asked me; “What’s it do” Well Windows Azure is an open, flexible cloud platform which enabled you to quickly build, deploy and manage multiple application across a global network of data centers managed by Microsoft It’s always up, always […]
“The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs Back in the days of Server 2003 I remember being able to right click an application and “run as” with the purpose of running this program as a different user with an elevated […]
One of my customers had an issue where they failed to open a connection to a particular database they had been testing. The error read: ‘the database e:somepathsomefolderjermsmit.mdf’ cannot be opened because it is version 611. The server supports version 655 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported. This issue is caused because you […]
Finally Microsoft has released a utility for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 that will mount ISO disk image files as virtual CD drives. What does this mean for most. No more third-party ware riddled with instability problems. Did I say it was ‘free‘. So systems admins such as myself can get one more […]
I notices that I was low on disk space in one of my machines with a small disk volume on the system partition. So with the help of my handy HDGraph I was able to locate the area of my free disk space consumption. It seems that the Windows Error Reporting Service was dumping logs on programs or applications crashes into […]
Info of what is known: Poison ivy (Backdoor:Win32/Poisonivy.E) is a backdoor trojan that allows unauthorized access and control of an affected machine. It attempts to hide by injecting itself into other processes. The following system changes may indicate its infection: The existence of the following file: c:windows:svvchost.exe The existence of the following registry entry: “StubPath” With data: “c:windows:svvchost.exe” in the subkey: HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftActive […]