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Entries for April, 2009

How to Spend your 73rd Birthday with Your Spouse

This was written by my father.  This year he suffered a serious cardiac event.  This was written as a presentation to his Marriage Encounter Group.  He may ramble more than I do.
Each year Barbara and Harry ask themselves how they are going to celebrate each other’s birthday.  Many times it is a relatively quiet event, [...]

PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) — Backup and Restore Disk Partitions

A tool that we are using with great success.
PING is a live Linux ISO, based on the excellent Linux From Scratch (LFS) documentation. It can be burnt on a CD and booted, or integrated into a PXE / RIS environment.Several tools have been added and written, so to make this ISO the perfect choice to backup and restore whole [...]

This is Mike Rowe

Many people ask about MIke Rowe.  I have posted a picture here of Mike Rowe.  This is not the Mike Rowe of Dirty Job but he is named after him.  I am sure that the real Mike Rowe would not be upset.

Email Signature Text

This is a common message that can be placed in your signature of your email.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521, covers this electronic mail message. The information transmitted by this e-mail is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and / or privileged material.  Any interception, review, retransmission, dissemination, or [...]

Loss of SBS Licenses

I found that the SBS2003 licenses are kept in the licstr.cpa file in the WINDOWS\system32 folder. Thankfully, Microsoft actually keep an automatic backup of this in autolicstr.cpa. The simple process was to stop the License Logging Service, rename licstr.cpa to licstr.cpa.old, then copy autolicstr.cpa to licstr.cpa. After this I started License Logging Service and used [...]

More on moving SharePoint Databases

Check the instructions in the lower section of the page:
 
http://blogs.technet.com/corybu/archive/2007/06/01/detaching-databases-in-moss-2007-environments.aspx
 
Basically:
 
First we need to find out which databases are currently not in sync, this can be done from a simple stsadm command on your SSP web front end.
 
stsadm -o sync -listolddatabases 5
 
This command will list all databases that have not synced up correctly with the SSP [...]

Released a new client site today

Released LitterSitter.com today.  Litter Sitter is a pet sitting service located in Sugar Land Texas.  If you are in Sugar Land and need pet sitting services please contact them at http://www.litterservice.com

Moving SharePoint Content Databases

- External SQL Server Database Move

 Log Shipping Method(low impact)

To migrate your content database from 1 SQL Server to another there are a few choices, your choice will depend on how much downtime you are willing to take.  First option being you can setup SQL Log shipping, Once your 2 databases are in sync you would [...]

Enabling Drop Down Menu for Multi Level Nav

This link has some good info about the problem I am having.
http://vivekthangaswamy.blogspot.com/2007/12/enabling-drop-down-menu-for-multi-level.html

Reconnect SQL User Logins

I find this useful when restoring a SQL database and then needing to reconnect the database use to the login account.
This used to be a pain to fix, but currently (SQL Server 2000, SP3) there is a stored procedure that does the heavy lifting.
All of these instructions should be done as a database admin, with [...]