July 2005 - Posts

• Updated Dell feature pack posted for sms 2003

  Hi all, for those who use dell hardware and sms 2003 feature pack, it appears there is an updated feature pack. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=92a9bb94-1806-487b-a697-92492bf8cc8e&displaylang=en This was posted on 7/26. The Read More... Posted Sunday, July 31, 2005 12:08 PM by owsteve | 0 Comments

• Couple of useful links for sms 2003 patching

  For those who manage SMS 2003 servers and deploy patches. Here are a couple of good links that covers event log numbers and what they mean. How To Perform Patch Management Using SMS http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/sms/secmod199.mspx Read More... Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:28 PM by owsteve | 0 Comments

• Handy SQL command to list all databases on a server

  sp_helpdb is a handy command to list all the databases and information about them. Maybe isn't a big deal to a normal dba but hey! Information about it http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_sp_help_3l9e.asp Share Read More... Posted Friday, July 01, 2005 4:30 PM by owsteve | 1 Comments

• Technique to Encrypt settings in a web.config

  Introduction One of the most common things to do in ASP.NET is put a database connection string inside the web.config. I’m assuming you are familiar with the benefits of putting all *common* or global configuration settings in one file. This technique Read More... Posted Friday, July 01, 2005 12:37 AM by owsteve | 0 Comments