After a one-year hiatus, SQL Saturday is back in Birmingham on Saturday, August 23, 2014. I am presenting two sessions, the information for which I've included below.
My first visit with the Pacific IT Pros group was a fun experience. The Pacific IT Pros group put on a great event with their TechDays San Francisco. Kudos to the organizers and thank you to the sponsors! For the attendees who attended one or both of my sessions about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, thank you! … Continue reading TechDays San Francisco Wrap Up
On June 5-6, the Pacific IT Pros user group is hosting their TechDays San Francisco event. There is still time to register, and for 2 days of training from recognized speakers (and me too) the price is a bargain. Head over to http://techdays.org and register today. Below is a summary of the sessions I will … Continue reading Presenting at TechDays San Francisco only two weeks away
So I am borrowing this title from Mark Russinovich because this one took a while to figure out. I am writing this down mostly for my own records, but perhaps someone may find value in this encounter. Rewind to SQL Saturday 285 Atlanta 2014. At the end of the session, I get distracted and close … Continue reading Case of the Unexplained (Aelterman Edition): fingerprint readers, Windows Biometric Service and a few false turns towards VPN and dead SSD
I was pleased to have been able to do a virtual presentation for the Alaska SQL User Group today. The Alaska SQL User Group is a relatively new group and I certainly feel honored to have been part of their speaker line-up already. I presented my talk on Windows Server 2012 R2 High Availability for … Continue reading Alaska SQL User Group Presentation
As an update to a previous post (https://svenaelterman.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/iscsi-target-in-windows-server-2012-does-not-support-dynamically-expanding-vhds/), Windows Server 2012 R2 now supports mapping iSCSI targets to dynamically expanding VHDX. It comes with a major catch though: you cannot create, for example, a 2 TB iSCSI target on a 60 GB disk. You can however create two 60 GB targets on a single 60 … Continue reading iSCSI Target in Windows Server 2012 R2 *does* support dynamically expanding VHDX
If you're running Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Service Pack 2, have enabled SSL (the default I think) and now have Windows 8.1 Update clients, you'll find that those clients are unable to connect to the WSUS server to check for updates. I am writing this blog post to collect all symptoms and all … Continue reading Windows 8.1 Update Cannot Connect to SSL-Enabled WSUS 3 SP 2
No one else I know, until Facebook announced they would buy them. I don't have the WhatsApp app or an account either, so I immediately classified the phishing message below as spam. However, it is a great example of how criminals will use current events in attempts to get their phishing messages looking legitimate. The … Continue reading Who’s heard of WhatsApp? Phishers, that’s who!
While working with an SSIS package that uses a custom component (in this case the RegexClean transformation from Konesans) that was upgraded from SSIS 2008 to SSIS 2012, I ran into this error trying to delete it from the designer when I realized I couldn't work with it: "SSIS Designer does not allow this component … Continue reading Removing an Upgraded Component from SSIS Designer Results in Error
A colleague experienced a rather unsettling event today. Their e-mail account was compromised and used to send out scam messages asking for funds to be transferred abroad to most of the e-mail addresses they had ever used to send and receive e-mail. When your e-mail account has been taken over, you're in for a world of … Continue reading Steps to take when your e-mail account has been hacked
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