Categories
Tech Support

Can Server Performance Advisor provide a monitoring option?

A few months ago we started investigating if Microsoft’s free Server Performance Advisor, SPA, could be used as an adequate server monitoring architecture. After much fiddling around with permissions and the like in a multiple server setup – it actually worked – for a while. First, the permissions issue: In a multiple server setup where […]

Categories
Tech Support

SQL Server 2005 Express SP2 upgrade problems

Trying to upgrade SQL Server 2005 Express might not be an easy process. First, there are different files for standard version and Express versions – and there are different files for Express and Express with advanced services. And, the Express upgrades are not really upgrades at all – but the full install. When you run […]

Categories
Tech Support

WebDAV on Windows, the WebClient service and more

Getting WebDAV or web folders working reliably and easily on Windows XP is certainly a challenge. There are plenty of gotchas and places to go wrong. I am generally talking about an XP client connecting to a 2003 IIS 6.0 server. First, comes the WebClient service on XP. This service is necessary for accessing a […]