My friend Anthony was getting “access denied” and “logon failure” errors when trying to to run psexec (from one of the PsTools suite) from an XP machine on a domain to an XP machine in a workgroup. It was something similar to: PsInfo 1.34 – local and remote system information viewerCopyright (C) 2001-2002 Mark RussinovichSysinternals – www.sysinternals.com [...]
For MSDN subscribers, you can now download VS Team System 2008 RTM on the MSDN site (x86 and x64 WoW – DVD). Have fun!
If you are using Windows Vista in a domain, you may find that Windows Update doesn’t work (it will say something like “No updates available”). This is because when a computer is added into a domain, a registry key/policy is automatically added to connect to a WSUS server for updates. So to resolve the issue, [...]
My Vista lab box presented this error when I tried to login into my company’s domain after several months of not doing so: Trust relationship between this workstation & primary domain failed I suspected my [Vista] installation was using cached domain information to login, which was the case and why it was being denied access. [...]
For archival purposes, here’s the location of a ton of white papers for best practices or SQL Server on the TechNet site. Best Practice is a management idea which asserts that there is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, [...]