If you're reading this page chances are you've hit a roadbloack install Team Foundation Server. You're not alone. A quick search on MSDN will reveal a large number of unsolved questions. Fortunately, I've got a few answers. First off, the documentation is horrible. There are missing steps and incorrect information throughout. Add to that a setup experience akin to hugging a rabid bear and its no wonder people get upset.

If you run a Blackberry Enterprise Server and Groupwise, you've likely run into the following error on your Blackberry handheld:

Embedded message text insertion is disabled

This only happens when an email is forwarded as an attachment. If you forward the email normally (as text) the issue doesn't occur. Apprently the BES thinks the forwarded email is an "unrelated embedded object" according to their KB article.

You easily export IT policies on BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 4.1 using the BES User Admininstration Service.

I recently came across a Windows Server 2003 box that was missing the SQL Server driver from the ODBC Administrator. After some research and trial & error I came across a really simple way to fully reinstall MDAC 2.8 SP1 on Windows. You can't simply download MDAC from the Microsoft site and install it since its part of the OS.

You will need your Windows CD (or at least access to the i386 directory) to complete this process.

When I started on this task, I thought it would a very simple thing to do. I mean its a similar concept for both; rows and columns. Well I spent two days banging my head on the desk before coming up with a solution.

Class:

There have been many occassions where I've needed to check for a given value within an array in VBScript. There's no built-in function for this, so I crafted my own.

Certain Windows services, such as SharePoint Services, install SQL Server Embedded Edition by default as their database. This is the new name for the Windows Internal Database. Unfortunately they don't always uninstall it afterwards.

To remove the 32-bit (x86) version:
msiexec /x {CEB5780F-1A70-44A9-850F-DE6C4F6AA8FB} callerid=ocsetup.exe

To remove the 64-bit (x64) version:
msiexec /x {BDD79957-5801-4A2D-B09E-852E7FA64D01} callerid=ocsetup.exe

When starting Apache for the first time or after a networking change you get the following error:

httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

This message is more of a warning than an error. If you check your running processes you will see the httpd process running. Basically Apache is telling you that it doesn't know the host name of your server. This is a simple fix.

I'll make this guide quick and straight to the point. Follow these steps and Munin will be up and collecting stats quickly.

Prerequisites:
Apache and MySQL

Assumptions:
You are monitoring the same server that munin is installed on, The server's name is server1.example.com., /var/www = document root

Well I've moved this site (and about 10 others) to a new home.

Everything is now hosted on Linode. If you haven't checked these guys out, you really need to. They offer some really unique VPS solutions for web, development, or anything else you could imagine. Here's the list of features.