@daniel-2 - Glad it helped!

@pedro - It sounds to me like there's something else hooked into Excel that is trying to access resources in your local...

It took me some time to figure out, but I just figured there'd have to be some way to use runas to make it work. I can imagine the...

I'm glad you're able to find it useful already! My team is small so it's easy to work with all the different administrators. To be honest though, I...

The timing of this stairway is excellent. I'm looking at setting up AlwaysOn in my environment and this first article is excellent to explain the different components to my...

It takes a little more time, but changing the exception handling process for a job from "wait for users to notify the right person" to "have SQL Server notify the...

I like it when users create something sensible that works decently in Access and then they come to our team to say, "We need to build an application like this...

Craigmeister (7/3/2014)

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For a bunch of us, our focus is on doing our job the best we can and our own PR is not what we are about. So we have...

Craigmeister (7/3/2014)

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I thought this article was going to be about making sure the other teams that you work with, upstream and downstream, and your manager's manager ('s manager?) are aware...

lshanahan (7/3/2014)

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When I was doing help desk and field support, a majority of people fell into one of two categories:

1. Those that felt embarrassed because they didn't know how...

BWFC (7/3/2014)

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Koen Verbeeck (7/3/2014)

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I currently work in a BICC (business intelligence compentence center) and there are still some people in the company who think BI is just for "reporting". All...

Does a whiteboard and a smartphone count as a tool? I agree that some more visual tools would help us be more effective. People who have a great...

For the past few months I've started thinking of all the things for which I am thankful whist brushing my teeth in the morning. Helps set the tone for...

You know, I never even thought of that! It's already going to be a kludge, so something a bit kludgier isn't going to make things that much worse. ...

Good list for "absolute minimum". The technical test for the job I have now pretty much covered exactly those things. My boss was looking for someone experienced but...

I doubt I'm the only one who read that metaphor and though, "Man, wouldn't it be great to have a software development project as clearly defined as a bridge?"

Me: "What's...