I'm securing similar access using an IPSEC VPN. I send out the VPN client with a policy they import--no configuration required by them. All the client needs to...

I recommend http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/ The first releases of Visual Studio promoted it. The videos are small (thanks to Tech House Camtasia Studio captures) and many topics are...

At least in IIS, you will likely need to select the SMTP Service and modify it's properties to allow it to relay. If you're going through your company-wide mail...

Two two extra lines at the bottom for Configuration File for a Named Instance of SQL Server are the ones that start with ?xml and DtsServiceConfiguration ...

Please also note that the Microsoft documentation online and the installed Books Online is incorrect for systems that have no default instance named after the computer name. In the...

I had a similar issue with "login timeout expired" because we do not have any default instances on our servers. I had to edit the ssis ini file and...

Simply rebooting sometimes solves it.

And, this is what I was looking for last week but didn't look far enough becAUSE I remembered unloadctr not unlodctr...:

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/performance_monitor_tips.asp

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We started getting a similar issue when we applied SP4 ( I know! )

We rolled back to SP3a without hot fixes and the issue disappeared (see below). However, it...

Is this a new issue? Have you seen the threads on this site and others about potential slowness introduced by SP4?

How much time do wait after the reindex completes...

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If you don't find these in their default locations, search for it, it's in several different CABs (IE 6 cabs / Project 10 cabs)....

I don't know yet; but, if any server I'm involved is affected, I don't think I see evidence of it yet. I've been following along here:

SP4 issue

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.server/msg/b86e343e513ab281?hl=en

I've found rebooting every week helps. If we don't, we have inexplicable performance issues. I've found this true from MSSQL 4.2 all the way through to MSSQL 2000....

I've justed discovered, using ADO, from a middle-tier object, which is called from an ASP page is slower for us because we're running through COM+ with transaction required set on...

I've seen it but it doesn't appear to cause any harm. It was on a few QA / Dev type servers that don't get reboot that often. Though,...

I wonder if the local client on the web server eventually tried the local only protocol after not getting through with TCP/IP or Named Pipes? Anyway, I'd run the...