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SqlProfileProvider (vb) storing additional profile information

Paul Brown — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:08:52 +0000

The last few weeks I have been looking at capturing additional user information to the default username, password and email combination of the default SqlProfileProvider login process. The process of creating a simple login account and storing it with SqlProfileProvider is so simple and better documented that I wont go into this. This is a brief introduction …

Paravirtualized I/O

Paul Brown — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:51:04 +0000

If you have used vmware or any other bare metal hypervisor you will probably come across references to paravirtualization. In this short document I have tried to explain the key difference between fully virtualized and paravirtualized I/O Fully Virtualised I/O In a fully virtualized system, the disk driver for example believes that it is controlling a …

Annex M – too good to be true ?

Paul Brown — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:55:52 +0000

Annex M is a variant on an ADSL service that allows you to trade in some of the downstream bandwidth for an increase in the upstream bandwidth. I have been evaluating this for the past 3 months and whilst the theory is good and the performance increase/cost saving over a SDSL, EOC or serial line are very …

SMSQL Backup failures – Could not create component: 0x8007007E

Paul Brown — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:30:14 +0000

If you have email reporting enabled on failures you may see something similar to: - #8 : [SQL02 - Demo] Error : Could not create component: 0x8007007E #9 : [SQL02 - Dev] Error : Could not create component: 0x8007007E Databases skipped in the Backup:The backup of one or more databases failed. On the Filer Syslog …

Snapmirror initialisation error

Paul Brown — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:06:55 +0000

I recently encountered a problem snapmirroring between a 2020 in domain x and a 3140c in domain y. It was an interim configuration as part of a larger project. Snapmirror was being used as a way of swinging between the two filers in a production environment to minimise downtime. The fact that the filers were …

My phone does’nt work

Paul Brown — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:31:38 +0000

User – My Phone is broken IT Support – Hi, We’ll need a bit more info to start with. Can we get the symptoms of how’s it’s not working and if there was any cause for this? User – The phone stopped working after I retrieved it from an hour long wash cycle in my …

Lizamoon – How it attacks databases

Paul Brown — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:16:39 +0000

The past 10 days has seen a big increase in Lizamoon activity. Stories about Lizamoon have reported anything from a few thousand site being attacked to 1.5 million. Some of the sites attacked have been high profile. So, what does Lizamoon really do? I created a honeypot site with a windows 2003 server running IIS. …

I’m creating Virtual Machines …

Paul Brown — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:31:17 +0000

I’m creating Virtual Machines Locally with NxTop 3.0 type 1 client hypervisor http://virtualcomputer.com/node/813 #NxTop

Is it worth deploying VDI ?

Paul Brown — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:45:01 +0000

Over the last couple of days I have configured a POC deployment of XenDesktop over VMWare. Apart from a small stumbling block to do with SSL certificates on the host server it was simple enough to deploy a LAN based XenDesktop environment. Configuring a web based deployment was slightly more challenging but that was more …

XenApp 6 – An error occurred while making the requested connection

Paul Brown — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:41:11 +0000

This is a common error to receive when building a new XenApp 6 farm. The quickest test to run is “qfarm /load” from the XenApp server. if it returns something like:- Server Name Server Load —————————————————– Server1 20000 Then odds in you have …