Searching for my lost shaker of salt

I remote into servers... a lot.  And by default, Server 2003 only allows two concurrent connections at any given time.  There are plenty of other posts on how to configure this, but it doesn't do any good if you can't get to the server.

Fortunately, there is a brute force way to bypass this.

If you receive the error "The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections", simply launch remote desktop from the command line as such:

mstsc -v:0.0.0.0 /f -console

Where 0.0.0.0 is the IP address or server name of the server you want to remote into.

If that doesn't work, another option is to go into admin mode.

mstsc /admin

And remote in like normal.

You can also use this nice little tool to find out who is logged in:

qwinsta /server:[servername] 

Welcome to the new blog.  Or really the old blog with a new blog engine and a new host.

I've been wanting to get back into blogging with numerous reasons preventing me.  Mostly because I didn't have the time, but there were legit issues with the old WordPress blog on my old host.  Or just call it laziness.

So the new blog engine is BlogEngine.NET, not surprisingly a .NET based blog engine (guess you figured that by the name, huh).  I must say this has been the EASIEST blog engine I've worked with to date.  Conversion couldn't be easier, working with layouts was a snap.  So far its been a very positive experience... including a 1.4.5 upgrade to 1.5.x which took 5 minutes.  Good stuff.

I've also left WebHost4Life as my webhost.  Their renewal was simply too expensive.  I'll continue to give them props for available features but not at their price point.  So I am going to the other end of the spectrum and going with Godaddy.  The price verses feature set seemed right, and so far their control panels have been pretty easy to work with.  Not a single ticket needed to get my site working and fully transferred.  The hardest part was getting DNS transferred, which took me 10 minutes to figure out.   If you can read this, well, guess it worked.  So the total site migration took about 2 hours. 

Oh, and if you were looking for the consulting part of GP Consulting, well, that part of my business has been closed down for years except to service my prior customers.  That doesn't mean there won't be new things coming... 

Hopefully this will the beginning of new rants and raves.

 

We had troubles installing SP1, which consists of two components; WSS 3.0 SP1 and MOSS SP1.  The WSS 3.0 SP1 failed toward the end of the set up process, for a familiar yet troubling reason.  Once upon a time several past lives below, I blogged about the loss of intellisense because I had used the ASP.NET Configuration utility.  Well, apparently that little helper app is completely evil since it caused this error as well when it changes the schema in your web.config.  Here are all the ugly details from my co-worker, Denise:

The install for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 failed when it attempted to update an extended site that was using a host header.  If we removed the site from SharePoint, the install completed successfully.  We initially thought the issue was because we were using an extended site.  After some troubleshooting, we discovered the problem was in the web.config for the site. The second line of the web.config contained:  <configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">.  As soon as we removed the schema reference from the <configuration> tag, the install completed successfully.  The altered tag was in only one of our sites and, after further research, we discovered that it was inserted when we ran the Web Site Administration Tool in Visual Studio 2005.  It does not appear to be a valid schema and the sites work without it.

 

This is a great article, worth 5 minutes of your day to read and digest. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=3035262&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

What is this? Greg has updated his professional blog? Yes, the rumors are true that I've fallen to a different side of The Force and are on a focused management track. While I do miss some aspects of coding, this new opportunity has its own set of challenges and rewards that are just as compelling. Today I came across this excellent blog post describing many of the issues I now face, filled with good ideas and advice. I plan to study it in detail... http://www.projectmanagementsource.com/2006/08/lessons_from_pr.html

http://www.krugle.com/ File this under sweet!  Type in the keywords for what you are trying to code and poof!  Tons of code listings.  Filter by platform and language.  Time will tell how useful this will truly become, but it certainly has promise.

http://www.richmondcodecamp.org/default.aspx Saturday, October 7 Saturday!  Saturday!  SATURDAY!  Come on out and see all the fantastic presenters and topics.  Code camps are as much fun as they are informative.  Come meet some of the bright folks in the area talk about what they know and have learned.  This nerd-a-paloza comes at the rock bottom price of your time.  But wait, there's more--- there are pretty good door prizes and food as well.  You can't go wrong.  This coming Saturday at ECPI in Innsbroke. See you there!

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/09/26/772250.aspx Follow the link to the Microsoft Connect website, where you can submit a survey and join the list to participate in the SP1 beta program!

http://www.infoq.com/news/dotnet-3-release-candidate The first RC is now available for download.  Just when I was getting the hang of .NET 2.0... Keep in mind there are some licensing and redistributions restrictions on this RC, as detailed in the post above.

I had an absolutely wonderful time.  Thank you to everyone who showed up and made it such an informative and entertaining event.  Believe it or not, that presentation was NOT fueled by sugar or caffine. Many thanks to the folks at Fahrenheit Technology for the abundance of pizza, soda, projector, and room. As promised, here is the slide deck.