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I’ve run PHP with Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) before (running on a Windows XP laptop) and I seem to remember the installation being quite straightforward. Even so, tonight I was installing PHP 5.2.6 with IIS 6 (on Windows Server 2003...
For the last few days, I've been trying to get an ISA Server 2006 installation working and it's been driving me nuts. I was pretty sure that I had my networking sorted, following Jim Harrison's article on configuring ISA Server interface settings...
A few weeks back, I was at a Microsoft event where the presenter was struggling to connect to a Windows Server cluster using the Cluster Administrator tool. It turned out that the problem was down to having started devices in the wrong order (it should...
I just upgraded a server from Windows Server 2003 (with SP2 installed) to Windows Server 2003 R2 (SP2 slipstreamed). It wasn't exactly smooth, because I didn't RTFM ... (it's my home server, it's Saturday afternoon, it should have been...
Over the last few days, I've been having problems connecting to Microsoft Update from a newly built Windows Server 2003 R2 server. Whilst searching for updates, it's was hanging (green progress bar pulsing across the screen) before eventually...
Last month I wrote about how it's possible to upgrade a retail copy of Windows Vista to an Enterprise version and it turns out that this is also possible with other versions of Windows. Last week I needed to build a new server with Windows Server...
Many people will be familiar with the command line tab completion functionality that can be used to complete folder and filenames in recent versions of Windows, but what I wasn't aware of (until I just used it, following some instructions from Microsoft...
I was recently alerted to the presence of Joe Richards' PSOMgr tool for managing Windows Server 2008 fine grained password policies and it turns out that Joe has a whole heap of useful tools available for free on his website .
This may be an isolated incident, as I've already written about how my Windows Server 2003 SP2 installation appeared to be broken (but was ultimately successful) but ever since SP2 was installed, I've been warned about service startup failures...