Thursday 17 February 2011

IIS features to enable in order to install MS SQL 2005 on Windows Server 2008

Before installing MS SQL 2005 on Windows Server 2008 make sure you enable features described in following Microsoft article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920201

Thursday 10 February 2011

Windows Server 2008 Rsync dot folder problem

I had a simple script which contained a number of rsync commands to copy a number of folders from one machine to another.

For some reason when I execute the script, the target/destination server first creates a dot (.) folder and then copies the files in there!!!!


I was using vim to create my scripts on a windows machine.

I found that by changing the file format to a unix file format using command ":set ff=unix" and then saving the script and running it again, the files synchronised into the right folder.