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November 2005 - Posts

• Getting the account name for a given service using WMI, VBScript

  More code that I've hacked together in VBScript to get the username used to start a particular service on my system: Dim objWMIService, objService, strServiceStartName Dim colListOfServices, strService Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2") Read More... Posted 14 November 2005 18:36 by Stuart.Preston | 0 Comments

• Wise installer and IIS 6.0 Application Pools

  I'm having a fun time with the Wise 6 installer today and specifically installing content into an IIS6 Virtual Directory with a specific (already created) application pool. Wise doesn't appear to do this out of the box (although it manages to set most Read More... Posted 14 November 2005 13:07 by Stuart.Preston | 1 Comments

• i-mate SP5 Smartphone (Windows Mobile 5.0) is developer locked by default

  Tonight I had my first opportunity to try out Visual Studio 2005 and the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK to see what I could tinker with on my i-Mate SP5. I can only say my first experience was a disappointment and a real waste of an evening - I thought it was Read More... Posted 10 November 2005 21:42 by Stuart.Preston | 27 Comments

• SQL Server 2005: SQL Server blocked access to procedure 'sys.xp_cmdshell' ...

  To save some of you from SQL Server 2005 Books Online, this quick bit of SQL will enable xp_cmdshell to execute, if you don't want to use the SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configuration tool. Clearly you'll need sa privileges on your SQL instance to run Read More... Posted 06 November 2005 12:35 by Stuart.Preston | 2 Comments

• Team Foundation Server and SQL Server 2005 default database locations.

  Another Saturday working, oh well! Whilst I'm busy installing the Visual Studio 2005 RTM bits, I thought I'd share a helpful hint that can save a bit of time in your TFS setup and improve overall TFS performance if you have more than a single disk in Read More... Posted 05 November 2005 12:46 by Stuart.Preston | 1 Comments

• TFS Beta 3 refresh and SQL Server 2005 RTM service account

  According to the latest documentation ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E54BF6FF-026B-43A4-ADE4-A690388F310E&displaylang=en ) - TFS Beta 3 still requires SQL Server 2005 to run as Local system. Anyone any ideas as to why this Read More... Posted 01 November 2005 15:24 by Stuart.Preston | 0 Comments