We were asked to look at a server recently that was reporting problems with the WID (Windows Internal Database) not starting. This is also known as Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition or SQL Server Embedded. The SQL Server instance used by Windows Sharepoint Services was reporting some errors and in this case wouldn’t start.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Emergency Windows 2008 activation workaround
April 20, 2009 – 10:15 pm
I was in a tight spot one night after I decided to move a Windows 2008 based VM from a VMWare based host server to a Hyper-V based host.
This resulted in most of the hardware changing within the guest VM and in turn forced a reactivation of the OS. The problem was I couldn’t get [...]
How to manually merge snapshots in Hyper-V
April 20, 2009 – 8:08 pm
We are great fans of virtual machines here at G2 and we regularly use both VMWare and Windows Hyper-V to virtualise devices, particularly old legacy servers. Both VMWare and MS provide the ability to create snapshots of virtual machines, effectively saving the state of a virtual machine and it’s hard disks at a given point in time.
Why some software is cheap
April 16, 2009 – 9:20 pm
I was asked recently to install a copy of a well known application on the workstation of a user. The user had purchased it from a highly recommended website that day and was impressed when they found they could download a zip file version.
