My IT Experiences

While checking the Surface Area settings in our SQL Server 2005 cluster environment, I received this error: You cannot configure surface area of clusted services by connecting to a computer name. connect to the virtual server to configure clustered services The reason was I had logged in remotely using the cluster name and tried to open the SQL Surface Area Configuration window; therefore it was assuming local settings. This is how I fixed the issue: In SQL Surface Area Configuration Windows, click Change Computer and select the cluster instance under the option Remote Computer

I got Win 7 installed the other day and suddenly I had log in issues one fine day. When I log in it would take my profile, but log me in to a temp profile. After searching for sometime in Google I read in a blog that profile could be corrupt. I had to follow these steps to clear the profile: 1.Reboot your Windows 7 machine and log on as different user. Make sure the different user account is a administrator (added to the Administrators group). Or you could log on in to safe mode if you don't know how to. 2.Open Explorer and open C:\Users. Delete the directory of “problematic” user profile and “Temp” directory. 3.Run the Windows Vista registry editor by type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER. 4.Locate and then expand the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList 5.You need to find the correct SID and delete it. To make sure you are deleting the right one, check the key ProfileImagePath which has the pro...