I encountered this issue on a windows 2008 enterprise 64bit with NO IIS installed. The port 80 should be free for use by other software…but it was not. Here is the detail of how you can solve this: On your comand prompt, issue this command: netstat -a -n -o The following representative screen will show […]
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If one were to buy a PC and your neighborhood dealer installed pirated windows on it, should this dealer be liable for loss of data that results from the windows version crashing? As most of you know, a pirated version of Windows may not be able to update itself, or download patches that make it […]
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I just applied sql2008 service pack 1 and the problem went away!
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I came across a security warning from Microsoft Baseline Analyzer as it was checking out the security posture of a SQL deployment. It highlighted the need for me to “Restrict CmdExec access to Sysadmin”. For the life of me, I didnt know how to do this, and a quick search didnt show any relevant results. […]
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