Cannot tell you how much fun this can be if it is not working correctly. First make sure SMTP is set up correctly in your IIS install (IIS6-IIS7.5(which uses IIS6 but thats for another story)) Direct Mailer Not working or not sending email or just needs to be configured correctly? First lets make sure the server and users/groups are created right. To ......

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So as you all know I am a Non-MVP for Commerce Server 2007 however I have worked tirelessly with this server. I know a ton of the in’s and outs of the architecture and have written a good number of scripts and modified others scripts to work. Recently I have had the pleasure of making Commerce Server 2007 run (play nice) with Windows Server 2008r2. ......

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This is a very short post. so bear with me. SELECT * FROM Northwind..Orders ORDER BY NEWID()The Magic here is NewID() Flickr Tags: NewID(), Random Records in MSSQL BuzzNet Tags: NewID(), Random Records in MSSQL Technorati Tags: NewID(), Random Records in MSSQL del.icio.us Tags: NewID(), Random Records in MSSQL IceRocket Tags: NewID(), Random Records ......

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To those whom love Commerce Server 2007 as much as I do. Here is a little script to help you determine the Service Pack level of each database. use MSCS_Admin select s_PropertyName, s_Value From dbo.resourceProps This will return multiple values. This is helpful in knowing if you have Commerce Server 2007 installed correctly as well as helping you to ......

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Um so you know its your dream to use windows server 2003/2008 as your desktop Operating system right? So most of you just said no. However for the small amount that might just be curious here is a little script to stop installed server applications built into these server installs. @echo off :start set /p _input="Server? [y/n]" if %_input% equ y ( echo ......

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In case you are wondering what is the “Shadow” command? Well in most server installs that have been built on the NT kernal there has been a version of the shadow command. What is the “Shadow” command? Lets for instance say you are using windows 2003 and want to gain screen(session) access to another users screen(session). Perhaps the person you are ......

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Youtube - You know that site with videos and all. Yeah! It turns out that its quite popular and you happen to visit and use it quite often. Instead of just searching and playing here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about: 1. View high quality videos Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos, ......

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So a couple of weeks ago I wrote about how to back up your data on a windows(XP(home and Pro) Vista (all versions)) machine. Some great little apps to backup data to external drives even to a network allocated storage device. Did you however think great I have a way to backup the data and its working however my hard drives are filling up quickly. What ......

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Being a System Administrator as well as a Web Developer I run into issues with the Mail protocol SMTP. Things hang or people want their email better formatted. Or simply test out you spam messages you are going to blast before you well blast them. Of course you run into issues like is my ports open correctly, is the SMTP server setup to block relaying? ......

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I have been coding using Microsoft technologies for a long while. Recently I was given the chance to do a little bit of web mastering. Due to my system admin background I was most definitely game for this. Learning IIS 6.0 was not a huge leap as I had done a lot of development using IIS5.1(Windows XP Professional); however I had not as yet used Host ......

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