Fixing the IE 8 warning - ‘Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?’ In IE 7 and ealier, this dialog would cause annoyance to users but generally didn’t cause any other significant problems. This was because it was worded in such a way that most users would click on the Yes button and allow non-secure content to be downloaded.

However, the wording in the IE 8 version of this dialog has changed:

To download the content a user would now have to click on the No button. As we know, most people using the web only scan text and avoid reading it if at all possible! They will usually go for the Yes button if there is not an OK button

Some sites are going to find that their secure pages in IE 8 have the following problems:

Any non-secure HTTP image beacons used for analytics...

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This blog post is just a test on using Windows live Writer on my workstation.

Kewl

Hopefully this means I will be posted more blogs now, it’s soooo frickin easy.

(Even easy upload of pics) I love it!

I got the how-to on using LiveWriter on my site: This link at DNNprofessor. (Thanks)

I was having problems purging my data using

exec sp_delete_backuphistory @oldest_date='1/1/2010'

in my msdb database, so I instead ran the following code to purge the data successfully

Just run on source, then run the output on destination.  Voila!

1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press ENTER.
5. Type exit, and then press ENTER.

Be able to Right Click on any directory, and make a "filelist.txt" file for that directory.  So simple, I do not know why this hasn't always been around!

Get a directory listing of all files in a directory and automatically output it to a txt file.

Quick down and Dirty script to clone hard Drives in the free version of ESXi (assuming you have ssh access)

Just a snippit I needed to run to resolve an issue - it is a dos script that re-takes ownership of a roaming profile, then re-sets up the user security, so it still runs

BE CAREFUL

A bunch of notes I found online about terminal services roaming profiles

(targeted at a 2008 TS, at least that is what the article is referencing)

Is This Possible?  NO, but you CAN ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL YOU WANT ANYWAY...Sorta, but it works !!!!

Getting queries to use multiple clustered indexes.

Determine the MTU Size Limits of the full path of an internet route

Can't figure out how to Activate Windows 2008 Server - If you installed from a Volume License CD, it never prompted you for the license key, so it will not activate.  Here is how to change the Product Key & then Activate the server.. easy!
(I've also included a number of other common activation stages you can "jump" to - and a shortcut on how to activate a windows 2008 core installation)

how to use gdb to debug something in asterisk (I used this to help the chan_sccp_b developers to find a bug in the module unloading/loading process

Force Windows to recheck and fix any "Windows File Protection" files - just a reminder of sfc commands

Find Windows netstat port usage by Process id/name

Just a "hack" way to fix this issue, without restarting the entire machine.

Here is the quick how-to on easily installing NLB (which is no longer installed by default in 2008)

I needed to disable AJAX on the profile pages in DNN due to a 4.8 bug, but I was using ajax in lots of other places, and didn't want to turn it off everywhere, so heres the fix.

A must have list for sysadmins that are (or will) be managing IIS7.. a blog entry from the IIS7 Team

I regularly have to look this up, so it was time to blog it!

Web Deployment Team released the Beta 1 version of the deployment tool! If you're not familiar with the tool already, it is here to help you keep sites or servers in sync with IIS6 or IIS7, as well as migrate from IIS6 to IIS7

Hate the vbs scripts that output results, and when you run them from wscript, you have to click 'OK' a few hundred times?  Ensure it is running from cscript with this little bit of code.

Just a quick way to find the number of rows in all of your tables.

Recommended steps to migrate a database from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005

SELECT DAY(DATEADD(d, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,GETDATE())),DATEADD(m,1,GETDATE())))