Archive for the ‘Windows System’ Category

Installing MSDE

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

A strong SA password is required for security reasons. Please use SAPWD …

Installation instructions can solved this: Strong SA password required

The one I did was…

Start > Run > then type path to setup.exe then type
SAPWD=”what_ever_you_want _for_your_PW”
So it should look like this.

setup.exe sapwd=”PW”

Configuring an Internal Server

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

CONFIGURING AN INTERNAL DNS SERVER.
(WINDOWS SERVER 2003)

About DNS (Domain Name System).
This tutorial documents the steps needed to create an internal DNS Server that will allow you to use “friendly” names within your LAN (Local Area Network) or provide a platform for Host Headers to be used within your IIS (Internet Information Services) configuration.

http://www.simongibson.com/intranet/dns2003/

Service: To manually delete MySQL

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Run Regedit or regedt32 in the WINDOWS directory.

Find the registry entry called
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services

There should be a MySQL service listed which can be deleted. Have a look at
the keys and see what files the service was using and perhaps delete them
also.
Then reboot.