Archive for the ‘Windows Server 2003’ Category

Backup SQL databases to network share

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

To be able to backup databases to a network share, the MSSQLSERVER service needs access to the location on the network. For this you need to change the SQL services service account. Before doing this you'll need to give that user extra permissions, to accomplish this you can add the user to ...

Reset lost administrator password in Windows Server 2003

Friday, February 29th, 2008

While you can use tools like ophcrack to recover your password, these don't always work and in case of strong passwords you'll need to pay for the rainbow table sets, the free included set can only crack alphanumerical passwords up to 14 characters. There is a rainbow table set that ...

Add windows components on Virtuozzo for Windows fix

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I ran into this issue while using Virtuozzo 3.5.1 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 SP1 Datacenter Edition x64. When creating new virtual private servers most default components are already installed, but when you want to add extra windows components (add/remove software -> windows components), you bump into this error: Setup library wssoc.dll ...

Automate Virtuozzo backups on Windows

Friday, November 16th, 2007

There is currently no GUI option to automate Virtuozzo backups, although not in current version 3.5.1 SP1. This will be possible in Virtuozzo 4.0, which is currently in beta. I'm using 2 bat files to script the backups and remove the oldest backup. The first script creates a full backup of all virtual ...