Archives for: December 2009

SQL Server error "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect."

Dec 16th

Posted by Mikeal in MS SQL

After the December windows updates I had issues with a few SQL instances for products like McAfee's EPO.  The services would not start up, and the SQL 2005 patches would fail to install.  I received the following error: The SQL Server (Server Name) ser… more »

vbscript for DNS Changes and Windows Firewall

Dec 11th

Posted by Mikeal in scripts

I've been working in an environment does not have DHCP. That has presented some challenges with migrating AD to new servers, and moving DNS servers.strComputer = "."Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cim… more »