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Tomorrow night’s event is cancelled in Ottawa.
Due to the OC Transport Strike and Weather issues, we are postponing tomorrow’s meeting until January 22nd 2009. The event page has been updated to reflect the new date. https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=133776 Sorry for any inconvenience.
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Designing and implementing a layered architecture is no easy feat and getting it right takes a lot of practical experience. On Wednesday December 10th, Mario Cardinal will be coming in from Montreal to share his architectural expertise with us on this subject. This presentation will be of particular interest to intermediate and senior developers that want to hone their architectural skills. We welcome you to join us for this evening event and partake in the presentation. To register, simply send an email request to [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you soon.
SQL What?!? What every IT Pro needs to know about SQL Server
More and more products require a SQL Server database. Are you an IT Pro installing SQL Server but not sure how to support it? Do you work at a place where you are the IT department? Well this event is for you!
The OWSUG and OttawaSQL.net user groups are teaming up to bring you a special session dedicated to SQL Server for the non-DBAs. We will cover important topics that are often overlooked until it is too late, and talk about ways to simplify SQL Server administration.
Topics include:
… and much more!
After the presentations we will have a panel of local DBAs, SQL Server veterans and Microsoft MVPs ready to answer your questions in an informal SQL Server Chalk Talk
Registration: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=133776
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I was working today on making my memory stick bootable so I could role out new images to the computers in the remote branches where I don’t have deployment servers. I did some searching and came across these instructions which are better than the instructions I posted couple of months back on making a USB stick bootable. I had tried them but must have missed a step cause it didn’t work for me. (I think I forgot to set the attributes for +S on bootmgr). Today I found these instructions, which did work. At the command prompt do the following
diskpart select disk 1
clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=fat32 assign exit Note:The value of disk 1 is equal to the UFD’s disk ID. Ensure that you are using the correct disk ID.
Once you completed that, go to your Media deployment point. This is important, you need to create a deployment point for removable media and then update the files so it populates the share. It will then create a content folder so copy the contents of that folder to the root of the USB stick and make the bootmgr file on the USB stick a system file and you’ll be off to the races.
Remember to get your hands on a fast USB stick, as I followed these instructions on a slow USB stick and it ended up taking 15 minutes to put 1.5gb on the stick and it was taking a long time to boot into PE. I was called out so I had to give up for the time being but I will be getting a faster and a few more USB stick to handle the roll out in the smaller branches.
