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SQL Server 2012 SP1 Installation step by step

SQL Server 2012 Sp1 Standard installation step by step screen capture. This was done on a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit operating system in Hyper-V VM with 4GB of memory.

Enable ActiveX in Windows Server 2008 R2

This is a classic example of "do what I say but don't follow what I do." ActiveX technology is not something that you will trust on the internet. You may use it in a trusted environment like on intranet but not the world wide web. When you download ISO files from MSDN you would need Microsoft File Transfer Manager which needs ActiveX to work. Windows Sever 2008 R2 and probably the older Windows Sever 2008, IE by default is configured to not allow execution of ActiveX control even if you enable in Internet Options. I can imagine that this is done to minimize the surface attack area of the machine. To temporarily allow execution of ActiveX in IE, bring Server Manager and click on Configure IE ESC (Enhanced Security Manager). Then enable the appropriate group - for example below screen shows that for Administrators IE ESC is disabled. Open/close IE so that the changes will take effect. References: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/agileer/archive/2008/12/05/how-to-enable

TFS Express 2012 Express limits

TFS Express 2012 Express limits Is limited to no more than 5 named users. Only supports SQL Server Express Edition (which we’ll install for you, if you don’t have it) Can only be installed on a single server (no multi-server configurations) Excludes the TFS Proxy and the new Preemptive analytics add-on. References: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10926189/whats-missing-in-tfs-express http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/02/23/coming-soon-tfs-express.aspx http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/Got-some-questions-about-TFS-Express-2012

Samba share not working after reboot on Ubuntu 12.10

So I just installed Samba server on Ubuntu 12.10, configured it, restarted the daemon and everything is happy. But when I reboot the machine, Samba share always stops working. Restarting the daemon will make it work. I am not sure what's going but adding the following in sbmd.conf seems to fix it. start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0)