Burito, Braviax, UPS virus … check your email senders!

Damnit, why can’t people check to see if they know the person sending them an email before they open attachments? The latest bit of fun seems to be people opening emails that apparently relate to statements of fees, invoices etc – it’s a VIRUS and here’s how to fix it....

SQL Server 2005 Express Unattended Install – Further Info

Recently I posted an article about how to perform an unattended installation of SQL Server 2005 Express. A comment was posted asking how to set some specific options during the installation – here’s how....

Run As – “The directory name is invalid”

Windows Administrators will often need to start applications as another user in order to gain the privileges necessary to perform administrative tasks. Here’s how to fix the error that may appear that says the directory name is invalid....

SQL Server 2005 Express Scheduled Backup – How?

A lot of my articles make use of or mention SQL Server Express, the light and cut-down and FREE version of Microsoft’s flagship database product Microsoft SQL Server. One of the features of the full and very expensive version of SQL Server 2005 is the ability to run scheduled backups using SQL Maintenance Plans. SQL Server requires SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) for these to be available –...