The problem We have had an insteresting problem, we have a Virtual Server 2007 R2 (Beta), this is accessed both internally on our company network and externally via a ISA 2006 on the Internet. This has been working fine with our XP PCs, but we saw problems when we tried to use Vista. When on our LAN, the Vista PC was fine, you could connect to the Virtual Server console web page and VMRC to any VPC....
We have been having fun installing SQL2005 Developer Edition on Vista PCs with Reporting Services, you need the SP2 for Vista, but installation of this kept stalling with authentication problems. Turns out this is the process to follow: Do a default Install SQL 2005 Dev. Edition Run the Reporting Service Configuration Tools, make sure that the Reporting Services Process is started. Make sure the new SQL service has also be started (via control panel) Run the SP2 package, we were having problems on the login verification page, it said we could not authenticate the Reporting Services login until we had done steps 2 and 3....
The voting for the sessions at DDD5 is now open. Have a good read of the options and vote for what you would like to see sessions on. Of course I would not be suggesting you should vote for mine, but……………
Ayende Rahien and Roy Osherove have been having an interesting ping-pong about the merits and problems of TFS. Well worth a read….
Maybe it is just my background in network analysis, but I do feel any developer working with remote servers needs a protocol analyzer; in just the same way as you need the SQL profiler when working with a Microsoft SQL server, especially with auto generated code. Without tools like these how can you work out what is actually being sent on the wire? And if the data on the wire is wrong what hope is there for higher levels in the application|...