Recently I got introduced to this amazing tool by one of my colleagues and I just want to make sure I do my bit in spreading  the awareness about this tool. VRTA is one tool which can help you analyzing and improving the performance of your web site...

In case you are wondering why ASP.NET 1.1 is not listed under the .NET framework version drop down box while creating a new application pool in IIS7 then you should read this blog. This is what I am actually talking about… So I assume that you have already...

Few days back one of the SQLDBA asked me a question on SQL server 2008 backup compression to which I didn’t have the ready answers but now with the help of this blog I would like to share the answer with the larger community.… Question At most of the...

Today I came across a very interesting issue where my customer was not able to connect to Oracle 10G from legacy DTS packages or through linked server from SQL server 2005 32bit version installed on Windows 2003 x64 machine. Environment details:- Windows...

  Till few days back I was not aware of fact that there is no MS specific driver which would allow non java based application running on UNIX/LINUX platform to connect to the SQL server hosted on Windows. And I hope that with this blog post I could...

This is an informational post to spread awareness about a new command line tool called NMCAP which is available with NETMON 3.3. This is really a handy command line tool which can do almost everything that can be done with NETMON 3.3 UI. Despite of being...

To configure SCOM server to monitor the stand-alone servers in the workgroup , you must follow the following steps. 1) First and foremost make sure that you have access to a root certification authority and you must be able to create client and server...

While I was trying to juggle around various ways of capturing a crash dump on a Windows Vista machine , I got to know a fact about Doctor Watson. In windows Vista Doctor Watson doesn't really exist!!, which was suppose to be a default debugger program...

The client first authenticates the server using the certificate. After authentication, the client uses public-key encryption to send information that is used to created a shared key (the session key). Then the session key is used to perform the...

All of you are a knowledgeable person who understands the security landscape. Today I would be discussing around the Security changes which are implemented new in IIS7. One of the key changes which I would be talking in this blog post would be Kernel...

Many a times while troubleshooting Kerberos related issues we have come across a situation where IE prompts 3 times for credentials and even after providing the correct credentials every time it fails with 401.1 error message. First of all while using...

Hello Friends My name is Nitin Gupta, I am working at Microsoft GTSC India as a Support Engineer on IIS/ASP.NET technology. To be honest, I am kind of little dobutful as of now that I am going to regular here, but I am sure its worth giving a try...