Friday, March 12, 2010

How can we install MSDE

You need to set the sa password, but there is no graphic interface to let you do this. So, to install MSDE:

1. Open a command window
2. Change to your MSDE install directory
3. Enter: setup SAPWD="YouPassword"

More: http://www.mshowto.org/

Sunday, March 07, 2010

The connection cannot be completed because the remote computer that was reached is not the one you specified

Error message while running RDP on Remote Desktop Virtualalization Enverioment :

"The connection cannot be completed because the remote computer that was reached is not the one you specified. This could be caused by and outdated entry in the DNS cache. Try using the IP address of the computer instead of the name"

Solution :

Updated the time and date on the server. Once it was updated we were able to connect to it successfully.

Saturday, March 06, 2010

Setting Up Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 in Workgroup

I read an article from http://mshowto.org/server-ailesi/server-2008/476-hyper-v-remote-management and i did everythings in article but this article had been writen for domain enverioment and i have to add a lot of extra steps for workgroup enverioment. For example if you work in a workgroup enverioment you should get following error :

"Cannot connect to the RPC service, make sure your RPC service is running"

For solution:

I added a manual entry in host file and then it worked

For more: www.mshowto.org