While adding a new Data Source to a Sharepoint Site for SQL Reporting Services, I kept getting the following error: An unexpected error occurred while connecting to the report server. Verify that the report server is available and configured for SharePoint integrated mode. Ummm…. OK. It is configured for SharePoint integrated mode.  Quick Google search [...]

I recently ran into a situation in which I needed and SSL certificate for a DC which did not have access to a Certificate Authority. In order to configure secure LDAP to authenticate against a DC, the domain controller must have a Domain Controller Authentication certificate configured for server authentication. Normally, you would simply set [...]

In a previous post, I talked about configuring compression in IIS 7 and realized I should also mention IIS 6.0 compression as there are quite a few IIS 6.0 servers out there.  In IIS 6.0, unlike 7, Compression is off by default and should (in most cases) be turned on. Unlike IIS 7 however, there [...]

I was checking whether or not one of my web servers was performing compression today due to some performance issues we were seeing, so I thought I would share what I found, which led me down the rabbit hole that follows…. If you want to increase the speed of your IIS Website, you may want [...]

This is a follow up to my Time Synchronizzation in Windows 2000 Active Directory Domains post. In that post, I should have mentioned that net time commands have been deprecated and you should now be using w32tm.exe instead when using Windows 2003 and 2008 AD domains with Windows Server 2003/2008 and XP, Vista, or Windows [...]