Well that couldn't have been easier! Here's all it takes to authenticate SLES 11 to Windows Server 2008 based Active Directory. During the initial install of SLES, I performed the following:

• Selected samba-client and winbind during the software installer phase
• Added my domain's DNS servers to the intitial network …

Recently, we migrated a web application to a SharePoint server. The web application is a custom built ASP/ASPX app that supports Integrated Windows Authentication. We were able to run the application successfully using Anonymous Access but we were unable to authenticate from remote computers when Anonymous Access was …

Thanks to everyone who has written to me about the name conflict between my WordPress plugin, Quick Code, and David Gwyer's plugin, Quick Code.

I created the Quick Code plugin three and a half years ago so I'm not sure how the conflict happened but I decided to just rename my plugin to Dirty Code. I chose the name …

I don't usually make a habit of posting about my favorite WordPress plugins but this WPtouch is worth the mention. I was looking to make my blog more iPhone friendly, without making any adjustments to my normal theme and WPtouch gave me exactly what I wanted. To quote their website:

More than just a plugin, WPtouch is …

I wish I had access to this resource when I was first working with SharePoint. If you get as confused as I do when trying to decide between making a site a Site Collection or Sub-site, check out this fantastic article on Steve Goodyear's Blog called Determining Between SharePoint Site Collections and Sub-sites. It even …

So if this happens

Error The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress. Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services.

This is probably the reason: …

Today is Ada Lovelace Day. Lovelace has been credited as the founder of Scientific Computing, though she is not as well-known as her male counterparts.

Ever since I read how much IBM's DB2 SMOKED Oracle and SQL Server in the tpc-c (OLTP) benchmarks, I've wanted to work with it. The benchmarks go a little something like this:

I mean, I don't work with servers that require nearly that horsepower but …

I admit, I don't have too much experience with DB2 yet. But it's on my to-do list and I'm working on it. I recently had to import some data from DB2 hosted on an iSeries server. I had the hardest time figuring out the hostname and LINKEDSERVER..SCHEMA.TABLE didn't work. Once DTS helped me figure out the hostname, I …

In order to emulate a DB2/iSeries<->SQL Server setup that I deal with at work, I installed DB2 Express-C on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. The DB2/Linux Server details, as well as a sample database and table name, are as follows: