This assumes you are on a Windows machine trying to remotely login to a Windows machine, but you need to use an SSH tunnel to get through the firewall. The overall idea is that you set up a port on the local computer to forward all traffic to a port on the remote computer. Then [...]

Today I tried installing MS SQL Server Management Studio Express and received the following error: TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure. —————————— SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error: Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created.. —————————— BUTTONS: OK —————————— I searched around the internet and [...]

Today I installed SQL Server Management Studio Express (standalone) on a brand new Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine. After downloading the install from Microsoft and running it, I received the following error: “SQLManagementStudio_x64_ENU.exe is not a valid Win32 Application” I assumed I had some weird versioning issue, and read all kinds of blogs about [...]

Over the past month I have been struggling with an install of Documentum Content Server 6.5 SP2 on Windows Server 2008 x64. Here is a summary of some of the problems I encountered and the eventual path I took. Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 In the official release notes, only Windows Server 2008 (not [...]

There are a few different ways to integrate Windows Active Directory (Domain) authentication with SVN. Specifically the two that seemed most promising were LDAP and SSPI, with SSPI looking the most straightforward, so that is the one that I will outline here. Include dependent modules First we need to include the apache modules we’ll be [...]

Today after installing some new software and rebooting a VM, I ran a batch file to do a “net start” on a number of services and it failed with: ‘net’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file Apparently the install messed up my PATH environment variable, which was [...]