How to stop this: Error message: "A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly"

Reg hack only applies if you have IE8 or less. 

Reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175500

How can you tell if VAAI is enabled?

To determine if VAAI is enabled using the vSphere Client:

1. In the vSphere Client inventory panel, click the host.
2. Click the Configuration tab, then click Advanced Settings under Software.
3. Check that these options are set to 1 (enabled):
   
   DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedMove
DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedInit
VMFS3.HardwareAcceleratedLocking

What do I need to know about the Hardware Acceleration Support Status?
If you go to Host > Configuration > Storage, you can see the Hardware Acceleration Status in the panel on the right side.

For each storage device and datastore, the vSphere Client displays the hardware acceleration support status in the Hardware Acceleration column of the Devices view and the Datastores view.

The status values are Unknown, Supported, and Not Supported. The initial value is Unknown. The status changes to Supported after the host successfully performs the offload basic operations. If the offload operation fails, the status changes to Not Supported.

Reference:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1021976

Performance analysis for SQL

Good reference regarding performance monitoring/analysis for SQL server.

Reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966540.aspx (SQL 2005)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd672789(v=sql.100).aspx (SQL 2008)

Request SSL cert for IIS7 (WIn 2008)

Different IIS manager interface so could not find how to generate a new SSL cert request.  Anyway, see reference for the how to...

Reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732906
http://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-microsoft-iis-7.htm

The LastLogonTimeStamp Attribute

Good article about this attribute...

Reference:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/04/15/the-lastlogontimestamp-attribute-what-it-was-designed-for-and-how-it-works.aspx

Mysterious Active Directory lockouts

Something new I learned about Win 7 today is that there is a Control Panel called "Credential Manager". 

Users were having random lockouts to accounts and we were unable to determine the cause.  Turned out because they had selected save password, when logging into sharepoint or mapping a network share or other, causing Credential Manager to store that info.

The problem with that is it seems that if you changed your password, Credential Manager, doesn't know, keeps trying to use your old password, and triggers account lockouts.

References:
http://anandthearchitect.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/active-directory-account-lockout-issues/
http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-nl/library/cc773155(v=ws.10).aspx

Print spooler failing to start up

The issue was related to a HP monitoring driver. Somehow this software got installed.  Maybe it got installed trying to extract a driver...
Reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947477