Johansson leaving Microsoft

Jesper Johannson posted on his blog that he is leaving Microsoft for a position at Amazon.com. I’ve had the pleasure to attend some of his sessions at TechEd and have always walked away having been both educated and entertained. His sessions have always been the kind you hear people talking about afterwards. Hate to see …

Here in Huntsville

Our power came on around 4:30 yesterday afternoon, so we finished packing for our trip, and loaded up the car. We checked out the freezer to see how our frozen foods had done during the outage. Everything that was in the basement freezer was solid, but the items we moved down from upstairs had started …

No Electricity

We should have been in Nashville by now, on our way to the annual Dingler Reunion this weekend in Huntsville. Unfortunately we’re sitting in our basement keeping cool and waiting for the power to come back on. We lost power almost 21 hours ago at 7 pm. Last night over 548,000 people in St. Louis …

MP Problem after SMS SP2

I upgraded my SMS 2003 Server to SP2 today. The upgrade completed normally, but after checking SMS Site Status, I noticed that the MP upgrade was failing wit these errors in the mpsetup.log file: [22:32:36] @@ERR:25006 Setup was unable to create the Internet virtual directory CCM_System The error code is 80020009 MP.MSI exited with return …