I kind of thought there where some security issues with installing IIS on a SQL Server machine.  Am I wrong in thinking this?

Is IIS required if you install Reporting Services...

Thanks for the feed back.  Wow that those improvements are dramatic.

Since we are running on WK3 standard edition.  I guess 4 gb is max thanks.

I'm guessing that windows 2003 has a max greater than 2 gig. 

So now I have a question about how much memory we should purchase.  Anyone know of a website or...

I also had to use a registry hack, but I am only using the standard edition.   Is the registry value and hive the same for 2003 enterprise?

In the SAC the output the network protocols, but it only outputs what is below.  I have done that using the "-N" parameter to the SAC utility.  Since there are...

Here at the last two patches that where applied to this machine just before we started experiencing slow downs in the login process.  Does anyone think either of these two...

David thanks for the thought.  I'm sure they are logging on to the correct DB, but I'll ask them.

"Our goal is to have 100% up time except when the sever is down." 

I wish my management had that goal.

I to an coming up with a monthly measure of for our production servers.  We are planning on measuring availability.  To do this we plan to use my monitoring processes...

Here is an article I wrote to do exactly what you are talking about.  If you have questions let me know:

http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3622746

Colin, thank you for the feedback.  I have a comment and a question regarding your post.

I suppose to make system administration easy having all service accounts in a windows...

No I have yet to find a solution, or a reason why this happens.

Yelena, I was kind of thinking that EM does not correctly set all the folder permissions when you change the services account through EM.  I have not confirmed this.  It...

Rudy, thanks for your input.  I think on the whole our service accounts will not be used to login and interactive things.  Although I'm not sure this is true in...