First since the Agnet accesses the network, local system is a bad choice.

Second, local system is a bad choice because it's an adminsitrator on the local machine. Setup a domain...

1. no best way, depends on your needs. Recommendation is to use Windows and manage with groups in AD. Less admnistration.

2. No good way. Use a few queries and I'd...

Yep, a bug when you're not logged in. Has to do with the ASP/ASP.NET session crap. Eventually we'll move this to ASP.NET and it should work smoother.

Thanks to Rex R in Washington State for the question.

Iowa lost today on the shot of the tournament today.

A sad day for my friend Matt, an alum.

Interesting. Looks similar to my wife's Sidekick II, though a little bigger.

Course, she's not running Windows.

I wish we had standard naming. However since the names are marketing functions, it's not likely to happen soon.

Thanks for the comments. As far as separating DB from Web, we've done it here and I tend to recommend it so the OS doesn't have two apps fighting for...

It's listed in BOL. If you use Service Broker, it's not a service, but SSNS is listed.

Will,

Those seem like good suggestions and I have passed them along. The really weird thing with it is it's 2 machines used for the same purpose, which leads me to...

Always pick the integer

That will be a fun upgrade if this is deprecated

Thanks for the suggestions. An SP4 application is set for this week to see if that helps.

The servers are in a colocation facility, actually a few racks down from the...

A little more info: They've re-IP'd the machines. One has been rebuilt completely (New OS install, SQL, etc) and the two machines perform the same function; one is a backup...

John,

Interesting to see. I have two friends who've upgraded. One had major driver issues and it was very slow. Another had it work ok, but most of his "toys" (Garmin,...