Well, it was a day late, but I got my 7.5 mile run in! I ran it on Saturday and then yesterday put in a small 1.5 with Yow-Yow. Good times. Now I’m off to the gym…
Holy crap. Having the right shoes can definitely make a huge difference. I normally just use my trail running shoes for various excercise related activities. However, since I’m running in a relay, and by “a” relay I mean “the” relay, out in SFO (feel free to donate, it’s tax deductible!), I figured I should go a little bit more professional, especially since I normally have a hard time running long distances on pavement.
Well, I bought the shoes on Monday, a pair of Saucony ProGrid Triumph 5’s, and this morning was the first time I was able to try them out. Now, I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve been running a lot with hills on the treadmill and this was the first time this year outside or the new shoes, but I was able to go >2x further this morning than I ever had been able to outside. Plus, I was hauling or at least it felt a whole lot faster than I normally go. The best part was, the parts of me that normally hurt when running on the pavement for long distances, didn’t. In fact, nothing really hurt. I just kept crossing more and more streets since I wasn’t hurting like I normally do.
Next loop will be up to Addison to make it 7.5 miles. Hopefully I’ll do that tomorrow or Friday now that I’ve broken in the shoes. Plus, now that I know that 5 miles is not that big a deal, I’m going to start running to the gym and back. What’s really wierd is that I’m actually excited about this. I thought I wasn’t going to be in that great of shape for this relay, but now I’m not too concerned. I just want to be able to hit 10 miles or more prior to shipping out, since I’m not doing any hilly stuff.
Make sure your Database Access account is an admin on the central administration server, otherwise you’ll get access denied errors when trying to create new web applications. This is because the db access account won’t have the ability to edit the metabase. Oh, and this bubble up by MOSS saying that you, the logged in user doesn’t have access, which is completely inaccurate, especially since I was a Farm Administrator. In addition you’ll see the error message listed below in the Application event logs.
Log Name: Application
Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Date: 3/18/2008 10:58:42 AM
Event ID: 1309
Task Category: Web Event
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
Event code: 3005
Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred.
Event time: 3/18/2008 10:58:42 AM
Event time (UTC): 3/18/2008 3:58:42 PM
Event ID: c59d97a1bbf8405cba1d837292259be4
Event sequence: 4767
Event occurrence: 8
Event detail code: 0
Application information:
Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/236168797/ROOT-1-128503227503346172
Trust level: WSS_Minimal
Application Virtual Path: /
Application Path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\37466\
Machine name:
Process information:
Process ID: 3720
Process name: w3wp.exe
Account name:\
Exception information:
Exception type: COMException
Exception message: Access is denied.
Request information:
Request URL: http://:24055/_admin/extendvs.aspx
Request path: /_admin/extendvs.aspx
User host address: fe80::e48a:75aa:9034:9106WSS_Minimal
User:\
Is authenticated: True
Authentication Type: NTLM
Thread account name:\
Thread information:
Thread ID: 9
Thread account name:\
Is impersonating: False
Stack trace: at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.HandleAccessDenied(Exception ex)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModule.HandleAccessDenied(Exception ex)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.BaseApplication.Application_Error(HttpApplication app)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModule.ErrorAppHandler(Object oSender, EventArgs ea)
at System.Web.HttpApplication.RaiseOnError()
I hate having service accounts admins on boxes.
After trying to install MOSS 2007 on a new Windows 2008 box, I almost went completely bonkers. No place in the installation documentation does it tell you what Role Services need to be installed for MOSS to successfully install and run. Initially MOSS 2007 wouldn’t even install because I didn’t have the IIS6 metabase compatability installed. However, just because it’s installed, doesn’t mean it actually runs. I then started installing additional role services to see if I could get it to work. Needless to say, even after installing all of services, my MOSS installation didn’t work. Turns out you need to have the services installed prior to actually installing MOSS. Otherwise the page will never render, and you’ll get a 5MB binary download instead of the actual application.
However, after I knew what I was looking at (reinstalling MOSS again after all the services were installed), I decided to start whittle down the actual services I need. Instead of doing it by hand, I finally found a website that listed what’s needed. I’d like to give Bill Baer’s site a shoutout as to where I found this information.
Web Server
Application Development
- Common HTTP Features
- Static Content
- Default Document
- Directory Browsing
- HTTP Errors
Health and Diagnostics
- ASP.NET
- .NET Extensibility
- ISAPI Extensions
- ISAPI Filters
Security
- HTTP Logging
- Logging Tools
- Request Monitor
- Tracing
Performance
- Basic Authentication
- Windows Authentication
- Digest Authentication
- Request Filtering
Management Tools
- Static Content Compression
- Dynamic Content Compression
IIS 6 Management Compatibility
- IIS Management Console
- IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
I really want to upgrade to ESX 3.5. However, I’m not having that much luck with it. I’ve tried 2x now, and have had the exact same experience. So, I do the upgrade from 3.0.2 to 3.5.0. However, after the upgrade, not all of my VMs function. Some of them work just fine. However, others are sitting at the command prompt saying that no OS has been found. It’s weird because the drives are attached and recognized, but it doesn’t like to boot from them. It’s like it can’t find the MBR.
Things I’ve tried to fix this:
I really don’t know what to do at this point. I know that I can downgrade again to 3.0.2 and it will work fine. The machines will boot right up without issues. However, to downgrade, that means I have to recreate all of my Virtual Machines again. Not completely awful, but time consuming. I may try to do a full install instead of any upgrade too, see if that works. Any other ideas?
I’d really like to move to 3.5 as it has some nice features. Plus I’ll be sitting the VCP class soon, which will be on 3.5.
Having troubles running SQL Server Manager on your shiny new Windows 2008 installation? Make sure you right click and do a “Run as administrator” on it. Took me awhile to figure this one out. Otherwise you’ll just get the error “Login failed for user domain\user. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 18456)” even if you’re a member of the local administrators on the SQL box.
Yet another instance of where UAC sucks.
Microsoft released a bunch of how-to guides for various things new to Windows 2008. You can grab them all from the MS Download page.
Things I would definitely check out are: