Posts Tagged ‘ Restore ’

Moving Old ASP Sites to 2008 Server, IIS 7, and SQL 2008

2017/11/13
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Modified: 2017/11/12
IIS75-ASP-is-not-Installed

It was time to move many sites from W2K3 Server (Windows 2003 Server) and SQL 2000 Server to a new W2K8 Server (Windows 2008 Server) and SQL 2008 Server.  And if I ever have to do it again, I will check with these notes. The greatest secret in technical life (and may be wider) is to change before you have to.  Anticipate and change before circumstances force you.  For a long time I was planning this migration, but I didn’t expect to go through so many hurdles and error messages.  Luckily, I found solutions that seem logical and clean.  So, let’s go into step-by-step details. COPY DATABASE AND SITES – Backup…

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Save and Restore Registry Security with Microsoft SubInACL

2017/04/29
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Modified: 2017/03/03
SubInACL-Utility-in-Action

Problem You need to search and replace large registry databases with a set of new values.  You have a third-party utility to do the job, but this utility can only update values writable by administrator.  Thousands of registry keys are owned by NT Service\TrustedInstaller and protected even for Administrators.  What to do? If you simply use REGEDIT to take ownership and add full rights to Administrator to all registry at once, you will definitely achieve the goal, but you will ruin the intricate security permissions for dozens of system service accounts that populate registry security.  Windows will run but many features like Windows Update will become broken. Solution The plan of…

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Restore iPhone from an Old Backup (PC)

2010/07/03
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Modified: 2010/08/09

If you have iPhone backup on an old PC, or old prallel install of other (or even non-functioning) operating system, you still can restore your iPhone through iTunes. Copy a long number directories from old installation to a new one.  For example copy a directory   from …Old User Directory\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup to %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup It appears that your applictions are not part of the backup.  Also, I don see any music files to be restored.  However, even your last search in Google maps is restored and saved.

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