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Howdy all.  After a long hiatus I’m back to blog your socks off with some technical minutiae that will save a few of you lots of headaches, and help the rest of you get a good night’s sleep.   Long Story Short (i.e. “Just the useful info, please”) 

You may never need this one, but when and if you do, you’ll be glad you’ve got this tip in your back pocket.  No doubt, you never actually sit in front of a console for your AquaLogic Servers; if you’re on Windows, you’re using Windows Remote Desktop. Occasionally, you need to reboot those servers, and [...]

For those of you unaware, Dev2Dev is meeting a grisly fate:  it won’t be with us much longer (apparently all content except for the blogs up there will be migrated to the Oracle Mother Ship).  No doubt our friends at Oracle will come up with an alternative way for employees to speak their minds, but [...]

If you’ve got a Windows ALUI portal, you know the procedure for restarting services: Remote Desktop to the affected system, open the Service Control Manager, and restart. If there are already people using the available Remote Desktop sessions, you can kick them off or use the console session, but if you just want to do [...]

Rarely do we get the “privilege” of working in freezing cold server rooms to access Aqualogic portal servers directly. Instead, the connection of choice is the Remote Desktop Connection application that connects to Terminal Services on those systems. It’s pretty common to have to move files to and from these servers, and the usual route [...]

Ever run into problems downloading the portal installer on a Windows 2003 Server? By default, IE has “Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration” enabled, and when you start up IE you see this message: When you try to download an installer, you get a message at the top of the browser window that says “Your current [...]

We mentioned some problems with the WS Server after database restarts a little while ago, and have another tip for you from our friends Sri Potharaju and Omoruyi Evbuoma, who we’ve worked with on a joint project. For those of you that develop using the PRC, you no doubt have used the login token sent [...]

IIS6 has a new feature called Application Pool Recycling. By default, this feature uses overlapped recycling, which means the worker process that is to be shut down is kept running until after a new worker process is started. This can cause problems with the portal, because as one instance is brought up it initializes temp [...]

Occasionally servers aren’t configured optimally for portal processes. Some of the easier things to configure on the server for optimal performance are: Set the /3GB switch in boot.ini. This allows the portal to use more memory. See the Installation Prerequisites Guide for instructions. Disable unnecessary services like the “Indexing Service” on the servers. This service [...]