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Comment on Join an Active Directory domain and keep your local profile intact by Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:14:13 +0000

Ben, that’s usually the biggest concern when I migrate profiles as well, but while I don’t mind setting up applications again, people seem to get concerned when their layouts, background, application settings, and things like that get lost in the move. In particular, I wanted to be able to join the computer to the domain and then have the user sit down and log in again without even noticing, and this let me do that. If the concern is just data backup, then you’re right that it easier to just do the file copying yourself after creating the new profile.

I’ve used this process a couple of times to do a smooth migration from a regular profile to a domain profile, but I’ve only tried it on Windows XP and not on Vista or 7, so I’m not sure what the results would be on a newer version of the OS.

Comment on Join an Active Directory domain and keep your local profile intact by Ben

Ben — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:27:46 +0000

It’s almost easier just to join the domain and move the files from the old profile to the new, import favorites for IE and re-configure outlook. The biggest concern for 90% of users seems to be that the stuff on their desktop is migrated

Comment on Roll your own lightweight SQL Server source control by Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:20:15 +0000

@Michael Miller:

I don’t see why it couldn’t be modified to allow on-demand backup of specific stored procedures. All you’d have to do is modify the CREATE PROC statement to accept a parameter:

CREATE PROC dbo.coSourceControlRefresh
(@ObjectNameToBackup NVARCHAR(1000))
AS

And then just add the filter to the WHERE clause of the first table in the INSERT statement:

…
FROM sys.objects (NOLOCK)
WHERE object_id > 0
AND OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id, ”IsMSShipped”) = 0
AND object_definition(object_id) IS NOT NULL
AND object_name(object_id) LIKE @ObjectNameToBackup) s0
…

However, the existing script would accomplish the same goal – instead of backing up on demand (and leaving it up to the developer or DBA to remember to do so), it would automatically detect and record changes as they happen. While you might end up with some additional copies of the SP while development is in-progress, they’d be easily identifiable because you’d see that another version was created not long afterwards.

I could see the desire to have an on-demand backup scheme though for just certain procs, and this change would definitely meet that need.

Comment on Roll your own lightweight SQL Server source control by Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:28:04 +0000

Could this be modified to allow a single developer to update changes to an individual stored procedure? Like: fn_UpdateMySp(‘MyStoredProcedureName’)?

Comment on Roll your own lightweight SQL Server source control by Caffiney

Caffiney — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:01:36 +0000

Quick and elegant. Very nice solution to exactly the issue I was researching. Thank you!

Comment on Roll your own lightweight SQL Server source control by Rex

Rex — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:52:38 +0000

Very cool. Clean and convenient. Thanks!

Comment on Resolving “STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE” after you make changes to your hard drive configuration by Martin

Martin — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:52:04 +0000

Thank you!!!

I changed ACHI to IDE and it works!

Comment on Visual Studio solutions don’t load when you double-click on them by Andy

Andy — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:56:17 +0000

Thanks for that. I knew the selector was the problem, because I had set both vs2008 and vs2010 to always run as admin but they still wouldn’t open. The tricky bit was figuring out where the selector executable was, and you provided that

Cheers!

Comment on Accessing a clustered SQL Server instance without the instance name by senthil chinnappan

senthil chinnappan — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:31:24 +0000

this is great, it solved my nightmare.

Comment on Join an Active Directory domain and keep your local profile intact by Hector

Hector — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:50:57 +0000

Yeah, I don’t understand why MS has not make this migration process a snap, after all, we are not the only onces that wants to do this. Surely they has to be millions of people need to migrate their setup to a “new OS’ and Active directory. I just installed a AD machine and with an unused machine I had it join the domain, and wanted to see how to restore the profile because for real user machines they are going to want that. Oh well, I thought this find was great until I read you post Moha. I’m going to get the steps a try to see if I get successful results.