I recently played golf with a VP of a large company in town. He was lamenting that he knows his IT staff is technically proficient and does there job very well, but, the other executives in the company have a poor view of IT. They think they are a dime a dozen. That the pay is too high. (The top developer is at 60k and the top Net Admin is at 50k, not that high in my book) As you can imagine his turnover is high and his productivity is down. Once they get a really good Net Admin he goes somewhere...

Personally I perfer a hardware device for spam blocking , but as a consultant you have to move and shake with what the customer has or is willing to purchase. The issue was when we had to re-install IHateSpam and it gave an error that we needed version 5.5 or higher for Internet Explorer to install and it would not. The server was on version 6.1 of IE. After trying all the basic's, updates, etc. We found a key in the registry that was causing the problem. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR...

I am by no means a SQL expert but due to the life of a network engineer I get to see a little of everything. If anyone has any suggestions or comments on the steps I used feel free to make them. Recently we had an issue with a client that there master database was corrupt and MSSQL would not start. We had an old backup of the master database and the .mdf and .ldf of the client databases only. Below I have listed out the steps we took to recover the master database and the client databases.- We started...