Tuesday, June 30, 2009

How to Reset License (ACLs) Counter for Windows SBS 2003

"If I understand correctly, administrative accounts under SBS 2003 do not require a CAL. Is that correct? "

No, that's not entirely correct. The built-in Administrator Account does not require a CAL, nor does a second administrator account you create with the Add-User Wizard applying the Administrator Template.

Accounts used by services don't require a CAL either.

A CAL is assigned to any other user account for the life of that account, until it is deleted from Active Directory.

If you have 10 Users that access the server, then you should only need 10 USER CALs (The original 5, plus an additional 5).

If you want to reset the counter, follow these steps:

To reset the license manager information:

1. Stop the License Logging service.

2. Delete the LlsUser.LLS file, which contains the user information on number of connections and is located in

%Systemroot%\System32\Lls.

3. Restart the License Logging service.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Endless loop Setting up database while install Drupal

Drupal is an open source CMS. If you setup it for the first time you will get a lot problems. One common problem is this: During the installation it will ask you to setup the database. But even you put the right database name, username and password in, the installation wizard will not go the next step; instead it will stay at the same page asking for the same information again and again. This problem may be caused by a missing file. That file is “default.setting.php” under “site\setting”. When you install Drupal, you may accidently renamed the file to “setting.php”. If you did, rename it back and create a empty “setting.php” file under the same folder.