18 February 2010

Migrating IIS from one server to another ...

I had to move IIS server from server A to server B and was faced with lengthy task of manually creating all virtual directories ...
Then I thought that there must be easier way to handle that and there it was
Link to source "Migrating IIS"

To summarize it basically includes following steps:
  1.  Create back up on IIS server A (with password)
  2.  Grab the backup from following location: ..\system32\inetsrv\metaback
  3.  Copy backup to server B on the same location ..\system32\inetsrv\metaback
  4.  Run restore on IIS server B pointing to created backup
  5.  When IIS ask for password provide it and that's it :-)

17 February 2010

How to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of SQL Servers ...

Here is a short explanation about how to move logins between instances of sql servers
  1. Create store procedure 
  2. 
    USE master
    GO
    IF OBJECT_ID ('sp_hexadecimal') IS NOT NULL
    DROP PROCEDURE sp_hexadecimal
    GO
    CREATE PROCEDURE sp_hexadecimal
    @binvalue varbinary(256),
    @hexvalue varchar (514) OUTPUT
    AS
    DECLARE @charvalue varchar (514)
    DECLARE @i int
    DECLARE @length int
    DECLARE @hexstring char(16)
    SELECT @charvalue = '0x'
    SELECT @i = 1
    SELECT @length = DATALENGTH (@binvalue)
    SELECT @hexstring = '0123456789ABCDEF'
    WHILE (@i <= @length) BEGIN  DECLARE @tempint int  DECLARE @firstint int  DECLARE @secondint int  SELECT @tempint = CONVERT(int, SUBSTRING(@binvalue,@i,1))  SELECT @firstint = FLOOR(@tempint/16)  SELECT @secondint = @tempint - (@firstint*16)  SELECT @charvalue = @charvalue +    SUBSTRING(@hexstring, @firstint+1, 1) +    SUBSTRING(@hexstring, @secondint+1, 1)  SELECT @i = @i + 1 END  SELECT @hexvalue = @charvalue GO  IF OBJECT_ID ('sp_help_revlogin') IS NOT NULL  DROP PROCEDURE sp_help_revlogin GO CREATE PROCEDURE sp_help_revlogin @login_name sysname = NULL AS DECLARE @name sysname DECLARE @type varchar (1) DECLARE @hasaccess int DECLARE @denylogin int DECLARE @is_disabled int DECLARE @PWD_varbinary  varbinary (256) DECLARE @PWD_string  varchar (514) DECLARE @SID_varbinary varbinary (85) DECLARE @SID_string varchar (514) DECLARE @tmpstr  varchar (1024) DECLARE @is_policy_checked varchar (3) DECLARE @is_expiration_checked varchar (3)  DECLARE @defaultdb sysname  IF (@login_name IS NULL)  DECLARE login_curs CURSOR FOR       SELECT p.sid, p.name, p.type, p.is_disabled, p.default_database_name, l.hasaccess, l.denylogin FROM sys.server_principals p LEFT JOIN sys.syslogins l      ON ( l.name = p.name ) WHERE p.type IN ( 'S', 'G', 'U' ) AND p.name <> 'sa'
    ELSE
    DECLARE login_curs CURSOR FOR
    
    
    SELECT p.sid, p.name, p.type, p.is_disabled, p.default_database_name, l.hasaccess, l.denylogin FROM
    sys.server_principals p LEFT JOIN sys.syslogins l
    ON ( l.name = p.name ) WHERE p.type IN ( 'S', 'G', 'U' ) AND p.name = @login_name
    OPEN login_curs
    
    FETCH NEXT FROM login_curs INTO @SID_varbinary, @name, @type, @is_disabled, @defaultdb, @hasaccess, @denylogin
    IF (@@fetch_status = -1)
    BEGIN
    PRINT 'No login(s) found.'
    CLOSE login_curs
    DEALLOCATE login_curs
    RETURN -1
    END
    SET @tmpstr = '/* sp_help_revlogin script '
    PRINT @tmpstr
    SET @tmpstr = '** Generated ' + CONVERT (varchar, GETDATE()) + ' on ' + @@SERVERNAME + ' */'
    PRINT @tmpstr
    PRINT ''
    WHILE (@@fetch_status <> -1)
    BEGIN
    IF (@@fetch_status <> -2)
    BEGIN
    PRINT ''
    SET @tmpstr = '-- Login: ' + @name
    PRINT @tmpstr
    IF (@type IN ( 'G', 'U'))
    BEGIN -- NT authenticated account/group
    
    SET @tmpstr = 'CREATE LOGIN ' + QUOTENAME( @name ) + ' FROM WINDOWS WITH DEFAULT_DATABASE = [' + @defaultdb + ']'
    END
    ELSE BEGIN -- SQL Server authentication
    -- obtain password and sid
    SET @PWD_varbinary = CAST( LOGINPROPERTY( @name, 'PasswordHash' ) AS varbinary (256) )
    EXEC sp_hexadecimal @PWD_varbinary, @PWD_string OUT
    EXEC sp_hexadecimal @SID_varbinary,@SID_string OUT
    
    -- obtain password policy state
    SELECT @is_policy_checked = CASE is_policy_checked WHEN 1 THEN 'ON' WHEN 0 THEN 'OFF' ELSE NULL END FROM sys.sql_logins WHERE name = @name
    SELECT @is_expiration_checked = CASE is_expiration_checked WHEN 1 THEN 'ON' WHEN 0 THEN 'OFF' ELSE NULL END FROM sys.sql_logins WHERE name = @name
    
    SET @tmpstr = 'CREATE LOGIN ' + QUOTENAME( @name ) + ' WITH PASSWORD = ' + @PWD_string + ' HASHED, SID = ' + @SID_string + ', DEFAULT_DATABASE = [' + @defaultdb + ']'
    
    IF ( @is_policy_checked IS NOT NULL )
    BEGIN
    SET @tmpstr = @tmpstr + ', CHECK_POLICY = ' + @is_policy_checked
    END
    IF ( @is_expiration_checked IS NOT NULL )
    BEGIN
    SET @tmpstr = @tmpstr + ', CHECK_EXPIRATION = ' + @is_expiration_checked
    END
    END
    IF (@denylogin = 1)
    BEGIN -- login is denied access
    SET @tmpstr = @tmpstr + '; DENY CONNECT SQL TO ' + QUOTENAME( @name )
    END
    ELSE IF (@hasaccess = 0)
    BEGIN -- login exists but does not have access
    SET @tmpstr = @tmpstr + '; REVOKE CONNECT SQL TO ' + QUOTENAME( @name )
    END
    IF (@is_disabled = 1)
    BEGIN -- login is disabled
    SET @tmpstr = @tmpstr + '; ALTER LOGIN ' + QUOTENAME( @name ) + ' DISABLE'
    END
    PRINT @tmpstr
    END
    
    FETCH NEXT FROM login_curs INTO @SID_varbinary, @name, @type, @is_disabled, @defaultdb, @hasaccess, @denylogin
    END
    CLOSE login_curs
    DEALLOCATE login_curs
    RETURN 0
    
  3. Execute following store procedure: EXEC sp_help_revlogin
That's it, source link