Tag: Architecture and Administration

Dual user accounts – making sure mr cockup doesn’t come to visit (credit to blackadder)

We always recommend to customers that they create two user ids for the SAS Administrators. One that is granted standard user rights(or developer user rights) and one that is granted administrator rights. (remember nobody should use sasadm should they!) The reason is that it stops the administrator users from accidentally doing something they didn’t mean to when […]

New Sysinternals Process Explorer

Im a great fan of the System Internals process explorer as a great way of getting a better handle on what is happening on a windows server, compared to the standard task manager. Looks like they released a new version in Nov 2010 which you can downlaod from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 There is also a suite […]