February 2007 - Posts

AES Authentication in Vista…Keep in Mind If You’re Testing Vista

In the concerted effort to provide more secure methods of authentication we have added in product behind-the-scenes support for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and other security enhancements. More info on that is here: http://www.microsoft.com/brasil/technet/itsolutions/network/evaluate/new_network.mspx Read More...
Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 9:25 AM by Tim Springston | 2 Comments
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Access Denied, or other Access Failure to SMB Shares From Vista Clients

Some of the fun we in product support have is that, once a new product is released nowadays, we get to chart the unexplored waters of new security settings interoperating with our customers real world environments. With Windows XP and Server 2003 we saw Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:26 PM by Tim Springston | 0 Comments
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Active Directory in Longhorn Server

Recently I posted saying that I’d give a preview of Longhorn Server Active Directory. Well, here it is. I will caution all who read this to take into account that we are still in a beta production phase, so some or all of these items could change (or Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:29 PM by Tim Springston | 3 Comments

Active Directory in Longhorn...Feature Feedback Requested

One of the most time consuming, aggravating and emotionally draining issues our customers can go through is a disaster recovery issue. The general gyst of this type of thing is: -Accidental deletion of <insert terrifyingly large number here> users, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:13 PM by Tim Springston | 9 Comments
 
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