February 2008 - Posts

Reminder::Daylight Savings Time In the United States

In order to make sure everyone is prepared if they need to be I wanted to post a reminder about Daylight Saving Time (DST). DST in the United States will be March 9 th 2008 at 2:00 AM. Last year the United States Congress changed DST observance to the Read More...
Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 7:00 AM by Tim Springston | 1 Comments

What's in a name?

Have you ever heard the Shakespeare paraphrased saying “a rose by any other name is still a rose?”. Well, the same holds true for objects in AD. Not that we have “rose” class objects, but the point being that simply renaming an object doesn’t really fundamentally Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:09 AM by Tim Springston | 1 Comments

The FEK, AES and FIPs: Acronym Heaven!

I’ve had several blog posts about the improved security in Windows Vista and Server 2008, particularly around cryptography. Here’s one more, albeit a short one. This post is about how, generally, Encrypted File System (EFS) works using Advanced Encryption Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 10:14 AM by Tim Springston | 0 Comments
 
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