EXOLEDB creates a number of system folders under the NON_IPM_SUBTREE during the Accept Clients phase of MDB initialization. Some of the folders remain for historic reasons, but most have real purposes and impact on the server should they be deleted. None...

Wow… I haven’t blogged in awhile. But yesterday at my TechNet Briefing in Rockford, IL I got some great questions and I thought I would share them (and the answers) with you:...

I’m often helping my neighbors get their computers cleaned up after large amounts of spyware and malware have been unwittingly installed....

Welcome to Harold Wong's Blog site. Just a quick little something about myself - I really like sushi, playing golf and spending time with my family. When I'm not busy doing these things, I like to "geek" with my computers and such....

You may recall that I mentioned this event a couple of weeks ago with the detailed post that's accessible here . Well as promised the event's now open for registration via the TechNet site - just click here to browse to the registration site. The event...

If you are like me, you do not have as much time as you would like to read through books at your leisure. Even books that contain valuable information to your job. I joined getAbstract recently which has over 2500 book abstracts available. I signed up...

The scripting templates (WMI and ADSI) are available at your disposal. You can take a sample script (such as one of the many scripts found in the TechNet Script Center repository ) and – by copying code from that script and pasting it into the template...

The .NET Show's 50th episode includes Rick Rashid, Brad Abrams, John Shewchuk, and Michael Wallent discussing where the Microsoft platform technologies can, should, and will be going in the future. This show also features a special interview with Bill...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I rename a local area connection? -- AP Hey, AP. You know, you hurt our feelings here: we Microsoft types spent a lot of time coming up with clever and catchy names like Local Area Connection, Local Area Connection 2, and Local...

Darren has written an article on some of the challenges and issues that you may encounter when migrating from Novell NDS to Windows Active Directory. It can be quite a complicated process which will fail without the right level of planning and testing....

Another handy way to add appointments to your calendar is by importing from Excel. To do this you first need to create an Excel file containing the appointment information Outlook needs. Your first row should contain columns titles which match Outlook's...

Please note that this post has been updated to include the links to the sesison material! What an event! I want to extend a huge Thank-You to all who attended, from presenters to attendess, from partners to user group members helping out on the booths...

Many people ask me what substance exists to the Trustworthy Computing Initative and specificially what changes Microsoft have made to our development process to significantly increase the resilience of code. There's a interesting paper which was written...

Topical after yesterdays webcast on Windows Server 2003 SP1, here's a link to documentation on SCW (Security Configuration Wizard) which contains lots of information to assist you in deployment, extensibility and troubleshooting. Apart from the quick...

Tristan now likes Class Diagrams....

In the debut column of the Scripting Eye for the GUI Guy , the GUI Guy examined the File Types tab of the Folder Options dialog box and learned how to gather the content displayed in the “Registered File Types” list box using a script. He's building upon...

There are two different reasons for ugly URL's on in presentation mode: when using Webauthor and switching to live site when doing a postback in on a form to send data to the server. The following articles discuss different ways to address this: http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2004/04/23/118623.aspx...

Hooray, now that the cat is out of the bag we can finally talk about Windows Mobile 5.0. That's the new OS BillG released and demoed in Las Vegas 4AM this morning NZ time If you're into Mobile Devices be sure to checkout the next Wellington Windows Mobile...

R2? If you haven't heard of it yet, you will soon. R2 its a new interim release of Windows Server 2003, shipping around the end of this year - called Windows Server 2003 R2, based on top of Server 2003 SP1 - basically it comes on a 2nd CD (much like the...

Desktop Backgrounds for Windows Free desktop backgrounds and themes from Microsoft New Zealand. Someone from MSNZ posted this for download up on the MS Download Centre They're actually pretty cool, chewing gum for the eyes. A kiwi style 'bliss' Windows...

So it's been a month or so since we did the 3-city Microsoft Connect 05 event. Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and in that order for a change. Thanks to everyone that came along and watched a presentation, asked a question or came and said hi and had...

Great question Mr. Rhetorical, firstly Who am I? Nathan Mercer, I work for Microsoft New Zealand and am a 5 year Microsoft 'veteran' now. Most recently a Technology Specialist (TS) and previously (same role, different name) as a Systems Engineer. Essentially...

Hi there, welcome to post number one of my new blog on blogs.technet.com. I've finally got my act together so let the posting commence......

Debby Fry Wilson here! I had the opportunity to attend the CanSecWest security research conference in Vancouver, Canada last week. It was a tremendously valuable and eye-opening experience to see and hear the passion, dedication and commitment that segments...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add an email address to the proxyAddresses attribute without overwriting all the existing attributes? -- DH Hey, DH. For those of you who aren’t too familiar with the proxyAddresses attribute (and, alas, that includes the...