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...

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I'm simply staggered at the size of the microsoft.com site, so it's not surprising when you find a dead useful page or sub-site up there which you never knew of before. If anyone knows of a link to the stats for microsoft.com, I'd love to hear from you....

Following todays webcast on Windows Server 2003 SP1, here's the blogcast on Access Based Enueration I promised to record and post up. Apologies for the technical difficulties during the webcast - unfortunately I wasn't able to show the last demonstration...

Just while it's on my mind I thought I'd remind people that the EA Conference is not far off so you best think about booking if you haven't already. With acts like John Zachman and Richard Buchanan not to mention the likes of Mike Platt speaking how can...

My largest customer ran across this one. Here is the scenario: E xchange 2003 Mixed mode with mostly 5.5 servers New profiles created against a mailbox on an Exchange 2003 server can't send mail when in cached mode. New profiles created against a mailbox...

Hi everyone, Mike Reavey here to tell you about today's security bulletin and some other offerings to help protect and provide guidance for customers. Today's release includes one bulletin affecting Windows 2000. It's rated as "Important". (This update...

Some members of the community have asked me about the Jericho Forum, what is it and where can they find out more. The Jericho Forum is completely vendor neutral and was formed by the heads of information security in a number of international organisations....

Microsoft are running a competition whereby entrants record a short film to highlight the growing problem of Intellectual Property(IP) theft and raise awareness at a consumer level. Details of the competition can be found here . I'm not expecting many...

I am happy to provide the following information straight from one of our LCS Development Leads. Getting this information is invaluable because they know the ins and outs of the component so well they know the answer to your problem immediately. Permission...

Eileen recently blogged about an excellent resource for Outlook Users at www.outlooktips.net . Sign up for email updates or add their RSS feed to your aggregator and they'll send you regular Outlook tips. I had a weird attack of déjà vu though when reading...

Incase you're not familiar with MBSA is a free utility which can be downloaded from <http://www.microsoft.com/mbsa> which you can use to scan systems in your environment to determine where patches are missing and where systems are misconfigured....

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 adds a useful workaround for an old Wibbles caveat: when in Unicast mode, cluster members can't use their NLB'd interfaces to talk to each other. In Unicast mode, the NLB-bound interfaces for all nodes in a cluster share...

[Via Milan Negovan ] Ever deployed a “debug” ASP.NET into production? Then, you might want to review this excellent article . A recommended reading for everyone building ASP.NET based web sites - including ASP.NET based MCMS sites....

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Michael Graham has written a great article about quick troubleshooting for high memory ASP.NET issues: The only point I don't agree with - in context with MCMS - is about process recylcling. For MCMS it is very bad if the worker process gets recycled...