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January 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 4:37 PM

How to solve the CreateFile() error encountered when applying SCW policy via the command line (scwcmd configure)

Security Configuration Wizard has a really handy command line as I'll demonstrate in an upcoming BlogCast. To apply an SCW policy you can issue the "scwcmd configure" command. Unlike the other scwcmd commands "configure" does not default to applying to
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Monday, January 30, 2006 9:17 PM

How to dramatically reduce your system's Attack Surface - Use Security Configuration Wizard

SCW is an abbreviation for Security Configuration Wizard which is a means of turning off the features of Windows Server that aren't required by YOUR applications. SCW takes the guess work out of which services you can turn off, which network ports can
Posted by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 6:48 PM

There's a great White Paper detailing how to run Windows XP with the least privilege

Browse here to view the paper titled "Applying the Principle of Least Privilege to User Accounts on Windows XP" - it give a good explaination of how to reduce the amount of time both you and your users need to be logged in with Administrative privileges.
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Monday, January 23, 2006 1:45 PM

What to do when you're presenting and are running out of time?

If you ever give presentations I'm sure you've experienced the problem of having far to much to say in the allocated time. You perhaps practise the talk to get the timings right and then in the heat of the moment find yourself adding annecdotes and extra
Posted by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Friday, January 20, 2006 6:05 PM

Windows Vista's looking really good

Last week I was fortunate enough to be able to join many Microsoft techies at an internal conference in Seattle - a bit like TechEd / IT Forum except that the audience all work for the company. We spent the week working with the product groups to learn
Posted by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:05 PM

It's amazing how fast time passes - blogs.technet.com is a year old

Thanks to Tony Soper for reminding us that TechNet Blogs are a year old and that there are 336 blogs there now. Many people moved over from the MSDN blog site and many more are new.
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:25 AM

Do you ever receive telephone calls from your Bank asking for your PIN?

I've heard of this happening from time to time but I've never experienced it myself until just now... I received a telephone call from a Bank with whom I have an account - they asked me to tell them two digits from my security code so that they could
Posted by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:09 PM

How to extract a file from an ISO image

There's a free tool that enables you to view the contents of an ISO image and extract individual files. The tool is named "Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP" - it's not supported though so please bear that in mind. Browse here to download the
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