August 2004 - Posts

Games: Only 10 15 More Sleeps until Locomotion!
31 August 04 07:23 PM | tristank | (Comments Off)   

... and then no sleep for a few weeks. I'm really, really excited about Chris Sawyer's Locomotion 's impending release. Intellectually, I know Half-Life 2 is due out soon, but I don't care. Locomotion is what I'm waiting for. The Aussie Atari site says Read More...

Filed under: Games

My New Toy: An Apple 20" Wide Screen
29 August 04 03:19 PM | tristank | 15 Comments   

The Desire I finally succumbed to my desire, and decided to get one on Saturday, subject to the following conditions: I had to drive to each Apple centre. I could not call ahead to check availability. It had to be in stock and available right then , otherwise Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Aussie

Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group Meeting...
26 August 04 01:39 AM | tristank | (Comments Off)   

Doing something different today: I was the Microsoft Warm Body (an official title*) for the Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group meeting at the Microsoft building, as regular host and (alleged) FoxPro user A Coat was out of town- in Redmond as it turns out, Read More...

Filed under: Developery, Aussie

Updated Comment Policy
18 August 04 03:24 PM | tristank | (Comments Off)   

After some well-meaning survey spam, I've needed to re-examine my blog comment policy . So, severely off-topic comments (relative to the post subject) may be Moderated. ( I love euphemisms like "Moderated", when what I really mean is "Annihilated" ). Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Publishing RDP (Terminal Servers, XP Remote Desktop) with TSWeb (and ISA 2004)
16 August 04 04:54 PM | tristank | 9 Comments   

My last post on TSWeb (aka TSAC or Remote Desktop Web Connection) continues to be one of my most-hit blogs, so I spent a little time working with the TSWeb default connection page to try to simplify some of the bits that people were asking about. The Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Terminal Server, Networking

ISA 2004: New-Style Log Filtering and Export
13 August 04 06:16 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   

I covered how I usually end up filtering ISA 2000 logs in a previous post . With ISA 2004, the game's changed! By default, ISA will log to a local MSDE instance, and the new MMC includes a Monitoring section that includes all sorts of useful information, Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking

ISA 2004: User Mappings and Failed VPN Connections
13 August 04 12:34 AM | tristank | (Comments Off)   

I was working with a customer troubleshooting a VPN connection problem last night. The short version is: If you're seeing VPN Connections fail for no obvious reason, check to see if you have User Mapping enabled in the ISA VPN properties. It's described Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking

Comments: Sorry, the evaluation period for this blog has expired!
12 August 04 11:24 PM | tristank | 4 Comments   

The new site comment policy that's meant to fight comment spam is a global setting to disable comments on all blogs 30 days from publication (if comments are enabled). Low-spam-hit-volume Microsoft bloggers slightly miffed at this turn of events have Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

XPSP2: How To Detect IE6 for SP2
12 August 04 03:12 PM | tristank | 16 Comments   

A quick note that's becoming something of an internal FAQ - the information below is from MSDN . Detecting Internet Explorer in SP2 You can use window.navigator.userAgent to detect if the browser connecting to your site is Internet Explorer in SP2. var Read More...

Filed under: Developery, ISA Server

ISA 2004: Why RADIUS Authentication is Cool
11 August 04 11:52 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

One of the coolest new features available with ISA 2004 is RADIUS authentication for Web Publishing rules . So, why is this a big deal? Why is this even necessary? Here's the list off the top of my head: ISA no longer needs to be a domain member to authenticate Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking

ISA 2004: Configuring RADIUS (IAS) Authentication for OWA/Web Publishing
09 August 04 08:36 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

Note: This is a mildly edited dump of my OneNote page on getting RADIUS authentication configured for a standard HTTP connection through ISA Server 2004, with Basic Delegation enabled (so that you authenticate once for ISA's rules, and the same credentials Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking

TechEd 2004: Tristank's Quick Summary
08 August 04 12:48 AM | tristank | (Comments Off)   

So, Aussie Tech Ed 2004 in sunny (but wintry) Canberra is over. I can't wait for next year! I'd volunteered to answer questions at the Just Ask Microsoft stands, and had a great time talking with our customers, MVPs and other Microsoft folk about Windows, Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking, Aussie

Teched Final Day
06 August 04 03:20 PM | tristank | (Comments Off)   

OK, so I've been a tad remiss in blogging about the Tech Ed experience, but I've been so busy talking to people! I'll blog more later. People await! Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Aussie

Running Least-Privilege: Quick'n'Dirty RunAs Batch File
02 August 04 08:52 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

This is just a quick CMD file that automates some frequently-used manual steps that I perform when running as a regular user - I have it saved as RNAS.CMD in my Documents and Settings\TristanK folder (as that's where CMD defaults to for me). @echo off Read More...

Filed under: Developery, IT Pro / Sysadmin