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MaxUserPort - what it is, what it does, when it's important
11 March 08 05:17 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
What can we say about MaxUserPort that hasn't already been said? Not a lot, it would seem. He's a beautiful dancer, perhaps? Ahh, such gentle humour, and nary a kitten drowned anywhere. But TCP port shenanigans are fairly frequently misunderstood, so Read More...
SetSPN improvements in Windows Server 2008! W00t!
21 December 07 05:21 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
All this stuff is based on a prerelease (RC1) version of Windows Server 2008 and may change before final release. Cheques may not be honoured. I had a happy moment one night in India when the trainer for our IIS 7.0 TTT course discussed some of the Kerberos-related Read More...
Tip o' the Week: WEVTUTIL for EVTX/EVT file conversion
05 October 07 05:19 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   
This week, a pointer to a solution to a problem I occasionally hit. Windows Vista (and by extension Windows Server 2008, I assume) utilizes a new EVTX log format for event log exports. It's XML-based, natch. Problem: Everyone's Favourite Log Digestion Read More...
Kerbi Wiki
12 April 07 05:35 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
Back from another holiday (I call it the Arnold Rimmer technique) I've been trying to collect, rework and refurbish my thoughts on web-based Kerberos stuff in a personal Wiki. You're welcome to peruse it with the usual disclaimers that I'm frequently Read More...
ISA 2004 SDK now on the Web
12 January 05 06:29 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
Last time I looked for the ISA Server 2004 SDK (late last year), it was only available as an HTML Help (CHM) file. While researching the next post, I noticed that the ISA 2004 SDK is now available on MSDN online, and web searchable. Enjoy! [Update:] The Read More...
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ISA 2004 does 502s rather than 407s if you're already authenticated
01 November 04 11:07 AM | tristank | 6 Comments   
There were a couple of newsgroup questions on ISA 2004 authentication that prompted me to go digging through the SDK. Edit: A little more background so this makes more sense: When an HTTP request is submitted by a client (also called a "user agent", because Read More...
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...
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Communities Blog Portal Now Open! With Keyword RSS Feeds!
10 July 04 12:16 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/blogs/PortalHome.mspx Coolest feature: the ability to fashion a keyword/category query into an RSS feed across all Microsoft blogs. If you're only interested in certain things (and personalities be damned!), you can Read More...
ISA 2000: Web Publishing a .Net Web Service
28 May 04 01:03 PM | tristank | (Comments Off)   
There's no real trick to it, apart from the good old Web Publishing authentication part. Short version: Treat the published website exactly as you would a real web server, don't try to treat it like a proxy (submitting proxy authentication credentials Read More...

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