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Vista Black Edition comments from the MMPC
21 October 09 03:06 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Matt McCormack, MMPC Melbourne (that is the most awesomely alliterative signature block I’ve seen for a while) comments on an amusingly ironic infection detection we’ve seen from MSE: http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/archive/2009/10/20/vista-32-bit-black-hat-edition-2009-iso.asp Read More...
ISA Server 2006 TCP Retransmits
14 October 09 03:24 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Health Checks I perform ISA Server Health Checks for Premier Support (via Premier Field Engineering) as part of my role. I’ve seen something a few times recently that I thought it might be helpful to call out, while poking around in the Performance Monitor Read More...
PL15W2SP.DLL vs Firewall Client
19 August 09 10:37 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
As I possibly misspelled or misremembered it, the PL15ws2p.dll (possible sic) file was installed as a Winsock Layered Service Provider on a couple of boxes at a customer site. Coincidentally, these machines were Windows Server 2008 machines where we couldn’t Read More...
Improve Hyper-V Performance With Standard VGA!
05 August 09 02:36 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
Yes, kids, if you’re finding that the Hyper-V performance ain’t what it used to be since installing that whizbang graphics card driver on your shiny new seven core hyperthread-and-a-halved megaturboserver thing, you might be suffering from flushes . Read Read More...
ISA Server 2006 on Windows Server 2008: Nup
05 June 09 02:52 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   
Yuri’s blog explains some of the detail. But there’s slightly more subtlety to it, which I’ll try to snake-oil in front of you here: Can I install ISA 2006 on 32-bit Windows Server 2008 ? No , it only runs on Windows Server 2003. Okay, so technically, Read More...
IIS WebDAV Security Advisory
19 May 09 05:49 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Today, an IIS 5.0 to 6.0 security advisory was released: Vulnerability in Internet Information Services Could Allow Elevation of Privilege http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/971492.mspx If you’re using WebDAV on any version prior to 7.0 Read More...
Old MPSReports
12 May 09 01:14 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   
There’s a new MPS Reports version in town, with new features : new 64-bit friendliness, various forms of wizard-driven hotness for all the products the individual old tools used to support, etc, etc. Call me old school if you want, but I typically prefer Read More...
On the ISA Server Security Update
15 April 09 11:57 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Rambling my way to a point One of my most favourite “Favorites” (read: “he snarled”) in recent weeks has been the ISA Server Product Team’s Build Numbers post . They helpfully list the version numbers of each ISA Server, um, version, along with a link Read More...
Antivirus software on ISA Server
09 April 09 10:44 AM | tristank | 2 Comments   
There are two major classes of Anti Virus software (yes, I know I used one word above, it’s called SEO, okay?) that can be used on an ISA Server computer: ISA-integrated antivirus scanning products Regular desktop/server antivirus products The first category Read More...
SMB/CIFS support for File:// URLs in CRL Distribution Points: Nup
24 March 09 10:45 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   
According to Brian Komar, CDP and AIA extensions won’t work any more with file://\\server\share URLs as of Windows Vista SP1 / Windows Server 2008. Note : With the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, support for Common Internet File System (CIFS) Read More...
IAG – now available for Hyper-V
29 January 09 07:47 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Of all the things I could be doing right now, blogging is the one that won. Feel special? Procrastination, but with a helpful bent. IAG SP2 is now a VHD for Hyper-V Your mission, Jim, is to make that into a song. The most interesting “wow” moment I had Read More...
Vista-Stylez File Management in Windows 7 Beta
18 January 09 11:07 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
If you’re finding file management frustrating because the folder pane seems strangely inactive in the Windows 7 beta, it’s probably because it is. It’s perfect for light filing use, but not so good for folder-stuffing and navigational acrobatics. Which Read More...
Home Hyper-V Networking Gotchas
13 January 09 10:12 PM | tristank | 5 Comments   
Before the holidays, I bought myself an early present: a new quad-core box with 4GB RAM, which I was going to use for a home Hyper-V lab, so that I could run a bunch of 64-bit VMs as well as the 32-bit staples I’ve been using for years (SBS 2003, and Read More...
.HDMP and .MDMP files
23 September 08 07:12 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Just a quickie – the rule is blog what you know, but I figure my speculation might be good enough here. A friend gave me an HDMP file and asked what I could make of it. After the usual “I could make a hat! Or a brooch! Or a dinosaur!” type stuff, I realized Read More...
That Memory Leak Revisited
25 June 08 04:59 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   
While searching for memory leaking troubleshooting techniques that could be applied to 64-bit Windows (for the DHCP Server memory leak I found I had the other day ), I stumbled across the answer to my problem in an internal tool (weird that I missed it Read More...
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