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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...
My new roadmouse
07 October 09 01:43 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
They wanted me to post about Windows phones. Well, I’m going to fight the power. Buck the trend. Talk about my new favourite travelling companion. It is the surprisingly-catchily-titled Microsoft Mobile Memory Mouse 8000. First cool feature : Magnets 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...
Blocking Explicit Bing with ISA Server
18 June 09 12:23 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Mike from Bing posted on some SafeSearch updates to Bing , particularly around image search and video preview. So, with the new explicit domain name (explicit.bing.net), a block is easy enough to implement with ISA Server and nothing extra. If you’ve 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...
Everything old…
31 May 09 11:33 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Bing , you say? Odd, I’m sure I’ve heard it somewhere before … Wait! It was me!? I’d like to thank the Academy… So, I assume I can look forward to a healthy bonus for coining the term!? Sure, the direction was apparently misguided, but the word is pure Read More...
“Microsoft is evil”, Barbeque Edition
31 May 09 01:34 PM | tristank | 5 Comments   
A friend of my mother’s was introduced to me at a family barbeque, and started in. Background: lives in a nice suburban neighbourhood, sends her kids to private school. “Lovely to see you!… So how do you feel about working for them?” (measured tone) Pretty 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...
Windows 7 RC n-Trig multitouch drivers are out
18 May 09 08:04 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Some love for my lil’ Dell Latitude XT! Dell won’t sell me a battery slice for it, but I can still glide my fingers across it creepily! In this DuoSense Multi Touch RC Release: the pen should work as well as multitouch! No more having to pick one and 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...
Max Payne 2 on Xbox Originals
28 April 09 06:01 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   
Awesome, in a word. Max Payne® 2- The Fall of Max Payne Wins my award for most heartbreaking game ever. With some pretty funky action along the way. I wasn’t as much of a fan of the first one, though if you play them back to back, they run very well together. Read More...
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Certificate Services Web Enrolment
27 April 09 04:43 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
Spotted: a handy guide, to get your shiny new ADCS Web Enrollment* front end installed and pointed at your CA. With pictures and stuff. For WS2008. http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2009/04/22/how-to-configure-the-windows-server-2008-ca-web-enrollment-proxy.aspx 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...
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