Just thought I'd post a quick observation I made on my laptop. Some time back I ran into an interesting issue on my laptop where I could create XPS documents using the "XPS Document Writer" printer or even using applications like Office 2007. I could even see a preview of it in Windows Explorer. But I could not open them.

I accidentally then discovered that if I change my colour scheme to Windows Basic, I can open any XPS files. So I thought I'd post the workaround for others benefit. Incidentally, I am following this up with our engineers here and if I find a fix I will update you all.

I just had an issue at a customer where we were troubleshooting an issue where users could not use the SQL Management studio to connect to a SQL server remotely. Local login to SQL server interactively and then launching the client tools worked. The cause was the number of groups the user belonged to.

To troubleshoot this, we busted out ntdsutil and tried to enumerate the group membership. But to our surprise it only showed 3 groups. Then after changing servers we got 600 plus groups and then again 3 groups. So basically the resultant number of groups were changing all the time.

It turns out this is a bug in ntdsutil for which a hotfix is now available. If you are using the group membership evaluation feature in ntdsutil, try this version. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934185

HTH

M