Category Archives: Windows

Certificate Services and Unsupported Critical Extensions

Because of the need to have Active Directory operating over SSL, Active Directory Certificate Services were setup in our environment. For those unfamiliar with Active Directory Certificate Services, it is essentially a Public Key Infrastructure for a Windows Environment that … Continue reading

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VIM in Windows!? Whod’a thunk?

A friend of mine passed over the following blog entry, which I found quite to my liking. J.P. Boodhoo (a leader in the .Net development community) has found some plugins and tools which enable vim in certain applications in Windows. … Continue reading

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Crystal Reports Error

Background Well, as many of you have known, I’ve been working on projects that involve the dark side – that being Microsoft projects. Yes, this means I’ve been working on .Net applications in both Visual Basic and C#. The C# … Continue reading

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System.Web.Mail.MailMessage

This was a problem I had while trying to send email from my local workstation through a web application. The script would execute fine, but I wouldn’t receive any email. Upon further investigation (which included walking through a debugging session … Continue reading

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Microsoft and their Gall

Of all the things Microsoft can do, this has got to be the lowest of the low. Read the story on CNN Money. Essentially, Microsoft is gearing up for the biggest series of law suits since SCO made their ridiculous … Continue reading

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SANS: Web Application Security Review

I’m here in Austin, TX today at the SANS: Web Application Security Workshop (I was also here yesterday, too). I hope to be able to provide an accurate review for this nearly worthless workshop that many of us from CIS … Continue reading

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Windows Vista Beta 2 Build 5384

Well, I’m officially demoing Windows Vista Beta 2 and it was a serious pain to install on VMWare 5.0. For starters, when I initially finished the installation, there were not graphics drivers loaded, so it used its standard, which maxes … Continue reading

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