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SubAuthentication package gets Zero LogonId
Hi all, The other day I worked on an issue related to a SubAuthentication package that one of my customers had developed. One of the things that package was doing was getting the LogonId field of the LogonInformation struct being passed to Msv1_0SubAuthenticationFilter Read More...
Controls won't get resized once the nesting hierarchy of windows exceeds a certain depth (x64)
Hi all, welcome back, I've been working on an issue where WM_SIZE events are not properly generated once the nesting hierarchy of windows exceeds a certain depth. This issue only occurs on current x64 Windows : like XP, Server 2008 or the latest Windows Read More...
NdrClientCall2 fails with RPC_S_ALREADY_LISTENING when using pipes over ncalrpc
Hi all, I've been working on a Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC) issue recently, where the first call to a specific remote method fails because the call to NdrClientCall2 function in the client stub returns RPC_S_ALREADY_LISTENING ( "The server is Read More...
How to create a certificate request with CertEnroll (ASP)
Hi all, The other day I posted a Javascript sample which shows how to use CertEnroll COM component to create a certificate request and install the response from the CA (Certificate Authority): How to create a certificate request with CertEnroll (JavaScript) Read More...
Security Warning dialog box is displayed when you try to silently install a hotfix or an update
Hi all, You may be trying to install a hotfix or update silently , but you keep getting a security warning dialog because the file was downloaded from the Internet . The following article explains this situation: 889815 The Open File - Security Warning Read More...
CAPICOM support on Windows Server 2008
Hi all, welcome back, If you remember all the confusion there was regarding CAPICOM support on Vista , now everything seems much clearer on Windows Server 2008. Our documentation team has done its homework, as we can see in CAPICOM Reference : "CAPICOM Read More...
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