Today we released the customer technology preview of Microsoft Endpoint Protection (MEP) for Windows Azure, a plugin that allows Windows Azure developers and administrators to include antimalware protection in their Windows Azure VMs. The package is installed...

I have run across people asking about the Windows Azure Diagnostics Monitor and how it can be used or implemented. This is one of the best references on how to get jump started on using the diagnostics monitor. Enjoy :) http://channel9.msdn.com/posts...

I read Mark's latest blog "The Case of My Mom's Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation", and it was an interesting (I can't say it was pleasant though) read. So the long story short is that Mark's mom bought a new PC, and she used a 3rd party...

OK, so I ran across some nice free online classes offered at Stanford. This semeser, the university offers the following free courses: Introduction to Databases: www.db-class.com Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: www.ai-class.com Machine...

A nice case study of an instance where an administrator was debuging a failure in starting windows installer service by using procmon. Check it out at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2011/11/29/3467449.aspx Marks's Case of...

I run through this great read: Why Intelligent People Fail. I personally found it inspiring and useful. A good exercise is to go through the list and grade yourself against each item and see if there are areas of improvements you want to focus on.. Here...

If you encounter a false positive detected by Microsoft antimalware, or want to report an encountered malware sample, please go to: https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Submission/Submit.aspx and submit the sample. Sometimes the false positive may...

The beta versions of Microsoft security products: Microsoft Security Essentials and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 are now available to the public. One key awsome new feature is NIS (Network Inspection System), protecting against network threats on...

sc.exe has a known issue in vista where it doesn't show correctly the accepted status of services that accept new control notifications like SERVICE_CONTROL_PRESHUTDOWN. So if your service accepts SERVICE_CONTROL_PRESHUTDOWN notificaiton, and you run...

I have seen few people hitting an error when trying to register a COM server dll on windows 7. The error reads: " The module ""%1"" may not compatible with the version of Windows that you're running. Check if the module is compatible with an x86 (32-bit...

Let's say you are performing a write to a file using Memroy Mapped I/O, that is, using CreateFileMapping and MapViewOfFile. You might be surprised to see that the last modified timestamp on the file did not change even though you did an actual write on...

If have a windows installer package in an RTL language, like Arabic or Hebrew, and you want your dialogs to show right to left, you need to set the following properties to ensure that all dialogs and text show properly from right to left: Set the...

The next release of forefront client security, code name "stirling" has now a new name: Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010. The security management pieces are named: Forefront Protection Manager. This is an exciting suite of integrated entreprise security...

If you would like to setup sharepoint to use a different site than the default one (port 80) for Team Foundation Server, you can do that as follows: 1- copy msiproperty.ini from the AT or ATDT folder on the installation media (depending which one you...

Dan Kershaw, a Program Manager on Team Foundation Server team, posted this note on msdn forum: " To ensure Team Foundation Server is ready to ship, we are asking you to respond to another survey. However , this time there is an added incentive. For...

During TFS install, if you recieve error 28100 (Failed to load EventService proxy object: Requested registry access is not allowed.), most probably this is due to regkey left over from a previous TFS installation. TFS uses this regkey to locate registerd...

TFS Setup have done major improvemets in the way it configures WSS. Also, we now implemented a CA that does a health check on WSS preconditions and report any issues that do not meet the TFS recommendations in clear error messages. Sharepoint was TFS...

If you move their IIS root directory from inetpub to a different folder without copying the AdminScripts subfolder from inetpub to the new directory, WSS setup fails silently. The WSS admin site is not setup yet you won't notice it until you try to get...

I was going to write about this actually.. yet I found that askburton has already a great item for it.. so if you get this error.. here is a help link ... http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton/archive/2005/01/27/362083.aspx let me know if this was helpful....

Repair and Reinstall (ie. uninstall and then reinstall again) are not supported on the comming Beta2 of Visual Studio Team Foundation. If you want to reinstall or repair your application and keep your existing data, you will need to backup the data first...

I would love to hear from you on how was your experience installing Visual Studio Team Foundation (both Applcation Tier and Data Tier). It is our goal to provide you with the best setup experience. Any exprience you would like to share? Anything you would...

If you write a file that is intended to compile in all systems (ue, sample code file), people who compile it in a code page different than the code page that is was saved under may encounter a compiler error: " C4819: The file contains a character that...

Be careful when using the & operator on a CComBSTR variable. If this variable is not empty, using the & operator on it to point it to a new BSTR will lead to a memory leak. For instance, if you have a variable bsz1 declared and initialized as...