There is something between standard users and administrators. In UAC discussions we limit ourselves often times to members of the administrators group who get the filtered token and the full token when they log on. But what if you're a member of – say...

So you have an NT service and a user application that share date through memory mapped files. It has worked for years. It even survived XP SP2. Now Vista comes along and boom. No more. Let's see what's up. You create your memory mapped file from your...

In order to make DCOM applications work in Windows Server 2008 you need to do two things. Installing the Application role is not needed (but it does add the COM+ network access as in 1) below). Allow "COM+ network access" in firewall rules (type firewall...

Last week I was working with an OEM who had two applications: a main application and a scheduler. The sole purpose of the latter was to start the main application. Now the good thing obviously was that the customer did not want to overburden the CPU with...

My good friend Yves joined our team last week. He will be helping out with all the Windows Application Compatibility efforts we are undertaking. Yves and I always have heated discussions; maybe some of it will spill over J . I am really delighted to...