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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...

One of the daily challenges is passing this thing in b20 every day . It's refilled every week. If you want one while pondering how to make your application compatible with WS08 or Vista, check out the MTC labs section here http://devreadiness...

I kept getting -2146827859 (800A01AD Automation server can't create object) when I was trying to create my OOP COM component from PMIE. I could create the component all day long from a Low MIC console app, but not from IE. This shows my inexperience with...

I'm still trying to create a COM out-of-process broker that I can call from Protected Mode IE. Amazing how rusty you get, it you don't do this daily. Here are some of my encounters. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 with ATL 9.0 to create an ATL server....

I'm desperately trying to get a managed BHO to interop with my IE Broker. The Broker should be a Remoting server that runs and medium MIC level so that it can make changes that the managed BHO can't make because it is running in Protected Mode IE at low...

I was playing around with a little tool chml that allows you to do more with IL than icacls. You can set SACL's on files through SDDL strings whereas icacls only lets you set the level, not the qualifier (NX: No execute, NR: No read, NW: no write). icacls...

While playing around with Internet Explorer, managed BHO and Remoting servers, I was annoyed that my BHO kept interfering with my day to day browsing needs. (In order to debug the BHO I had some Debug.Asserts in the BHO which gets to you after a while...

Developers care about job security. They have to. In my conspiracy theories, the Y2K bug was an evil plan by a group of developers that saw their 401k's take a nose dive and they wanted a backup plan for retirement. Without too much investment, that is...

If you need to sign your binary, you can find all you need about Authenticode signing here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537359.aspx . As an ISV, you will need a 3 rd party certificate. However for testing you can create your own certificate...

Windows Server 2008 has a new feature called TS RemoteApps. It allows you to publish applications on the terminal server and access only that application from a client (as opposed to having a complete desktop). By default the sharing of local resources...

It took me a while to figure this out (but then once I found it, I found it again and again). If you want to machine debug a virtual machine (vpc) with WinDBG, you need to: set up the VPC to be debugged (msconfig.exe; boot tab; advanced options) set...