In Vista roaming profiles are a little different. We append .V2 to the file servers copy o fthe profile ( i.e joe.v2 ) We do not share between XP and Vista... see http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/b/a/3ba6d659-6e39-4cd7-b3a2-9c96482f5353...

So I go to remote into my machine via RDP tonight and up comes a black screen and the popup error: Hrmm so I click OK and now all I have is a black screen. Gahhhh. I actually had some serious work to do from home tonight. A quick search shows...

CAPI2 Diagnostics is a feature in Windows Vista™ and Windows Server® Code Name "Longhorn". This feature provides administrators with the ability to troubleshoot PKI problems by collecting detailed information about certificate chain validation, certificate...

Kerberos is well… Kerberos. And NTLM is NTLM right? Right. Most of the time. This post is from a recent hotfix I worked on where it was made painfully clear that this isn’t always true. Here is a cool overview stolen from msdn And...

So, lest you think I dislike Vista - here is one cool dealy wheely thingy in Vista. LDAP tracing ( finally without using crazy evt logs or checked builds ) Here it is: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366152.aspx And since I am always...

EFS and Vista…One word of warning. Backup with Vista does *not* backup your encrypted files. Let’s see this demonstrated here… Here are 2 files one encrypted and one is not. I just finished a backup as you can see Now we delete them...