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Did you know that you p/Invoke from PowerShell?
Check out this walkthough by Lee Holmes, fellow Softie and author of Windows PowerShell Cookbook: for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3 . Read More...
Protect Ya Neck: Securing web applications with threat modeling
Currently I work on building large scale web services that face the the public as part of what Microsoft calls software plus services ( Software+Services ). In this area of Internet facing applications all aspects of security are important, including Read More...
Have you ever needed to log diagnostic information from instrumented builds? Sure you have.
There have been cases where I wanted to instrument my app and have the ability to log extensive diagnostic information to a file, starting a new file each day or after the file reached a certain size. When this is necessary I end up finding myself using Read More...
Doc, do you think you can patch 'em up?
To some of you the second Tuesday of each month is just another day, but to the rest of us this day is known as "patch Tuesday". The second Tuesday of each month is when Microsoft releases security updates for it's products to the world. Our group previously Read More...
Don't let the doorknob hit you...
The last few weeks have been a blur; in part because I took a mini-vacation, but the majority of my time has been spent trying to do my part to get a few of our flagship products out the door. It was a long, hard, and painful road to the release of Windows Read More...
Hey that's my port, give it back!
As we went through the dogfood process for Longhorn Server we understood that once we hit RC0 the Windows Firewall would be enabled by default, blocking all unsolicited inbound connections. This particular situation posed a small problem for our group Read More...
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