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Security advisory bulletin 973882 (July 28, 2009)

My colleague Feliciano has just made me aware of an extraordinary security bulletin we have just released for a new vulnerability discovered in ATL libraries which could allow remote code execution; here are the information I am aware of so far: Microsoft Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 8:40 AM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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SharePoint and Office Live? Access forbidden!

I recently came across an odd problem the customer got on his SharePoint server: when the clients had the Office Live add-on installed they were constantly refused with a 403 error . The problem is well described here . If you have this problem, there Read More...
Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 9:50 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Need a hotfix… then “Fix it!”

Things keep moving and after some discussion ( here and here I already expressed my view on the matter), the first KB article with a “Fix it” button to directly download the relevant hotfix has gone live a couple of days ago, check it out: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945402/en-us Read More...
Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 5:43 PM by Carlo Cardella | 1 Comments
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 available for download

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) This download installs Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. SP1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customer and partner feedback, as well as internal Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 5:59 PM by Carlo Cardella | 2 Comments

WMI warnings 35 and 40 with ASP.NET

Over the past couple of weeks I got to almost identical cases where the customer had the event log on their servers “spammed” by the following messages: Event Type:      Warning Event Source:   WinMgmt Event Category:           Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 4:58 PM by Carlo Cardella | 11 Comments

Again on public hotfix download

I already touched the subject in a couple of previous posts and replying to direct comments and question I got, and to confirm that we’re doing something (hopefully in the right way ) on this matter I want to highlight this news from Jeff: Migrating hotfixes Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:21 AM by Carlo Cardella | 4 Comments

The public/private hotfix debate

Every now and then the question comes back in the limelight: " Why some hotfixes are publicly available to download, but most of the times I have to call CSS to get one? " and " Wouldn't be easier if we could just download the fix ourselves? At least Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:09 PM by Carlo Cardella | 1 Comments
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Session_OnEnd not firing after applying Windows 2003 Service Pack 2

We very recently discovered a bug in classic ASP (asp.dll) you get installing the Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003; removing the SP2 makes it work again as expected, so this is a regression bug introduced by the service pack itself. Basically with SP2 Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:17 AM by Carlo Cardella | 46 Comments
 
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