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How to find true stack size in Windows

Let me start by stating the obvious, if you find yourself needing to get your thread's stack size as...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 10/04/2017

System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 on Configuration Manager 2007?

I saw some questions circulating around whether System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 is supported...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 08/22/2012

Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure Customer Technology Preview is now available for free download

Today we released the customer technology preview of Microsoft Endpoint Protection (MEP) for Windows...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 03/16/2012

On Windows Azure Diagnostics

I have run across people asking about the Windows Azure Diagnostics Monitor and how it can be used...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 02/20/2012

On Russinovich's "The Case of My Mom's Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation"

I read Mark's latest blog "The Case of My Mom's Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation",...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 01/23/2012

Free online courses at Stanford - UC berkeley

OK, so I ran across some nice free online classes offered at Stanford. This semeser, the university...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 01/23/2012

Mark Russinovich on Debugging an Installer Service Failure

A nice case study of an instance where an administrator was debuging a failure in starting windows...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 11/30/2011

Why Intelligent People Fail

I run through this great read: Why Intelligent People Fail. I personally found it inspiring and...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 10/11/2010

Where to submit sample malware or report false positives for Microsoft Security Essentials

If you encounter a false positive detected by Microsoft antimalware, or want to report an...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 08/09/2010

They're here! Microsoft Security Essentials and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Betas!

The beta versions of Microsoft security products: Microsoft Security Essentials and Forefront...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 07/21/2010

sc.exe on vista is misleading on services that accept SERVICE_CONTROL_PRESHUTDOWN notifications

sc.exe has a known issue in vista where it doesn't show correctly the accepted status of services...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 07/16/2010

On the chase of regsvr32 errors on windows 7

I have seen few people hitting an error when trying to register a COM server dll on windows 7. The...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 07/07/2010

Memory Mapped File I/O May or May not Update the File Modified Timestamp

Let's say you are performing a write to a file using Memroy Mapped I/O, that is, using...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 04/17/2010

Making Windows Installer Dialogs Display on RTL Languages

If have a windows installer package in an RTL language, like Arabic or Hebrew, and you want your...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 04/14/2010

Forefront Client Security code name "Stirling" now has an official name

The next release of forefront client security, code name "stirling" has now a new name: Forefront...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 09/04/2009

Changing port of WSS TFS website.

If you would like to setup sharepoint to use a different site than the default one (port 80) for...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 02/14/2006

Last chance to provide us with feedback on the TFS install experience

Dan Kershaw, a Program Manager on Team Foundation Server team, posted this note on msdn forum: "To...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 02/14/2006

Setup Error 28100: Failed to load EventService proxy object: Requested registry access is not allowed.

During TFS install, if you recieve error 28100 (Failed to load EventService proxy object: Requested...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 02/13/2006

Great improvements in WSS configuration for TFS in RC

TFS Setup have done major improvemets in the way it configures WSS. Also, we now implemented a CA...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 02/13/2006

Hidden WSS install failure that is caught during TFS Setup

If you move their IIS root directory from inetpub to a different folder without copying the...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 02/13/2006

common Team Foundation setup failure.. 32000

I was going to write about this actually.. yet I found that askburton has already a great item for...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 02/16/2005

Repair / Reinstall on the next VSTF Beta

Repair and Reinstall (ie. uninstall and then reinstall again) are not supported on the comming Beta2...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 02/16/2005

How was your experience setting up VSTF?

I would love to hear from you on how was your experience installing Visual Studio Team Foundation...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 02/15/2005

Writing a sample code file that compiles in all systems.

If you write a file that is intended to compile in all systems (ue, sample code file), people who...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 01/05/2005

Careful with & operator on CComBSTR variables.

Be careful when using the & operator on a CComBSTR variable. If this variable is not empty,...

Author: Elyasse Elyacoubi Date: 10/28/2004