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Make sure you have an Internet connection when using signed assemblies

A customer called in the other day and told me that his web application took a long time to start. My initial thought was (off course) that it was a matter of the classic slow-to start web services I’ve written about earlier. ( What to do about the slow Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:08 PM by JohanS | 0 Comments

Investigating Locks

Consider the following scenario: You have an ASP.NET application which intermittently responds sluggishly. As the problem occurs memory usage is about average, as is CPU usage, but still certain pages respond slower and slower. The machine acts just as Read More...
Posted Friday, October 09, 2009 3:49 PM by JohanS | 2 Comments

Problems with Flash-content in the WebBrowser control

A recent case I worked on involved the following scenario. Problem description The client was building a kiosk-like application. I.e. a WinForms application with the WebBrowser control slapped onto it. The application worked fine for the most part, but Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 4:59 PM by JohanS | 3 Comments

Adding Server ROles to an IIS installation on an RODC

In a recent case I was involved with I stumbled upon something quite interesting. The customer had set up a brand new Windows 2008 Server running IIS, and made it into a Read Only Domain Controller (RODC). Having done this they now wanted to add the FTP-server Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:10 PM by JohanS | 1 Comments
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Creating a game for the Zune

I've finally had the time to sit down and create a simple game for my Zune. Rather than running off and creating a complex game requiring a lot of AI, etc I wanted to create a simple application so that I could focus on the XNA-specifics. I decided to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:34 PM by JohanS | 1 Comments
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Internet Explorer 8 Released today

Today we release Internet Explorer 8. You'll be able to download it later today from http://www.microsoft.se/ie8 / Johan Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:57 PM by JohanS | 1 Comments
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Glimpsing 10 years into the future

Stephen Elop, the president of Microsoft's Business Division recently held a presentation where he allowed the viewers to glimpse 10 years into the future. It's amazing to look at a "real" interpretation of the future interfaces and technologies Read More...
Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 12:58 PM by JohanS | 0 Comments

Running a scheduled PowerShell script on a pre-Vista OS

It's been fun to see the reception that PowerShell has gotten. People are using it for tons of different stuff and the ingenuity in some of the scenarios is quite impressive. There is one thing, however, that you should be aware of. PowerShell is not Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:00 AM by JohanS | 3 Comments
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PowerShell - Managing Feature Delegation in IIS7

Perhaps you've read my earlier post on advanced feature delegation using PowerShell and the IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider . This could actually be called Part II. The previous post was based on a quick question from a premier customer. He is a never-ending Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:51 PM by JohanS | 0 Comments
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Office Automation

A very common scenario that keeps sprouting new heads like a hydra is Office Automation. Let me start by saying that this is not supported. There is a KB-article number 257757 discusses this, and clearly states the following: Microsoft does not currently Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:15 PM by JohanS | 0 Comments
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PowerShell - Advanced configuration editing in IIS7

I've written a lot of PowerShell posts lately and here's another one. :-) I got a question from one of the account managers if it was possible to alter the FTP Authorization Rules for a specific folder on his IIS. The appcmd for the operation was appcmd.exe Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 3:28 PM by JohanS | 1 Comments
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PowerShell - Editing permissions on a file or folder

I got the following question from a reader the other day: I've been trying to figure out how to change permissions on a folder in PowerShell. I've looked at the Get-Acl and Set-Acl, but I can only use them to copy the settings from a pre-existing object. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:52 PM by JohanS | 6 Comments

PowerShell - Automatically organizing your mp3-collection

Is your mp3-collection perfectly sorted? I know mine wasn't. I thought I'd address that while creating a pretty good demo-script to show some basic filtering, script structures, etc. Since I also wanted the script to extract the metadata from every file Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:53 PM by JohanS | 2 Comments

PowerShell - An introduction, Part II

This is a continuation of part I . If you haven't read it I suggest at least going through the summary at the end of the post. Working with Drives In your basic command prompt you have the normal file system drives that you use to access your hard-drive, Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 1:22 PM by JohanS | 2 Comments
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Back in business

Okay, after a summer break that no doubt got a little longer than expected I am now I'm now back in the saddle again. Next post will most likely be a follow-up on the PowerShell post I wrote a while back. Stay tuned. / Johan Read More...
Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 5:00 PM by JohanS | 1 Comments
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