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Friday, June 23, 2006 9:19 AM

WMI is cool - when it's broken WMIDIAG is even cooler...

Summary: "The WMI Diagnosis Utility performs a detailed examination of the WMI service and all its related components. If a problem is found, the utility not only reports on the problem and its possible causes, but also offers suggestions for repairing
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:00 AM

Where was Windows File protection?

Another odd one… More than a bit this time… Here is something to think about – and I don’t know why we don’t catch this. Maybe someone else has ideas. Machine was crashing every time we tried to do the same action – in this case it was a dcpromo. So each
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:50 AM

When is it "by design" -- a tale of a dynamicObject ( yet another post SP1 change )

How do we convince you something is by design? This is very hard for me. I can definitely empathize with those who run into “ issues ” ( I kinda hate using that word, almost as bad as “ super excited ” or “ leverage ” ) due to product behavior, however
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Saturday, June 10, 2006 9:29 PM

All about the hotfixes...

Not too much to say, except this is a great page detailing many facets of the hotfix process ... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/deployment/winupdte.mspx spat keyword: update.exe hotfix
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:15 AM

Straw Poll - When are you planning to get rid of passwords?

You heard " The Man " , Bill Gates at RSA 2006 - "Another weak link, is in authentication. Today we are using password systems, password systems simply wont cut it, in fact they are very quickly becoming the weak link .” … “ We need to move to multifactor
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 7:30 AM

Something is broken..

Here is an article 897721 "You may not be able to connect to a domain controller by using LDAP over an SSL connection when the domain controller is running Windows 2000 Server with SP4" In this code change we introduced a mechanism to to re-enumerate
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Monday, June 05, 2006 11:04 AM

"The cryptographic operation failed due to a local security option setting"...Indeed.

Kinda a one off odd one.. but I’ve seen it more than once… so it gets a blog entry. Failure to install any items digitally signed. My most recent experience was with a chap who was getting this error and f ailed to install MDAC update. His e nvironment:
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