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Monday, September 25, 2006 7:25 AM

Download Vista for free (post RC1 build)

http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc1/en/download-5728.htm This page includes information to help you download a special test build of Windows Vista . This build (5728) has a number of improvements and updates from RC1, but has not been put through
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:02 AM

Real men of Genius ( otherwise known as Neat Vista tools.. part 1 )

I may never find the time to get to #2 ... but I think Ill start a list of all the things I find in Vista which I think are cool. Starting here. Now, with Vista - in a pinch I can get a userdump of a process ( albeit a mini dump ) with no xtra tools (
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 4:39 PM

Why do we care about the Energy Policy Act of 2005?

From http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 . This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:43 AM

What do the PDC and Windows Updates have in common?

They both need netlogon? I was recently approached by our security team to assist on some odd issue where a 2003 Domain Controller could not process Windows Updates. The WU scan would simply hang there. The WU log showed: 2006-08-22 19:00:35 4896 1288
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:43 PM

Vista HowTo's online

Kind of a bookmarker for myself: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=311f4be8-9983-4ab0-9685-f1bfec1e7d62&DisplayLang=en keyword: "how to" vista howto
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 8:17 AM

HowTo: Determine if a user has logged on via smart card

Hi All More smartcard related stuff... A somewhat common question for those moving to smartcard logons. How does one determine if the user logged on via smartcard? The server a user authenticates to will post an event in the Security Event Log: Event
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:15 AM

So, you want to use smart cards?

Smartcards, password elimination projects ... etc... all good fun. Well, I got around to compiling a number of challenges which may arise should you decide to get rid of passwords and move to smartcards only. I dont claim that this list is complete, and
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