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Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:02 AM

Vista and mandatory profiles

In Vista roaming profiles are a little different. We append .V2 to the file servers copy o fthe profile ( i.e joe.v2 ) We do not share between XP and Vista... see http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/b/a/3ba6d659-6e39-4cd7-b3a2-9c96482f5353/Managing%20Roaming%20User%20Data%20Deployment%20Guide.doc
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:02 AM

Atbroker.exe - Application Error in Vista

So I go to remote into my machine via RDP tonight and up comes a black screen and the popup error: Hrmm so I click OK and now all I have is a black screen. Gahhhh. I actually had some serious work to do from home tonight. A quick search shows that this
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 7:01 AM

Troubleshooting PKI Problems on Windows Vista

CAPI2 Diagnostics is a feature in Windows Vista™ and Windows Server® Code Name "Longhorn". This feature provides administrators with the ability to troubleshoot PKI problems by collecting detailed information about certificate chain validation, certificate
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:49 AM

Kerberos PAC Validation… what is it?

Kerberos is well… Kerberos. And NTLM is NTLM right? Right. Most of the time. This post is from a recent hotfix I worked on where it was made painfully clear that this isn’t always true. Here is a cool overview stolen from msdn And the following table
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Monday, March 05, 2007 10:01 AM

Tracing LDAP in Vista

So, lest you think I dislike Vista - here is one cool dealy wheely thingy in Vista. LDAP tracing ( finally without using crazy evt logs or checked builds ) Here it is: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366152.aspx And since I am always afraid
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:43 AM

EFS and Vista.... and backup ( or lack thereof )

EFS and Vista…One word of warning. Backup with Vista does *not* backup your encrypted files. Let’s see this demonstrated here… Here are 2 files one encrypted and one is not. I just finished a backup as you can see Now we delete them… Restore files… QAdd
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