Spat's WebLog (Steve Patrick)
When things go wrong...
They have released the Azure batch services addon for Blender:...
Date: 02/02/2015
Just a reminder to self.. Wanted to add multiple claims and needed to also have the name specified -...
Date: 05/22/2014
It's been a long time coming but we finally have native support for ADFS authentication for OWA and...
Date: 02/25/2014
Ran into an interesting issue the other day where WinRM connections were taking 15-20s per...
Date: 01/20/2014
Just a quick note: In case you were not aware - netdom.exe cannot create a Forest trust (inbound or...
Date: 09/12/2011
Things have been busy, but I do plan on doing more frequent posts in the near future. spat
Date: 12/29/2010
Very cool news from the recent PDC -...
Date: 11/07/2010
OK – time for the random Monday morning blog. So I was working on some FIM CM SQL API testing...
Date: 11/02/2010
Thank God for the tubes!! I was banging my head against some errors today in some code which seemed...
Date: 10/29/2010
Not really work related but cool. I’ve been working on some artwork of mine and was looking...
Date: 08/22/2010
HowTo: Map a user to a certificate via all the methods available in the altSecurityIdentities attribute
Today I am going to talk a little bit about certificate mapping. This topic is somewhat related to...
Date: 06/18/2010
<rant> good lord this is an ugly blog... I need to find the time to customize this hideous new...
Date: 06/14/2010
Just a reminder Certutil -scinfo will list all the cert on the card: ================ Certificate 3...
Date: 05/28/2010
Sorry - they udpated the system and I have not had time to make it pretty.... spat
Date: 05/27/2010
I am running Win7x64, Visual Studio 2008 and the most recent WIF runtime and SDK (...
Date: 02/06/2010
Installing the SDK on Win7 and it says I need to install the WIF runtime. So I look for the...
Date: 02/06/2010
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565807.aspx
Date: 12/09/2009
Install the role service under IIS At the Server level - enable DS mapping under authentication:...
Date: 11/30/2009
I needed a quick function to return a point.. Spatpublic Point Lerp(Point p0, Point p1, double...
Date: 11/09/2009
Debugging managed code in WinDbg has never been my idea of fun. I wasn’t forcibly exposed to...
Date: 11/09/2009
Well, I have had to resort to VMWare. I don’t have anything against it really, I used to use it...
Date: 11/02/2009
Testing a few things with SL, eventually want a TFS integrated reporting tool. But, this was more...
Date: 11/01/2009
I really dont like posting about another post.. but its too cool not to in this case :) There are...
Date: 09/17/2009
Quick post.. If you are having errors when installing the MUI language packs on Win7\Server 2008 R2...
Date: 09/15/2009
Been away for a while , busy with lotsa interesting online services projects ( my "new" group ) ....
Date: 09/08/2009
Recently had a problem where the lab folks forget where my VM was installed to and I needed some RAM...
Date: 04/03/2009
Coming from support, I have seen many different causes for crashes and hangs, memory leaks and...
Date: 03/09/2009
Let's look at a bug fix.. end to end. So back in November, my friend Jim Simonet had posted a...
Date: 02/23/2009
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721959.aspxundefined A snip from the article: Smart...
Date: 12/10/2008
SPN’s. Service Principal Names. I am not going to go into the details of how SPN’s are used right...
Date: 11/17/2008
Gotta love the internet. The Tubes. I was trying to install\reinstall IIS in Windows Server 2008 and...
Date: 11/11/2008
Interesting EFS issue the other day.. Customer was rolling out EFS so they set up DRA's and this...
Date: 10/20/2008
So the scenarios is pretty simple. Forest trust like so: Basic problem. User tried to access...
Date: 08/21/2008
So I was working on some code to read and write data to SQL ( not using LINQ or any fancy stuff.....
Date: 08/18/2008
ADinsight from the sysinternals toolset is a great tool , but I seem to have problems with it at...
Date: 08/12/2008
The question was something like this: ..."What I need to be able to do is iterate through each...
Date: 07/31/2008
During the installation of Windows Server 2008 (2k8) certificate services ( ADCS ) the installation...
Date: 07/15/2008
The general advice in Windows is to place the paging file on the boot partition in order to get a...
Date: 07/14/2008
How to populate the “Street” field with more than 1 line of text...or, how to use top down tshooting.
The goal was to get the street attribute to be a multi lined value.. not streetadddress which is...
Date: 07/03/2008
Wow.. so cool. I was teaching a class yesterday to a bunch of really cool folks and they showed me a...
Date: 04/23/2008
How to use Certificate Services Web enrollment pages together with Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
Wheww!! we finally have the matrix for what works, what doesnt and how to fix it :)...
Date: 04/02/2008
Long awaited remote admin tools you can toss on Vista.. located here:...
Date: 03/25/2008
Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows XP (KB943729) Multiple Group Policy...
Date: 03/17/2008
https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2004194679_msftshare22.html A few snips from the...
Date: 02/22/2008