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Monday, November 30, 2009 7:41 AM

Just a quick post on IIS7 cert mapping setup

Install the role service under IIS At the Server level - enable DS mapping under authentication: Create the web site. Enable it for HTTPS ( bindings ) Set the site to require certs under: Enable the site : C:\Windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv> appcmd unlock
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Monday, November 09, 2009 8:26 AM

lerp

I needed a quick function to return a point.. Spat public Point Lerp( Point p0, Point p1, double amtInterpolate) { double xlerp = p0.X + ( p1.X - p0.X ) * amtInterpolate; double ylerp = p0.Y + ( p1.Y - p0.Y ) * amtInterpolate; Point newPoint = new Point
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Monday, November 09, 2009 7:25 AM

Debugging managed code.. from a newb for managed code debugging

Debugging managed code in WinDbg has never been my idea of fun. I wasn’t forcibly exposed to it enough I guess. For example, if you look at http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2009/02/23/there-and-back-again-the-life-of-a-bug-and-fix.aspx there is like
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Monday, November 02, 2009 7:33 AM

Why am I using VMWare?

Well, I have had to resort to VMWare. I don’t have anything against it really, I used to use it exclusively, but I would rather use an MS platform if it does what I need it to. Unfortunately the VPC version for Win7 does not support 64 bit guests and
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Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:40 AM

Playing with Silverlight..

Testing a few things with SL, eventually want a TFS integrated reporting tool. But, this was more for just fun.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:36 AM

Cool new features in 2k8 R2 for Certificate Services

I really dont like posting about another post.. but its too cool not to in this case :) There are some really awesome new features for Cert Services in 2k8 R2.. check it out in the Certificate Enrollment Web Services Whitepaper Original post: http://blogs.technet.com/pki/archive/2009/09/15/certificate-enrollment-web-services-whitepaper.aspx
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:19 AM

Logging for MUI language packs

Quick post.. If you are having errors when installing the MUI language packs on Win7\Server 2008 R2 - the logs are located in the users profile appdata path: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\lpksetup folder Here is a snip of a log for an example:\
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:30 AM

How to enable WPP tracing for a component at boot time?

Been away for a while , busy with lotsa interesting online services projects ( my "new" group ) . I'll see if I can blog about any of those interesting tidbits.. in the meantime. WPP tracing is all over the place in Win7 – a quick count of registered
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Friday, April 03, 2009 7:22 AM

How to determine virtual machine host name "virtual server"

Recently had a problem where the lab folks forget where my VM was installed to and I needed some RAM added to it. I needed to find the physical host name of the machine the VM was running on. Turns out that there is a handy dandy reg key one the VS devs
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:38 AM

More Kerberos fun with PAC’s- decrypt the PAC

I had been meaning to blog about this for a while, and recently was teaching a class when a friend of mine looked into the exact steps and issues – thanks Woody. It may be interesting to peek into the PAC every once in a while and make sure everything
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Monday, March 09, 2009 7:25 AM

Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile..

Coming from support, I have seen many different causes for crashes and hangs, memory leaks and BSOD’s. Of course, again I am colored by my experiences and it reflects in the title of my blog “When things go wrong.. “ I only see the bad side of things. But, I have long held the opinion that Windows is a stable OS for the most part, and I know for a fact that many many root causes of cases I saw were 3rd party applications and drivers. Anyway, to the point. I was rebooting my Samsung Epix ( again ) the other day and was quite frustrated with the experience. I started to think, maybe I have too many applications running.
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Monday, February 23, 2009 7:27 AM

There and back again.. the journey of a bug in ADFS

Let's look at a bug fix.. end to end. So back in November, my friend Jim Simonet had posted a question about a problem with ADFS using ADAM as the auth store and specifying that it connect via LDAP over SSL. He could connect to ADAM via LDP on 636, so
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:35 AM

Joining a domain via Smartcards

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721959.aspx undefined A snip from the article: Smart card root certificate requirements for use when joining a domain When using a smart card to join a domain, the smart card certificate must comply with one
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Monday, November 17, 2008 7:27 AM

More fun with Kerberos and Web Sites

SPN’s. Service Principal Names. I am not going to go into the details of how SPN’s are used right now, see my other posts on Kerberos or go use your favorite search engine to determine how they are used. Most of this post will relate to web sites and
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:51 AM

James saved me many hours of pain..

Gotta love the internet. The Tubes. I was trying to install\reinstall IIS in Windows Server 2008 and it would not install. Web Server (IIS) Error: Attempt to install IIS Management Console failed with error code 0x80070643. Fatal error during installation
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