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User Account Control (UAC) is a core security feature in the next release of Windows Vista and Windows Server code name Longhorn.

March 2006 - Posts

Friday, March 31, 2006 9:20 AM

Vote for TechEd 2006 Sessions

Microsoft Security MVP Robert Hurlbut has proposed a Birds of Feather session at TechEd 2006 called 'Developing as a Non-Administrator with Windows XP and Windows Vista'. These sessions are chosen by a customer voting process and voting ends at 5:00 pm

Posted by User Account Control Team | 1 Comments

Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:40 PM

Updated Account Creation Plan

Hello, this is David Cross again and I have an interesting project update to share with everyone. Currently, in the beta for Windows Vista, when you create an additional user account, the account is automatically added to the local administrators group.

Posted by User Account Control Team | 20 Comments

Friday, March 03, 2006 10:06 PM

Testing with UAC - Overview

Hi, I am Wei Wang, a Lead Software Design Engineer in Test on the User Account Control (UAC) team within the Windows Security organization. As many of you experienced, User Account Control in Windows Vista fundamentally changes the way users interact

Posted by User Account Control Team | 11 Comments

Friday, March 03, 2006 2:26 PM

Rob Mensching's discussion on MSI in Windows Vista

Hi, I'm Jenn, the tech writer for UAC. We'll sometimes post links in the blog to useful/interesting articles about UAC. Rob Mensching, a software engineer at Microsoft, recently posted a helpful discussion about the Microsoft Installer (MSI) in Windows