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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:22 AM

Windows Vista RTM, Closure of Blog, Free SWAG!

Thanks to everyone who wrote in. The 100 stickers are now all taken for. If you replied before 6:00 PM PST on Wednesday, November 10th with your mailing address you should receive one. Thanks again for reading everyone. Today we are proud to announce
Posted by User Account Control Team | 11 Comments
Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:24 AM

Credential Prompt Change in RC2

Hi, everyone. I'm Daniel Oliver, a program manager on the Windows Shell Team. If you're running Windows Vista on a domain-joined machine, you may have noticed a small change between Windows Vista RC1 and RC2 when the UAC dialog box prompts for credentials
Posted by User Account Control Team | 7 Comments
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:25 AM

Windows Vista Application Development Requirements for UAC Compatibility

Our updated guidance for ISVs is now available for you to download at the Microsoft Download Center. We'll have a "browesable" form on MSDN as part of the Windows Vista Developer Story shortly, as well. I'll post a link on the blog when it goes live.
Posted by User Account Control Team | 10 Comments
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:10 AM

ActiveX Installer Service Discussion and Video

This is Joel Yoker, Senior Consultant, and Rob Campbell, Technical Solutions Specialist, from the Microsoft Federal (Government) District. Many of the customers that we work with have locked-down desktop environments. One of the challenges that these
Posted by User Account Control Team | 7 Comments
Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:26 PM

UAC Improvements in Release Candidate 1 (RC1) and Video

We’d like to thank all of the Windows Vista beta testers for using and giving us feedback on User Account Control. It’s definitely an area where we’ve received significant feedback, and an area where we’ve been able to make significant improvements in
Posted by windowsvistasecurity | 0 Comments
Tuesday, September 05, 2006 12:00 PM

UAC Improvements in Release Candidate 1 (RC1) and Video

We’d like to thank all of the Windows Vista beta testers for using and giving us feedback on User Account Control. It’s definitely an area where we’ve received significant feedback, and an area where we’ve been able to make significant improvements in
Posted by User Account Control Team | 34 Comments
Sunday, August 27, 2006 8:19 PM

Built-in Administrator Account Disabled

Darren Canavor, Program Manager on the UAC team has made a post on the Windows Vista Security blog about changes to the behavior of the built-in Administrator account: “In Windows Vista we made numerous changes to our user account model. Standard users
Posted by User Account Control Team | 11 Comments
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:16 PM

Elevations Are Now Blocked in the User's Logon Path

Hi, Jim Hong, Program Manager on UAC, here again to tell you about a new change in the UAC user experience coming in RC1. Applications that start when the user logs on and that require elevation are now blocked in the logon path. Without blocking applications
Posted by User Account Control Team | 43 Comments
Monday, August 14, 2006 3:27 PM

User Account Control Virtual Lab

The TechNet team has a released a virtual lab that lets you get some experience with User Account Control even if you haven’t installed it on any of your machines. And if you have Windows Vista installed, the tutorials can help you learn about User Account
Posted by User Account Control Team | 0 Comments
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:00 AM

Flash Swag: Windows Vista Build 5472 DVD

We have reached our limit. All the DVDs are gone. If you replied before 8:00 AM PST on Thursday, August 10th with your mailing address you should receive one. (Please do not send mail to the blog owner requesting a DVD, there are no more to give out.)
Posted by User Account Control Team | 12 Comments
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:03 PM

Administrator Marking for Command Prompt

Besides reducing the number of prompts, one of the top requests we’ve gotten is a way to identify whether a window (particularly Command Prompt) is running with reduced privileges. If you asked for this, too, you’ll be happy to know that when Windows
Posted by User Account Control Team | 31 Comments
Friday, July 28, 2006 4:38 PM

Webcast Recap

Thanks to everyone for joining the webcast on Tuesday and to Chris Corio for helping to answer questions. People asked a lot of good questions, so we wanted to share the transcript with others who may have similar ones. For those who missed it, you can
Posted by User Account Control Team | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:25 PM

UAC Developer Screencasts

I’m Jeremy Mazner, Group Manager of the Windows Vista platform evangelism team (the same folks behind www.seewindowsvista.com ), we make sure early adopters of the Windows Vista platform have the information they need about UAC. While we most often work
Posted by User Account Control Team | (Comments Off)
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:14 PM

“Certified for Windows Vista” Software Logo Requirements

Critical to the success of User Account Control is having software that works well for standard users and administrators, without excess prompts. Since User Account Control is such a central part of Windows Vista, User Account Control compatibility is
Posted by User Account Control Team | 11 Comments
Monday, June 26, 2006 10:08 PM

"How do I turn off that annoying User Account Control?"

Are you thinking of turning off UAC? Before you do...
Posted by User Account Control Team | 17 Comments
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