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Josh Ledgard blogged about some internal softie experiences in getting a QFE… It cracked me up… http://blogs.msdn.com/jledgard/archive/2006/08/28/how-hard-is-it-to-get-a-hot-fix-from-microsoft-it-s-not-easy-online.aspx Some interesting points… 1. With his choice of search key words Google took him directly to his KB article, Microsoft’s own live search didn’t… 2. This quote which I wholeheartedly and completely agree with When are we going […]

Not sure how this slipped by me, it isn’t like I am following the NET stuff all that closely but I expect I will hear about the bigger things usually… Anyway, the 3.0 version of the NET Framework is now available. I have no clue what they did for it but I hope they fixed […]

I was perusing the newsgroups this evening and ran across someone with a “case” issue with logon names in Active Directory. It seems some software he was using required a specific case[1]. Well AD doesn’t case about case… at all. However this person was having a problem changing the case. I looked at it and […]

Do you have PSTs that have duplicate emails in them? I certainly do, well sometimes do… I have a habit of backing up a lot of my files across my various PCs and this gets messy for PST files because Microsoft Outlook isn’t intelligent to properly merge PSTs, it just keeps everything. Quite annoying actually… So […]

As I have mentioned previously, CPAU is an app that I have on the joeware site that is amazingly popular but not something that really excites me and isn’t one the utilities that I really love. It was just sort of something I whipped up to help myself in a couple of cases with a bunch […]

You will have noticed the previous two posts were about Vista changes. Why did I post them? Well because I am actually FINALLY forcing myself to really dig into it and understand how it impacts joeware. Honestly I should have spent considerable time on this before but I will use the excuse of being far […]

If you manage, integrate, or develop code for Windows PCs in a business environment; you will want to read this document I am linking to below. I am not sure if it is at 100% yet as there were a couple of things mentioned that I don’t believe were correct, but it should be required reading […]

Microsoft Standard User Analyzer – This tool will help you identify issues in programs that make it so an application can’t run as a normal user. Very detailed. This was floating around for some time, I recall seeing one of the early revs of this tool several years ago at a special Microsoft Security MVP summit and we […]