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Then check out this KB article, seems like this is hitting quite a few folks who are deploying SP2. Could be older network drivers, could be firewall type software, could be other advanced network software.   You cannot host TCP connections when Receive Side Scaling is enabled in Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 […]

There was discussion over on one of the forums I hang out at, ActiveDir.Org, about someone at TechEd mentioning that the slow link detection “ping” was sending a JPG image file to determine network speeds. There was much debate about whether this was crazy, whether the speaker was smoking the funny stuff, whether it was […]

I need to be able to ascertain what clients are hitting a particular domain controller and asking for MSMQ resources. Preferably this can be done easily and without having to go all the way down to the level of a network trace. I would also like to know the client versions that are hitting the […]

I learned something new this week that caught me by surprise, I guess it shouldn’t have but I don’t recall seeing the documentation before so was shocked when someone asked me about it. So I get this email from a reader of AD3E, not unlike many emails I get every day only it isn’t something […]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine Amazing how powerful a database there is that is built right into Windows. Obviously it scales and is dependable because Microsoft’s most important and more deployed products rely entirely upon it – Exchange and Active Directory. Wonder why more of the stuff out of MSFT that needs a backend store doesn’t use it. Say like MIIS, […]

Microsoft Surface – http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Tabletop computers. MSFT is saying they came up with this, but I swear I recall seeing a show a couple of years ago on this and the work was being done on it at a university. Match concept up with OLED and we have something cool. Wall displays, desk displays, etc that […]

So anyone who used Windows LiveWriter, beta 2 is now available. Looks quite a bit different. More complex. Doesn’t open a new window for every new blog post which is nice. I keep seeing my CPU on my laptop spike up to 80-100% for bursts with WindowsLiveWriter.exe as the culprit when using it though. Not sure what […]

I tried to upgrade a Vista RC2 to RTM last night, it didn’t work so well. Normally I don’t upgrade, I don’t trust upgrades. It wasn’t my computer though and there was a bunch of installed software and I didn’t want to mess with it. RC2 had been running fine and it wouldn’t have needed […]

I was perusing some of the newsgroups today and ran across such a (IMO) well written response by Joe Kaplan (JoeK as I normally refer to him) to a question asked about LDAP authentication that I wanted to share it.   ——– Original Message ——–Subject: Re: Authenticate against AD + other DSDate: Fri, 25 May 2007 […]