Mark is writing about Vista's kernel

Reading Time: < 1 minute Mark Russinovich (well known as founder of Sysinternals and author of tools like Process Explorer, Regmon, Filemon and many more … ), now Technical Fellow at Microsoft, is writing in last Technet Magazine about Vista's kernel. As this article has "Part 1" in its title we can expect more interesting stuff in next issues of … Continue reading "Mark is writing about Vista's kernel"

Problem with Crystal Reports redistributable package

Reading Time: < 1 minute I know that this blog has DS in its title, but as my job sometimes involves development of various elements of IdM systems, which includes ASP .NET applications it may happen that You will find here developement or application deployment posts. Actually this is one of such posts. Today I was deploying at customers systems … Continue reading "Problem with Crystal Reports redistributable package"

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack

Reading Time: < 1 minute New KB 912222 article titled "The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack release“ delivers refresh for Windows 2003 and Windows XP (x64 only) TCP\IP stack. This update is delivering three new features:   TCP Chimney offload Receive Side Scaling (RSS) Network Direct Memory Access (NetDMA) which are all about accelerating Windows TCP\IP stack.   … Continue reading "Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack"

How to be creative?

Reading Time: < 1 minute Have You ever been thinking about doing something else than Your day job?  Have You ever thought about some different ideas?  Maybe this reading will help you with getting it real – How to be Creative by Hugh McLeaod is great and good written reading.   

How to remove\add workstation from\to domain remotely?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Today on microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory newsgroup somebody came with a question how he can remove and add workstations to domain, without performing this operation manually on every workstation? Because of some DR situation he had 250 workstations which were a member of non-existing domain and new AD, and wanted to add them back to domain. The same … Continue reading "How to remove\add workstation from\to domain remotely?"

MOM 2005 management pack for ADAM

Reading Time: < 1 minute Finishing download review from the end of the year – some missed news, this time from Quest. Quest has published free download for ADAM management pack for MOM 2005. If Your organization utilizes both ADAM and MOM this might be interesting thing to try.

Updated ADFS documentation

Reading Time: < 1 minute Updated version of two ADFS documents has been published on Technet pages in December. ADFS Design Guide deals with ADFS design concepts and design process. Good starting point for understanding Web SSO solution with ADFS and different design concepts. Updated version delivers capacity planning information, web browsers compatibility matrix, some design checklist templates and more. … Continue reading "Updated ADFS documentation"