Elyasse Elyacoubi's Weblog
Elyasse El Yacoubi - MSFT
How to find true stack size in Windows
Let me start by stating the obvious, if you find yourself needing to get your thread's stack size as...
Date: 10/04/2017
System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 on Configuration Manager 2007?
I saw some questions circulating around whether System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 is supported...
Date: 08/22/2012
Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure Customer Technology Preview is now available for free download
Today we released the customer technology preview of Microsoft Endpoint Protection (MEP) for Windows...
Date: 03/16/2012
On Windows Azure Diagnostics
I have run across people asking about the Windows Azure Diagnostics Monitor and how it can be used...
Date: 02/20/2012
On Russinovich's "The Case of My Mom's Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation"
I read Mark's latest blog "The Case of My Mom's Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation",...
Date: 01/23/2012
Free online courses at Stanford - UC berkeley
OK, so I ran across some nice free online classes offered at Stanford. This semeser, the university...
Date: 01/23/2012
Mark Russinovich on Debugging an Installer Service Failure
A nice case study of an instance where an administrator was debuging a failure in starting windows...
Date: 11/30/2011
Why Intelligent People Fail
I run through this great read: Why Intelligent People Fail. I personally found it inspiring and...
Date: 10/11/2010
Where to submit sample malware or report false positives for Microsoft Security Essentials
If you encounter a false positive detected by Microsoft antimalware, or want to report an...
Date: 08/09/2010
They're here! Microsoft Security Essentials and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Betas!
The beta versions of Microsoft security products: Microsoft Security Essentials and Forefront...
Date: 07/21/2010
sc.exe on vista is misleading on services that accept SERVICE_CONTROL_PRESHUTDOWN notifications
sc.exe has a known issue in vista where it doesn't show correctly the accepted status of services...
Date: 07/16/2010
On the chase of regsvr32 errors on windows 7
I have seen few people hitting an error when trying to register a COM server dll on windows 7. The...
Date: 07/07/2010
Memory Mapped File I/O May or May not Update the File Modified Timestamp
Let's say you are performing a write to a file using Memroy Mapped I/O, that is, using...
Date: 04/17/2010
Making Windows Installer Dialogs Display on RTL Languages
If have a windows installer package in an RTL language, like Arabic or Hebrew, and you want your...
Date: 04/14/2010
Forefront Client Security code name "Stirling" now has an official name
The next release of forefront client security, code name "stirling" has now a new name: Forefront...
Date: 09/04/2009
Changing port of WSS TFS website.
If you would like to setup sharepoint to use a different site than the default one (port 80) for...
Date: 02/14/2006
Last chance to provide us with feedback on the TFS install experience
Dan Kershaw, a Program Manager on Team Foundation Server team, posted this note on msdn forum: "To...
Date: 02/14/2006
Setup Error 28100: Failed to load EventService proxy object: Requested registry access is not allowed.
During TFS install, if you recieve error 28100 (Failed to load EventService proxy object: Requested...
Date: 02/13/2006
Great improvements in WSS configuration for TFS in RC
TFS Setup have done major improvemets in the way it configures WSS. Also, we now implemented a CA...
Date: 02/13/2006
Hidden WSS install failure that is caught during TFS Setup
If you move their IIS root directory from inetpub to a different folder without copying the...
Date: 02/13/2006
common Team Foundation setup failure.. 32000
I was going to write about this actually.. yet I found that askburton has already a great item for...
Date: 02/16/2005
Repair / Reinstall on the next VSTF Beta
Repair and Reinstall (ie. uninstall and then reinstall again) are not supported on the comming Beta2...
Date: 02/16/2005
How was your experience setting up VSTF?
I would love to hear from you on how was your experience installing Visual Studio Team Foundation...
Date: 02/15/2005
Writing a sample code file that compiles in all systems.
If you write a file that is intended to compile in all systems (ue, sample code file), people who...
Date: 01/05/2005
Careful with & operator on CComBSTR variables.
Be careful when using the & operator on a CComBSTR variable. If this variable is not empty,...
Date: 10/28/2004