Spat's WebLog (Steve Patrick)
When things go wrong...
Account Lockouts..
Account lockouts. I wont go into the pros and cons of setting this option So this is an entry based...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 12/23/2005
MS releases Base Smart Card CSP...
In case you missed it... This update lets smart card vendors more easily enable their smart cards on...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 12/23/2005
Blog checkup
A little rant first... Generally when I blog about something I rely on comments to respond to folks....
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 12/22/2005
Changes to DFS on Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
In case you missed it... https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;903651 After you...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 12/19/2005
My new media center...
So, I had an extra machine about, and thought I would try to install Media Center in order to see...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 10/24/2005
Like to debug? Like Active Dir? We're hiring!
Do you like to find out how things work under the covers? Do you like to debugWell, my group is...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 10/24/2005
Where is marketing when I need them?
Where, oh where is the infamous MS marketing machine when it comes to my favorite gadget , the...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 10/22/2005
Microsoft Acquires Identity and Access Management Solutions Provider Alacris
FYI Microsoft Acquires Identity and Access Management Solutions Provider Alacris snip "“Customers...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 09/19/2005
Every little bit counts.
It's been a while since I posted.. and I thought this was kinda interesting. Here was an odd one....
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 09/17/2005
Post 2003 SP1 MIT cross realm trust fix for Terminal Services
In the The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of SP1 I mentioned this: There are some MIT cross realm trust...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 08/15/2005
TechReady or not .. here it comes.
Today I went to TechReady to help out with the hands on labs for DFSR . Some pretty cool new stuff...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 08/04/2005
The little bug that was (not?)
I have a dilemma - when is a bug worth fixing? This is a hard question to answer. Here is some...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 08/04/2005
Windows 2000 post SP4 rollup released..
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C0A2CA36-1179-431C-80E6-60A494D3823D&di...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 06/28/2005
A long week...(non techincal post)
It has been a very long week. I was teaching a class all week long, and it just sapped all of my...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 06/19/2005
2003 SP1 Digital Identity Management Service - DIMS continued.
So when we left off, we were talking about DIMS as a new feature for 2003 SP1. The overview was...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 06/10/2005
Windows 2000 mainstream support ending soon...what does that mean?
https://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifewin Product Name General Availability Date Mainstream Support...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 06/10/2005
When to debug… and when not to.
There are some people who think "If only we could debug this, then we can finally determine what’s...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 06/06/2005
Profiling your code..
Random post which is really just a link to an interesting article - another bookmark for me so I...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 05/31/2005
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of SP1
I promise to get to the DIMS stuff soon. In the meantime I want to point out some SP1 uglies: 1. We...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 05/20/2005
2003 SP1 - nifty new SSL for RDP (TLS 1.0 actually)
Short post here that I wanted to note before I finish the DIMS stuff......
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 04/04/2005
2003 SP1 - whats new? Digital Identity Management Service or (DIMS) !
Continuing on my "neat SP1 list".... There are a lot of new niftyola fixes\features, and one of them...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 04/02/2005
2003 SP1 - "new" feature... Per User Auditing
Ill post a few blogs on some new SP1 items which arent detailed in...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 04/01/2005
Maximum number of RIDs
Someone asked today what the max RIDs allocated can be ... Answer is: 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 Not sure...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/30/2005
HowTo: Track down a handle leak in your code - trace the stacks
Hi This is also a test in posting images in my blog .. In this scenario you may have noticed a...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/23/2005
Screen capture..
I was working on some documentation and found the need to capture video from the computer screen...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/16/2005
Manage and Monitor users logins to the Active Directry - LimitLogon.exe
Just released to the web is LimiLogon...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/14/2005
Stress test
This is an interesting tool to stress a machine's disk subsystem...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/03/2005
Antimatter for kids..
Interesting link here https://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/kids/AM-kids00.html...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/02/2005
HowTo: Set the AKI extension field for serial and issuer name
Another post from...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/22/2005
SHA-1 Broken? Tell me it aint so...
But alas, it looks like it is. See here-...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/21/2005
Access based directory enumeration
Using this as a notepad or bookmark so I dont lose track of this feature:...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/19/2005
Watch TV on your smartphone..
Gotta say that I love my smartphone – especially when I am in a line wasting time waiting for...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/18/2005
Inside Google...
Interesting link from my friend Jake: https://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=2459 I love...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/17/2005
File migration and new DFS stuff..
A bit of a random post.. but thought I would toss it out there. Another one of those DCR's .. a...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/16/2005
Oh what a tangled web we weave...
This was an interesting example of how tangled some problems are. They look straightforward when you...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/14/2005
AdminSDHolder - now more flexible than ever!!
There is a process in Windows AD called AdminSDHolder which enforces permissions on a certain set of...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/13/2005
HowTo: Use certreq.exe with a smartcard enrollment agent
I know this is my second post and its still related to smartcards, but I swear this isnt the only...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/12/2005
Introductions
Hi All My name is Steve Patrick, or as most folks call me - Spat. MS culture has an interesting...
Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/11/2005