February 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - Platforms
News
Preparing for daylight saving time changes in 2007
In August of 2005 the United States Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, which changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time (DST). When this law goes into effect in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March) and will end one week later (2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November) than what had traditionally occurred.
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx
Want to Get Hands-on with Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System?
As part of the UK launch activities we created two fully documented lab exercises, one for Windows Vista and one for the 2007 Office system. Both exercises connect you to a secure WCF service hosted on the Internet to either build a simple instant messaging application or user location visualiser. The WCF service will be live until the end of February so you still have plenty of time to try out some coding on either platform. All the details can be found on the main launch site.
Make sure you read Mike's blog post before you start either assignment.
Windows Sysinternals
The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information and Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications. If you have a question about a tool or how to use it, please visit the Sysinternals Forum for answers and help from other users and our moderators.
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/sysinternalssuite.mspx
Windows Vista TechCenter
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/default.aspx
Documents
Business Desktop Deployment 2007
The Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) is best-practice guidance for desktop deployment. BDD is targeted at companies that want to reduce deployment time, effort, and cost by increasing the level of automation. It allows administrators to deploy desktops with Zero Touch and Lite Touch interaction at the target PCs. This solution also helps organizations move to a managed environment with standardized desktop images.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=13f05be2-fd0e-4620-8ca6-1aad6fc54741&DisplayLang=en
Windows Vista Security Guide
The Windows Vista Security Guide provides guidance and tools to further protect Windows Vista against real-live threats such as malware and information theft. This solution accelerator recommends the Enterprise Client (EC) configuration for organizations of all types. Only in extreme security situations does the guide recommend the Specialized Security – Limited Functionality (SSLF) configuration, which considerably limits client computer functionality. The Solution Accelerator includes recommendations about how to use new and enhanced security technologies in Windows Vista to better defend the client computers in your organization against malware. The guide also provides recommendations and best practices on how to use encryption and access control technologies in Windows Vista to protect corporate data. Application compatibility testing recommendations are included. This Solution Accelerator includes several files, such as the Windows Vista Security Guide.doc, the detailed Appendix A of the Windows Vista Security Guide.doc, the Windows Vista Security Guide Settings.xls, and the GPOAccelerator tool to help you easily implement the guidance.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a3d1bbed-7f35-4e72-bfb5-b84a526c1565&DisplayLang=en
Windows Vista and Microsoft Office Work Smarter Checklist
Streamline your work with powerful new features in Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and Exchange Server 2007
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9a509ad4-fa9e-49ad-a125-68083a881483&DisplayLang=en
Work smarter using the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista
These simple, easy-to-use customizable job aids created by Microsoft IT help employees get started with something new, learn more about using a technology or product effectively, select the right product or service, or review best practices
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5637db0a-3436-4607-bf01-3a812dd8fdc0&DisplayLang=en
Configuring Active Directory to Back up Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption and Trusted Platform Module Recovery Information
This document describes how to configure Active Directory® to back up recovery information for Windows® BitLocker™ Drive Encryption (BitLocker) and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Recovery information includes the recovery password for each BitLocker-enabled volume, the TPM owner password, and the information required to identify which computers and volumes the recovery information applies to. Optionally, you can also save a package containing the actual keys used to encrypt the data as well as the recovery password required to access those keys.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3a207915-dfc3-4579-90cd-86ac666f61d4&DisplayLang=en
Updates to Understanding IPv6
The Microsoft Press book "Understanding IPv6," by Joseph Davies, was published in November 2002. Since then, there have been changes to Internet standards for IPv6 and in Microsoft's support for IPv6 in Windows XP and the Windows Server 2003 family. This white paper describes those changes in detail, referencing chapter and page numbers where needed and providing links to additional technical information.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=42bf4711-27af-4c4c-8300-7bcf900de5c3&DisplayLang=en
Developing Applications that Run at Logon on Windows Vista
This document details how to design and develop applications that run at logon in Windows Vista. In Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC) prevents applications from elevating as a user logs on.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a5352df3-1c89-480f-9691-952e6b86eaf7&DisplayLang=en
Virtual Server 2005 – IDE to SCSI Virtual Machine Migration
This whitepaper describes tips and methods to help you migrate your Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 virtual machine from IDE to SCSI bus. You can increase overall virtual machine performance in most scenarios up to 20% by using SCSI virtual hard disks instead of IDE.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8d71f23d-0380-4c2f-81df-6f96abe05493&DisplayLang=en
Internet Explorer 7 Deployment Guide
This guide helps you to plan and carry out a deployment of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The guide describes the system requirements and deployment methods, as well as the techniques to maintain and support Internet Explorer 7 after deployment.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e41d8800-d134-4356-a2e7-c01bee790908&DisplayLang=en
Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide for Windows
The Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide for Windows is a concise collection of processes, tools, and best practice information. It is designed to provide standardized guidance for IT professionals who need to conduct investigations of Microsoft® Windows®–based computers in their organizations.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=71b986ec-b3f1-4c14-ac70-ec0eb8ed9d57&DisplayLang=en
Downloads
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta 3
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&DisplayLang=en
Debug Diagnostic Tool v1.1
The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any Win32 user-mode process. The tool includes additional debugging scripts focused on Internet Information Services (IIS) applications, web data access components, COM+ and related Microsoft technologies.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=28bd5941-c458-46f1-b24d-f60151d875a3&DisplayLang=en
The WMI Diagnosis Utility -- Version 2.0
WMIDiag.vbs is a VBScript script designed to help you ascertain the current state of the WMI service on a computer. The download package includes the utility itself, a ReadMe file that discusses how the tool works (and how to best use it), and sample spreadsheets that provide information about the default WMI configuration on various versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d7ba3cd6-18d1-4d05-b11e-4c64192ae97d&DisplayLang=en
Outlook 2007 Add-Ins: RulesAddin, TravelAgencyAddin, and PrepareMeAddin
The three sample add-ins provided in this download are available in both C# and Visual Basic .NET versions. They demonstrate many of the new and enhanced features of the Outlook object model.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f871c923-3c42-485d-83c7-10a54a92e8a2&DisplayLang=en
Group Policy Log View
Group Policy Log View is a utility you use to export Group Policy event data from the system and operational log into a text, HTML, or XML file
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bcfb1955-ca1d-4f00-9cff-6f541bad4563&DisplayLang=en
Western Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Windows for the Year 2006/2007
Western Australia is introducing daylight saving for a trial period commencing December 3, 2006. Several Microsoft® products require updates in order to display the correct time during the daylight saving period.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c6a2c8fe-abda-4051-a24f-3ec933089747&DisplayLang=en
Preparing for daylight saving time changes in 2007
In August of 2005 the United States Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, which changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time (DST). When this law goes into effect in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March) and will end one week later (2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November) than what had traditionally occurred.
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx
Events/WebCasts
Optimizing Business Productivity Infrastructure to Fuel Business Growth
The Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization Model helps companies build infrastructure to fuel business, helping them plan growth and transform their IT infrastructure into a strategic asset.
Using Windows Vista Hardware Assessment to Determine the Capabilities of Your Organization's Computer Hardware
Windows Vista Hardware Assessment is a software tool designed to help business customers and partners quickly assess their PCs' hardware and device driver compatibility for Windows Vista upgrades. It provides detailed and actionable assessment and recommendation reports.
Achieving High Availability with Windows Server "Longhorn" Clustering (Level 200)
Thursday, February 01, 2007, 11:30 AM Pacific Time
Additional Time Zones
Join this webcast to discover how clustering with Windows Server code-named "Longhorn" enables you to build a highly available infrastructure. We give you an overview of the new and improved clustering architecture, describe new tool migration strategies, and demonstrate the improved features.
Executive Chat: Windows Server "Longhorn" Clustering
Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 11:30 AM Pacific Time
Additional Time Zones
Ask questions and discuss the new architecture, migration strategies, new tools, and improved features of Clustering with Windows Server code-named "Longhorn."
5 March 2007, Glasgow: MSDN Roadshow - Final Places Available
The 2007 MSDN Roadshow will demonstrate the latest developments in our up-and-coming technologies from across the Microsoft stack. Join us for a full-day event and learn from our experts, network with your peers and find out how Microsoft is supporting developers in the community.
5 - 6 March 2007, Newport: Microsoft Architect Insight Conference
Join Microsoft for a two-day architectural retreat. This event will provide a unique opportunity for senior enterprise, solutions and infrastructure architects, plus CTOs and senior IT decision makers, to meet, network and discuss industry-wide issues. Create your bespoke agenda from seven streams: Enterprise, Real World, Identity, Lifecycle, SaaS, Collaboration and Dynamic Systems. You'll also have the opportunity to debate key architectural issues with your peers and the conference sponsors Avanade, Capgemini, Conchango and Solidsoft. If you register before 26 January the delegate price is £610 + VAT: After this date the price will be £795 + VAT. Find out more and register.
6 March 2007, Edinburgh: Windows Vista Security Features for Developers
Come along and see how Windows CardSpaces provides federated identity management. We'll also show you how to build applications that take advantage of User Access Control and best practices for building least-privilege applications. If you are interested in developing on Windows Vista, this session is essential for you.
29 May 2007, Manchester: Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies
Windows Vista features new system integrity technologies including code integrity, secure start-up, service hardening, mandatory integrity control and Internet Explorer protected mode. In this session, Steve Lamb explains how these technologies work.
14 - 15 March 2007, Reading: TechNet Brings You a Two-Day Seminar in Association with John Craddock
Hear real world experience from leading technical experts with a flair for presenting deep technical content in an engaging and informative style. John Craddock and Sally Storey are IT systems specialists who have designed and implemented computing systems, from embedded high-speed industrial controllers to distributed IT solutions. (This is a chargeable event, for which there is a registration fee of £360 +VAT)
Live Webcasts:
Full list can be found at: https://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx
Interactive Webcast Calendar
The interactive calendar will help you quickly find live webcasts that fit your schedule as well as on-demand webcasts to view at your convenience. You can choose your time zone and filter this list by audience, webcast series, product or topic, and presenter.
https://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx
Monthly Archived Webcasts:
https://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/library/default.mspx
Tech-Ed 2006 Webcast Series
https://www.msteched.com/content/webcasts.aspx
New KB’s
Error message when you try to install the license package on a Windows Vista-based computer: "Cannot Install License Package"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930376
Error message when you try to use a Windows Anytime Upgrade product key during a clean installation of Windows Vista: "To use the product key you entered, start the installation from your existing version of Windows"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930375
Error message when you try to activate a copy of Windows Vista by using a Windows Anytime Upgrade product key: "The following failure occurred while trying to use the product key: Code: 0xC004F061"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930373
A Windows Vista-based client computer does not participate in the replication process if you add the client computer to a DFS Replication service group by using the DFS Management snap-in on a Windows Server 2003 R2-based computer https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930516
When you use an application that calls the NetUserGetLocalGroups function in Windows Server 2003 or in Windows XP, the application may leak memory
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912143
Error message when you modify the "Impersonate a client after authentication" policy setting in Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1: "There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930220
Error message after you create an application to access an Authorization Manager store in Windows Server 2003 or in Windows XP
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912572
The "Smartcard Removal Behavior: Force Logoff" Group Policy setting does not work together with the "Remove Lock Computer" Group Policy setting on a computer that is running Windows XP Professional
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928269
The data rate of an .avi file may appear incorrectly or may not appear in the file's properties in Windows XP
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930352
The CD tray does not open when you use the Identify Node command in Compute Cluster Administrator in a non-English version of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927694
Error message when you try to use the MOVE command to move a file to or from a folder in a WIM image: "The request is not supported"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926174
Error message when you connect a USB printer to a Windows Vista-based computer: "A device driver was not installed correctly"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929711
Volume Activation information for Windows Vista
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929712
Support WebCast: Deploying Microsoft Windows 2000 updates for daylight saving time changes for worldwide use
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930688
On a Windows Server 2003 R2-based computer, a Web page that contains a diagnostic report for DFS replication returns no data
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930016
How to remove completely orphaned Domain Controller
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=555846
MS07-004: Vulnerability in Vector Markup Language could allow remote code execution
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929969
Windows Firewall may drop the connection request when a host computer tries to connect to a client computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929483
Description of the Windows CardSpace hotfix rollup package for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925720
You receive an error message when you use the Netsh utility to modify the network configuration in Windows Vista
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929858
You may experience problems after you resume a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep or from hibernation
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929734
Error message when you try to activate Windows Vista Enterprise or Windows Vista Business: "Code 0x8007232b"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929826
The role provider and the membership provider cannot be called from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a Windows Server 2003 R2-based computer that is running ADFS and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920764
Hotfix rollup package for Distributed File System Replication in Windows Server 2003
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917622
Error message when you try to start the TAPI service on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that is joined to a domain: "No Call Appearance Available"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929273
Error message when you use the Adamsync tool in Windows Server 2003: "Error: We seem to be in an infinite recursive loop"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926933
Authentication fails from a Windows XP-based client if the authentication uses a Windows Server 2003-based IAS server
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=898061
Error message when you create the trusted side of a trust between Windows Server 2003-based domains: "The parameter is incorrect"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930218
You cannot connect a terminal server client to a Windows Server 2003-based terminal server
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922499
The Svchost.exe process encounters an access violation error, and services that are running in the Svchost.exe process stop responding in Windows Server 2003
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=899278
Error message when you configure the bind policy of a WDS server by using the IP address on a Windows Server 2003-based computer: “Error Code: 0x2726”
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929657
Error message when you use the Removable Storage Management snap-in on a Windows Server 2003-based computer: "The network connection does not exist"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=892257
Event ID: 1517 occurs when users who use roaming profiles encrypt files on a Windows Server 2003-based file server
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=900613
Applications that use disk quota API functions may stop responding on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=904249
Error message when you try to log on by using an account name that contains an "at" sign (@): "The system could not log you on"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925634
When you try to log on to a member server that is running Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, the domain controller stops responding
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922576
You may have to type your password again after you start and log on to a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929101
Error message when you try to start Outlook 2003 on a Windows XP-based computer: "The connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831949
After you upgrade a Windows XP-based computer to Windows Vista, you may no longer hear the audio handshake when you use a dial-up modem
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928899
The screen remains black when you try to play certain DVDs in Windows Media Center on a Windows Vista-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929531
When you connect a PCI ExpressCard device to a portable Windows Vista-based computer, the device may not work correctly
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929550
Error message when you try to use the Create CD/DVD wizard to write to a DVD in Windows Vista: "Insert Writable Media"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929542
Error message when you use Windows Media Center on a Windows Vista-based computer: "Download Incomplete. Guide listings could not be retrieved. Internet connection failure"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929529
Error message when you search for updates in Windows Vista: "Windows could not search for new updates (Code 80072F8F)"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929458
After you connect an external hard disk drive or a USB flash drive to a computer that is running Windows Vista, the Import option in Windows Media Center may not be available
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929521
Free hard disk space requirements for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926029
Error message when you configure automatic phone book updates for a CMAK connection on a Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 SP4-based computer: "HTTP Error 400 'Bad Request'"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929271
Morphed folders appear in the SYSVOL Group Policy folder after you use Group Policy Object Editor to view a GPO on a Windows Server 2003-based domain controller
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929266
Sharing violation error message if you use WDS 2.6.5 to index a network share and if you open a file on the network share from a Windows XP-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927018