When you have to change ACL on huge amount of files (eg. give yourself rights to delete Vista files form a secondary partition 😉 ), you have to way’s to do that: sit all day changing ACL to small groups of files repeatedly, cause trying to call „Properties” on a …
Previous version of MS Office could be installed with a ZAP file with given values for for MSI installation package parameters. With 2007 edition you have to use a Office Customization Tool, run from setup.exe: setup.exe /admin Unfortunately your have to have OCT files in the product installation folder 🙁 …
There is a simple way to see network connections on a windows workstation, no extra software is needed to install on the remote machine. You can use a PsExec tool from SysInternals to exec a command line on the remote workstation and the use a standard windows utility netstat. If …
… and the one thing you did is install latest security updates for Windows 2003 Server? WTF?! Someone did forget to mention you that one of the tcp ports used while Active Directory user is logging in have changed from 1025 to 1026 🙁 . Hey MS people! There should …
A while ago, my ASP.NET 2.0 application seemed to ignore /configuration/system.web/authorization setting and authorised everyone to have access, while it should not. Application was deployed on IIS 6.0 (Windows 2003 Standard SP), with customised application pool with domain user as app pool identity. Impersonalization was off. What was strange during …
A precompiled ASP.NET 2.0 application (with web services) running in custom domain service account sandbox on IIS 6.0 (Windows 2003 Standard SP1). A service account is in IIS_WPG group so everything concerning required rights should be covered. When a request comes form a browser it works OK, cause the application …
Another Kerberos/IIS issue. Today one of my web applications stopped working, giving me the: No authority could be contacted for authentication, message. When I tried to access the web application from IIS MMC snap-in through browse, I received a different error: SystemException: The trust relationship between this workstation and the …
Today I have been testing new hosting provider for my company, they have a nice little feature for automatic Outlook Express configuration (actually a Wisepanel feature). I have succesfuly used it, and then import that conifugration to my Outlook 2007 accounts, quicker that typing everthing myself 😉 Here’s a example …
Another of „It should just work” problems… resulting in: Login failed for user '(null)’. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. Number: 18452 Procedure: State: 1 Severity: 14 LineNumber:0 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException : Login failed for user '(null)’. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, …
If you want to stop roaming profiles from downloading to a specific machines, eg. servers. Define a GPO for them with: ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesSystemUser profilesOnly allow local user profiles enabled. I always have a hard time finding this particular setting among other… Now I know where to look 😉
