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When things go wrong...

EFS failures after upgrade to 2008

FYI .. ( havent had time to finish the kerb posts.. but here is an important FYI )...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/18/2008

Been busy..

Just an FYI that I've been very busy but do plan on posting again soon.

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 02/15/2008

MELE KALIKIMAKA!!!

Well, things have been very busy ( too busy to finish the Kerberos series for now ) but Merry...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 12/23/2007

"Kerberos delegation .. end to end" Part III

When we last left off, we had just installed SQL. Also my standard disclaimer for this series: First...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 11/26/2007

Set WMI namespace security via GPO (script)

This was an example of setting WMI security via a script - the specific question was: “Is there a...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 11/21/2007

"Kerberos delegation .. end to end" Part II

When we left off - I was about to install SQL. Also my standard disclaimer for this series: First...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 11/20/2007

(OT) recent going ons

Way off topic.. Well lot’s of things been going on lately. First off I learned how to fly fish! Man...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 11/15/2007

Dr Watson knows best..

I recently worked on a case which involved a crash ( it was the MMC ) which didn’t have a lot of...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 11/07/2007

A few handy queries to ask Active Directory

I just wanted to do a random DS related post . These are a few useful constructed attributes. A...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 11/06/2007

AD insight released as free download

Some folks may recall this from using the Winternals product,.. ADInsight is an LDAP (Light-weight...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 11/06/2007

(OT) In College? Download Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for US$59.95

Yes I know.. I havent done a real techincal post in a while.. but I thought this was cool...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 10/25/2007

I'm proud to work for this man..

https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/malaria/2003897861_malariatanzania09.html When you stop and...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 09/24/2007

Debugging services..

How to debug Windows services covers the main points – but I think a common issue is debugging why a...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 09/17/2007

(OT) Sun to become Windows Server OEM and companies to collaborate on cross-platform virtualization

cool news! https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/sep07/09-12MSSunAlliancePR.mspx

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 09/12/2007

Back up your event logs when full

So many reg keys, so little time AutoBackupLogFiles - backs up the event logs "Using this entry...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 09/11/2007

Authentication weirdness

Odd things … Well - its been very busy around here and I haven't had a lot of time for posts.. but...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 09/05/2007

Putting CAPI2 logging to good use...

So there was a problem with a printer which you could connect to via SSL in order to print via IPP....

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 08/08/2007

Is there any debug logs or tracing logs can help us to monitor certificate importing or EFS decrypting?

This is a recent question I saw ... You can track detailed EFS events such as EFS decrypt\encrypt...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 08/07/2007

Get a hotfix -- without having to call MS...

In this new age of the internet... You now can obtain a hotfix without having to interact with a...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 07/25/2007

Why not to use DFSR one way replication....

I won’t go into any support statements or nonsense in this post ( not foolish enough to step into...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 07/21/2007

(OT) Western Digital My Book exprience.

A few friends have lost data from HD crashes recently - important items like music collections and...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 07/19/2007

Notify users of cert expiration...

A recent mail thread was asking about querying for cert about to expire and notifying the users of...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 07/19/2007

Breakpoints 200

Before I got distracted with cred roaming and new netlogon goodness… we were talking about...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 06/28/2007

MaxConcurrentAPI update - monitor the netlogon secure channel ... finally!

Edit 11/21/2011 NOTE: Please see https://support.microsoft.com/kb/975363 for updated informaton Here...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 06/22/2007

Credential Roaming hotfix...

Just a slight detour from our debugging stuff for some new info on credential roaming\DIMS ......

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 06/19/2007

Breakpoints 101

So I thought I would do something about breakpoints.. something basic and build it up to something...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 06/08/2007

EFS and Vista... and XP

I just wanted to make sure folks realized that Vista and XP EFS files aren't exactly compatible......

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 06/07/2007

New Security code samples...

Dan, over at JWSecure has written a bunch of new samples for some difficult to use API's (...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 05/14/2007

New Auditing in Vista

Something that is not well known in Vista….this ain't your typical auditing. There is a HUGE amount...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 05/11/2007

Smartcard logon over Terminal Services ( RDP redirection ) pII ( vista FYI )

It seems I do spend a fair bit of time with smartcards lately, but I have some other interesting...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 05/09/2007

A few of my favorite things...debug commands

Well. not really, I mean - not in the big picture right? Else that would be a sad existence...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 05/07/2007

Group Policy and profile load tshooting in Vista

In my other post I mentioned that we moved some of the events from Userenv logs to other areas, and...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 05/02/2007

LH Beta 3 OCSP doc..

This white paper describes the concepts behind and steps needed to install, configure, and...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 04/30/2007

What does CTRL+SysRq+SysRq do?

Well, if you booted to debug mode - but not really, via /debug=disable, noumex (no user mode...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 04/30/2007

Support WebCast: Credential Roaming Basics

If you want to know more about DIMS ( credential roaming ) this may be interesting to you. Webcast...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 04/24/2007

Corrupted EFS Files...

Be aware of this - https://entkb.symantec.com/security/output/n2007020810462848.html spat keyword:...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 04/11/2007

OT: Summer is nearly here...

So I was thinking about buying one of these el cheapo RC planes...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 04/11/2007

SSPI failures due to stack size.

I was recently engaged by a SQL dev in order to help out on a tough nut they were working on. A...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 04/04/2007

What's SPat been up to..

Another reason not to have a single label domain name.... I worked on a case recently where the WMI...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 04/02/2007

Vista and mandatory profiles

In Vista roaming profiles are a little different. We append .V2 to the file servers copy o fthe...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/15/2007

Atbroker.exe - Application Error in Vista

So I go to remote into my machine via RDP tonight and up comes a black screen and the popup error:...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/14/2007

Troubleshooting PKI Problems on Windows Vista

CAPI2 Diagnostics is a feature in Windows Vista™ and Windows Server® Code Name "Longhorn". This...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/13/2007

Kerberos PAC Validation… what is it?

Kerberos is well… Kerberos. And NTLM is NTLM right? Right. Most of the time. This post is from a...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/07/2007

EFS and Vista.... and backup ( or lack thereof )

EFS and Vista…One word of warning. Backup with Vista does not backup your encrypted files. Let’s...

Author: Spat-MSFT Date: 03/01/2007

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