Spat's WebLog (Steve Patrick)
When things go wrong...
Azure batch services and Blender
They have released the Azure batch services addon for Blender:...
Date: 02/02/2015
Add claims with claim name..
Just a reminder to self.. Wanted to add multiple claims and needed to also have the name specified -...
Date: 05/22/2014
Exchange 2013 SP1: OWA native support for ADFS!
It's been a long time coming but we finally have native support for ADFS authentication for OWA and...
Date: 02/25/2014
Timeouts or delays connecting to WinRM
Ran into an interesting issue the other day where WinRM connections were taking 15-20s per...
Date: 01/20/2014
Automate Forest trust creation
Just a quick note: In case you were not aware - netdom.exe cannot create a Forest trust (inbound or...
Date: 09/12/2011
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ( almost )
Things have been busy, but I do plan on doing more frequent posts in the near future. spat
Date: 12/29/2010
(not quite OT) Pixar Renderman and the Azure cloud..
Very cool news from the recent PDC -...
Date: 11/07/2010
FIM CM and SQL APIs– The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object
OK – time for the random Monday morning blog. So I was working on some FIM CM SQL API testing...
Date: 11/02/2010
Love the tubes..thank you Kiran Patil - base64 won't trick me again :)
Thank God for the tubes!! I was banging my head against some errors today in some code which seemed...
Date: 10/29/2010
Math is beautiful.. ( off topic )
Not really work related but cool. I’ve been working on some artwork of mine and was looking...
Date: 08/22/2010
HowTo: Map a user to a certificate via all the methods available in the altSecurityIdentities attribute
Today I am going to talk a little bit about certificate mapping. This topic is somewhat related to...
Date: 06/18/2010
HowTo: Disable UPN mapping for SmartCard logon
<rant> good lord this is an ugly blog... I need to find the time to customize this hideous new...
Date: 06/14/2010
Delete certificate from smartcard with Base Smart Card provider
Just a reminder Certutil -scinfo will list all the cert on the card: ================ Certificate 3...
Date: 05/28/2010
Ugliest blog ever..
Sorry - they udpated the system and I have not had time to make it pretty.... spat
Date: 05/27/2010
WIF SDK and Visual Studio 2008 addin failure
I am running Win7x64, Visual Studio 2008 and the most recent WIF runtime and SDK (...
Date: 02/06/2010
Failure on WIF SDK install
Installing the SDK on Win7 and it says I need to install the WIF runtime. So I look for the...
Date: 02/06/2010
All things HyperV
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565807.aspx
Date: 12/09/2009
Just a quick post on IIS7 cert mapping setup
Install the role service under IIS At the Server level - enable DS mapping under authentication:...
Date: 11/30/2009
lerp
I needed a quick function to return a point.. Spatpublic Point Lerp(Point p0, Point p1, double...
Date: 11/09/2009
Debugging managed code.. from a newb for managed code debugging
Debugging managed code in WinDbg has never been my idea of fun. I wasn’t forcibly exposed to...
Date: 11/09/2009
Why am I using VMWare?
Well, I have had to resort to VMWare. I don’t have anything against it really, I used to use it...
Date: 11/02/2009
Playing with Silverlight..
Testing a few things with SL, eventually want a TFS integrated reporting tool. But, this was more...
Date: 11/01/2009
Cool new features in 2k8 R2 for Certificate Services
I really dont like posting about another post.. but its too cool not to in this case :) There are...
Date: 09/17/2009
Logging for MUI language packs
Quick post.. If you are having errors when installing the MUI language packs on Win7\Server 2008 R2...
Date: 09/15/2009
How to enable WPP tracing for a component at boot time?
Been away for a while , busy with lotsa interesting online services projects ( my "new" group ) ....
Date: 09/08/2009
How to determine virtual machine host name "virtual server"
Recently had a problem where the lab folks forget where my VM was installed to and I needed some RAM...
Date: 04/03/2009
Informal survey..iPhone VS Windows Mobile..
Coming from support, I have seen many different causes for crashes and hangs, memory leaks and...
Date: 03/09/2009
There and back again.. the journey of a bug in ADFS
Let's look at a bug fix.. end to end. So back in November, my friend Jim Simonet had posted a...
Date: 02/23/2009
Joining a domain via Smartcards
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721959.aspxundefined A snip from the article: Smart...
Date: 12/10/2008
More fun with Kerberos and Web Sites
SPN’s. Service Principal Names. I am not going to go into the details of how SPN’s are used right...
Date: 11/17/2008
James saved me many hours of pain..
Gotta love the internet. The Tubes. I was trying to install\reinstall IIS in Windows Server 2008 and...
Date: 11/11/2008
Honey, I lost the (private) keys -- EFS keys missing?
Interesting EFS issue the other day.. Customer was rolling out EFS so they set up DRA's and this...
Date: 10/20/2008
Kerberos domain routing
So the scenarios is pretty simple. Forest trust like so: Basic problem. User tried to access...
Date: 08/21/2008
SQL pains..
So I was working on some code to read and write data to SQL ( not using LINQ or any fancy stuff.....
Date: 08/18/2008
LDAP client tracing...
ADinsight from the sysinternals toolset is a great tool , but I seem to have problems with it at...
Date: 08/12/2008
Get Serial number, expiry date, subject name and subject alternative names in script
The question was something like this: ..."What I need to be able to do is iterate through each...
Date: 07/31/2008
Windows 2008 CA fails install ( ADCS ) : Object already exists. 0x8009000f
During the installation of Windows Server 2008 (2k8) certificate services ( ADCS ) the installation...
Date: 07/15/2008
Create a Dump file with pagefile on non boot partition..
The general advice in Windows is to place the paging file on the boot partition in order to get a...
Date: 07/14/2008
How to populate the “Street” field with more than 1 line of text...or, how to use top down tshooting.
The goal was to get the street attribute to be a multi lined value.. not streetadddress which is...
Date: 07/03/2008
Cool Toys
Wow.. so cool. I was teaching a class yesterday to a bunch of really cool folks and they showed me a...
Date: 04/23/2008
How to use Certificate Services Web enrollment pages together with Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
Wheww!! we finally have the matrix for what works, what doesnt and how to fix it :)...
Date: 04/02/2008
Remote Server Administration Toolset (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1 -- now available!
Long awaited remote admin tools you can toss on Vista.. located here:...
Date: 03/25/2008
Group Policy Preferences CSE for download -
Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows XP (KB943729) Multiple Group Policy...
Date: 03/17/2008
A more open Microsoft.. is here.
https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2004194679_msftshare22.html A few snips from the...
Date: 02/22/2008