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July 2006 - Posts

Why Vista?

Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 8:58 AM by Ken
The challenge has been laid down - why upgrade to Windows Vista? Both Bill and MomGuy are asking the question (amongst others). The difficulty in answering this question is that there is no single answer that satisfies everyone. As Mitch correctly points Read More...
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Updating IIS ServerBindings using VBScript and ADSI

Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 7:31 AM by Ken
One of the benefits of working at Avanade is the chance to work on some very large, enterprise scale projects. Last year I worked on a platform refresh project for one of Australia's largest commercial organisations - over 30,000 clients and over Read More...
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Global Enterprise Services and Technology Partner for 2006 - Accenture and Avanade

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:38 AM by Ken
Something that came across my inbox a week back. At the World Wide Partner Conference , Microsoft announced their 2006 Partner winners. Accenture and Avanade took out the award for Global Enterprise Services and Technology Partner of the Year. You can Read More...
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Is IIS causing Windows to crash? WinDBG to the rescue!

Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 8:07 AM by Ken
There are a few good resources out there for troubleshoting crash/hang situations in Windows. Some of the resources I regularly look to include: Tess's Blog Raymond Chen's Blog David Wang's blog Windows Internals (by Mark Russinovich and David Read More...
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New iMate Smartflip running Windows Mobile 5

Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:14 AM by Ken
Edit: if you need help setting up ActiveSync over Bluetooth with Windows Vista and a Toshiba Bluetooth Stack see here My friends and colleagues know me as a bit of a gadget collector - I've got numerous laptops, tablets, PDAs, wireless gear and even Read More...
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Two IIS patches this month - what's the risk?

Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:08 AM by Ken
Microsoft released two IIS-related updates in this month's batch of security patches. The first involves ASP, and the second ASP.NET. Both are listed as Important. What are the actual risks and vulnerability details though? ASP.NET The ASP.NET patch Read More...
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Using PoolMon (Pool Monitor) to debug kernel memory leaks

Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 9:14 AM by Ken
I've been assisting someone with a memory leak issue over the past few days. They described their symptoms as: The server will suddenly stop accepting any form of request from other servers. If you try to do a snap-in from another server using MMC, Read More...
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