Ogid Worm Virus hit
hi there,
this virus copies itself to and best part is many anti viruses may very miss it as it explicitly locks processes disallowing them to be able to scan the running processes/programs.
C:\Program Files\WS_FTP\About.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\default\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Hotfix.exe
C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Hotfix.exe
C:\WinNT\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Hotfix.exe
<Drive Letter>:\Hotfix.exe, where <Drive Letter> is a letter, C-Z.
C:\My Shared Folder
C:\Program Files\Overnetincoming
C:\Program Files\XoloX\downloads\Programs
C:\Program Files\KaZaA\My Shared Folder
C:\Program Files\KaZaA Lite\My Shared Folder
C:\Program Files\QtraxMax
C:\Program Files\iMesh\Client
C:\Program Files\Shareaza\Downloads
C:\Program Files\Ares\My Shared Folder
C:\Program Files\Edonkey2000\Incoming
C:\Program Files\Bearshare\Shared
C:\Program Files\EarthStation5\New Media Files
C:\Program Files\XS Client
C:\Program Files\Grokster\My Grokster\
Google out by this virus name and you will get loads of ways to manually remove it. Make sure that you delete the scvhost.exe as it gets affected 99.99% times once you are hit.
Hope this was helpful.
Cheers!
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If your machine is hit by a virus or worm, your best bet is to have a good antivirus program running on the computer. The people writing these things are getting better and better and they are getting better at hiding the virus so that it keeps coming back.
If your computer is so infected that you have to start deleting executables yourself and your antivirus program can't clean it up, it is time to wipe it out and rebuild it. Deleting Windows operating system files that you think might be a virus (such as the svchost.exe program) is dangerous and you will render your computer unusable.
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Publish both Anonymous Access for browsing and Secure Authenticatoin for Publishing IIS6 & ISA 2004 SP3
OBJECTIVE:
I want to allow everyone on the Internet to just be able to browse an IIS6.0 website (running on its own website not the Default Website), published behind ISA 2004 (very easy and I've accomplished this without any problems thousands of times). Now here's the part that' stumping me....And, at the same time, from the Internet, I want to allow users who have domain accounts in the domain that the webserver is a part, who are authenticated securely (read Basic Authentication encapsulated in HTTPS via SSL or otherwise) to be able to publish via FrontPage, SharePoint Designer, Expression Web or FTP (from the Internet not VPNing in). Summarily said: Allow Anonymous Users to browse only via HTTP, and securely authenticated users to be able to publish to the website via FrontPage, etc...both at the same time.
CONFIGURATION:
Internal Network:
IIS6 running on W2K3 Server SP2 with FrontPage Extensions 2002 enabled on www.webiste.com (fake name of website that I'm trying to accomplish the objective on);
Root Certificate Authority (offline but has signed an Issuing Certificate Authority's certificate);
Issuing Certificate Authority online and has issued a certificate to www.website.com;
ISA Server 2004 at edge with two NICs (one INTRAnet facing and INTERnet facing) and has the Root CAs certificate in the Local Computer Trusted CAs certificate store and the www.website.com certificate in the Local Computer Personal store;
Two Active Directory domain controllers;
Split DNS;
PKI Support Site published via ISA 2004;
Static IPs on external interface of ISA 2004;
Software Configuration:
FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions installed on IIS 6 www.website.com and Extended thereon;
Anonymous Access enabled in FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Administration Site (from now forward called "Administration Site") for a role created therein called Web Browsers (who were only assigned to the Web Design right "Browse" only ). That group was assigned as the Anonymous Access user through the Administration site for the www.webiste.com site;
Administration Site role called Web Authors assigned to all the Web Design Rights (except "Set Source Control"), and this role was assigned to the domain group "domain\Web Publishers";
Domain\Web Publishers group assigned Modify rights to the directory and files therein where the www.website.com is located;
IIS 6 currently set to port 80 and/or 443 for www.website.com with Basic Authentication checked and www.webiste.com self-signed certificate installed with certificate chain to Root CA all showing perfectly - green check marks accross the board;
ISA Server 2004 publishing rule for both HTTP/HTTPS with Listener set to port 80 (I've also set it back and forth to 80 and/or 443 when trying to make this work but now its just on port 80) brigded to internal web server on port 80 (again, I've also set bridging back and forth to 80 and/or 443 when trying to make this work but now its just on port 80);
Listener currently set just to Basic Authentication and not requiring SSL Authentication (yes I know that's insecure and my objective as stated above is to make it work securly and at the same time allow Anonymous browsing;
ISSUES:
I can either only seem to configure IIS and ISA to securely prompt for authentication via Basic Authentication going to https://www.website.com using SSL briding (which isn't the only thing I want as I want for everyone on the Internet to be able to browse anonymously) or only allow for Anonymous Access to http://www.webiste.com (which isn't the only thing that I want as I want persons in the Domain\Web Publishers group, from the Internet, to be able to publish and transfer files to the web server after they are securly authenticated by being prompted for username and password (securely - read Basic Authentication but encapsulated in an HTTPS stream via SSL).
REQUEST:
Can anyone assist me with the configuration I need on the IIS/Administration Site side and the ISA Server Publishing rule/listener side to make this configuration work? Gift certificate for Ruths Chris Steak House ($100 value) to the person that helps me make it work! Or just let me know that its not possible.
Mike Newman
Increse visibility of MVPs
Form what I observe, the answers posted by the MVPs are often better then other ansewrs. So I say you should find a way to make MVP users more visible in these forums. In the old forum (2.x version) the blue tag under the MVPs username that recomended the poster as an MVP was more visible than the gray color we have here. Can this be changed? Or maybe it would be even better to evidentiate the MVP with an icon that can appear under the username. What do you say about that?
Regards,
Lucian Baciu, MCTS, http://studentclub.ro/lucians_weblog
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Lucian Baciu, MCTS, http://studentclub.ro/lucians_weblog
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Do you know about """"Tim Van Wassenhove"""" I need Help with an Excell Access I used from Him!!!!!!!!!
I got my program with a data grid view...
1) I make a gris and save it with the following codes........
SaveAs()
| using (SaveFileDialog saveFileDialog1 = GetExcelSaveFileDialog()) |
| { |
| saveFileDialog1.FileName = SourceWords; |
| if (saveFileDialog1.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK) |
| { |
| FileName = saveFileDialog1.FileName; |
| Workbook workbook = ExcelGenerator.Generate(this.dataGridView1); |
| workbook.Save(FileName); |
| SourceWords = (System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(saveFileDialog1.FileName)); |
| this.Text = ("Build Voltage output - " + SourceWords); |
| SaveYN = 1; |
| } |
| } |
ExcelGenerator.cs
| using System; | |
| using System.Collections.Generic; | |
| using System.Text; | |
| using CarlosAg.ExcelXmlWriter; | |
| using System.Windows.Forms; | |
| using System.Drawing; | |
| namespace DynamicData | |
| { | |
| public static class ExcelGenerator | |
| { | |
| public static Workbook Generate(DataGridView dataGridView) | |
| { | |
| Workbook workbook = new Workbook(); | |
| Worksheet worksheet = workbook.Worksheets.Add("Sheet 1"); | |
| WorksheetRow worksheetRow = new WorksheetRow(); | |
| foreach (DataGridViewColumn dataGridViewColumn in dataGridView.Columns) | |
| { | |
| worksheet.Table.Columns.Add(new WorksheetColumn(dataGridViewColumn.Width)); | |
| worksheetRow.Cells.Add(new WorksheetCell(dataGridViewColumn.HeaderText)); | |
| } | |
| worksheet.Table.Rows.Insert(0, worksheetRow); | |
| WorksheetStyle worksheetDefaultStyle = GetWorksheetStyle(dataGridView.DefaultCellStyle, "Default"); | |
| workbook.Styles.Add(worksheetDefaultStyle); | |
| for (int rowIndex = 0; rowIndex < dataGridView.RowCount; ++rowIndex) | |
| { | |
| worksheetworksheetRow = worksheet.Table.Rows.Add(); | |
| for (int columnIndex = 0; columnIndex < dataGridView.ColumnCount; ++columnIndex) | |
| { | |
| DataGridViewCell cell = dataGridView[columnIndex, rowIndex]; | |
| WorksheetStyle cellStyle = GetWorksheetStyle(cell.InheritedStyle, "column" + columnIndex + "row" + rowIndex); | |
| if (cellStyle != null) | |
| { | |
| workbook.Styles.Add(cellStyle); | |
| } | |
| else | |
| { | |
| cellStyle = worksheetDefaultStyle; | |
| } | |
| DataType dataType = GetDataType(cell.ValueType); | |
| worksheetRow.Cells.Add(cell.FormattedValue.ToString(), dataType, cellStyle.ID); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| return workbook; | |
| } | |
| private static WorksheetStyle GetWorksheetStyle(DataGridViewCellStyle dataGridViewCellStyle, string id) | |
| { | |
| WorksheetStyle worksheetStyle = null; | |
| if (dataGridViewCellStyle != null) | |
| { | |
| worksheetStyle = new WorksheetStyle(id); | |
| if (!dataGridViewCellStyle.BackColor.IsEmpty) | |
| { | |
| worksheetStyle.Interior.Color = GetColorName(dataGridViewCellStyle.BackColor); | |
| worksheetStyle.Interior.Pattern = StyleInteriorPattern.Solid; | |
| } | |
| if (!dataGridViewCellStyle.ForeColor.IsEmpty) | |
| { | |
| worksheetStyle.Font.Color = GetColorName(dataGridViewCellStyle.ForeColor); | |
| } | |
| if (dataGridViewCellStyle.Font != null) | |
| { | |
| worksheetStyle.Font.Bold = dataGridViewCellStyle.Font.Bold; | |
| worksheetStyle.Font.FontName = dataGridViewCellStyle.Font.Name; | |
| worksheetStyle.Font.Italic = dataGridViewCellStyle.Font.Italic; | |
| worksheetStyle.Font.Size = (int)dataGridViewCellStyle.Font.Size; | |
| worksheetStyle.Font.Strikethrough = dataGridViewCellStyle.Font.Strikeout; | |
| worksheetStyle.Font.Underline = dataGridViewCellStyle.Font.Underline ? UnderlineStyle.Single : UnderlineStyle.None; | |
| } | |
| worksheetStyle.Borders.Add(StylePosition.Top, LineStyleOption.Continuous, 1, "Black"); | |
| worksheetStyle.Borders.Add(StylePosition.Right, LineStyleOption.Continuous, 1, "Black"); | |
| worksheetStyle.Borders.Add(StylePosition.Bottom, LineStyleOption.Continuous, 1, "Black"); | |
| worksheetStyle.Borders.Add(StylePosition.Left, LineStyleOption.Continuous, 1, "Black"); | |
| } | |
| return worksheetStyle; | |
| } | |
| private static string GetColorName(Color color) | |
| { | |
| return "#" + color.ToArgb().ToString("X").Substring(2); | |
| } | |
| private static DataType GetDataType(Type valueType) | |
| { | |
| if (valueType == typeof(DateTime)) | |
| { | |
| return DataType.String; | |
| } | |
| else if (valueType == typeof(string)) | |
| { | |
| return DataType.String; | |
| } | |
| else if (valueType == typeof(sbyte) | |
| || valueType == typeof(byte) | |
| || valueType == typeof(short) | |
| || valueType == typeof(ushort) | |
| || valueType == typeof(int) | |
| || valueType == typeof(uint) | |
| || valueType == typeof(long) | |
| || valueType == typeof(ulong) | |
| || valueType == typeof(float) | |
| || valueType == typeof(double) | |
| || valueType == typeof(decimal)) | |
| { | |
| return DataType.Number; | |
| } | |
| else | |
| { | |
| return DataType.String; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Then I use the following code to open the file........
| OleDbConnection cnn = new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + FileName + ";Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=No;IMEX=1\";"); |
| OleDbDataAdapter da; |
| DataSet ds; |
| da = new OleDbDataAdapter("Select * from [" + SheetName1 + "]", cnn); |
| ds = new DataSet("TestExcel"); |
| da.Fill(ds, "TestExcel"); |
| dataGridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables[0]; |
But the program will say.............
File Is in use.....
BUT>>>--When I get the file closed (Restart windows).....It ses...
File not correct Format........
I need to know if there is an ultimate command to take a file (Withought opening it) and force it to close.....
And, How do I adapt my code that opens Excel Files ..........
so that It opens the saved files (With wierd format) too....
Here is the internet sight about him and his program I integrated into mine...
>>>>http://www.timvw.be/datagridview-to-excel/
(Also includes a file download of the program that I integrated into my program...)
Thank you for the discussion in advance.....
zBuster
- Moved by OmegaMan Thursday, August 7, 2008 1:49 AM Excel Interop question (Moved from Visual C# General to Off-Topic Posts (Do Not Post Here))
Reply:
William Wegerson (www.OmegaCoder.Com)
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I'll look but if anybody knows of a better way to save and open excel files fould you tell me.....
Its difficult..
Thanks,
zBuster
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A Way to Get Rid of Off-Topic Posts
How about adding a new method for reporting them to moderators so they could be moved?
Just add "Report as Off-Topic" to the Vote Button, and use a system similar to what happens when you mark something as abusive. The moderators will look at it and take appropriate action (probably moving it to the Off-Topic Forum).
Or if you need more moderators, you can put me down for the list, I wouldn't mind. ;-)
Take a chance. Prepare to be surprised.
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Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer
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Not that that is insurmountable. These particular forums aer jsut a little trickier to moderate than others... :)
Matt
Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer
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I also wanted to say that one of the difficulties with this particular forum (and the Forum Bug forum, among others) is that they are shared among brands.
So how about creating a main page listing all the forums this software is connected to?
That way, moderators could get the "off-topic" report I suggested, check the long list of forums, and take action.
Take a chance. Prepare to be surprised.
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This answer confuses the heck out of me.
It surely doesn't matter if there is (say) a Windows XP forum. Any bug report here on Windows XP is off-topic.
So I don't get this statement of yours - "threads can show up on almost any topic and you have to know if there's a forum for that on ANY brand".
Or do you mean that only if there is such a forum is it possible to MOVE the incorrect post to the correct forum. If so, why bother. Just delete them.
If I get a question in the "SharePoint - General" forum that has nothing to do with SharePoint, I delete it and write as the reason "Not a SharePoint question". If the question is about SharePoint but ought to be in a more specific SharePoint forum, I move it to that better SharePoint forum. (If it's about a related product and that product has a forum, I move it to that forum.)
Here any question that isn't about the Forum software is way off-topic isn't it?
There's a difference between way off-topic and just slightly off-topic and that should be reflected in the way those threads are handled.
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If we had a list, moderators could skim the list for the topic, and if it was listed, move it. If not, take it to the off-topic threads.
Take a chance. Prepare to be surprised.
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>I also wanted to say that one of the difficulties with this particular forum (and the Forum Bug forum, among >others) is that they are shared among brands. So, unfortunately, threads can show up on almost any topic, >and you hae to know if there's a forum for that on ANY brand. And if it's on the brand you're not currently >on, you then need to load up the other site to make the move.
This answer confuses the heck out of me.
It surely doesn't matter if there is (say) a Windows XP forum. Any bug report here on Windows XP is off-topic.
So I don't get this statement of yours - "threads can show up on almost any topic and you have to know if there's a forum for that on ANY brand".
Or do you mean that only if there is such a forum is it possible to MOVE the incorrect post to the correct forum. If so, why bother. Just delete them.
If I get a question in the "SharePoint - General" forum that has nothing to do with SharePoint, I delete it and write as the reason "Not a SharePoint question". If the question is about SharePoint but ought to be in a more specific SharePoint forum, I move it to that better SharePoint forum. (If it's about a related product and that product has a forum, I move it to that forum.)
Here any question that isn't about the Forum software is way off-topic isn't it?
There's a difference between way off-topic and just slightly off-topic and that should be reflected in the way those threads are handled.
I beleive that off-topic posts should be moved to the appropriate forum if possible. If that forum hasn't been migrated to this system yet, then it shoudl be moved to off-topic. I don't think deleting helps anybody, since the OP will come back and wonder what happened to their question (it won't show up in "My threads" anymore... it's deleted) and just post it again.
Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer
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Take a chance. Prepare to be surprised.
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I thought the poster gets a message when his thread is deleted.
Isn't that the case ?
Could it be that that was what happened in the old forums and no longer happens here ?
>and just post it again
For the record I have never had that happen and I've deleted more than a handful of non-SharePoint / non-related product posts that were posted to SharePoint - General. (Which was another reason for me thinking that posters were informed)
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Take a chance. Prepare to be surprised.
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See: http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/suggest/thread/cdc31f90-2883-4d11-b520-20e8e3a8be2b
Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer
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(I posted this in that thread but I'll post it again here)
How about adding "report as off-topic" alongside "report as abusive?"
...
Or, under the Actions tab on top, add a "report as off-topic" button.
Take a chance. Prepare to be surprised.
- Edited by Oliver Black Thursday, August 7, 2008 4:30 PM New Suggestion
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Lost Address Bar after installing SP3
Hi All,
Someone else in the forum found a easy method to put the address bar back. Simply use the "New Toolbar" option on the toolbars menu to create a new toolbar. Then drag that toolbar to your desktop and drop it there. Right click the new toolbar and select "Toolbars". In the new tool bars menu select the "Address Bar" and deselect all the other toolbar options on the menu. Drag the new address bar back to your Start Bar / Task Bar positioning it where you want it and lock the Start Bar / Task Bar.
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Great advice... works like a charm.
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This is really a simple fix, and my computers appear to be back to "normal"; it sure beats replacing SP3 dll's with the legacy ones.
Thanks
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A few things I don't understand:
| obob2 wrote: | |
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What kind of "new toolbar" do you create? There are numerous options in the "New toolbar" dialog that pops up.
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Why or how do you drag it to your Desktop when it's already on the Desktop or Taskbar?
Does this work in both the XP default theme and XP Classic theme, and does it remain after a reboot?
I got my address bar back by replacing the browseui.dll file, but it's always helpful to learn of new methods, is why I ask.
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Really thank you, I was getting crazy!
Just a note, when you try to drag the new toolbar back on the taskbar it seems it remains out of it, just stop dragging and it appears inside the taskbar.
...Clint... what do you smoke today?
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| alf900 wrote: | |
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The usual. 
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"Obob2" are you still around? To clarify that below (if anyone is confused as Alf may have been 
Any toolbar and layout options in this area are different between the XP default theme and Classic theme, and I use the Classic theme, most people do not.
The rest of what I asked below should be self-explanatory.
| Clint D wrote: | ||||||
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This was purposely removed and here is the fix:
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Why has the SP3 final release download changed in file size? Was 315mb, now 316mb and with 16 more files
The SP3 final release version 5512 is 315mb in size, at the least the ones I saw from the MS download site were. This is the one I downloaded in May and installed, b5512, and from the MS download site. For the heck of it, I just now downloaded it again, and now it's 316mb! So......does anyone have any idea why? They obviously are different, but how? The one I just downloaded has a "Digital signatures" tab (when right clicking and "Properties"), the other d'load does not. This one has a timestamp of "Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:30:34 PM". This new one has 3707 files, the previous one has 3691 files. What's going on? Could the digital signatures and timestamp take up 16 more files and 1mb more in size?
Thanks.
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Every Microsoft download has a Digital Signature, even the beta and RC releases. If you have an SP3 update that does not have a Digital Signature, then there is something wrong with it: either it has been modified by some third party since Microsoft packaged it, or it suffered a truncation in download.
The true public release of SP3 has a digital signature timestamped in UTC: 2008 April 14 04:30. If your PC is set into time zone UTC-5, then the time you quote is correct. The SP3 updater has 3707 files inside the i386 folder, and is 331,805,736 bytes long. Your other file is bogus.
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Yes, it's UTC-5. Hmm, every SP3 d'load I have came from their update site, and only the most recent one of them has the tab and the time-stamp! I don't see how any of them could be bogus being that they all came from the same MS webpage! This is odd.
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Now something is really messed up here. I just went and checked again, and now, the digital signatures tab is there on all the SP3 downloads!! 
One of the downloads has a time stamp of 2-12-2008, 9:10:42 AM
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| Clint D wrote: | |
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That was build 3311, Release Candidate 2. Not the final release. And it is 330,554,920 bytes long, and has 3691 files in the i386 folder.
There is some issue in Windows Explorer that it does not always display the Digital Signatures tab, even when the file has one, if the file is very long. I use a command-line tool "sigcheck.exe" from SysInternals to get the digital signature in these circumstances.
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Yeah that one was b3311. But the question of why the size and file count differs in the 5512 builds still remains.
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It doesn't. RTM build 5512 has been 316MB containing 3707 files since it was released in April. See the post dates in this discussion: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=34&threadid=2180815
This became a de facto method of quickly discerning the final SP3 build from all the release candidates floating around. If it was 315MB = RC. If it was 316MB = Final.
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Sorry, with no sleep typo's happen. The 5512 download that's 315mb in size was d'loaded in March, and has the time stamp of "Feb.12, 2008, 9:10:42 AM", and it's 3691 files. What I don't understand is that's the first one I installed and it was indeed "5512". So there's something strange here. I'm beginning to think that had to have come from somewhere else.
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| Clint D wrote: | |
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That's just not 5512. 5512 was not made by Microsoft until April, and was not released for download until May. If you downloaded anything in March, it must have been build 3311 (RC2).
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Decrease in Spam Detection with Antigen 8.0 and Antigen 9.X due to update issues
Microsoft is aware of an issue with the SpamCure engine not updating and detecting spam in Antigen 8.0 and 9.x products since August 1, 2008. We are working with the engine vendor to resolve this issue and will continue to update this blog as more information becomes available.
Customers running the Antigen 8.0 and 9.x products may experience spam detection dramatically drop if they only use the SpamCure engine to detect spam. To attempt to detect spam while Microsoft works to resolve the issue, you can configure the following options within Antigen:
- Mailhost Filtering:
Add one or more RBL servers
Add known spamming Mailhosts to the Rejected Mailhosts
- Keyword Filtering:
Enable the default keyword lists
- Content Filtering:
Add known sender domains/subject lines of spam
We apologize for the inconvenience and do hope to have this issue resolved as quickly as possible.
Reply:
Microsoft has resolved the recent SpamCure engine updating and detection issue that was seen in Antigen 8.0 and 9.x products since August 1, 2008. Please update your SpamCure engine – you should see detection rates improve.
Again we apologize for the inconvenience.
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Resolving the Spam Cure Issue
It will be necessary to restart the StarEngine service to resolve this issue.
Although rebooting or cycling SMTP is an option as mentioned within another thread, you can also restart just the StarEngine service after confirming Spam Cure signature updates are occurring. You should then see spam detection return to previous standards.
Rob M
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The SpamCure update from yesterday (August 5, 2008, 14:42 Eastern time) had a problem which causes SpamCure to not catch _any_ spam at all, even after SpamCure gets newer updates. The resolution is to get a later update AND to manually restart the StarEngine service – at that point, Spamcure starts catching spam as expected.
This is a transient issue and once the service is restarted is resolved.
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Update:
Our anti-spam partner Mail-Filters changed the hosting location from which we retrieve anti-spam updates. Although Microsoft was notified that this change would take place at a future date, our partner was not properly informed that security restrictions within Microsoft operations would prevent this change from being transparent. As a result, attempts to work around the problem resulted in a dated dat file being published that was part of the initial install of hosted vendor components within Microsoft operations.
Customers who believe they may be experiencing problems as a result of retrieving this update should verify in the client UI that they are running with an engine version later than August 5th. A manual update may be performed in the client to ensure that a recent update has been obtained. The StarEngine service must then be recycled in order for the engine to function properly.
Microsoft apologizes for this inconvenience and is reviewing its operational procedures in order to prevent this from occurring again.
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Button click event not firing (Never seen something like that)
We are developing an ASP.NET music platform in C#. I have a bit of experience with the language so believe me... I think this is not a normal problem.
The page structure has one master page, and some ASCX controls deployed inside, very standard I think.
The problem appears in one form that simply inserts the user data into SQL Server database. At this time, the form doesn't have validators, but something in the client side is happening. In IE the button events are not firing (It doesn't matter if this buttons are in the master or in the child page), but they are working in Firefox. I assume that's because Firefox don't process in the same way the client side code.
In other page we have had the "Invalid postback or callback argument. Event validation is enabled using ..." . That is strange also because we haven't populated any control in the client side.
Please, a little bit of help would be very very appreciated...
Thanks a lot in advance.
Jacob.
- Moved by nobugz Friday, August 8, 2008 4:42 AM forums.asp.net (Moved from Visual C# General to Off-Topic Posts (Do Not Post Here))
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If we drag an AJAX component inside the page (Telerik in this case) it works (Evidently, a normal event with postback is not fired, but the update occurs).
Thanks a lot.
Jacob.
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Hyper-V Manager Says Hypervisor is Not Running Whereas All the Hyper-V Services Are Running
I am having problems starting my Hyper-V virtual machines. When I start the virtual machine I get the following message.
However, all the three Hyper-V services are running:
Here 's the output of the net start command
C:\Users\ExoticHadron>net start
These Windows services are started:
Application Experience
Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Base Filtering Engine
Certificate Propagation
COM+ Event System
Cryptographic Services
DCOM Server Process Launcher
Desktop Window Manager Session Manager
DHCP Client
Diagnostic Policy Service
Diagnostic System Host
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
DNS Client
Function Discovery Resource Publication
Group Policy Client
Hyper-V Image Management Service
Hyper-V Networking Management Service
Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management
<cut off>
Also, I am 1000% sure both my motherboard (Intel DP35DP) BIOS and CPU support Intel VT. See specs for Core 2 Duo 6550 and this table.
Moreover, Hyper-V worked for me like a dream in its RC1 stage (with XD enabled). Currently I am running the final build (I have installed KB950050 update).
Intel VT and Intel VT Directed I/O are enabled in BIOS. Intel XD Execute Disable Bit is however disabled in BIOS. I have to disable this feature as VMware causes BSOD when both VT and XD are enabled. For some reason, I have both Hyper-V and VMware to run in my environment.
As far as I can see it cannot work with XD disabled. At least Hyper-V Manager says that hardware execution protection should be enabled. I believe XD manages this thing. Right?
OK. Why then all Hyper-V services run smoothly? It's kind of confusing when everything 'seems' to work smoothly when it in fact I can't for known reason. I may be reasonable to specify this behavior in help/kb or somewhere. Currently it's pretty close to a situation where you sit back in a shiny new Ferrari with all gauges reporting the sytsem is running, the engine is runnig but when you press the clutch the car just doesn't run.
Heck I like the Hyper-V soooo much. It's so pity it's always so hard to start using it or start using something virtualized within it. After all I would say Hyper-V has probably the easiest experience than all other virtualization technologies. But it still greatly lacks a good documentation/online help. Currently the online help looks sort of sarcastic. It's all 'press start to start' whereas the main question is why you need to press start and not lauch or boot or something. For me it's almost useless not to say it's somewhat embarrassing.
Thank you.
Somebody may wonder why not to stay using one virtualization technology. Well, there are some reasons for me to do that and one of the biggest is that some relatively old but critical software doesn't work with Hyper-V whereas it works fine with VMware. However, I can run as much as twice as more VMs in Hyper-V than I can run in VMware. Maybe I'm using improper VMware, maybe I'm using an improper Hyper-V, maybe it's me who's the improper one in this chain... but heck... who cares! I just want the things done.
Oh, vitualization...
Moreover, I am still optimistic about attacting my boss on my 'Microsoft addict' side. I just love the idea of Hyper-V. And I am still trying to make him see the use of Hyper-V. But can I do that if I face with problems as this? My boss just says 'hell with your hyper-v. We don't need it, it just doesn't work whereas VMware just works'. I know he's sort of VMware addicted (at least VMware crashes when you have VT enabled and it also doesn't run x64 OSes). But there's some truth in what he's saying - all of our software work okay in VMware.
Oh, Hyper-V
Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
All your letters in the sand
Cannot heal me like your hand
Kind regards,
Stanislav.
For my life, still ahead, pity me.
- Edited by ExoticHadron Wednesday, August 6, 2008 7:37 PM Heck, some mooore lines
Reply:
Hi,
The services are not directly related to the XD bit. But the Hypervisor itself is addicted from the XD bit. You have to enable XD again and Hyper-V will work fine. It's like your Ferrari: The car is ready, but you have no key to start it.
BTW: If you need to use both solutions (Microsoft & VMWare) you also should use two different hardware servers.
Peter Forster, MVP Virtual Machine, Austria
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Bill
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Thank you all for your answers. Now it's clear to me what should be enalbed to make the hypervisor work.
//Nope, Peter, the analogy with a key doesn't fit here as you won't get engine running unless you have a key. In our case however you have the engine running without a key. As you do not expect it from a car, similarly you don't expect this from the product. That's pretty OK and I understand this is by design. But it requires some little crarification made in help I believe.
By the way, is there any info out ther that describes what XD is used for (in hypervisor I mean). Also, it would be interesting how Directed I/O is used.
Thank you.
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Installing ConfigMgr Site Server on Windows Server 2008
Today, I managed to install ConfigMgr Site Server on Windows Server 2008. It wasn't as easy as I thought... Hopefully by telling my mistakes, somebody can installed ConfigMgr much faster on Windows Server 2008.
This is a test environment, so I decided to put all the eggs to the same basket. This means that the site server is also DC and SQL Server. I installed 64-bit Windows Server 2008 on a physical server and prepared it for ConfigMgr installation ie. installed SQL Server 2005 SP2, extended AD schema, created System Management container, installed IIS7 etc.
Then I checked the pre-requisites. On the first try, only BITS Server and WebDAV were missing. Fortunately, ConfigMgr documentation has a great topic: How to Configure Windows Server 2008 for Site System Roles. WebDAV was easy to install with those detailed steps. I was a little confused what extensions I need to activate on the section: To modify the requestFiltering section on BITS-enabled distribution points. I just skipped that part.
Without modifying requestFilter, Prereq checker was happy, so I started to install ConfigMgr site server. Then came problem #1: I couldn't select an option to install a primary site.
ConfigMgrSetup.log had the following lines:
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===================== << Starting SMS V4 SP1 Upgrade Setup >> =====================
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> Commandline :
"E:\Softat\SCConfigMgr07_UPD_EN\SMSSETUP\BIN\I386\setup.exe"
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> This is 64 bit.
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> Verifying the Reg for AssetIntelligence Installation
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> Setting the default CSV folder path
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> SMS Build Number = 6221
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> SMS Version = 4.0
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> SMS Minimum Build Number = 800
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> Verifying SMS Active Directory Schema Extensions.
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> DS Root:CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=demo,DC=net
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> Verifying SMS Active Directory Schema Extensions.
<06-23-2008 13:14:50> DS Root:CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=demo,DC=net
<06-23-2008 13:14:52> Setup has not detected an existing installation of a primary site server, secondary site server, site system, or Configuration Manager console on this computer.
<06-23-2008 13:14:52> Setup has not detected an existing installation of a primary site server, secondary site server, site system, or Configuration Manager console on this computer.
<06-23-2008 13:16:42>
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Because I could install secondary site, I thought I have some problem with my SQL Server 2005 installation on Windows Server 2008. I hadn't earlier installed SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2008, so I wasn't sure if it needed some special steps.
After a few hours, I finally understood what went wrong. My SP 1 installation DVD is only an upgrade! So I needed to install ConfigMgr RTM before trying to install SP 1. For some stupid reason, I thought ConfigMgr 2007 SP 1 upgrade could magically install the full version of ConfigMgr on Windows Server 2008.
The documentation should mention that you can actually install ConfigMgr 2007 RTM on Windows Server 2008 and in my scenario it is REQUIRED.
ConfigMgr 2007 RTM installed easily on W2k8 and then I could start the upgrade process. Then came the problem #2: ConfigMgr 2007 SP 1 upgrade hangs.
Upgrade process started nicely and it could upgrade ConfigMgr database. The installation hangs while it is upgrading WAIK. ConfigMgrSetup.log had the following lines:
<06-23-2008 14:58:15> Windows Automated Installation Kit 1.0.0.0 detected.
<06-23-2008 14:58:15> Uninstalling Windows Automated Installation Kit...
<06-23-2008 14:58:33> Windows Automated Installation Kit uninstalled successfully.
<06-23-2008 14:58:33> Windows Automated Installation Kit is being installed from d:\ConfgMgr\WAIK\waikamd64.msi.
Application log had the following events:
Log Name: Application
Source: MsiInstaller
Date: 23.6.2008 15:12:11
Event ID: 11729
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: domain\Administrator
Computer: server
Description:
Product: Windows Automated Installation Kit -- Configuration failed.
and
Log Name: Application
Source: MsiInstaller
Date: 23.6.2008 15:12:11
Event ID: 1035
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: domain\Administrator
Computer: server
Description:
Windows Installer reconfigured the product. Product Name: Windows Automated Installation Kit. Product Version: 1.1.0.0. Product Language: 1033. Reconfiguration success or error status: 1602.
ConfigMgr SP 1 installation didn't continue. It took me about 10 minutes to notice that there was a message box (underneath other windows): Installation Failed. When I clicked OK (the only option), ConfigMgr upgrade process continued!!! And it seemed that WAIK 1.1 is actually successfully installed.
After a couple of minutes, ConfigMgr SP 1 is installed to my server.
Then I noticed the problem #3: MP is not correctly reinstalled. MPsetup.log had the following lines:
<06-23-2008 15:27:07> checking WebDAV configuraitons
<06-23-2008 15:27:08> WebDAV settings is not setup appropriately
<06-23-2008 15:27:08> [Allow property queries with infinite depth] should be true (false)
<06-23-2008 15:27:08> [Allow Custom Properties] should be false (false)
<06-23-2008 15:27:08> [Allow anonymous property queries] should be true (true)
<06-23-2008 15:27:08> Allow [All users read access to All content] authoring rule should exist (exist)
This was my mistake. I didn't specify the correct WebDAV options. Prereq checker didn't give me any indication that my webdav configuration is incorrect. It only checks that WebDAV is installed, not if it has the correct options.
After I put the correct options to WebDAV, MP installed nicely.
After these few hours, I had a working ConfigMgr 2007 SP 1 running on Windows Server 2008.
Reply:
WE DON'T SUPPORT CONFIGURATION MANANGER 2007 RTM PRIMARY/SECONDARY SITE INSTALLATIONS ON WINDOWS 2008.
Therefore we don't support the upgrade scenario you detailed here. For users who want to have ConfigMgr 2007 running on Windows 2008, we recommend a new install fo ConfigMgr 2007 SP1.
For your scenario, you should have installed the SP1 Eval version which can be upgraded to a full licensed version once that's obtained.
WAIK is a little tricky to explain, but basically we detect the WAIK 1.0 condition where a manual uninstall and reboot is required. If you perform an command line upgrade, this will bypass the prereq checking and you will not receive the blocking setup requirement to uninstall it. Regardless, it still hits the issue and throws the dialog (albeit behind other windows). We do recommend that you run the prereq checker prior to performing a unattended upgrade so you know about any configuration issues that will affect setup.
You've detailed your entire setup experience with complete accuracy. This information will be benificial to the readers on this forum. Yes, we check for WebDAV but we don't detect the correct settings (we do if you push the site role, but not when part of the site server initial install).
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| Jeff Nordrum [MSFT] wrote: | |
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Too bad prereq checker cannot predict the future, because ConfigMgr RTM prereq checker was happy with my Windows Server 2008 installation!
You might want to update the documentation with this statement that ConfigMgr RTM installation on Windows 2008 is NOT supported even if you immediately upgrade the installation to ConfigMgr SP1.
I think I'll reinstall my unsupported ConfigMgr installation, so if I find any other issues while running ConfigMgr on W2k8, they would happen on a supported scenario.
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Panu, but if you look at the supported configurations documentation, we do show you which OS' are supported, and Windows Server 2008 is NOT listed for RTM, but it IS listed as supported for SP1.
And we've covered it numerous times on this forum and the General forum - Configuration Manager RTM does not support Windows Server 2008, other than as a client and as a System Health Validator.
If it was not complete enough for you (or others) sorry about that. We try, but obviously are not perfect.
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Reply:
I agree that the documentation is perfectly clear about which ConfigMgr version is supported with Windows Server 2008.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's different product groups have different policies how they support OSes if their product requires some service pack to work on this OS.
E.g. with SQL Server 2005, only SQL Server 2005 SP 2 is supported. You MUST first install SQL Server 2005 RTM and then you upgrade to SP2. With ConfigMgr 2007, you SHOULD NOT do the same thing. You MUST use ConfigMgr SP 1 integrated installation media.
And because you first have to install SQL Server 2005 SP 2 and then you install ConfigMgr SP 1, you might continue the SQL installation method incorrectly to ConfigMgr installation.
Communication is a difficult thing: no matter how hard you try, there is always some stupid like me, who just don't get it...
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I would never call you stupid Panu - I might think it, but never say it :-)
For all you who are now getting upset with me typing that, I've known Panu for years now, and think he knows when I'm joking, especially when I put in the smiley :-)
Panu is one of our MVPs, and I think by definition, you can't be an MVP and be stupid at the same time.
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| Wally [MSFT] wrote: | |
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Wally, you just crushed my hopes of being an MVP cause this would definately rule me out :-)
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Doubtful, but at least now you've opened yourself to comments from everyone :-) We all have our moments when we're less than brilliant. At my age, I think they are called 'senior moments' :-)
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Reply:
Calling Panu stupid would be against my principles as well.
Principle 4.5) Never pick a fight with people taller than you, they have longer arms and can hit you from a distance.
Principle 4.6) Be extra carefull if your disadvantage is more than a few inches.
Kim Oppalfens
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Don't despair, every once in a while they award the exception that proves the rule, just look at Garth :-)
| John Marcum wrote: | ||||
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I had exactly the same experience as described above - however, choosing the SP1 Eval for a clean installation is no choice at that point: I am currently building a new infrastructure based on W2K8 localized german and there is no SP1 Eval - just RTM Eval.
So - any suggestions but waiting for some months?
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Troubleshooting: Cannot restart a computer after restoring to a point before Windows Disk Protection was turned on
Troubleshooting: Cannot restart a computer after restoring to a point before Windows Disk Protection was turned on
Audience
IT administrators
Symptoms
You cannot restart the computer after restoring to a point before Windows Disk Protection was turned on.
Cause
If System Restore is set to a time before Windows Disk Protection was turned on, and Windows Disk Protection is set to Retain All Changes Temporarily, you will be unable to restart the computer. The only recovery option is to reinstall the operating system.
Workaround
Turn off Windows Disk Protection before you perform a system restore.
To turn off Windows Disk Protection
1. Log on as the SteadyState administrator.
2. In the Windows SteadyState main dialog box, under Global Computer Settings, click Protect the Hard Disk.
3. In the Protect the Hard Disk dialog box, select Off, and then click OK.
4. Restart the computer.
Applies To the Following Operating Systems
| Windows Vista |
| Windows XP |
Troubleshooting: Cannot shrink the size of a operating system volume when Windows Disk Protection is turned on
Troubleshooting: Cannot shrink the size of a operating system volume when Windows Disk Protection is turned on
Audience
IT administrators
Symptoms
If you try to shrink the size of an operating system volume when Windows Disk Protection is turned on, an unexpected error occurs and the operation fails.
Cause
Windows Disk Protection does not support shrinking or expanding operating system volumes.
Workaround
Turn Windows Disk Protection off, and then shrink the size of the operating system volume.
To turn off Windows Disk Protection
1. Log on as the Windows SteadyState administrator.
2. In the Windows SteadyState main dialog box, under Global Computer Settings, click Protect the Hard Disk.
3. In the Protect the Hard Disk dialog box, select Off, and then click OK.
4. Restart the computer.
Windows Disk Protection will now be turned off so you can shrink the size of the operating system volume. For more information about shrinking the size of the operating system volume, see Help and Support for your operating system. To protect the shared computer, after shrinking the size of the operating system volume, turn Windows Disk Protection back on.
Applies To the Following Operating Systems
| Windows Vista |
Suggestion for Windows Client -> Hardware Profiles = Great feature in virtualization scenarios
As Brjann explained in the thread mentioned above, hardware profiles were a feature provided to help alleviate problems related to shaky plug & play support back in the NT4 days. Obviously, these problems do not exist anymore and it seems reasonable to stop supporting this feature. However, hardware profiles can become a precious tool for a new purpose which I will explain.
For many years, I have been experimenting with different ways to maintain a Windows installation alongside other OSes. Obviously a dual-boot setup works well, but it is inconvenient to reboot just to launch windows applications. An alternative is to run Windows in a virtual machine. But what if the user sometimes needs to boot Windows natively, for example to play a game, or to run an application which is too slow in a VM ? He would need to maintain two installations, one on a physical partition (native boot), and one on a virtual disk for booting in a VM (ie. for office work). That too is inconvenient because of the space it takes, and the fact that some applications must be installed twice.
Most virtualization software now supports booting an OS straight from a physical partition instead of from a virtual disk. That is the case of the popular Parallels for Mac, VMware, Virtualbox and others.
The problem resides with the fact that after boot Windows expects a certain set of hardware to be present, and the virtual hardware which the virtualization software makes available to the OS is very different from the physical hardware. This causes Windows to autodetect and try to install hardware it sees as newly available every time you boot Windows a different way (native after VM or VM after native). It can also cause it to hang, for exemple in my case I use a raid controller, so if I boot Windows as a VM, it doesn't need the raid driver because the physical disk is accessed through the block device on my linux installation. However if I try to boot it natively, it won't be able to use the HD because the raid driver is absent.
One feature present in Windows XP (and I think NT4 and 2000), but that has been taken out of Vista is the ability to select a hardware profile at boot. This way one can simply have a profile for booting the installation in a VM, and another for booting natively. This solves the problem of perceived hardware changes to Windows.
This kind of scenario might seem like a rare occurence at first, but recently, Intel Mac users have been combining the Parallels and Boot Camp (dual-boot) features of their OS to do exactly that. Obviously, there is a lot of demand for Vista support on the parallels forums. Some examples:
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=9496
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=12616
http://forum.parallels.com/thread16064.html#post82524
For these reasons, I believe putting hardware profiles back into Vista might be worth the effort.
Thank you.
Reply:
After reading through the thread, I found some unique reasons for wanting hardware profiles to be restored.
My case in point is much more simple, I want it. I use it as many do to easily create custom startup enviroment.
After hunting around for a way, I found alot of people need it for the same or simular reason.
My biggest question is to microsoft, Why remove it? Given the massive bloat of vista, would this really even register size wise? Would not any means to improve the sluggish performance of vista be welcomed?
As a computer service technician, and having gotten to know the last five windows operating systems very well (still have my 3.1 diskettes), my assumption is the access to this feature has been removed to keep vista in line with microsoft's goal of creating The Most User Hostile OS Ever.
You need not worry, restoring the hardware profile feature, would have not put vista at risk of losing this title.
We can only look forward to the next OS from microsoft, and how in time, we may look back and wish they had just stuck with vista. The way we now wish they would have just stuck with XP.
As a windows fanboy for for about 16 years, I'm ever amazed by the direction MS has taken in ignoring common sense opinions of is non-novice, non-insider users. The people who are the technically knowledgable people the "computer illiterate" people go to, the grass roots gurus are the people you are both condemed and praised by. The average mom & pop user will never see or know of the hardware profile feature, so it's presence has no effect on them. The people you could & should be trying to win over to vista, are the people your hurting by removing such a feature, the ones whom with such features can "tweak a PC" and tell others "vista is'nt so bad, I can help you tame it", are the one you don't seem to care about.
Goodness, even I'm looking at mac os & linux now, with both being sold in retail channels now, and vista being so very very popular 
Nuff said ?
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BTW I just signed up for a Windows Live account just to post a reply.
I'm using a laptop with alot of hardware features (Toshiba Satellite X205-S9359), and it would be great to conveniently disable these non-essential extra devices to save battery life without doing it manually.
I want to disable my secondary hard-drive, dvd-rom drive, sound card/speakers, fingerprint reader, ethernet and modem ports, sd card reader as well as SSD card for ready boost. Basically I just want to be able to surf the internet with the minimum amount of hardware running.
It really sucks having to manually disable and re-enable these hardware devices, and on top of that restart my laptop for the changes to take affect.
Microsoft please do something about this issue.
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What in the world would possess anyone in the Microsoft organization to remove hardware profile functionality from the newest version of Windows, and then suggest that users work around the omission using a *batch file* to start and stop services? We used batch files in Windows 3.1. Is the goal here to align Vista with the standard of the (Windows) industry in 1992?
Return to 2008 and put the functionality back, please.
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Troubleshooting: Changes made to files that Windows boot loader accesses while Windows Disk Protection is set to Retain a User’s
Troubleshooting: Changes made to files that Windows boot loader accesses while Windows Disk Protection is set to Retain a User's Changes Temporarily are not supported
Audience
Windows SteadyState administrators
Symptoms
Certain types of files, such as Windows loader and boot driver files, are not replaced or updated when Windows Disk Protection is set to retain changes temporarily.
Workaround
In Windows SteadyState, set Windows Disk Protection to retain all user changes permanently.
To set Windows SteadyState Windows Disk Protection:
1. In Windows SteadyState, click Protect the Hard Disk.
2. Click Retain all changes permanently, and then click OK.
Applies To the Following Operating Systems
| Windows XP |
| Windows Vista |
Troubleshooting - Prevent Windows SteadyState from sending installation statistics to Microsoft
Troubleshooting - Prevent Windows SteadyState from sending installation statistics to Microsoft
Audience
Windows SteadyState administrators
Symptoms
Windows SteadyState uses the Internet to notify Microsoft that Windows SteadyState was installed.
Cause
By design.
Resolution
To prevent Windows SteadyState from attempting to contact Microsoft, update your registry settings as follows:
To update registry settings:
1. Log on to the shared computer as an administrator.
2. Make sure that Windows Disk Protection is turned on and that the Retain all changes permanently option is selected, or that the Windows Disk Protection is turned off. For more information on Windows Disk Protection, see Help for Windows SteadyState.
3. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
4. In the Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Microsoft\Shared Computer Toolkit.
5. Click WGAReport.
6. On the Edit menu, click Delete.
7. On the Edit menu, click New, and then click DWORD Value.
8. Type WGAReportHasSent.
9. Set the value to 1, and then click Ok.
10. Restart the computer.
The computer no longer attempts to contact Microsoft. You can log on to the computer as an administrator and update Windows Disk Protection settings in Windows SteadyState.
Applies To the Following Operating Systems
| Windows Vista |
| Windows XP |
Troubleshooting: Restricting registry access in Internet Explorer using Windows SteadyState
Troubleshooting: Restricting registry access in Internet Explorer using Windows SteadyState
Audience
Windows SteadyState administrators
Symptoms
By default, Windows SteadyState contains an option that restricts shared computer users (SCUs) from accessing the registry directly. This setting might prevent the user from saving changes to some settings in the Internet Options dialog box, such as:
· General tab: Home Page
· Security tab: Security level for this zone, and Enable Protected Mode
· Privacy tab: Sites, Advanced, and Default
· Content tab: AutoComplete
· Programs tab: Default web Browser
· Advanced tab: Advanced Internet Explorer settings
Cause
The Prevent changes to Internet Explorer registry settings check box is selected in Windows SteadyState.
When Windows SteadyState is set to prevent changes to the registry, it restricts permission to change the following subkeys:
· HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
· HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
· HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Search Bar
· HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache
· HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Warning: The system registry contains complex system information that is vital to your computer, and an incorrect change to your computer's registry could render your computer inoperable.
Resolution
To resolve this issue, remove the following Internet Explorer registry setting restrictions in Windows SteadyState.
Note: When these check boxes are cleared, it allows the user to save changes to some settings in the Internet Options dialog box.
To remove the Internet Explorer registry setting restrictions in Windows SteadyState:
1. Log on as a Windows SteadyState administrator.
2. In the Windows SteadyState main dialog box, under User Settings, select the user profile that you want to change.
3. Click the Feature Restrictions tab.
4. Under Internet Explorer restrictions, clear the Prevent changes to Internet Explorer registry settings check box.
5. Click the Windows Restrictions tab.
6. Under General Restrictions, clear the Prevent changes to Explorer's advanced registry settings check box.
7. Update the desired registry settings.
For more information, see Registry Editor Help.
After you make the desired changes to the Internet Explorer registry settings, we recommend that you turn these restrictions on again.
Applies To the Following Operating Systems
| Windows XP |
| Windows Vista |
SQL 2008 RTM
Not sure how many people caught this, but SQL 2008 was made RTM today:
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-06SQLServer2008PR.mspx
I found this on the Dataplatform Blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/default.aspx
Thought I would share.
what is exactly this Sharepoint Portal?
- Moved by Steve Smegner Wednesday, August 6, 2008 6:28 PM Misroute to Open Specification forum (Moved from Using the SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocols to SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion)
Reply:
Thank you for your interest in Microsoft Sharepoint. This forum is for developers using the Open Specifications.
You can visit http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint to find the product information. You can also go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc339475.aspx to review SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol documentation.
I am also going to move this thread to another Sharepoint forum: http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepointgeneral/threads/
Thanks !
Steve Smegner
Application Development Consulting Group
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Really I need a blog but in the absence of one this will have to do?
Maybe I am wrong to want more, after all these concepts do go against good database practice. The problem is I work with legacy databases that have had data rammed into them with a nine iron, it appears that my predessors took database design principles turned them upside down gave them a good shake and used the resulting mess as thier own GM breed of design methods.
SQL needs tools to deal with bad database design, the tools need to be in the database layer to stop problems bubbling up into the presentation layer. (I find it curious that I can achieve certain aggregate functions in the reporting services that I cannot achieve in SQL).
I'm aware I am ranting, I suppose this is simply a cathartic execercise, or perhaps a plea for forgiveness before I go back to the job at hand and knowingly create some inefficient and ugly code.
Reply:
Unfortunately this is the wrong forum :(. Please repost your comments to the applicable forum under http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=19&SiteID=1. This will allow the product team, to gain some insights from your feedback
Thanks
Anil
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