Microsoft

Unlike some others, I don't think that Microsoft Extending RSS is an entirely bad thing. Can it be bad? Sure. But so can just about anything, by any company. I am the last to say that Microsoft is my favorite company – but the stuff they've done with…

Dean Hachamovitch, from the Microsoft "RSS Team". Very interesting that there is an RSS Team at Microsoft. The whole Microsoft bunch is all wearing "Longhorn (Heart) RSS", which would seem to indicate that there's some big news coming. MSN Spaces purportedly has more than 14 million users, over…

Very rarely do I think that IE is a good browser. But I have to give them a tip of the hat for their conditional comments. This feature saved my butt, by allowing a construct something like this one: <!–[if IE]> <p>Welcome to Internet Explorer.</p> <![endif]–> Any browser…

I recently ran across a spate of the dreaded errors in the event log saying that my time synchronization wasn't happening. What a nuisance. Luckily, I found my way to a page that tells you how to fix time synchronization issues. It's geared towards Small Business Server, but…

So I'm in the process of moving some mailboxes from an SBS 2003 server to Exchange 2003 on a Windows 2003 Server installation (need more than the 75 licenses that SBS offers). All went really well, except I couldn't get RPC over HTTP to work on the new…

I was working with a client today when I ran into an issue where the computer just would not make a connection to any other devices on the network. I couldn't even run a NET USE command for a resource on the same computer, a sure sign of…

Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, offers a new Shut Down option in Windows Server 2003. I think it's available in newer versions of Windows XP as well, but don't quote me on that part. Anyway, this option is a nice one – apply the updates that are pending…

Every once in a while – usually on smaller companies who only have a single server – you may need to permit a particular user or group permission to log onto the domain controller. Naturally, this is a bit of a security risk. But let's face it -…

I'm installing a handful of computers today, and one of the things I'm doing is loading UltraVNC on them. Well, these computers are way behind on updates, and several of them require SP2, which as you may or may not know, turns on the firewall even if you've…

How utterly appropriate. Microsoft Outlook tags its very own test message as junk and sends it to the Junk E-Mail folder. Did Uncle Bill not find that inappropriate somehow?…