Developers new to Active Directory programming might find it frustrating that the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider example codes provided by Microsoft does not seem to work, at least on Windows 2008 R2 with ASP.NET 4.0 using “logon” usernames eg. “administrator”, “domain\joe”. The reason is because the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider by default maps username to as UPN username (User Principal Name, [...]
This article gives a graphical and guided tutorial on how to deploy and configure a Microsoft SharePoint Services (SPS) 3.0 with Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows Server operating system for a company extranet. What You’ll Need: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2008 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0. Internet Information Services 6.0 [...]
Problem: Even on a fairly modern PC running Core i7, Internet Explorer 8 seems to take significant time to load if anti-malware softwares that relies on Internet Explorer’s Zones to block sites (> 100,000+ records). Since Windows Explorer is tightly integrated with Internet Explorer, it slows down significantly as well. Solution: There are no permanent [...]
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Server service. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an affected system received a specially crafted RPC request. On Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 systems, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability without authentication to run arbitrary code. It is possible [...]
In UNIX-like operating systems, we usually employ iptables to block a certain range of IPs. Unbeknown to most Windows server admins, there is too, a wizard-based iptables-like solution on Windows Server operating systems.