I decided to try and take a quick look at Windows Azure and see where Microsoft was with its cloud computing/services models. Unfortunately I found the supported systems to be limited to Vista (SP1) and Windows Server 2008. Since my current develo ...[Read More]

I wrote a blog a few months ago about a COMException I got when I attempted to call DirectoryEntry.Invoke("SetPassword", …). The issue was that I could set the password for one account but then subsequent set password attempts would thro ...[Read More]

I was recently developing an account provisioning capability based on the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider which shipped with the .NET 2.0 Framework. On my development machine I noticed that on random occasion I would get an exception thrown, but ...[Read More]

I found a very nice article about disabling the Windows Server 2003 Shutdown Event Tracker, something I have to do every time I create a new VM from scratch. Go to Start -> Run Type: gpedit.msc In the right hand colum tree select Local ...[Read More]