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Authentication and Access Control Diagnostics 1.0 (AuthDiag)
Overview
Authentication and Access Control Diagnostics 1.0 (more commonly known as AuthDiag) is a tool released by Microsoft aimed at aiding IT professionals and developers at more effectively finding the source of authentication and authorization failures.
These users have often seen behavior from Internet Information Services (IIS) that doesn’t seem appropriate or random when users authenticate to the IIS server. The complex world of authentication types and the various levels of security permissions necessary to allow a user to access the server causes many hours of labor for those tasked with troubleshooting these problems.
AuthDiag 1.0 offers a robust tool that offers a efficient method for troubleshooting authentication on IIS 5.x and 6.0. It will analyze metabase configuration and system-wide policies and warn users of possible points of failure and guide them to resolving the problem. AuthDiag 1.0 also includes a robust monitoring tool called AuthMon designed at capturing a snapshot of the problem while it occurs in real-time. AuthMon is robust and specially designed for IIS servers removing any information not pertinent to the authentication or authorization process.
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Introduction to the Microsoft Enterprise Platform for UNIX Professionals
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Overview
This document is an introduction to enterprise computing capabilities offered by Microsoft as compared to UNIX technology. Its goal is to disclose how the Microsoft Windows platform can be an effective alternative to UNIX. For each of the criteria that are traditionally associated with successful UNIX installations—high reliability, robust security, and high performance—, the text:
Describes how each of these features is traditionally delivered in the UNIX environment
Explains how the features are provided in the Windows Server System at either the same or a higher level of service
Mentions the tools available to achieve the desired service level
Readers will get an overview of the Microsoft enterprise platform that focuses on the Windows Server System and the Windows development environment. Final sections of the document point to available prescriptive guidance and available support for platform migration and subsequent operation.
The primary intended audiences for this guide are IT business and technical decision makers who are considering a migration, and technical and solution architects, UNIX developers, and UNIX system administrators who may be involved in its design and implementation.
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Update for Exchange 2003 (KB 883543)
Overview
This update resolves problems that were found in Exchange 2003 since Exchange 2003 SP1 was released. Click the More Information About This Download link in the Related Resources section for a list of the fixes that are included in this update.
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The MS Exchange 2003 Information Store service quits after…
The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service quits after a version conflict is detected in a public folder post in Exchange Server 2003
On your Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 computer, the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service may quit unexpectedly. You may experience this problem soon after a version conflict is detected in a public folder post.
This problem occurs because of heap corruption in Exchange. This problem may occur if the following conditions are true:
- The Exchange diagnostics logging level is set to 5 on the MSExchangeISPublic FoldersReplication Conflicts object.
- Exchange detects a version conflict in a public folder post. However, only one change number is associated with this version conflict.
This problem occurs in the Exchange event logging code. In this scenario, the event logging code incorrectly expects two change numbers to be involved in every version conflict. If only one change number is involved in a version conflict, the heap becomes corrupted. Soon after the heap becomes corrupted, the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service may quit.
Typically, a version conflict does involve two change numbers. Each of these two change numbers corresponds to an uncommitted change to the information store. However, in the following sample scenario, only one change number is involved in a version conflict:
- Two Microsoft Outlook users modify the same message. However, one Outlook user modifies this message while the user is connected to the Exchange computer. The second Outlook user modifies this message while the user is not connected to the Exchange computer.
- The offline Outlook user synchronizes Outlook with the Exchange computer.
In this scenario, the online Outlook user’s change to the message is committed to the information store. Therefore, there is no change number for the version conflict for this message. The second Outlook user’s change is not committed to the information store until that second user synchronizes Outlook with Exchange. Therefore, there is only one change number that is involved in the version conflict for this message.
Microsoft Product Support’s Reporting Tools
Overview
The Microsoft Product Support Reporting Tool facilitates the gathering of critical system and logging information used in troubleshooting support issues. The reporting tool DOES NOT make any registry changes or modifications to the operating system. There are 8 specialty versions, one for each of the following support scenario categories: Alliance, Directory Services (not for Windows NT 4.0), Networking, Clustering, SQL, Software Update Services, MDAC and Base/Setup/Storage/Print/Performance. Each version gathers some of the same basic information but there are specific reports unique to each of the support scenario categories. Please read the readme.txt files for more details about each version.
More info @MS Help And Support
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Change the start point of Windows Explorer
Ever wanted to change start point of Windows Explorer (for example C:tools instead of “My Documents”)?
Simply create a new shortcut with: %SystemRoot%explorer.exe /e,C:tools
If there are spaces between folder names put the folder name between quotes. For example: %SystemRoot%explorer.exe /e,”C:My Tools”
Simple as that 😉
Gentoo 2004.3 released
Gentoo is proud to present the world with Gentoo Linux 2004.3!
This is the final release of 2004 and is the culmination of the work of each of our developers. The main focus for this release was fixing bugs in previous releases and making the release tools more robust and easier to use. Releasing for 2004.3 are amd64, hppa, ppc, sparc, x86 and also our initial ppc64 release. There is also an experimental alpha release, along with stages for ia64 and s390. The embedded team has also released stages for arm, mips, ppc, and x86, all which can be found under /experimental. You can find out more about 2004.3 by checking out the release page or reading the ChangeLog.
Some points of interest include:
- amd64 and ppc switching to gcc 3.4 as their compiler of choice
- sparc releasing only sparc64 media
- amd64 and x86 switching to a single kernel for the LiveCD
You can grab the new release from one of our mirrors or via BitTorrent at our primary or secondary secondary torrent trackers. The secondary server is provided by Friends of Gentoo e.V.
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