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Today, June 27th 2008, Bill Gates will close the doors at Microsoft behind him for the last time. Bill Gates will be leaving Microsoft to put all his energy and efforts in his foundation.

Today, on my birthday, Microsoft has release Hyper-V to RTM! This time, they have released something before the planned date. (It was initially said that Hyper-V would be released within 180 days after RTM of Windows Server 2008. Well it is within that timeframe, but not many expected it this soon!)

If you want to use Linux Bash scripts for doing file operations on files that have spaces in them, you will see that, by default, a ‘for’ statement will break up the filename in however many parts there are in the name. E.g. “This is a file.txt” will become “This”, “is”, “a”, “file.txt”. To prevent [...]

First, install the IIS7 Web Server on your Windows Server 2008 Core machine, including the FastCGI and some other (required and optional) components: Start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-CGI;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-Security;IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-WebServerManagementTools;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel Download PHP from the PHP Web Site (http://www.php.net) and extract the files to C:\PHP. Please check if there is a php.ini file in the folder. If not, take [...]

Last week I was in the USA (again). This time for TechEd 2008. I always like visiting the US… Let these pictures speak for themselves…

During TechEd 2008 Marcus Murray (http://truesecurity.se/blogs/murray/default.aspx) asked the audiance if they were aware of a ‘secret backdoor password’ in Windows. Although half of the audiance acknowledged this, the ‘demo’ following the statement had nothing to do with a ‘backdoor password’ in Windows (Vista or XP). What he showed was that, if you (1) can gain [...]

With the release of Exchange Server 2007 Microsoft introduced some exciting new high availability options. Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2007 introduced yet another high availibity option. Looking at the question we recieved at the Exchange Server 2007 booth at TechEd 2008 IT Pro in North America, it appears it’s not clear to everyone [...]

There appears to be a bug in the publishing of ASP.NET sites that use Membership components to a remote web server. If you create a new Visual Studio 2008 ASP.NET project that uses Membership components, and use the ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool to secure access to folders within the project, these permissions are, by [...]