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This quick how-to shows you how to create and use certificates in a development environment for use with a self-hosted WCF service. This means that the WCF service is not hosted with IIS, but runs, for example, as a Windows Service. We will use the makecert.exe tool that ships with the Microsoft Windows SDK. The [...]

During Interact, I asked Scott Schnoll, former MVP and currently a Blue Badge at the Technical Writing Team on Exchange, about the DAG in Exchange 2010. Don’t get me wrong; I think it is by far the most elegant HA solution has offered so far and everyone should at least look at it! But I [...]

Ever since the first betas of Exchange 2010, one of the most discussed features is the Database Availability Group; DAG. Without going into all the details of DAG, it truely is huge step forward in Exchange High-Availablility, primairily because it’s so very, very easy to configure. Exchange 2010 comes, just like previous versions, in two [...]

Microsoft has released Security Essentials. Security Essentials is Microsoft’s free anti-virus product for Windows XP, Windows Vista and (most important) Windows 7. Microsoft claims that Security Essentials will have a small footprint, and will have minimal impact on your computer’s performance (CPU and Memory wise). We’ll see! Get your own free copy here.

If you have previously purchased a Virtuozzo Parallels Management Console license for use with your Virtuozzo 3.x hardware nodes, you had to use that license whenever you registered your first hardware node in your VZMC Pro. You might have noticed that the VZMC Pro license has since moved to the Virtuozzo Hardware Node itself. As [...]

I have written a small HOW TO on how to use a Customer Membership Provider, a Custom Role-Provider and a Custom Membership User for username/password authentication in a WCF Service that is hosted in a Windows Service. The HOW TO includes a sample implementation of these providers. It also includes a complete Visual Studio Project [...]

Every once in a while one messes up… Yesterday, late in the evening, it was my turn. I messed up my Vista x64 PC. (Like someone at a large software company, I won’t mention the person or the company by name, once said to me; we can prevent a user from looking stupid, but we cannot [...]

Microsoft has released IE8 today. Get it here; http://www.microsoft.com/ie

If you have Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 running, and all of the sudden you are running into problems opening the Reporting tab in your DPM 2007 Administrator Console, this blog entry most probably won’t be the first article you read on the subject. Therefore I expect you to have restarted the World Wide Web [...]

It’s on the net everywhere… But I still get a lot of questions on how to enable Passive FTP on a Windows Server 2003 machine with Windows Firewall enabled. Without further adue.. C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs set /MSFTPSVC/PassivePortRange “5500-5700″ FOR /L %I IN (5500,1,5700) DO netsh firewall add portopening TCP %I “Passive FTP Port “%I