Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category

www.sdsqlug.org/presentations/May2009/MySpace_DB_Overview.pptx

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

myspace architecture presentation, talks about how to myspace solves its database issues

Building COM Objects in C#

Monday, August 31st, 2009

explains how to build a .DLL in C# with COM interface, so it can be used by other manageable/unmanageable code (i.e. VB, C++, etc)

How to reset the default virtual directories that are required to provide Outlook Web Access, Exchange ActiveSync, and Outlook Mobile Access services in Exchange Server 2003

Monday, March 16th, 2009

well, if getting some weird errors from OWA after you (or some app you have installed ) messed IIS config — you can re-install OWA, re-create all owa directories w/out touching exchange installation itself

Providing Active Directory authentication via Kerberos protocol in Apache

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Apache authentication against AD (via Kerberos). Really easy to do, but make sure you put your kerberos real all in UPPER CASE, i.e. MYDOMAIN.COM. If you are using something like MYDOMIAN, then put it into config as MYDOMAIN.LOCAL

The Sean Blog : Linux on Hyper-V [how to run linux under MS Hyper-V]

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Blog posts shows some screenshot of various linux distros running under MS new virtualization solution, similar to XEN. Hyper-V used special network device (not sure about block device, i.e. disk ), so linux needs a

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant [from 2003, about his experience in installing MovieMaker]

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

muahhahaha! but! BillG makes total sense here.

How to Share Session State Between Classic ASP and ASP.NET

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

the subj. soluton creates COM object in .net that then is used by classic ASP to store sessions. ASP.net object stores session in SQL database

[blog post ] 1-800-MAGIC: Back to Microsoft

Monday, June 30th, 2008

ex. msft employee joined googl, worked for 1 year and went back to msft. You may agree with author or not u may not, but there are some interesting points.

Robert Love: Those Dang DPCs Clogging the MMCSS

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

inetersing article showing “fixing bugs – microsoft style” at its best, ohoho … no vista for me

[russian] sblvsn: Подсчет числа записей / counting records (RecordCount=-1?)

Monday, April 7th, 2008