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Fix for Issue When Trying to Load Report Manager
PSS SQL Engineers writes, "...Our string length is 256. This happens to be length at which ASP.NET currently truncates the UserAgent string. We can definately see that the UserAgent is being truncted. So, how do I fix it. The items within a UserAg... more

How to Align Attributes When Formatting XML Using LINQ to XML
Eric White writes, "Sometimes an XML element contains a large number of attributes, and the values of the attributes may be long. When written to the console, such lines wrap, making it hard to read the XML...you can use appropriate settings for an... more

Hyper-V Resolving Event ID 4096
John Howard writes, "...the Event ID 4096 which indicated there was a problem with V:\VMs, the original location I was using when moving virtual machines across from Virtual Server...So it’s a simple case of very carefully deleting that or those link... more

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Stop Brute Force Listing of HTTP OPTIONS With Network Side Scripting
Lori MacVittie writes, "...python script for brute forcing the HTTP OPTIONS on directories. One of the reasons someone would want this information is because if you're...allowing PUT methods on any directories, someone can upload something nasty and potentially execute an attack. The availability of PUT makes XSS attacks simple even for script kiddies, for example..." more

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:40:27 GMT

Powershell CTP3 Remote Access cmdlets List
Richard Siddaway writes, "The ability to administer remote machines was one of the biggest requests for PowerShell v2. As well as the ability to use PowerShell remoting through WSMAN a number of PowerShell cmdlets get direct access to remote machines by having a –ComputerName parameter. Get-WMIObject had this in PowerShell version 1 and the ability has spread. To find out which cmdlets have this paramerter try this..." more

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:14:46 GMT

SQL Allocation Bottlenecks Why They Occur
SQL Storage Engine Team writes, "As you can now imagine, if there is significant allocation/deallocation activity in a SQL Server database, multiple threads may need to wait to acquire X or SH latch in non-conflicting mode which can lead to allocation bottleneck. Starting with SQL Server 2005, the caching mechanism for objects in TempDB has been improved significantly..." more

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:08:08 GMT

Unicode Support and IronRuby
Ben Hall writes, "It turns out that Ruby 1.8 (which IronRuby is targeting) doesn’t have support for Unicode characters. When creating a text file using Visual Studio, it automatically saves it with unicode support. The quickest solution appears to be that you shouldn’t use Visual Studio to create Ruby files – at least until the editor has IronRuby integration. The other solution..." more

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:01:39 GMT

How to Build Line Of Business Enterprise Apps With Silverlight
Philippe Destoop writes, "Part 1 illustrates screen pop notification, the asynchronous programming model, Silverlight dialog boxes, and cross-domain TCP policy server implementation. Part 2, will discuss application security, Web service integration, application partitioning, and a number of other aspects of the application." more

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:41:29 GMT

Ruby on Rails Comprehensive Tutorial List
Rob Bazinet writes, "I found out about a really good list of Ruby and Ruby on Rails tutorials for those just starting out or looking to brush up on their Ruby from eConsultant:" more

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:36:27 GMT

Windows 7 Performance Tests Comparing Vista and XP
Frank La Vigne writes, "...so far, the results are very encouraging with Windows 7 coming in first when compared to Vista and XP. Once Windows 7 undergoes performance tweaking..." more

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:22:56 GMT

Threat Predictions for 2009 Corporate and Home Security
Harry Waldron writes, "Based on current exposures and evolving new threats, this interesting article shares predictions for the coming year. While these threats may not fully evolve, they represent current risks that every corporation should assess and monitor during 2009..." more

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:20:22 GMT

CTP3 Get-RestorePoint Lessons Learned
Richard Siddaway writes, "With CTP3 we get a number of cmdlets for working with the system restore points on a computer...Note: These cmdlets only work on the local machine. If you need to access this functionality on a remote machine you will need to use the PowerShell remoting features..." more

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:17:52 GMT

How To Make an Alternative Login Mechanism for Public MOSS Site
Sven Gillis writes, "The solution consists of 2 parts: Hide the "Sign in" link for anonymous users [2] Create a Login subsite with a redirect page...When we enter our sharepoint site as an anonymous user, we don't see a "Sign in" link anymore. If we want to contribute (read: log in) to the website - all we have to do is to navigate to..." more

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:12:31 GMT

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Joel Oleson

Joel is at Quest Software guiding the SharePoint group strategy and is working on new designs for tools to help IT administrators. Joel previously worked at Microsoft as a senior technical product manager for IT professionals around SharePoint. He designed the first Microsoft Intranet global deployment of SharePoint, as well as the extranet collaboration and hosted SharePoint deployments at Microsoft. Leading up through the release of SharePoint 2007, Joel is in Salt Lake City, UT. more

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:02:41 GMT