This is old news but the problem surfaces whenever deploying new IIS servers so I run into it repeatedly. Ever since Windows Server 2003 SP1, browsing a local server’s IIS site under the following conditions… From the server itself Using the server’s FQDN or a designated host header To an IIS site which uses integrated [...]
Windows 7
Custom Windows 7 Themes and Antarctica Theme Download
I was thinking of writing a brief tutorial on customizing themes in Windows 7 and unlocking themes hidden by default from the the Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization menu. However, there are already plenty of outstanding how-to articles on just that subject such as this one over at arstechnica.com. Once I unlocked or downloaded some of [...]
SharePoint
Windows 7 Prompting for Authentication When Accessing SharePoint Documents
I’m still enjoying the experience as a new Windows 7 user. However, one of the problems I ran into recently was the repeated and constant prompting for username and password when accessing a document in my SharePoint repository. Actually, I was getting prompted twice despite the fact the SharePoint server is on my local network [...]
Active Directory
Windows Remote Server Administration Tools and Exchange System Manager on Windows 7
Just this last week, I reinstalled my work laptop with Windows 7 (from XP) as part of a pilot test group prior to rolling it out to the business. Based on my experience with Windows Vista, I really wasn’t looking forward to a new “Vista Like” operating system. Also, given the fact that I greatly [...]
Server 2003
Blue Screen of Death After Installing MS10-015 (KB977165)
It looks like the Microsoft Tuesday Security patch “MS10-015: Vulnerabilities in Windows kernel could allow elevation of privilege” not only fixes an old vulnerability in the NT Virtual DOS Machine on all platforms, but may also have a potential side effect for Windows XP. Apparently, there is a large number of people complaining that 10-105 [...]