If you’re hav­ing a prob­lem with a Microsoft product, then the first stop for find­ing a solu­tion pretty much needs to be the MS Know­ledge­base. It’s solved prob­lems for me and for cli­ents times without num­ber. Often how­ever this has involved print­ing out the art­icle in ques­tion in order to fol­low a series […]

Good news on the User Access Con­trol flaw I wrote about a few days ago — the Win­dows 7 engin­eers have prom­ised to fix it in the release can­did­ate, and have gone even fur­ther in the fix than was asked.

The addi­tional pro­posal is to run the User Access Con­trol panel in a mode […]

Microsoft dis­misses Win­dows 7 UAC secur­ity flaw, con­tin­ues to insist it is “by design”:

Just because it’s by design doesn’t mean to say it’s right. This is exactly the blinkered think­ing that we heard from the people work­ing on UAC in the Vista time­frame — “This is the way it’s going to be, we […]

New post over on my Mac blog: The Cloud Com­put­ing downside.

Sac­ri­fi­cing secur­ity for usab­il­ity: UAC secur­ity flaw in Win­dows 7 beta:

By default, Win­dows 7’s UAC set­ting is set to “Notify me only when pro­grams try to make changes to my com­puter” and “Don’t notify me when I make changes to Win­dows set­tings”. How it dis­tin­guishes between a (third party) pro­gram and Win­dows settings […]

I have been wait­ing for this to hap­pen for twelve years, ever since my first multiple-thousand-seat Win­dows desktop rol­lout — Win­dows 7 (and Win­dows Server 2008 R2) can be added to domains without phys­ic­ally being con­nec­ted to that domain over a network

This is done with a new com­mand — djoin.exe — added into these […]

I write occa­sional tech­nical pieces for other places – as they are pub­lished I’ll link to them here.

In the Janu­ary 2009 issue of IT Expert Magazine I have an art­icle: Set­ting up mobile email with Exchange 2003 and 2007.

Installing MS Win­dows Vista into Par­al­lels is a bit of a chore if you’ve only got an upgrade edi­tions of the soft­ware. This how-to tells you the steps in order to make it work.

Firstly, make an image of your Vista DVD. This will make the install run much faster, and you’ll need to be doing […]