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Certificate Services (2000, 2003) Web Enrollment does not work on Vista

Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:45 PM by Ken
Unfortunately if you have a new Vista PC, and you try to use the web enrollment pages (certsrv) hosted on a Windows Server 2000 Certificate Authority (CA) or a Windows Server 2003 CA, you won't be able to enrol for a certificate (indeed if you're Read More...
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Why Vista? Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC) (Security, Stability, System Integrity)

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 8:02 AM by Ken
A little discussed feature in Windows Vista is Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC). Unlike DACL (Discretionary Access Control Lists), MIC is designed to protect your operating system based on the trustworthiness of the code being run. High integrity files Read More...
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Why Vista? Changes to services part 2 (Security, Stability, System Integrity)

Posted Saturday, August 05, 2006 3:57 AM by Ken
What else has changed with services in Vista? The user contexts that services run under has changed dramatically in Windows Vista. Instead of running as LocalSystem, many services now run as lower privileged Network Service or Local Service for most of Read More...
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Why Vista? Changes to services part 1 (Security, Stability, System Integrity)

Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:13 AM by Ken
Welcome to part 1 of a "Why Vista" series. Following on from my previous post, I'll hopefully be presenting a post every few days on what good changes are coming in Vista. None of these are features that will appeal to everyone, but the Read More...
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