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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 using Windows Server 2003 SP2 you get a message to that effect).
If you are in a domain ...
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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 (e.g. system operating files) are protected from accidental damage by users, and user data is ...
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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 the time. The following chart compares Windows XP SP2 to the planned release of Vista: But ...
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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 sum total of all of these features will hopefully provide the value proposition to justify an ...
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