September 2006 - Technical Rollup Mail - Platforms
News
Windows Vista Team Blog
https://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/default.aspx
Download Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 - Beta 2
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/downloads/servicepack.mspx
Documents
Windows Vista Step-by-Step Guides for IT Professionals
These step-by-step guides provide instructions for deploying or migrating to Windows Vista. These guides also describe how to configure security, monitor performance, and manage printers.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=311f4be8-9983-4ab0-9685-f1bfec1e7d62&DisplayLang=en
Group Policy Settings Reference Windows Vista Beta 2
This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configuration included in the administrative template files (admx/adml) delivered with Windows Vista Beta 2 (Build 5384)
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7812c9cb-e6ca-4144-98ab-2d78587462c5&DisplayLang=en
Introduction to the Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack
This whitepaper provides an overview of the architectural innovations introduced in the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6aee2e62-b708-44c1-babe-fc0e7b0f02bd&DisplayLang=en
Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/uxguide/uxguide/home.asp
The Windows Vista Developer Story: Application Compatibility Cookbook
https://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/AppComp.asp
The Cable Guy - AuthIP in Windows Vista
AuthIP provides simplified IPsec policy configuration and maintenance in many configurations and additional flexibility for IPsec peer authentication
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0806.mspx
Downloads
An updated version of the Disk Partition tool for Windows Server 2003 is available
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923076
Microsoft Premier Services Reporting Utility (PFE version)
Premier Field Engineering version of MPS_REPORTS batch utility to automate the gathering of diagnostic information for Windows troubleshooting
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00ad0eac-720f-4441-9ef6-ea9f657b5c2f&DisplayLang=en
Script Centre Audio Tour
Audio Tour of the TechNet Script Centre
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=35a01acf-c4a2-4dc8-b401-e0c31a705273&DisplayLang=en
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
A service to help with slow log off and unreconciled profile problems
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b286e6d-8912-4e18-b570-42470e2f3582&DisplayLang=en
Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2 for Windows XP (KB917013)
This release is an update to the Beta Engine Preview release of Windows Desktop Search 3.0
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c1ae7c6-c548-4184-b575-7ab3913547d2&DisplayLang=en
Desktop Heap Monitor Version 8.1
The Desktop Heap Monitor is a tool that examines usage of desktop heap
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5cfc9b74-97aa-4510-b4b9-b2dc98c8ed8b&DisplayLang=en
User Mode Process Dumper Version 8.1
The User Mode Process Dumper (userdump) dumps any running Win32 processes memory image on the fly, without attaching a debugger, or terminating target processes.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e089ca41-6a87-40c8-bf69-28ac08570b7e&DisplayLang=en
Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1
The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e84d3b35-63c3-445b-810d-9fed3fdeb13f&DisplayLang=en
Events/WebCasts
The .NET Show: Windows Server "Longhorn"
The next version of Windows Server may still be using its code name, but this episode helps explain some of the ways it will help you run your systems and services better.
100k: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=391c6a66-08ac-430d-92e0-c17bfdd57460&DisplayLang=en
Mobile : https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0e01256a-184e-4223-8423-ce471453430d&DisplayLang=en
300k: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=017511f0-84d5-490c-9ee7-497d481cc723&DisplayLang=en
Support Webcast: Network Access Protection Platform Architecture
This on-demand Support Webcast summarizes the content in the following Network Access Protection (NAP) platform architecture white paper:
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/nap/naparch.mspx It discusses the NAP Platform architecture in Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" and in Microsoft Windows Vista, the components of client architecture and of server architecture, and how NAP works for various enforcement methods.
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924160
Support Webcast: How to configure virtual private network enforcement for Network Access Protection in Windows Vista and in Windows Server "Longhorn"
This support webcast will outline the configuration steps required to setup VPN enforcement for NAP by using the Windows VPN client on Windows Vista and by using Routing and Remote Access and Network Policy Server (NPS) on Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 2
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924161
Support Webcast: Troubleshooting Microsoft Windows DHCP-NAP deployment issues
This support webcast will explain how to troubleshoot common issues in a DHCP-NAP deployment
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924165
Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies
11 September 2006 14:00 - 16:20
Microsoft London Office, Great Pulteney Street
Free of Charge
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032304110
Softcat presents Microsoft - the Next Generation
13 September 2006 09:30 - 13:00
Microsoft Ltd, Reading
Free of Charge
This event will cover the latest technology developments from Microsoft including: Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007, Active Directory and Group Policy
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032305800
What's new in Administering Vista
14 September 2006 18:30 - 21:15
Microsoft Ltd, Reading
Free of Charge
This session will examine Group Policy functionality improvements that have been made with Windows Vista
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032304116
Spargonet Consulting presents Desktop Deployment Services
20 September 2006 10:00 - 13:30
Microsoft Ltd, Reading
Free of Charge
With Vista on the horizon DDPS is critical to planning Microsoft strategy, Spargonet wants to introduce the concept of DDPS and our service offering to Microsoft Clients
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032306920
Live Webcasts:
Full list can be found at: https://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx
Interactive Webcast Calendar
The interactive calendar will help you quickly find live webcasts that fit your schedule as well as on-demand webcasts to view at your convenience. You can choose your time zone and filter this list by audience, webcast series, product or topic, and presenter.
https://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx
Monthly Archived Webcasts:
https://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/library/default.mspx
Tech-Ed 2006 Webcast Series
https://www.msteched.com/content/webcasts.aspx
New KB’s
How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain controller demotion
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=216498
Multi-homed RIS server may not answer all PXE clients
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260521
How to reserve a range of ephemeral ports on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=812873
How to troubleshoot the "NTLDR is missing" error message in Windows 2000
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318728
How to deploy Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment from an RIS server by using PXE-enabled clients
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304992
The Removable Storage database includes an extra entry for tape media when you prepare new blank tape media on a Windows 2003 Service Pack 1-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=911962
How to use Adminpak.msi to install a specific server administration tool in Windows
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314978
When you use a 32-bit program to print a document from an x64-based version of Windows, the document may be printed incorrectly
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=908131
Kerberos authentication is unsuccessful in the Local System security context when the computer account password has recently changed on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918442
Service overview and network port requirements for the Windows Server system
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832017
Naming conventions in Active Directory for computers, domains, sites, and OUs
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909264
You cannot open remote content by using the InfoTech protocol after you install security update 896358, security update 840315, or Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896054
The DNS service does not load all its zones on a DNS server that is running Windows Server 2003
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909249
Client, service and program incompatibilities that may occur when you modify security settings and user rights assignments
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823659
New Registry entry for controlling the TCP Acknowledgment (ACK) behaviour in Windows XP and in Windows Server 2003
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=328890
How to turn on automatic logon in Windows
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=324737
You receive an error message when you try to install a shared network printer on a Windows Server 2003-based or Windows XP SP1-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888046
Release notes for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=889101
HAL options after Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 setup
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309283
Windows Genuine Advantage does not validate a copy of Windows XP
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916247
You cannot install Server Performance Advisor on a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows 2000
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870691
Some characters from End User Defined Character (EUDC) fonts do not appear correctly in Windows XP
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=332134
CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive appears to be missing after you install Windows XP or Windows Vista Beta 2
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320553
Cannot access shares or printers across the LAN from Windows XP
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841570
The computer may restart when you add a manifest that has the Windows Vista extension to an .exe file or to a .dll file in Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=921337
Policy to control the frequency of Windows XP client DFS queries
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291377
The computer description appears before the computer name in Windows XP
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=330193
FIX: Exchange servers fail Kerberos authentication server requests on Windows 2000-based servers
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888612
A memory leak may occur in the LSASS.exe process on a computer that is running Windows 2000
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=901209
How to automatically assign administrative rights for all DFS replication groups in a domain on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 R2 or Windows Vista
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920728
A Windows Server 2003-based computer that is using an Intel dual-core processor may stop responding when you try to resume the computer from standby
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923231
You receive a JOB_STATUS_PRINTED print job notification even though the printer is turned off when you try to print a document from a Windows Server 2003-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919017
Users cannot move a file from one folder to another folder when they connect to a shared folder in Windows Server 2003 R2
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917315
An MIT Kerberso client tries to log on multiple times with the same key despite bad password errors that are returned to the Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Workstation
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920183
Console windows sit idle for a short time and then continue to run if extensive input or output operations are running in several console windows in Windows Server 2003 SP1
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923359
The ADSI tool does not display the attributes of a dynamic auxiliary class
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920750
Error message when you restart a computer that is running Windows XP Professional: "STOP 0xC000021A"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922410
Event messages are truncated when you have more than 10 disks installed on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923356
An updated version of the Disk Partition tool for Windows Server 2003 is available
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923076
The restore operation may fail when you use Automated System Recovery on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919405
A program that throws many exceptions may run significantly more slowly on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923162
FIX: Error message when you use an IEEE 1394-based scanner on a computer that is running Windows XP 64 or Windows Server 2003: 0x0000000A or 0x000000BE
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922498
When a Linux-based client computer tries to access a domain controller that is running Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000, an access violation occurs
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920919
A script that uses the bootcfg command may have unexpected results in Windows Server 2003
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=921618
Error message when you run the Dirquota.exe tool in Windows Server 2003 R2: "STOP 0x50"
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=921478
Multiple users cannot print from 32-bit applications on a 64-bit operating system by using the "runas" command
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923357
You experience an access violation and the Service Trace Viewer tool closes unexpectedly on a computer that is running an x64-based version of Windows Server 2003
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916198
Computers that are running x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003 cannot load a registry hive that is larger than 32MB
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919807
An IPsec policy is not applied to a client computer when you apply a Group Policy object
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923785
Print jobs time out when send them from an AIX-based computer to a Windows Server 2003-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923786
Server Message Block communication between a client-side SMB component and a server-side SMB component is not completed if the SMB signing settings are mismatched in Group Policy or in the registry.
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916846
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This TRM section was created by Tracy Gillespie