Synchronize Across Time Zones

Been wondering what this meant in Windows Scheduler for a long time and someone explained it dead simple - it stores and runs the job time in UTC. Makes sense.

Windows console text editor roundup!

I'm not sure why I find this so exciting.

Curious about Windows Installer?

Read the documentation! I had never looked at it before, but having to author a WiX package or two sort of forced the issue.

NFS over DFS

No idea why I'm reading this article but I love it. I feel like each release of Windows does less of what I want.

Windows 10 for free

If you test, of course.

Windows Server DNS and the loopback address

I did not know that the loopback address was supposed to be listed last in the DNS server settings on DCs. Fascinating. It seems there is a Best Practices Analyzer tool that tells you all of these things.

Want to analyze your .NET managed memory issues?

Here are some useful links.

WinDBG!

Leaky handles

More WinDBG

Tess's blog

Simple Linux/AD integration

Easy as pie.

Holding on to Windows XP

Some people are as stubborn as me.

Happy birthday Windows NT

It's 20 today!

JOIN in PowerShell

A nice tutorial. I've often wondered how to do this but was too lazy to look it up.

Password reset on a Windows system?

Give the Offline Windows Password and Registry Editor a try. There are probably a bunch of handy Linux live cds that do the same thing, but Google lead me to this one last night and it got the job done rather quickly and without too much fuss.

w32tm

I just learned about the wonderful and useful w32tm command, useful for investigating time synchronization issues in Windows domains. Oh Windows domains, so much fun.

DNS problems?

Running RAS on your domain controller? Check out this KB article. It took me quite a while to figure out what was going on, though I just moved RAS to another box instead of taking the steps in the article.

The war on Intel is on

Microsoft seems to have Office and Windows ready for the ARM processors. I guess the Intel power requirements are getting a bit too high.

A side note. If mainstream Microsoft apps end up jumping ship from x86 to ARM processors, we would again be in a situation where Apple is running on its own thing in the corner.

Problems with GCC on SUA?

Well, probably not, there aren't a lot of people that take advantage of the fact that Windows has a POSIX personality. But if there are seg faults when you compile, the above thread will help you.

Brick Science

Flounder comments on what walls would be like if masons were exposed to a "brick science" program equivalent to the "computer science" program that most people get. So true!

Flounder is an excellent resource for win32 programming, btw, if that happens to be your deal as it is mine. He is somewhat MFC centric, but pretty much everything is worth a read.