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Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” by Jason N. Gaylord

All morning long I’ve been battling my Windows 7 system. I finally found out that the error code which reads: “Error 1500. Another installation is in progress. You must complete that installation before continuing this one.” can be attributed to the InProgress...

Content on Non-Secured Site When Browsing Secured Web Application or Web Site by Jason N. Gaylord

Nothing frustrates me more as when I try to login on a secured site and images, CSS, javascript files, and other content files are not secured. For instance, I went to retrieve/reset my password on last.fm and found this: A general rule of thumb is that...

Issue with ADO.NET Sync Services and SQL Server 2000 by Jason N. Gaylord

Last Friday I had a battle and won. I was working in VS 2010 on an internal project that was being targeted for .NET 3.5. Everything was going good until I decided to be fancy. The application pulled down several tables that contain mostly static stuff...

Installing VisualSVN in a Virtual PC by Jason N. Gaylord

I’m moving all of my development environment over to a few different VPCs so that way it’s easier to archive my environment when a new one is released. So, I setup a new VPC with Vista SP2 and installed Visual Studio 2008 (with SP1). I wanted to install...

Searching LDAP on Windows Server by Jason N. Gaylord

I needed to search Active Directory on one of our Windows Servers today and couldn’t remember the application used to do the searching. One of my team members reminded me about LDP.exe. It’s a quick and easy way to search LDAP without installing any third...

Classic ASP Support in IIS 7 and IIS 7.5 by Jason N. Gaylord

I’m working on reverse engineering an application that was written about 8 years ago in Classic ASP. When I first hit the site, one of the things I noticed was that the traditional error messages weren’t displayed. You can turn this on by double-clicking...

Windows 7 Editions Announced by Jason N. Gaylord

The edition line-up for Windows 7 seems to be more streamlined then the list provided for Vista. To summarize, there are now 2 main editions for home users: Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Ultimate. There are also 2 editions for businesses which...

Vulnerability in Windows Server service Fixed with Update by Jason N. Gaylord

Last week, Microsoft released a version of the Malicious Software Removal tool (MSRT) that can help remove variants of Win32/Conficker and other resources. Win32/Conficker.B exploits a vulnerability in the Windows Server service (SVCHOST.EXE) for Windows...

MD5 Encryption Considered Harmful by Jason N. Gaylord

A group of 7 researchers have been able to successfully hack an MD5 encrypted security certificate. While this is a critical security risk, most security certificates do not use MD5 encryption in their generating processes. The more common security certificate...

Installing Remote Desktop, Remotely by Jason N. Gaylord

Have you ever needed to connect to a PC using Remote Desktop to either check something out or to install a better remote connectivity software like VNC? A couple years ago, IntelliAdmin created an application to install remote desktop from a remote PC...
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