December 2005 - Jerry's Incoherent Babbling

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Manifest Destiny

If you are a developer, IT administrator, or application packager you should know about manifest files and how they interact with Windows to control how your applications run. Manifests were first supported with Windows XP and were commonly used to do...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2005 5:56 AM by Jerry
File and Registry Virtualization – the good, the bad, and the ugly

With Windows Vista, Microsoft is evangelizing the use of “Standard User” accounts for most all users. You will also hear these accounts called LUA, or Least-privileged User Account. Running as LUA users will enable a much more secure environment and help...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2005 12:37 PM by Jerry
LUA, UAC, and the split personality token

With Windows Vista, you now have UAC or "User Account Control", sometimes known as PA or "Protected Admin". What does this mean in a practical sense? Well, for instance let's say you take a domain account (or a new local account) and place it in the Administrators...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2005 9:13 AM by Jerry
Why Toby can't backup

One of the coolest things to come out of Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released operating system Windows Vista is a greatly enhanced ability to successfully run users as standard users. This is enabled by many features such as a revised design in the OS separating...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2005 8:28 PM by Jerry

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