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Definitely a surprise to hear that NBC would even consider all the late night shuffle after all the crap he’s had to wait for.  In support of Conan O’Brien… http://www.facebook.com/imwithcoco

This has bitten me a couple of times.  This error surfaced yesterday when running a scripted install with psconfig.exe – the error that appears in the log is: LookupAccountName failed to get the SID for account <domain>\LONG AC NAME > 20 chars When setting up SharePoint, we

With IIS7, we have a little bit more isolation with AppPool Identities For example, if you’re using the the DefaultAppPool, if you need to assign permissions to NTFS, SQL, etc., what you’d use instead is as follows: IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool Where “DefaultAppPool” ends up being the name of

Let’s face it, during development, managing all the certificates if you’re doing anything with validating SSL/TLS traffic is a pain. Now with Windows Identity Foundation (fka Geneva) we really have to get crackin on getting used to managing certificates, setting up SSL sites, etc. So, here’s

During an installation issue, a client followed the TechNet article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298447.aspx) and those instructions are misleading. It indicates to copy the “web.config” to the Layouts directory – what if fails to specify is it should be the “layoutsweb.config” file instead. While following

I’ve been writing one off methods that apparently are handled quite well for a few things in the type System.Web.VirtualPathUtility. For example, if you just want the page name or the extension, you have this utility to quickly get that from the current request path. http://msdn.

An old colleague of mine from Avanade has apparently put out a very cool tool for managing re-usable “snippets” of code from a repository.  This is a tool that could be used every day, or even for demos… This is a smooth application that takes advantage of some the P&