Month: April 2010

  • CCF 2009 simple architecture

    I’ve been working with CCF the last days, CCF you say what is that? Well its a product from Microsoft that can be used to enhance the experience of users when working with multiple applications that require the same input. Say we have a call center with many applications. When a customer calls the agent…

  • IIS & Kerberos Kernel Mode

    A new post about kerberos.. indeed some techno stuff nobody seems to understand but is very important for security. A new feature in Windows 2008 IIS7 is the kernel mode support, what does it do, and more important how can it help you?

  • Whoopsie, here we go again.. antivirus kills Windows

    Once in a while, antivirus companies create a new signature file that kinda stops the entire system instead of just the virus.. It’s like the docter amputates the heart of the patient, just to cure a brooze Congratulations McAffee this time: Problem Blue screen or DCOM error, followed by shutdown messages after updating to the 5958 DAT…

  • Selective authentication

    When creating a forest trust, each domain within the trusted forest becomes trusted. While this is sometimes not desired it is possible to limit the scope by implementing selective-authentication. It is possible to only allow authentication between those domains you want by granting the allowed to authenticate right to only those domains objects.

  • Windows 2008R2 features part VI: Managed Service Accounts – delegation

    In a previous entry I’ve explained how you can run services under the new Managed  Service Account. Say now that we want to use this service account in combination with Kerberos and the account needs to be trusted for delegation. We set an SPN to it, but in the Active Directory Users and Computers, we…