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How to implement Windows Forms Based Authentication in ASP.Net

This is an updated version of an article I wrote in March 2003 for ASPAlliance. I corrected some minor errors and updated the code samples a bit. C# and VB.Net samples are both attached at the bottom of the page. Introduction The Windows authentication Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 4:23 AM by Brian Desmond | 5 Comments
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Broken Links

If you find any broken links here, send me an email or leave a comment. I think I caught them all, but the manner in which the software this site runs on makes URLs is rather complex and I don't really understand the config files, so it's pretty entirely Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:23 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Site Fixed

I had some issues with the server this site is hosted on the last week of May/first week of June. Six weeks later I've finally gotten everything all fixed. I took the downtime as an oppurtunity to upgrade the software that runs this site and think Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:13 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Site Move/Upgrade

I decided to get a box, actually a virtual server over at www.bitshop.com . I'm in the process of getting that all squared away and working, and then I'm going to swing this site over, and hopefully in the process upgrade the blog software and get rid Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:09 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Back!

My server amchine that I ran this site off of from the house lost its motherboard a few weeks ago. I've been so swamped I still haven't fixed it. To make things easier, I've moved the site off to a shared host instead. Hopefully will have some time to Read More...
Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 5:40 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Mailbox Enabling a User in .Net

A while back, I promised I'd continue talking about CDO, .Net, Exchange, AD, and good stuff like that. Albeit belatedly, I thought I'd post how to mailbox enable a user in VB.Net. I'm goign to assuem that the user is already in the directory, as we already Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 10, 2004 3:27 PM by Brian Desmond | 9 Comments
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Using LDP to find the Distinguished Name of an object

Sometimes remembering or deriving the full distinguished name of an object in the directory can be painful to do by hand. Luckily, Microsoft provides a nice little browser utility with the server os' and the 2003 admin pack. Beware that you can do A LOT Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 10, 2004 3:19 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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OWA Version Compatibility

I found out this afternoon that OWA 2003 will not work with an Exchange 2000 BackEnd configuration. “Darn!” is all I can say. I was counting on it to work, and I'm not sure why I didn't recall that OWA2000 didn't/doesn't work with exch55 back Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 14, 2004 11:38 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Creating a Contact in AD

Well, this new Agg Views thing indicates that my babbling about Active Directory stuff is mildly interesting, so, I'm continuing the series here. This morning's task is creating a contact in AD. Before we get going, let me give a brief overview of my Read More...
Posted Monday, December 29, 2003 12:55 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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CDOEXM & System.DirectoryServices

Well, I haven't posted here recently because I've been a busy sysadmin & haven't had time to touch my copy of Visual Studio.Net. A new project, writing an Intranet for Payton's teachers and students has cropped up, and, I've been doing some new stuff. Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 27, 2003 11:20 PM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments

Pick 4 MS Press Titles

I've been tasked with picking out four books from MS Press. What do you all recommend? I'm mainly looking at High - Mid Level .Net, High Level Win Server stuff, General/Adv SQL Server, & General/Adv Exchange Server. Thanks! Share this post: email Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 25, 2003 11:12 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

ISO Mounting Tool

I remembered reading that MS had a free widget for mounting ISO images as CD Drives somewhere. MVP Steve Cochran led me to it: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/6/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe The usual Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 25, 2003 7:54 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Entire Office 2003 on MSDN

In case you're not aware, the entire Office 2003 suite, complete with all the apps is on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Friday, September 26, 2003 5:33 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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IIS6 & "Service Unavailable" Errors

As promised, a Google powered blog entry. One of my previous posts on configuring an ASP App to write to a UNC path had the words “application pool” and “service unavailable” in it quite a bit. The post didn't actually deal Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 20, 2003 12:03 PM by Brian Desmond | 6 Comments
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New Content Source

Well, I've got a new source of content: Interesting problems people Google for, click through to my blog, and don't find anything. It seems I have a couple of long posts with lots of tech keywords (my rant on ms blaster, and my introductory post). It Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:20 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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