Windows 7 – How To Link Online IDs

Linking your online ID will let you simply log in to Windows and then log in to whichever service for which you’ve installed a provider [...]

AjaxControlToolkit causes System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type ‘System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission … failed.

Here’s a quick one…

A developer was using AJAXControlToolkit in an application. Not a big deal. Except that it kept throwing that damn exception. You know the one:

Server Error in ” Application. Security Exception Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application [...]

How to install WMP54G Drivers on Windows 7 Beta 64 bit (or Vista 64 bit)

My media center machine is my guinea pig. It’s relatively old with it’s nForce 440 based motherboard, Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 989), and 1 whopping gig of memory. It’s also got a Hauppauge MCE500 dual analog tuner and an ATI 4550 with HDMI out to my Samsumg A550 40″ LCD.

I couldn’t be happier [...]

get-servernames.ps1 – Return a List of Computer Objects from Active Directory

I should have posted this a long, long time ago…but forgot. Until I got a comment from dvdor about it.

In Active Directory, we set the “Managed By” field on all of the servers we manage to our primary, non-admin account. This makes it easy for people to find out who manages what servers. [...]

Lite-On Wireless NIC Driver – Lite-On makes wireless cards?!

Recently, while doing some work for a client, I needed to reinstall Vista. She had Home Premium, but needed to be able to RDP. So, she purchased Business, and I did a clean reinstall on her Hewlett Packard Pavilion Elite m9402f. Sidenote: I was pretty impressed with the machine overall. Quad core Phenom, 8GB of [...]