Monthly Archives: July 2006

Raymond Chen on Profile Folders

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Aaron Parker

The latest TechNet Magazine has an article by Raymon Chen on the “Program Files” and “Documents and Settings” folders, including changes to the profiles folder in Windows Vista. It gives some clarification to the changes in Vista and I thought … Continue reading →

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WSUS Build Numbers

Posted on July 25, 2006 by Aaron Parker

I’ve recently updated a few WSUS servers with WSUS SP1. The admin tool shows build numbers but does not state if the version is RTM or SP1. For reference these build numbers are: WSUS RTM: 2.0.0.2472 WSUS SP1: 2.0.0.2620

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67 Years Uptime?

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Aaron Parker

Task Manager from Windows Vista build 5472 is reporting some interesting uptime on my laptop today. Click the picture and prepare to be impressed.. Thats 592619 hours of uptime, or about 24692 days or approximately 67 years.

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Symantec Gateway Security 1600 and Sun Java

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Aaron Parker

More fun with consoles developed in Java. Check out the administration tool for Symantecs’ Gateway Security 1600 appliance – 100% CPU usage just to display the logon dialog then 100Mb of RAM just after opening the console:

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Citrix AAC and Microsoft’s NAP

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Aaron Parker

One of the great features of Citrix Advanced Access Control is the ability to control access to internal resources from trusted machines with End Point Analysis. Citrix have implemented their own client and server components to perform end-point analysis and … Continue reading →

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