Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Virtual Server in PowerPoint

Embed Virtual Server into your PowerPoint slides. Now, when the demo goes down, it can take the slides with it. Fabulous.

Monday, March 07, 2005

AntiSpyware vs. Windows Scripting

or: but what if I want to run scripts and also run antispyware?

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Point-and-Click Elevation of Privilege

Let's see if I have this right.
[Update: No, I don't. See edit below.]

Power Users can start the scheduler.
The scheduler can start the Task Manager: at 10:30 /interactive taskmgr.exe
The Task Manager runs as System.
The Task Manager can start anything (File>New Task (Run...))

So: log on as Power User, schedule Task Manager for 1 minute's time, when it appears kill explorer and run a new explorer from taskman. You now have an admin-level GUI. Or have I missed something?

Time to go off and test this out...
[Some time later: Nope. Wrong. Power Users can't start the scheduler, at least not on XPSP2 and Server 2003. But they can install software of their own, and try to persuade an admin/system service to run it. Meantime, there are other point-and-click tools to try.]

DNS Tools

DNS lookup, tracert, ping, whois, covert decimal IPs, work out subnet masks, etc. Many, many such textboxes await you here, and a full report can be got with a single click here.

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Port Requirements

Windows Server services and ports.

AppLocale

In Windows, non-Unicode programs often expect you to change the system locale before they'll work properly; there's no way to say "this program, and only this program, wants to be in Chinese", unless the program in question knows about Unicode.

At least, I thought there wasn't, but I was wrong: meet AppLocale.