Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB932385) Install this update to resolve an issue where CGI applications that set multiple instances of a response header in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 do not work as expected

 

Update for Windows Vista (KB932385) Install this update to resolve an issue where CGI applications that set multiple instances of a response header in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 do not work as expected.

 

Update for Windows Vista (KB933228) Install this update to resolve an issue where a user may receive a "Page can not be displayed" error message when using Internet Explorer 7 to access a web server configured to use OpenSSL.

 

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB933228) Install this update to resolve an issue where a user may receive a "Page can not be displayed" error message when using Internet Explorer 7 to access a web server configured to use OpenSSL.

 

Update for Windows Vista (KB939786) Install this update to resolve an issue where the system cannot listen for HTTP traffic when a non-administrator user starts an application.

 

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB939786) Install this update to resolve an issue where the system cannot listen for HTTP traffic when a non-administrator user starts an application.

 

Update for Windows Vista (KB938126) Install this update to enable new types of Windows Media Center Extenders, such as digital televisions and networked DVD players, to connect to the Windows Media Center PC.

 

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB938126) Install this update to enable new types of Windows Media Center Extenders, such as digital televisions and networked DVD players, to connect to the Windows Media Center PC.

 

Install this update to improve the reliability, scalability, and memory optimization of the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) in Windows Server 2003. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

 

 

 

 

 

Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB940349)

 

 

 

 

 

Update for Windows Server 2003 32bit (KB940349)

 

 

 

 

 

Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB940349)

If you get more information about work with this service please go to link below:

Working with VSS services on Windows 2003 Server

Download Office 2003 SP3

 

Finally, after a long wait, Microsoft have released Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3). SP3 contains security enhancements and stability improvements. Some fixes that are included with Office 2003 SP3 were previously released in separate updates. Office 2003 SP3 combines the previously released fixes into one update.

 

List of issues that service pack 3 fixes

 

Office 2003 SP3 fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

 

• KB 938790 Issues that are fixed in Excel 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3

   

• KB 938792 Issues that are fixed in Office 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3

   

• KB 938802 Issues that are fixed in Outlook 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3

   

• KB 938801 Issues that are fixed in PowerPoint 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3

   

• KB 938799 Issues that are fixed in Word 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3

   

How to obtain and install Office 2003 Service Pack 3

 

Office 2003 Service Pack 3, together with installation instructions and deployment strategies, is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. To download this service pack from the Microsoft Download Center see the link below:

 

Download Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (117mb)

 

If you are using the following Microsoft Office products, Microsoft recommends that you get the latest service packs:

 

• Office 2003 Proofing Tools: Office 2003 SP3 for Proofing Tools

   

• Visio 2003: Visio 2003 SP3

   

• Project 2003: Project 2003 SP3

   

• OneNote 2003: OneNote 2003 SP3

   

Note: You can also install Office 2003 SP3 by using the Microsoft Update or the Office Update websites.

 

Office 2003 Service Pack 3 for Multilingual User Interface Pack

 

For complete Office 2003 functionality, install Office 2003 Service Pack 3 for Multilingual User Interface Pack if you use the Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack. To download Office 2003 Service Pack 3 for Multilingual User Interface Pack see the link below.

 

Removal information

 

There is no option to remove this download by using the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel. To remove Office 2003 SP3 from the computer, you must remove Office 2003. Then, reinstall Office 2003 from the original Office 2003 CD.

 

Slipstreaming information

 

Like in previous versions of Office and their corresponding Service Packs, SP3 can be slipstreamed into an administrative installation point of Office 2003, in order to allow for a fully integrated installation.

 

Links

 

Download details: Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3)

 

Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 3

 

Download details: Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Multilingual User Interface Pack

Thank you Shijaz Abdulla for this article

This article explains how to export members of Exchange distribution lists into a text file using VBScript.

 

 

UPDATE: This article became a Microsoft Knowledge Base Article (KB 555937) on July 9, 2007

 

 

Background:

 

Some of the funny yet small limitations of Exchange Server/Active Directory is the absence of a simple feature that lets you export the names of people who are members of a particular distribution list. So I went ahead and wrote my little script that lets you do this. You can run this script directly from the server or any domain workstation. On workstations however, make sure that you have the LDIFDE.EXE tool in the system path.

 

 

The steps in extracting the information is as follows. Using a batch file, extract a Distribution List in LDF format using LDIFDE. This will include the distribution list members, but the output will not be formatted the way we want it – each line would start with the word “member:” and will contain the full LDAP Path. We are interested in only the display names of the users. So we write another VBS script that opens the LDF file and cleanses the data by removing the “member:” prefix and the unwanted portion of the LDAP Path. In the end we just have a normal list of display names of the users.

 

 

Step 1:     Write the batch file that runs LDIFDE against your Active Directory. Save the file as ExportDL.BAT using a text editor like notepad. If you’re using Notepad, make sure that the file extension is .BAT and not .BAT.TXT when you save the file.

 

 

 

@echo off     ldifde -f groups.ldf -d "cn=GroupName1,ou=myOU, dc=mydomain,dc=com" -l member -s mydc1   cscript modify.vbs //Nologo > "GroupName1.txt"     ldifde -f groups.ldf -d "cn=GroupName2,ou=myOU,dc=mydomain,dc=com" -l member -s mydc1   cscript modify.vbs //Nologo > "GroupName2.txt"   .   .   .   ldifde -f groups.ldf -d "cn=GroupNameN,ou=myOU,dc=mydomain,dc=com" -l member -s mydc1   cscript modify.vbs //Nologo > "GroupNameN.txt"

 

Here the two lines starting with LDIFDE and CSCRIPT are repeated for each distribution group in the active directory. As an example, I have shown how to write the script for my distribution groups named GroupName1, GroupName2 and GroupNameN, where they represent the display name of the individual distribution groups in your AD. In this example, all the distribution groups are placed in the OU named myOU. If your distribution groups are scattered in separate OUs, take care to give the complete LDAP path in the –d switch. Also, in this example, I assume the AD domain name as mydomain.com (represented by dc=mydomain,dc=com in this code snippet) and the domain controller as mydc1. You will need to change these parameters in your script to reflect actual values.

 

 

The function of each iteration in the batch file is to extract (using LDIFDE) each distribution group into an LDIF file named groups.ldf. The groups.ldf file is a temporary file. The next statement (cscript modify.vbs) invokes the modify.vbs script (described below). The modify.vbs script works on the groups.ldf file to produce meaningful output.

 

 

Step 2:     Write the MODIFY.VBS file. Again you can use Notepad. You may not need to make any changes to the below code. This file opens the groups.ldf file created by LDIFDE in the batch file you created in step 1. It then extracts only the display names of each member of the group and places it into a new text file. The text file containing the group members is created automatically and is given the name of the distribution group from which the users were extracted. If the file already exists, it is overwritten automatically every time you run the script.

 

 

Dim objFileSystem, objInputFile   Dim strOutputFile, inputData, strData, strTemp     Const OPEN_FILE_FOR_READING = 1     ' output filename   strOutputFile = "groups.ldf"     Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.fileSystemObject")   Set objInputFile = objFileSystem.OpenTextFile(strOutputFile, OPEN_FILE_FOR_READING)     ' read everything in an array   inputData = Split(objInputFile.ReadAll, vbNewline)     For each strData In inputData       if Mid(strData, 1,2)="me" and len(strdata)>10  then           strTemp=Mid(strData, 12, InStr(1, strData,",",1)-12)           WScript.Echo strTemp       end if             if Mid(strData,1,2)=" C" then           strTemp=Mid(strData, 5, InStr(1, strData,",",1)-5)           WScript.Echo strTemp         end if         Next     objInputFile.Close   Set objFileSystem = Nothing     WScript.Quit(0)

 

Step 3:     Run the ExportDL.bat file. Once execution completes, see the folder where you put the above two files. You should see that you have new text files with the names all your distribution groups.

 

 

 

This article describes how you can clear usernames and passwords that are cached on a Windows-based computer.

 

Overview

 

Windows caches usernames and passwords in a secure manner. These include domain credentials and credentials that you type in when you try to access shared resources, when you click the Save Password feature. For more details on stored usernames and passwords, see this Microsoft KB article.
 

Procedure

 

To clear cached credentials on a Windows-based computer:

 

1. Open Command Prompt.
    

2. Type the command:
   rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr
    

3. The Stored Usernames and Passwords are shown and you can remove the ones you don't need. This includes Microsoft .net passport account passwords.
   
   

What are the new features available in VMware Workstation version?

 

 

VMware Workstation has a lot of new features to offer. Here is my short list:

 

 

• USB 2.0 support & support for iPods - that means you can install iTunes in your virtual machine! You can even transfer files at higher speed from external hard drives and other USB2.0 devices.

   

• Virtual Guest activity record and playback - this essentially gives you the ability to take a snapshot, keep taking continuous tiny snapshots, stop recording, playback those tiny snapshots like a movie, stop the playback at any time, and return control to you. If you think of a moment, I am sure you can come up with a number of benefits to this feature in your own environment.

   

• Support for Windows Vista as a Guest VM

   

• ACE Authoring - this allows you to create virtual machines that you can deploy virtual machines to users and have then run on VMware Player. The benefits to ACE are the security features for those VMs. The creator can tweak the VMs they are distributing with all sorts of networking and security options.

   

• Pocket ACE - the ability to deploy a virtual machine to a portable media device

   

• Laptop battery aware - Workstation Guest OS systems are aware they are running on a laptop and recognize the battery status.

   

• Automatic Upgrade of VMware Tools - with version 6, you can configure Workstation to automatically upgrade the VMware Tools on each virtual Guest OS

   

• VNC Management of Guest OS - includes a VNC server management option for every VM Guest OS that can be configured with a new GUI, here is a graphic:
  
  
   

   

How can the features of VMware Workstation help me?

 

 

Here are 5 ways that VMware Workstation can help you in your day to day life as an IT Pro (in no particular order):

 

 

1. Patch testing - whether it is application or OS patch testing, by having the snapshot manager, you can apply your patches, test the results, then "snap-back" to the state of your Guest OS before the patch was applied
    

    

2. Private network Anti-Virus testing - have you ever wondered if your AV software is working? Well, you don't want to introduce a virus onto a real machine on your network but with VMware Workstation, you could easily isolate a machine on a private network. You could then take a snapshot of that machine and introducing a virus to test your AV software. After testing, you could "snap back" to the state of the Guest OS before it was ruined by the virus.
    

    

3. Private network Production Server testing with Teaming - you could create Ghost images of a few of your production servers, move them to private network virtual machines, use VMware Teaming, and be able to start & stop them all at the same time, as a group
    

    

4. Upgrade Process Activity Recording - have you ever had a huge upgrade to perform that involved lots of steps? what if you could record the entire process, then jump back to any point in that process and start from that point forward? That would be pretty powerful! That is something you could do with the new VM Guest activity recording & playback.
    

    

5. Create videos of activities on a virtual Guest - say that you want to train someone on how to do anything inside an operating system - upgrades, configuration, application installation, etc. With VMware Workstation, you could create an AVI video file of anything you do in your virtual machines and share it with others.

    

Summary

 

 

In summary, VMware Workstation is, in my opinion, the most powerful desktop virtualization package available. The new features in version 6 just "up the ante". While it isn't free, like VMware Server is, Workstation has enough features to justify the cost. The more I use virtualization software, the more I find uses for it. It has gotten to the point where I don't know what I did without it. Try out VMware Workstation and I think you will come to the same conclusion.