This guide will show a simple way to remove the UAC in your Windows Vista, check it out!

Fred Health is currently in the process of deploying Windows 7 to all of our office machines, including our development environments. And with the upgrade to Windows 7 we’re actually going to TRY and keep UAC on.

Most of our software runs services (e.g. a self hosted WCF service), so visual studio needs to be running as administrator (at least in Win7). With UAC on the only way you can accomplish this is to right click on Visual Studio, select ‘run as administrator’ and then open the Project/Solution from within Visual Studio.

This sucks because personally I like to be able to find the ‘solution file’ on my computer and simply double click on it.
So to get Administrator elevation every time you launch VS, you need to change the ‘compatibility setting’ by:
•    Right clicking on C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
•    Then selecting Properties, selecting the Compatibility tab, and then checking the box ‘Run this program as an Administrator’

Now the second part is where the trick is, because the ‘solution file’ doesn’t actually launch VS itself, but rather a ‘VS Version Check Launcher’… which in turn launches VS
So to fix this:
•    Right click on C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\MSEnv\VSLauncher.exe
•    Select Properties, select the Compatibility tab, and check the box ‘Run this program as an Administrator’

Hey presto… Now you can launch visual studio from your solution file, with UAC, and have the administrator elevation screen appear!

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Hi me tudo! Então pessoal como tem passado?

Estarei explicando sobre como desabilitar o UAC do windows Vista espero que gostem.

Primeiramente leia sobre o UAC do Vista clicando aqui.

Aperte o botão com o logotipo do windows + R. Ou então clique no botão “Iniciar”, vá em Acessórios e escolha a opção “Executar”.

Digite dentro da caixa de texto “msconfig” e tecle Enter.

O Windows vai pedir permissão do usuário clique em “Sim”. Na janela que abriu selecione a última aba “Ferramentas”.

Desça até o final e procure pela opção “Desabilitar UAC” e quando o achar marque.

Clique em Iniciar.

Irá abrir a janela do Prompt digite “exit” e aperte “Enter”.

Clique no botão OK e em seguida é só reiniciar o computador.

Pronto agora aquelas perguntas não irão mais estragar seu lindo dia ensolarado na praia.

E se não funcionar é só repetir o processo, pois às vezes por algum motivo desconhecido não funciona na primeira vez.

Boa Sorte.

User Account Control (UAC) can help you prevent unauthorized changes to your computer. It works by prompting you for permission when a task requires administrative rights, such as installing software or changing settings that affect other users.

I don’t recommend turning User Account Control off. If you do turn it off, you should turn it back on as soon as possible.

1. Open User Accounts by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking User Accounts and Family Safety (or clicking User Accounts, if you are connected to a network domain), and then clicking User Accounts.

2. Click Turn User Account Control on or off.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

3. Select the Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer check box to turn on UAC, or clear the check box to turn off UAC, and then click OK.

There some of the features and advantages of vista over Windows XP. Some of them are as mentioned and discussed bellow…..

1. SECURITY FEATURES: Windows Vista has already added new type of security system features like the Bit Locker, Drive Encryption, and a powerful User Account Control (UAC), and the latest version of Windows Defender etc….

1. WINDOWS FIREWALL: There are two types of Firewalls in Windows Vista: The standard one which is also commonly available in Windows XP and the other one is a much more advanced Firewall having new feature of Bidirectional Filters. These filters scan both of the Incoming and Outgoing Data.
2. PARENTAL CONTROLS: This is also one of the best and feature and plays very-very important role in controlling anything on the stand alone computer running vista protect from teenagers, or children etc. By using this feature parents can regulate the sites which their child can view or not. It helps them to act like an administrator and restrict other users.
3. WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 11: This is the latest version of the Windows Media Players of Microsoft on windows platform is very – very smooth in use but typical.  There lots of advantages in Windows Media Player 11 are as, that WMP 11 can work on network also and is attractive.
4. WINDOWS SEARCH: This facility allows user to search any types of application, file or a folder from anywhere.
5. ATTRACTIVE INTERFACE: This is one of the most striking differences between both Vista and XP. The interface of Vista is much better and attractive in comparison to Windows XP.  The sidebar is also another one of the best feature in Vista having and contains Windows Gadgets like a Clock, a Calendar, a Currency Exchange and an Ms Office Inbox Representation. These gadgets are of great use.

When I was little, I had only briefly heard about linux, from my dad, who was a bit of a techie in his day. I was the kid who asked to see linux, when I heard about it,well he said he’d show me and never got around to it, until after i discovered it for myself. I use to be something set up for servers and use only by IT and other highly paid dwebs who lived in their mother’s basement and considered coding to be a perfectly fine way to spend a Friday night. Now, due in part to Microsoft Vista, and the lousy economic conditions, linux has become mainstream.

Microsoft Vista was the worse thing ever to happen to computers, worse than most super-viruses. It redefined computing, and also redefined what users would allow companies to get away with.
With the introduction of Vista, users gave up their rights to do whatever they want with their own computers, brought to use like a assistant bringing an arrow to a bowman, by UAC, User Account Control.
The name even sounds menacing, user account control, and what it does is even worse. Effectively it prevents users from controlling their own computers, no through controlling it, with a VNC like feature, but rather, by locking users from doing normal tasks without special permission, even for a computer administrator. Hell, I can’t even delete a shortcut ( In the Start Menu) to Pandora that comes on my computer, without permission. That’s pretty messed up, I can’t even delete a shortcut without permission?! It’s just another way to take away control from users. Installs all need administrator privileges, even single .exe programs need the user to be an administrator to run them. vista was never widely adopted by businesses because of the several restrictions set on it, and the lack of comparability with many specialized programs often used for businesses, which just won’t run with UAC on, or won’t run at all. Even turning UAC off causes annoyances, like a ubiquitous pop-up that will never cease annoying you, reminding you to reactive UAC to further “protect your computer” The small protection is offers is not worth the annoyances it causes, for even the simplest of tasks.

Enough ranting on vista, there’s other reasons why the average person is now using linux.

With the bad economy, netbooks are becoming popular for everyday users, but also for students who need a fast light notebook with a long battery life, to take to class. These so called netbooks are just that, small enough to fit in a handbag, and some of them in your pocket, light enough that you don’t mind taking it to class along with your books, and with of them having a near 10 hour battery life. But to have all this, something has to give, that is processing power. Most of these netbooks have a Intel Atom processor, which runs around 1.6ghz.
Now that isn’t slow by any means, but it’s not a kick ass multimedia box. Windows by itself takes up a decent amount of that 1.6ghz and usually 1 gig or ram, sometimes paired with a solid state drive, doesn’t leave windows with much room to work. That opened up the door for linux netbook, and they took the opportunity and ran with it.

Linux inherently runs lighter and faster than windows. It was built on security and then given the GUI and other features for a desktop user, later in it’s life. It’s also made for multitasking, and uses less power than windows computers, even running the same software and power settings. This makes linux perfect for netbooks, and once a user gets over their initial fear of linux, most don’t have any problems running and using linux in their everyday life.
The hardest part is the initial switch, and getting the consumer to buy the linux netbooks. A lot of consumers switch, just because of the price difference, usually well over 100 USD. Others see the power saving or better processor use and are willing to give it a try. And most like it, Linux netbooks have about 2/3 of the return rate, of the windows netbooks. Hmm now that’s saying something, possible that linux is not just for dwebs anymore.

Today was the start of our first ’sprint’ week. As in the ‘joke’ concerning SCRUM, we are now officially working on the project as ‘pigs’ (not the animal sort of way, mind you :p), having our ‘bacon’ on the line.

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to start at once. There were quite a few obstacles that barred our way (we started the meeting @ 1pm because Ma’am Chris had to attend to other matters, problem with accessing the database from a remote computer,waiting for permission to install the SQL management studio). It was already 4pm by the time we were able to work on the project. >.<

Anyway, every Monday, we will have a meeting where the SCRUM master, Ma’am Chris, will announce a list of tasks that needs to be finished for the week. Fortunately, we were given the freedom to choose which tasks we can accomplish individually for the week. But for all I know, the ‘refused tasks’(leftover tasks that no one wants to do =|) will certainly haunt us in the remaining weeks (they will just be carried over to the list of tasks for the next sprint week ). We would be also sending a daily sprint review at the end of the day.

This ’sprint’ week, our tasks would be resolving tickets of the BLSS trac, previously compiled by Ma’am Chris, Jakrae and Sherry, on page look/feel enhancements.

Today, we just worked on resolving some of the tickets that were easy to do (renaming labels and such), since like I said earlier, we started @ 4pm and we did not have enough time to dote on harder tasks.

Our problem now is that we don’t have a copy of the dump of the database so we can’t test our fixes at home. (since the database is hosted on a remote server and our permissions are restricted, even creating a new database on our workstations is prohibited, gah! die user account control in vista!) Sometimes due to frustration, I am really tempted to look for a cracking/hacking software that would let me bypass the restrictions (suggestions anyone? XD).

Toink!

~Mel

Well, last night I installed build 7000 of Windows7, Microsoft’s next OS, that will have windows be what it should’ve been in Vista. It will be a hit, no doubt, New Zealand’s PC World magazine seem to be raving about it, but do you know why it will be a hit? Because it is Microsoft’s version of Apple’s OSX.

According to PC World NZ’s Dec/Jan issue, it’s Vista that was playing catchup with OSX and that in Windows7, “virtually none of what’s new feels like warmed-over OSX.”

Well I don’t have a clue how Vista was catching up with OSX, cause I used it for a year and it just looked like XP with an Aero interface to me.

But let’s take a look at Windows7. Just how much of it is OSX?

Well let’s look at the main features:

The Superbar. PC World claim that this “looks a bit like OSX’s dock, though it doesn’t behave like the dock”. Well for a start, if it doesn’t behave like OSX’s dock, then it’s probably not as good, and also, I think it jolly well does behave like the dock! In MacOS you can right click on a dock icon to go “keep in dock”, in Windows7, you click “pin to taskbar”. The only advantage it has over Apple’s dock is that it is Apple’s dock and menu bar in one, but then the moment you choose to auto-hide the taskbar, you have no permanently viewable clock any more, and on Apple’s menu bar you can do useful things like navigate iTunes without Microsoft’s huge WMP taskbar thingy, set your Adium status, run backups, and see your sound volume, all within the space of 7cm on screen. So whether the one bar instead of Apple’s two is really an advantage, remains to be seen.

Windows7’s peek and thumbnail features don’t cut the mustard for me. They are basically Mac’s expose feature, rehashed for windows, (yes, the thumbnails were in vista, but now they’re actually useable). It’s hard to explain unless you try them both, so just trust me, expose is a lot better at showing you what’s open and letting you navigate to it than Windows7.

Some annoying features like User Account Control and over-full system trays are now gone, but let’s not forget that Apple never added them in the first place, only asking for your password whenever you install a program, and leaving you alone the rest of the time.

Mac has also always been prettier, a non-essential, but often important point. You can switch to windows classic theme in version 7 if you want to save RAM, but with the new superbar, it’s officially ugly (with the old taskbar it was actually bearable).

One big feature of Win7 that I haven’t been able to try is the touch screen technology, but let’s not forget who made touch screen technology much more prevalent by creating a certain phone…

Networking is apparently easier in Win7 with the homegroup feature, but that’s a far cry from Mac’s easy almost plug and play sharing, and Apple’s bonjour network feature can be used to make printer sharing easier on your PC network too.

Oh and Windows now support’s H.264 video and AAC audio. Now that’s a concession to Apple, even PC World admit. Apple have simply creamed Microsoft in the entertainment world. Would you rather have an iPod or a Zune? What’s a Zune, I hear you ask? I don’t know anyone who has one. At least Microsoft are being mature enough to concede this one, and go for compatibility. It may rescue some market share, who knows?

That leaves Microsoft’s desire for more web integration, via their Windows Live services, making many programs only available via online download now. What the advantage is to the OS speed when you remove something so that someone can waste bandwidth putting it back in again, is beyond me, but hey. And let’s not forget Apple’s MobileMe web services, which seem to have been getting stronger for a while now, while Microsoft’s hotmail has been giving way to gmail and Google’s web services dominate the PC market. Meanwhile Apple hold their own well against the internet giant, with iPhoto being an obvious preference over Picasa, and the traditional desire for good design among mac users makes WordPress seem more appealing than Google’s blogger to me.

Now undoubtedly PC users will lap up Windows7, oblivious to who’s innovations they’re really buying. But for those enlightened among you, who may say “well now Microsoft are catching up, we don’t need to change”, I have three things to say:

1) The ways in which Microsoft are gaining ground on MacOS will be gone again as soon as the next great OS idea comes along that Apple do first. Apple have beaten Windows7 to some of these ideas by five years or more, and there is no evidence to suggest that the next great idea is going to come from Microsoft, judging by what they’ve taken from Apple this time around. So you’ll have to wait another 5 years next time Apple think of something Windows could do with.

2) Due to patents (I assume), Microsoft can’t copy any of these ideas and make them as good as the original’s, Apple’s expose being the obvious example. So next time Apple come up with an idea that Microsoft copy, it will have to be made just bad enough of a copy to not be worth a court battle for Apple.

3) I often hear people say they can’t be bothered changing because they don’t want to learn a new system. This is no longer an issue. Win7 is a big change, and if you are going to spend some time learning a new system, better that it’s MacOSX Leopard!

Moving on from Windows7, I am loving Safari 4 (which I am using on Windows7 along with iTunes, hehe), and I am also loving controlling my mac and PC with the same mouse and keyboard, using a nifty little app called Synergy. Try it if you have multiple computers, it saves desk space and time!

If you are VISTA user then you might have seen this screen a lot of time appearing in front of you

This screen comes in front of you whenever you open any executable file, it ask for your permission to execute that file, Ahh! for one instance it looks fine, that your OS seeks your permisssion to execute something, but when it happens evry often it looks wiered. I will tell you about tweaking UAC but not right now. Let first start with what is UAC?

Q.1 So what is UAC?

UAC stands for User Account Control (UAC), is a new technology introduced by Microsoft to improve the security of Microsoft’s Windows VISTA by limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase in privilege level. In this way, only applications that the user trusts receive higher privileges.

In other words, a user account may have administrator privileges assigned to it, but applications that the user runs do not also have those privileges unless they are approved beforehand or the user explicitly authorizes it to have higher privileges. To reduce the possibility of lower-privilege applications communicating with higher-privilege ones, another new technology, User Interface Privilege Isolation is used in conjunction with User Account Control to isolate these processes from each other

When logging into Vista as a standard user (a non-administrators is called standard users in Windows Vista), a logon session is created and a token containing only the most basic privileges is assigned. In this way, the new logon session is incapable of making changes that would affect the entire system. When logging in as a user in the Administrators group, two separate tokens are assigned. The first token contains all privileges typically awarded to an administrator, and the second is a restricted token similar to what a standard user would receive. User applications, including the Windows Shell, are then started with the restricted token, resulting in a reduced privilege environment even under an Administrator account. When an application requests higher privileges or “Run as administrator” is clicked, UAC will prompt for confirmation and, if consent is given, start the process using the unrestricted token.

Q.2 I can’t get it completely can you tell me some thing more?

To understand UAC, we need to take a look at history of the security of Microsoft Windows.

In early DOS-based versions of Windows there is no  built-in security at all. If the user was not careful and got the computer infected with a virus, the virus could do a considerable damage to the system, as well as other nasty stuff, like collecting email addresses, sending spam from infected machines, etc. The only way to secure such a computer was to use third-party security tools, such as our Folder Locker.

To compete this lack of the built-in security,Microsoft introduced Windows NT. Although it looked very much like Windows 95, Windows NT was very different under the hood, and the new code provided for the ability to set up user accounts with different sets of permissions, from unlimited (the Administrators) to very limited (the Guests).

Now the computers could have different accounts for the administrators and standard users . If a standard user was not careful and got the computer infected with a virus, the virus could only damage what the standard used had access to, the core system files and data of other users would be protected. This worked well for the organizations when administrators and users where actually different persons.

So you might be thinking thats all, now windows is protected, but it is not the case, it did not work so well for the home users and small businesses, where there was no properly trained computer administrator around to set up and maintain the computer. Because for one person to use two different accounts (one to play the administrator’s role, and another one to actually use the computer for the day-to-day tasks) was way too much of a hassle. So the majority of people ended up using the computer with just the administrator’s account. The result was that although Windows XP now had the means to secure the computer, such means were not used, and the computers remained as vulnerable as they were in the old Windows 95 days!

That was (and still is!) a serious problem that UAC was designed to solve. Instead of forcing us to create separate administrator and standard user accounts, UAC lets us use just one user account, but play two different roles with it: the role of a standard user for the day-to-day tasks, and the role of the administrator for system maintenance, when needed.

Think of it as two separate identities that UAC creates for you when you log in to Vista: the one of a standard user, and another one of an administrator. When you use the computer for the regular tasks (like checking email or editing documents), the standard user’s identity is used. Only when you attempt to do a system maintenance task (like installing new software, or changing settings that affect other users), then UAC temporarily puts the administrator’s hat on you and (with your permission) allows you to perform the task. When the task is finished, UAC returns to using your standard user identity. That’s what all those elevation prompts are about: they ask you to confirm that you are about to perform a task that requires elevated (administrative) access to your computer.

Q.3 What process trigers UAC?

• Changes to system-wide settings or to files in %SystemRoot% or %ProgramFiles%
• Installing and uninstalling applications
• Installing device drivers
• Installing ActiveX controls
• Changing settings for Windows Firewall
• Changing UAC settings
• Configuring Windows Update
• Adding or removing user accounts
• Changing a user’s account type
• Configuring Parental Controls
• Running Task Scheduler
• Restoring backed-up system files
• Viewing or changing another user’s folders and files

Q.4 oh so it is a security feature it means i can’t configure it?

NO, you can!

Q.5 How to turn off UAC?

To perform the following procedure, you must be able to log on as Administrator.

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel, click User Accounts.
3. In the User Accounts window, click User Accounts.
4. In the User Accounts tasks window, click Turn User Account Control on or off.
5. If UAC is currently configured in Admin Approval Mode, the User Account Control message appears. Click Continue.
6. Clear the Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer check box, and then click OK.
7. Click Restart Now to apply the change right away, or click Restart Later and close the User Accounts tasks window.

Q.6 Wow i have turned off UAC, but is there any other GEEKY method for the same?

An alternate method to configure UAC and switch it off:

• Create a new text file in notepad

• enter the following:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
pause

• Save the text file as

1. Save as type: All Files
2. Name: UAC_Off.bat

• Right click on the new file and run as administrator

• Restart.

To switch UAC back on using this method, repeat the above steps, but save the file as UAC_On.bat and enter the following instead:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
pause

Q.7 That’s fine but is there is any 3rd party tool which can do this for me, i don’t want to be in problem?

For those who don’t dare to do it by there own, TweakUAC is the solution, TweakUAC(TM) is a free software tool that you can use to quickly turn UAC (User Account Control of Windows Vista) on or off, or to make UAC operate in the quiet mode:

Using TweakUAC is extremely easy: just download and run it, then select the desired option on its window and press OK:

It provides you 3 simple options

• Turn UAC off

• Switch UAC to the quiet mode

• Leave UAC on

TweakUAC does NOT require installation, the file is immediately available for use right after you download it.

To download TweakUAC, click this link: Download TweakUAC

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Q.8 How to disable Admin Approval Mode?

To perform the following procedure, you must be able to log on as Administrator.

1. Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, click Run, type secpol.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue..
3. From the Local Security Settings console tree, double-click Local Policies, and then double-click Security Options.
4. Scroll down and double-click User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode.
5. Select the Disabled option, and then click OK.
6. Close the Local Security Settings window.

Q.9 How to disable UAC from prompting for credentials to install application?

To perform the following procedure, you must be able to log on as Administrator.

1. Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, click Run, type secpol.msc in the Open text box, and then click OK.
2. From the Local Security Settings console tree, click Local Policies, and then Security Options.
3. Scroll down and double-click User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation.
4. Select the Disabled option, and then click OK.
5. Close the Local Security Settings window.

Q.10 How to change the elevation prompt behavior?

1. Click Start, click Accessories, click Run, type secpol.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. From the Local Security Settings console tree, click Local Policies, and then Security Options.
3. Scroll down to and double-click User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators.
4. From the drop-down menu, select one of the following settings:
   • Elevate without prompting (tasks requesting elevation will automatically run as elevated without prompting the administrator)
   • Prompt for credentials (this setting requires user name and password input before an application or task will run as elevated)
   • Prompt for consent (default setting for administrators)
5. Click OK.
6. Close the Local Security Settings window.

Q.11 Oh that’s great but i want to configure different changes in elevation prompt for standard user?

1. Click Start, click Accessories, click Run, type secpol.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. From the Local Security Settings console tree, click Local Policies, and then Security Options.
3. Scroll down to and double-click User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users.
4. From the drop-down menu, select one of the following settings:
   • Automatically deny elevation requests (standard users will not be able to run programs requiring elevation, and will not be prompted)
   • Prompt for credentials (this setting requires user name and password input before an application or task will run as elevated, and is the default for standard users)
5. Click OK.
6. Close the Local Security Settings window.

Q.12 How UAC protect us from Viruses?

Since the virus infects your computer when you use it as a standard user, the virus cannot get access to the global system resources, and therefore the amount of damage it can do is severely limited. Although it still can corrupt your documents and read your email, it cannot infect Windows system files or install itself to be automatically activated every time you login to the computer. If a virus attempts to modify the system files and settings, UAC will alert you by displaying an elevation prompt.

Q.13 Your information is very good but i am a programmer how can i request elevation?

A program can request elevation in a number of different ways. One way for program developers is to add a requestedPrivileges section to an XML document, known as the manifest, that is then embedded into the application. A manifest can specify dependencies, visual styles, and now the appropriate security context:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
  <v3:trustInfo xmlns:v3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
    <v3:security>
      <v3:requestedPrivileges>
        <v3:requestedExecutionLevel level="highestAvailable" />
      </v3:requestedPrivileges>
    </v3:security>
  </v3:trustInfo>
</assembly>

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References :

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Benefits of Removing Administrator Access in Windows from TaoSecurity

I think most security people advocate removing administrator rights for normal Windows users, but I enjoy reading even a cursory analysis of this "best practice" as published by BeyondTrust and reported by ComputerWorld. From the press release:
BeyondTrust’s findings show that among the 2008 Microsoft vulnerabilities given a "critical" severity rating, 92 percent shared the same best practice advice from Microsoft to mitigate the vulnerability: "Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights." This language, found in the "Mitigating Factors" portion of Microsoft’s security bulletins, also appears as a recommendation for reducing the threat from nearly 70 percent of all vulnerabilities reported in 2008.

Windows 7

Lots of brouhaha this week about UAC in Windows 7. Microsoft sorta says it is not broken and then says it is fixed an the upcoming release candidate. Paul Thurrott sums it all up.  

Update on UAC from Engineering Windows 7

Hi, Jon DeVaan here to talk to you about the recent UAC feedback we’ve been receiving.

UAC Feedback and Follow-Up from Engineering Windows 7

When we started the “E7” blog we were both excited and also a bit uneasy. The excitement is obvious. The unease is because at some point we knew we would mess up. We weren’t sure if we would mess up because we were blogging about a poorly designed feature or mess up because we were blogging poorly about a well-designed feature. To some it appears as though with the topic of UAC we’ve managed to do both. Our dialog is at that point where many do not feel listened to and also many feel various viewpoints are not well-informed. That’s not the dialog we set out to have and we’re going to do our best to improve.

This post is an attempt to get both the blog right and the feature right. We don’t like where we are in terms of how folks are feeling and we don’t feel good – Windows 7 is too much fun and folks are having too much fun for us to be having the dialog we’re having. We hope this post allows us to get back to having fun!

Microsoft backtracks on Windows 7 UAC, pretends it was all part of the plan from Paul’s SuperSite blog

Sometimes you just gotta laugh. Otherwise, this stuff gets really frustrating.

Microsoft Releases Updated "Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit" for Windows 7 from The Road to Know Where

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit is an agentless toolkit that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the Remote Registry Service, or the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)…

SharePoint

SharePoint Diagnostics Tool v1.0 for SharePoint Products and Technologies from Christophe Fiessinger’s Blog – [Cross-post from SharePoint IT Pro documentation Team Blog]

The real power of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is that they can be endlessly customized to meet a wide variety of business needs. The Protean nature of SharePoint is at once its most powerful feature and its most formidable; the complexity of your SharePoint environment can increase by orders of magnitude when you begin to shape it to suit your needs. This complexity can make troubleshooting SharePoint issues a daunting task, as many different data points from different sources must be correlated and analyzed.

The SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) tool v1.0 greatly simplifies the process of gathering and analyzing troubleshooting data, and can significantly reduce the time needed to diagnose issues. SPDiag v1.0 provides administrators with a unified interface for troubleshooting SharePoint performance issues, and saves collected data and reports to a SQL Server database.

And since Project Server 2007 is a SharePoint application this tool is perfect to perform a health check of your platform…

Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Logic – Part 1

from End User SharePoint by Dessie Lunsford

Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” Logic. In this article I want to discuss one of the more common causes of frustration when users develop formulas – “Logical Functions”, and hopefully shed some light on the “How’s and “Why’s” of their inner-workings.

SharePoint Application Templates 101 from End User SharePoint by Tony Frankola

When it comes to SharePoint, the most important feature is the ability to manage your documents from a central location with all these cool features like versioning, permissions, workflows and stuff

Once you master the basics, you will find that SharePoint is a great application platform and can be used to build some extraordinary applications without any programming knowledge.

Back in 2007, Microsoft released 40+ free application templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Through a series of articles on EndUserSharePoint.com, I am going to analyze use cases and scenarios for these templates, and also try to provide you with some tips on how you can improve and adopt these templates for your company.

Add a YouTube Video to SharePoint 2007 from End User SharePoint by Lee Reed

This short video will show you how to add a YouTube video to your SharePoint site so that you can share these videos with your coworkers.

Wikis that work: Friday cool content from Get the ‘Point: Posts

… Don’t get me wrong…I love wikis. I think they’re a powerful tool. But I think the most important factor in the success of a wiki is not the technology under it, but the people using it. So I was very excited to stumble upon the article Three Myths of Enterprise Wiki Deployment. The article discusses common assumptions companies have when they launch a wiki, and I recommend reading it if you’re interesting in finding ways to ensure the success of your wiki.

Nessus

SQL Server Auditing from Tenable Network Security

Tenable has released a new capability for Nessus to audit SQL server configurations. More information can be found at the Tenable blog at: http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2009/02/auditing-ms-sql-servers-for-disa-stig-compliance-with-nessus.html

Phil Says "Six More Weeks of Winter!" RATS!! (picture from http://www.groundhog.org/)

Project Management

New Help Update – January from Microsoft Office Project 2007

Looking for more information about the project management field? Office Online has several resources that may help.

SharePoint

Add a Formatted HTML table to Your SharePoint Site from End User SharePoint

Manage large SharePoint lists for better performance from Get the ‘Point

As a general guideline, any list should not have more than 2,000 items per list container.

Bamboo SharePoint Analyzer Overview & Best Practices Demo from SharePoint Blank

More on the Bamboo SharePoint Analyzer…

New IT Showcase: Connecting With Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Create a Controller Workspace from Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Microsoft IT using Excel Services on SharePoint Server 2007 was able to create a Controller Workspace.  This workspace provides a centralized BI environment that enables users to view reports, key performance indicators and other financial data.

Next to the case study, you can view a complimentary video demo

Video: Michael On The Go – WSS vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 from Michael Gannotti on SharePoint – Michael discusses the differences between Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as well as the appropriate uses of both.

Analyzing Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Usage from SharePoint Server 2007 Newly Published Content – This white paper will help administrators gather and analyze Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies usage and performance data using Log Parser, a tool available free for download from Microsoft.

Windows 7

Microsoft response to UAC ‘issue’ from Paul’s SuperSite blog – Microsoft sent Paul a statement about the UAC “issue” in Windows 7 that was raised by bloggers Rafael Rivera and Long Zheng. Long story short, it’s not a vulnerability. See Paul’s post for Microsoft’s response.

Is UAC really broken in Windows 7? More importantly, does it make us less secure? from Dana Epp’s ramblings at the Sanctuary

OK, so everywhere I turn I am hearing people ridicule the changes in how UAC behaves in Windows 7. There is even proof of concept code that can turn off UAC without even being prompted.

For those with their heads in the sand, the story goes that in Windows 7 the default behaviour for UAC is to “Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer” and “Don’t notify me when I make changes to Windows settings”. Because UAC is a "Windows setting", it means you can disable UAC without being prompted. And people believe that due to this behaviour, UAC is broken.

Windows 7 ‘System Launcher’, life without the Start Menu from Paul’s SuperSite blog

Microsoft Office 2007

Hidden and Invisible Objects from Microsoft Excel – I know I’ll use these tips!

Ben Rampson, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about cleaning up spreadsheets. “I often receive files demonstrating issues customers are experiencing with Excel.  Recently I have noticed a common problem in some of these files that impacts the file’s performance and size: hidden and invisible objects.”