Storm Consultancy have become an official Microsoft Partner (which is free to registered companies). One of the perks of membership is access to the Microsoft Action Pack. Finding the exact details of the content is quite tricky however, so we thought we’d share a list of what arrived in ours. The list is quite impressive!
I encountered a strange error today while I was developing a document repository website in a Windows Server/IIS environment. When I pointed my browser at myfile.docx it returned a 404 error, but other files in the same directory were served correctly. After some Googling, I discovered that Microsoft’s IIS only allows the download of files that are in a list of predefined types as a security measure. To be able to download Office 2007 files from IIS you need to add the extension/MIME type pairs to the IIS configuration.
Remove or disable Windows Search Indexer: If like me you are unfortunate enough to have to work on a machine with Windows Vista from time to time – then you may also be annoyed with Windows Search Indexer which will happily munch up your RAM and CPU whenever it feels like it!
It took me a while to work out how to kill/disable it so for anyone else out there who wants to know:
Enjoy your RAM and CPU! (Or whats left after Vista is done with it!)
Microsoft, IBM, Google and Yahoo have announced that they have all agreed to join the Open ID Foundation. OpenID, conceived by Google software engineer Brad Fitzpatrick, aims to reduce the need for multiple user accounts and troublesome password remembering.
The principal of the scheme is to allow users to nominate one identity which can then be used to access all sites that accept OpenID. However, questions are still to be answered in relation to how functionality like webmail will be accessed. In principal the idea is sound and with VeriSign backing the venture alongside the big 4, we should look forward to watching this one develop.
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