August 2006 - Posts

22 August 2006
How to implement Windows Forms Based Authentication in ASP.Net

This is an updated version of an article I wrote in March 2003 for ASPAlliance. I corrected some minor errors and updated the code samples a bit. C# and VB.Net samples are both attached at the bottom of the page. Introduction The Windows authentication... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Active Directory, dotNet

14 August 2006
Posting from Windows Live Writer

One of my MCS friends, Jeff Rosen has been hinting that there was some new toy coming down the pipe. He emailed me tonight with it, so I'm trying it out. The tool has a preset for Community Server, but it still didn't work out of the box. One of the behaviors... Read More...

Filed under: None of the Above

07 August 2006
Nagios NSClient Agent Rollout Script

I'm a big fan of Nagios as a monitoring solution in environemnts large and small. The price can't be beat and the community around it is pretty good too. I have a zip attached to this post which contains a script I wrote to deploy the nsclient... Read More...

Filed under: Scripts, IT, Nagios

03 August 2006
Hard Disk & Partition Copying with Acronis Disk Director

I bought a new 300GB SATA disk to replace my existing 40GB disk which was at capacity. I'm admittedly somewhat clueless when it comes to basic PC hardware stuff. I deal with servers all day long and that skillset doesn't map well to my desktop PC (or... Read More...

Filed under: IT