Posts Tagged ‘windows’

Windows Service Accounts: Finally Avoid the Maintenance Nightmare!

You either love or hate “Local Service”, “Network Service”, and “Local System”. Have you ever avoided setting up individual Service Accounts for SQL Server, IIS, SharePoint, or other enterprise applications and simply defaulted these built-in accounts? Perhaps you didn’t know that it’s “best practice” to use domain accounts for these services. Or, perhaps you knew [...]


Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing

Raymond Chen’s book titled “The Old New Thing” is the realization of a web blog in print. Raymond walks us through the history of “backwards compatibility” in Microsoft Windows. Parts of the book can be enjoyed by anyone who has dealt with the evolution of the Microsoft Windows operating system and inevitably asked the [...]