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Almost a year. It will be one in May.

It gets action. It's a new community and as such has it's growing pains. Welcome to the site.

If it was a recent delete you can use undo it in windows explorer.

Yes it will be. Welcome to the community Chris.

Posted on half of Pete LePage on the Internet Explorer team. Protecting Windows customers is an absolute priority for the Internet Explorer engineering team. That's why we work hard to make sure our browser has some of the best safety and privacy features available today. We've spent a lot of time talking about some of the more visible safety and privacy features like our SmartScreen Filter, that protects users from socially engineered malware and phishing attacks or the InPrivate features that put you in control of how you share your information. But there are a number of other features that aren't as visible and help prevent vulnerabilities from being exploited, though some are only available on newer platforms like Windows Vista or Windows 7. For example, Protected Mode helps ensure exploited code cannot access system or other resources. Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR)helps prevent attackers from getting memory addresses to use in buffer overflow situations. Data Execution Prevention (DEP) helps to foil attacks by preventing code from running in memory that is marked non-executable. These defense in depth protections are designed to make it significantly harder for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. One way to think about what defense in depth techniques do is similar to the features offered by fire-proof safes that make them last longer in a fire. Without defense in depth techniques, a fire-proof safe may only protect its contents for an hour or two. A stronger fire-proof safe with several defense in depth features still won't guarantee the valuables forever, but adds significant time and protection to how long the contents will last. Recently, there has been some news from some security researchers about how they've managed to bypass DEP or ASLR in Internet Explorer (and Firefox as well). But like the fire-proof safe example above, defense in depth techniques aren't designed to prevent every attack forever, but to instead make it significantly harder to exploit a vulnerability. Defense in depth features, including DEP and ASLR continue to be highly effective protection mechanisms. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 helps protect users with all of these defense in depth features, and there is nothing that you have to do to enable them - they're on by default. That's one of the reasons why we encourage users to make sure they're running the latest and most up-to-date software. View the full article

You can get the Internet Explorer 9 preview at Microsoft's site now. I've tried it and it is very fast. Of course this is a stripped down preview so it can be expected to be fast. What surprised me is IE 9 renders pages much faster than any previous version and much faster than Firefox. Download the Internet Explorer 9 Preview

Welcome to the community Don. Nice to meet you.

Use the server manager to load the new cals into the server.

This should help: http://blogs.technet.com/teamdhcp/archive/2009/02/18/migration-of-dhcp-server-from-windows-server-2003-to-windows-server-2008.aspx

Just set all the passwords for all user accounts to the same thing.

See if this fixes the problem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954946/en-us

Look in event viewer to get what the error is and the error code. My bet is it's a problem with your php configuration.

Don't know exactly what you're asking. Can you elaborate more?

It could be the amount of RAM. Windows 2008 has a minimum of 1 gig I think. Try adding more ram to the vm.

Every promotional copy I ever got worked for as long as I had it installed. I have promo copies of Windows Vista that are still working after 3 years. It should be good.

I lose internet with 64 bit all the time. I have to repair the connection using the repair wizard and sometimes when that doesn't work a reboot with bring it back up. I don't have this problem with my 32bit installs. I know there is a bug that affects some installs with certain nics installed. Maybe a re-install of the drivers will help. Also if you're using wireless draft n it just doesn't work correctly in Windows 7. I'm sure you tried this, but, have you tried to repair the connection?

If the disk came with the server it is tied to that server. You could try to install it and then call Microsoft to activate it.

I don't know what promotion you got it through. If it works for a year it should continue to work. What promotion did you get it through?

Ok, I have read several threads on WHS connectivity and have not seen my problem. I am running WHS on a vanilla HP EX470. Life was great until I enabled remote access. Granted it took some time to get working but it does now. My problem is WHS itself. I had do the port forwarding on my router manually but can connect remotely to WHS. When I am on the WHS itself however, I get little to no external connectivity. Webpages timeout and pinging outside my local network tells me that WHS can't see the addresses. What is going on? Help! View this thread

How do you have them setup? Give a few more details it could be just a routing problem.

I have changed the look of the site. It makes the site more efficient and it looks much better. If you have any problems or find any bugs with the new skin please post them in the site suggestions forum. The old skin is still active and you can select it by using the drop down skin selector at the bottom left of the page.

Sorry I missed this. Once you reach 3 posts you get extra sig lines and the image is bigger. I have this info posted in the site guidelines in the announcements forum.

This weekend I will be changing the look of the forum. I have a new style selected and have it installed. I am doing some final tesing before I turn it on. I will leave the old style on for a coule weeks and then will shut it off. I am sure you will like the new layout. It will streamline the site so that means less page scrolling. The forum layout will also be better organize. [twitter]win2008forum[/twitter]

Has anyone heard anything about Windows 8? I heard some rumblings a couple weeks ago and since my source hasn't said anything new. Maybe it's the calm before the storm.

Earlier today, Core Security Technologies issued a security advisory for our Virtual PC (VPC) software. The advisory calls out a proof of concept where the virtual machine monitor allows memory pages above the 2GB level to be read from or written to by user-space programs running within a guest operating system. The advisory explicitly calls into question the effectiveness of many of the security hardening features of Windows, including DEP, SafeSEH, and ASLR. Folks are already starting to ask questions about this advisory, so I thought it would be best to answer them here. First and foremost, customers should rest assured that this advisory does not affect the security of Windows 7 systems directly. The security safeguards (DEP, ASLR, SafeSEH, etc.) that are in place remain effective at helping protect users from malware on that system. In addition, Our Windows Server virtualization technology, Hyper-V, is also not affected by this advisory. Applications running inside a Hyper-V guest continue to benefit from these same security safeguards. The functionality that Core calls out is not an actual vulnerability per se. Instead, they are describing a way for an attacker to more easily exploit security vulnerabilities that must already be present on the system. It's a subtle point, but one that folks should really understand. The protection mechanisms that are present in the Windows kernel are rendered less effective inside of a virtual machine as opposed to a physical machine. There is no vulnerability introduced, just a loss of certain security protection mechanisms. The functionality described only affects the guest operating system that is running within a Virtual PC environment. In practice, the guest operating system in a Virtual PC environment is typically Windows XP as part of Windows XP Mode. Of the safeguards Core calls out, it should be noted that only DEP is available in Windows XP SP3 Windows XP doesn't contain ASLR. The net result? An attacker can only exploit a vulnerable application running "inside" the guest virtual machine on Windows XP, rather than Windows 7! We believe that Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC are great bridging strategies to help customers who have legacy applications get up and running on Windows 7. For those customers who need Windows XP Mode, they should look to install only the required subset of applications that need Windows XP in order to function properly while planning to move those applications to Windows 7 in the future. One final point, whether the version of Windows you are running is virtualized or running physically on a computer, it's equally important to follow sound security practices. You should make sure your firewall is enabled, that you have anti-virus software installed, and that you keep your software up to date through automatic updates. For more information on how to protect your PC, visit http://www.microsoft.com/protect/. View the full article