BUG: AppShadow stopped redirecting registry access in some cases

 AppShadow has been updated so closing calls to root handles are now properly handled.

CreateHardLink: Create and display information about hard links

 CreateHardLink lets you create hard links and display information about them.

SessionInfo: Information about Terminal Server sessions

 SessionInfo lets you display information about Terminal Server sessions from script.

UPDATE: Registry virtualization per process

 AppShadow is out! With it you can give every process its own registry (HKLM, HKCU). Now you can start installing different versions of Microsoft Office on the same machine without hassle.

Redirection of OutputDebugString() across terminal server sessions

With the new tool  DbgViewRedir you can monitor OutputDebugString() messages from different terminal server and mirror them to your local session. Works with standard debuggers and tools like  Sysinternals: DebugView.

Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policy is not applied

When trying to run the Microsoft Internet 6.0 Explorer as a published application on a server running Windows 2003 Server Group Policies are not applied (Microsoft and  Citrix confirm this erratic behaviour). Apart from this observation there are other features that do not work as expected when running programm without the Windows Explorer shell. In order to avoid this I would like to present a small utility that detects and hides the Windows Explorer shell and thus allows programs to operate normally in Terminal Server environments (both RDP and ICA based). See my Knowledge Base article  HOWTO: Detecting and Hiding Windows Explorer Shell for further details.
Source code is available upon request.

Citrix Server-to-Client redirection does not work as expected

By installing a hotfix for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1  Q832894 (also known as MS04-004 security update) the Citrix feature Server-to-Client redirection does not work as expected on all servers any more. See article (german only)  ERROR: Citrix Server-to-Client Umleitung funktioniert nicht wie erwartet for further details.

2003-12-07

The functionality of these pages has been extended:

• On creation you can choose for every page to have a navigation bar generated autoamtically. With it you can browse back and forward through the same topic.
• Pictures are now previewable.
• And, if you are surfing these pages via a PDA or similar, you can choose to hide all pictures from all pages via the new  Settings page.

For more information about this visit the  XML Toolbox

2003-12-04

Recently I had the opportunity to review a VPN-Appliance called Intermate Trustgate. Read the review on my new  Trustgate page (currently only available in german).

2003-11-08

I made an update to my  No Brainers tools. There you find  IniMod, a small program you can use to change ini files from the command line.

2003-10-15

Added an important note regarding Microsoft Exchange 5.5 with Internet Mail Connector (IMC) installed. It might be possible to use Exchange as an  open SMTP and/or FAX relay! Currently available only in german language.

Note: when viewing these pages with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 (or worse), do not expect to much. First, the support for standards (HTML, CSS) in this product is poor. Second, Microsoft will end its support for it soon.

2003-09-19

FYI: here is a  link to my knowledge base with a listing of all articles.

2003-09-08

It has been nearly 6 months since I made changes to these web pages... but now something has changed (at least under the hood)!

• The whole website (structure) is defined by an XML construction
• All documents are generated from XML files.
• All (menu) links are automatically generated.
• You can choose the language on and for every page. If a specific page is not available in the language you requested the page is automatically displayed in an available language.
• And last but not least: there is new content...

If you want to know it bit by bit you should read the article describing  Building these web pages (currently only available in German). Enjoy!

2003-03-31

For a  discussion about Windows memory management and Terminal Services I provided a  VirtualAlloc so that you can test for yourself what and how much memory Windows 2000 allocates user processes.

2003-03-26

The new Knowledge Base section shows you a simple implementation of a knowledge base structure you can use for easy documentation of errors or other useful information.

2003-03-16

Now all pages are also available in English.
I adjusted the layout of the knowledge base articles to make them more attractive. See  RegTimeStamp section for an example.

2003-03-13

There were some problems after inserting the English pages so some pages could not be displayed. I apologize for the inconvenience.
As you can see I translated the web pages into English. If you want to help improve the quality of the translation you are very welcome to do so...

2003-03-12

I released  RegTimeStamp. With this ActiveX control you can read and write time stamps of virtually any registry key.