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NLA missing from Remote Desktop Client 6.0 for Windows XP? [NLA missing from Remote Desktop Client 6.0 for Windows XP?]

gdesroches — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:54:18 GMT

I successfully downloaded and installed Remote Desktop Client 6.0 for Windows XP today. I found it on this page.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925876

The page says it supports Network Level Authentication. Unfortunately, when I try to connect to a Windows Vista machine with NLA enabled, I get a dialog stating, "The remote computer requires Network Level Authentication, which your computer does not support. For assistance, contact your system administrator or technical support."

Is this supposed to work, or does it only support Vista clients? If the latter is the answer, then why would they even mention NLA on the RDP 6.0 client for XP?

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Problem installing the Windows SDK 6.0.6000.0 [Problem installing the Windows SDK 6.0.6000.0]

gdesroches — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:14:36 GMT

I posted this in the MSDN forums, but nobody has replied yet, so I thought I'd post it here.

I have Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. I have a system partition which is 8GB (D:). I have a separate partition for programs and documents (E:). I also have a big scratch partition (F:). My temporary directory is on the F: drive.

Currently, the D: drive has about 100MB of free disk space. Since only system components are installed here and my swap file is on a separate partition, this is enough space. The E: drive has about 25GB free. The F: drive has about 30GB free.

When I run the Windows Vista / .NET Framework 3.0 SDK setup, it asks me for two folder locations. One for the SDK files and another for SDK samples. I set both to directories on the E: drive. When I go to the next step, it says I need 600MB+ on my D: drive in order to continue. I went back and made sure both of my selected directory locations were on E:. Unfortunately, the SDK still demands 600MB+ of my system drive. I have gone through my D: drive to find stuff I can delete and I still am not even close to having enough room. Why is the installer demanding space from the system drive? Is there a way I can work around this?

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Channel 9: The Videos RSS Feed Question [Channel 9: The Videos RSS Feed Question]

gdesroches — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:41:59 GMT

One of the many RSS feeds I subscribe to is the Channel 9 videos feed. The problem is, I don't get the same list I would get if I went to the actual Videos aspx page. Whenever someone replies to a video, it gets bumped to the top of the RSS feed. I don't remember all of the video titles, so sometimes I'll think there is a new video, but be disappointed when I visit the page.

If the all-powerful Channel 9 Overlords would change this behaviour or add an option for it, I would be greatful.

Oh, and keep up the good work! :D

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PowerShell: Running an executable with a long filename and using a variable as a command line parame [PowerShell: Running an executable with a long filename and using a variable as a command line parame]

gdesroches — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:39:20 GMT

I started a little project today, and I figured I could bang it out in PowerShell. I want to take all .img (DVD image) files and mount them as virtual drives with a program called "DAEMON Tools". I thought this would be easy to figure out.

Here was my first step. I came up with the following code within seconds. I can now iterate through all .img files in a directory.

[code]
$files = get-childitem -filter *.img
foreach ($file in $files)
{
echo $file.FullName
}
[/code]

Now, to call the DAEMON Tools executable and pass the file name as a command line argument. The following line works in cmd.exe. I have to use quotes, because the path has a space.

"C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools\daemon.exe" -mount 0,myimage.img

However, this does not work in PowerShell. It took me a quite a while to figure out how to run an exe with a long filename, but I finally found it on some random blog post. So, this is what I have now.

[code]
$files = get-childitem -filter *.img
foreach ($file in $files)
{
&'C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools\daemon.exe' -mount 0`,`"myimage.img`"
}
[/code]

Now I need to know how to use the $file variable as a command line argument for the executable. I couldn't find anything related to this stuff in the documentation, in the wiki, or through the other various links google gave me.

Why is this information so difficult to find? All the web sites I've seen contain the same basic MONAD tutorials. There is no mention of how to run a plain executable other than stating "Just type it in."

Sorry about the rant. I'm just frustrated. This stuff should have taken a few minutes to figure out.

Can anyone help me out here?

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What happened to .NET 3.0 in Longhorn? [What happened to .NET 3.0 in Longhorn?]

gdesroches — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:00:52 GMT

I recall hearing (from the .NET show I believe) about .NET 3.0 being built into Longhorn. Now I'm hearing it will ship with 2.0. Was 3.0 suppose to be 2.0 with WPF, WCF, and WinFS, or was there going to be more until they scaled back?

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