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SHA-1 Code Signing Deprecation in Windows beginning January 1, 2016

This post is to help the product team spread the word on Windows (version 7 and higher) and Windows Server will no longer trust any code that is signed with a SHA-1 code signing certificate and that...

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Hotfixes for December 2015

Jeff here, from the SDK team with the Holiday Hotfixes. Happy patching. KB2920591   High CPU usage and performance issues occur when access-based enumeration is enabled in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or...

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Why CryptCATAdminCalcHashFromFileHandle fails with a seemingly unexpected...

CryptCATAdminCalcHashFromFileHandle can fail when evaluating a file path to an executable while setting the last error code to 0x800700c1.  It’s an HRESULT instead of just an error code, but the...

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Hotfix for January 2016

    Jeff here from the SDK team. This month there is only 1 public hotfix because of the holidays.   3047331 “0x00000050″ Stop error on a failover cluster that is running Windows Server 2012 R2 or...

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Hotfix List for February 2016

Hi guys, Jeff here from the Windows SDK team. Here are the Windows hotfixes for February 2016. KB3007507   “HTTP Error 500.19″ error when you browse an IIS 8.5 website in Windows KB3090343   Cluster...

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Why does SqlDataReader behave differently with Set-PSDebug enabled?

We recently had someone ask why their PowerShell script stopped working correctly when they enabled tracing with the command Set-PSDebug -Trace 2.  The part of the code in question that didn’t work...

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Visual Studio Team Services and Personal Microsoft Accounts

Visual Studio Team Services and Personal Microsoft Accounts 10/5/2016 Update – Due to the unexpectedly high impact to many corporate VSTS accounts backed by Personal Microsoft accounts, VSTS accounts...

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Why can’t I restore files even when I have backup/restore privileges enabled?

Backup and restore privileges allow some, but not all, types of access checks to be bypassed.  Typically those are sufficient to allow a backup utility to restore data to even sensitive folders....

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Leveraging Exploit Guard in Windows Insider Build to Easily Audit Your Code

If you are a software developer and are looking to improve upon the security compliance of your software, there is a feature in the current Windows 10 Enterprise Insider Preview (as of 10.0.16253 - I...

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OpenService() fails on a service marked for deletion on Windows 10, Version...

OpenService() fails with error code 1060 or ERROR_SERVICE_DOES_NOT_EXIST when a service is marked for deletion (DeleteService). This is a known bug. It should be fixed on the next version of Windows.

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