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In the recent month, we've had a lot of questions about how searching works in Secret Server, so I thought now would be a good time to answer as many questions about searching as possible. Searching pre 5.0 Before the 5.0 edition of Secret Server...
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One of a system administrator's must-have items in his toolbox is PuTTY. PuTTY is a small, lightweight program that is perfect for telnet and SSH connections. It doesn't require any installation, it's just a single EXE file and you're good to go. A feature...
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Secret Server 5.0 is currently under development, and one of the features that we know for sure that will be in 5.0 is searching Secret Fields. This has been a popular request. We had several obstacles to achieve this, and we have implemented a solution...
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I was recently on the ASP.NET Forums and a member was asking, "How can I figure out the encoding of text?" and that got me thinking. There should be a reasonable way to do this, right? It's a useful thing to know. First, we need a little...
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One of the things that we did notice with Secret Server is that it does take what seems to be a long time for Secret Server to start up for the first time. This started happening in Secret Server 4.0. So, what exactly is going on? Secret Server does some...
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I booted up my PC today and saw this nice message from Adobe telling me that there was an update for my Flash installation. I couldn't help but notice that one of the highlighted features was support for HD content. I can't help but feel that...
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On Tuesday, May 6 th at the CMAP User Group Meeting will be Heroes Happen {here} Launch where I will be discussing the new features in SQL 2008 and Steve Michelotti will be discussing the new C# 3.0 Language Enhancements. If you are in the Baltimore area,...
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Secret Server has supported a "Mobile Edition" for over a year now but it is always tricky making sure that it works correctly on all devices. Our approach was to bake mobile support into the base product (ASP.NET based) so it simply scales...
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Secret Server has supported a "Mobile Edition" for over a year now but it is always tricky making sure that it works correctly on all devices. Our approach was to bake mobile support into the base product (ASP.NET based) so it simply scales...
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Saturday was the Spring '08 CMAP Code Camp. Lots of good sessions there, lots of fun as well! I presented on "SQL Server 2008" and "What's new in C# 3.0" as a replacement for Jay Flowers since he wasn't able to make it....
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Ok, so it is a really bad pun. It is tough writing blog post titles sometimes. :) Anyway, we finally got a beautiful metallic official sign for our office after inhabiting our office space for almost two years. (Now if we could just do something...
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There are two code camps this weekend: CMAP Code Camp in Maryland Pittsburgh Code Camp in Pennsylvania I will be speaking at the Pittsburgh Code Camp on Refactoring - a topic that is very dear to me. Register now and come along to talk code. We...
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I've always been interested in software security, and it's always been a number one priority for me. Software security is really honoring the trust of the people that use your software. I've also been fortunate to be the lead developer of...
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The MVC framework is the new "hot" thing in the ASP.NET world for developers. As such, everyone has at least one blog entry about it. So, I think it's time I jumped on that ship. Though, I wanted to voice a few concerns with the MVC Framework,...
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I am constantly amazed by the number of job candidates who apply for a position without reading the job posting. We are currently hiring for three positions: Agile .NET Developer Agile .NET Developer Internship Graphics Designer All three involve *doing*...
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Hi everyone, I've decided to move my blog to http://msmvps.com/blogs/vcsjones , so please update booksmarks and RSS feeds. However, I will continue to have my new blog cross-post on this site as well. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg...
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This is my first post to the msmvps.com web site. I decided to move my blog from http://community.strongcoders.com/blogs/vcsjones . So, I thought I would start off by talking about something a little obscure that a co-worker turned me onto. OK, different...
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We took the Secret Server booth to the FOSE 2008 Conference this week. FOSE is the largest IT event for US Government. It wasn't really a very long trip for us ... about 12 blocks east from our offices in Dupont Circle in Washington DC to...
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This year Secret Server made its debut at FOSE, one of the leading government technology events in the nation. The show is being held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center which is situated only a few minutes away from our offices...
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Yes, April Fools - one of my favorite days. What April Fool's day is not complete without covering your co-worker's desk and chair in sticky notes? Though as a side note, I was re-awarded for ASP.NET MVP. Share this post: email it! | bookmark...
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It's On! The next Richmond Code Camp is set for Saturday, April 26 th . Every year they keep getting better and better, so this one is going to be the best yet! I'm set to speak there about some of the new stuff in SQL 2008 for Developers and...
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The NoVa CodeCamp South v1 will be held on March 29th 2008 in Woodbridge VA. The speaker schedule has been posted here . I am presenting two sessions: 9:00-10:15: Refactoring in C# 1:00-2:15: ...
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One of the questions that I sometimes get from customers is, "I want the information on the Secret View page to display in a system font". The reason for this is it makes it easier to distinguish between O's and zeros; and lower-case L's and...
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Thanks to everyone for contributing! It was really neat to read everyone's ideas and see the discussion and review (talking about code is always fun!). Here is a summary of responses and the "fixed" code. If you are interested...
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For the last couple of days, the weblogs.asp.net website has been unable to accept posts from Windows Live Writer. For the first time in the history of this blog, I can blame someone else for not posting. In fact, I even started queueing up...
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