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| Windows 7 : Firing Up the Registry Editor |
| You want to change what kind of document is created when the user clicks the New button in a document library. For example, say that you want to make the New button create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation out of a specific template in the document library that is specific for presentations. Or say that you want a Microsoft Excel template for expense reports to open in the Expense Reports document library. |
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| Windows Azure : Managing Access Control Service Resources (part 2) |
| An issuer is the issuer of an input token to ACS. In ACS, an issuer consists of a set of cryptographic key materials that service consumers use when authenticating with ACS. The cryptographic keys can be either a pair of Base64-encoded 32-byte keys or an X.509 certificate |
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| Windows 7 : Reset a Broken Service |
| If Windows 7 is acting erratically (or, I should say, if it’s acting more erratically than usual), the problem could be a service that’s somehow gotten corrupted. How can you tell? The most obvious clue is an error message that tells you a particular service isn’t running or couldn’t start. |
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| Windows 7 : Make Windows Shut Down Services Faster |
| If it seems to take Windows forever to shut down, the culprit might be all those services that it has running because Windows has to shut down each service one by one before it can shut down the PC. In each case, Windows waits a certain amount of time for the service to close, and if it hasn’t closed in that time, Windows kills the service. |
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| Windows 7 : Disable Services for Faster Performance |
| Windows understands this, so many services don’t run automatically at startup. Instead, the services run only when you or a program requests them. So you can improve Windows performance by doing two things |
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| Windows 7 : Controlling Services with a Script |
| If you want to automate service control, but you want to also control the startup type, you need to go beyond the command line and create scripts that manage your services. Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) has a class called Win32_Service that represents a Windows service. |
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| Windows 7 : Controlling Services at the Command Prompt |
| If you regularly stop and start certain services, loading the Services snap-in and manually stopping and then restarting each service can be time-consuming. A better method is to take advantage of the NET STOP and NET START command-line tools, which enable you to stop and start any service that isn’t disabled. |
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| Windows 7 : Controlling Services with the Services Snap-In |
| The Services snap-in that appears displays a list of the installed services, and for each service, it displays the name of the service and a brief description, the current status of the service, the service’s startup type, and the name of the system account that the service uses to logs on at startup. |
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| Windows Azure : Access Control Service Usage Scenarios (part 3) |
| In this scenario, an independent software vendor (ISV) named My Energy has an energy-management cloud service that it offers to multiple utility companies. The service performs data collection from power meters on houses and commercial buildings and offers this data to utility companies for reporting and processing. |
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| Windows Azure : Access Control Service - Claims-Based Identity Model |
| This section goes over the details of the claims-based identity model in ACS. Figure 1 illustrates the interaction between different components in a claims-based identity model. With the terminology defined, it will be much easier for you to understand the flow of information between different parties in this model. |
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| Windows 7 : Configuring the MMC - Creating a Custom Taskpad View |
| A taskpad view is a custom configuration of the MMC results (right) pane for a given snap-in. By default, the results pane shows a list of the snap-in’s contents—for example, the list of categories and devices in the Device Manager snap-in and the list of installed services in the Services snap-in. |
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| Windows 7 : Enabling the Shutdown Event Tracker |
| When you select Start, Shut Down, Windows 7 proceeds to shut down without any more input from you (unless any running programs have documents with unsaved changes). That’s usually a good thing, but you might want to keep track of why you shut down or restart Windows 7, or why the system itself initiates a shutdown or restart |
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| Windows 7 : Increasing the Size of the Recent Documents List |
| You can specify a value between 1 and 9,999 (!) in the Maximum Number of Recent Documents spin box. If you specify more documents than can fit vertically on your screen, Windows 7 adds scroll buttons to the top and bottom of the My Recent Documents list. |
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| Windows 7 : Customizing the Places Bar |
| The left side of the old-style Save As and Open dialog boxes in Windows 7 include icons for several common locations: Recent Places, Desktop, Libraries, Computer, and Network |
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| Windows 7 : Working with Group Policies |
| Windows comes with another tool called the Local Security Policy Editor, which displays only the policies found in the Local Group Policy Editor Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security Settings branch. To launch the Local Security Policy Editor, select Start, type secpol.msc, and press Enter. As you might expect, this snap-in isn’t available in the Windows 7 Home editions. |
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| Policing Windows 7 with Group Policies |
| You’ve seen in many places throughout this book that you can perform some pretty amazing things by using a tool that’s about as hidden as any Windows power tool can be: the Local Group Policy Editor. |
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| Windows Azure Storage : Queue Scenarios |
| In the previous section, you learned to send messages to queues in the Queue service. In this section, you learn to retrieve these messages using the Get Messages operation |
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| Windows Azure Storage : Queue Operations |
| You can think of Queue as a message queuing system in the cloud. For example, if you want to send and receive messages across diverse applications in different domains, Windows Azure Queue may fit your requirement |
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