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 Thursday, July 17, 2003
Recovering passwords from old locked Windows 2000 systems...

I lost the Administrator password to an old Windows 2000 Server that needed to be patched desperately.  It had been running happily in my closet for over 2 years.

So, how to recover the Admin PW for this beAst?  There’s always:

But those cost more money than I am willing to put into this machine (as the machine is hardly worth $199, so, how about:


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ASP.NET WebServices calling Apartment-Threaded COM Components...
If you've ever had to call a VB6 Component from an ASP.NET (ASMX) XML Web Service, you may (most probably) get threading errors.  In ASP.NET Apps you can mark the Page directive with "ASPCompat='true'" but there is not a equivalent tag for Web Services.  So, there's a few things you can do:
  • Put the VB Component in COM+ (Preferred if the COM Object is part of a larger interaction, and you want fine control over your SOAP)
  • Figure out a different way to expose the COM Object as a Web Service, perhaps with Classic ASP and SOAP Toolkit 3.0 (Quick if you just want to get your component, but has larger design ramifications for big systems)
 

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