This How To shows you how to create and configure a custom least-privileged service account to run an ASP.NET Web application. By default, an ASP.NET application on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 runs using the built-in Network Service account. In production environments, you usually run your application using a custom service account. By using a custom service account, you can audit and authorize your application separately from others, and your application is protected from any changes made to the privileges or permissions associated with the Network Service account. To use a custom service account, you must configure the account by running the Aspnet_regiis.exe utility with the -ga switch, and then configure your application to run in a custom application pool that uses the custom account’s identity.
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Zend Core™ supports businesses using PHP and managing database information for mission critical web applications. It provides a seamless out-of-the-box experience delivering a stable, easy to-install and supported PHP development and production environment.

Presented in a browser-based environment, Zend Core provides a highly stable and efficient means for installing and managing PHP servers. Resources and reference information are bundled into Zend Core for “one click” access to a wide range of information, configurations and reference documents.
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A MySQL Enterprise subscription is the most comprehensive offering of MySQL database software, services and support; it ensures that your business achieves the highest levels of reliability, security, and uptime. An Enterprise Subscription includes:
1. The MySQL Enterprise Server – the most reliable, secure, and up-to-date version of the world’s most popular open source database
2. The MySQL Enterprise Monitor – An automated virtual DBA assistant that monitors all your MySQL Servers around-the-clock, identifies exceptions to MySQL best practices, and provides expert advice on fixing any problems discovered
3. MySQL Production Support – Technical and consultative support when you need it, along with regularly scheduled service packs, hot-fixes, and more.
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Some assessment questions
- Who has used MySQL Proxy?
- Who has read the “getting started” article?
- Who has read the datacharmer blog?
- Who uses MySQL Proxy in production?
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Windows Genuine Crack, Complete with a Microsoft apology The Windows Genuine Advantage crack is done and over with. Simply water under the bridge. 12,000 Windows Vista and Windows XP impacted customers and 20 hours of erroneous invalidations the past weekend’s WGA cracks is now complete with a Microsoft apology. The Redmond company revealed at the end of some three-four days worth of investigating that the WGA lapse was generated by a human error. Nothing more and nothing else than the preproduction code being accidentally (!) sent to production servers and managing to impact both Microsoft’s activation and validation aspect of the general anti-piracy mechanism.
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