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  What am I doing? I guess I should start with an apology.  Faithful readers have probably left my blog in their droves because it’s been so long since I posted anything. Here’s the thing. When I worked at Microsoft, my job required that I was always looking at new... 06-17-2009, 7:09 AM by martin to Martin Parry

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  Creating a process in another user session In my last post, I talked about how a process' access token determines which user session it belongs to.  With that information, and if I have sufficient privilege, I can programmatically start a process in any running session. In my scenario I have... 12-02-2008, 5:43 AM by martin to Martin Parry

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  Windows user sessions, Winstas and Desktops You know the feature that Windows has had since XP, that allows "fast user switching"...?  I knew it was implemented using some variant of Terminal Services, but until recently I thought that different users' sessions were contained inside separate... 12-02-2008, 5:41 AM by martin to Martin Parry

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  Microsoft Azure as a driver for efficient programming Microsoft announced Azure at the PDC yesterday, and it's got me thinking in all kinds of directions. I've been an occasional visitor to StackOverflow.com since it launched a while ago. I can't say I've been an active participant - my reputation is... 10-28-2008, 4:58 AM by martin to Martin Parry

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  Some Thoughts on Software Performance In recent years I've done quite a bit of performance and scalability testing of apps on the Microsoft platform.  I know plenty of people who are more knowledgeable about software performance than I am, but at the same time a little knowledge about... 10-27-2008, 12:17 PM by martin to Martin Parry