Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:07:27 -0400
From: GREG YOUNGBLOOD
To: HECTOR SANTOS
Subject: Re: WINDOWS 2008 32 bit Server
Newsgroups: win.server.program
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On 5/28/2012 1:07 AM, HECTOR SANTOS wrote to GREG YOUNGBLOOD:

-> Apparently Microsoft escalated the Security between the Level rings, 
-> between device drivers and the APPLICATION.
-> 
-> Google the words:
-> 
->     MSDN Windows 2008 VdmAllowed
-> 
-> And you will find a series of articles. I am reading them now. Perhaps 
-> there is a registry VdmAllowed that I see one of the finds talk about.
-> 
-> Microsoft made 1 promise back in the 1990s:
-> 
->      Support WIN32 and we will guarantee it work with all Windows.
-> 
-> Win32 is at the APPLICATION/USER level. They kept that promise but 
-> when it some to DEVICE DRIVERS, they never made that promise.
-> 
-> But Wildcat! didn't change, MS did. So it could help to post a message 
-> in their forums to see if they have work around.
-> 
-> I am going to look for an HOPE that it is a  security thing and they 
-> left a registry option to enable it.
-> 
-> The problem with Microsoft is that someone finds a security issue for 
-> THEIR DEVICE DRIVERS, they do something that breaks others.
-> 
-> The last time that happen was with RPC remote client/server 
-> communications where they broke the ability for Wildcat! Server to run 
-> on one machine and run clients, like wcOnline on another machine.   To 
-> get it back, you had to change a registry option and WCSERVER.EXE had 
-> to say "its ok to run the old way."  That was all because of THEIR 
-> SECURITY BUGS with PORT 450 and their DNS RPC server.
-> 
-> If you want to help research or ask Microsoft directly, that will be 
-> great. But cross our fingers because if they BROKE it for 2008 and 
-> WCDOORNT.DLL no longer works, well, I don't know what do yet, but it 
-> ain't going to be a while if that is the case.  It may not be a big 
-> deal, but its time to FIGURE OUT what they did and what is the 
-> solution.  It was not our FAULT. :)
-> 
Hello

Did you find anything out on your end with Microsoft getting 16 doors to 
work with Win2008?

Crossing fingers....

Greg
 
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