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If you are having trouble with smart card logon/user certificate in Windows Vista/IE 7 client, check out Microsoft’s Knowledge Base article 922706. It states that:

“The Windows Server 2003 Certificate Services Web enrollment functionality relies on an ActiveX control that is named Xenroll. This ActiveX control is available in Microsoft Windows 2000 and in later versions of Windows. However, Xenroll has been deprecated in Windows Vista. The sample certificate enrollment Web pages that are included with the original release version of Microsoft Windows Server 2003, with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1), and with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) are not designed to handle the change in how Windows Vista performs Web-based certificate enrollment operations.”

The Knowledge Base article discusses how to use Certificate Services Web enrollment pages together with Windows Vista.

Microsoft has released new dates for the Professional (MCITP) exams for the Windows Vista. According to Microsoft, the exams have been delayed to ensure adequate application support coverage. Here are the new dates.

In one of the biggest attacks against the Internet since 2002, hackers yesterday overwhelmed at least three of the 13 root servers that manage global Internet traffic. The attack on UltraDNS, the company that manages servers for .org suffixes, lasted about 12 hours but went unnoticed by most Internet users. Some of the targeted servers are operated by the US Department of Defense. Although the hackers disguised their origin, experts traced a large amount of rogue data to South Korea.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it was monitoring what it called “anomalous” Internet traffic. They don’t believe there’s any imminent threat to the homeland at this point.