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Subject:RE: When you are complete From:"Elizabeth O'Shea" <elizabeth -dot- oshea -at- virtualaccess -dot- com> To:"'Johan Hiemstra'" <webmaster -at- techexams -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:06:41 -0000
What's even more interesting about the Novell page is that they've lifted
the entire article word for word from MS. I suppose Novell haa a
documentation agreement with MS.
elizabeth
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Subject: RE: When you are complete
Funny, sounds like a scientology church thing: "When you are complete..."
(no offense intented...)
I'm sure it is not recommended usage by MS... and what's really funny is
that Novell copied the mistake:
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> I was browsing the Microsoft knowledge base for instructions on
> generating security certificates. In the procedure using IIS 5.0,
> there is this step:
>
> <snip>
> Input the common name (CN) for your site. This should be the same
> name that the user will input when requesting your Web site. For
> example, if a user inputs http://www.widgets.microsoft.com to access
> your Web site, then
> your Common Name would be www.widgets.microsoft.com. When you are
> complete,
> click Next.
> <snip>
>
> 'When you are complete'??? It's good to see that Microsoft is
> encouraging personal development amongst its users! But I can see a
> very significant procedural block here. How many of us are ever really
> complete? Surely if you follow these instructions, it could be years
> before you click Next to move to the next step and get your
> certificate.
>
> On a more serious note, and because I don't own the Micrsoft MoS, do
> they really recommend this 'When you are complete' usage? Or is it an
> editing slip? All our products run on Windows, so I've been thnking
> about considering adopting the MS MoS wholesale. 'When you are
> commplete' puts me off a bit.
>
> Entertained,
>
> elizabeth
> elizabeth -dot- oshea -at- virtualaccess -dot- com
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