Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

Windows Server 2008 - Cesar de la Torre

‘The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect’ error related to MMC.EXE programs and weird cause & simple solution

March 27, 2011 Mar 27, 2011 03/27/11
Cesar De la Torre
  I publish this error as its cause was really weird: I was getting an error when trying to start any Management Console related program (mmc.exe based admin tool), like Certificates, Event Viewer, etc. The error was: “The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application...

Disabling Domain Account Security Policies in Windows Server 2008 DC

May 12, 2008 May 12, 2008 05/12/08
Cesar De la Torre
Just a tip I always have to do when setting up a Windows Server 2008 VPC (Virtual PC) which is also a DC (Active Directory Domain Controller). As those machines are just for demos or development environment, I do not want to have the Domain account policies which are quite strict, otherwise I'll have to change the password after several days (...