Brian Reid has written a great article about improving the Performance of IIS 6.0 applications, based on information which is difficult to come by. The net result was almost halving the page load time in the production implementation. To find out more...

Matt's written an interesting article sharing his experience "from the coal face" gained during years of exerience advising the military and leading companies in writing more secure software. I share Matt's view that it's far less expensive to fix security...

Jeremy Moskowitz , the author of "Windows / Linux Integration Handbook" due for publication around September this year has published a great article based on an excerpt from that book. If you want to understand more about this topic area and can't wait...

Rhys Wilkins has written an article about - wait for it - stopping SQL injection AND Outrunning Lions! You have to read to the end of the article to understand how the Lions fit in :-) Rhys' article is available via this link . Enjoy.

Thanks to Craig Murphy for contributing his article titled Who Do You Think You Are? - it's well worth a read. He talks about identity from the perspective of a variety of vendors and applications.

Adrian J. Beasley has provided us with another excellent article titled A General Defence Against Injection Attacks on Websites written in his inimitable fashion tackling the challenging subject of how to validate user input.

Adrian has written a wonderful overview of how Public Key Infrastructure words . If you don't know your certificate from your asymmetric widget then this is an excellent place to find out how it all hangs together. Adrian provided the following introduction...

Dave McMahon wrote a brief guide, but it's still a long post so we've divided it up. The first part is now available . Part 2 will follow next week. In his own words: Dave McMahon (MVP, MCDBA, MCAD) has been involved with computers since college...

Adam Vero is our newest contributor. I encourage you to read his pragmatic advice for securing information is his post titled Don't Secure Your Documents . His proactive "security as an enabler" perspective makes a refreshing read.

It's about time there were a few business intelligence posts on Industry Insiders so I am pleased to get an article about the Microsoft BI and the importance of users in form Jennifer Stirrup from Aspective - a Vodafone company. Jennifer has over ten...

In BI and in SharePoint there is a great community which transcends the many partners, contractors etc. that specialise in this field. We all keep in touch as we move companies and change roles as best we can using LinkedIn, Face book etc. So I asked...

Dave McMahon wrote a brief guide, but it's still a long post so we've divided it up. The first part . has been available for a few days now. Part 2 is now available The third part will follow shortly.

Jennifer Stirrup from Aspective has written another great business intelligence article for us on her experiences of presenting data in SharePoint . Jennifer rightly points out that getting the numbers right is not enough, easy to understand and compelling...

Adrian Beasley has re-issued his Powershell articles. Executing a command line utility and waiting for it to finish now has an improvement from Jeffery Snover, no less Power Shell Installation has been updated for the RTM version Thanks to Adrian...

We created this blog as a home for in-depth technical and business articles written by independent IT experts around the world. There’s no shortage of detailed technical content dotted around the www.microsoft.com site. But we hope this blog will bring...

Leonard Chung, CEO of Syncplicity.com, discusses issues around web privacy and data protection laws his company deals with in the world of online storage.  Leonard and I dive deep into legal world of privacy statements what these types of documents...

Martin Bell runs the Scottish Area meetings of the UK SQL Server User Group , discusses the problems of deciding what to present on SQL Server 2008 to a bunch of developers in this entertaining article .

The third and final part of Dave McMahon's series is now available

Adrian Beasley wrote a wonderful article on Certificate Server Enterprise Edition and Smartcards - I particularly like it as he explains WHY each component is required rather than just diving into the detail - which he makes an excellent job of too. ...