Great article about System Center 2012 and whats to come! http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/05/03/building-cloud-infrastructure-with-windows-server-2012-and-system-center-2012-sp1.aspx

A post from Deb Schinder of ISAServer.org. I could not resist this post, never a truer word spoken, check this out! http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Five-Dumb-Things-Admins-Do-with-TMG-Firewall.html Happy reading!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! First blog post after a month, embarassing, never mind, I will catch up! So I think anyone with experience in FEP realises that the performance stats are very good, from a customer perspective I can definately tell you that I have...

Amazing week for Forefront, FPSMC RTM'ed on the 17th December 2010. Check it out here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=31f66155-50f0-4665-adc0-de94da027ed7 Till next time!

After a relatively long beta cycle, which will definately benefit the product, Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 has RTM'ed on the 16th of December 2010! Great news for the Forefront community, check out the product details here: http://www.microsoft...

I thought I would quickly show you all how to activate TMG URL Filtering, as I have recently had a number of requests on how this is done, so here it is... 1. Start the TMG Console 2. Click Web Access Policy 3. In the right hand pane, click “Configure...

Nice one! UAG Service Pack 1 came out recently with a load of long awaited features! I would list them here, but why do that when someone has diligently listed them already? Check this link out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg295322.aspx...

Check out this list of FIM Management agents which allow FIM to manage many different aspects of an infrastructure: http://blogs.technet.com/b/identitymanagement/archive/2010/07/17/fim-management-agents-from-partners.aspx

Wow! its been sometime since I posted anything here! Well, there is loads of good news, Microsoft has great representation at GITEX(Biggest IT Expo in the Middle East!) check it out if you are in Dubai, its seriously worth it... www.gitex.com Otherwise...

Good Day all! Coming to you today from Microsoft Campus in Redmond, so far its been a great week! Spending time with product teams here in Redmond is always a valuable experience... Going to attend MS Tech Ready 11 next week, of course its all NDA...

Hi All! A few fixes, and come awesome, long awaited features were released in TMG SP1 yesterday, including: URL Override setting User based usage and category reporting Check it out here: http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Whats-New-Forefront...

Hi All, So sometimes I come aross things that are just to cool, for example: Everything you ever needed for Network Access Protection: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb545879.aspx Screencasts and Training for new forefront stuff,...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/google_snubs_windows_report/ Did anyone read this article? Strange, Google does not want to use MS Software because of security concerns??? Hmmm... well, IMO, any software can be secure, doesn't matter who the...

WOW, 2 year and counting... Today I finished a presentation on "The I.T. Security Try Angle" ... weird title, I know, but it was very well recieved and I am very humbled to be asked to present at the event 2 years in a row. I presented on People...

WOW, what a great TechEd. As Security, Identity and Access Track Owner, I am proud to say we had a terrific time! For those of you who did not make TechEd ME, you did miss out. For the first TechEd event in the region, it was truely awesome! The TechEd...

From the Forefront Blog: Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 offers a dynamic response to security threats, providing a variety of security technologies such as anti-malware, firewall, and intrusion detection under one umbrella...

Hi! As the owner of the Security and Identity Track at TechED ME, I hope you will all be coming along to see what we have in store, its going to be a great event, ful of local and international speakers, on all topics, of course Security and Identity...

Good morning all! Having created the Microsoft Forefront - Gulf Facebook group, it has been online for a week and has 46 members and growing, so if you are on facebook and are not a member, you should be! if you have not yet signed up, these are the...

Firstly and most importantly! UAG has gone to RTM!!! take a peek at http://www.microsoft.com/uag to see whats in store and download the eval! Otherwise, I have created a Facebook page for the purposes of distributing information to people in the...

Hi Everyone! As usual, long time no blog! Been pretty busy attending training on all the new Forefront products, amongst other business related stuff! But great news, Forefront Threat Management Gateway has been released to RTM! This product is going...

So, here is an independant article which one should read. I believe in the products that I deal with, and it seems that independent research has proved the same.... Symantec, 11 others, fail Virus Bulletin's August 2009 test

Atfernoon all! Wow! Long time since I posted anything on here, I feel as though the months have passed in seconds! Its been a great few months at Microsoft, and the security arena is getting more and more exciting! We are tittering on the edge of...

A truly sad day for Microsoft and for Steve, its a shame that his position was one of those which has recieved the order of the new economy. A statistic, and a very unfortunate commonality these days which we all may face no matter who we work with or...

Good Saturday Everyone! Well, what an experience in Kuwait! Attending the Kuwait ICT Security Summit in the hull of the Al-Hashemi II was the most amazing experience! I have presented in a number of locations around the world! But to present from the...

Ok, so it is the weekend in Dubai, and I am very excited about the Red Bull Air Race to be held in Abu Dhabi tomorrow, yes, I am definately going 40C or not :) So back to business, firstly, for anyone who is on that old school bus of Microsoft having...