September is already here and our first wave of TechNet Wiki articles were released with two new additions: Event Settings on Windows - Security Considerations – this article cover some core security settings related to Events on Windows system. Unable...

Hello Community, Just want to drop a quick note to bring awareness about two new WSUS articles that we published this week at TechNet Wiki: WSUS Failover for Network Load Balancing (NLB) File cert verification failure error message on WSUS We are working...

As I promised on the previous post here are some updates on TechNet Library and TechNet Wiki: Cryptography Next Generation Configure Automatic Updates using Group Policy Clients Unable to Receive Updates with Error 8024402C Keep in mind that many of the...

Today our last wave of updates for this month just went live, here are those (both related to WSUS): Configure the network connections: the update here was on the “Configure your Firewall” section, we added the second bullet as per recent feedback received...

I want to start this week by sharing a couple of new articles that we published at TechNet Wiki. The first one is about Credential Roaming behavior on Windows 7. The second one is about the general considerations regarding WSUS installed on a Domain Controller...

As you probably know, TechNet Wiki has different portals and one of those is dedicated to Security: If you visit this portal you will notice that we added a new entry that allows you to expand the Security Portal for a different language: The IT PRO community...

Hello folks, We just want to announce a small change on the WSUS Home Page : We added a link to the WSUS Learning Roadmap , which is a community based content on TechNet Wiki . What else do you want to see on the WSUS Home Page? Let us know by writing...

Hello Community! Just a quick update to let you know that this week we released two new articles at TechNet Wiki: Deploying Windows Server Updates Services (WSUS) 3 SP2 on a DMZ protected by Forefront TMG 2010 SP2 Unable to Download Updates from WSUS...

Hello Community, one month has passed since we last updated this blog, sorry for that…we are really busy working on the content experience for Windows 8. Did you download Windows 8 Developer’s Preview yet? Did you see some of the cool security features...

As the writers focus on upcoming releases, we also are cruisng through the readership activity of published content and listening for developing trends in how our security technologies are being used. We work the backend to help us develop the upcoming...

The Threats and Countermeasures Guide on system services tells us that any service can be a potential point of attack. So, want to see what services are running on your machine ? In PowerShell here’s how to do it: From the PowerShell console run, Get...

Last month we released a new document at Microsoft TechNet Wiki, it is called A Solution for Private Cloud Security and you can access the document from: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6642.a-solution-for-private-cloud-security...

Did you notice that TechNet is now using the metro design? Take a look on our new Windows Server Security Page and let us know what you think: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/ff843381

I am excited to be able to start talking with you about Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server "8" Beta. We’ve all been working hard on our individual feature sets and putting everything together. As writers we have been reviewing the user...

The authentication team posted a new article that might help you with diagnosing issues with authentication bottlenecks on the domain controller. Although it does not provide specific guidance, it does describe how all the elements interact (NetLogon...

New content has been added to the Wiki article “ Configuring MaxConcurrentAPI for NTLM pass-through authentication ” that can help you with decisions when you configure this setting. Also, check out the Additional resources in the article as many more...

Our team creates content for IT professionals about Windows Server and Windows Client security technologies, such as BitLocker, AppLocker, User Account Control, Encrypting File System, Security Auditing, Authentication and Authorization, and Security...

As we develop content for a software release we writers go through a threat modeling exercise to identify what the threats are against a technology and how those threats can be mitigated either through the design of the feature, a certain setting modification...

We updated this guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 and made some additional updates to provide more details and cross-references in January. This guide describes how to use the Windows Certificate Enrollment Control to create various types of certificate...

This document is a compilation of the most frequently asked security auditing questions and their answers based on newsgroup postings, knowledge base articles, and search terms. We plan to update this FAQ frequently as we collect additional batches of...

Are you curious about smart card support in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2? The Windows Smart Card Technical Reference describes the enhancements made to smart card support in the Windows operating system since Windows Vista, the smart card infrastructure...

Managed service accounts and virtual accounts are two new types of accounts that were introduced in Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Windows® 7 to enhance the service isolation and manageability of network applications such as Microsoft SQL Server and Internet...

We had some customers encounter an issue with installing language packs on BitLocker protected computers. It turned out that the installation of a language pack for all users on a computer changed the boot configuration data (BCD) settings on the computer...

Are you running your PKI infrastructure on Windows Server 2003 and interested in what it would take to move to Windows Server 2008 R2? This guide helps you learn the processes and requirements for migrating a certification authority (CA) to a server that...

We have been working on creating an updated command-line reference for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The whole organization has been involved in this effort. We have the following security tools documented in this reference at this time: ...