Do you have experience of participating in User Groups? Which ones would you recommend? Are they free of charge? Are there particular people you go to for security advice? What about security blogs - which do you find most useful?

There's a wealth of webcasts that are coming up in January - they're all free of course. If you're an IT Professional and would like to broaden your understanding of developer issues then I suggest viewing some of their sessions (listed @ the end of this...

Moments ago this information hit the press in the form of a press release and white paper that you can read by clicking here . Please take a look at the white paper to view the full details of this announcement - here is a brief summary... To quote...

I recently recorded a thiry minute webcast for a live TechNet audience. Please click here to view the replay - all you need is a Passport account to be able to view the session which includes a demonstration of how to use Rights Management in a production...

As John Howard mentions in his post Windows Server R2 is entirely based on Windows Server SP1 - it simply adds features and includes some code updates. The design goal of R2 was to bring additional features without changing the Kernel so as to ensure...

As you may already be aware there are a vast array of security features in Visual Studio 2005 which take the pain out of writing secure code - I'll explain more another time. Earlier this week I installed Visual Studio 2005 (Professional Edition) on...

This is not a supported configuration nor am I recommending you to try this at home/work HOWEVER I'm happily running Virtual Server R2 (pre-release version) on Windows Vista Beta 1 - I'm runnning the beta that's available from the MSDN subscriber centre...

The official launch of Windows Server 2003 R2 (Release 2) took place earlier this week (Tuesday 6th December) - we'd planned to make the software available for download immediately available though unfortunately there was a short delay in getting the...

We're planning next year's TechNet events at the moment and at present the following topics will be added to the security track: * An additional PKI session where we drill into secure email (S/MIME) in more depth * A session covering Quarantine...

This won't come as a surprise for those of you who've read many of my blog entries or who've discussed security with me directly but I have a somewhat obtuse Wireless Protected Access (WPA) passphrase and I've just mistyped it on my newly built Windows...

Anyone who's visited London is likely to have used many of the available transport options including the tube (underground), bus, train (over land) and possibly the river taxis too. If you visit as a tourist then you may have time to amble around and...

A good point of reference is http://www.microsoft.com/wifi as you'll find a wealth of best practise advice there. Another good source is the current TechNet Magazine which can be accessed both online (you can download the entire thing) and in print too...

If you're reading this tonight (1st Dec) then it's not quite happened yet but XBox 360 launches in the UK tomorrow (2nd Dec) as you may be aware. I've been able to play a couple of pre-release games this week and can report that they're fantastic. Of...

The MSDN UK Evangelist team have worked with the best practise experts throughout the company to bring you a developer-centric website which you can access by clicking here . There's some good content on the site and it's presented in an easily accessible...