Documents

Security Tip of the Month: Improving Security Using Attack Surface Analyzer
Learn how to use Attack Surface Analyzer, a free tool from Microsoft, to better understand the aggregate attack surface change that may result from the introduction of line-of-business (LOB) applications to the Windows platform.

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager
The Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) will help you plan, deploy, operate, and manage your security baselines for the most widely used Microsoft technologies. Learn more about this free tool—which includes security baselines for Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Office 2010, Windows 7, and Internet Explorer8—then check out tips for getting started and answers to frequently asked questions.

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Malware Response
Looking to limit the risk of malware infection? This new guide can help your organization determine the best and most cost-effective response strategy for malware outbreaks. Learn how your quick decisions can return systems to operation while limiting your exposure then download the guide.

Malicious Software Removal Tool
Need to check your computers for malware infection? Download the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. Updated monthly and available in x86 and x64 versions, the tool checks Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 computers for, and helps remove, infections by specific, prevalent malicious software-including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom. When the detection and removal process is complete, the tool displays a report describing the outcome including which, if any, malicious software was detected and removed.

Getting Started with the SDL Threat Modeling Tool
Find tips to help you get started with the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) threat modeling approach and learn how to use the tool to develop great threat models as a backbone of your security process. Available as a free download, the SDL Threat Modeling Tool helps engineers analyze the security of their systems to find and address design issues early in the software lifecycle.

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer: Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to frequently asked questions about Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) 2.2 including system requirements, configuration, scanning, and reporting. MBSA 2.2 provides a streamlined method for IT pros to identify missing security updates and common security misconfigurations.

Detecting Security Bulletins with the Extended Security Update Inventory Tool
The Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is designed to help IT pros identify Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) client computers that may need security updates that are not detectable using the existing SMS Security Update Inventory Tool built on MBSA.

Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 3.0
Learn how to reduce IT costs by using Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST) 3.0 to more easily update your offline virtual machines, templates, and virtual hard disks with the latest operating system and application patches—without introducing vulnerabilities into your IT infrastructure.

Downloads

Keeping Enterprise Data Safe with Office 2010

Keeping Enterprise Data Safe with Office 2010 - Office 2010 Security Whitepaper

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=4a9e2382-f375-43bf-b5d6-dcf9df5c3e37

Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) Core System Documentation: Encoding and Unicode Considerations

Describes what you need to know when dealing with Encoding and Unicode in applications built on top of Microsoft solutions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=4b8c3058-0821-492a-ad3d-5e8ad9a5e9d1

Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Service Level Agreement (SLA)

This document has been moved. Please update your links and bookmarks with the new location, listed below.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=f5714ed7-f14d-499e-b7d9-3365c9008113

NTFS Chkdsk Best Practices and Performance

This document provides best practices for using NTFS Chkdsk.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=35a658cb-5dc7-4c46-b54c-8f3089ac097a

QFE Rollup Package 2 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

This download fixes issues in Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010

Please read KB article 2465832 for complete information.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d3fabb18-1adb-4c87-a95d-d3c3826d5bfb

Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive Service Level Agreement (SLA)

This document has been moved. Please update your links and bookmarks with the new location, listed below.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=01c1168f-8f59-4746-9b42-f1166bb7142d

AD CS Step-By-Step Guide

This document describes the steps needed to set up a basic public key infrastructure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=44315bff-b744-4637-a66b-e69b4955ee45

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [March 2011] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa029fde-f341-44fc-8b85-0c6f3d3c2d69

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) x64

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=585d2bde-367f-495e-94e7-6349f4effc74

March 2011 Security Release ISO Image

This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on March 11th, 2011.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab55654c-c685-4316-93fc-e3a80cccac71

Suite B PKI in Windows Server 2008

This document provides guidance for the planning and implementation of a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 public key infrastructure (PKI) using Suite B compliant cryptographic algorithms

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6f319ffa-739e-4fe8-bac3-92547baef7a9

Cross-forest Certificate Enrollment with Windows Server 2008 R2.doc

This paper explains how cross-forest certificate enrollment works. It also provides deployment guidance for cross-forest certificate enrollment in new and existing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) deployments.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d408be72-7c74-4b19-a2de-fa11858c30b2

Configuring and Troubleshooting Certification Authority Clustering in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2

This guide describes how to install, configure, and troubleshoot failover clustering with Active Directory Certificate Services in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=15c75333-be26-4955-a32c-03077daf1631

Certificate Enrollment Web Services in Windows Server 2008 R2

This paper explains how certificate enrollment Web services work in Windows Server 2008 R2. It also provides deployment guidance for certificate enrollment Web services in new and existing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) deployments.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=28b910f8-6374-48dd-a897-11fff62ab795

Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)

This download center location contains information related to administering Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d9cbaab9-552b-45f0-a8ac-b3cb4009f068

Microsoft SCEP Implementation Whitepaper.

This whitepaper provides an overview of Microsoft implementation for SCEP in the Windows Server 2008 R2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e11780de-819f-40d7-8b8e-10845bc8d446

Active Directory Certificate Services Upgrade and Migration Guidance

This document discusses the planning and implementation of a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) upgrade and migration from an existing Windows public key infrastructure (PKI), including scenarios and step-by-step instruction.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c70bd7cd-9f03-484b-8c4b-279bc29a3413

Webapps_Webcast_series_Jan_2011_videos

Webapps_Webcast_series_Jan_2011_videos

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a33b795b-f529-4a20-9335-ae2281e756cf

Microsoft IT CISO Perspective on Cloud Security

In this session, you will hear directly from Microsoft’s CISO as he shares his perspective on cloud security.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d48897ce-e0f5-4bde-a480-c1d6378578b8

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 Privacy Statement

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 Privacy Statement

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e72065f9-c08d-4c50-b785-b98416b530e3

SharePoint Server 2010 site and content security worksheet

Use this worksheet to record inherited and unique permissions, and record which groups need what level of access.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=478a6cdf-8b3c-4b2e-993f-be07715466a6

SharePoint Foundation 2010 site and content security worksheet

Use this worksheet to record inherited and unique permissions, and record which groups need what level of access.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=3ce0858d-0d59-4f70-8a55-1e493ea7c742

Events/WebCasts

Security Webcast Calendar http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=37910

Find security webcasts listed in an easy-to-use calendar format.

Upcoming Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/upcoming.mspx

Register for the following Webcasts on the link above

MSDN Webcast: Security Talk: Using the Attack Surface Analyzer (Level 200)

Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Information About Microsoft April Security Bulletins (Level 200)

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Pacific Time

On-Demand Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/ondemand.mspx

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