Since the Trustworthy Computing initative Microsoft developers have been writing code following the guidance and coding practises documented in "Writing Secure Code". The book is now in it's second edition which includes practical advise following experience...

At last, here is a feature comparison between Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services vs Business Objects Crystal Reports / Crystal Enterprise that I can actually point you to. We ' ve had our own internal one for quite sometime, but for what I believe...

Sorry I'm a little late in alerting you to this SQL Server 2005 Educational Webcast Series on TechNet, which runs from March 21-May 18. This 10 part series will provide IT Professionals with a broad overview of the benefits of SQL Server 2005 to whet...

Details of InfoSec 2005 can be found @ http://www.infosec.co.uk - it's one of the largest information security shows in Europe. Many of the security vendors will be there together with thousands of your peers. Microsoft are hosting a free seminar programme(in...

Interesting Information has a nasty habit of leaking - particularly when information security is not being managed effectively. If you need ammunition to help convince those around you that security should be taken seriously then a useful aid is referring...

http://www.netcraft.com is an interesting site for a number of reasons. The site includes the facility for you to enter the URL of a site which you'd like to find out which webserver software is being used to host it. In addition to many other useful...

Hundreds of you joined the TechNet team at our first roadshow of the year in Edinburgh earlier this week. I thoroughly enjoyed our discussions and look forward to meeting more of you at the next session which takes place in Birmingham on 24th and 25th...

Last week the Terminal Services Team squared off against the EEC crew in a very one-sided dodgeball game at the ProClub in Redmond... I wasn't able to make it, but as I hear things, the score was something like EEC=3, TS=0! Stanley Jones took some video...

As already mentioned two days ago every good website should have an option to search the content of the site. Although MCMS does not ship it's own search engine you can easily integrated 3rd party search engines with MCMS. Especially to integrate with...

Chong Lee and Thomas Mathew -- Technology Specialists here at Microsoft -- are developing a report that you can load into Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM) to monitor the performance of physical computers that are candidates for virtualization....

Virtual Server Deployment Manager (VSDM) provides a streamlined way to manage and deploy Virtual Machines. Using this tool, regular users (not just administrators) will be able to create and manage their own machines, without impacting other users' machines....

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I display a multi-valued attribute that I get back when using ADO to search Active Directory? -- ES Hey, ES. For the most part Active Directory is a script writer’s paradise; with very few exceptions anything you can do using...

Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA) Update We are pleased to announce updated WSSRA materials and an enhanced online navigation experience for delivering core IT service guidance, which integrates Microsoft server products into real world...

When you setup an Indigo service in the default way, it is not possible to use anything other than the default constructor for creating your object. There are two ways you can setup a custom object to use as your service instance, the first is to use...

At the Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference here in Seattle, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced its Policy Laundering Project. What was most interesting to me was one of the examples of what they used to illustrate the need for their...

That is the quote from Senator Arlen Spector yesterday in federal hearings with LexisNexis and the other data brokers. What is described over and over is the relative unsophistication of the attacks -- how about the unsophistication of the data protections?...

In this article, Dan outlines vital considerations when planning and designing an Active Directory implementation. Dan covers the process end to end - from initial business decisions such as why you are undertaking the implementation, to high level Forest...

Here are some more details on some pre-migration tasks I have implemented in my In-Place Migration strategy for customers migration from NT4 to 2003. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but rather a guide on what you should include in your in-place...

Since yesterday a new support policy for Microsoft Virtual Server is available. This policy now outlines that most Window Server software (except the ones from this list ) is now supported in a Microsoft Virtual Server environment. Unfortunatelly Microsoft...

Yesterday was significant for two reasons. Two related announcements were made on microsoft.com regarding the support policy for those of you running microsoft applications in virtual environments. I am asked about this so often, and am frustrated by...

Authoring connector as being shipped in the package allows to publish content from a Word document but it in a not very flexible manner: you can choose to publish a selected part of the document or the whole document to an (Office)HtmlPlaceholder object...

Short note: the list of whitepapers and other resourses has been updated today....

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file that contains a bunch of names. How can I read through that text file and eliminate all the duplicate names? -- MW Hey, MW. We’re assuming you have a text file that looks something like this: Ken Myer Dean Tsaltas...

Title: Course 2288: Using Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 Course Type: Self-paced course Available Offline: Yes Estimated Time to Complete: 5 hours Description: This course prepares students to migrate legacy applications and consolidate server functions...

The EEC has recently been evaluating iSCSI technology options from some of our vendor partners - Really interesting stuff. We haven't had any requests from customers for this technology yet, but we want to get up to speed on it and gain some operational...