January 2008 - Posts

CRN: "Forefront Gaining Steam In Channel"
24 January 08 09:09 PM | David Burt | 0 Comments   
Nice article in CRN this week about the progress of Microsoft's security products channel business: Six months after unveiling its Security Solutions competency and a $50 million dollar investment in marketing, sales and training to support its Forefront Read More...
Publishing Communicator Web Access 2007 through ISA Server 2006
24 January 08 09:02 PM | David Burt | 0 Comments   
The ISA team has just published a gudie for Configuring Office Communicator Web Access 2007 for External Access. On the ISA Team blog, there's a step-by-step guide for configuring both ISA and CWA 2007 here... Read More...
Have you seen "The Lone Server?"
19 January 08 12:04 AM | David Burt | 0 Comments   
“Did you know that there is only one Windows Server 2003 running Microsoft.com today? The rest have all been upgraded to Windows Server 2008. There’s a funny video and more about the “Lone Server” story from the Windows Server crew here: www.loneserver.com Read More...
Microsoft positioned in Challengers Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, 2007
19 January 08 12:01 AM | David Burt | 1 Comments   
Microsoft has been placed in the Challengers Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms report. Gartner finds that “Point products for antivirus, anti-spyware, personal firewalls and host-based intrusion prevention (HIPS) are Read More...
IDC Study: Microsoft security partner programs succeed in making partners more profitable
14 January 08 07:18 PM | David Burt | 2 Comments   
IDC and Microsoft released, today, a study that shows that the Microsoft Partner Program is enabling security partners to be more successful compared to programs from other vendors. The study finds that partners participating in Microsoft’s SSA and SSC Read More...
Northwest Airlines uses ISA Server 2006
10 January 08 06:54 PM | David Burt | 1 Comments   
A nice case study of Northwest Airlines, complete with a video! Northwest Airlines (NWA), a major international carrier, wanted to improve security and provide its mobile work force better access to Web-based applications and e-mail. The need to remember Read More...
Announcing the Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research and Defense Blog
04 January 08 06:35 PM | David Burt | 0 Comments   
Check out our new Research Blog . Some good technical details: Hi everyone. This is Jonathan from the SWI team. My co-workers and I have posted technical vulnerability information a few times here on the MSRC blog. We'll continue to contribute to the Read More...
Managing an enterprise deployment of Forefront Client Security
02 January 08 11:56 PM | David Burt | 0 Comments   
From the Forefront Client team: We’ve seen a lot of questions from customers asking whether Client Security can be deployed and managed in an enterprise environment with tens of thousands of users. You can manage an enterprise deployment of more than Read More...
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