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Windows Server 2008 has a big focus on security and last night I got a chance to talk with some security folks at the Canberra Security Interchange . There was a lot to cover and I hope to break this session down into a series of screencasts because
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Yesterday we announced the availability of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 for free download . This is our bare metal Hyper-V only version. It’s not the Server Core option in Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V as it only has the Hyper-V component
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At Microsoft we have challenges around messaging protection just like other organisations. But unlike other organizations we are the target of many more advanced attacks from outside the company. So our internal IT department was looking
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In October 2008 we will again be experiencing changes to Daylight Savings in Australia. I wanted to make you aware of these changes so you can plan for them in your environments. The changes to daylight savings can have significant business impact if
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It's that time again! Time for another security bulletin. This month we hav 4 security bulletins all related to remote code executions. Check out the details below and make sure you apply these appropriately to your environments. Bulletin Number Maximum
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If you were at Teched Australia 2008 you would have seen many of our Virtualization technologies in action. I for one ran all my demos on Hyper-V and found it worked very well for me. Well today is Virtualization Launch Day in the US and kicks off a global
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In my previous post on NAP with 802.1x authentication I talked about setting up the server environment along with a switch that is compatible with 802.1x authentication. In this screencast I'm going to talk about how to configure a client running Windows
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Hi Everyone! Yes it’s that time again. Time for another Vodcast on Teched Australia 2008 . In this Vodcast I’m talking with Rocky Heckman who is owning the Security track this year. Rocky’s a good guy and we’ve worked on a few events in the past so I
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In the September edition of Technet Magazine we have some top tips to harden ISA Server 2006. Here are some highlights. ISA Server: A Guide to Securing ISA Server 2006 ISA Server: Enhance TS Gateway Security with ISA Server 2006
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This month we have 11 security updates so make sure you have a look at these and see where they apply to your environments. Bulletin Number Maximum Severity Affected Products Impact MS08-041 Critical Snapshot Viewer for Access, Office Access 2000, Office
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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been interviewing people from within Microsoft and out of Microsoft who have something to do with Teched Australia 2008 . What I plan on doing is interviewing my speakers and those people that are working
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The August edition of TechNet Magazine is now online. Here are some highlights. SQL Server: Top Tips for Effective Database Maintenance Windows Administration: Taking Your’s Server’s Pulse System Center: Windows PowerShell in System
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A few of us internally have been discussing whether we should have a session at TechEd 2008 on High Performance Computing 2008 or HPC 2008 for short. So we wanted to throw this out to the community and get your thoughts. So this is the
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More new content available from the Microsoft IT Showcase team. Deploying Microsoft Forefront Client Security at Microsoft Microsoft IT details the planning, deployment, and ongoing management of the largest current deployment of Forefront Client Security
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Just upgraded my main demo server with the RTM of Hyper-V. It was just a matter of applying the update package and then the Hyper-V Management tool on my Vista SP1 client and I was done. All good! So this is what I’ve got now. Technorati
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