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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:13 AM

Download SQL Server 2008 CTP for free

The latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) for SQL Server 2008 (formerly known as "katmai") is available for download via the Microsoft Connect website . As is mentioned on the right hand side of the download page you need to register for the CTP BEFORE
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:21 PM

What is TagSpace? Announcing the Beta of Microsoft Forums and Microsoft Blogs

The Microsoft Community team in corp have released betas of TagSpace, Microsoft Forums and Microsoft Blogs. The ethos is for us to provide plumbing to make it easier for communities to link up and share information. Browsing to the " Help Build Microsoft
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Monday, November 13, 2006 4:33 PM

What is forefront client security and how will it protect my enterprise from malware?

Forefront Client Security is one of the expanding range of Microsoft Forefront Security products. It's aim is to provide enterprises with the means to centrally define and measure compliance to an anti-malware policy. Specifically Forefront Client Security
Posted by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Friday, May 12, 2006 7:53 AM

How can I get hold of Windows Vista Beta software? How much is TechNet Plus?

Following my post about recent builds of Windows Vista I received a comment from hir8er pertaining to frustration about the cost or difficulty of getting hold of the Beta software. This is the only blog post I've written over the last couple of years
Posted by Steve Lamb | 19 Comments
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:12 AM

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is now available - download IE7 here

Click here to download Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 . IE 7 is nearing release bringing with it a wealth of security improvements including significant re-engineering and new features including the anti-phishing filter. Much will no doubt be made of the
Posted by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
Monday, April 03, 2006 9:02 AM

ISA 2006 Pulic Beta together with Technical Product details and User Interface Walkthroughs

Internet Security and Acceleration Server is an established security product that's been in production environments since the year 2000. The second major release of the product was denoted "ISA 2004". ISA 2004 majors on protecting Microsoft Server applications
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:01 AM

How to securely publish multiple HTTPS websites on a single port via ISA

At last week's PKI TechNet event in Reading several people asked how to get around the challenge of allowing multiple certificates to be used (corresponding to individual HTTPS web sites) in conjunction with ISA's web server publishing feature. For those
Posted by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
Monday, March 27, 2006 5:12 PM

Windows Vista build 5342 is NOT a Community Technology Preview

There's a great deal of chatter on the web with regard to "a new CTP" (Community Technology Preview) of Windows Vista. Personally I'm participating in a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) community gathering - just like online there's a great
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Friday, March 24, 2006 7:32 PM

Try Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 for yourself - it's really good

I've read some entertaining posts about IE 7 beta 2 comparing it to some other browsers. One in particular made me laugh though I can't post it as it included an expletive ;-( and I don't want to offend anyone. I've been surprised by the number of children
Posted by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:07 PM

Windows Defender Beta 2 is now available - it's the new name for Microsoft AntiSpyware

Click here to find out more about our updated AntiSpyware offering. Windows Defender is the new name for Microsoft AntiSpyware and it's built into the current Beta of Windows Vista. The website includes an interesting comparison of Windows Defender to
Posted by Steve Lamb | 6 Comments
Friday, February 03, 2006 7:21 PM

If you're planning to buy new laptops and want to make the most of the security features of Windows Vista

Note: The information in this post is based on the features of beta software and hence they may change before Windows Vista ships. To make the most of Windows Vista's advanced security features you need to ensure that new machines are TPM 1.2 compliant.
Posted by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Friday, December 09, 2005 4:28 PM

Running Virtual Server R2 on Windows Vista

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.
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:41 PM

Make sure you get your wireless security passphrase right on Windows Vista

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
Posted by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:27 PM

Ooops - my "Was is R2" post slipped out before I'd finished it

Some of you may have read my post "What is R2" and wondered why on earth I only posted a single (not particularly funny) line entry. Many people ask me about R2 and so I figured I'd write a meaningful post - unfortunately I accidentally posted it as it
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Friday, July 29, 2005 3:45 PM

How will Network Access Protection be enforced for IPSEC? How to secure IPSEC clients? How does IPSEC work?

We have just released a white paper which explains in detail the plans for Network Access Protection(NAP) to enforce the security of IPSEC clients. NAP will be a very powerful part of Windows Vista and the corresponding server operating system (currently
Posted by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
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