Today we were adding 17 additional markets to our Microsoft Security Essentials offering. I am really excited about that as all these markets are in EMEA: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. Additionally we added Russian an Romanian as languages. This is really exciting stuff – and the tool is a anti-malware solution for free! If you want to see all the countries

FInd out how you can use Local Security Policies in Windows 7 to modify the behavior of User Account Control . Follow our daily tips on: Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released a new guide: Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway. This guide outlines the critical infrastructure design elements that are key to a successful implementation of Forefront Unified Access Gateway (Forefront UAG). The reader is guided through the logical three-step process of selecting the Forefront UAG features required, determining the number of instances, and designing the infrastructure. If access logging is required, the guide leads

Die dunkle Seite der Macht ist immer präsent. In IT Netzwerken muss man sich permanent gegen Bedrohungen und nicht autorisierte Zugriffsversuche schützen – und zwar alle Maschinen . Dies ist Aufgabe des Systemadministrators. Genauso sind die Benutzer gefordert, mit sensiblen Informationen wie Kennwörtern, Geschäftsdaten und Co. vertraulich umzugehen. Nur, wie sieht das mit virtuellen Maschinen (VM) aus, die nur zeitweise gebraucht werden und offline sind? Wer hält die aktuell? Die VMs sind von der

The Solution Accelerator team has released a new guide: Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway . This free guide outlines the critical infrastructure design elements that are key to the successful implementation of Forefront Unified Access Gateway (Forefront UAG). The logical three-step process presented in this guide includes selecting the Forefront UAG features required, determining the number of instances, and designing the infrastructure. If access logging is required, the guide leads the

在 2009 年 12 月 11 号以后，我们发现了关于“无法打开被‘权限管理服务’（ RMS ）加密的 Office 2003 文档”的紧急问题。为了避免对您的业务任何可能的影响，特提前向您介绍症状和解决方案如下： 问题症状描述： 2009 年 12 月 11 日以后，使用 Office 2003 的客户无法打开或保存通过“权限管理服务”（ Rights Management Service ）加密的文档。当文档被打开时，将会显示以下错误信息： “出现意外的错误。 请稍后再试或与系统管理员联系” "Unexpected error occurred. Please try again later or contact your system administrator” 该问题影响到了 Office 2003 与权限管理服务（ RMS ）的配合使用，包括 Word 2003 ， Word Viewer 2003 ， Excel 2003 ， Excel Viewer 2003 ， PowerPoint 2003 和 Outlook 2003 。但是 Office 2007 不会受到影响。

Windows 7 includes some important improvements for securing the desktop. Here's a quick overview of the new security features you'll find in Windows 7 and how they help improve security. Follow our daily tips on: Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS

Hemos recibido reportes de nuestros clientes con problemas al abrir documentos protegidos con AD Rights Management Service en Office 2003. Este problema ha sido solucionado y está disponible la actualización en los siguientes artículos: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978551 (Office 2003) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978557 (Excel Viewer) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978558 (Word Viewer) Pueden encontrar referencias de este problema en los artículos mencionados y en los siguientes blogs de

Last week there was quite some discussion about “successful attacks” on Bitlocker. Those discussions are often quite interesting for me as they show sometimes that people are looking for one technical solution for all the problems. Bitlocker has a clear threat model it wants to protect you from. This is mainly the loss of your computer. If it is running and the attacker is admin – well Bitlocker cannot protect you. To quote a blog post of our Windows Security Team: Our discussions of Windows BitLocker

Hello, I had an interesting customer request recently that I thought I would share with you. Prior to an upgrade to 2003 they had an account which was used for Remote Desktop Users. On upgrading to 2003 this account became replaced by a System Owned Object with exactly the same name. So their question to me was how do we rename a System Owned account without getting the following error. "The attribute cannot be modified because it is owned by the system" Carry out the following steps. Warning:

Metadata within a file can tell a lot about you. Cameras record data about when a picture was taken. Microsoft Office automatically adds author and company information to documents. And with user-created tags, you can add details that might be useful on a local copy but are unwise to disclose to the public. Here's how Windows 7 lets you remove personal metadata from files to protect your privacy. Follow our daily tips on: Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS

Mike here again. Microsoft has introduced additional security measures for authentication known as Extended Protection for Authentication , also known as channel binding token (CBT). Extended protection can cause a variety of interoperability issues including but not limited to: Windows clients that support channel binding fail to be authenticated by a non-Windows Kerberos server NTLM authentication failures from Proxy servers NTLM authentication failures from non-Windows NTLM servers NTLM authentication

I wanted to highlight a couple new resources that are available for Hyper-V. The first is an amazing update to the Hyper-V Technical Information and Resources page on TechNet. There is great information for Hyper-V including: Installation Guides Deployment and Performance Guidance Deployment Guides Planning and Pre-deployment Tools Management Tools Workload Specific Guides, including Sharepoint, SQL, and Exchange whitepapers This is definitely a site to bookmark as a Hyper-V technical reference.

First thing you’re thinking is, ‘What’s a Community Technical Preview?’  Well, I’m not actually 100% sure to be honest, but I think it’s pre-beta, but not too far off beta, if you know what I mean :-)  As always, I could be wrong! :) Anyway, if you’re not familiar with MAP, in a nutshell, MAP is designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments.  MAP provides a quick and complete

台灣微軟今日發佈十二月份定期安全公告與編號 MS09-069~MS09-074 共 6 個安全補充程式，這 6 個安全補充程式的嚴重性等級分別為 3 個重大等級和 3 個重要等級， 主要針對幾項可能導致使用者系統遭惡意影響後有執行遠端執行程式碼、拒絕服務或積存資訊安全更新等風險。 我們呼籲民眾應盡速下載補充程式，以提升電腦資訊安全， 詳細本月份資訊安全公告資訊摘要請參考 。 >> 本月份安全摘要 本月 6 個安全性公告與解決最近發現的弱點內容： 資訊安全公告編號： MS09-069 嚴重性等級： 重要 公告標題： 本地安全性授權子系統服務中的弱點可能會允許拒絕服務 (974392) 安全性風險的影響： 拒絕服務 重新開機需求： 需要重新開機 受影響的軟體： Microsoft Windows 2000 、 Windows XP 和 Windows Server 2003 。 資訊安全公告編號： MS09-070 嚴重性等級： 重要 公告標題： Active Directory Federation Services 中的弱點可能會允許遠端執行程式碼 (971726) 安全性風險的影響：

Believe it or not, but the recently introduced, free security solution from Microsoft manages to hold its own against fully-fledged, paid security suites from heavyweight players on the security market, at least when it comes down to generic detection and heuristic techniques. In fact, Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0, formerly codenamed Morro, fared better than the products from security companies that were fast to downplay the relevance of a free basic solution from the Redmond company. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Security-Essentials-vs-Kaspersky-Nod32-BitDefender-Symantec-McAfee-128482.shtml

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The December 2009 Security Bulletin summary is now available on Technet. For information about how to receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft security bulletins are issued, visit Microsoft Technical Security Notifications . Microsoft is also hosting a webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins on December 9, 2009, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time. Register now for the December security bulletin webcast . After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information,

Three guys got together over pints in February 2009 and talked about how one of the issues facing Technical Professionals today is keeping their systems patched and up to date. This issue was brought up to them at a User Group meeting they were attending ( Ottawa Windows Server User Group ) where we were participating in an “Ask the Microsoft Guy” panel discussion. Over pints at D’Arcy McGee’s , Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and I decided we would try to help solve the issue of information overload

The TechNet Belux team is organizing a webcast in Dutch and French on the security improvements in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The webcast is hosted from the Microsoft offices and include audio, video and live presentation and demo views using Microsoft’s LiveMeeting. It’s strongly recommended to install the LiveMeeting client application before attending the webcast. Beveiligingsverbeteringen in Windows 7 en Windows Server 2008 R2 (26 januari) In deze sessie belicht Windows beveiligingsexpert