Security: An Introduction to Security in Windows 7 Windows 7 includes many new features and enhancements to help improve security. Here’s an overview of everything you’ll find, from the new Biometric Framework and AppLocker to improvements for BitLocker and UAC. Security: PKI Enhancements in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 introduce PKI enhancements that greatly improve the deployment and operational experience for users, enabling powerful new scenarios while

" How can I tell whether pop-up updates are real or spam? " and " Will I need to re-learn Word, Excel, Publisher etc if I upgrade to Office 2007? " are the two questions we highlight this month in our Ask the Expert feature. Asif Jinnah, Microsoft UK Field Area IT Manager tackles the ever-present business challenge of making sure your data and your systems are secure, and Gill Le Fever, Microsoft Office Marketing Manager highlights some of the tools available to help you get up to speed quickly with

Many of our customers do not know what computers are in their IT environment or what applications have been deployed.  The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 3.2 Beta makes it easier for customers and partners to quickly identify what servers, workstations, and network devices are in their IT environment. MAP also makes specific and actionable IT proposals and reports to help customers get the most value out of Microsoft products and infrastructure. Over 500,000 Microsoft customers

Do you work in a Small to Medium Business (5 to 75 employees) operating in PA, NJ, MD, DE, VA, WV or the District of Columbia? If you do, you may qualify to win a Technology Makeover for your business! Everything you need—brand new hardware, tons of software and a local Microsoft Partner to put it all together for you. Welcome to the Microsoft Mid Atlantic SBS 2008 Technology Makeover Sweepstakes! This is your chance to win a complete overhaul of your network infrastructure, starting with the latest

Do you work in a Small to Medium Business (5 to 75 employees) operating in PA, NJ, MD, DE, VA, WV or the District of Columbia? If you do, you may qualify to win a Technology Makeover for your business! Everything you need—brand new hardware, tons of software and a local Microsoft Partner to put it all together for you. Welcome to the Microsoft Mid Atlantic SBS 2008 Technology Makeover Sweepstakes! This is your chance to win a complete overhaul of your network infrastructure, starting with the latest

‘Free’ is a tricky word – companies like Microsoft don’t like to use it because if you say ‘free training course’ the cost of driving to the venue is not free of course. And your time isn’t free either. So, accepting that you still have to pay for your internet connection, office space and time, etc, here are some FREE resources that might go some way to smoothing the ever-increasing financial burdens we’re all suffering from. Get a free company domain, website and email with Microsoft Office Live

금일 오전부터 TechNet WebCast 녹화 및 준비 관계로 정신없이 있다가, 이제서야 포스팅을 합니다. 출시 후, 약 1년여만에 첫번째 Office 2007의 서비스팩이 출시되었습니다. 서비스팩 1에서는 보안, 안정성, 성능에 주안점을 두었습니다. 오늘 바로 업데이트하세요! 다운로드 페이지 Office 2007 SP1 WhitePaper

Ladies and Gentlemen, If your WSUS 2.0/3.0 Server synchronized with Windows Update between Sunday November 11th at 5 PM PST and Monday November 12th at 11 AM you may be unable to access your administration console. If your servers did not synchronize during this time, you should be unaffected, if you have access to your WSUS Administration Console you are unaffected, if you do not have access to your WSUS Admin console and you believe the cause was synchronization during this window please continue

The 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide is live, and you can check it out on the TechNet Security Center . This solution accelerator can help you keep users productive and help secure your systems and data. It will help you to determine how to set the hundreds of security and privacy settings available with the 2007 Office system, balancing your organization's requirements for security and functionality. The 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide solution accelerator consists of the following components:

That's pronounced MO-ICE. It stands for Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment, and yes, you should have it. What MOICE does and why you need it MOICE uses the converters in the 2007 Office release to convert Microsoft Office binary format files (used in Office 2003 and earlier) into the Microsoft Office Open XML format. This process helps to remove the potential threat that may exist if the document opens in the binary format. MOICE converts incoming files in an isolated environment to

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We've released a new security paper on our TechCenter that covers Groove Enterprise Services. Nothing like a little security reading to get you all fired up, right? Its a short paper, only 9 or 10 pages, but if you run Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, Microsoft Office Groove 2007, or Microsoft Office Live Groove, this information is relevant to you. In the paper, Microsoft Office Groove Enterprise Services Security , we detail the steps we take to protect our hosting environment for the Groove Relay

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The increasing sophistication or "intelligence" of software will dramatically impact business, science, medicine, the media, politics and ultimately people and society. Today’s challenges - security, compliance, or just keeping machines up and running – prevent organisations from fully benefiting from their investments in people and technology. The next generation of Windows Vista and Office “12” aims to make it easier and more cost-effective for organisations to address these challenges - freeing

The Belgian community has a very strong reputation internationally with many individuals making their mark in their fields of expertise. Lots of individuals, like yourself, are hungry for more information about the many Microsoft products and technologies. In addition to the technical information, there is also very often the need to just socialize with other persons within the same domain of expertise. Five belgian usergroups, BIWUG, VISUG, SQLUG, IT-Talks, and Pro-Exchange , have decided to combine

Afternoon Breakout Sessions 12:00 P.M Breakout Sessions Session A – Imperial Room Hands-on Training Topic: Microsoft Exchange Hosting by Keith Keeler, Northeast & Mid-Atlantic, Exchange Hosted Services Session B – Radio City RM 6042 Topic: Office Business Development by Bill Zack, Architect Evangelist – Developer & Platform Evangelist Session C – Belvedere RM 6035 Topic: Futures of Virtual Servers at Microsoft by Allen Steward, Senior Microsoft Architect Chat Room # 6047 Sapphire Consulting

I just got in from LCCC. Jason and I were down there getting everything setup for tomorrow.. I'm telling you, we have an awesome day planned. I really want to call out the support we've received from Shirley Yanovich at LCCC. She went to bat for us with administration to get us the space and it's perfect. For those that regularly attend our events, we won't be in the usual classroom. Instead we'll be in the conference center--parking lot D. LCCC (thanks to Shirley's advocacy) has given us access

Tech Day Summit The New York Windows Enterprise user group is proud to announce the next annual Tech Day event. This all day event will be held at Microsoft’s New York offices, 1290 Avenue of Americas, 6th Floor, on Saturday 6/2/07. This year we will focus on the design, deployment, and implementation of Microsoft applications from an administrative and a programming point of view. Tech Day will drill down into the features and functionality associated with Microsoft products including: Office 2007,

Last year, the dot NET Valley hosted its first TechBash, an all day conference of technology professionals dedicated to a deep examination of bleeding edge technology. This year is no different—only we’ll be bigger and better. I just got off the phone with Michele from Starbuck’s Dickson City, they are donating coffee, so we’ll have fresh Starbuck’s to amp us up for a day of great conversations—thanks Starbuck’s! We’ll have some donuts and danish in the morning and we’ll be serving lunch (courtesy

Ravi is an associate of mine who working in India , but is very well connected up at corp. It looks like he’s posted some information about some satellite technology we’ve been working on quietly for the past few years. I didn’t realize any of this was ready for public announcement, but now that Tony has mentioned it, I can say I’m really looking forward to leveraging the new communication technology . The idea of having my video camera link to my mom’s cell phone – all from 1000 miles away – is