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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:22 AM

I'm Warning You, I Have a Smartphone and I Am Not Afraid to Use It, Part Deux

I'm reading Super Crunchers , and one of the cases quoted therein is that when you install a lojack in your car, you are benefiting me , even though I haven't installed one. Because the car thieves don't know which cars are 'jacked and which are not,
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:17 PM

SIR V.5 In the Wild

Splogbane : If you are reading this on a blog other than http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso, why not stop patronizing a splog and come over to the original? The latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) - Version 5 - is live. Good video ( The Bret
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:32 AM

Hyper-V How To: Harden Your VM Security

You should follow the best practice recommendations in the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide ,for hardening your W2K8 VMs. The GPO Accelerator can make this easier. The GPOAccelerator creates all the Group Policy objects (GPOs) that you need to deploy
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Monday, September 15, 2008 1:30 PM

Hyper-V How To: Plan for Hyper-V Security

My article on Hyper-V Security best practices has been selected as September tip of the month. Check out Planning for Hyper-V Security . Kai Axford has a good article in the same newsletter issue: " Security in a Virtual World ." For videos and additional
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:02 AM

Hyper-V How To: Share Resources

In Virtual Server (and VPC) it was fairly easy to create a share and place resources on it that you want to share between Host and VM. Easy, not secure for enterprise use. You can;t do this anymore in Hyper-V. Splogbane: If you are reading this on a blog
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:57 AM

New TechEd 2008 Hyper-V Videos Posted

Video presos on Hyper-V From TechEd 2008 are now posted on TechNet, check these out: Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios and Networking , Jeff Woolsey, Mike Sterling Deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Best
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:25 PM

Where is the BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool?

It gets a bit confusing if you want to improve the security of your Windows Server 2008 virtualization server and the VMs on it by running BitLocker Drive Encryption. Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption is a feature that encrypts one or more volumes (drives)
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:33 AM

Patch Tuesday Aftermath: Do You Know Where Your VMs Are?

It is a security best practice recommendation to ensure that all your VMs are fully patched before they are turned on in production. One way you can do this is to create a designated " maintenance host " that is off the production network, but has access
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:04 AM

Hyper-V Security How to: Use BitLocker to Protect Your VMs

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption was recently published to the download center, but some folks are having trouble accessing it (it seems there is a lot of interest in all things Hyper-V). Here are the procedures in the doc to
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Friday, June 20, 2008 10:57 AM

Microsoft It in the Forefront

IT Showcase (my old group) documents how Microsoft IT runs Microsoft using Microsoft products. They’ve just released a technical white detailing the IT deployment of Forefront Client Security solution to on 40,000 corpet PCs. Check out Deploying Microsoft
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:57 AM

Virtualization Security Best Practices – How to Lockdown a Hyper-V Host

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Brandon Baker, Senior Dev Lead on the Hyper-V team to get some security best practices. You can hear them in this 8 minute podcast on Virtualization Security Best Practices , including: Use Windows Server 2008
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:45 AM

How Microsoft Does Security

The IT Showcase group inside Microsoft IT writes up how we do things at Microsoft. Their latest white paper is just released: How Microsoft IT Manages Physical Security through Strategic IT Convergence . This paper details the strategy for physical security
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:44 AM

Updated Hyper-V Management Tools for Vista SP1

The updated Windows Vista Service Pack 1 management tools for the Hyper-V Release Candidate 1 are now available from the Microsoft Download Center, including:  The Hyper-V Manager Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. The Hyper-V Manager MMC
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:17 AM

How to Turn Off UAC for App Testing

The new Windows User Account Control Step-by-Step Guide provides guidance on handling UAC behavior when you need to test applications, such as LOB apps, in both Vista and Windows Server 2008. It covers three scenarios: Scenario 1: Request an application
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 1:12 PM

Thief!

I was a victim of ID theft this last week. Luckily, my credit card company (and their AI) were vigilant and phoned me on the weekend, and I was able to cancel the account before too much <financial> damage was done. I am now still faced with the
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