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Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:36 AM

Free-as-in-beer Security Baselines for Win7, BL and IE8

The Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series provides organizations with an end-to-end solution to help them plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows operating systems and 2007 Microsoft Office applications. Recent updates include
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:49 AM

“Xmas Came Early!”: Free Risk Tracker 1.0 Tool from Microsoft

The customer-focused information security team have released the free-as-in-beer Risk Tracker 1.0 on Codeplex. This sample app (did I mention it was free?) helps the Microsoft Information Security Team track information security risk across the company.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:07 PM

Hyper-V How To: Understand Security Auditing

Read the Windows Server 2008 R2 security auditing resources below – and you’ll be up to speed: Advanced Security Audit Policy Step-by-Step Guide This step-by-step guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 demonstrates the process of setting up an
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Friday, October 02, 2009 10:33 AM

Answeredness as a Competitive Advantage

Microsoft’s community forums have a nifty feature that is a little hard to find because you need to begin to ask a question before you see it. Let’s say you go to the Hyper-V Forum, and you have a question about Processor affinity. You can search “How
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:55 AM

Free-as-in-beer Security Protection from Microsoft

I’ve been dogfooding Microsoft Security Essentials for quite awhile now and recommend it to everyone one I know. Download it free today here . Did I mention that it is free-as-in-beer? Event though I use remote assistance and PSR to help friends and family
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Monday, September 28, 2009 12:52 PM

Hyper-V How To: Turn Off IPV6

By default, IPv6 is enabled in Windows Server 2008. If you want to disable IPv6 for any reason – perhaps you have some VMs you want to exclude for testing, you have to use Registry Editor to completely disable IPv6. For those who prefer not to muck about
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Friday, August 07, 2009 12:00 PM

Hyper-V Common Criteria Certification

  Q: Is Hyper-V Common Criteria Certified (Common Criteria level EAL4 augmented by ALC_FLR.3)? A: Heck ya: : http://www.bsi.de/zertifiz/zert/reporte.htm#Midsize_Systems :-) Congrats to the Hyper-V team.
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 2:09 PM

Day 0 Has Arrived: Go Read SecBul 972890 Now if Your Users are XP/2003

Yesterday was Day Zero for the Video Active X control vulnerability reported in Security Advisory 972890 . Luckily, this only affects XP and Windows Server 2003 users, so those who are on current OS versions are protected. Unfortunately, many, many of
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:10 AM

Stupid User Bailout - Free-as-in-Beer Microsoft Security Essentials Beta

You spend more time supporting users than you’d like – you’d like to be doing more proactive stuff, right? You spend the majority of that time bailing users out of security issues. Why should only big banks, insurance, and car companies get bailouts?
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Friday, June 19, 2009 11:42 AM

IT Pro and the “remix”

As an IT Pro, you may or may not be aware of the “ remix culture ”. Really, when you read TN/MSDN blogs, you are participating in it…even if you don’t think about it that way. I’m looking for some feedback from you about an idea I’ve been discussing with
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Friday, June 19, 2009 11:03 AM

Hyper-V How To: Monitor Hyper-V R2 VMs in a Sidebar Gadget

Over in the Windows Server R2 Virtualization Forum Dale Unroe shared a nifty tip: Once you install the RSAT tools for Win7 , you can use Tore’s Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar to monitor your R2 VMs - slickness.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:31 PM

Free-as-in-beer Technet Virtual Conference

Andrew’s blog post gives the details : Windows 7 – Deployment and Management Windows Server 2008 R2 - 10 things to make life easier for IT Pros An overview of Office Communications Server R2 and voice capabilities The trials and tribulations of SharePoint
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:22 AM

Windows Server How To: Be A Management Test Pilot

Windows Server Site Visits in July  09 (Open to US and Canada participants only) The Windows Server User Research team wants to learn from people who are involved in any and all aspects of managing servers! If your company has at least 500 PCs and
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:21 PM

Free-as-in-Beer Treat Modeling Tool: TAME 2.1.2

Microsoft Threat Analysis & Modeling (TAME, cause I put an “Enterprise” on the end) tool allows non-security subject matter experts to enter already known information including business requirements and application architecture which is then used
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Friday, April 24, 2009 1:21 PM

Free-as-in-beer Microsoft Security Privacy, and Internet Safety Videos You Can Use

Go to http://www.microsoft.com/protect/videos/downloads.mspx and download the free-as-in-beer videos there and bring them inside your firewall (see terms of use) then tell all your users to go watch them. No, seriously, get your users to watch these.
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