Technical RollUp

January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – Manageability

News

Microsoft Acquires Opalis Software

Microsoft Acquires Opalis Software, a Toronto-based private company that is a leader in IT process automation software. Opalis will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft. Their products include:

· Prepackaged workflows and automation expertise for the common tasks in managing a datacenter. Examples include Run Book Automation, virtual machine lifecycle management, and incident ticket management.

· An automation platform that lets customers create and execute workflows across datacenter management tools.

· Deep integration capabilities to orchestrate tasks across server infrastructure and systems management products, including those from BMC, CA, IBM, HP, Microsoft, and Symantec.

http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/12/11/microsoft-acquires-opalis-software.aspx

Steve Rachui's Manageability blog - ConfigMgr/OpsMgr

http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/

The Manageability Guys

http://blogs.technet.com/manageabilityguys/

Configuration Manager & SMS

Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for December 2009

The Configuration Manager documentation library (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680651.aspx) has been updated on the Web and the latest content on the Web has Updated: December 1, 2009 at the top of the topic. This month's updates are primarily for revisions based on customer feedback. We do value customer feedback and try to incorporate it when possible. Although we can't promise to make the docs perfect for everybody, we are committed to continual improvement. So, keep that feedback coming, and feel free to contact us about anything related to the documentation by using our usual address of SMSDocs@Microsoft.com.

http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam/archive/2009/12/17/announcement-configuration-manager-documentation-library-update-for-december-2009.aspx

How to properly set up a Task Sequence to deploy Windows 7 images captured via an SCCM 2007 Capture CD

When a Task Sequence is created via the "Create New Task Sequence Wizard", the Task Sequence may fail if the Windows OS being deployed is Windows 7 and the reference Windows 7 WIM image being deployed was manually created and then captured using the SCCM 2007 Capture CD.

The Task Sequence Error dialog may show one of the following errors…

http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/archive/2009/12/17/how-to-properly-set-up-a-task-sequence-to-deploy-windows-7-images-captured-via-an-sccm-2007-capture-cd.aspx

The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/

The Deployment Guys

http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys

Carlos Santiago's Manageability Blog - SCCM/Softgrid

http://blogs.technet.com/carlossantiago/

Michael Niehaus' Windows and Office deployment ramblings

http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/

Paul Thomsen at myITforum.com

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/pthomsen/default.aspx

Operations Manager & MOM

Now available: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Audit Collection Services

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Audit Collection Services enables the collection and audit of events from UNIX and Linux Servers. Using Cross Platform ACS, events are collected from the desired Unix/Linux servers and stored in the Audit Collections Services Database. Audit reports for UNIX/Linux Server collected events are included.

http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/archive/2009/12/16/now-available-system-center-operations-manager-2007-r2-cross-platform-audit-collection-services.aspx

The Operations Manager Support Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/

Other

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/

The App-V Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/Softgrid/

Downloads

Configuration Manager & SMS

Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool

This Solution Accelerator provides automated tools and guidance that IT professionals can use to update offline virtual machines efficiently and without exposing them to security risks.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=8408ecf5-7afe-47ec-a697-eb433027df73

Operations Manager & MOM

Message Queuing MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Message Queuing Management Pack provides monitoring for Microsoft Message Queuing Services (MSMQ) version 3.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1d2b4398-8bc2-4a43-850c-852ebb0d983b

BizTalk Server MP for OpsMgr 2007

The BizTalk Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 provides monitoring for BizTalk Server 2006, BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and BizTalk Server 2009.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=389fcb89-f4cf-46d7-bc6e-57830d234f91

Antigen 9.0 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

This Antigen 9.0 management pack for Operations Manager 2007 supports the 9.0 versions of Microsoft Antigen for Exchange or Microsoft Antigen for SMTP Gateways. Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update 6.0.5000.16

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=72cda2c2-6dbd-4c70-bfcc-d2c8c6e459d3

Events/Webcasts

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42364#42364

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42363

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42365

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42555

Microsoft System Center Overview On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42366

Other

TechNet Webcast: Announcing Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta (Level 300)

Start Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

This month, Microsoft released the public beta for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010. Before you download the software, attend this webcast to learn about Data Protection Manager 2010 and the product features that are causing excitement in the IT community. During the webcast, we deploy a DPM 2010 server and walk you through most of the new features in DPM 2010 and the enhancements that were made to the Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) solution, which is protecting Windows-based application servers and file servers today.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032437132

New KB's

Configuration Manager & SMS

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: The Windows Deployment Service stops responding when you use a PXE service point on a computer that is running a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 site server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976073/EN-US

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: A "Run Command Line" task of a task sequence object in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 does not work on a 64-bit client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977176/EN-US

Sys Mgmt Svr Ent Ed 2003 EN: Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP3 are not listed as supported platforms for software distribution, update management, or desired configuration management in Systems Management Server 2003 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953027/EN-US

Operations Manager & MOM

MOM Ops Mgr Serv Ent Ed 2005 EN: There are no Office Communications Server 2007 events in the MOM 2005 Operator console

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978553/EN-US

Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN: Error message in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 report: “The Dundas chart for Reporting Services report item is unavailable"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977574/EN-US

Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN: A computer may be listed in the Agent Managed pane of the Operations console in System Center Operations Manager 2007 with the same name as the gateway server that was just installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978357/EN-US

January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – Platforms

News

Windows Server 2008 R2 e-Book Available as Free Download

Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 is a deep-dive work, that'll get you up to speed on how R2's new features and capabilities work, including Hyper-V and RDS virtualization, management, IIS and the new web application platform and, of course, all the synergistic goodness between Windows Server and Windows 7. Free for a click, so don't miss out.

http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12975473&s1=0fff8a30-7b25-67dc-c0b4-0bda456fd9b4

Planning and Design Guidance for Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services

Streamline your planning and design process for implementing Remote Desktop Services infrastructure by using the simple nine-step process presented in the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/solutionaccelerators/ee395429.aspx?SA_CE=VIRT-IPD-NWSLR-TNETFLASH-2009-12-02

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is here

Microsoft Office 2010 gives you powerful new tools to express your ideas, solve problems, and connect with people. Be the first to download the beta and learn how the latest tools can benefit you and your business

http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx

Microsoft Security Essentials

Download now to protect your PC from viruses, spyware, and other malicious software-for free

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Tech·Ed 2010 - June 7-10, 2010

New Orleans, LA

Attend Tech·Ed 2010 and you will return to your office with the expertise only four days at Tech·Ed can offer. Learn about cutting edge trends to help make life easier while making personal connections with Microsoft experts and peers.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/techednorthamerica/

Other

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization

The World Simplified is a Virtual World

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld

The App-V Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid

The Official MDOP Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/mdop

Ask the Directory Services Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askds

Ask the Performance Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf

Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team

http://blogs.technet.com/networking

Ask the Core Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askcore

Ntdebugging Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging

Remote Desktop Services Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/rds

The Hot Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/hot

Downloads

Volume Licensing Program Guides

Volume Licensing documents, including program guides, datasheets, and FAQs

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=30a9ba5f-2027-4d38-bf4e-39fe160737d0

IE App Compat VHD

VPC Hard Disk Images for testing websites with different Internet Explorer versions on Windows XP and Windows Vista

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef

Deploying iSCSI Boot Nodes in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 1

This guide provides step-by-step procedures for deploying nodes in your HPC cluster that boot over iSCSI.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=737b7eca-d07e-4d24-8c98-68ebe5c66867

Using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 - Controlling Communication with the Internet

Provides steps that administrators can take to limit, control, or prevent the communication that flows between the features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and sites on the Internet.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=00345a67-a86a-4294-8ea2-52124f565767

Windows 7 Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals

The Windows 7 Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals is a Microsoft Office Excel-based spreadsheet listing software applications and respective Windows 7 compatibility information. Compatibility information has been verified by either the software publisher or by the Windows 7 Logo Program testing requirements.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=890e522e-e39e-4278-aebc-186f81e29173

DPM 2010 PowerShell Script - Hyper-V Auto-Protection

sample PowerShell scripts for enabling DPM 2010 auto-protection of Hyper-V

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=46d51b5a-5827-43f6-84f5-ce33f4a8e6c3

Getting to Know Hyper-V: A Walkthrough from Initial Setup to Common Scenarios

This guide provides detailed step-by-step walkthroughs for testing Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2 in a preproduction environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=67b15af5-5936-4bb5-a805-bcc772257dd9

Windows Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP

Internet Explorer 8. Faster, Easier, More Private, and More Secure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=341c2ad5-8c3d-4347-8c03-08cdecd8852b

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

Download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to see if your PC is ready for Windows 7. It scans your hardware, devices, and installed programs for known compatibility issues, gives you guidance on how to resolve potential issues found, and recommends what to do before you upgrade.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1b544e90-7659-4bd9-9e51-2497c146af15

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356

Windows Media® Components for QuickTime

With Windows Media® Components for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac™, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=915d874d-d747-4180-a400-5f06b1b5e559

Windows Internet Explorer 8 for Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

Internet Explorer 8. Faster, Easier, More Private, and More Secure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=79154fb4-c610-4a1e-811d-dfe0f1dd84d1

Events/Webcasts

Live Webcasts:

Full list can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx

Interactive Webcast Calendar

The interactive calendar will help you quickly find live webcasts that fit your schedule as well as on-demand webcasts to view at your convenience. You can choose your time zone and filter this list by audience, webcast series, product or topic, and presenter.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx

Monthly Archived Webcasts:

http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/library/default.mspx

Windows 7: Build Innovative Applications Using Familiar Tools

Webcasts, Videos, and Podcasts

Test drive Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and learn how to build a next-generation user interface. Also, see how you can create custom shell and driver components as well as applications from end to end.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnwindows7.aspx

Tech·Ed 2010 - June 7-10, 2010

New Orleans, LA

Attend Tech·Ed 2010 and you will return to your office with the expertise only four days at Tech·Ed can offer. Learn about cutting edge trends to help make life easier while making personal connections with Microsoft experts and peers.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/techednorthamerica/

TechNet Webcast: Maximizing Hyper-V iSCSI Performance with Microsoft and Intel (Level 200)

Intel and Microsoft solutions give IT organizations the means to maximize the value of iSCSI as they implement storage area networks (SANs). In this webcast, we explore how the combination of Intel Ethernet Server Adapters, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, and Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based servers provide an optimized, integrated solution that delivers excellent iSCSI connectivity using a Microsoft native iSCSI initiator. Topics we discuss include: Powerful enhancements to the Windows Server iSCSI initiator in Windows Server 2008 R2. New benchmark performance results of Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Intel Ethernet Server Adapters. Advanced iSCSI acceleration features in Intel Ethernet Server Adapters and how they work with the native iSCSI support in Windows Sever 2008 R2, and more. Presenters: Jim Schwartz, Virtualization Solutions Marketing Director, Microsoft Corporation, Suzanne Morgan, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, Jordan Plawner, Storage Networking Product Planner, Intel and Steve Schultz, Director of Product Marketing, Intel View other sessions from Windows Server 2008: Web, Virtualization, Security, and a Solid Foundation for Your Business Workloads If you have questions or feedback, contact us. ...

1/14/2010 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 1/14/2010 9:00 AM | Duration:60 Minutes

Primary Language: English

Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032432956&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Deploying Windows with Volume Activation (Level 300)

This follow-up webcast to "Plan for and Deploy Volume Activation for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2" is focused on demonstrating how to build product activation into your deployment planning for Windows. Join us to see how to set up the Key Management Service (KMS) and enable Multiple Activation Key (MAK) activation using the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT), and learn how to configure the keys in your master image using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 and Windows System Image Manager (WSIM). This demonstration-heavy webcast is designed to walk you through the activation process as part of deployment, from end-to-end. Presenters: Chris Jolley, Group Marketing Manager, Microsoft Corporation, Kim Griffiths, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation, and Jeremy Chapman, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation Kim Griffiths is a product manager on the Genuine Windows team at Microsoft, and she has more than 15 years of experience working in IT. A former infrastructure consultant specializing in Active Directory, security, and Microsoft Exchange, Kim currently focuses on enterprise and government customers. View other sessions from Windows 7: Increase Productivity, Improve Security, and Streamline PC Management If you have questions or feedback, contact us. ...

1/22/2010 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 1/22/2010 11:00 AM | Duration:60 Minutes

Primary Language: English

Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032438278&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Improving the Wireless Network Infrastructure at Microsoft (Level 300)

Improving the Wireless Network Infrastructure at Microsoft Attend this webcast to learn how Microsoft IT deployed the latest in wireless technology in its efforts to improve employee productivity and enhanced security. The deployment and testing were also in line with the Microsoft goal to move toward completely wireless office buildings. Join us to learn more. Presenter: Victoria Poncini, Principle SE Network Architect, Microsoft Corporation Victoria Poncini has been working in wireless technologies for the last 15 years. At AT&T, she worked with an early WAN wireless data offering that uses Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) and PocketNet, the first Web browser phone from AT&T. As an associate technical fellow for the Boeing Company, Victoria worked on wireless LANs on board airplanes, wireless transmissions between the plane and airport gates, and early IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN implementations in the enterprise, and she was the keynote speaker at an ARINC conference in Geneva, Switzerland, where she spoke about designing and testing wireless LANS on board the airplanes. Since joining Microsoft in 1999, Victoria has architected the Microsoft IT wireless network and has been involved in seven wireless patent filings for Microsoft relating to wireless interference detection and mitigation, ubiquitous wireless connectivity exchange, and recently TX BSS rate optimization. View other sessions from IT Manager Connections: Build Business and Careers on the Microsoft Platform If you have questions or feedback, contact us. ...

1/26/2010 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 1/26/2010 10:30 AM | Duration:60 Minutes

Primary Language: English

Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032429337&culture=en-US

New KB's

Windows Client

Win Vista Business 32bit AL: Incorrect lines are printed when a Word document is printed on a computer that is running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977225/EN-US

Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: Stop error code when you enable shadow copies on a volume that is larger than 64 terabytes on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista: "0x0000007E"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977001/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: An empty encrypted folder remains on a computer that is running Windows Vista after you move the folder to a network share

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978175/EN-US

Win Vista SP1 AL: A computer that is connected to an IEEE 802.1X authenticated network through a VOIP phone does not connect to the correct network after you resume it from Hibernate mode or Sleep mode

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976373/EN-US

Win Vista SP1 AL: TIFF files are printed in landscape orientation in Windows Photo Gallery on a computer that is running Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976520/EN-US

Win Vista SP1 AL: You cannot manually set an offline folder to online mode when the EFS feature is disabled on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976802/EN-US

Win Vista SP1 AL: The changes to a Group Policy object (GPO) are not applied in a Windows Server 2008-based domain that has some read/write domain controllers and some read-only domain controllers

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977401/EN-US

Win Vista SP2 AL: A standard user cannot use ActiveX Installer Service to install an ActiveX control on a computer that is running Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975445/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: After you repeatedly connect and disconnect a USB device to a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, the USB device is not detected

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975163/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Stop error when you uninstall the Intel PROSet/Wireless WiFi connection utility on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975494/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: A Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) device is not recognized by a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975749/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Stop error message after you install a WFP callout driver in Windows Vista SP2 or in Windows Server 2008 SP2: "STOP: 0x0000000A"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976529/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: You cannot open a Web folder by double-clicking it in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977262/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The keyboard shortcuts for removed options still work after you press CTRL+ALT+DEL on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977389/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Internet Explorer stops responding when you browse an Arabic Web site that uses Uniscribe API to process Arabic scripts in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977391/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Communication is interrupted periodically when you start a communication from a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 to a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977526/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Text strings that are not in a clipping region are printed unexpectedly when you use Microsoft XPS Document Writer to print a file from a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977585/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: You cannot start a VPN connection that uses CHAP or PAP authentication to a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977656/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: A computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 stops responding at a black screen early in the startup process

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977675/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The 2009 update package for the Japanese postal code dictionary in the Japanese Input Method Editor is now available for Windows Vista and for Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977747/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Functionality in KB 971644 - "Platform Update for Windows Vista" is lost when upgrading from one Vista edition to another

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978712/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: EnumFontFamiliesEx may return “Meiryo Bold” instead of “Meiryo” in elfFullName member for ENUMLOGFONTEX structure after KB975929 is installed or uninstalled on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978799/EN-US

Windows Pro 2000 EN: Microsoft Security Advisory: Description of the Quartz update for the Indeo codec: December 8, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976138/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: An update is available for Windows XP to support protocol negotiation for remote procedure call (RPC) over HTTP Authentication

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974841/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: Windows Server Update Services keeps reinstalling the root certificates update that is described in KB 931125 on the clients that are running Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978335/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978788/EN-US

Windows Server

Win Svr Std 2003 R2 EN: An NFS LOCK request for a file on an NFS share is not handled correctly on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974866/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Datactr R2 AL: ISATAP and 6to4 tunneled addresses cannot be used by the NLB feature on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977342/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtcntr wo HV AL: MS09-070: Vulnerabilities in Active Directory Federation Services could allow remote code execution

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971726/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtcntr wo HV AL: MS09-071: Vulnerabilities in the Internet Authentication service could allow remote code execution

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974318/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtctr AL: After you change the SATA mode of disk devices to use the AHCI specification on a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Vista-based computer, the computer or certain applications randomly stop responding for 60 seconds or longer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977323/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtctr AL: Double-byte character set (DBCS) characters are not written to the cluster log on a computer that is running a localized version of Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977432/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Description of the update that implements Extended Protection for Authentication in the HTTP Protocol Stack (http.sys)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970430/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Description of the update that implements Extended Protection for Authentication in Microsoft Windows HTTP Services (WinHTTP)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971737/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The default gateway is missing on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista after the computer restarts if the default gateway is set by using the Netsh command

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973243/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The computer stops responding when you access some shared files from a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974030/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Audio devices are missing or are displayed as "Not plugged in" after you restart a the computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975538/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The time stamps in the Cluster log are less accurate compared to the system time that is used for events on a failover cluster node that is running a non-English version of Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975665/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: A terminal server session that is shadowed is incorrectly disconnected when the terminal server session that is shadowing stops shadowing on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976110/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The computer stops responding when you access some shared files from a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976674/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: A delay of approximately 15 minutes occurs when the File Server Resource Manager that is in Windows Server 2008 sends e-mail notifications

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976693/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Stop error code after you install Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO) on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008: "0x000000D1" or "0x00000050"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976748/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Error message: When you unmount volumes, delete snapshots or try to fail over disks on which snapshots are saved: "0x00000D6 DRIVER_PAGE_FAULT_BEYOND_END_OF_ALLOCATION"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977153/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Error message when you make a remote desktop connection to a terminal server that is running Windows Server 2008: “The requested operation requires elevation”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977269/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: An error message unexpectedly appears after you create a mirrored volume on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista: "Stop 0x0000000a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977287/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The DFS Replication service may stop responding when it initializes the replication process for the replicated folders on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977381/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: You are not redirected to the previously-disconnected terminal server session through the TS Session Broker service in a Windows Server 2008-based farm in TS Session Broker

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977541/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: An upgrade from Windows Server 2008 SP1 to Windows Server 2008 R2 rolls back if the default SAN policy is set to "offline shared"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977567/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: An application or a service that uses the Wmiaprpl.dll module crashes when the application or the service enumerates the returned performance objects under the HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA registry key

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977589/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: AD RMS clients cannot authenticate federated identity providers

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977624/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: A computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 IA-64 may automatically restart with a stop code 0x0000003B when a program tries to generate a triage dump file (975351.KB.EN-US.1.0)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975351/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: A time-out error occurs when many NTLM authentication requests are sent from a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 in a high latency network

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975363/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Virtual Disk Service (VDS) crashes when you try to extend a dynamic volume in an NTFS file system on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows 7

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975680/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: An application or service that calls the InitializeSecurityContext function together with the ISC_REQ_EXTENDED_ERROR flag may encounter a TLS/SSL negotiation failure on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975858/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Exceptions that are thrown from an application that runs in a 64-bit version of Windows are ignored

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976038/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Update rollup for the "Classification Management" item in File Server Resource Manager

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976096/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: LDAP filters in the Group Policy preference settings do not take effect on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976398/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: FIX: You cannot apply Group Policy settings on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 when security group filters are used in Group Policy preference settings

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976399/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Stop error message when you retrieve WMI connection statistics for iSCSI after you change the iSCSI configurations on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7: "0x00000019 BAD_POOL_HEADER"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976443/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Stability update for Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Print Clusters

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976571/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Error message when ISV Partners use the AcquirePreLicense method on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2:DirectoryServicesCOMException

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977068/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Error message when an application or a service tries to query for any deleted objects by using a well-known GUID in a Windows Server 2008 R2-based domain if paged search is used: "0x8007202c Critical extension is unavailable"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977180/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: No private key is associated with a certificate after you successfully install the certificate on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977222/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Error message when some file system filter drivers that are transaction-aware are installed on a failover cluster node that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 and that has FSRM installed: "6704 (0x1A30) ERROR_TRANSACTION_ALREADY_ABORTED"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977375/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Error message when you try to back up and live migrate a virtual machine at the same time in Windows Server 2008 R2: 0x800423f3 - VSS_E_WRITERERROR_RETRYABLE

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977757/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: The maximum pending I/Os are not decreased after you decrease the value that is set in the MaxPendingRequests registry key for Microsoft iSCSI Initiator

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977759/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Active Directory Certificate Services cannot be reinstalled by using the "Use existing private key" option on a computer that is running in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978034/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: How to restore the Windows Remote Management settings when all authentication schemes are disabled on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978319/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: A PowerShell upgrade leaves extra files after you upgrade from a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003 R2 to a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978320/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Domain controllers are incorrectly listed as offline in Active Directory Administration Center

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978323/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: High CPU utilization when the DFS Replication service is installed on a failover cluster node running Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978324/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: A virtual machine connection is lost when the virtual machine tries to restart or tries to shut down after you remove the virtual networks

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978325/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Error message and event log warning 6804 when you complete a DFS Replication SYSVOL migration by using the Dfsrmig.exe tool on a domain controller that is running Windows Server 2008 R2: "No connections exist for Domain System Volume"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978326/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: VSS error "0x80042409" is logged in the Application log when a VSS restore operation is performed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978773/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: Windows Server 2003 does not set the value of the icmp6_cksum field in the icmp6_hdr structure for ICMPv6 packets after you install security update MS08-037

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974927/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: A domain controller that is running Windows Server 2003 may restart unexpectedly if the Name Service Provider Interface API is used to query user account information that contains non-English characters

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976361/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: A VSS writer is not successful when it tries to create a snapshot on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2 if the VSS writer has a dependency with another writer that has no local components in the component list

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976461/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: The memory usage of the Lsass.exe process keeps increasing on one or more domain controllers that are running Windows Server 2003 if an application or a service calls the DsrAddressToSiteNamesExW function to translate a list of socket addresses

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976947/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: DNS data corruption occurs when the DNS records are transferred from a BIND DNS server to a Windows Server 2003 SP2-based DNS server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977171/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: The existing PPTP connections to a VPN server that is hosted in a Windows Server 2003-based NLB farm do not work after a new node is added to the NLB farm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977172/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: An SqlBulkCopy operation may fail on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2 under a heavy load situation

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977291/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: There is a decrease in performance for a real-time application on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2 if the Performance Monitor or the Logman tool collects lots of performance counter

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977440/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: You may receive an incorrect "Previous Versions" list and be unable to restore snapshots from the "Previous Versions" dialog box on a computer that is running Windows 7 if the file server is running Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977760/EN-US

Windows Svr Web 2003 EN: You start the Removable Storage service on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that has an MPIO storage device. Then, the service crashes

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973680/EN-US

January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL

News

SQL Server 2008 Ups Pressure On Competitors; Microsoft Boosts Manageability, BI, Performance, Productivity, and Security
For the majority of mission-critical applications today, SQL Server 2008 already has the strongest combination of price/performance, manageability, security, and DBA productivity. The latest version of SQL Server from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers hundreds of new DBMS features that boost the productivity of database administrators (DBAs) and developers, improve support for larger databases, and enhance security.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 with enhancements meant to ease deployment but no brand new features.

SQL Server to Get Real-Time Boost

The next release of Microsoft's SQL Server database, code-named "Kilimanjaro," will offer master data management (MDM) and support real-time data feeds for business intelligence (BI), reporting and analytics, the company revealed today.

Microsoft Announces SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse

New reference architectures from Bull, Dell and HP make it faster, easier, and more affordable for companies to deploy enterprise-class data warehousing projects.

Enterprise Customers Choose Microsoft Platform to Run SAP Applications for High-Performance, Multiterabyte Scalability and Low TCO

Microsoft announces Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Certification for SAP Business Suite 7, and new enterprise support and services.

Downloads

SQL 2000

Fix: Not All Memory is Available When AWE is Enabled on a Computer Running 32-bit Version of SQL Server 2000 SP4 (899761)

Microsoft has found an issue with the final build of SQL 2000 SP4 that impacts customers who run SQL Server with AWE support enabled.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=7c407047-3f1f-48b8-9e4c-dc32875e1961

SQL 2008

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition SP1

SQL Server 2008 Express is a free edition of SQL Server that is ideal for learning and building desktop and small server applications, and for redistribution by ISVs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=01af61e6-2f63-4291-bcad-fd500f6027ff

Events/Webcasts

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'Microsoft Online Services:The Better Choice'

Monday, January 11, 2010 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to discuss Microsoft Online Services: The Better Choice'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433507&culture=en-US

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'Connecting the Deskless Worker for the Manufacturing Industry'

Monday, January 18, 2010 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to discuss 'Connecting the Deskless Worker for the Manufacturing Industry'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433508&culture=en-US

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'Connecting the Deskless Worker for the Retail Industry'

Monday, January 25, 2010 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to discuss 'Connecting the Deskless Worker for the Retail Industry'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433506&culture=en-US

Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Microsoft BI: Sales and Marketing (Level 100)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join us for part four of our four-part Emerge Stronger series on how the total Microsoft Business Intelligence solution can enable you to maximize your technology during the economic downturn. This presentation builds on the overview in the first webcast by providing a detailed look into how you can strengthen your customer base while also finding new sources of revenue.

Presenter: Dana Straw, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

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New KB's

SQL 2000

SQL Svr 2000 Reporting Svcs EN: You may receive the "System.OutOfMemoryException" error message when you use SQL Server Reporting Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909678/EN-US

SQL 2005

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you run an MDX query against a database in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: “An unexpected exception occured” (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937829/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Notification Svc EN: DST time zone update for SQL Server 2005 Notification Services and for SQL Server 2000 Notification Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974412/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: Error message when you try to print a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report on a client computer: "Unable to load client print control" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967511/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937137/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You may receive error messages when you try to log in to an instance of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server handles many concurrent connections (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937745/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960598/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Mere Query timeout can lead to fullscale SQLCLR AppDomain unload in some conditions. (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960922/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you restore a SQL Server 2000 database by using SQL Server 2005 Management Studio or SQL Server 2008 Management Studio: "Cannot show requested dialog. Failed to retrieve data for this request (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972687/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You experience high latency for all the Peer-To-Peer transactional distribution agents when you insert lots of rows in a batch to multiple publications in a SQL Server 2005 Peer-To-Peer transactional replication (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974290/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Some drivers no longer function after you install SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978026/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956909/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: The Date data type may be corrupted when you use the SAP BI Destination component of Microsoft Connector 1.0 for SAP BI in a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976367/EN-US

SQL Svr Express Edition 2008 AL: SQL Server 2008 Express supports .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 after you install Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972893/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: How to determine proper SQL Server configuration settings (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319942/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: How to configure SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services to use Kerberos authentication (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917409/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Error message when you install SQL Server 2008 on a Windows Server 2008-based cluster: "The cluster either has not been verified or there are errors or failures in the verification report. Refer to KB953748 or SQL server books online" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953748/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message is logged in the SQL Server 2008 Errorlog file when you perform operations on some temporary tables in SQL Server 2008: "Time out occurred while waiting for buffer latch" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968543/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The CPU usage of the resource monitor is very high when the virtual memory is running low in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968722/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package that contains an Execute SQL Task that runs a stored procedure: "The type of the value being assigned to variable "<Variable>" differs from the current variable type" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969050/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Stop error message when you install SQL Server 2005 SP3, SQL Server 2005 Express SP3, or SQL Server 2008 on a Windows XP-based computer that is earlier than Windows XP SP3: "CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969936/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: You may receive "Error 1316.A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file Path\SSCERuntime-ENU.msi" error message when you repair an instance SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970876/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you create a SharePoint subscription on a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that uses cascading parameters: "This report requires a default or user-defined value for the report parameter '<Parameter>'" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971068/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you synchronize a database or manually run sp_replcmds after you perform partial updates on a varbinary(max) column in SQL Server 2008: "The rowset does not contain any column with offset -1." (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971136/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A Drillthrough action inside table groups passes incorrect parameter values in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971985/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Some files are not rolled back to the original file versions after you uninstall a SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 hotfix that is applied when you use a slipstream installation (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974231/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a parallel query in SQL Server 2008: "Trying to use the transaction while there are 1 parallel nested xacts outstanding" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974766/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Cumulative Update Package 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975977/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you perform a rolling upgrade in a SQL Server 2008 cluster : "18401, Login failed for user SQLTEST\AgentService. Reason: Server is in script upgrade mode. Only administrator can connect at this time.[SQLState 42000]" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976761/EN-US

January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – Unified Communications

News

Exchange

You Had Me At EHLO...: http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx

Microsoft UK UC Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/msukucc

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Office Communications Server Team Blog: http://communicationsserverteam.com

Office Communicator Team Blog: http://communicatorteam.com

NextHop: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/ee465814.aspx

OCS Masters blog: http://blogs.technet.com/themasterblog/

Outlook

Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx

Documents

Antigen & Forefront

Privacy statement for Forefront Codename "Stirling"

This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft® Forefront Client Security.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d34c6d9c-a555-4432-bb32-af21f5a6feab

Exchange

Infrastructure Planning and Design

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Administrator's Guide

This guide provides the information administrators need to deploy Microsoft Office Live Meeting clients, configure their conference center, and manage the Microsoft Office Live Meeting service within their organizations.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=824a55c8-809a-4224-a8cd-f37b348b7481

Microsoft Office SharePoint Online

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Online is a collection of Web-based tools and technologies built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that help you store, share, and manage digital information within your company.This white paper describes the services and features that are included with the Standard offering of SharePoint Online.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1bef6a35-9785-4a0b-b227-387c0ee85a36

Downloads

Exchange

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online E-mail Router

The E-mail Router transfers e-mail messages to Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and it sends outgoing e-mail messages.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=261a17f6-72c9-45a3-b19a-75ae844b9dd0

Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1

Starting with Exchange 2007, neither the Messaging API (MAPI) client libraries nor CDO 1.2.1 are provided as a part of the base product installation. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend on. Microsoft Exchange MAPI and CDO 1.2.1 provide access to these APIs

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=94274318-27c4-4d8d-9bc5-3e6484286b1f

Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1

Starting with Exchange 2007, neither the Messaging API (MAPI) client libraries nor CDO 1.2.1 are provided as a part of the base product installation. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend on. Microsoft Exchange MAPI and CDO 1.2.1 provide access to these APIs

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e17e7f31-079a-43a9-bff2-0a110307611e

Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1

Beginning in Exchange Server 2007 and Outlook 2007, CDO 1.2.1 will no longer be provided as a part of the install of the product. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend upon. CDO 1.2.1 is a package providing access to Outlook-compatible objects through a COM-based API.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=2714320d-c997-4de1-986f-24f081725d36

Events/Webcasts

Exchange

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'Microsoft Online Services:The Better Choice'

Monday, January 11, 2010 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to discuss Microsoft Online Services: The Better Choice'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433507&culture=en-US

Momentum Webcast: Top Five Reasons to Upgrade to Exchange Server 2010 and Why You Should Care (Level 200)

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Organizations want their communication tools to be cost-effective and flexible. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility. Microsoft Exchange is the cornerstone of the Microsoft unified communications solution, and it has long been the choice of organizations that want to enable rich and productive collaboration among their users.

Presenter: Harold Wong, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

Harold Wong is a 10 year veteran with Microsoft. Although Harold is a generalist as an IT Pro Evangelist, he has a special passion for Unified Communications. He has been working with Exchange since the MS Mail days and absolutely loves Exchange Server 2010! Outside of work, Harold is a sushi fanatic and loves to spend time with his family – playing RockBand and Halo 3 / ODST.

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Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'Connecting the Deskless Worker for the Manufacturing Industry'

Monday, January 18, 2010 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to discuss 'Connecting the Deskless Worker for the Manufacturing Industry'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433508&culture=en-US

You're Invited! Q2 Virtual Partner & Sales Tech Night

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Since we last got together, we have been busy releasing many of those new products we presented to you last quarter. We officially released Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2! For this PSTN, we are going virtual!

This is your opportunity to learn more about our products, see the release roadmap, and learn how to increase your services and licensing revenues by creating total solutions for your customers, from the comfort of your desk! For those of you who have never attended a PSTN, this is your opportunity to meet some of your local Microsoft field team.

Agenda:

4:00 – 5:10 PM: Sales: Incentives and partner services promotions

5:15 – 6:00 PM: Technical: Product and training updates, partner showcase and Q&A

SALES: The first hour will be focused on sales

TECHNICAL: The remainder of the evening is a technical discussion

Please make sure to register early! Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at our virtual event!

IMPORTANT NOTE:

This will be Live Meeting computer audio only. There will be no PSTN dial in number. Users will hear the speaker through the computer. If you want to ask questions, you will need a computer microphone OR you can use the Q&A panel in the Live Meeting.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032438143&culture=en-US

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'Connecting the Deskless Worker for the Retail Industry'

Monday, January 25, 2010 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to discuss 'Connecting the Deskless Worker for the Retail Industry'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433506&culture=en-US

IT Manager Webcast: IT Manager Community Chat with Kevin Remde: Let's Communicate (Level 100)

Friday, January 15, 2010 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

With the significant advances in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, you can achieve new levels of reliability and performance while controlling costs. Join Kevin Remde, a senior IT professional evangelist at Microsoft, and his guests for this webcast in which they address how Exchange Server 2010 helps lower IT costs with cost-effective storage options, provides the mobile workforce with rich mobile access to their entire inbox, and manages the risks of costly exposure with expanded information control and archiving.

Presenter: Kevin Remde, Senior IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation and Rafael Reyes, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Kevin Remde is a prolific blogger who shares his thoughts, ideas, and tips on the TechNet Events Bloggers Web site and the IT Professional Community Web site. As a webcast presenter, he has landed on the Microsoft top 10 webcast list several times. Kevin has worked as both a developer and an IT professional, so he loves sharing helpful new solutions and technologies with his IT peers. At Microsoft, Kevin relishes the opportunity to generate fresh ideas and run with them. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Minnesota (go Gophers!), where he also studied music theory and composition.

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TechNet Webcast: Addressing E-Mail Archiving and Retention with Exchange Server 2010 (Level 300)

Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

As e-mail volume continues to grow, Microsoft recognizes users' desires for an infinite inbox and IT administrators' goals to preserve and discover these mailboxes in a cost-effective matter. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 introduces integrated archiving along with message retention and multi-mailbox discovery capabilities to help address these needs.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433805&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Introducing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (Level 200)

Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

In a time when your organization requires its communication tools to be cost-effective and flexible, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 enables you to achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that can simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for great business productivity. In this webcast, we introduce you to Exchange Server 2010 and we highlight and demonstrate key investments made in this latest release.

Presenter: Rand Morimoto, President, Convergent Computing

Rand Morimoto, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Ph.D., and MCITP, is the author of the bestselling book Exchange Sever 2010 Unleashed (Sams, 2009). Rand worked with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 for almost two years before the formal product release and has extensive knowledge and experience in planning, implementing, and supporting Exchange Server 2010 in enterprise environments. Rand hosted a month-long blog on Exchange Server 2010 at http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/2831 that provided tips, tricks, best practices, and lessons learned from other Exchange Server 2010 designs and deployments.

View other sessions from Exchange Server in Depth: Master Concepts and Optimize Your Server Environment

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Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

TechNet Webcast: Ten Ways to Become a Hero with Microsoft Office Communications Server (Level 200)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Do you have a Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) infrastructure deployed, or are you in the midst of a pilot project and want to know how you can have a real impact? Attend this webcast and learn ten ways OCS can help you become a hero to your organization. We discuss how you can positively impact your organization from the receptionist (using attendant console to address pain points for managing inbound communications) to the CFO (saving money with conferencing and increasing worker productivity by reaching the right people at the right time).

Presenter: Desmond Lee, Senior Consultant, Winworkers Switzerland

Desmond Lee specializes in end-to-end enterprise infrastructure solutions built around proven business processes and people integration across various industries. He enjoys the spotlight as a speaker at major international events and contributes frequently to several highly rated publications and public forums/newsgroups. Desmond is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (Microsoft Office Communications Server), a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and founder of the Swiss IT Pro User Group, an independent, non-profit organization for IT professionals that promotes Microsoft technologies. You can follow Desmond's IT adventures at http://www.leedesmond.com.

View other sessions from Unified Communications: Control Your Infrastructure

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TechNet Webcast: Navigating the ITIL IT Life Cycle (Part 2 of 5): The Service Design Phase (Level 200)

Friday, January 29, 2010 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

In this webcast series, we navigate the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) IT life cycle, following the five ITIL phases, and we provide an introduction and practical guidance for the goals, inputs, outputs, and value of each ITIL life-cycle phase. We discuss how Microsoft approaches each ITIL phase, internally and with customers. We also examine IT solutions and explain how Microsoft addresses the people, process, and technology relationship. In this second of five webcasts, we cover IT service design.

Presenter: Rick Carper, Operations Consultant, Microsoft Corporation

Rick Carper has worked at Microsoft for 10 years, and he is a consultant in IT service management and Microsoft System Center. The Operations Consulting group that Rick is a part of helps its customers on their road to operational health by focusing on proactive services that include service management assessments, service improvement programs, service strategy and alignment, business continuity management, service-level management, and many other projects that include core components of service management.

View other sessions from IT Manager Connections: Build Business and Careers on the Microsoft Platform

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http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032439129&culture=en-US

Other

Momentum Webcast: Momentum Webcast: Enhance Organizational Collaboration Using Microsoft Technologies (Level 100)

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Driving innovation requires capitalizing on the best and brightest ideas in your organization, whether the ideas come from workers in the home office or a remote branch. With Microsoft Unified Communications and collaboration technologies like SharePoint, Exchange Online, and Microsoft Office, your organization can identify professional expertise, create saleable knowledge, and unlock productive business ideas by using self-service workspaces. Attend this webcast to learn about the technologies that foster internal social networking, including advanced presence, that enable you to capture the knowledge assets your organization already owns. We explain how Microsoft is uniquely positioned to offer these solutions on premises, in the cloud, or in some combination of the two.

Presenter: Richard Gleeson, IT Strategy Director, Advaiya, Inc

Richard Gleeson is the director for IT strategy at Advaiya, Inc, in the Business Solutions Group. At Advaiya, Rich has worked with Microsoft on numerous strategic projects including consulting services, audience marketing, information worker (IW) initiatives, Online Services—Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS), infrastructure optimization (IO), and business value assessments (BVA). Prior to working at Advaiya, Rich was a senior business strategy consultant at Microsoft where he worked with large enterprise customers to identify business value and drive information worker initiatives.

View other sessions from Grow Your Business With Microsoft

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http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032437210&culture=en-US

New KB's

Antigen & Forefront

Forefront Sec Off Comm Svr EN: You cannot send an instant message that contains a clickable hyperlink when the Office Communications Server 2007 server is running Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971480/EN-US

Forefront Sec SharePoint EN: The scan engines are not updated when you schedule a scan engine update in Forefront Server Security, and an error message occurs: "ERROR: Unable to load manifest" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929074/EN-US

Exchange

Exchange Svr 2003 SP2 EN: December 2009 cumulative daylight saving time (DST) update for Exchange 2003 SP2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977720/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Description of Update Rollup 9 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970162/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: How to set a limit on the number of SMTP messages in queues (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/258748/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: XCON: Connector Delivery Restrictions May Not Work Correctly (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/277872/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: December 2009 cumulative DST update for Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes, Exchange Server 2003 Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes, and Exchange Server 2003 Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978385/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: Description of Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976573/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: Exchange Server 2010 users cannot open certain attachments when they access their mailboxes by using Outlook Web App

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977439/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: Meeting requests that are sent to a room mailbox are not processed in Exchange Server 2010

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977551/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: Exchange RPC Client Access service crashes in the Handler.dll that is located on an Exchange 2010 Client Access service server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977552/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: Exchange RPC Client Access service crashes in Parser.dll on the Exchange Server 2010 CAS server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977553/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: The subject or body of a message that is hosted in an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox is not set as expected

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977554/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: The message body is inaccessible when the property conversion from PR_BODY_HTML to PR_BODY fails

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977555/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: The body text of an e-mail message is invisible after you create exceptions for a recurring appointment or for a recurring meeting by using a CDO application together with Exchange Server 2010

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977556/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: An E_FAIL error occurs when you create an exception to a meeting request by using a CDO application for a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailbox

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977557/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: A folder name is not changed when you try to move and then rename the folder in an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox by using the CopyFolder method of the IMAPIFolder interface

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977558/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: The location of a meeting or an appointment is not updated on an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977559/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: Update fails when you use a CDO application to update a recurrence task on Exchange Server 2010

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977560/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: VSS backup process stops responding when you try to perform a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) backup for Exchange Server 2010 databases

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977561/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: You cannot move a mailbox database to an Exchange Server 2010 cluster node that is part of a database availability group when you try to install a hotfix or an update rollup for Exchange Server 2010

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977952/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: The message tracking task does not work in the Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant tool on an Exchange Server 2010 edge server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977957/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: You cannot create a new Exchange Server 2010 database in a multiple domain environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977960/EN-US

Exchange Svr Enterprise 2010 AL: You cannot a remote connection to a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010-based server when you use the remote feature in Windows PowerShell 2.0

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977962/EN-US

Exchange Svr Standard 2010 AL: Event ID 9771 is logged when you try to restore a Volume Shadow Copy Service backup by using an Exchange-aware application that supports the Volume Shadow Copy Service writer for Exchange Server 2010 Standard version

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977956/EN-US

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update for Communicator 2007 R2: Oct 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972884/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the Cumulative Update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Core Redist 64-bit: October 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974007/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of cumulative update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2: October 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975611/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the cumulative update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Response Group Service: October 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975612/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the cumulative update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Core Components: October 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975613/EN-US

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: How to contact Live Meeting technical support (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939099/EN-US

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: Error message when you join a meeting by using the Office Live Meeting 2007 console: "A serious error has occurred and you are being disconnected from this Live Meeting"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977948/EN-US

Outlook

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Germui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977477/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Framui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977479/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Itamui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977480/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Nldmui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977481/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Esnmui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977482/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Ptbmui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977483/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Csymui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977484/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Trkmui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977485/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Plkmui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977486/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Rusmui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977487/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Hunmui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977488/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Finmui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977489/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Svemui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977490/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Danmui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977491/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Skymui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977492/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Normui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977493/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Lvimui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977494/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Office Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Chsmui.msp, Olkintl.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977495/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: How to obtain the latest Outlook Junk E-mail Filter update (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/872976/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: The contact linking information is missing in a meeting request that is sent from Outlook 2007 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967579/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Office Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-x-none.msp): October 27, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974994/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-ru-ru.msp): October 27, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975729/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Office Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter update: December 08, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976884/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Office Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-de-de.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977470/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: The W3wp.exe process crashes when you use the Outlook Anywhere feature on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977571/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Office Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-x-none.msp): December 3, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977854/EN-US

January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – Internet

News

Biztalk Server

Unia - Labor Union Tightens Accounting, Improves Member Outreach with Integrated Solution

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006252

GameStop - Video Game Retailer Improves Online Experience, Store Traffic with E-Commerce Upgrade

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006245

Florida State College at Jacksonville - College Eases Process Development, Creates a “Culture Shift” in Process Improvement

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006217

BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Technology Adoption Program (TAP) Enrollment

http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2009/12/10/biztalk-server-2009-r2-technology-adoption-program-tap-enrollment.aspx

Microsoft Internet Information Server

Overcoming the Challenges Enterprises Face with Streaming Video

On Thursday, December 10 th , 2009, please join me for a free live Web broadcast on ways to use new and existing media technologies to solve video delivery challenges in the enterprise. If you are considering how to deploy high-quality live and on-demand...

http://blogs.iis.net/chriskno/archive/2009/12/08/overcoming-the-challenges-enterprises-face-with-streaming-video.aspx

SharePoint Technologies

Software Development Predictions for 2010

2009-12-24: InfoWorld

SharePoint 2010 is going to prove irresistible for many small businesses. 

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/software-development-predictions-2010-464

Microsoft SharePoint Add-ons Offer Tantalizing System Tweaks

2009-12-15: Network World

SharePoint 2010 may be on Microsoft's immediate road map, but users churning away on the current 2007 platform can still juice their rollouts with a host of add-ons that make the existing version seem new again.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/121509-microsoft-sharepoint-add-ons.html?page=1

IT Manager Explains Groundwork Strategy for Major SharePoint Rollout

2009-12-08: NetworkWorld

Melanie Rutberg isn't waiting on SharePoint 2010 to hit the streets; instead she is laying the groundwork so she can dive into its features when it ships next year. 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/120809-richardson-company-sharepoint.html

Documents

SharePoint Technologies

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007  

Updated: 2009-11-05

This article has been updated with information about the October Cumulative Update, which contains several hotfixes and improvements to the Pre-Upgrade checker.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx

Administer variations

Updated: 2009-11-05

This article has been updated to note that if you want to add nonpublishing pages to the Pages library, you must create the variations labels and hierarchies before adding nonpublishing items to the Pages library.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770241.aspx

SharePoint guidance for SQL Server database administrators (Downloadable book)

Published: 2009-10-29

This book is a guide for database administrators who implement or maintain Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It provides guidelines for improving the performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions that run on Microsoft SQL Server 2008. It also provides information about key considerations for configuring storage and SQL Server 2008 before installing Office SharePoint Server 2007; the required steps in installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 when using DBA-created databases; backup and recovery considerations for Office SharePoint Server 2007, including what can and cannot be protected by SQL Server 2008 backups; and maintaining and monitoring SQL Server 2008 databases that support a Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721075.aspx

Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for Office SharePoint Server: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices (white paper)

Updated: 2009-10-29

This paper provides key recommendations and best practices to help administrators of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 plan and monitor their Microsoft SQL Server 2008 storage requirements to support optimal performance and operation of their server farms. The paper has been updated to address the capabilities of SQL Server 2008.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263261.aspx

Downloads

Microsoft Internet Information Server

IIS DownloadCENTER

This is your single source for finding Microsoft Internet Information Services tools, samples, extensions, filters and modules created by Microsoft and the IIS community.

http://www.iis.net/downloads

SharePoint Technologies

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

An updated downloadable .chm file for the entire of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 library is now available. This download includes all content in the TechNet library as of November 30, 2009.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ba006584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a&DisplayLang=en

Search Engine Optimization Toolkit

This Toolkit helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly.

http://www.iis.net/expand/SEOToolkit

Download SharePoint 2010 Beta

Find out how this integrated suite of server capabilities can help your organization by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

LogViewer Feature

All those log files in the [..]\12\LOGS folder are hard to look at, now you can use a browser-based viewer snapin to simplify the task. This adds a new link to the Central Administration Operations page that lets you pick & filter the log files. http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/06/11/SharePoint-Debugging-and-Logging-Tips-and-Tricks.aspx

Download: http://www.codeplex.com/features

Disk2VHD  v1.3

Disk2VHD enables on-line export of volumes into VHD format for use in VPC or Hyper-V, allowing customers experiencing issues to provide images of their systems so that CSS can diagnose the problem without costly steps attempting to reproduce the issues in-house. It uses shadow copies to obtain consistent images of volumes while the source system continues to operate and possibly modify the volumes.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

Events/Webcasts

Biztalk Server

MSDN Webcast: Road Map for BizTalk Server: Business Automation and Integration Server (28^th January 2010)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032438720&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Webcast: Business Process Automation: Connecting People, Applications, and Devices (14^th January 2010)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032438716&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

SharePoint Technologies

January 2010

Technology Associates International Limited presents Microsoft Project EPM 2010 Overview: An overview of the next release of Project Server and the EPM 2010 Solution.

Free of charge

Date: 21 January 2010, 13:45

Location: Stratford-upon-Avon

Event Category: Onsite Event

Audience: Academic, IT Decision Maker, Non-Tech Influencing BDM, Tech Influencing BDM

Products: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution, Microsoft Office Project, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft technologies

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032434661

Accenda Ltd presents Making the most of SharePoint

Free of charge

Date: 27 January 2010, 09:30

Location: London

Event Category: Onsite Event

Audience: IT Decision Maker, Non-Tech Influencing BDM

Products: Microsoft Office InfoPath, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft SQL Server

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032438302

nSynergy Ltd presents an Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint

Free of charge

Date: 27 January 2010, 09:30

Location: London

Event Category: Onsite Event

Audience: IT Decision Maker, Tech Influencing BDM

Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032425201

Technical School: Sharepoint for SMBs

Free of charge

Date: 27 January 2010, 16:00

Location:

Event Category: Live Meeting

Audience: Infrastructure Specialist, IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist, Marketing - Partners, Sales - Partners, Tech Influencing BDM, Tech Support - Partners, Training - Partners

Products: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032433881

Future Event

SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference
Fee charged
Date: 19-21^st April 2010
Location: London, QEII

This 3 day SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference, consists of over 50 Sessions dedicated to SharePoint Professionals at every level from IT Pro, Developers, Designers to Project Managers and Executives.

All upcoming Events\Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/events/default.aspx

New KB's

Biztalk Server

BizTalk Acc for SWIFT 2009: FIX: “CountryCode” is missing in the 50F “Ordering Customer” field in InfoPath forms for MT103 and some other message types when you use the BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2009 Message Pack

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976119/EN-US

BizTalk Adapter Host Sys 2.0 EN: FIX: Message tracking does not work if you enable the "Request message before port processing" tracking option on the MSQC receive port

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976306/EN-US

BizTalk Server Ent 2006 EN: FIX: You cannot consume a Web service in BizTalk Server 2006 if the WSDL file of the Web service references another WSDL file

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948089/EN-US

BizTalk Server Ent 2006 EN: FIX: A warning is logged when you use the MQSeries adapter in a dynamic receive scenario in Microsoft BizTalk Server: "The remote procedure call failed and did not execute. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BF)"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951673/EN-US

BizTalk Server Ent 2009 EN: FIX: Error message when you configure a UDDI database on a named instance of SQL Server in BizTalk Server 2009: "Unable to connect to the Database Server"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975684/EN-US

BizTalk Server Ent 2009 EN: FIX: Error message when you receive an EDI message in BizTalk Server 2009: "Duplicate Control Number"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976554/EN-US

BizTalk Server Ent 2009 EN: FIX: You experience various problems when you develop a BizTalk project that references another BizTalk project in Visual Studio on a computer that is running BizTalk Server 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977428/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The TrackedMessages_Copy_BizTalkMsgBoxDb SQL Server Agent job fails

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951657/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2009 EN: An error occurs when you check message flow on a completed orchestration if a BizTalk Server 2009 tracking database is hosted on a named instance of SQL Server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976172/EN-US

Microsoft Internet Information Server

Internet Info Services 7.5: How to configure uploads for IIS Web applications

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979124/EN-US

SharePoint Technologies

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server hotfix package (Coreserver-x-none.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977023/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Dlc-x-none.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977024/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (MOSS server-package): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977026/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Offfiltx-x-none.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977265/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server hotfix package (Sts-x-none.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977022/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (WSS server-package): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977027/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts-x-none.msp, Wssmui-en-us.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977731/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Wssmui-en-us.msp): December 15, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977732/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts-x-none.msp): December 27, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978210/EN-US

January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – Security

News

Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era: A Microsoft Perspective http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977514&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Based on the past decade of experience examining and addressing privacy challenges in the evolving online services realm, this new "Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era" paper discusses how Microsoft is approaching privacy as it relates to cloud computing and describes how the underlying privacy principles provide a solid foundation for addressing evolving privacy issues.

Introducing the Microsoft Security Podcast Index http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977515&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Quickly find security podcasts, stream or download .WMA or MP3 files to your favorite podcast software or mobile device, and subscribe to RSS feeds or automatically have podcasts downloaded to your computer.

Security Tip of the Month -- Claims-Based Apps: Claims-Based Authorization with WIF http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977516&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Learn how to leverage Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) to significantly reduce the code required to implement rich application scenarios that involve federated and claims-based security.

Hyper-V Security Guide http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12975465&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

The Hyper-V Security Guide provides IT professionals with guidance, instructions, and recommendations to address key security concerns about server virtualization.

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December, 2009

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-dec.mspx

Microsoft Product Lifecycle Information

Find information about your particular products on the Microsoft Product Lifecycle http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355452&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 Web site.

See a list of supported service packs http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355453&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474: Microsoft provides free software updates for security and non-security issues for all supported service packs

Security Bulletin Overview for December 2009

Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Blog Post http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977523&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Windows Media Video (WMV) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977524&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Windows Media Audio (WMA) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977525&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

iPod Video (MP4) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977526&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

MP3 Audio http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977527&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

High Quality WMV (2.5 Mbps) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977528&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Zune Video (WMV) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977529&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Documents

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Agile Development http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977517&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Per the Agile Manifesto, Agile projects should have short iterations, lasting from one month to a few weeks or less. SDL-Agile breaks the SDL into three categories of requirements: the requirements so important that they must be completed every iteration; the requirements that only have to be completed once per project no matter how long it runs; and the requirements that still need to be completed regularly but are not so important that they need to be completed every sprint. Read this overview of SDL methodologies for Agile development and then download the complete SDL-Agile guidance http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977455&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474, part of the SDL 4.1a Process Guidance.

2007 Microsoft Office Security Compliance Management Toolkit http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977518&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Get guidance, workbooks, and tools to help you plan, deploy, and monitor the security baselines of computers running the 2007 Microsoft Office Service Pack 1 (SP1) applications in your environment.

Security Policies and Settings in the 2007 Microsoft Office System http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977519&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Use this technical reference for the security settings and privacy options in the 2007 Microsoft Office system to determine what each setting does, what the default configurations are, which tool to use to configure a setting, and where to find the setting in the Office Customization Tool (OCT) or the Group Policy Object Editor.

Enabling Password Rules for Office 2010 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977520&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Learn about the new password rules feature in Microsoft Office 2010, and get guidance on how to enable and configure it. Want a high-level introduction to several of the new security features in Office 2010? Click here http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977456&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474.

Security Tools for Windows Applications http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977521&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

The Application Verifier (AppVerifier) is a collection of tests used during the application development and testing process to help developers identify potential application compatibility, stability, and security issues -- and find guidance for source-code level fixes.

Security Considerations for Windows Mobile Messaging in the Enterprise http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977522&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Gain an understanding of the Windows Mobile security model from both the device and server perspectives. This paper will help you know which security levels and features are available on front door and back door Windows Mobile powered devices and how Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync interacts with each of them. Read the Security Model for Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977457&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 for more detailed technical information on provisioning and managing Windows Mobile powered devices.

Downloads

Critical Infrastructure Protection Concepts and Continuum

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=89f1036c-2136-49f7-84ae-20cfd2298bf6

Critical Infrastructure Protection Principles

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d4035867-2df8-4984-8622-4fdfa32ceec1

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Documentation

Documentation about Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a11ec9bb-d7f8-408a-a811-66dcd1036b53

Introduction to Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

Learn how to manage Windows Firewall in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 by using the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Microsoft Management Control (MMC) snap-in, with Netsh commands, and with Group Policy.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=df192e1b-a92a-4075-9f69-c12b7c54b52b

Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) User Guide

Download this user guide to see step-by-step instructions for the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d75e4c02-e38c-4a22-b7f7-69f9706c5240

Microsoft Forefront Codename "Stirling" Beta Privacy Statement

This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft® Forefront Client Security.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d34c6d9c-a555-4432-bb32-af21f5a6feab

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [December 2009] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aa029fde-f341-44fc-8b85-0c6f3d3c2d69

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [December 2009] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=749e10cd-f40c-4f94-8e38-d4221ded7652

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) x64

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=585d2bde-367f-495e-94e7-6349f4effc74

December 2009 Security Release ISO Image

This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on December 8th, 2009.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=015876ae-2335-48e3-8b60-0e7d7d7eaab2

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Documentation

Documentation about Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a11ec9bb-d7f8-408a-a811-66dcd1036b53

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer

The FPE 2010 Best Practices Analyzer examines a local server running FPE 2010 and presents a list of warnings and errors for configurations that do not conform to recommended best practices.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=31cc5b93-e83c-467a-892d-6a0eda208baf

Extended Security Update Inventory Tool

The Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is used to detect security bulletins not covered by MBSA including MS04-028, February 2005 bulletins, and future security bulletins that are exceptions to MBSA.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2c93da1d-48a0-4e5c-991f-87e08954f61b

Microsoft® Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Tools & Software Development Kit

Software Development Kit (SDK), diagnostics, and other feature-related tools for Forefront TMG 2010.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8809cfda-2ee1-4e67-b993-6f9a20e08607

Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 RC1 Update 2 release notes

FIM 2010 RC1, Update 2 Release Notes

Release notes for Update 2 of FIM 2010 RC1, KB977312

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ea8312ae-f95c-4980-b8dd-9ffd027a7dc2

Security and Authentication in Microsoft Dynamics CRM: The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Security Model

This white paper, The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Security Model, serves as the core architectural component of a larger "nuts and bolts" article on Security and Authentication in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fb4bb16b-586f-4aae-aa4b-790023e95b61

Security and Authentication in Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Field-level Security in Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Options and Constraints

While Microsoft Dynamics CRM does not provide for true field-level security, there are a number of options available for using supported custom logic to control of access to data at a more granular level than provided out of the box. This document discusses some of the key options and constraints available for implementing this type of solution.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=471f8670-47b3-4525-b25d-c11a6774615c

Smart Card Lifecycle Management Datasheet

The Smart Card Lifecycle Management component of this offering will help you envision, plan and develop a Smart Card Lifecycle Management infrastructure designed specifically for your environment, using a consistent and standardized methodology based on the best practices collected from organizations worldwide.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=39688e2c-7c9e-4f7c-9eaf-e1775928d284

Secure Web and Remote Access Enablement Datasheet

This offering provides you with secure remote access to the business applications and data that you need to be productive.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3d253737-4cda-4b35-99e3-08ebbc02efc8

Security, Identity, and Access Management Datasheet

This offering provides an end-to-end security solution that allows you to move toward a dynamic IT infrastructure while ensuring better security integration, manageability, and efficiency.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b53dee69-a3f9-4800-91a8-42c1b8b365db

Data Protection using Active Directory Rights Management Services Datasheet

Data Protection using Active Directory Rights Management Services (ADRMS) provides the processes, technology, and people expertise for enterprise organizations to build an integrated data protection system that helps augment an organization’s existing data protection strategy and policies.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ae4681fe-0740-4ed0-9f1a-7aa3ec6355a3

Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 Security Policy Template

Forefront UAG provides secure remote access by publishing corporate applications and resources for access by managed and unmanaged client endpoints, or by deployment of Forefront UAG DirectAccess. This download provides a security policy .xml template that can be used in conjunction with the Windows 2008 R2 Server Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) to harden Forefront UAG servers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=120c81d5-b4d5-40c1-9213-20fe957c2b8f

Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 Evaluation Version

Forefront UAG provides secure remote access to corporate resources from a diverse range of managed and unmanaged client endpoints. The Forefront UAG Evaluation Version provided in this download is appropriate for IT professionals who want to deploy and evaluate Forefront UAG in a corporate environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=740bd005-5ff9-426e-9c17-a93ae8629582

Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 Release Candidate

Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 is a security token service (STS) for issuing and transforming claims, enabling federations, and managing user access.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=118c3588-9070-426a-b655-6cec0a92c10b

Microsoft Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0 Release Candidate

Microsoft Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0 enables access using an open claims-based model based upon the Windows Identity Foundation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8e7b6d99-991e-44fc-a74e-9adb152ddc37

Windows Identity Foundation SDK

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c148b2df-c7af-46bb-9162-2c9422208504

Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange SLA

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f5714ed7-f14d-499e-b7d9-3365c9008113

Microsoft’s Identity and Access Management Platform Whitepapers

Identity and Access Whitepapers

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9ca5c685-3172-4d8f-81cb-1a59bdc9f7e3

Research paper: The modern rogue - malware with a face

Research paper on Rogue antivirus software - originally presented at VB 2009

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7a827fbd-c2a1-48bc-9e85-6b805d3e7e26

Secure Web and Remote Access Enablement Datasheet

This offering provides you with secure remote access to the business applications and data that you need to be productive.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3d253737-4cda-4b35-99e3-08ebbc02efc8

Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM) Datasheet

This offering uses Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003 and best practices to simplify digital identity management and maintain data integrity

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=712704a6-82a9-4bd1-96c6-83b2c9522dfd

Windows CardSpace 2.0 Beta 2

Windows CardSpace 2.0 is the end user component of Microsoft’s user access platform for developers and IT professionals that helps simplify access to applications and other systems with an open claims-based model.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8f9389b2-ece0-4485-98ad-b093f18838fe

Events/WebCasts

Microsoft SDL – Developer Starter Kit http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486214&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Security Awareness Materials http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486215&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Guidance, samples, and templates for creating a security-awareness program in your organization.

Learn Security On the Job http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486216&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Learning Paths for Security - Microsoft Training References and Resources http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486217&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Security Webcast Calendar http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=37910

Find security webcasts listed in an easy-to-use calendar format.

Upcoming Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/upcoming.mspx

Register for the following Webcasts on the link above

TechNet Webcast: Information About Microsoft January Security Bulletins (Level 200)

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. Pacific Time

IT Manager Webcast: Information Security Through HBI Information Classification and Automation (Level 200)

Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Pacific Time

IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Strengthens Security with Data Loss Prevention (Level 200)

Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Protecting Exchange Server 2010 Using Hybrid Forefront Protection for Exchange (Level 300)

Friday, January 15, 2010 1:00 P.M.-2:30 P.M. Pacific Time

Momentum Webcast: Improve Security with a Layered Defense in Office 2010 (Level 100)

Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Improving the Wireless Network Infrastructure at Microsoft (Level 300)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:30 A.M.-10:30 A.M. Pacific Time

On-Demand Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/ondemand.mspx

Visit TechNet Spotlight: www.microsoft.com/technetspotlight

Video on Demand, Video Downloads, PowerPoint Presentations, Audio and more

A.O.B

Additional Security Resources

Security Help and Support for IT Professionals http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977541&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

TechNet Troubleshooting and Support Page http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977542&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Microsoft Security Glossary http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977543&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

TechNet Security Center http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977544&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

MSDN Security Developer Center http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977545&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Sign-Up for the Microsoft Security Notification Service http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977546&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Security Bulletin Search Page http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977547&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Home Users: Protect Your PC http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977548&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

MCSE/MCSA: Security Certifications http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977549&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Subscribe to TechNet http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977550&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Register for TechNet Flash IT Newsletter http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977551&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Manageability

News

MDT 2010 Launched

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010) provides a common console with the comprehensive tools and guidance needed to efficiently manage deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is the recommended process and toolset to automate desktop and server deployment. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 provides detailed guidance and job aids for every organizational role involved with large-scale deployment projects.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd407791.aspx

Steve Rachui's Manageability blog - ConfigMgr/OpsMgr

http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/

System Center WebLog by Russ Slaten

http://blogs.msdn.com/rslaten/

Configuration Manager & SMS

The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/

The Deployment Guys

http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys

System Center Configuration Manager Solutions

http://blogs.technet.com/mwiles/

Carlos Santiago's Manageability Blog - SCCM/Softgrid

http://blogs.technet.com/carlossantiago/

Michael Niehaus' Windows and Office deployment ramblings

http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/

Paul Thomsen at myITforum.com

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/pthomsen/default.aspx

Operations Manager & MOM

The Operations Manager Support Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/

Other

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/

The App-V Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/Softgrid/

Documents

Other

Microsoft Security Update Guide

Microsoft Security Update Guide: Helping IT Professionals Better Understand and Maximize Microsoft Security Update Release Information, Processes, Communications, and Tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c3d986d0-ecc3-4ce0-9c25-048ec5b52a4f

Downloads

Configuration Manager & SMS

Configuration Manager 2007 Help File Update Wizard

Download an updated version of the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library which contains new material and fixes to documentation problems reported by customers since the last update was published. Refer to the “What’s New in the Documentation Library” topic in each release for a list of topics with significant updates.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=71816b0f-de06-40e0-bce7-ad4b1e4377bb

Operations Manager & MOM

Active Directory MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) monitors Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=008f58a6-dc67-4e59-95c6-d7c7c34a1447

Windows Server 2008 Application Server MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Windows Server 2008 Application Server Management Pack provides fundamental monitoring for the Application Server role of Windows Server 2008 Operating System.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=77eb6ec5-6932-4310-a426-f9b34c6c5be9

SQL Server Management Pack (6.0.6648.0) Guide Update

The SQL Server Management Pack provides the capabilities for Operations Manager 2007 to discover SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 installations and components and to monitor them, primarily from the perspective of availability and performance. The availability and performance monitoring is done using a combination of scripts and native Operations Manager capabilities. (MP Guide Update only, no version change)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=8c0f970e-c653-4c15-9e51-6a6cadfca363

Windows Power Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (6.0.6735.0)

The Power Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2 enables you to monitor and manage the power consumption of computers running Windows Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6f147c1f-e190-4dbe-a3c7-9b9a19de8f93

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (14.0.650.7)

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 management pack is designed to be used for monitoring Exchange 2010 events, collecting Exchange component-specific performance counters in one central location, and for raising alerts for operator intervention as necessary.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7150bfed-64a4-42a4-97a2-07048cca5d23&displaylang=en

Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 (6.0.6741.0)

The Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 SP1 is designed to monitor Exchange 2007 key health indicators, collect Exchange component-specific performance counters in one central location, and raise alerts for operator intervention as necessary.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1a83e112-8677-4e03-83c3-f1b7ebfc3a4b&amp;displaylang=en

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (11.0.325.00)

The Management Pack for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) allows you to discover FPE installations and components and to monitor them within System Center Operations Manager 2007. When there is an issue that may impact the availability, configuration, or security of your FPE deployment, Operations Manager uses the management pack to detect the issue, alert you to its existence, and facilitate diagnosis and corrective actions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=74ba19df-0fc2-4dd3-86cc-07cb086a47c8

Active Directory Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (6.0.7065.0)

The Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) monitors Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=008F58A6-DC67-4E59-95C6-D7C7C34A1447&amp;displaylang=en&displaylang=en

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products (Beta) Management Pack

A System Center Management Pack for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Beta (the product are: SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c8a9d749-b7a8-412a-b2db-f3e464ed3fcf

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Beta) Management Pack

A System Center Management Pack for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=43d5ee9a-b9a6-441d-a35e-8a7b9b15e20c

Microsoft Surface 1.0 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

This management pack includes a set of rules, views, operations, and monitors to help you manage Microsoft Surface 1.0 units. These resources can help you keep your organization's Microsoft Surface environment in a healthy state.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3e0f818d-d05d-4fa3-b14e-6c817688148b

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation

The Operations Manager 2007 R2 technical documentation helps you plan, deploy, operate, and maintain Operations Manager 2007 R2. For information about the specific guides available in the library, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498235.aspx.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=19bd0eb5-7ca0-41be-8c0f-2d95fe7ec636

Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Management Pack (Beta) for SC OpsMgr 2007

This Management Pack monitors the health state of the components in your FAST Search Server environment that affect performance and availability. When there is an issue that may cause service or performance degradation, System Center Operations Manager 2007 uses the Management Pack to detect the issue, alert you to its existence, and facilitate diagnosis and corrective actions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3e01806c-e586-4ff1-b61e-2a5179413cf1

Other

Security Compliance Management Toolkit

This toolkit series provides IT professionals with an end-to-end solution to help them plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows® operating systems and 2007 Microsoft® Office applications. The series was updated to include new security baselines for Windows® 7, BitLocker™ Drive Encryption, and Windows® Internet Explorer® 8.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=5534bee1-3cad-4bf0-b92b-a8e545573a3e

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is the newest version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a Solution Accelerator for operating system and application deployment. MDT 2010 supports deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in addition to deployment of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89&displaylang=en

Events/Webcasts

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42364#42364

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42363

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42365

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42555

Configuration Manager

TechNet Webcast: Automated and Centralized Deployment, Provisioning, and Updating of Windows Server 2008 R2 with System Center (Level 300)

Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Deploying and upgrading your existing server infrastructure to Windows Server 2008 R2 can be a complex undertaking, particularly considering the various configuration, system driver, and application requirements—let alone the sheer number of servers, both physical and virtual, that you have to manage. Microsoft System Center delivers a highly flexible, automated set of capabilities that can help simplify the deployment and maintenance of your servers running Windows Server with an integrated management system that covers your physical and virtual infrastructure. Join us to discover how System Center can dramatically reduce your time and effort in deploying and configuring your servers from any previous state (including bare-metal and virtualized deployments), and learn more about the powerful software distribution capabilities, comprehensive software update management, and other capabilities that make System Center a powerful and comprehensive deployment, provisioning, and update solution for Windows Server 2008 R2

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032427595

Operations Manager

3 Part Webcast Series on Operations Manager’s Service Level Dashboard

http://blogs.technet.com/matthewms/archive/2009/11/23/screencast-system-center-operations-manager-2007-r2-service-level-dashboard-part-1-introduction.aspx

Other

IT Manager Webcast: Integrated Virtual and Physical IT Management for Midsize Businesses (Level 100)

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

As more midsize businesses start realizing the cost benefits of consolidating server workloads using virtualization technologies, Microsoft is developing two new product releases to help midsize businesses more easily manage your virtual and physical IT resources in an integrated way. In this webcast, we show you how Microsoft System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) can help you easily consolidate server workloads, increase critical server availability, and reduce the risk of critical data loss. Join us to learn how these System Center IT management solutions can ease the IT management pains of midsized businesses. Both products are currently in beta, so download the software and try them today.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433597&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Building a Private Cloud with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises (Level 300)

Friday, December 11, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

You can build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 using the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises (availability scheduled in the first half of 2010).

This free, partner-extensible toolkit provides an architectural road map, deployment guidance, best practices, and familiar tools for creating agile, virtualized IT infrastructures. Attend this webcast to learn more about the components of the Data Center Toolkit and how you can improve your data center efficiency by lowering the overall costs of on-boarding, deployment, and management.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032432793&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Thrive Live! IT Professional Virtualization Tour (Level 200)

Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join our IT Professional Evangelists Yung Chou, Dan Stolts, Blain Barton, and John Baker, as they bring you the highlights of Microsoft’s great virtualization solutions. They will go from the desktop to the enterprise, starting with VHD native boot – a new feature for Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2. Next, they will move into Windows XP mode, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™, and finish with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433960&culture=en-US

TechNet Events Presents: TechNet Unleashed: The Microsoft Virtualization Tour - Live Meeting

Monday, December 14, 2009 8:30 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

TechNet Events Presents:

TechNet Unleashed: The Microsoft Virtualization Tour

Join our TechNet IT Evangelists as they hit the road again this fall to bring you the highlights of Microsoft’s great virtualization solutions. We’ll go from the desktop to the enterprise, starting with VHD native boot – a new feature for Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2. Next, we’ll move into Windows XP mode, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™, and finish with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032435607&culture=en-US

IT Manager Webcast: Managing Windows Clients in a Midsize Business (Level 200)

Monday, December 14, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

In this webcast, we look at two upcoming Microsoft system management products, System Center Essentials 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010, that are designed with small to medium-sized businesses in mind. Discover how Essentials 2010 provides monitoring and management for client computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 operating systems, including patching and installation of new software without carrying DVDs to every workstation. Learn how DPM 2010 can now protect client systems running Windows while users are on the network or working from home or in a hotel. Essentials 2010 and DPM 2010 are designed to ease the management of IT resources in midsized businesses. Both products are currently in beta; try them today.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032434991

New KB's

Configuration Manager & SMS

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: The OU property of the DDR is rejected by DDM when the DDR is being inserted in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971687/EN-US

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: A memory leak occurs when many content location requests are received by a site server that is running System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973499/EN-US

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: A package that is several gigabytes is not updated on a branch distribution point (BDP) in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973762/EN-US

Operations Manager & MOM

Sys Center Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974722/EN-US

System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Update

This update provides a cumulative rollup of hotfixes for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 together with the following improvements: Support for Windows 7, 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Reporting Services 2008 Upgrade and additional fixes and improvements

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971541

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Agent Update

This update enables System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to support the following platforms: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Solaris Zones (whole and sparse zones).  The latest versions of all Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unix and Linux Agents are included in this update.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973583

Other

Sys Center DataProtect Mgr 07 EN: Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007: October 23, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976542/EN-US

December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Unified Communications

News

Exchange

You Had Me At EHLO...

http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx

Microsoft UK UC Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/msukucc

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Office Communications Server Team Blog

http://communicationsserverteam.com

Outlook

Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx

Documents

Antigen & Forefront

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Documentation

Documentation about Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=a11ec9bb-d7f8-408a-a811-66dcd1036b53

Exchange

Quick Start Guide for Outlook Voice Access 2010

This download contains a quick reference sheet that can be used when navigating the menu system found in Outlook Voice Access.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=77f1f82e-5da1-4ab5-9969-d1eb72b2ee0f

Exchange Server 2010 and Outlook Standards Documentation

The Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Documents describe Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Outlook support for industry messaging standards and Requests for Comments (RFCs) related to iCalendar, IMAP4, and POP3.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=6fa94dc9-d4b6-402b-8c22-8a52acea2284

Exchange Server 2010 Beta Protocol Documentation Set

The Microsoft Exchange Server protocols documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) used by Microsoft Exchange Server to communicate with other Microsoft products.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d2e6d2b0-ffe9-41d6-a48f-6d84cf17e235

Exchange Server 2010 Beta and Outlook Standards Documentation

The Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Documents describe Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta and Outlook support for industry messaging standards and Requests for Comments (RFCs) related to iCalendar, IMAP4, and POP3.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=4e36dc0e-5d48-47f2-8acc-155b556c95b3

Exchange Server 2010 Protocol Documentation Set

The Microsoft Exchange Server protocols documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) used by Microsoft Exchange Server to communicate with other Microsoft products.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=a9aae935-ad23-4117-a3d9-9ed6093d6d7f

Exchange Server 2010 Release Notes

This download contains a stand-alone version of the Exchange Server 2010 Release Notes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=884b5e4c-912c-4335-8b35-432aba919535

Hosted Messaging Collaboration

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=5e94ad07-902c-422f-aadd-ff2bba9e540a

Microsoft Office Protocol Documentation

The Office protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in the Microsoft Office system.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e7a23d42-0835-440f-9400-badfe9672b21

Outlook

Fact Sheets

Quick overview of the accessibility features of major Microsoft products.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9f347d12-1d8c-4336-a5b5-0e4a08ba1e67

Downloads

Antigen & Forefront

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) provides fast and effective protection against malware and spam by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. It also integrates with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange to provide the defense-in-depth benefits of hosted and on-premise filtering in a single solution.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=b8a7d36f-cc8d-4335-ae60-8f27c48f3a37

IT Compliance Management Series

The IT Compliance Management Series is intended for IT managers, professionals, and partners who must configure Microsoft products to address specific IT governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements. Successful implementation of the recommendations in this series will allow organizations to shift the enforcement and management of IT GRC requirements onto underlying Microsoft technologies.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=bd930882-0d39-4900-9a79-b91f213ed15d

FIM 2010 RC1 Demo Hyper-V VHD

This package contains a Hyper-V-based demo of Microsoft® Forefront (TM) Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 RC1 (formerly code-named ILM "2").

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=4729e8ce-8209-45df-933d-f83c7de5cd29

Exchange

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Help

This download contains a standalone version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Help.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=85c5ef71-6a1f-4eb0-9ff3-3feee6057e96

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help to simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your customers by meeting their demands for greater business mobility.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=05741f65-2a7b-4070-879f-d74208d6171d

Microsoft Exchange Server Inter-Organization Replication Tool

Replicate public folder and free and busy information between Exchange organizations.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e7a951d7-1559-4f8f-b400-488b0c52430e

Exchange Server 2010 UM Language Packs

These downloads contain pre-recorded prompts, grammar files, text to speech data, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) files, and Voice Mail Preview capabilities for a specific language that is supported by Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging. Warning: This UM language pack must only be installed as an add-in to Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=3fdf49db-cb84-4dfe-8b8b-b30178b1a514

Exchange 2010 Language Pack Bundle

This download contains the most recently updated language packs for Exchange 2010. The language bundle includes all packs for all supported languages.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=4ba91cf8-dafa-4328-9edc-2052fe8347fc

Exchange Server 2007 - Management Tools (32-Bit)

Exchange Server 2007 is a native 64-bit application that includes 64-bit management tools. You can use the management tools to administer your Exchange Server environment remotely. If the remote computer is running a 32-bit operating system, you will need to download the 32-bit management tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=6be38633-7248-4532-929b-76e9c677e802

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online E-mail Router

The E-mail Router transfers e-mail messages to Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and it sends outgoing e-mail messages.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=261a17f6-72c9-45a3-b19a-75ae844b9dd0

Infrastructure Planning and Design

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 972884

This download contains an update for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=515d6dba-4c6a-48bb-a06a-d99c5742676d

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 968802

This download includes all available updates for Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=b3b02475-150c-41fa-844a-c10a517040f4

Events/Webcasts

Exchange

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'Why Microsoft has the best cloud computing story.'

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to hear 'Why Microsoft has the best cloud computing story'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433504&culture=en-US

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'The Business Value of Online Services'

Monday, December 14, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to discuss 'The Business Value of Online Services'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433505&culture=en-US

IT Manager Webcast: IT Manager Community Chat with Kevin Remde: Let's Communicate (Level 100)

Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

With the significant advances in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, you can achieve new levels of reliability and performance while controlling costs. Join Kevin Remde, a senior IT professional evangelist at Microsoft, and his guests for this webcast in which they address how Exchange Server 2010 helps lower IT costs with cost-effective storage options, provides the mobile workforce with rich mobile access to their entire inbox, and manages the risks of costly exposure with expanded information control and archiving.

Presenter: Kevin Remde, Senior IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

Kevin Remde is a prolific blogger who shares his thoughts, ideas, and tips on the TechNet Events Bloggers Web site and the IT Professional Community Web site. As a webcast presenter, he has landed on the Microsoft top 10 webcast list several times. Kevin has worked as both a developer and an IT professional, so he loves sharing helpful new solutions and technologies with his IT peers. At Microsoft, Kevin relishes the opportunity to generate fresh ideas and run with them. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Minnesota (go Gophers!), where he also studied music theory and composition.

View other sessions from: IT Manager Connections: Build Business and Careers on the Microsoft Platform

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433610&culture=en-US

Other

IT Manager Webcast: Technical Talks with Tim Vander Kooi: Integrated Communications (Level 200)

Tuesday, December 08, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Employees in your organization want access to information and people regardless of what device they use; the ability to instantly see the status of colleagues and chat with them is a business requirement. You want to embrace this new thinking and let people in your organization communicate via voice, e-mail, or video and access corporate information anywhere anytime, but you have responsibly to keep your network and information secure.

Attend this webcast to learn how Microsoft Office Communications Server combined with the Microsoft Office Communicator client give you the ability to provide a voice over IP (VoIP) and conference solution your workforce can use anywhere. Discover how you can use With Microsoft Exchange Server to integrate all your communications into one inbox and provide access via any device.

Presenter: Tim Vander Kooi, Systems Administrator, Explorer Pipeline

Tim Vander Kooi has worked in the information technology industry for 15 years. Currently, Tim works for Explorer Pipeline, a fuel transportation company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he has spent the last five years as a Microsoft systems administrator. Tim also shares his expertise in many user forums and online community sites and was named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and Microsoft System Center Essentials in 2007. Tim's passion for IT does not stop there. He has been involved in user-group communities for more than 10 years. Tim started the Tulsa IT Pros user group, where he still serves as president. In addition, Tim is the current chairman of the board for the North American board of Culminis. His vision for the IT community is a place where knowledge and real-world solutions are shared to help all of IT succeed.

View other sessions from: IT Manager Connections: Build Business and Careers on the Microsoft Platform

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032434027&culture=en-US

Momentum Webcast: Leveraging New Ways to Work (Level 100)

Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Businesses are constantly looking for ways save money, improve efficiency, and innovate. As a result, businesses are turning to their IT departments to help save money by controlling costs, improving efficiency, and increasing revenue streams through innovation. Attend this webcast to learn how to enable a highly flexible, reliable, and innovative work environment by taking advantage of your existing technology investment. Staying ahead of the competition often means being able to adapt faster than the market. To achieve that, Microsoft technologies like SharePoint Server, Communications Server 2007 R2, Exchange Server 2010, and the 2007 Microsoft Office system let employees collaborate and communicate anywhere and anytime, online or offline, which can lead to innovation and growth in business.

Presenter: Richard Gleeson, Director of TDM Strategy, Advaiya, Inc

Richard Gleeson is the Director for IT Strategy at Advaiya, Inc, in the Business Solutions Group. At Advaiya, Rich has worked with Microsoft on numerous strategic projects including consulting services, audience marketing, IW compete, Online Services (BPOS), Infrastructure Optimization (IO) and business value assessments (BVA). Prior to Advaiya, Rich was a Senior Business Strategy Consultant at Microsoft working with large enterprise customers to identify business value and drive Information Worker adoption.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428628&culture=en-US

Momentum Webcast: Reduce Your Operational Expenses! (Level 100)

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join Microsoft to learn how to start saving on both your travel and telephony expenses allowing you to invest those dollars in other components of your business success.

Reduce travel costs by giving employees new ways to communicate using and integrated audio, video, and Web conferencing solution. Reduce your toll charges further by integrating unified communications technologies with existing PBX and telephony infrastructure. Microsoft will demonstrate the ease of use and rapid deployment strategies in products such as Office Communicator, OCS R2, Live Meeting, Exchange Server 2010, along with the suite of Office productivity applications. You will quickly see how Microsoft can enable you to connect the right people at the right time in an economically feasible way.

Presenter: Richard Gleeson, Director of TDM Strategy, Advaiya, Inc

Richard Gleeson is the Director for IT Strategy at Advaiya, Inc, in the Business Solutions Group. At Advaiya, Rich has worked with Microsoft on numerous strategic projects including consulting services, audience marketing, IW compete, Online Services (BPOS), Infrastructure Optimization (IO) and business value assessments (BVA). Prior to Advaiya, Rich was a Senior Business Strategy Consultant at Microsoft working with large enterprise customers to identify business value and drive Information Worker adoption.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428631&culture=en-US

New KB's

Antigen & Forefront

Antigen 8.0 for MS Exchange EN: Description of notification messages that refer to an "ExceedinglyInfected virus" and to an "ExceedinglyNested compressed file" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906002/EN-US

Antigen 8.0 for MS Exchange EN: Support for Sybari Antigen 8 for Exchange and Sybari Antigen 8 for SMTP Gateways ends December 31, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977545/EN-US

Antigen 9.0 for Exchange AL: Users receive an e-mail message that states that a file was deleted because of its "Large uncompressed size characteristics" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924952/EN-US

Antigen 9.0 Spam Manager EN: How to notify Microsoft of false negative and false positive spam messages that are identified by Antigen or Forefront (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924951/EN-US

Forefront Sec Exchange Svr EN: How to install a service pack or a software update on an Exchange Server computer that is running Forefront Security (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929080/EN-US

Forefront Sec Exchange Svr EN: Guidelines about how to install and to uninstall Forefront Security for Exchange Server or Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server on an Exchange 2007 cluster continuous replication (CCR) cluster (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929081/EN-US

Forefront Sec Exchange Svr EN: Forefront Server Security or Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server does not obtain scan engine updates, and the following error message is logged in the Programlog.txt file: "Error: The <EngineName> scan engine update timed out" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939411/EN-US

Forefront Sec Exchange Svr EN: Guidelines for installing and for uninstalling Forefront Security for Exchange Server or Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server on an Exchange 2007 standby continuous replication (SCR) (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943616/EN-US

Forefront Sec Exchange Svr EN: Folders to exclude when you perform a file-level antivirus scan on a server operating system (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943620/EN-US

Exchange

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The logon page does not display the “This is a private computer” option correctly in the Greek version of Outlook Web Access (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961856/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: An error message occurs when you run the "Isinteg" command on a newly created Exchange 2007 database

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941775/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: The User account is not logged in Event ID 566 after the user makes changes to a mailbox

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967174/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: When you install an Exchange Server 2007 update rollup by using a user account that has no Exchange Server Administrator permissions, the installation program fails

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970104/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: Description of Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971534/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: After you synchronize your mobile device to work with an Exchange Server 2007 server, the synchronization time and the request time are shown in UTC

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971641/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: The storage limit does not affect the managed custom folder if you copy messages into this folder by using Outlook Web Access (OWA)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971857/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: E-mail messages cannot be retrieved by an Exchange Web Service (EWS)-based application if there are invalid control characters in the text body of the e-mail message

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972009/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: A transport rule is not applied to MDNs in Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972115/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: The "Display sender’s name on messages" option in the Exchange Management Console of Exchange Server 2007 does not work for Message Delivery Notifications (MDNs) that are to remote domains

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972172/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: A new download method is available for HTTP offline address books on Exchange Server 2007 servers that has the Client Access Server role installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972272/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: You cannot view a clear-signed e-mail message in Exchange Server 2007 SP2 when you open the message by using a non-MAPI client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972357/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: Outlook Web Access (OWA) removes the Calendar items for a recurring meeting when you delete the meeting request from the Deleted items folder in Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972473/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: Event ID 4011 is logged when you query free/busy data for external contacts in Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972514/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: The wrong attendee is removed in Scheduling Assistant when you remove attendees from a meeting request in Outlook Web Access server light version

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973190/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: Message delivery times are stamped with the current date and time when Exchange Server 2007 users submit messages by using an IMAP4 client and the APPEND command

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973253/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: The Edge Transport server's transport process fails during an e-mail address rewrite on an Exchange Server 2007 server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973293/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: An application that uses Exchange Web Services returns an exception on an Exchange Server 2007 server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973307/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: Hidden messages in an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox can be downloaded by any IMAP4 client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973361/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: Error message in Exchange Management Shell in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 when you run the "new-dynamicdistributiongroup" command: “You must provide a value expression on the right-hand side of the '-and' operator.”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973490/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: When an Exchange Server 2007 user sends a meeting request to external recipients with the Reminder turned off, the default 15 minute Reminder pop-up window still appears

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973761/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: A delegate cannot cancel meetings in the organizer's calendar by using Exchange Web Service (EWS)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973868/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: Error message when an Exchange 2007 user clicks "Post" or "Send" to submit a new post item for a moderated public folder in OWA: "The item that you attempted to access no longer exists" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973912/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: Recipients cannot see the attendee entry for Domino Room resource after an Exchange Server 2007 user sends a meeting request that includes a Domino room resource to the recipient

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974010/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: The abbreviation sequence is incorrect when an Outlook Web Access Light user checks the calendar in Weekly view after the user sets the language to "Basque" in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974242/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP2 AL: The whole calendar view is broken and an error message is returned when you view an exception occurrence of a private recurring meeting in OWA

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974640/EN-US

Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: E-mail messages are queued when you use the DNS round robin feature on multiple Exchange Server 2007 hub servers

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969046/EN-US

Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: The IMAP4 service crashes, and then event error 4999 occurs on a computer that is running Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970118/EN-US

Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: The Edgetransport.exe program intermittently crashes on Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971053/EN-US

Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: The IMAP service crashes and event error 4999 occurs on a computer that is running Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971431/EN-US

Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes during move-mailbox operations and event error 4999 occurs in Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972103/EN-US

Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: Update of Private status in a meeting request is not reflected in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972278/EN-US

Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: Error message when you save a filter as default in the Exchange Management Console (EMC) and then restart the EMC: "The search filter is invalid"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972426/EN-US

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: You cannot join a multiparty Instant Messaging conference, and those who are on the conference are disconnected in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974009/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Audio callers in the UCMA 2.0 SDK's Automatic Call Distributor sample application cannot connect to the back-office audio conference when they are outside the corporate network

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975895/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: An application that is based on Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Core Redist 64-bit crashes

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975898/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Error message when you use the RGSLang.exe utility after you perform a command-line installation and a command-line activation of Office Communications Server 2007 R2: "Could not extract languages from WMI!"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977281/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Error message when a delegate user tries to schedule an Office Communications Server 2007 R2 conference on behalf of another user: "You do not have permissions to schedule meetings and conferences on behalf of the owner of this account"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977282/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Updates for Communications Server 2007 R2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968802/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the Cumulative Update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Core Redist 64-bit: October 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974007/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: The Response Group Service that runs on Office Communications Server 2008 R2 stops responding when a custom application passes availability status in XML

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976056/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Some user accounts are locked out when you use Office Communicator 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976985/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway: November 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977187/EN-US

Outlook

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: MS08-015: Description of the security update for Outlook 2003: March 11, 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945432/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: MS09-060: Description of the security update for Outlook 2003: October 13, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973705/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter update: November 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975958/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: How to obtain the latest Outlook Junk E-mail Filter update (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/872976/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: MS08-015: Vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook could allow remote code execution (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949031/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: MS09-060: Description of the security update for Outlook 2007: October 13, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972363/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: When you change the date of a reminder by typing a new value in the Russian version of Outlook 2007, the year value of the reminder is multiplied by 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975605/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-ru-ru.msp): October 27, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975729/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter update: November 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975960/EN-US

December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – SQL Server

Downloads

Other

Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure

This release features the SQL Azure provider for Microsoft Sync Framework, a plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Professional SP1 and the tool SQL Azure Data Sync Tool for SQL Server, all of which simplify using Sync Framework and SQL Azure together.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=bce4ad61-5b76-4101-8311-e928e7250b9a

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview Feature Pack

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone packages which provide additional value for SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=020ee0d5-bce4-4a45-9d64-b0c49c8831e5

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview End User License Agreements

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 End User License Agreements provide the legal terms and conditions for using the SQL Server 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview core software

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=80bb26aa-3fbd-483b-ac36-006d496ee58a

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 November CTP StreamInsight Refresh

Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight is Microsoft’s new Complex Event Processing technology to help businesses derive better insights by correlating event streams from multiple sources with near-zero latency.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=01c664e4-1c98-4fc8-93ee-08cc039503c1

Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure

This release features the SQL Azure provider for Microsoft Sync Framework, a plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Professional SP1 and the tool SQL Azure Data Sync Tool for SQL Server, all of which simplify using Sync Framework and SQL Azure together.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=bce4ad61-5b76-4101-8311-e928e7250b9a

SQL 2005

SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP November 2009

Download the a community technology preview (CTP) release version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c18bad82-0e5f-4e82-812b-5b23e5d52b9c

SQL 2008

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32

SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP November 2009

Download the a community technology preview (CTP) release version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c18bad82-0e5f-4e82-812b-5b23e5d52b9c

IT Compliance Management Series

The IT Compliance Management Series is intended for IT managers, professionals, and partners who must configure Microsoft products to address specific IT governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements. Successful implementation of the recommendations in this series will allow organizations to shift the enforcement and management of IT GRC requirements onto underlying Microsoft technologies.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=bd930882-0d39-4900-9a79-b91f213ed15d

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (July 2009)

Download the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=765433f7-0983-4d7a-b628-0a98145bcb97

Events/Webcasts

MSDN Webcast: Overview of SQL Server StreamInsight (Level 200)

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

In this webcast, we explore how you can build event-driven applications to gain insight from high data rate event stream sources with very low latency. We provide an overview of the new Microsoft platform for complex event processing (CEP) called Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight, and then we discuss the following scenarios: formulating declarative queries to express powerful analytics over event streams, programming against the object model of the CEP engine, and writing adapters for event stream data sources. Attendees learn how familiar development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET, C#, and Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) can be used for developing their event-driven applications.

Presenter: Torsten Grabs, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

View other sessions from: SQL Server 2008: Develop Strong Database Applications

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032432286&culture=en-US

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'Why Microsoft has the best cloud computing story.'

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to hear 'Why Microsoft has the best cloud computing story'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433504&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Thrive Live! SQL Server Locking and Blocking Made Simple (Level 200)

Monday, December 07, 2009 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

A good working knowledge of how Microsoft SQL Server makes use of locking and transaction isolation levels can help you greatly improve an application's performance. In this webcast, we explore the SQL Server locking methodology and share techniques for enhancing query response times.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032432983&culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: SQL Server 2008 R2 Support for Up to 256 Logical Processors (Level 200)

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces support for greater than 64 logical processors, supporting up to 256 logical processors on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. In this webcast, we discuss the importance of being able to scale to 256 logical processors, examine the methodology Microsoft employed to validate performance and scalability of SQL Server 2008 R2, and provide details on SQL Server scalability tests and the hardware platforms the tests ran on. We also discuss architectural innovations that made it possible for SQL Server 2008 R2 to scale beyond 64 logical processors and share SQL Server best practices.

Presenters: Madhan Arumugam, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation and Fabricio Voznika, Senior Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation

Madhan Arumugam is a program manager on the SQL Server Engine team at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, where his responsibilities currently cover base diagnostic and execution infrastructure technologies like SQL Server Operating System (SQLOS). Before joining Microsoft, Madhan worked as a software engineer at Intel developing functional models for multi-core cache coherency protocols and other interconnects.

Fabricio Voznika is a developer on the Microsoft SQL Server team where he currently works with synchronization primitives, scheduling, and eventing infrastructure. Prior to Microsoft, he worked for Ericson, designing a network performance monitor in Berkeley, California, and he worked for Objective Solutions in Curitiba, Brazil. Fabricio holds a master's degree from the University of Washington and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico (PUC-PR).

View other sessions from:

SQL Server 2008: Develop Strong Database Applications

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433593&culture=en-US

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'The Business Value of Online Services'

Monday, December 14, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to discuss 'The Business Value of Online Services'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433505&culture=en-US

New KB's

SQL 2000

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: An assertion or Msg 7987 may occur when an operation is performed on an instance of SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828337/EN-US

SQL 2005

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 2005 EN: Description of the various build versions of SQL Server Compact Edition (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950550/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to change the network IP addresses of SQL Server failover cluster instances (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244980/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to open a file attachment in a message that is generated by the sp_send_dbmail procedure in SQL Server 2005: "This file is not in a recognizable format" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924345/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: You cannot start the SQL Server Agent service of a failover cluster of SQL Server 2005 if the build of SQL Server is 3179 or a later build (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943525/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to update or slipstream an installation of SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955392/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Error message when you try to use SQL Server Analysis Services as a data source for a data-driven subscription in SQL Server 2008 Report Manager: "An error occurred while connecting to a data source, or the query is not valid for the data source" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956094/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: The Date data type may be corrupted when you use the SAP BI Destination component of Microsoft Connector 1.0 for SAP BI in a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976367/EN-US

SQL Svr Express Edition 2008 AL: FIX: Error message when you install SQL Server 2008 Express edition on a computer that is running the Chinese Traditional version of Windows Vista for Hongkong: “Performance counter registry hive consistency”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976231/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Setup of SQL Server 2008 fails when the setup binary files are located in a folder whose path is in the 8.3 compatible format

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973357/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package that uses a configuration table in SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio: “The connection "<Connection Name>" is not found” (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974559/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The mean and median lines are not shown when you view a report that contains a Boxplot chart in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975284/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An assertion failure may occur when you run a query that joins columns on a table with compression enabled in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975719/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Toggled items display incorrectly when you print or export a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975756/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An access violation occurs intermittently during message processing for service broker, and the session may be disconnected in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975772/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP statement does not check a partitioned object if one of the partitions is not presented in the filegroup being checked in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975991/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you export a report that uses the Code39(1:3) font to a .pdf file in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services: “There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document(135)”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976359/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A MDX query that involves multiple calculated measures may return an incorrect result in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976391/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message in SQL Server 2008 when you try to transfer data by using a Transfer object that has the WithDependencies property enabled: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976413/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Full-text search functionality does not work in SQL Server 2008 Express Edition even after you installed SQL Server 2008 CU2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976414/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Different results may be returned when you concurrently run the same query with the RECOMPILE option in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976603/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The SQL Server 2008 agent does not automatically resume running after you upgrade to SQL Server 2008 CU7 or SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU3/CU4 in a stand-alone environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976953/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: How to apply a hotfix for SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 in a transactional replication and database mirroring topology

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977051/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Cascading parameters have incorrect values after you customize the schedule for a new subscription on a SharePoint site of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977058/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: After you run the merge agent during the initialization of the subscription in SQL Server 2008, the ident_current() function returns a value that is larger than expected

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977109/EN-US

December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Internet

News

Biztalk Server

Newell Rubbermaid - Newell Rubbermaid Expects to Save $1.5 Million Managing Brand Web Sites Over Two Years

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005682

BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Announced at the Microsoft PDC Conference

http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR15

Windows AppFabric announced at the Microsoft PDC Conference

http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT14

Microsoft Internet Information Server

Lots of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week

Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform. This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out. Here is a quick overview: IIS Search Engine Optimization v1 final release...

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2009/11/20/lot-s-of-new-software-for-iis-asp-net-ajax-and-php-this-week.aspx

Windows Cache Extension for PHP (aka, “WinCache”) 1.0 General Availability Today

Today we announce the general availability of the Windows Cache Extension for PHP 1.0 (affectionately known as “WinCache”), which is an open source built-for-Windows caching extension to the PHP engine. You can view, contribute and download the source...

http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2009/11/19/windows-cache-extension-for-php-aka-wincache-1-0-general-availability-today.aspx

IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0 Final Release Available Today

Today, IIS launched the IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0 , a free, fully supported extension to IIS7 that makes it easy for you to build and maintain Web sites optimized for search engines and site quality. In a world where thousands of new Web sites appear on the...

http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2009/11/17/iis-seo-toolkit-1-0-final-release-available-today.aspx

Improve Web User Experience with IIS SEO Toolkit RTW and IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 RC

Remember the scene in Diehard when he shoots the glass? That was cool. What’s even cooler is now you can fine tune your Web site for the search engine, thus improving the experience for your Web users. Today, Microsoft announced the releases of IIS Search...

http://blogs.iis.net/windowsserver/archive/2009/11/17/improve-web-user-experience-with-iis-seo-toolkit-rtw-and-iis-url-rewriter-2-0-rc.aspx

Download a powerful load balancer and caching solution free on Windows Server 2008 or later with Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0

I am very pleased to announce the final release of Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 , which provides a powerful load balancer and caching solution for free download onto Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. As with all the IIS Web server...

http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2009/11/09/download-a-powerful-load-balancer-and-caching-solution-free-on-windows-server-2008-or-later-with-the-application-request-routing-arr-2-0.aspx

URL Rewrite Module v2 – Release Candidate

The URL Rewrite Module 2.0 – Release Candidate is available for download . The release contains functionality and stability improvements and it is believed to have a quality level suitable for production deployments. Overview Microsoft URL Rewrite Module...

http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2009/11/09/url-rewrite-module-v2-release-candidate.aspx

Increase Web Application Scalability and Reliability with ARR 2.0 RTW

Today, Microsoft announced the final release of IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 RTW . Customers - such as hosting providers, Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers, and IT Professionals are changing the way they do business as a result of...

http://blogs.iis.net/windowsserver/archive/2009/11/09/increase-web-application-scalability-and-reliability-with-arr-2-0-rtw.aspx

SharePoint Technologies

First look: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 beta

2009-11-24: InfoWorld

Major upgrade to Microsoft's Web site, intranet, and collaboration platform offers wealth of improvements for end-users, IT professionals, and developers

http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/first-look-microsoft-sharepoint-2010-beta-588

SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is now available for download

2009-11-18: Microsoft

announcing the general availability of the public beta of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for our customers and partners. Millions of people can download the beta at http://www.microsoft.com/2010.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/11/18/sharepoint-2010-public-beta-is-now-available-for-download.aspx

Why Developers Like SharePoint 2010

2009-11-17: Infoworld

SharePoint 2010, the newly announced upgrade to Microsoft's popular Web and collaboration platform, is receiving a thumbs-up from developers pleased with the product's capabilities, including its use of Visual Studio as a tool for building SharePoint applications.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/why-developers-sharepoint-2010-224

Small Company Makes Big Splash at Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009

2009-11-02: Reuters

IncWorx Consulting was the recipient of Microsoft's 2009 SharePoint Deployment and Planning (SDPS) Partner of the Year Award. The world's most prominent technology and business professionals met during Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 Conference hosted by Microsoft at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS128011+02-Nov-2009+PRN20091102

SharePoint 2010's Sandboxed Solutions

2009-11-02: Windows IT Pro

One of the biggest problems with SharePoint 2007 development is that all of its solutions run as full trust. This makes farm administrators reluctant to publish any solution that may disrupt the stability of the farm. Sandboxed solutions, new in SharePoint 2010, address this by allowing site collection administrators to deploy solutions that are safe to run.

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/103063/sharepoint-2010s-sandboxed-solutions.html

SharePoint 2010: Re-thinking Information Work

2009-10-30: IDC

Microsoft SharePoint is a phenomenon that obviously answers an enterprise need for a platform that integrates the major information work tools – search, content management, business intelligence, workflow, and messaging – into a collaborative work framework.

http://www.idc.com/downloads/IW20091021.pdf

 

Documents

Biztalk Server

New Features in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 (pre-release)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=163958

SharePoint Technologies

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Updated: 2009-11-05

This article has been updated with information about the October Cumulative Update, which contains several hotfixes and improvements to the Pre-Upgrade checker.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx

Administer variations

Updated: 2009-11-05

This article has been updated to note that if you want to add nonpublishing pages to the Pages library, you must create the variations labels and hierarchies before adding nonpublishing items to the Pages library.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770241.aspx

SharePoint guidance for SQL Server database administrators (Downloadable book)

Published: 2009-10-29

This book is a guide for database administrators who implement or maintain Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It provides guidelines for improving the performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions that run on Microsoft SQL Server 2008. It also provides information about key considerations for configuring storage and SQL Server 2008 before installing Office SharePoint Server 2007; the required steps in installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 when using DBA-created databases; backup and recovery considerations for Office SharePoint Server 2007, including what can and cannot be protected by SQL Server 2008 backups; and maintaining and monitoring SQL Server 2008 databases that support a Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721075.aspx

Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for Office SharePoint Server: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices (white paper)

Updated: 2009-10-29

This paper provides key recommendations and best practices to help administrators of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 plan and monitor their Microsoft SQL Server 2008 storage requirements to support optimal performance and operation of their server farms. The paper has been updated to address the capabilities of SQL Server 2008.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263261.aspx

Downloads

Biztalk Server

Microsoft BizTalk Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=389FCB89-F4CF-46D7-BC6E-57830D234F91&amp;displaylang=en&displaylang=en

Microsoft Internet Information Server

IIS DownloadCENTER

This is your single source for finding Microsoft Internet Information Services tools, samples, extensions, filters and modules created by Microsoft and the IIS community.

http://www.iis.net/downloads

SharePoint Technologies

Download SharePoint 2010 Beta

Find out how this integrated suite of server capabilities can help your organization by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

LogViewer Feature

All those log files in the [..]\12\LOGS folder are hard to look at, now you can use a browser-based viewer snapin to simplify the task. This adds a new link to the Central Administration Operations page that lets you pick & filter the log files. http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/06/11/SharePoint-Debugging-and-Logging-Tips-and-Tricks.aspx

Download: http://www.codeplex.com/features

Disk2VHD v1.3

Disk2VHD enables on-line export of volumes into VHD format for use in VPC or Hyper-V, allowing customers experiencing issues to provide images of their systems so that CSS can diagnose the problem without costly steps attempting to reproduce the issues in-house. It uses shadow copies to obtain consistent images of volumes while the source system continues to operate and possibly modify the volumes.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

Events/Webcasts

SharePoint Technologies

November 2009

Understanding Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Free of charge

Date: 26 November 2008, 18:00

Location:

Event Category: Live Meeting On-Demand

Audience: Additional Information Worker, IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist, Non-Tech Influencing BDM

Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032395058

TechNet Presents: MCS Talks Enterprise Architecture Session 9 – SharePoint as the Strategic Platform for the Enterprise

Free of charge

Date: 27 November 2008, 02:00

Location:

Event Category: Live Meeting On-Demand

Audience: IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist

Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows Server

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032393353

December 2009

Business Agility presents SharePoint for Current & Future Intranets

Free of charge

Date: 04 December 2008, 09:00

Location: Microsoft UK, Victoria St, London

This free seminar will be focusing on SharePoint 2007, and we will be showcasing a preview of SharePoint 2010 features, functionality and demos

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032431363

Deployment Planning Days Overview

Free of charge

Date: 18 December 2008, 13:30

Location:

Event Category: Live Meeting On-Demand

Audience: Additional Information Worker, IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist, Non-Tech Influencing BDM

Products: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032397205&EventCategory=5&culture=en-GB&CountryCode=GB

Future Events

SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference

Fee charged

Date: 19-21st April 2010

Location: London, QEII

This 3 day SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference, consists of over 50 Sessions dedicated to SharePoint Professionals at every level from IT Pro, Developers, Designers to Project Managers and Executives.

All upcoming Events\Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/events/default.aspx

New KB's

Biztalk Server

BizTalk Acc for SWIFT 3.0: FIX: An MT564 message that does not contain 97A or 97C field in Sequence B2 does not fail validation as expected when you use Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2009 Message Pack

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974834/EN-US

BizTalk Server Dev 2006 R2 EN: FIX: SQL connections to BizTalk databases are not cleaned up or reused when you use the BiztalkOperations class in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976927/EN-US

BizTalk Server Ent 2009 EN: FIX: Some BAPI messages in a batch are not sent successfully to an SAP system when you use a WCF-based SAP adapter that is included in BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974800/EN-US

BizTalk Server Ent 2009 EN: A hotfix is available that lets you promote the GE01 segment as an EDI context property in BizTalk Server 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975020/EN-US

BizTalk Server Ent 2009 EN: FIX: Special characters are not written into the output document after they are processed by a send pipeline that uses the Flat File Assembler in BizTalk Server 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976074/EN-US

BizTalk Server LOB Adapters 2006: FIX: Error message when you use BizTalk Adapter for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne in BizTalk Server 2009: "Error occurred during initialization of VM"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976943/EN-US

Microsoft Internet Information Server

Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: Error message when you use the OpenRemote method to administer Web servers remotely in an IIS 7.0 shared configuration environment: "Cannot write configuration file due to insufficient permissions"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970691/EN-US

Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) does not start when you use the IISRESET /RESTART command to restart IIS 7.0 on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975443/EN-US

Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: You cannot save changes back to the WebDAV 7.5 Web folder when a site level change is made to IIS configuration

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976526/EN-US

SharePoint Technologies

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: The link of an old site is displayed instead of the link of a new site after you restore the old site to the new site in SharePoint Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974549/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (Wssmui-hu-hu.msp): October 28, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975003/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver-x-none.msp): September 30, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975527/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The ServerInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists the servers in a farm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954758/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The FarmInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 provides information about a farm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954759/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The UpgradeTypes rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 checks the current setup of a farm and determines what kinds of upgrade are available to the administrator

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954760/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The SiteDefinitionInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists information about site definition templates

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954761/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The FeatureInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists all features and scans the content databases for references to the features

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954762/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The LanguagePackInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists the languages that your Web sites are using

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954763/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The AamUrls rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 scans a Web application and reports certain AAM URLs and databases

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954764/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The OSPrerequisite rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 warns you about incorrect operating system prerequisites when you upgrade SharePoint servers

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954770/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The ContentOrphan rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists the names of content databases whose data is corrupted

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954773/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The SiteOrphan rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists the names of site collections that are not in the site map

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954774/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The PendingUpgrade rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 warns that the gradual upgrade of a farm is not yet completed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954775/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The MissingWebConfig rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) lists the name of the computers and the Web site URLs that have missing Web.config files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954776/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The InvalidHostName rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 warns you about an invalid host name in the URL of a Web application

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954777/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The ReadOnlyDatabase rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 reports any databases that are set to read-only

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954779/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The WindowsInternalDatabaseMigration rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 warns you about databases that are larger than or close to 4 gigabytes (GB)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954780/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The WindowsInternalDatabaseSite rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 warns you about the site collections that are hosted on the Windows Internal Database that are larger than or close to 4 GB

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954783/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: You encounter performance problems when you run a crawl on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975532/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The Windows SharePoint Services Search service does not start when the fully qualified domain names of the server are used to configure a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 single server installation

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976043/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The UnsupportedSQLServerVersion rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 warns you about SQL Server versions that are running with incompatible architecture or about unresponsive databases

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976215/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The EventReceiverInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides information about event receivers that are referenced in a farm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976216/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The WebPartInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update provides information about the Web parts that are referenced in a farm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976217/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The ServerConfigErrors rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update warns you about missing server files or server configuration issues

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976218/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The FormsAuthenticationApplications rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides information about forms-based authentication providers or WebSSO authentication providers that are referenced in a farm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976384/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: You upload a file to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site, and the custom content type that you selected from the New menu is not used

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976393/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The Check Names feature in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 resolves names very slowly

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976396/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: When you click "Search" without specifying search words in the Advanced Search page of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site, you receive all the results from the index

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976429/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The SharePoint search results in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site displays the size of the Welcome page as zero (0) bytes and displays an incomplete URL for the Welcome page

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976430/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: You run a crawl for some Lists or Surveys, and you receive access violation error messages

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976431/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: When SharePoint crawls a Web page, the last modified date of the Web page that is displayed in the search results is incorrect

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976439/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Users who have read permission do not receive alerts for drafts or for minor version documents when the Content Approval option is enabled in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976440/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Values for some crawled properties are lost when you perform a full user profile import in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976463/EN-US

December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Platforms

News

Download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 empowers your people to do their best work from more places – whether they’re using a PC, phone or web browser. It can maximize existing investments and help people accomplish more by bringing server capabilities to everyone through familiar and intuitive applications. Office Professional Plus 2010 provides smart, simple, time-saving tools to help everyone do more with less.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/ee390818.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/

Windows Server 2008 R2: a Primer

Take a guided tour through the new and enhanced features of Windows Server 2008 R2. Important stops along the way include Windows PowerShell cmdlets, tools for remote management, core parking options for processors, Active Directory changes, and branch caching.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/ee677582.aspx

Free Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner - Available Now

Ensure your IT environment is healthy and up to date before you migrate. Designed for administrators of small or medium-sized networks, this tool takes a few minutes to scan your IT environment, perform more than 100 separate checks, and collect and analyse information.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dd7a00df-1a5b-4fb6-a8a6-657a7968bd11&displaylang=en

Microsoft VDI Part I: Server-Side Configuration (Video)

Part one in a three-part series focuses on the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services. In these videos, Partner Technology Specialist Matt McSpirit, from Microsoft UK, walks through configuring Microsoft VDI.

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Microsoft-VDI-Part-I-Server-Side-Configuration/

Other

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization

The World Simplified is a Virtual World

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld

The App-V Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid

The Official MDOP Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/mdop

Ask the Directory Services Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askds

Ask the Performance Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf

Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team

http://blogs.technet.com/networking

Ask the Core Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askcore

Ntdebugging Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging

Remote Desktop Services

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts

The Hot Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/hot

Downloads

Download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 empowers your people to do their best work from more places – whether they’re using a PC, phone or web browser. It can maximize existing investments and help people accomplish more by bringing server capabilities to everyone through familiar and intuitive applications. Office Professional Plus 2010 provides smart, simple, time-saving tools to help everyone do more with less.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/ee390818.aspx

Upgrading Active Directory Domains to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 AD DS Domains

This guide explains the process for upgrading Active Directory domains to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, how to upgrade the operating system of domain controllers, and how to add domain controllers that run Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to an existing domain.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fa629de2-f4dd-47ac-8d80-3db46b2877a2

.NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is a full cumulative update that contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and includes cumulative servicing updates to the .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0 subcomponents.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7

HAV Detection Tool

The Hardware-assisted virtualization (HAV) detection tool checks if the computer processor supports HAV and if this setting is enabled.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0ee2a17f-8538-4619-8d1c-05d27e11adb2

Running Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Virtualized Topology

This whitepaper defines the supported topologies and provides best practice recommendations for running Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and SQL Server™ 2008 in a Windows Hyper-V environment or other hypervisor technologies.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0a45d921-3b48-44e4-b42b-19704a2b81b0

Windows Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP

Internet Explorer 8. Faster, Easier, More Private, and More Secure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=341c2ad5-8c3d-4347-8c03-08cdecd8852b

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

Download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to see if your PC is ready for Windows 7. It scans your hardware, devices, and installed programs for known compatibility issues, gives you guidance on how to resolve potential issues found, and recommends what to do before you upgrade.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1b544e90-7659-4bd9-9e51-2497c146af15

DirectX End-User Runtime

The Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime provides updates to 9.0c and previous versions of DirectX — the core Windows® technology that drives high-speed multimedia and games on the PC.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3

Events/Webcasts

Live Webcasts:

Full list can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx

Interactive Webcast Calendar

The interactive calendar will help you quickly find live webcasts that fit your schedule as well as on-demand webcasts to view at your convenience. You can choose your time zone and filter this list by audience, webcast series, product or topic, and presenter.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx

Monthly Archived Webcasts:

http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/library/default.mspx

Windows 7: Build Innovative Applications Using Familiar Tools

Webcasts, Videos, and Podcasts

Test drive Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and learn how to build a next-generation user interface. Also, see how you can create custom shell and driver components as well as applications from end to end.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnwindows7.aspx

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for Exchange Server (Level 300)

Virtualizing business critical applications delivers significant benefits, including cost savings, enhanced business continuity, and an agile and efficient management solution. In this webcast, we focus on virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server using Microsoft solutions, we discuss the benefits of using Microsoft virtualization technologies instead of technologies from key competitors such as VMware, and we provide technical guidance and best practices for virtualizing Exchange Server in various production scenarios. We also discuss results from lab deployment tests.

Language(s): English.

Product(s): Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

Audience(s): IT Generalist.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Start Date: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032428204

TechNet Webcast: Automating Windows 7 Deployments Using System Center Configuration Manager (Level 300)

We focus on automating Windows 7 operating system deployments using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager in this webcast. First, we cover how to automate hardware and software inventory using Asset Intelligence to determine what applications and hardware are needed for deploying Windows 7. Next, we examine deploying Windows 7 packages, and we discuss how to add Windows 7 packages to System Center Configuration Manager and then the deploy packages to bare metal machines and existing Windows Vista clients across the enterprise.

Language(s): English.

Product(s): Windows,Windows 7.

Audience(s): IT Generalist.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Start Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032416868

TechNet Webcast: Plan for and Deploy Volume Activation for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (Level 300)

Attend this webcast to discover the best practices for integrating Microsoft Volume Activation into your enterprise software deployment and management efforts. Benefit from lessons others have learned from dealing with the license activation of the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems in a variety of IT environments, including networked, isolated, roaming, branch office, development, and test.

Language(s): English.

Product(s): Windows,Windows 7.

Audience(s): IT Decision Maker,IT Generalist.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Start Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032428921

TechNet Webcast: Windows File Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Storage Server (Level 200)

Microsoft has delivered state-of-the-art file services functionality since the inception of the Windows Server operating system, and through the years the file services capabilities have evolved with the operating system to meet customers' ongoing needs.

Attend this webcast to discover the new enhanced file services capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 that make it a cost-effective, enterprise-ready operating system. In this first webcast in a series of webcasts, we provide an overview of the new file services functionality released with Windows Server 2008 R2, including enhanced server message block (SMB) performance, the new File Classification Infrastructure (FCI), and BranchCache among others. In addition, we have a panel of experts to answer your questions.

Language(s): English.

Product(s): Windows Server,Windows Server 2008.

Audience(s): IT Decision Maker,IT Generalist,IT Implementer.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Start Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032432260

New KB's

Windows Client

Win Vista Business 32bit AL: The size of available shrink space on a volume is less than expected in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976916/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Stop error message on a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer when you resume the system from sleep: Stop 0x000000FE

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967102/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: A non-persistent snapshot cleanup operation is aborted by VSS if the VSS hardware provider takes more than three minutes to perform this operation on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975831/EN-US

Win Vista SP2 AL: Error 80070490 when you install Windows Vista SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976920/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The Remote Desktop Web Connection client does not work after you upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954371/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Isochronous data transfers fail when you attach a remote 1394A-compliant IEEE 1394 node to a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer that does not support the IRM role

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973414/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: When you examine the playback devices after you start a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, some audio devices are missing or display the "Not plugged in" status

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974868/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: A memory leak occurs in the Wmiprvse.exe process when you query an iSCSI WMI class in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975751/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: In Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008, when there are right-aligned tabs, the tabs are misaligned in an application that uses rich edit controls

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975848/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: December 2009 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976098/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Some Windows Socket events will be lost when turning on Windows Vista Parental Control web filtering

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977500/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 64bit AL: FIX: You cannot send or receive messages by using Message Queuing 4.0 after you configure the BindInterfaceIP registry entry on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974813/EN-US

Windows XP Home Edition EN: You cannot open an OLE link whose path contains one or more spaces in Windows XP or in Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975683/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: A hotfix is available for Remote Desktop Client (RDC) 5.2 to fix a drawing failure after you apply the security update 958470 (MS09-044) on a computer that is running Windows XP SP3 or Windows Server 2003 SP2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975158/EN-US

Windows XP SP2 EN: A hotfix is available for Remote Desktop Client (RDC) 5.1 to fix a drawing failure after you apply the security update 958470 (MS09-044) on a computer that is running Windows XP SP2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975153/EN-US

Windows XP SP3 AL: Description of the MUI for the Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 client update for Windows XP Service Pack 3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969085/EN-US

Windows Server

Windows Svr 2000 EN: MS09-045: Description of the security update for Jscript 5.7 in Windows 2000: November 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975542/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtcntr wo HV AL: MS09-063: Vulnerability in Web Service on devices could allow remote code execution

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973565/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: MS09-066: Description of the security update for Active Directory: November 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973037/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The audio redirection feature does not work when you use Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 to make a terminal server session to a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition or Windows Vista x64 Edition

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973062/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The command shell program stops responding when you redirect the STDERR output in a "Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications" Telnet session that is connected to a computer that is running Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975173/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: SceCli 1202 events are logged every time Computer Group Policy settings are refreshed on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975566/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The Account Name, Account Domain, and Security ID fields are not populated in event ID 5136 for "Directory Service Changes" on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975696/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: An LDAP client authentication request fails when the Digest-MD5 SASL subsequent authentication mechanism is used

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975697/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: FIX: Error "0xc00e0003" is returned when you send messages between instances of Message Queuing 4.0 that are running on a Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976438/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: An application or service that queries information about a failover cluster by using the WMI provider may experience low performance or a time-out exception

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974930/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: The system becomes unbootable after you add raw disks to a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that has EFI enabled

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975535/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: DNS updates may be incorrectly reported as failed when you use a third-party DNS server application for DNS registration on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977158/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: The security principals and the services that use only DES encryption for Kerberos authentication are incompatible with the default settings on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977321/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Error message when you try to remotely manage a print server on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2003: "0x80043333" or "0x80070906"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977508/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Error message when you try to use the "runas" command, the "Run as Administrator" option, or the "Run as a different user" option after you upgrade from Windows Server 2003 or from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2: "Access is denied"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977513/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: A computer that is running VMware cannot create a TCP connection to a NFS server that is running Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977517/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Error message when you run a command at the Command Prompt window in Windows Server 2008 Server Core: "The specified service does not exist as an installed Service"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969371/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Error message when multiple network adapters are configured to use static IP addresses on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Vista SP2: "0x000000D1 DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972887/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The "Date and Time" window shows "Date out of range" error message

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976470/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: You receive DFSR event ID 2212, and DFSR stops after you restart Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977518/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: Description of security events in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977519/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: FSRM Classification Rules repeatedly classify the same files, and reports do not update

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977520/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: The Active Directory Application Mode index may become corrupted if you search the instance by using the LDAP virtual list view control

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972622/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: MS09-066: Description of the security update for Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM): November 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973039/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 X64 EN: You experience performance issues in applications and services when the system file cache consumes most of the physical RAM

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976618/EN-US

December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Security

News

Microsoft Report Reveals Resurgence of Worms; Rogue Security Software Still Top Threat http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825815&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

On November 2, Microsoft released the seventh volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7), which indicates that worm infections in the enterprise rose by nearly 100 percent during the first half of 2009 over the preceding six months. Rogue security software remains a major threat to customers; however, 20 percent fewer customers were affected by rogue infections during the past six months. Gain a quick summary of the report’s findings, and then read the full report http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825760&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 for more detailed information.

Update Your Microsoft Forefront and Antigen Engine Configuration by December 1 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825817&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

As announced http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825761&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 in July, Microsoft is revising its engine mix on December 1 for Forefront and Antigen products that customers can use to help optimize detection, but that also allow Microsoft to invest in new areas for increasing overall protection for customers. Learn more about the changes, including product-specific instructions, on the Antimalware Engine Notifications and Developments http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825762&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 site.

Cloudmark Antispam Engine Released http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825818&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Now you can experience even greater antispam support with the Cloudmark Antispam Engine, just released from beta after having undergone extensive internal testing and customer trials. The Cloudmark antispam engine provides a better than 99 percent detection rate and less than 1 in 250,000 false positives (West Coast Labs). It replaces the Mail-Filters SpamCure antispam engine, set to retire on December 1. Be sure to upgrade to the latest service pack releases before December 1 to continue your antispam defenses and have access to the new Cloudmark engine.

Update on Antigen 8.0 EOL and Engine Revision http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825819&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Make sure you’re up to date on Antigen 8.0 end-of-life plans and associated engine revisions, including information on upcoming engine changes occurring later this year and what you need to know in order to maintain continued security protection.

Security Tip of the Month: Top Five Security-Related Group Policy Settings http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825820&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

In this article, Microsoft Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz takes a look at five policy setting areas and shows you how they can deliver settings you might use to help make your world more secure.

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for November, 2009

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-nov.mspx

Microsoft Product Lifecycle Information

Find information about your particular products on the Microsoft Product Lifecycle http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355452&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 Web site.

See a list of supported service packs http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355453&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474: Microsoft provides free software updates for security and non-security issues for all supported service packs

Security Bulletin Overview for November 2009

Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Blog Post http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825831&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Windows Media Video (WMV) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825832&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Windows Media Audio (WMA) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825833&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

iPod Video (MP4) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825834&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

MP3 Audio http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825835&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

High Quality WMV (2.5 Mbps) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825836&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Zune Video (WMV) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825837&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Forefront Edge Security

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Release – Download now!

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 allows employees to safely and productively use the Internet without worrying about malware and other threats. It provides multiple protection capabilities including URL filtering, antimalware inspection, intrusion prevention, application- and network-layer firewall, and HTTP/HTTPS inspection – that are integrated into a unified, easy to manage gateway, reducing the cost and complexity of Web security. http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/17/forefront-threat-management-gateway-2010-release.aspx

Forefront TMG and ISA Server

Forefront Edge Security TechCenter

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/default.aspx

Please note that if you have feedback on documentation or wish to request new documents - email isadocs@microsoft.com

Forefront Edge Security Community

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/bb687298.aspx

Forefront TMG (ISA Server) Product Team Blog

The ISA Server Product Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/) is updated on a regular basis. Latest entries include:

Issues after updating the ISA Management console on a Windows Vista/7 client

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/30/issues-after-updating-the-isa-management-console-on-a-windows-vista-7-client.aspx

Management Pack for Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Release Candidate Now Available

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/02/management-pack-for-forefront-threat-management-gateway-2010-release-candidate-now-available.aspx

Creating a Web Access Policy for Your Organization

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/03/creating-a-web-access-policy-for-your-organization.aspx

Forefront TMG Client

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/03/forefront-tmg-client.aspx

TMG Customer ID for Reputation Services

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/08/tmg-customer-id-for-reputation-services.aspx

Email Protection in Forefront TMG 2010 Release Candidate

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/10/email-protection-in-forefront-tmg-2010-release-candidate.aspx

Customizing the mobile device xHTML FBA page to allow password change

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/16/customizing-the-mobile-device-xhtml-fba-page-to-allow-password-change.aspx

Unable to Download an Office file from a Web Server Published through ISA Server 2006

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/21/unable-to-download-an-office-file-from-a-web-server-published-through-isa-server-2006.aspx

TMG post deployment checklist

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/22/tmg-post-deployment-checklist.aspx

Forefront TMG Rule Grouping

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/25/forefront-tmg-rule-grouping.aspx

TMG ISP Redundancy ‘unleashed’

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/26/tmg-isp-redundancy-unleashed.aspx

Deny Page Customization on Forefront TMG 2010

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/11/26/deny-page-customization-on-forefront-tmg-2010.aspx

Forefront Unified Access Gateway & Intelligent Application Gateway 2007

Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 Technical Resources

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/bb687299.aspx

Forefront Edge Security Community

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/bb687298.aspx

Forefront Unified Access Gateway Product Team Blog

The UAG Product Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog) is updated on a regular basis. Latest entries include:

UAG Content from TechEd Europe

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/11/14/uag-content-from-teched-europe.aspx

Load Balancing Backend Servers Farms

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/11/16/load-balancing-backend-servers-farms.aspx

Deep dive into UAG DirectAccess (Manage Out Basics)

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/11/17/deep-dive-into-uag-directaccess-manage-out-basics.aspx

AppWrap in UAG – what’s new

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/11/17/appwrap-in-uag-what-s-new.aspx

Customizing the Portal

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/11/26/customizing-the-portal.aspx

Documents

What's New in Windows Security Auditing in Windows Server 2008 R2 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825821&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Learn about the enhancements in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 that increase the level of detail in security-auditing logs and simplify the deployment and management of auditing policies.

What's New in Group Policy

http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825822&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Learn about the changes available in Windows Server 2008 R2 with Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT), from the ability to manage Group Policy from the Windows PowerShell command line to additional types of Group Policy preferences and improvements to starter Group Policy Objects (GPOs).

Using Windows Server 2008: Controlling Communication with the Internet http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825823&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

This white paper provides information about the communication that flows between features in Windows Server 2008 and sites on the Internet, and it describes steps to take to limit, control, or prevent that communication in an organization with many users.

Windows Server 2008 Security Compliance Management Toolkit

http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825824&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Get the guidance and tools you need to help you efficiently create, deploy, and maintain a secure environment for a variety of servers running Windows Server 2008.

Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for DirectAccess

http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825825&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

This guide provides actionable guidance for designing a DirectAccess infrastructure. The guide’s easy-to-follow, four-step process gives a straightforward explanation of the infrastructure required for clients to be connected from the Internet to resources on the corporate network, whether or not the organization has begun deploying IPv6.

Server Security Policy Management in Windows Server 2008

http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825826&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

There are many tools in Windows Server 2008 that you can use to help keep your computers secure. This discussion focuses on three tools that you can use alone or together to manage the security policies on your servers: the Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) and the Scwcmd command-line tool, the Security Templates snap-in, and the Security Configuration and Analysis snap-in.

Security Audit Events for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825827&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

You can use Windows security and system logs to record and store collected security events so that you can track key system and network activities to monitor potentially harmful behaviors and to mitigate those risks. The information in this download can help you analyze the data included in event-log data.

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Agile Development http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825828&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Download the latest SDL process guidance, which includes SDL for agile development, a streamlined approach that melds agile methods and security.

Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server Best Practices Analyzer http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825829&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Microsoft has released the Forefront Security for Office Communications Server Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) to help you maximize your configuration settings. The BPA compares your existing Forefront Security for Office Communications Server deployment with recommended best practices to identify configuration setting changes that could help you improve FSOCS performance and malware detection rates.

Benefits of Regulatory Requirements with Respect to Business Optimization http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825830&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Gain an understanding of IT infrastructure security compliance and the benefits that an IT infrastructure compliance maturity model can provide to management and compliance and IT stakeholders as well as to the business at large.

Forefront TMG Deployment Guide

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441445.aspx

Downloads

Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit

A toolkit to apply security mitigation technologies to arbitrary applications

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4a2346ac-b772-4d40-a750-9046542f343d

Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series

This toolkit series provides IT professionals with an end-to-end solution to help them plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows® operating systems and 2007 Microsoft® Office applications. The series was updated to include new security baselines for Windows® 7, BitLocker™ Drive Encryption, and Windows® Internet Explorer® 8.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5534bee1-3cad-4bf0-b92b-a8e545573a3e

DNSSEC Deployment Guide

This guide provides an overview of Domain Name System (DNS) Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and information about how to deploy DNSSEC on the Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 operating systems.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7a005a14-f740-4689-8c43-9952b5c3d36f

Project Server Security Overview: Permissions, Groups, Categories, and Resource Breakdown Structure

Discusses permissions, groups, categories, and RBS in Project Server

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=995417cf-bb74-4262-9d57-462a8dc9ec0b

Management Pack for Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Release Candidate

This is the release candidate of the management pack that monitors the deployment topology and features, performance and availability of Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0391715a-6355-448d-9686-60e584a03264

Active Directory Rights Management Services Bulk Protection Tool

Bulk decryption and encryption tool for AD RMS.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f9fbe58f-c175-41d0-afdc-6f160ab809cd

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: Security Aspects

This white paper focuses on security aspects of the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 application.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ca1c0118-9542-465b-b218-6ad99307425c

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 7 (January - June 2009)

This is the seventh volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=037f3771-330e-4457-a52c-5b085dc0a4cd

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1.1 (for IT Professionals)

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer provides a streamlined method to identify missing security updates and common security misconfigurations. MBSA 2.1.1 is a minor upgrade to add support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b1e76bbe-71df-41e8-8b52-c871d012ba78

Forefront for Office Communications Server License File Update

This download provides Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) customers to use the revised set of engines available as of 12/1/2009. It replaces the retired CA engine with the Authentium engine.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7186126f-b8bf-4c3d-885e-f91cd2d10800

Geneva Whitepapers and Datasheet

Geneva Overview Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9ca5c685-3172-4d8f-81cb-1a59bdc9f7e3

Forefront(TM) Identity Manager 2010 RC1 Demo Virtual Hard Disk Image

This package contains a Hyper-V-based demo of Microsoft® Forefront (TM) Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 RC1 (formerly code-named ILM "2").

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4729e8ce-8209-45df-933d-f83c7de5cd29

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) provides fast and effective protection against malware and spam by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. It also integrates with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange to provide the defense-in-depth benefits of hosted and on-premise filtering in a single solution.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b8a7d36f-cc8d-4335-ae60-8f27c48f3a37

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 Privacy Statement

This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange and Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=72d99943-8558-4b31-bcf8-bbc08e3a2ffa

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: Understanding Security in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009

This white paper focuses on security aspects of the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 application.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ca1c0118-9542-465b-b218-6ad99307425c

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

The Management Pack for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server monitors the availability, security, configuration and performance of an FPE deployment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=74ba19df-0fc2-4dd3-86cc-07cb086a47c8

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Documentation

Documentation about Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a11ec9bb-d7f8-408a-a811-66dcd1036b53

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB975960)

This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9869c42b-bf7f-4114-a3a8-1f4eedf88dd7

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB975958)

This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a2fc06ed-bc49-4cd0-a4c4-b0a958d13cbc

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [November 2009] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=749e10cd-f40c-4f94-8e38-d4221ded7652

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [November 2009] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aa029fde-f341-44fc-8b85-0c6f3d3c2d69

IT Compliance Management Series

The IT Compliance Management Series is intended for IT managers, professionals, and partners who must configure Microsoft products to address specific IT governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements. Successful implementation of the recommendations in this series will allow organizations to shift the enforcement and management of IT GRC requirements onto underlying Microsoft technologies.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bd930882-0d39-4900-9a79-b91f213ed15d

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) x64

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=585d2bde-367f-495e-94e7-6349f4effc74

Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows XP (KB943729)

Multiple Group Policy Preferences have been added to the Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console (which are also available through the Remote Server Administration Toolset (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e60b5c8f-d7dc-4b27-a261-247ce3f6c4f8

Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB943729)

Multiple Group Policy Preferences have been added to the Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console (which are also available through the Remote Server Administration Toolset (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=249c1aed-c1f1-4a0b-872e-ef0a32170625

Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows Server 2003 (KB943729)

Multiple Group Policy Preferences have been added to the Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console (which are also available through the Remote Server Administration Toolset (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bfe775f9-5c34-44d0-8a94-44e47db35add

Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB943729)

Multiple Group Policy Preferences have been added to the Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console (which are also available through the Remote Server Administration Toolset (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=29e83503-7686-49f3-b42d-8e5ed23d5d79

November 2009 Security Release ISO Image

This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on November 10th, 2009.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=403954d3-668e-4818-adb5-e40e0f37881f

Security and Authentication in Microsoft Dynamics CRM: The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Security Model

This white paper, The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Security Model, serves as the core architectural component of a larger "nuts and bolts" article on Security and Authentication in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fb4bb16b-586f-4aae-aa4b-790023e95b61

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) - Version 4.1a

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Process Guidance - Version 4.1a

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d045a05a-c1fc-48c3-b4d5-b20353f97122

Extended Security Update Inventory Tool

The Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is used to detect security bulletins not covered by MBSA including MS04-028, February 2005 bulletins, and future security bulletins that are exceptions to MBSA.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2c93da1d-48a0-4e5c-991f-87e08954f61b

Security and Authentication in Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Field-level Security in Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Options and Constraints

While Microsoft Dynamics CRM does not provide for true field-level security, there are a number of options available for using supported custom logic to control of access to data at a more granular level than provided out of the box. This document discusses some of the key options and constraints available for implementing this type of solution.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=471f8670-47b3-4525-b25d-c11a6774615c

Windows Firewall with Advanced Security: Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying Windows Firewall and IPsec Policies

This step-by-step guide illustrates how to deploy Active Directory® Group Policy objects (GPOs) to configure Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0b937897-ce39-498e-bb37-751c00f197d9

Volume Activation Management Tool 2.0 (Beta)

VAMT 2.0 allows you to manage volume editions of Windows and Office installed with a KMS client key or a MAK key.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8265fdef-b921-4dbf-ba8b-bb1cbe238ce6

Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series

This toolkit series provides IT professionals with an end-to-end solution to help them plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows® operating systems and 2007 Microsoft® Office applications. The series was updated to include new security baselines for Windows® 7, BitLocker™ Drive Encryption, and Windows® Internet Explorer® 8.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5534bee1-3cad-4bf0-b92b-a8e545573a3e

Security Considerations for Client and Cloud Applications

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7c75f87f-f210-4ee0-a6d9-65d8a6ddd1b7

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 allows employees to safely and productively use the Internet without worrying about malware and other threats. Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 is available for download in both Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e05aecbc-d0eb-4e0f-a5db-8f236995bccd

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Client

Forefront TMG Client installs the client software for Forefront TMG 2010 on 32-bit and 64-bit computers running supported Windows operating systems.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=53010a09-3c5c-4d5d-9ae1-692e7447c5bd

Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 RC1

This download contains release notes for Update 1 to Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 RC1. The document includes a summary of changes since RC1, pre-installation and post-installation instructions, and known issues with this release.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d806d4c4-2867-433b-9c9f-2715e274a787

Setup Checklists: Microsoft® Forefront Online Protection for Exchange and Exchange Hosted Archive 9.2

These setup checklists help you set up your online services.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4d471bf6-abcd-4ba2-ab38-ff33637f1831

Preventing Security Development Errors: Lessons Learned at Windows Live by Using ASP.NET MVC

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7606f801-70c5-49ca-a18c-91d4ed725833

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) 9.3 Product Documents

Product documents for FOPE 9.3 include the following: New Features Guide, Administration Center User Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=be5963ee-917f-4677-94c5-02985d7e077e

Forefront Security for Exchange Server 10.1 MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Management Pack monitors Exchange Servers for virus and worm activity.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ec2a6c3a-6d75-44df-87d7-9dbb3dbfce37

Microsoft’s Identity and Access Management Platform Whitepapers

Identity and Access Whitepapers

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9ca5c685-3172-4d8f-81cb-1a59bdc9f7e3

Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0 Documents

These guides provide an overview of Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) 4.0 and step-by-step guidance for installing AGPM 4.0, managing Group Policy objects (GPOs) by using AGPM 4.0, and planning and deploying AGPM 4.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=58fd6cda-0210-4da0-91d2-8c3cc2817df8

Events/WebCasts

Microsoft SDL – Developer Starter Kit http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486214&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Security Awareness Materials http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486215&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Guidance, samples, and templates for creating a security-awareness program in your organization.

Learn Security On the Job http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486216&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Learning Paths for Security - Microsoft Training References and Resources http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486217&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Security Webcast Calendar http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=37910

Find security webcasts listed in an easy-to-use calendar format.

Upcoming Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/upcoming.mspx

Register for the following Webcasts on the link above

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Secure Messaging Solution (Level 200)

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Forefront Threat Management Gateway: Deployment, Migration, and Licensing (Level 300)

Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:00 P.M.-2:30 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Secure Messaging Solution (Level 300)

Friday, December 04, 2009 1:00 P.M.-2:30 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: What's New in Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server? (Level 200)

Monday, December 07, 2009 1:00 P.M.-2:30 P.M. Pacific Time

Momentum Webcast: Security and Reliability in the Cloud - A Microsoft Online Services Perspective (Level 100)

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Information About Microsoft December Security Bulletins (Level 300)

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Exchange 2010 Better Together (Level 300)

Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:00 P.M.-2:30 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Protecting Exchange Server 2010 Using Hybrid Forefront Protection for Exchange (Level 300)

Friday, December 11, 2009 1:00 P.M.-2:30 P.M. Pacific Time

MSDN Webcast: Real-World Solutions: Project Server Security in SQL Server Reporting Services (Level 300)

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M. Pacific Time

On-Demand Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/ondemand.mspx

Visit TechNet Spotlight: www.microsoft.com/technetspotlight

Video on Demand, Video Downloads, PowerPoint Presentations, Audio and more

November 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - Unified Communications

News

Exchange

You Had Me At EHLO...

http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx  

 

Microsoft UK UC Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/msukucc  

 

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Office Communications Server Team Blog

http://communicationsserverteam.com  

 

Outlook

Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx  

 

 

Documents

Exchange

Infrastructure Planning and Design

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c  

 

Quick Start Guide for Outlook Voice Access 2010

This download contains a quick reference sheet that can be used when navigating the menu system found in Outlook Voice Access.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=77f1f82e-5da1-4ab5-9969-d1eb72b2ee0f

 

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Administrator's Guide

This guide provides the information administrators need to deploy Microsoft Office Live Meeting clients, configure their conference center, and manage the Microsoft Office Live Meeting service within their organizations.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=824a55c8-809a-4224-a8cd-f37b348b7481

 

Outlook

Fact Sheets

Quick overview of the accessibility features of major Microsoft products.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9f347d12-1d8c-4336-a5b5-0e4a08ba1e67

 

 

Downloads

Antigen & Forefront

FCS 1.0 MS09-062

FCS 1.0 MS09-062

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c0ce624c-8df3-4223-8a7a-5cba4ac334a8  

 

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Microsoft Exchange Online Standard

Microsoft® Exchange Online is a hosted enterprise messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Exchange Online services include advanced e-mail features as well as calendaring, contact, and task management capabilities. This white paper describes the services and features that are included with the Standard offering of Exchange Online.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=6bef06c7-3ae6-40a7-a78e-eea670b4f605  

 

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 972884

This download contains an update for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=515d6dba-4c6a-48bb-a06a-d99c5742676d  

 

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 975611

This download contains an update for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=b3b02475-150c-41fa-844a-c10a517040f4  

 

Office Communications Server 2007 and 2007 R2 Visio stencils

The Office Communications Server 2007 and 2007 R2 Visio stencils contain icons for Office Communications Server 2007 and 2007 R2 server roles and components.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=543705f6-d02a-436e-8b34-5c796550022a  

 

Outlook

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB974771)

This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1b7acddc-b55c-4a64-a8bc-ee696b2d0eaa  

 

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB974810)

This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=be9bc30f-8047-433f-bac1-cabc2ab7075b  

 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook (On-Premise and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Service Provider Editions)

Install Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Outlook and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Outlook with Offline Access. For on-premise and Service Provider editions of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 only.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=60c4a6cc-59d7-416e-9f44-0ae8ff249768  

 

 

Events/Webcasts

 

Antigen & Forefront

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Secure Messaging Solution (Level 200)

Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join us for this webcast as we walk you through the best practices and technologies available to secure e-mail in your organization. After this webcast, you should know how to protect your Microsoft Exchange Server from malware and inappropriate content, how to protect your data from leaking into the wrong hands, and how to easily and securely publish your Exchange Server for access.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032425493&culture=en-US  

 

Exchange

The U.S. Public Sector Virtual Launch: The New Efficiency (Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2008 R2, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

The U.S. Public Sector Virtual Launch: The New Efficiency

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032427820&culture=en-US  

 

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Momentum Webcast: What's New with Office Communications Server 2007 R2? (Level 100)

Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 helps you deliver streamlined communications to users, so your organization can communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most. Attend this webcast to learn about some of the new features introduced with the latest version of Office Communications Server. We discuss some of the new capabilities of software-powered voice over IP (VoIP), Web and audio/video conferencing, and enterprise instant messaging through Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428471&culture=en-US  

 

Momentum Webcast: Reduce Your Training Expense and Increase Technology Adoption (Level 100)

Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Businesses are constantly looking for ways save money, improve efficiency, and innovate. As a result, businesses are turning to their IT departments to help save money by controlling costs, improving efficiency, and increasing revenue streams through innovation. Microsoft offers an integrated set of tools and resources that can help your organization adopt an intuitive and familiar solution that maximizes user productivity and reduces training costs.

Join us to learn how the familiar and intuitive interface associated with Microsoft products—such as Live Meeting, Office Communicator 2007, SharePoint Server, and Office 2010—let you deploy technology solutions more rapidly, reduce training time, and increase the technology adoption rate, allowing you to focus on the business at hand. 

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428477&culture=en-US  

 

Momentum Webcast: Save Money and Travel with Integrated and Interoperable Communications (Level 100)

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

In this webcast, you learn how to reduce telecommunication and travel costs by getting the right information to the right people at the right time. Discover how your organization can replace many in-person meetings and training sessions with an immersive Web and video conferencing solution from Microsoft. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 now gives you in-house audio conferencing capabilities, so you can eliminate your outsourced audio conferencing costs. Long distance and cellular phone charges can also be slashed by using a more cost-effective voice over IP (VoIP) solution and by communicating more effectively with presence and instant messaging technologies.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428474&culture=en-US  

 

 

New KB's

Antigen & Forefront

Antigen 8.0 for IM EN: Description of Service Pack 1 for Antigen 8.0 for IM and Service Pack 1 for Antigen version 8.0 for SharePoint

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975850/EN-US  

 

Antigen 9.0 for Exchange AL: Description of the upgrade licensing process for Antigen 9.0 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939417/EN-US  

 

Exchange

Exchange Svr 2000 EN: How To Use MKCOL in WebDAV to Create a New Folder (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289871/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr 2000 EN: How To Use MOVE in WebDAV to Move a Mail Item to Another Folder (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290197/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr 2000 EN: How To Use COPY in WebDAV to Copy a Mail Item to Another Folder (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290407/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr 2000 EN: How To List Public Folders by Using WebDAV (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291171/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr 2000 EN: How To Get and Set a Property on a Public Folder Item Using WebDAV (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300185/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The transport rule "when the Subject field or the body of the message contains text patterns" does not work accurately on an Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1-based computer (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947662/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: The Inetinfo.exe process crashes in the MSExchange.UceContentFilter.dll module on a computer that is running an Exchange Server 2003 server and that has Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) enabled (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958625/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: Exchange Server 2003 users cannot reply to an e-mail message that was sent from Lotus Notes when the Lotus Notes user's e-mail address contains 8-bit ASCII characters (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961892/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr Ent 2007 AL: Security warning when you start Outlook 2007 and then connect to a mailbox that is hosted on a server that is running Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2010: "The name of the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940726/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr Ent 2007 AL: Proceeding calls may not work when Audio/Video (A/V) Edge Server is specified in the Mediation Server properties for Audio/Video Edge Authentication purposes in an Exchange server 2007 and Office Communication Server 2007 integration environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970891/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr Ent 2007 AL: A new Exchange 2007 database cannot be mounted, and you receive a "MapiExceptionNoAccess: Unable to mount database, (hr=0x80070005, ec=-2147024891)" error

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976066/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr Standard 2010 AL: Event ID 9519 "Error 0x80004005" is logged in the Application log when you try to mount a database in Exchange Server 2010 or in Exchange Server 2007 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925825/EN-US  

 

Exchange Svr Standard 2010 AL: Users who use Outlook 2003 cannot publish their free/busy data in Exchange Server 2010 or in Exchange Server 2007 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945602/EN-US  

 

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Error message and Create Pool wizard does not complete if you use a default instance of SQL Server that listens on a nonstandard port: "Database installation path must be valid"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975030/EN-US  

 

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 EN: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007: April 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961569/EN-US  

 

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: The "Meet Now Options" dialog box for the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client does not appear correctly or contain scroll bars

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961604/EN-US  

 

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: Error message when you play back a recording of a session of the Windows-based Office Live Meeting 2007 client: "(0xc00d11b1): An error occurred in the media player while attempting to play the file"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974416/EN-US  

 

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: On a computer that is running Windows Vista, you cannot install the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client when the "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" setting is enabled for Internet Explorer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974853/EN-US  

 

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: The sharing of a desktop or a program stops in the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client when you start the Application Virtualization client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974859/EN-US  

 

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: After you install update 974251, basic authentication for HTTP Proxy is enabled by default in Office Live Meeting 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974860/EN-US  

 

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: The dialog box that prompts you to delete or to save a recording does not appear when you exit a meeting in the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974861/EN-US  

 

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: Some text is not displayed in PowerPoint when you play back high fidelity presentation format recordings in the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974863/EN-US  

 

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: When the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client converts PowerPoint slides to .png files, text from the slides overlays other text or is distorted in the .png files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974864/EN-US  

 

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: When you upload a PowerPoint presentation in the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client, the file size of the presentation differs from the file size of the presentation in the client log files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974865/EN-US  

 

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: You can select or clear the "Enable Meeting Lobby for this meeting" check box in the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974900/EN-US  

 

Outlook

Outlook 2002 Win32 EN: MS09-060: Description of the security update for Microsoft Outlook 2002: October 13, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973702/EN-US  

 

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: MS08-015: Description of the security update for Outlook 2003: March 11, 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945432/EN-US  

 

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: MS09-060: Description of the security update for Outlook 2003: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973705/EN-US  

 

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter update: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974771/EN-US  

 

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Outlooknminus1.msp): September 23, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975123/EN-US  

 

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: How to obtain the latest Outlook Junk E-mail Filter update (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/872976/EN-US  

 

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: When you use delegates in Outlook 2007, it is recommended that the manager and all the delegates use Outlook 2007 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924470/EN-US  

 

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Error message when you start Outlook 2007 to configure an Exchange 2003 mailbox if the AutoDiscover\'ZeroConfigExchange' policy is set: "The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927481/EN-US  

 

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: The importance and the sensitivity of e-mail messages can be changed after you set a policy in Outlook 2007 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954228/EN-US  

 

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: MS09-060: Description of the security update for Outlook 2007: October 13, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972363/EN-US  

 

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter update: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974810/EN-US  

Posted: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:00 AM by conuktrm | 0 Comments

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November 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL Server

News

Forrester Research

SQL Server 2008 Ups Pressure On Competitors; Microsoft Boosts Manageability, BI, Performance, Productivity, and Security
For the majority of mission-critical applications today, SQL Server 2008 already has the strongest combination of price/performance, manageability, security, and DBA productivity. The latest version of SQL Server from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers hundreds of new DBMS features that boost the productivity of database administrators (DBAs) and developers, improve support for larger databases, and enhance security.

 

Forrester Research

The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009
This Forrester Wave assesses more than a dozen firms based primarily on their enterprise open source and closed source database management systems. Forrester named Microsoft a ‘leader’ in the DBMS Wave and states that Microsoft is “The most aggressive DBMS vendor with a strong road map.” In this Wave, Forrester categorizes Leaders as offering “broad set of functionality to support any critical transactional application.”

 

Gartner, Inc.

Gartner 2006 worldwide RDBMS market share reports highest growth rate in market share for Microsoft SQL Server. With 28% growth in market share, growth is almost twice the nearest competitor at 14.8% growth.

 

Gartner, Inc.

This Magic Quadrant depicts Gartner's analysis of how data warehouse DBMS software-only vendors measure against specific criteria within the marketplace.

 

Gartner, Inc.

Gartner 2006 worldwide RDBMS market share reports highest growth rate in market share for Microsoft SQL Server. With 28% growth in market share, growth is almost twice the nearest competitor at 14.8% growth.

 

Gartner, Inc.

Microsoft is positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2009.

 

IDC

SQL Server is the fastest growing Database and Business Intelligence vendor.

 

IDC

SQL Server ships more units than Oracle and IBM combined.

 

The OLAP Report

SQL Server is the #1 OLAP Server on the market

 

Dark Reading

Study: SQL Server Is Safest DB

 

NGS Software Insight Security Research

Which database is more secure? Oracle vs. Microsoft. Since July 2003 more than 100 critical Oracle database security vulnerabilities have been identified, compared to zero for SQL Server for that period.

 

Transaction Processing Performance Council

Microsoft SQL Server and Unisys are the first to publish TPC-E benchmark results.

 

Winter Corporation

SQL Server Manages the World's Largest Databases.

 

ChannelWeb: CRN Staff

Microsoft SQL Server recognized as Best Seller and Top Growth Best Seller by CRN Magazine.

 

Other

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx  

 

 

Downloads

Other

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 is an embedded database that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows desktops and mobile devices. The download contains the files for installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 on Windows desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1  

 

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 is an embedded database that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows desktops and mobile devices. The download contains the files for installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 on Windows desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1  

 

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 is an embedded database that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows desktops and mobile devices. The download contains the files for installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 on Windows desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1  

 

Security Update for SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 (KB970899)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=33554f96-5af7-4683-a537-9db293b67b8d  

 

SQL 2000

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB970895)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d971a262-1dfb-498c-a4f3-59fdc1b85d23  

 

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970892)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=0d878f4b-71e8-4170-9a14-1bce684811ce  

 

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB970896)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=76d3d653-e9a0-48bc-afae-d3553f7b9235  

 

Security Update for SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 (KB970899)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=33554f96-5af7-4683-a537-9db293b67b8d  

 

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970894)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e6f307c1-8b21-406e-9c6f-b1a3a1e9a98f  

 

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 is an embedded database that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows desktops and mobile devices. The download contains the files for installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 on Windows desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1  

 

SQL 2005

How to protect SAP with DPM 2007 sp1

This whitepaper discusses why and how to protect SAP environments running on Microsoft SQL Server with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=aa704f3e-aee5-418d-a63b-0e467b25b58f  

 

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB970895)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d971a262-1dfb-498c-a4f3-59fdc1b85d23  

 

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970892)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=0d878f4b-71e8-4170-9a14-1bce684811ce  

 

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB970896)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=76d3d653-e9a0-48bc-afae-d3553f7b9235  

 

Security Update for SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 (KB970899)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=33554f96-5af7-4683-a537-9db293b67b8d  

 

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970894)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e6f307c1-8b21-406e-9c6f-b1a3a1e9a98f  

 

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies is a Web download that provides features for running a report server within a larger deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=f4d4d0ae-e5d4-4ed1-8d78-7137578161ce  

 

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies is a Web download that provides features for running a report server within a larger deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=648766ac-2a35-4238-a3f4-c26d7077f2a9  

 

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 is an embedded database that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows desktops and mobile devices. The download contains the files for installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 on Windows desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1  

 

SQL 2008

How to protect SAP with DPM 2007 sp1

This whitepaper discusses why and how to protect SAP environments running on Microsoft SQL Server with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=aa704f3e-aee5-418d-a63b-0e467b25b58f  

 

Communications Server 2007 R2 Site Resiliency White Paper

This white paper provides guidelines and best practices for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 site resiliency.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c930febb-3a44-4bf3-969d-1c52675a7063  

 

 

Events/Webcasts

Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Microsoft Business Intelligence (Level 100)

Monday, November 09, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Discover how a Microsoft total business intelligence solution can help your organization emerge stronger from the economic downturn. In this presentation, we discuss how to use your existing technologies to identify cost-cutting opportunities, streamline operations, and strengthen and grow your customer base in today's marketplace.         

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032429506&culture=en-US  

 

Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Microsoft BI: Operational Improvement (Level 100)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join us for part three of our four-part Emerge Stronger series on how the total Microsoft Business Intelligence solution can enable you to maximize your technology during the economic downturn. This presentation builds on the overview in the first webcast by providing a detailed look into how you can free cash from operations while keeping and growing your operational strength.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428087&culture=en-US  

 

 

New KB's

SQL 2000

SQL Svr 2000 Reporting Svcs EN: MS09-062: Description of the security update for GDI+ for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 2: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970899/EN-US  

 

SQL 2005

Report Viewer Redistrib 2005 SP1: MS09-062: Description of the security update for Microsoft Report Viewer 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971117/EN-US  

 

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-062: Description of the security update for GDI+ for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 GDR: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970895/EN-US  

 

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-062: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 QFE: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970896/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: You cannot process an object when you change or delete another unrelated object at the same time in the same database in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975748/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run an MDX query against a dimension that has a parent/child relationship, and uses the unary operator after you install Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services SP3 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975783/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message after you perform a Process Update on a dimension used on a cube that contains a writeback partition: "Errors in the high-level relational engine. The data source view does not contain a definition for the <tablename> table or view"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976030/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr 2005 SP3 AL: MS09-062: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 GDR: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970892/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr 2005 SP3 AL: MS09-062: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 QFE: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970894/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to shrink the tempdb database in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307487/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to monitor blocking in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2000 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271509/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: SQL Server Agent jobs may fail after you change the SQL Server Agent service startup account by using the Windows Service Control Manager (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911305/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Tuning options for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 when running in high performance workloads (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920093/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message in the database mail log when you try to use the sp_send_dbmail stored procedure to send an e-mail in SQL Server 2005: "Invalid XML message format received on the ExternalMailQueue" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928789/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: On a computer that has a multicore processor, if the ratio of logical processors to physical sockets is not a power of 2, you cannot install SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954835/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The connection to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services catalog database encounters an error, and the connection is not reset

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972926/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You use the COUNT function on a column that is returned by a subquery that returns no rows in SQL Server 2005, and an incorrect result is returned

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974067/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A memory leak may occur if you use a linked server query to retrieve a sql_variant column from a remote server in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974130/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message in the SQL Server 2005 Errorlog file after the SQL Server service stops responding: “Timeout occurred while waiting for latch”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974205/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A deadlock occurs when you perform an operation that cleans up the security cache in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974296/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you use database mirroring in SQL Server 2005, and an assertion failure occurs intermittently: "SQL Server Assertion: File: <loglock.cpp>, line=823 Failed Assertion = 'result == LCK_OK'."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974319/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Database restore operation may fail during the recovery phase when the database uses query notification in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974777/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An API cursor plan that is created by a plan guide is not reused when the cursor is active

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974785/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A "DBCC CHECKDB" statement or a "DBCC CHECKTABLE" statement reports errors after you rebuild an XML index in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974985/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The restore operation takes a long time when you restore a database that has query notification enabled in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975089/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Deadlocks may occur when multiple concurrent query notification subscriptions are fired on same objects in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975090/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Capitalization and accent changes on a column of user-defined data type are not propagated in SQL Server 2005 merge replication

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975134/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: For SQL Server Compact Edition (CE) Subscribers, only schema without data is replicated for newly added articles to an existing Merge Publication using “ExchangeType.Upload” (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975159/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses a ranking function on a partitioned table in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975230/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A SELECT statement returns an incorrect result set if a linked server is being used in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975417/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The database mirroring session is suspended when you add more than one log transaction file to a folder on the principle server that does not exist on the mirror server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975681/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses a parallel execution plan in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976041/EN-US  

 

SQL 2008

Report Viewer Redistrib 2008: MS09-062: Description of the security update for Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 Redistributable Package: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971118/EN-US  

 

Report Viewer Redistrib 2008: MS09-062: Description of the security update for Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971119/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Error messages may be logged in the SQL Server error log after you run a DBCC command in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926070/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: List of known issues when you install SQL Server on Windows 7 or on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955725/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Updates to Microsoft SQL server 2008 will fail after an edition upgrade (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970608/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The performance decreases when you open the Report Builder (RB) ClickOnce application after you install SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974371/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The row count is incorrect after you run a "BULK INSERT" statement by using SQL Server JDBC driver 2.0 to insert data into a table

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975565/EN-US  

 

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: The SQL Server 2008 Books Online shortcuts and the SQL Server 2008 Books Online folder disappear from Start menu after you install the May 2009 version of SQL Server 2008 Books Online

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976115/EN-US  

November 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - Security

News

Securing the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679063&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

By building on the same security principles used to manage risks to Microsoft software development and operating environments, the Online Services Security and Compliance (OSSC) team at Microsoft has created an online Information Security Program—one that results in continuous improvements to security for the Microsoft cloud computing environment. Find out what cloud computing at Microsoft means today.

 

Government Requirements for a Secure Cloud  http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679064&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Learn about the U.S. Government’s vision for cloud computing, beginning with Apps.gov, an online marketplace where federal agencies can find and purchase cloud-based IT services.

 

Updated Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance Planning Guide Now Available http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679065&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Learn how to meet Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements using standard Microsoft products and technologies.

 

Filtering (Obfuscating) Sensitive Text in SQL Server http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12594584&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

 

Download Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12667775&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

A key enhancement in the Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 beta is that it protects virtual machines deployed on Windows Server 2008 R2 using Cluster Shared Volumes clusters as well as stand-alone Hyper-V servers and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V clusters. Plus, the DPM 2010 laptop feature is completely rebuilt and offers an optimised experience for DPM administrators as well as the laptop user.

 

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for October, 2009

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-oct.mspx 

 

Microsoft Product Lifecycle Information

Find information about your particular products on the Microsoft Product Lifecycle http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355452&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 Web site.

 

See a list of supported service packs http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355453&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474: Microsoft provides free software updates for security and non-security issues for all supported service packs

 

Security Bulletin Overview for October 2009

 

Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Blog Post http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679074&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Windows Media Video (WMV) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679075&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Windows Media Audio (WMA) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679076&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

iPod Video (MP4) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679077&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

MP3 Audio http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679078&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

High Quality WMV (2.5 Mbps)  http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679079&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Zune Video (WMV) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679080&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

 

Forefront Edge Security

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Release Candidate Now Available

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) allows employees to safely and productively use the Internet for business without worrying about malware and other threats.  It provides multiple layers of continuously updated protections – including URL filtering, antimalware inspection, intrusion prevention, application- and network-layer firewall, and HTTP/HTTPS inspection - that are integrated into a unified, easy to manage gateway, reducing the cost and complexity of Web security.

http://technet.microsoft.com/evalcenter/ee423778.aspx

 

Forefront TMG and ISA Server

Forefront Edge Security TechCenter

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/default.aspx

Please note that if you have feedback on documentation or wish to request new documents - email isadocs@microsoft.com

 

Forefront Edge Security Community

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/bb687298.aspx

 

Forefront TMG (ISA Server) Product Team Blog

The ISA Server Product Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/) is updated on a regular basis. Latest entries include:

 

Network Load Balancing (NLB) configuration settings in Forefront TMG: to clear or not to clear?

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/29/network-load-balancing-nlb-configuration-settings-in-forefront-tmg-to-clear-or-not-to-clear.aspx

 

Forefront TMG introduces the Preparation Tool to make setup easier

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/30/forefront-tmg-introduces-the-preparation-tool-to-make-setup-easier.aspx

 

Forefront TMG - Dynamic GAPA Engine Updates

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/01/forefront-tmg-dynamic-gapa-engine-updates.aspx

 

Introducing the Forefront Experts Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/05/introducing-the-forefront-experts-blog.aspx

 

Mainstream Support Ending for ISA Server 2004 Standard Edition SP3

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/05/mainstream-support-ending-for-isa-server-2004-standard-edition-sp3.aspx

 

MRS Feedback and Error Reporting Portal (beta) is live

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/07/mrs-feedback-and-error-reporting-portal-beta-is-live.aspx

 

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Release Candidate Now Available

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/11/forefront-threat-management-gateway-2010-release-candidate-now-available.aspx

 

Problems with user sets in cross forest scenarios

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/14/problems-with-user-sets-in-cross-forest-scenarios.aspx

 

The ISP Redundancy Feature of Forefront TMG

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/14/the-isp-redundancy-feature-of-forefront-tmg.aspx

 

Understanding HTTP logging in Microsoft Forefront TMG

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/15/understanding-http-logging-in-microsoft-forefront-tmg.aspx

 

Network Inspection System (NIS) in Forefront TMG Release Candidate

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/18/network-inspection-system-nis-in-forefront-tmg-release-candidate.aspx

 

Common Problems while Implementing HTTPS Inspection on Forefront TMG 2010 RC

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/19/common-problems-while-implementing-https-inspection-on-forefront-tmg-2010-rc.aspx

 

Forefront TMG is SIP-aware

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/21/forefront-tmg-is-sip-aware.aspx

 

TMG Client introduces automatic detection using Active Directory

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/23/tmg-client-introduces-automatic-detection-using-active-directory.aspx

 

Error 500 “Not Supported” while browsing Internet through ISA Server 2006

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/25/error-500-not-supported-while-browsing-internet-through-isa-server-2006.aspx

 

Forefront TMG and BranchCache: Which should I deploy in my organization?

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/10/26/forefront-tmg-and-branchcache-which-should-i-deploy-in-my-organization.aspx

 

Forefront Unified Access Gateway & Intelligent Application Gateway 2007

Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 Technical Resources

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/bb687299.aspx

 

Forefront Edge Security Community

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/bb687298.aspx

 

Forefront Unified Access Gateway Product Team Blog

The UAG Product Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog) is updated on a regular basis. Latest entries include:

 

Beta 2 Configuration Migration to RC0 - It’s Pretty Simple

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/10/06/beta-2-configuration-migration-to-rc0-it-s-pretty-simple.aspx

 

Authenticating Exchange Mail Applications using UAG RC0

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/10/12/authenticating-exchange-mail-applications-using-uag-rc0.aspx

 

Deep dive into UAG DirectAccess (IPv6 and DirectAccess)

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/10/13/deep-dive-into-uag-directaccess-ipv6-and-directaccess.aspx

 

Insufficient Disk Space Error on e-Gap 3.6 version installation

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/10/15/insufficient-disk-space-error-on-e-gap-3-6-version-installation.aspx

 

Deep dive into UAG DirectAccess (Certificates)

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/10/27/deep-dive-into-uag-directaccess-certificates.aspx

 

 

Documents

BinScope Binary Analyzer http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679066&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

This Microsoft verification tool analyzes binaries on a project-wide level to ensure that they have been built in compliance with Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) requirements and recommendations.

 

MiniFuzz File Fuzzer http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679067&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

MiniFuzz is a simple fuzzer designed to ease adoption of fuzz testing by nonsecurity people who are unfamiliar with file fuzzing tools or have never used them in their current software development processes.

 

Security Tip of the Month: Using BinScope Binary Analyzer to Improve Code Security http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679068&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

As software becomes more vulnerable to attacks, it is important that your team is equipped with tools that effectively help them write more secure code. Learn how to use BinScope to quickly and easily verify that your code complies with the requirements of the Microsoft SDL.

 

Channel 9 Video: Developing and Deploying Your First Windows Azure Service http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679069&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Take a tour of the capabilities of the Microsoft cloud platform by building and running a simple service using the platform SDK. This demo-heavy video highlights some of the features of the platform including service management, storage, and an integrated developer experience.

 

Windows Azure Blob: Programming Blob Storage http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679070&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Windows Azure Storage provides durable, scalable, available, secure, and performance-efficient storage services for the cloud, and it does this through familiar and easy-to-use programming interfaces. Windows Azure Blob provides a simple interface for storing named files along with metadata for a file. Learn about the Windows Azure Blob programming interface and the advanced blob concepts.

 

How Do I: Use Smart Encryption Techniques for Cloud Apps? http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679071&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Get familiar with the encryption algorithms and practices used to create cryptographic schemes for your cloud applications. Learn more about symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms, the SHA256 hash encryption algorithms, and how to implement these in a simple application.

 

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - October Update http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679072&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

This comprehensive set of technical content includes hands-on labs, presentations, and demos designed to help you learn how to use and develop for the Windows Azure platform including Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and .NET Services.

 

Design Considerations for Cloud Computing: Securing the .NET Service Bus http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12679073&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Explore ways to secure the .NET Services Bus and learn about helper classes and utilities to automate many of the details.

 

 

Downloads

2007 Office system (SP2) Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool

This download includes updated Group Policy Administrative Template and Office Customization Tool OPA files; an updated Office Customization Tool; and ADMX and ADML versions of the Administrative Template files. This update assumes that you have updated your 2007 Office System applications with the 2007 Office System Service Pack 2 (SP2).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=73d955c0-da87-4bc2-bbf6-260e700519a8

 

Update for Root Certificates [September 2009] (KB931125)

This item updates the list of root certificates on your computer to the list that is accepted by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Root Certificate Program.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c14f8940-71b7-41e3-8749-a00e01e22f17

 

Microsoft Forefront Codename "Stirling" Beta Privacy Statement

This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft® Forefront Client Security.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d34c6d9c-a555-4432-bb32-af21f5a6feab

 

MAR PC Enforcement Messaging QA

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ebae76f2-deb9-4277-9427-3b73201c706c

 

MAR PC Products Settlement

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f3a26af7-6ad0-4b1b-9cc6-ee0214f19ada

 

Antigen 8.1 Privacy Statement

This document describes the privacy policy for the 8.1 release of Antigen

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c5b708ec-68c5-468b-9877-f3919c831078

 

Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) RC0

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is a secure application gateway, to manage, control, and optimize remote access for managed and non-managed endpoints, to corporate applications and resources. Forefront UAG RC0 provides a number of new features, including support for migration from Forefront UAG Beta 2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a3f5729a-3989-4f60-980f-1b87dd198988

 

Forefront™ Identity Manager 2010 Release Candidate 1

This download contains the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of Microsoft® Forefront™ Identity Manager (FIM) 2010.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4bb3f16b-27f8-4c1d-922f-2c7b522d9ad6

 

Forefront™ Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 Datasheet

Two-page overview of FIM 2010

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1c4214cb-07ab-4fd0-b29e-f226f41244b3

 

Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5

The Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 installs the Windows Live ID online provider for Windows 7. This provider enables linking a Windows Live ID to a Windows 7 user account.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5e193cfe-f45a-4e29-b6b7-984e7802c639

 

How to Protect Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1

This whitepaper discusses why and how to protect Microsoft Dynamics AX with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8df9233b-5278-4a3d-837e-780113c6ccc6

 

How to Protect Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008 and Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e2768b94-418e-44e8-a6b5-26dfa83ae157

 

How to protect SAP running on SQL Server with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1

This whitepaper discusses why and how to protect SAP environments running on Microsoft SQL Server with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aa704f3e-aee5-418d-a63b-0e467b25b58f

 

Getting Started with DPM 2010 Client Computer Protection

Overview of DPM 2010 client computer protection - including UI and features

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b880c90b-60cc-4087-b5e5-308e4ac8c78f

 

Forefront Online Security for Exchange (FOSE) 9.1 Product Documents

Product documents for FOSE 9.1 include the following: New Features Guide, Administration Center User Guide, Directory Synchronization Tool Administration Guide, Customer Quick Cards and Forefront Online Security for Exchange Filtering Service Launch and Best Practices

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9c34eba6-059b-455a-a44f-96b1b06b4b21

 

Internet Safety Education - Model Legislation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ab7581a3-7744-4d62-b093-f7e92c101d58

 

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance Planning Guide

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance Planning Guide is designed to help organizations meet Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d8320df1-d0d0-469f-a6fc-b53987bd74c2

 

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Beta 2

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint prevents users from uploading or downloading documents containing malware, out-policy content, or sensitive information to SharePoint libraries.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=01bfa7c6-84be-478f-8b78-6875ad71a98b

 

Windows 2000 Threat Mitigation Guide

The Windows 2000 Threat Mitigation Guide is designed to provide you with the best information available to assess and counter security risks specific to computers running Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 (SP4) or later in your environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3452628c-e559-43cc-89b6-7bd122caf143

 

Microsoft Threat Management Gateway Privacy Statement

This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft® Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=625d16c4-2def-4c73-9fdb-9858eef015d6

 

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Release Candidate

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 allows employees to safely and productively use the Internet without worrying about malware and other threats. Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 is available for download in both Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e05aecbc-d0eb-4e0f-a5db-8f236995bccd

 

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [October 2009] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aa029fde-f341-44fc-8b85-0c6f3d3c2d69

 

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [October 2009] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=749e10cd-f40c-4f94-8e38-d4221ded7652

 

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356

 

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) x64

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=585d2bde-367f-495e-94e7-6349f4effc74

 

Extended Security Update Inventory Tool

The Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is used to detect security bulletins not covered by MBSA including MS04-028, February 2005 bulletins, and future security bulletins that are exceptions to MBSA.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2c93da1d-48a0-4e5c-991f-87e08954f61b

 

Exchange Hosted Archive Service Description

Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive (EHA) provides a centralized, easily accessible e-mail and IM repository to assist organizations manage retention, compliance, e-discovery, and regulatory requirements. This whitepaper describes the services and features that are included in Exchange Hosted Archive.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f67bf2f7-4dc4-4f2d-bb4f-8a447ab89051

 

Forefront Security for Office Communications Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

Forefront Security for Office Communications Server Management Pack provides real-time insight into the health and performance of key Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (Version 10) components and services.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f0618e3e-fee2-4415-85d2-5d6c1bba0832

 

 

Events/WebCasts 

Microsoft SDL – Developer Starter Kit http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486214&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Security Awareness Materials http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486215&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Guidance, samples, and templates for creating a security-awareness program in your organization.

Learn Security On the Job http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486216&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Learning Paths for Security - Microsoft Training References and Resources http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486217&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

 

Security Webcast Calendar http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=37910 

Find security webcasts listed in an easy-to-use calendar format.

 

Upcoming Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/upcoming.mspx 

 

Register for the following Webcasts on the link above

 

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Information Protection Solution (Level 200)

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M. Pacific Time

 

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Secure Messaging Solution (Level 200)

Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M. Pacific Time

 

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Secure Endpoint Solution (Level 200)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M. Pacific Time

 

TechNet Webcast: Information About Microsoft November Security Bulletins (Level 200)

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. Pacific Time

 

MSDN Webcast: Real-World Solutions: Project Server Security in SQL Server Reporting Services (Level 300)Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M. Pacific Time

 

Momentum Webcast: Business-Ready Security (Level 100)

Monday, November 30, 2009 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Pacific Time

 

On-Demand Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/ondemand.mspx  

 

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Video on Demand, Video Downloads, PowerPoint Presentations, Audio and more

 

New or updated KB’s

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway,  Medium Business Edition & Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Standard

 

Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition does not translate URL-encoded links

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973827

 

Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition crashes with event ID 14057 when a request is sent to the Web content that is expired in the Threat Management Gateway cache

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973516

 

Intelligent Application Gateway 2007

Description of Update 2 for Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975491