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
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
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
Visit TechNet Spotlight: www.microsoft.com/technetspotlight
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
News
9 to 13 November 2009, Berlin: Tech.Ed Europe
Register today...you can't afford to miss out – PLUS you will also get many giveaways including Windows 7 32-bit Ultimate edition, TechNet Plus Subscription and much more...
http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/
Download Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010
The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (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. MDT 2010 is the recommended process-and tool-set to automate desktop and server deployment.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89&displaylang=en
Download Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta
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.
https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=840&DownloadID=22070
Updated Virtualization Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides
The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides for Windows Server Virtualization and for System Center Virtual Machine Manager are now updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/ee395429.aspx?SA_CE=VIRT-IPD-NWSLR-TNETGLOBAL-2009-10-07
Download the MAP Toolkit for IBM Virtualized Servers
The Solution Accelerators team has just released a version of its Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit for IBM server virtualization hardware, including the IBM System x and BladeCenter, to help customers deploy Hyper-V virtualization more quickly in those environments.
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=SYST-MANAGE&brandind=5000016
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
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 Server 2008 R2 VHD
This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=37264b32-c79f-4249-a5d4-b8696772a62a
Step By Step Guide: Demonstrate DirectAccess in a Test Lab
This paper contains an introduction to DirectAccess and instructions for setting up a test lab to demonstrate DirectAccess with a simulated Internet, intranet, and home network.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8d47ed5f-d217-4d84-b698-f39360d82fac
64-bit Client Installation of Office 2010
Describes and illustrates the 64-bit client installation of Office 2010.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=600c2142-abc3-4fea-9271-0c326c45dc8f
Debug Diagnostic Tool v1.1
The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process. The tool includes additional debugging scripts focused on Internet Information Services (IIS) applications, web data access components, COM+ and related Microsoft technologies.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=28bd5941-c458-46f1-b24d-f60151d875a3
Deploy Multilanguage Packs for Office 2010
Describes and illustrates how to deploy multilanguage packs for Microsoft Office 2010.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c37047c3-c7ee-4946-8927-1b2c3ca5f510
EMET
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
Virtualization Overview, Methods, and Models
Describes and illustrates how to plan virtualization for your organization.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=884e2e2a-e4d5-43c5-aaaf-5c1e6d793d9c
Deploy Office Web Apps
Office Web Apps are online companions to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft OneNote applications that allows users to access documents from anywhere.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4ac8442d-0974-4902-84fe-1ade382ab2a1
NSSEC 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
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
9 to 13 November 2009, Berlin: Tech.Ed Europe
The sooner you sign up, the more you save.
http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/
IT Manager Webcast: Technical Talks with Tim Vander Kooi - Windows 7: Application Compatibility (Level 200)
The Windows 7 operating system is very compatible with common applications. Attend this webcast to learn more about the application compatibility changes in Windows 7 and how to get your application portfolio ready for an operating system migration from a Windows XP environment to Windows 7. We address gathering an application inventory, mitigating application compatibility issues, and any questions that you might have. Join Tim Vander Kooi, Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), and other guests for this discussion about the most exciting client operating system to come from Microsoft in a decade. Presenters: Tim Vander Kooi, Systems Administrator, Explorer Pipeline and Chris Jackson, The App Compat Guy, Microsoft Corporation 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 If you have questions or feedback, contact us. ...
11/4/2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 11/4/2009 11:00 AM | Duration:60 Minutes
Primary Language: English
Primary Target Audience: IT Decision Maker
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032430638&culture=en-US
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. Presenters: Arno Mihm, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation and Rob Simpson, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation View other sessions from Managing a Microsoft Infrastructure: Improve Reliability and Performance If you have questions or feedback, contact us. ...
11/4/2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 11/4/2009 11:00 AM | Duration:60 Minutes
Primary Language: English
Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428203&culture=en-US
The U.S. Public Sector Virtual Launch: The New Efficiency (Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2008 R2, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010)
Event: The U.S. Public Sector Virtual Launch: The New Efficiency Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2008 R2, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Description: Join Microsoft’s Public Sector Vice President Curt Kolcun and top technology leaders at “The New Efficiency” virtual launch event for government, education, and health. Learn how cost savings and productivity come together with a new wave of Microsoft® products. Be one of the first to evaluate exciting innovations in Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2008 R2, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Register Today and Learn: - How Windows 7 can help you reduce management costs, raise productivity as part of the Windows Optimized Desktop, and manage risks through enhanced security and control. - How Windows Server 2008 R2 enables dynamic provisioning and management of virtual workloads, reduces energy costs, and combines with Windows 7 to make branch offices more cost-effective and remote workers more productive. - How Exchange Server 2010 can simplify administration and deployment of messaging, improve archiving capabilities, and extend your messaging across multiple access points. Additional Information: Please visit the event website, www.uspsvle.com, to view the government, education and health tracks available and to build your personal agenda. ...
11/10/2009 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 11/10/2009 2:00 PM | Duration:300 Minutes
Primary Language: English
Primary Target Audience: Tech Influencing BDM
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032427820&culture=en-US
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. Presenter: Kevin Remde, Senior IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation Prolific blogger, Kevin Remde 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 Tech·Ed 2009 Online: Potential Lives Here If you have questions or feedback, contact us. ...
11/11/2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 11/11/2009 11:00 AM | Duration:60 Minutes
Primary Language: English
Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032416867&culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Accelerating Windows 7 Migration with Citrix and Desktop Virtualization (Level 200)
Carefully designing infrastructure architecture is key to a successful desktop virtualization implementation. Virtualizing a user's physical desktop and migrating the image into the data center provides a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, but a VDI solution requires different management, maintenance, and support than a local desktop to meet the needs of the users. Citrix and Microsoft have joined together to provide customers with the fastest way to deliver desktops and applications on demand, helping customers realize the benefits of increased efficiency and simplified IT management. In this webcast, we discuss core design considerations to accelerate a Windows 7 operating system migration with Citrix and Microsoft virtualization solutions. Presenters: Dan Feller, Lead Architect, Citrix, Robin Brandl, Principle Business Development Manager, Citrix and Michael Cooper, Senior Product Manager - Virtualization, Microsoft Corporation Daniel Feller is a lead architect within the Worldwide Consulting Solutions group at Citrix and has been a Citrix employee since 2000. Daniel has helped numerous organizations assess, design, and build enterprise-level architectures to successfully deliver applications using any number of Citrix solutions. Recently, Daniel has been heavily involved in the identification and creation of solutions-based material focused on identity theft, global redundancy, server virtualization, and desktop virtualization. View other sessions from Windows 7: Increase Productivity, Improve Security, and Streamline PC Management If you have questions or feedback, contact us. ...
11/12/2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 11/12/2009 11:30 AM | Duration:90 Minutes
Primary Language: English
Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032429891&culture=en-US
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. Presenter: Kim Griffiths, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation Kim Griffiths is a product manager in 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. ...
11/18/2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 11/18/2009 11:00 AM | Duration:60 Minutes
Primary Language: English
Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428920&culture=en-US
New KB's
Windows Client
Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: You may lose some events when you subscribe to some events that are in multiple event logs on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973995/EN-US
Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: You receive an error message that contains the event ID 11 error code when you try to update your Windows Vista-based computer by using Windows Update or Microsoft Update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976235/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: You cannot rescan the Indexing Service scope that has a full path of over 13 characters on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971258/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: "Internet Explorer" is mentioned in several UI phrases for Windows Media Player even though you disable Internet Explorer in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972145/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: A 0xC0AA0007 error is returned when an application uses IMAPI v2 to burn some data to a recordable disc on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973774/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: The log file size grows larger than the maximum file size limit that was set in Performance Monitor if you select a Comma Separated log format or a Tab Separated log format on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974248/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Error message when you use the MBSA tool to check for weak passwords or to assess password security on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista: "Some user accounts have blank or simple passwords, or could not be analyzed"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974738/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Error message when you try to burn a dual-layer Blu-ray disc on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008: "The disc does not have enough free space for all of the files you selected"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974867/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Some custom-sized pages are printed incorrectly when you print a document on both sides from a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975126/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Earlier snapshots are deleted after you restore multiple copy-on-write snapshots in consecutive order in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975803/EN-US
Win Vista SP1 AL: Stop 7B After Uninstalling Zetera ZetSFD Filter Driver Following Vista Upgrade or Service Pack Installation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976386/EN-US
Win Vista SP2 AL: A memory leak occurs when you use a DirectShow-based application to play Motion JPEG-encoded media files on a computer that is running Windows Vista SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974875/EN-US
Win Vista SP2 AL: The CD drive or the DVD drive is missing from the "Send To" shortcut menu and from the Recording tab of the drive properties after you erase a disc on a computer that is running Windows Vista SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974913/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The Network Access Protection Agent service may not start after you restart a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954373/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: An update that adds RemoteApp support is available for Windows Vista-based virtual machines that are running on Windows 7-based computers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961741/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: A hotfix for Windows Installer is available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972397/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The advanced security settings for Windows Firewall that you deploy by using a Group Policy object (GPO) are not displayed in Windows Vista or in Windows 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973509/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: When you use a VPN connection that uses Smart Card authentication on a client computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, the computer stops responding
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975212/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Error message when you change security settings for a folder that contains a child object for which you do not have access permission: "Access is denied"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975702/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The capacity of a Secure Digital (SD) card that is larger than 32 GB is reported incorrectly in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975823/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Filter Driver Registry Entries Are Migrated During Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 Upgrade or Service Pack Setup
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976267/EN-US
Windows XP Pro 64-bit Ed EN: You cannot restore large files in the NTFS file system when all the data streams that have sparse attributes are deleted in the 64-bit version of Windows XP SP2 or in Windows Server 2003 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973886/EN-US
Windows XP Professional EN: The print output displays black rectangles instead of images when you print a document that contains some images on a computer that is running Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971250/EN-US
Windows XP Professional EN: After you install security update 938464 in Windows XP, you experience slow performance and first chance exceptions in applications that use GDI+ to process GIF files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971320/EN-US
Windows XP Professional EN: A Windows XP-based computer stops responding at the "Windows is loading your profile" screen when you connect to the computer by using an RDP connection
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972422/EN-US
Windows Server
Windows Svr 2008 Dtcntr wo HV AL: MS09-053: Vulnerabilities in FTP Service for Internet Information Services could allow remote code execution
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975254/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: A 32-bit Removable Storage application does not load on a computer that is running a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 or of Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971278/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Event ID 1038 is logged when a failover occurs on a back-end disk controller in a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972797/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The failover operation takes a long time to fail over a shared disk resource that is located on a cluster node of a Windows Server 2008-based failover cluster if many snapshots are saved on the shared disk
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973763/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: An update is available that allows for a potential power saving in an AMD multicore processor that is running an x64-based version of Windows Vista SP2, of Windows Server 2008 SP2, of Windows 7, or of Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974090/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent 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 or Windows Vista: "0x00000019 BAD_POOL_HEADER"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974201/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The Task Scheduler MMC snap-in stops responding when you view the history tab of a task that has more than 10,000 history events on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974589/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The Data Collector Set may not start on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974605/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Stop error message on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista: "0x00000027 RDR_FILE_SYSTEM"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974759/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: You cannot install a 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005 on a computer that is running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974848/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: You cannot make a VPN connection successfully by entering a correct PIN after an incorrect PIN is entered when the connection uses a smart card and PEAP authentication on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974924/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Some SMB clients cannot access cluster file shares but they can access non-cluster file shares that are located on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975512/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The Nslookup.exe utility does not use all the suffixes in the DNS suffix search list if the total length of the DNS suffix search list is longer than 255 characters on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975598/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: A computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista receives various stop codes that cause the system to automatically restart after you enable the NetDMA feature on the new "Crystal Beach" (DMA) chip from Intel
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975698/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: All IP addresses are registered on the DNS servers when the IP addresses are assigned to one network adapter on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Vista SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975808/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: File corruption occurs under a stress situation when the CopyFileEx function is used to copy a file between two computers that are running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975815/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Event ID 1, event ID 5, event ID 70, or event ID 113 may be logged in the System log on a computer that uses the iSCSI Software Initiator to connect to an iSCSI target device
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976072/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: BITS jobs are lost when you downgrade from BITS 4.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976159/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: MS09-061: Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 3.5.1 for RC and IDX versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: October 13, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974293/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: You receive a "Stop 0x0000007E" error on the first restart after you enable Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974598/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: AD RMS may stop working when it queries Active Directory global catalogs on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974636/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Lots of SceCli 1202 events are added to the application event log on a domain controller that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 after some domain level group policies are updated
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974639/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Virtual machines stop responding (hang) during startup and the Vmms.exe process crashes on a Windows Server 2008 R2 computer that has the Hyper-V role installed
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974672/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: MS09-061: Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 3.5.1 for Windows 7 IDX and Windows Server 2008 R2 IDX: October 13, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974714/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: You receive a "Stop 0x000000CE" error on the restart after you run Windows Update on a virtual machine that is running Windows Server 2000 SP4
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976488/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: The SUSE Linux Enterprise network configurations are lost after a Hyper-V Live Migration
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976724/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: A BitLocker Driver event may be logged for a drive that is not encrypted on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976733/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: How to install Windows PowerShell on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Core
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976736/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: The Ldp.exe and Ldifde.exe programs do not display the "memberOf" attribute for Active Directory Recycle Bin objects
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976838/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Error message in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 when you try to connect to a remote server: "Server Manager cannot connect to <server_name>"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976839/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: MS09-051: Description of the security update for Windows Media Audio Voice Decoder: October 13, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954155/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: You receive a "1402" error when you use RemoteApps to deploy Windows Installer packages to thin clients from a server that is running Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959757/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Print jobs sent to a local printer from a console application do not print completely in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969309/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: A memory leak issue in the Lsass.exe process causes an application or a service to stop responding if the application or the service uses the NTLM authentication on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971265/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Error code 1450 after you transfer data by using the named pipes protocol between a client computer and a server that are running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974178/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The Windows Remote Manager (WinRM) service does not start after you uninstall WinRM 2.0 on Windows Server 2008 or on Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974504/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Error message when you use the CryptAcquireContext function to request a handle to a third-party CSP on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008: "0x800b0100 (Invalid Signature)"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974971/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Operating system deployment over a network by using WDS fails in Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975710/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Converting an active lease to a reservation causes the lease to become inactive on Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976160/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The performance of DFS Replication in Windows Server 2008 may be slow on a WAN connection without any error message being logged in the DFS Replication log
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976442/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: You cannot uninstall ADMT 3.1 after you perform an in-place upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974625/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: The network connection of a running Hyper-V virtual machine is lost under heavy outgoing network traffic on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974909/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: IVdsVolumeShrink::Shrink fails when provided value returned from QueryMaxReclaimableBytes
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976436/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: Known issues that may occur when you use ADMT 3.1 to migrate to a domain that contains Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976659/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: You cannot register or manage EMC storage units when you are using the Microsoft DSM
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976694/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: Upgrading a member server to Windows Server 2008 R2 does not fully remove FRS
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976826/EN-US
Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: The Active Directory Application Mode service may crash if the Active Directory Application Mode instance database is of a large scale on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972635/EN-US
Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: Error message when the Smb.sys driver unloads on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003: "Stop 0x00000019"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973097/EN-US
Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: An application may encounter an access violation exception when it uses the Hbaapi.dll module to query information from a DVD drive or a CD drive that is attached to an HBA adapter on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973871/EN-US
Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: Another service may be unexpectedly also stopped on a node of a Windows Server 2003-based cluster if the ResUtilStopResourceService function is used to stop a service
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974857/EN-US
Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: A process stops responding on a Windows Server 2003-based server that has a very large amount of memory
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976010/EN-US
Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: The migration of hotfixes may fail after the installation of a Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP service pack
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976647/EN-US
Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: A query takes a long time to complete and increases CPU usage to a high level on the domain controllers that are running Windows Server 2003 when you use NSPI API functions to query address book information
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972122/EN-US
Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: A Windows Server 2003-based domain controller may incorrectly return the "NO_SUCH_USER (0xc0000064)" status code in response to logon requests when the domain controller is shutting down or restarting
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973667/EN-US
Windows Svr Std 2003 RDP EN: MS09-051: Description of the security update for Audio Compression Manager: October 13, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975025/EN-US
News
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
ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 is available for download
Service Pack 2 for Configuration Manager 2007 delivers new platform support for Windows 7 client, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2. In addition, Service Pack 2 delivers continued innovation with Intel vPro technology, support for Branch Cache enabled environments, and continued development for 64 bit architectures.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3318741a-c038-4ab1-852a-e9c13f8a8140&displaylang=en
NetworkWorld: Microsoft Turning Configuration Management "on Its Side"
NetworkWorld Magazine reviews the user-centric overhaul of the next release of System Center Configuration Manager.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/100109-microsoft-configuration-management.html
Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for October 2009
Looks like the Configuration Manager content writers posted their October updates last Friday so in case you missed the announcement here’s the skinny
http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/archive/2009/10/27/configuration-manager-documentation-library-update-for-october-2009.aspx
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
New Operations Manager 2007 R2 MP Version 6.1.7533.0 is Released
The new Management Pack includes improved monitoring for excessive agent memory utilisation, more product knowledge added, rule for Console and SDK Connection Count, updated alert suppression criteria for “Alert on Dropped MultiInstance Performance Module” and fixed configuration for the rule “IIS Discovery Probe Module Execution Failure.”
http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/10/07/opsmgr-2007-r2-mp-version-6-1-7553-0-is-released.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/
Documents
Operations Manager & MOM
Updated Planning Guidance for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
Updated to reflect the features and functionalities of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, the Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for System Center Operations Manager helps our customers and partners effectively design and implement their management infrastructure through the use of simple and step-by-step guidance.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/ee395430.aspx?SA_CE=COREIO-IPD-NWSLR-SYSCENTERNWSLR-2009-10-15
Update to Powershell Script for Maintenance Mode
The script has been updated to support automating the placement of computer objects into maintenance mode for Operations Manager R2, and now accepts the argument of minutes instead of hours for duration of maintenance.
http://blogs.technet.com/mgoedtel/archive/2009/10/29/updated-powershell-script-maintenance-mode.aspx
Guidance on troubleshooting Discovery Wizard failure for multi-homing mixed version Management Groups
if you’re planning to multi-home new agents in this mixed version environment and you’re using the Discovery Wizard, be sure to first discover and install the agent in the SP1 Management Group first.
http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/archive/2009/10/21/opsmgr-2007-discovery-wizard-may-fail-for-multi-homing-mixed-version-management-groups.aspx
Downloads
Configuration Manager & SMS
ConfigMgr 2007 SP2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3318741a-c038-4ab1-852a-e9c13f8a8140&displaylang=en
Updated Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack: Now with 64-bit support
The updated Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack adds support for monitoring Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 in a 64-bit environment with Operations Manager 2007 R2 or Operations Manager 2007 SP1 with hotfix (KB971541) installed. This enables the Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack to work with either the 32-bit or the 64-bit Operations Manager 2007 agent. Except for the 64-bit support, the other features and guidance for Configuration Manager 2007 Management Packs remain intact.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a8443173-46c2-4581-b3b8-ce67160f627b&displaylang=en
Operations Manager & MOM
Exchange Server 2003 MP for OpsMgr 2007
The Exchange Server 2003 Management Pack monitors Exchange 2003 deployments and monitors Exchange Server Back-end and Exchange Server Front-End systems.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9ff454f4-6d34-4fb9-9e0b-f5b68c6edc4f
Window Client 2000/XP/Vista/Win 7 OS MP for OpsMgr 2007
The Microsoft Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 Operating System Management Pack provides fundamental monitoring basics for computers running Windows Client 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7 operating systems.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=f55f1803-eae6-4ed5-b2d2-9e1adf98e325
Updated Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack: Now with 64-bit support
The updated Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack adds support for monitoring Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 in a 64-bit environment with Operations Manager 2007 R2 or Operations Manager 2007 SP1 with hotfix (KB971541) installed. This enables the Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack to work with either the 32-bit or the 64-bit Operations Manager 2007 agent. Except for the 64-bit support, the other features and guidance for Configuration Manager 2007 Management Packs remain intact.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a8443173-46c2-4581-b3b8-ce67160f627b&displaylang=en
Keep Mission-Critical Applications Running at Peak Performance
Download the Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and track your application performance and availability in near real-time so you can head off problems before they occur.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1d9d709f-9628-46a8-952b-a78f5dd2bdd9
Download Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Update
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Update adds fixes for a defunct process issue on Unix/Linux Servers, as well as, adds support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions) and Solaris Zone support.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4a41a8be-0a37-4bd2-b5b1-026468b317fb
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit Released!
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Resource Kit will install the Authoring console, which aids customers in creating and modifying operations management packs (MPs). Optionally, eight tools designed to help improve the MP authoring experience will also be included: the MP Best Practice Analyzer; MP Spell Checker; Visio MP Diagram Generator; Cookdown Analyzer; All References Addin; MP Diff; Workflow Analyzer; and Workflow Simulator.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9104af8b-ff87-45a1-81cd-b73e6f6b51f0&displaylang=en
New Microsoft Windows Server Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
The Windows Server Cluster Management Pack monitors the health of the Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 clusters. This management pack is designed to improve the availability, performance, and security of your Windows Server cluster deployment.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AC7F42F5-33E9-453D-A923-171C8E1E8E55&displaylang=en
New DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007
The DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 monitors the health of the DFS Replication service on Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c97b22a1-1fd6-426f-94ab-2a6e6db4aed0&displaylang=en
New Windows Server 2008 Network Load Balancing Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
The Windows Server 2008 Network Load Balancing Management Pack monitors the health of the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 NLB clusters and improves the availability, performance, and security of your Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 NLB deployment.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dc17e093-bdd7-4cb3-9981-853776ed90be&displaylang=en
Other
Microsoft Operations Framework
MOF 4.0 is practical guidance for IT organizations. With the release of version 4.0, MOF now reflects a single, comprehensive IT service lifecycle—it helps IT professionals connect service management principles to everyday IT tasks and activities and ensures alignment between IT and the business.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=457ed61d-27b8-49d1-baca-b175e8f54c0c
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
Download System Center Service Manager 2010 Beta 2 Trial Software
Learn about and download System Center Service Manager Beta 2. Service Manager, through the power of its integrated platform, reduces costs and improves IT responsiveness. With built-in processes and workflow for incident, problem resolution, change control and its configuration management database, Service Manager orchestrates activities and connects knowledge from System Center Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager, and Active Directory.
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/service-manager.aspx
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
Configuration Manager & SMS
TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and R3 (Level 200)
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
With the release of the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems, new capabilities and usage scenarios are emerging for system management. Economic, regulatory, green IT, and security issues continue to be the challenges organizations face. In this webcast, we provide a technical update and overview for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. We focus on Service Pack 2 and R3 enhancements, market capabilities, and describe our near-term release road map.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428200&culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Automating Windows 7 Deployments Using System Center Configuration Manager (Level 300)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032416867
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/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032427595&Culture=en-US
Other
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for Exchange Server (Level 300)
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428203&culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters: Foundation for a Partner-Hosted Cloud (Level 300)
Monday, November 16, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center empower hosters to deliver managed hosting, cloud services, and on-demand virtualized IT infrastructures. The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters makes it easy for hosters to get on this inevitable path. This free, extensible toolkit provides guidance, sample code, and best practices that make it easy to build and launch on-demand infrastructures and cloud services to your customers. Attend this webcast to see what the toolkit is composed of, how the toolkit works, who is using the toolkit, and how it can help you.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032430665&culture=en-US
New KB's
Configuration Manager & SMS
Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: When you use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 to capture an image of Windows Vista SP2 or of Windows Server 2008 SP2, the image capture process fails during the "Prepare Windows for Capture" stage (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970093/EN-US
Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: List of hotfixes and updates that are contained in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971348/EN-US
Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: Update rollup for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 to add support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 clients (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974236/EN-US
Operations Manager & MOM
MOM Ops Mgr Serv Ent Ed 2005 EN: Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Service Pack 1 support for Windows Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953140/EN-US
Other
Sys Center DataProtect Mgr 07 EN: Recommended hotfixes for Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 systems (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961659/EN-US
News
Biztalk Server
Associated Press - News Cooperative Creates Touch-Friendly Mobile News Service for Windows Phones
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005570
Molina Healthcare - Health Plan Supports Growth, Controls Costs, and Reduces Complexities with Licensing Plan
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005577
Loomis Armored US - Cash Handling Firm Uses Mobile Applications to Deliver Data to Customers and Their Banks
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005549
Petróleos Mexicanos - PEMEX Creates Document Workflow Solution with SQL Server 2008 and BizTalk Server
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005455
Microsoft Internet Information Server
General availability of Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2, with IIS 7.5
As of today, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is generally available for purchase. This latest release of the Windows operating system contains IIS 7.5, which provides a set of enhancements and new functionality on top of the IIS 7 Web server platform...
http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2009/10/22/general-availability-of-windows-7-amp-windows-server-2008-r2-with-iis-7-5.aspx
Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP – RC
The Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP – Release Candidate is available for download. The release contains functionality and stability improvements and it is believed to have the quality level suitable for production deployments. Install the Windows...
http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2009/10/20/windows-cache-extension-1-0-for-php-rc.aspx
ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 are here!
The ASP.NET and Web tools for Visual Studio teams have been cranking away on this release all year long and we’re excited to launch Beta 2 today! MSDN subscribers can download it today …it will be available for everyone on Wednesday. There...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2009/10/19/asp-net-4-and-visual-studio-2010-beta-2-are-here.aspx
Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6
The ASP.NET team has been cranking away on more AJAX goodness…this time with a significant update to the Microsoft Ajax Library – Preview 6. This update includes updates to our client-side AJAX library that can be used with any type of Web application...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2009/10/16/microsoft-ajax-library-preview-6.aspx
Provide a Better Web Site Experience with Faster Response Times
Have you ever hummed the Jeopardy theme song while waiting for a Web site to download - even on a high-speed Internet connection? Sometimes the problem is OUT of your control – whether it is an Internet traffic jam, scheduled maintenance, or some other...
http://blogs.iis.net/windowsserver/archive/2009/10/14/provide-a-better-web-site-experience-with-faster-response-times.aspx
Webinar: How to Deliver True HD with Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming
On Thursday, October 15th, we will be presenting a webinar entitled "How to Deliver True HD with Silverlight and Smooth Streaming." During the one-hour webinar, we'll cover the following topics... What Smooth Streaming is and why it is the future of online...
http://blogs.iis.net/chriskno/archive/2009/10/14/webinar-how-to-deliver-true-hd-with-silverlight-and-iis-smooth-streaming.aspx
IIS Media Services 3.0, including IIS Live Smooth Streaming, has been released
What Just Happened? We just released IIS Media Services 3.0, a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate...
http://blogs.iis.net/chriskno/archive/2009/10/12/iis-media-services-3-0-including-iis-live-smooth-streaming-has-been-released.aspx
Available Jobs: I’m looking for an AWESOME design engineer
I am looking for a super-star designer, to work full time @ Microsoft and report directly to me. This position will oversee the design architecture and visual branding of some of the most important visual assets of the Microsoft Web Platform. I am looking...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2009/10/07/i-m-looking-for-an-awesome-designer.aspx
IIS Database Manager – Version 1.0 Released!
Today, the IIS team is releasing version 1.0 of the IIS Database Manager. It allows you to administer website and web application databases with the existing connection string or a custom client connection with an IIS UI extension. Major Features: Viewing...
http://blogs.iis.net/rlucero/archive/2009/09/25/iis-database-manager-version-1-0-released.aspx
SharePoint Technologies
Microsoft Unveils SharePoint Server 2010 and Showcases New Functionality
October 19, 2009: Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/oct09/10-19MSSharePointConf09PR.mspx
Describing SharePoint 2010 in 1 Sentence, 8 Categories and 40 Feature Areas
October 19, 2009: Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/10/19/sharepoint-2010.aspx
Don't be Caught without a SharePoint Recovery Solution
October 12, 2009: InfoWorld
http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/dont-be-caught-without-sharepoint-recovery-solution-739
Documents
SharePoint Technologies
Five Ways SharePoint Can Save You Money
This paper provides information on how you can use SharePoint Products and Technologies to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) and maximize the return on investment (ROI) from your expenditure on enterprise solution platforms. These platforms can include portal solutions, collaboration tools, document management platforms, and search tools. This information is relevant to business and technical decision makers who are considering or planning how to consolidate infrastructure, reduce support costs, or streamline business processes.
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/everybodysbusiness/howmany/collaborate.aspx?wt.srch=1
Configure Office SharePoint Server Search to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 enables shared services administrators to crawl Lotus Notes documents that are stored in Lotus Domino databases and hosted by a Lotus Domino server.
Updated: 2009-10-22
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262927.aspx
Prepare to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
This article provides the procedures for preparing Office SharePoint Server 2007 to crawl Lotus Notes content. You must do the procedures in the order listed.
Updated: 2009-10-22
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261820.aspx
Downloads
Biztalk Server
Version 10.15 of MessageBoxViewer Tool is available
http://blogs.technet.com/jpierauc/pages/msgboxviewer.aspx
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
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 v1.2
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
November 2009
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 - 3 Hour Seminars
Free of charge
Date: Various
Location: Microsoft Reading & Basing stoke
UK's first SharePoint 2010 seminars offering a unique blend of technology, strategy and pragmatic experience. Including live demonstrations of the new features, interactive discussion of the new architecture and in-depth analysis of the business opportunities and challenges
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
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 Event
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 Adapter for mySAP 2.0 EN: FIX: Error message when you use BizTalk Adapter 2.0 for mySAP Business Suite: "Unable to cast object of 'xxxx'"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939885/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 EN: FIX: A Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) activity is not rolled back when the send port fails in delivering the output message in BizTalk Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942024/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 EN: FIX: BizTalk Server host instance stops unexpectedly and restarts because of a System.OutOfMemoryException exception in BizTalk Server
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948238/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Error message when you receive an MIME/SMIME document in BizTalk Server 2006 or BizTalk Server 2006 R2: "Item has already been added"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937173/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: BizTalk Server 2006 R2 does not display the correct MDN Status in an AS2 message and the correlated MDN status report when the MDN contains the error "unexpected-processing-error"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950673/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: You receive an error message when you configure the "BizTalk EDI/AS2 Runtime" option in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950868/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The FTP adapter cannot parse a LIST response that is in non-English format in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950980/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The EDIFACT document is suspended if it contains a UNH2.5 segment in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952195/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: BizTalk Server Administration displays incorrect or blank application name for some orchestration instances after you add a new MessageBox database in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952310/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: You receive a NullReferenceException exception when you use the Call Orchestration shape in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973430/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Error message when you use the POP3 adapter in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: "The POP3 adapter received a response line from a server that contains more than 512 characters"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975826/EN-US
Microsoft Internet Information Server
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: POST data is not available for native handlers in IIS 7.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972541/EN-US
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: How to redirect requests from HTTP to HTTPS or to the OWA virtual directory in IIS 7
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975341/EN-US
SharePoint Technologies
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the update for the Brazilian Portuguese proofing tools in 2007 Office servers: September 08, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972952/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of SharePoint Server 2007 ASPX page source code access
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976829/EN-US
News
Biztalk Server
American Apparel - Retailer Boosts Sales 14%, Cuts Inventory Management Costs 35% with RFID Solution
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005318
RBT - Council Transforms Revenues and Benefits Service Delivery with Enterprise Service Bus
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005298
Skandia - Online Banking and Insurance Provider Dramatically Enhances Web Performance
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005294
Fred IT Group - Electronic Prescription Exchange Boosts Productivity and Reduces Medication Errors
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005221
Powerco - Power distributor switches server infrastructure and cuts costs
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005244
4 Different ways to process an XLANGMessage within an helper component invoked by an orchestration Part 1
http://blogs.msdn.com/paolos/archive/2009/09/10/4-different-ways-to-process-an-xlangmessage-within-an-helper-component-invoked-by-an-orchestration.aspx
Microsoft Internet Information Server
IIS Database Manager – Version 1.0 Released!
Today, the IIS team is releasing version 1.0 of the IIS Database Manager. It allows you to administer website and web application databases with the existing connection string or a custom client connection with an IIS UI extension. Major Features: Viewing...
http://blogs.iis.net/rlucero/archive/2009/09/25/iis-database-manager-version-1-0-released.aspx
New IIS Web Extensions for Web Site Developers and Web Server Administrators
I am very proud to announce our September 2009 release of IIS Web extensions! This September launch includes the RTW release of Web Deploy 1.0 , Web Platform Installer 2.0 , and IIS Database Manager 1.0 , as well as the pre-release versions of Application...
http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2009/09/24/launch.aspx
A big day for Web pros: WebsiteSpark, Web PI and more!
Today we’re launching a number of really cool things for Web developers. WebsiteSpark WebsiteSpark is a program designed to jumpstart Web development for individuals or small companies who make a living on the Web. The program is free to...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2009/09/24/a-big-day-for-web-pros-websitespark-web-pi-and-more.aspx
Six Ways to Help Customers Extend their Web Sites
Wow – do we have a bunch of announcements for you! If you care about Web sites, read on. From really cool media scenarios, to making it easy getting started on the Microsoft Web Platform, to advanced tweaks to your Web site – we have something for all...
http://blogs.iis.net/windowsserver/archive/2009/09/24/six-ways-to-help-customers-extend-their-web-sites.aspx
Microsoft Launches New Open Source CodePlex Foundation
Microsoft’s strategy with open source has evolved over the past several years as we strive to make Windows the platform of choice for customers. My team has participated in that process first hand, we’ve worked hard with the PHP community to ensure...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2009/09/10/microsoft-launches-new-open-source-codeplex-foundation.aspx
Download the New Windows Cache Extension for PHP Beta
Download the New Windows Cache Extension for PHP Beta Perhaps you are a Web Developer or a Web Hoster who on the one hand likes PHP. But on the other hand you like Windows. It’s OK. It’s not a contradiction. Now you can run your PHP applications even...
http://blogs.iis.net/windowsserver/archive/2009/09/01/download-the-new-windows-cache-extension-for-php-beta.aspx
Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP – Beta
Today IIS team has released the beta of the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP . The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator , that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows operating systems. Any PHP application...
http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2009/09/01/windows-cache-extension-1-0-for-php-beta.aspx
SharePoint Technologies
U.S. Government's Official Website Powered by SharePoint
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/Default.aspx
The Forrester Wave: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009: Microsoft Continued as a Leader
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/Default.aspx
Webcast Oct 8: Use Bing Maps with SharePoint Server for a Better View of Your Business
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/Default.aspx
SharePoint 2010 Gets a Thumbs-up
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/Default.aspx
To Secure SharePoint, Make Sure You Get User Authorization and User Management Right
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/Default.aspx
AvePoint Introduces Free Tool for Item-Level SharePoint Restores from SQL Server and DPM Backups
Free module delivers full fidelity, item-level restore capability from SQL Server and DPM backups, providing customers with granular SharePoint content recovery
http://www.avepoint.com/news/2009/07/01/avepoint-introduces-free-tool-for-item-level-sharepoint-restores-from-sql-server-and-dpm-backups/
Documents
Biztalk Server
Scaling a Production BizTalk Server Environment
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee377067(BTS.10).aspx
SharePoint Technologies
Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007
This article has been updated with information about the August Cumulative Update.
Updated: 2009-09-24
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx
Configure a server farm for minimal downtime during software updates (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
This article describes how to update Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 farms with minimal downtime. By following the procedures in this article, you can update servers to add the latest service pack or cumulative update without incurring significant downtime for users.
Updated: 2009-09-17
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee514459.aspx
SharePoint intranet portal governance (white paper)
This sample governance plan helps users outline the administration, maintenance, and support of an Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment in an enterprise. The plan is based on a fictitious company that is implementing collaboration, Web content management, and an intranet portal that includes departmental portals.
Updated: 2009-09-17
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee476991.aspx
Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance
This article lists the performance counters that we recommend that you use to monitor the performance of the SQL Server databases that are running in your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment. Also listed are approximate healthy values for each counter.
Updated: 2009-09-03
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd723635.aspx
SharePoint Internet presence governance plan (white paper)
This sample governance plan is designed to help illustrate how to use the functionality of Office SharePoint Server 2007 for a public Internet site. The fictitious company in this paper plans to use the functionality to ensure that site content is consistent, updated in a timely manner, branded in line with corporate standards, and tightly controlled.
Updated: 2009-08-27
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee449547.aspx
Downloads
Biztalk Server
Microsoft BizTalk Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=389FCB89-F4CF-46D7-BC6E-57830D234F91&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
ProcDump v1.5
Proc Dump, a general process dump utility great for capturing worker process (w3wp.exe) hang\crash dumps. Includes hung window monitoring and unhandled exception monitoring.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx
Disk2VHD **Coming Soon**
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/default.aspx
DocAve v5 for SharePoint 2007:
Free module delivers full fidelity, item-level restore capability from SQL Server and DPM backups, providing customers with granular SharePoint content recovery
http://www.avepoint.com/resources/free-trial-downloads/
Events/Webcasts
Biztalk Server
Business Process Integration Videos
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnbpi.aspx?tab=videos
SharePoint Technologies
October 2009
Webcast Oct 8: Use Bing Maps with SharePoint Server for a Better View of Your Business
September 18, 2009: Microsoft
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/Default.aspx
Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009
The SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the first time Microsoft will publically share all of what SharePoint 2010 has to offer. Get to listen, talk and network with Microsoft Product experts, SharePoint MVPs, Customers, top Industry Analysts and over 140 SharePoint Partners.
http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx
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
All upcoming Events\Webcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/events/default.aspx
New KB's
Biztalk Server
BizTalk 2006 Adapters Host Sys: FIX: Error message when you use the BizTalk Adapter for DB2 to process an updategram message against an IBM DB2 database in Host Integration Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968985/EN-US
BizTalk Server Dev 2006 EN: A hotfix is available that enables you to clear the BAM data from the BAMPrimaryImport database instead of having to archive the data to the BAMArchive database in BizTalk Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971984/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 EN: FIX: BizTalk Server 2006 or BizTalk Server 2006 R2 experiences low performance when you execute an SQL query that refers to the "ActivityID" field in the bam_ActivityName_CompletedRelationships table
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973770/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: A hotfix is available for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 that enables support for AS2 File name preservation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951203/EN-US
BizTalk Server LOB Adapters 2006: FIX: Error message when you use BizTalk Adapter for J.D.Edwards EnterpriseOne in BizTalk Server: "Error occurred during initialization of VM"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974617/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: FIX: Error message in BizTalk Server 2006 in the Application Event log when you use a SOAP send port and messages are not sent successfully: "OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971799/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: FIX: An Acknowledgement (ACK) is not sent back to the source application when you use BizTalk Server Accelerator for HL7 v1.3 in a BizTalk Server 2006 environment
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974836/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: MDNs are not sent to the sending party in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952202/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Message type MT941 and message type MT942 fail XML validation when you use Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT Message Pack 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969147/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The tracking data is not moved as expected from the BizTalkMsgBoxDb database to the BizTalkDTADb database in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969870/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Description of a hotfix that enables Microsoft BizTalk Adapter 3.0 for mySAP Business Suite to support user impersonation and logon tickets while connecting to SAP systems
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973683/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Per-instance pipeline configuration in a request-response MLLP receive location is not executed correctly for a custom send pipeline when you use BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 2.0 in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974265/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: BizTalk host instances may crash with a System.OutOfMemoryException exception message in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975118/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2009 EN: FIX: Error message when you set the Service Name to "eba.step2!pu1" when you configure the FileAct transport properties in BizTalk Server 2009: "Service Name Format is Incorrect"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972624/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2009 EN: FIX: Error message when you receive EDI interchanges by using the EDI receive pipeline in BizTalk Server 2009: "Fatal error encountered in EDI Disassembler, error information is GetTempFileName Failed"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973387/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2009 EN: FIX: Event ID: 4119 is logged in the Application log or the whole batch is suspended if any message in the batch contains a parsing error in Microsoft BizTalk 2009 Accelerator for HL7
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973910/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2009 EN: FIX: Enabling tracking on an MLLP receive port or BTAHL72XReceivePipeline fails to save the inbound message when you use Microsoft BizTalk 2009 Accelerator for HL7
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973911/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2009 EN: FIX: A Request Response Receive Location that uses an MLLP adapter does not work correctly if you configure the per-instance pipeline properties for the custom send pipeline when you use Microsoft BizTalk 2009 Accelerator for HL7
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974728/EN-US
SA for BizTalk SWIFT Ent 2.3 EN: FIX: MT54x messages are not validated correctly when you use the BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2008 Message Pack
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973230/EN-US
SA for BizTalk SWIFT Ent 2.3 EN: FIX: SWIFT messages that contain an invalid 19A field may not be validated as expected when you use BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2008 Message Pack
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973242/EN-US
Microsoft Internet Information Server
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: The isolated configuration file for an application pool contains configuration data for Web sites of other application pools in IIS 7.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971047/EN-US
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: Event ID 9000 and Event ID 9006 are logged when you restart the Application Host Helper Service on Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975340/EN-US
Internet Info Svr 6 AL: The file change notifications are lost when the FTP service that is installed in Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 runs on MSCS
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975306/EN-US
SharePoint Technologies
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Information about the Office Server Search topology in Pre-Upgrade Checker in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957408/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Error message when you try to run a search query in SharePoint Server 2007 by using the SOME ARRAY clause: "Your Query Malformed"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973101/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (MOSS server-package): September 9, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973399/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: The value of the PluggableSecurityTrimmerId registry key is not updated after you register a custom security trimmer in SharePoint Server 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973408/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: When you run a search in a custom scope in SharePoint Server 2007, no result is returned for a multiple value lookup field
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973872/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: An incremental crawl does not obtain moved items and moved folders if you use the SPFolder.MoveTo method to move the items and the folders in SharePoint Server 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973875/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: You cannot change the name of an Active Directory security group in SharePoint Server 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974550/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Information about the Windows SharePoint Services Search topology in Pre-Upgrade Checker in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957407/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Error message when you try to run a query in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972955/EN-US
News
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
Announcing System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3
Today, the System Center team is excited to share with you our plan to release System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3. This new release of the ConfigMgr is packed with some extremely cool features, which over the coming months we plan to share with you in different ways.
http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/09/08/announcing-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-r3.aspx
SCCM AMT Provisioning Flowcharts from Steve Rachui
http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2009/09/02/sccm-amt-provisioning-flowcharts.aspx
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Now Available
MDT 2010 includes custom actions and task sequence templates for your System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 RC environment, enabling you to start deploying Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 quickly and cost effectively.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee376932.aspx
WSUS 3.0 SP2 released
WSUS 3.0 SP2 has been released. Find out more information and where to download it in the following blogpost
http://blogs.technet.com/carlossantiago/archive/2009/09/01/wsus-3-0-sp2-released.aspx
Paul Thompson new OSD tools beta
As part of our deployment of Windows 7 to Microsoft IT's users we developed some tools to enhance the experience. In case you have similar needs, we're pleased to be able to share them with you.
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/pthomsen/archive/2009/09/07/141124.aspx
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
Jeff Gilbert's Web blog at myITforum.com
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/default.aspx
Operations Manager & MOM
Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Support
Support is now available for running Operations Manager 2007 SP1 & R2 on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7
http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/09/18/opsmgr-2007-sp1-and-r2-now-officially-support-windows-server-2008-r2-and-windows-7.aspx
Operations Manager PowerShell Survey
Operations Manager being one of the first products to ship with a PowerShell Snapin of 80+ cmdlets is looking for feedback on that very subject. Please complete a quick 10 question survey on connect at the following link.
http://connect.microsoft.com/opsmgr
Common Issues the Operations Manager team get in product support
Common issues by OpsMgr Admins all over the globe and suggested fixes from the product team.
http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/archive/2009/09/23/some-common-operations-manager-issues-we-get-here-in-product-support.aspx
Guide: Opening Console Views and executing tasks from reports
SCOM 2007 reporting infrastructure has an ability to invoke a view or execute a task defined in a Management Pack from a report. Learn how to leverage this functionality.
http://blogs.msdn.com/eugenebykov/archive/2009/08/14/opening-console-views-and-executing-tasks-from-reports.aspx
The Operations Manager Support Team Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/
Other
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 RTMs, Evals Available
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 has RTM’d. Please experience for yourself what the 10,000+ people who have previously downloaded our ‘Release Candidate’ plus organizations such as Continental Airlines, Lionbridge Technologies, and Indiana University have seen with VMM 2008 R2! A 180-day evaluation version is now available, too, on the Microsoft Download site.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=292de23c-845c-4d08-8d65-b4b8cbc8397b&displaylang=en
System Center Virtual Machine Manager
http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/
The App-V Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/Softgrid/
Documents
Operations Manager & MOM
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper
The sizing helper is an interactive document designed to help assist customers with planning their OpsMgr infrastructure. A typical recommendation will include minimum hardware specification for each server role, topology diagram and storage requirement
http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/08/12/operations-manager-2007-r2-sizing-helper.aspx
Visio 2007 Add-in for Operations Manager 2007 R2 Released
This was released at the end of last month. If you missed it, be sure to head over to the MOMTeam blog for an overview of this great addin.
http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/07/31/visio-2007-add-in-for-operations-manager-2007-r2-released.aspx
Downloads
Configuration Manager & SMS
BDD and MDT Archive
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is the recommended process and toolset to automate desktop and server deployment. The support status of earlier versions is outlined here.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=02a2605d-51e8-469f-be4a-1dd2af580502
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 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?displaylang=en&familyid=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89
Operations Manager & MOM
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
Window Client 2000/XP/Vista OS MP for OpsMgr 2007
The Microsoft Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista Operating System Management Pack provides fundamental monitoring basics for computers running Windows Client 2000, XP, or Vista operating systems.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=f55f1803-eae6-4ed5-b2d2-9e1adf98e325
Windows Key Management Service MP for System Center OpsMgr 2007
The KMS MP monitors core Key Management Service offered by Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 and Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=a330d876-c965-4433-afdf-7c61a9126fb3
Windows Server Operating System MP for OpsMgr 2007
The Windows Server Operating System Management Pack provides the fundamental monitoring basics for computers running the Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Operating System.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=3529d233-5e3e-4b51-8f66-5d6f27005ec3
Events/Webcasts
Configuration Manager & SMS
TechNet Webcast: Automating Windows 7 Deployments Using System Center Configuration Manager (Level 300)
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416867&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Asset Intelligence with Configuration Manager 2007 (Level 300)
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 collects asset information that can be used for license and asset management reports. In this webcast, we explain the asset management reporting that comes out of the box in Configuration Manager 2007 R2, we describe what Configuration Manager reports can be built with customizations, and we tell you about partner add-ons for reporting that are available. You also learn how to import license information and how to compare the license information with the software that is installed and currently used in your organization. If you have an asset manager in your organization who is asking you for asset management reports, or if you want to know if you are over or under licensed and are uncomfortable with a possible software compliancy audit, then this webcast is for you.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032425485&culture=en-US
Operations Manager & MOM
TechNet Webcast: Optimizing Operations Manager for Monitoring, Auditing, and Dashboards (Level 300)
Friday, October 09, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Learn how to optimize Microsoft System Center Operations Manager for cross-platform devices, applications, and regulatory auditing requirements, and see how to create advanced line-of-business (LOB), geographic, and executive-level dashboards in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This webcast includes more than 40 minutes of demonstrations, and we provide customer examples of:
* Monitoring Oracle and Apache applications using BridgeWays
* Supporting Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and PCI audit requirements using Secure Vantage Technologies.
* Building intelligent views across solutions using Savision Live Maps.
* Integrating solutions with SharePoint Server.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032425621&culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Understanding Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability (Level 300)
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
In this webcast, we discuss the fundamental concepts around the architecture and design of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, and we cover the various factors that affect the overall performance and scalability of an Operations Manager deployment. We also describe ways to configure and tune an Operations Manager deployment to adjust the level of scale.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032424650&culture=en-US
Other
TechNet Webcast: Announcing Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta (Level 300)
Thursday, October 08, 2009 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. 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/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032426727&culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Monitoring Datacenter Service Health and Performance (Level 300)
Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Proactive management of the applications and IT services running in your data center is challenging, particularly when you have inadequate or disparate tools, are interrupted with other projects, and have to complete the necessary daily or weekly tasks. While there are many activities that impact IT service performance and availability, a comprehensive monitoring capability makes it possible to identify situations early—before they create an IT incident—by providing the time and knowledge for you to rapidly respond.
Join us to discover how System Center delivers a comprehensive and extendible monitoring capability, and how its many features, such as task automation and schedulable reporting, can reduce your time and effort in assuring IT services running across the Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers in your data center.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032427590&culture=en-US
New KB's
Configuration Manager & SMS
Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: High CPU usage during MIF file processing on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 site servers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973065/EN-US
Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: Update rollup for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 to add support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 clients
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974236/EN-US
Operations Manager & MOM
MOM Ops Mgr Serv Ent Ed 2005 EN: Error message when you try to download a file by using the Background Intelligent Transfer Service: "Content file download failed" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922330/EN-US
Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN: Operations Manager 2007-based agents consume 100 percent of CPU resources for the Monitoringhost.exe process (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974051/EN-US
Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN: One or more management servers and their managed devices are dimmed in the Operations Manager Console of Operations Manager 2007 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975057/EN-US
Sys Center Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 in System Center Operations Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974722/EN-US
Sys Center Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: You receive an HTTP Error 403 page when you access the Reporting Services virtual directory for System Center Operations Manager 2007 after you upgrade to Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975439/EN-US
Other
Sys Center DataProtect Mgr 07 EN: Protection jobs for various protected servers fail with errors in System Center Data Protection Manager 2007: 0x80990A51, 0x809909B0, or 0x800706BA (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971411/EN-US
Sys Center Essentials 2007 SP1: When you install System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1 on an x64 Edition of Windows Server 2008, no options on the System Center Database page of the installation wizard are enabled
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975344/EN-US
News
9 to 13 November 2009, Berlin: Tech.Ed Europe
The sooner you sign up, the more you save.
http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/
Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2
Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 delivers updates to corporate environments from Microsoft Update. Some of the features and improvements include integration with Windows Server 2008 R2, support for the BranchCache feature in Windows Server 2008 R2, support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 clients and Compliance Report. Additionally, Windows Update Agent (WUA) offers a collection of performance enhancements, user experience improvements and bug fixes.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=a206ae20-2695-436c-9578-3403a7d46e40&displaylang=en
Windows 7 Podcast Series
Learn more about DirectAccess, planning and deployment tools, data protection and desktop optimisation with free podcasts.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetwindows7.aspx?tab=podcasts&topic=&audience=&view=&pageId=x4826&seriesID=series-acd4d6bf-efe0-4f7e-a1f6-13eecb0b28d6.xml
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 : MDOP 2009 R2: What's New in MDOP for Windows 7
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
RDS Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/ts
The Hot Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/hot
Downloads
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466
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
Update for Windows XP (KB932823)
Install this update to resolve an issue in which a user is unable to use Windows Internet Explorer 7 to download files on a computer that is running Windows XP with IME enabled.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=28e2fdb2-1aa5-4c84-8255-b3142ca2fe85
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
.NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86)
The Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 (x86) redistributable package installs the .NET Framework runtime and associated files required to run applications developed to target the .NET Framework v2.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5
Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP
Download the latest version of the world's most popular Web browser.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9ae91ebe-3385-447c-8a30-081805b2f90b
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor scans your PC to see if it's ready for Windows 7, and tells you about any known compatibility issues.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1b544e90-7659-4bd9-9e51-2497c146af15
Windows Installer 3.1 Redistributable
The Microsoft® Windows® Installer is an application installation and configuration service. WindowsInstaller-KB893803-x86.exe is the redistributable package for installing or upgrading Windows Installer.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c
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® Defender
Windows Defender is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Windows Defender no longer supports Windows 2000 as mainstream support ended in June 2005.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d
Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP (KB940157)
Windows Search 4.0 is an updated component of Windows that enables instant search on your computer.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=55c18cb3-c916-4298-aba3-5b98904f7cda
.NET Framework 3.5
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0, and includes .NET Framework 2.0 service pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.0 service pack 1.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=333325fd-ae52-4e35-b531-508d977d32a6
The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Service Pack 2 provides the latest updates to the 2007 Microsoft Office suite.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=b444bf18-79ea-46c6-8a81-9db49b4ab6e5
.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
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers
This installation package is intended for IT professionals and developers downloading and installing on multiple computers on a network. If you're updating just one computer, please visit Windows Update at http://update.microsoft.com .
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=5b33b5a8-5e76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4
2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS
This download allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=4d951911-3e7e-4ae6-b059-a2e79ed87041
PowerPoint Viewer 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485
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
.NET Framework Version 1.1 Redistributable Package
The .NET Framework version 1.1 redistributable package includes everything you need to run applications developed using the .NET Framework.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157-034d1e7cf3a3
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 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?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89
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
BDD and MDT Archive
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is the recommended process and toolset to automate desktop and server deployment. The support status of earlier versions is outlined here.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=02a2605d-51e8-469f-be4a-1dd2af580502
Windows Easy Transfer for transferring from Windows Vista (32 bit) to Windows 7
Use Windows Easy Transfer to copy your files, photos, music, e-mail, settings, and more from a computer running Windows Vista to a computer running Windows 7. You can transfer data using an Easy Transfer Cable, removable media, or across a network.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=09d80814-2a73-4245-a63b-8e780d0430cb
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
2 October 2009, 11.00 a.m.: Server 2008 R2 and Why it Matters to Your Business
Windows Server 2008 R2 is focused on helping you as an IT Manager reduce some of the costs of running IT in your company, particularly around server and desktop virtualisation, improving the remote user’s experience in a branch office, or giving mobile users secure controlled access to your corporate network without having to buy and manage a VPN. This session will run through these benefits and talk about other UK customers who are using them already. Join us after the presentation for a live online Q and A.
02 October 2009 11:00 GMT, London
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032423286&EventCategory=4&culture=en-GB&CountryCode=GB
7 to 8 October 2009, Earls Court, London: Microsoft at IP Expo
Register free for IP Expo 09 and visit us at stand 434 for a keynote from Ward Ralston.
http://www.ipexpo.co.uk/IP-Expo/Register-for-the-Events/?WT.mc_id=IP09415MSFWS
9 to 13 November 2009, Berlin: Tech.Ed Europe
The sooner you sign up, the more you save.
http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/
Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Using MDT 2010 - Part 1: Building the Deployment Environment
(9 minutes, 56 seconds)
Learn how to build media that will automatically migrate computers from Windows XP to Windows 7 with user data, customised applications and drivers. This demonstration will walk you through the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Deployment Workbench and how it works.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/ee410767.aspx
Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Using MDT 2010 - Part 2: Initiating the Installation and Migrating the PC
(9 minutes, 33 seconds)
Explore the user experience for migrating the Windows XP computer to Windows 7 and how brief - or '"lite touch' - interaction is required up-front to automate the entire process of data migration, OS installation, driver and application customisation and domain joining.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/ee410769.aspx
New KB's
Windows Client
Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: Description of the Platform Update for Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971644/EN-US
Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: Your computer may freeze or it may restart to a black screen that has an 0xc0000034 error message after you install a Windows Vista service pack
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975484/EN-US
Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: When a user, belonging to Network Configuration Operators group, installs a networking component, bindings that involve filter drivers may not be created.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975608/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: IPv6 network adapters are reinstalled when network connectivity is restored on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960670/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: On a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista, you cannot add one or more servers to the securelist of a DNS service instance that is hosted on a server that is running Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973245/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Write error when you upload files into a shared folder that is hosted on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973246/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: 0x80004005 (E_FAIL) error is returned when you call the IFsiDirectoryItem::AddTree method in Windows Vista Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974209/EN-US
Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: A computer that is running Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Vista SP2 stops responding when an application uses the NTFS sparse files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974646/EN-US
Win Vista SP2 AL: PhysicalDisk counters contain invalid and duplicate entries when you use Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO) to control one or more storage devices
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974878/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Cannot uninstall software updates on a computer that is running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967764/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The Printbrm.exe command-line tool restores printers that are associated with USB ports as FILE ports on computers that are running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971428/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Stop error message on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008: "STOP: 0x0000007F"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972907/EN-US
Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: How to enable waking of a Windows Vista computer using Bluetooth HIDs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975182/EN-US
Windows XP Professional EN: Error message when you try to access a DFS Namespace from a Windows XP-based computer: "Configuration information could not be read from the domain controller"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975440/EN-US
Windows XP Professional EN: A non-administrator user can schedule a task that runs under another user's account by using Task Scheduler
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975551/EN-US
Windows XP SP3 AL: Files that are copied from a Windows Server 2008-based remote computer to a Windows XP SP3-based client computer by using the Remote Desktop Connection 6.1 client are corrupted
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972828/EN-US
Windows Server
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Users cannot open or create content that is protected by Active Directory Rights Management Services, and an error code 12057 is logged
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969608/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: FIX: You are incorrectly prompted to format the volume when a formatted volume is mounted on a NTFS folder that is located on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971254/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: You cannot assign a LUN device that is larger than or equal to 2 terabytes to a Failover Cluster by using the "Share and Storage Management" MMC snap-in window
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971365/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The memory usage of the Svchost.exe process for Windows Deployment Services keeps increasing after you install hotfix 960489 or install Windows Server 2008 SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971372/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Error message when you create one or more network printers in a Windows Server 2008-based terminal server session: "Printers cannot be installed"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973356/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: An Automated System Recovery backup of the system state fails on a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster node if the database of an application is saved on a shared disk
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973553/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The Fax Service crashes when a fax server receives a fax on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973640/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: You receive an error message when you try to remotely view the printer Security tab on a print server from x64-based client editions of Windows 7 or from x64-based or IA-64-based client editions of Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975274/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The startup parameters of a generic service resource are wrong, and this prevents the resource from starting in a Windows Server 2008 cluster
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975383/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Error message when you try to upgrade an iSCSI-booted server from Windows 2008 to Windows 2008 R2: "There is not enough free space on partition (C:)"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975694/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: How to configure FTP 7.5 for IIS 7.0 in a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974603/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Two warning messages are logged for the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) data when you run the "gpupdate /force" command on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 Server Core
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967166/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: You may encounter an SIS data loss issue after SIS links that were backed up on a computer that is running Windows Storage Server 2003 are restored on a computer that is running Windows Storage Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971191/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The memory usage of the DFS Replication service keeps increasing on a PDC emulator or on a writable domain controller that is running Windows Server 2008 during the SYSVOL share replication process
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971203/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: You receive a blank screen when you log on to a terminal server that is running Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971253/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: A hotfix is available that adds support for various models of Quantum LTO-3 tape drives, of Quantum LTO-4 tape drives, and of Quantum LTO-5 tape drivers for Windows Server 2003, for Windows Server 2008, and for Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971649/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: A hotfix is available that adds support for IBM LTO-5 tape drivers for Windows Server 2003, for Windows Server 2008, and for Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971650/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The Distributed File System Replication service may stop responding in the initial replication on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973123/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Stop error 0xD1 may occur on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973196/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Only the first character appears for some strings in the event messages when you query the DFS Replication event log on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973275/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The size of the Ntds.dit file becomes larger on one or more domain controllers that are running Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 after you enable the credential roaming feature for the domain
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973502/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Properties contain invalid characters when an application that uses the Cdosys.dll module sets these properties to DBCS characters on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973843/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: When a Stop error occurs on a Windows Server-based server that is connected to an iSCSI storage, no memory dump files are generated
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974922/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: An iSCSI image created by installing OS on a local disk first and then deploying to an iSCSI target may fail to boot.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975606/EN-US
Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: Windows may fail to boot from an iSCSI drive if the drive is deployed with an image created by installing Windows on a local disk first or is configured post-Installation for iSCSI boot off of multiple network adapters.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976042/EN-US
Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: You cannot start transactions for an application that is running without Administrative privileges in a Windows Server 2003 cluster environment
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971013/EN-US
Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: A COM+ application crashes on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 that has hotfix 970659 applied
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973252/EN-US
Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: On a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 and that has the SMTP service installed, messages may be delayed after you set certain properties to a message to control the time that the message is delivered
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973760/EN-US
Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: An ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED error is returned in Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008 when you call the DeviceIoControl function together with the FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME control code
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974127/EN-US
Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: The applications that call the disk quota API functions may stop responding, may crash, or may encounter other function failure when the current user loads a roaming profile in a Windows Server 2003-based domain
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971387/EN-US
Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: The SNMP service does not respond to all SNMP requests on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 after the Group Policy settings are refreshed
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972840/EN-US
Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: When you open Add or Remove Programs on a computer that is connected to one or more large hard disks, Add or Remove Programs seems to stop responding in Windows XP or in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974172/EN-US
News
Introducing the Microsoft Security Update Guide http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486253&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Better understand how to use Microsoft security release information, processes, tools, and communications to help manage organizational risk and develop a repeatable, effective deployment mechanism for security updates. In this guide, you will find a convenient glossary of terms, an overview of the Microsoft Security Bulletin process, and a stage-by-stage review of Microsoft Security Updates.
Download the Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Release Candidate http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486254&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
This next-generation version of Forefront Security for Exchange Server provides fast and effective detection of malware and spam, blocks out-of-policy content, and integrates with Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange to offer the defense-in-depth benefits of hosted and on-premises filtering in a single solution.
Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2 RTM Now Available http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486255&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
WSUS 3.0 SP2 supports the latest operating systems, including Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 clients. WSUS 3.0 SP2 is more robust and features significant improvements in client performance, reliability, and increased server usability.
Download a 90-Day Trial of Windows 7 Enterprise http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486256&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Brought to you by the Springboard Series, a 90-day trial is now available to help you test and evaluate the RTM version of Windows 7 Enterprise. Designed specifically for IT professionals, this 90-day trial is offered in English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. (Note: If you already have Windows 7 through MSDN, TechNet, or Software Assurance, you do not need to download this trial.)
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple. *Your PC must run genuine Windows to install Microsoft Security Essentials.
Windows Server 2008: Granular Password Setting http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12444171&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September, 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-sep.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
Forefront Edge Security
Download Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway Release Candidate 0 today
Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) provides an easy and secure remote access solution with a focus on application intelligence and granular access control. Forefront UAG is the one solution to fit all of your remote access needs, as it provides centralized management and policy control across all users, devices, and network resources. When you download the latest software, you're automatically registered to access valuable resources assembled in one convenient location.
http://technet.microsoft.com/evalcenter/dd183100.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:
Time Matters - When ISA Server is affected by Windows Time settings
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/03/time-matters-when-isa-server-is-affected-by-windows-time-settings.aspx
Web Publishing Test Button and KCD in TMG
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/07/web-publishing-test-button-and-kcd-in-tmg.aspx
Change Tracking in TMG
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/07/change-tracking-in-tmg.aspx
TMG Network Inspection System (NIS) – “Attention Required” Feature
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/07/tmg-network-inspection-system-nis-attention-required-feature.aspx
Behavioral Change on IE7 can affect Outbound access through ISA Server 2006 that is using Redirect on a Deny Rule
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/09/behavioral-change-on-ie7-can-affect-outbound-access-through-isa-server-2006-that-is-using-redirect-on-a-deny-rule.aspx
Forefront TMG Network Inspection System Gets Its First 0-Day Signature Release
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/10/forefront-tmg-network-inspection-system-gets-its-first-0-day-signature-release.aspx
The Road to RC Needs Telemetry
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/14/the-road-to-rc-needs-telemetry.aspx
ISA CSS and Arrays in a Nutshell
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/15/isa-css-and-arrays-in-a-nutshell.aspx
Forefront TMG User Experience: UI Improvements
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/22/forefront-tmg-user-experience-ui-improvements.aspx
Forefront TMG and Windows® 7 DirectAccess
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/23/forefront-tmg-and-windows-7-directaccess.aspx
Forefront TMG User Experience: The Navigation Tree
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/24/forefront-tmg-user-experience-the-navigation-tree.aspx
The Momentum is Building for TMG RTM
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/09/27/the-momentum-is-building-for-tmg-rtm.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:
Deep Dive Into DirectAccess – NAT64 and DNS64 In Action
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/09/08/deep-dive-into-directaccess-nat64-and-dns64-in-action.aspx
Forefront UAG RC0 is on its way…
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/09/22/forefront-uag-rc0-is-on-its-way.aspx
Forefront UAG Release Candidate 0 (RC0) is here!
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/09/25/forefront-uag-release-candidate-0-rc0-is-here.aspx
Documents
Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486257&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
This toolkit series provides an end-to-end solution to help your organization plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows operating systems and 2007 Microsoft Office applications.
How to Use the Microsoft Security Response Center Exploitability Index http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486258&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
The Microsoft Exploitability Index <http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486193&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474> makes an assessment on the likelihood that code will be released that exploits the vulnerability or vulnerabilities addressed in a security bulletin within the first 30 days after that bulletin’s release. Learn how to take advantage of this tool in your organization.
Implementing Patch Management to Improve Web Application Security http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486259&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Learn how to keep single or multiple servers up to date, and improve your knowledge of the processes required to create a sound patch management system.
Deploying FCS Definition Updates with a Shared System Center Configuration Manager WSUS Infrastructure http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486260&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Microsoft Forefront Client Security uses the WSUS engine to deploy definition updates to all the clients that Forefront Client Security manages. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 uses WSUS to provide metadata to the scanning engine on Configuration Manager clients that facilitate software updates. This document provides guidance on how to configure Forefront Client Security definition updates to use an existing Configuration Manager WSUS infrastructure while ensuring that Configuration Manager and Forefront Client Security function properly and work together in harmony.
How Do I: Change Default Work Items in the SDL Process Template? http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486261&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Process Template was developed to ease the integration of security into the software development process. This four-minute video will show you how to modify the default work items that are created in your new SDL Process Template team project, and how to modify the default work item types, such as Task or Bug.
Downloads
KMS Setup in Windows 7
Learn how to set up the KMS host on Windows® 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 computer, activate KMS clients with the KMS host, and review activation status.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fda49c1f-475e-42d0-92ae-6f7edb802f3e
Troubleshooting activation
Understand volume activation in windows vista and windows server 2008, learn how to troubleshoot volume activation.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=78fcf22e-b243-4ee1-bc42-9110feae8b82
Best Practices in Planning for and Deploying Volume Activation
View this webcast to learn about the best practices for integrating Volume Activation into your enterprise deployment and management efforts. Read about lessons learned from dealing with license activation in a variety of environments, including networked, isolated, roaming, branch office, development, and test.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e8d137dc-2fdb-4bf9-a3b9-fc079e4b4609
Understanding Activation and Validation in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Learn how volume activation supports new types of license keys and several new modes of activation for customers in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e0525726-fe17-45bf-8b3a-04c30fcfdd6c
VAMT 1.2 Reporting
Using VAMT to customize reports, troubleshoot and help manage volume activated systems
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7871cfbc-ddbd-4ad9-8616-c3ca3a9c7b46
Top 5 Product Key Activation Challenges IT Pro Encountered and Solved
Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008 include some significant changes relating to product activation over Windows® XP and Windows Server 2003. These changes, while simple, often caused concerns and operational challenges for IT Pros in deploying Windows.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8300a9c7-48c0-4ca8-9f1e-91d8ce02abd8
VAMT 1.2 MAK Activation
MAK independent proxy and Confirmation ID activation using VAMT
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2b6c36ef-06db-4dd5-a216-5ec057e29fd6
Top 10 Things You Should Know About Genuine Windows
Microsoft is educating customers and partners on Genuine software, in effort to protect them from counterfeit and pirated software. Are you familiar with the concepts of 'Genuine Windows' or 'Genuine Microsoft Software'? Learn more about what it means to become 'Genuine' and get an overview of product activation, validation, licensing and compliance.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f6990722-9943-459b-9a73-aea9369251b6
VAMT 1.2 Overview
VAMT 1.2 features and capabilities
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b66798b8-6b4e-45f6-a16c-0a8c1e60f0c6
VAMT 1.2 Firewall Setup
Configuring Windows client firewall to allow volume activation management tool (VAMT) access
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c73fe063-c9d7-4bfe-aab1-ef475834610f
Volume Activation Operations Guide Windows 7
Get operational guidance around management tools, troubleshooting, recovering from unlicensed states, resolving non-genuine software issues, and managing each method of Volume Activation.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=83279f06-79b0-404e-addd-2473567c126e
Volume Activation in Disconnected Environment Guide Windows 7
This guide is for IT pros maintaining the Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems in disconnected environments. It describes activation techniques for operating systems in environments with no Internet connectivity
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6e6c2553-e3da-4bd4-bef3-ffcd80e7cc56
Notifications Experience in Windows 7 for End Users
Learn about Windows activation notifications experience in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for enterprise customers and ways to resolve them.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=26617560-7d12-4f7e-a7b9-a78c3e582d18
Windows 7 Improvements in Volume Activation Datasheet
Learn about the latest improvements in volume activation in Windows ® 7, including enhanced user experience, improved efficiency and activation process as part of deployment.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d3956d05-8666-42db-87a5-6883953059a1
Product Activation in Development Environment in Windows 7
This guide is for IT pros maintaining the Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems in disconnected environments. It describes activation techniques for operating systems in environments with no Internet connectivity.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=737aa964-f6f5-43bd-94e7-4d9cae674537
Top 7 Things You Need to Know About Activation BDM
Two page overview guide on top 7 things you need to know about volume activation in Windows 7 for business decision makers.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e096ef67-752e-40df-8a26-766a70d2b5cb
Activation Technologies in Windows 7 Overview Guide
This document outlines the activation and validation experience in Windows 7 and provides more information for customers interested in learning about activation, validation, and genuine Windows.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7c7ffab9-c63b-4ae2-8315-937d2b60d2c5
Volume Activation Planning Guide Windows 7
Learn how incorporate activation in your deployment plans for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2—as well as Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=730dc152-bf13-4cce-80a2-c3bff60b4cbd
Volume Activation Changes for Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
This document summarizes the changes to Volume Activation implemented in Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2bcbeaa2-bc7a-41bd-a3fd-5f12fd6c5dc1
Volume Activation Deployment Guide Windows 7
Use this guide to systemically deploy Volume Activation, including establishing a KMS host or using MAK within your environment.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bf11bbf3-5e2e-4f6b-aa39-965af07751c1
Microsoft Hosted Volume Activation Guide in Windows 7
Microsoft® Volume Activation helps Volume Licensing customers automate and manage the activation process of Volume Licensing media. Volume Licensing customers and special program subscribers such as the Microsoft Partner Program, MSDN®, and Microsoft TechNet are eligible for Volume Licensing software and media.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ad86d693-d4fb-4d5a-af1a-4199fd31b3a7
Fundamentals of Volume Activation in Windows 7
Watch this 5-minute demo to get insight into the Volume Activation process while deploying Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b7ddf8ba-2f36-43f3-b153-8ed786fcb3c7
Activating with MAK in Windows 7
Learn how to deploy Windows using a Multiple Activation Key (MAK) process.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9bfb69ab-d5f7-4fa1-be6c-b81c550db45d
Activating with KMS in Windows 7
Learn how to deploy Windows with a Key Management Service (KMS) process.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=be688342-4f8a-4a15-bfa6-33b0d73c6a59
IT Pro at Home Demonstration: Security On Your Terms
Part of the Springboard Series IT Pro at Home: Tips and Tricks series, this screencast demonstrates the security changes in Windows 7.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cc112f49-4afc-4447-b2be-ff0121018c36
Microsoft Online Services Sign In
Use this Sign In application to access Microsoft Online Services.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5c2ca866-4107-4ae5-98d5-76bf1b18ff87
Cross-forest Certificate Enrollment with Windows Server 2008 R2.doc
This paper explains how cross-forest certificate enrollment works. It also provides deployment guidance for cross-forest certificate enrollment in new and existing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) deployments.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d408be72-7c74-4b19-a2de-fa11858c30b2
Security on Your Terms Walkthrough
Provides a brief tour of new security features in Windows 7.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=def39f0f-695f-4c27-b912-15c2d5a0367f
Security Frequently Asked Questions
Answers questions about security in Windows 7.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cde8ceac-ccef-4d72-8dc7-fe8e39306e79
Security on Your Terms
Describes some of the new or changed security features in Windows 7.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1bfd698a-0c45-4348-a80b-0ca02becf84b
Group Policy Settings References for Windows and Windows Server
These spreadsheets list the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the Administrative template files delivered with the Windows operating systems specified. You can configure these policy settings when you edit Group Policy objects (GPOs).
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=18c90c80-8b0a-4906-a4f5-ff24cc2030fb
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB973515)
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=63bf0d12-165b-4fee-ac96-9bad91ddb264
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB973514)
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=1586dc82-3422-4801-874b-e6c38868945c
Feature Pack 1 for Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (KB973236)
This Feature Pack adds a feature that you can use to adjust the security settings in Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) in Windows Essential Business Server (EBS). The feature helps you manage Forefront TMG and diagnose firewall issues.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=40274ca7-9f0d-4152-b090-3980442e7222
Geneva Interop Whitepapers
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9eb1f3c7-84da-40eb-b9aa-44724c98e026
Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server Best Practices Analyzer
The Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) Best Practices Analyzer compares your existing FSOCS deployment against recommended best practices to identify configuration setting changes that could help you improve FSOCS performance and malware detection rates.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=62f9fb8e-1f08-4a94-b21b-9cc7fe4550de
Microsoft® Forefront™ codename "Stirling" VHDs
An integrated security system that is easier to manage and control
Forefront codename “Stirling” is an integrated security suite. This download comes as pre-configured VHDs. This download enables you to evaluate Microsoft Forefront Codename "Stirling". It includes Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for Sharepoint Server, The Central Management Server and Threat Management Gateway.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d4c3410f-11f0-42b8-9da7-b826d243536b
Security Features in Microsoft Online Services
The Business Productivity Online Suite is a set of subscription-based enterprise software services hosted by Microsoft and sold with partners. The services operate within a complete ecosystem of features and capabilities designed to meet and in many cases to exceed the security and availability goals that you have for your business applications.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5736aaac-994c-4410-b7ce-bdea505a3413
Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [September 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 [September 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
September 2009 Security Release ISO Image
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on September 8th, 2009.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fab6b8f8-b766-4146-b86d-0953d19d95ab
Microsoft Global Security Showcase: Physical Security at Microsoft
Microsoft Global Security Showcase: Physical Security at Microsoft. Taking Advantage of Strategic IT Convergence. Technical White Paper
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=95384b9d-8ec0-4dfb-96a9-7a61c2f81888
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: 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
Certificate Enrollment Web Services in Windows Server 2008 R2
This paper explains how certificate enrollment Web services work in Windows Server 2008 R2. It also provides deployment guidance for certificate enrollment Web services in new and existing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) deployments.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=28b910f8-6374-48dd-a897-11fff62ab795
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
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
Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library V3.1
AntiXSS 3.1 helps you to protect your current applications from cross-site scripting attacks, at the same time helping you to protect your legacy application with its Security Runtime Engine.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=051ee83c-5ccf-48ed-8463-02f56a6bfc09
Security Features in Microsoft Online Services
The Business Productivity Online Suite is a set of subscription-based enterprise software services hosted by Microsoft and sold with partners. The services operate within a complete ecosystem of features and capabilities designed to meet and in many cases to exceed the security and availability goals that you have for your business applications.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5736aaac-994c-4410-b7ce-bdea505a3413
Advanced Group Policy Management 2.5 Documents
These guides provide step-by-step guidance for installing Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) 2.5 and managing Group Policy objects (GPOs) by using AGPM 2.5
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ba69e774-f0d1-4b6d-be81-a8c5f27d1b8a
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
Advanced Group Policy Management 3.0 Documents
These guides provide step-by-step guidance for installing Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) 3.0, managing Group Policy objects (GPOs) by using AGPM 3.0, and planning and deploying AGPM 3
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=80bb67f2-864c-4f4c-9f0d-a118ef607f1a
MiniFuzz File Fuzzer
MiniFuzz is a very simple fuzzer designed to ease adoption of fuzz testing by non-security people who are unfamiliar with file fuzzing tools or have never used them in their current software development processes.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b2307ca4-638f-4641-9946-dc0a5abe8513
BinScope Binary Analyzer
BinScope is a Microsoft verification tool that analyzes binaries on a project-wide level to ensure that they have been built in compliance with Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) requirements and recommendations.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=90e6181c-5905-4799-826a-772eafd4440a
Whitepaper: Manual Integration of the SDL Process Template
This paper outlines the steps for manually extracting the key elements of the SDL Process Template and integrating them into an existing Team Project.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=639a3784-a6f4-4d47-9750-b79bd789ba58
BranchCache Security Guide
This document provides guidance to help organizations understand and manage the security of the Microsoft® BranchCache™ feature introduced in Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Microsoft Windows® 7.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=449be4b1-5f87-47f1-945b-ccd4b196b34f
Microsoft Windows Key Management Service Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
The KMS MP monitors core Key Management Service offered by Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 and Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a330d876-c965-4433-afdf-7c61a9126fb3
Using the Autogen Annotator
Autogen is a patented technology uses to procedurally place default 3D objects throught a simulated world.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=30b16a77-1ce9-475e-8072-0748656e2513
Autogen Annotator Pictorial Reference
Autogen is a patented technology uses to procedurally place default 3D objects through a simulated world.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0f6ab9ff-392f-46e4-a604-5a68078107bf
Active Directory Certificate Services Upgrade and Migration Guide for Windows Server 2008
This document discusses the planning and implementation of a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) upgrade and migration from an existing Windows public key infrastructure (PKI), including scenarios and step-by-step instruction.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c70bd7cd-9f03-484b-8c4b-279bc29a3413
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: Design Considerations for Internal Public Key Infrastructures (Level 200)
Monday, October 05, 2009 10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
TechNet Webcast: Connect Remotely Using Windows 7 Direct Access (Level 300)
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
TechNet Webcast: Announcing Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta (Level 300)
Thursday, October 08, 2009 9:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M. Pacific Time
IT Manager Webcast: Information Security Using HBI Information Classification and Automation (Level 200)
Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Pacific Time
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Secure Endpoint Solution (Level 200)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M. Pacific Time
TechNet Webcast: Information About Microsoft October Security Bulletins (Level 200)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. Pacific Time
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Secure Collaboration Solution (Level 200)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 1:00 P.M.-2:00 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 Internet Security and Acceleration Server
A memory leak occurs in the Wspsrv.exe process when you use the Negotiate (NTLM/Kerberos) delegation in ISA Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973731
Some Web servers do not recognize the "Accept-Encoding:gzip" header in the requests that are forwarded by ISA Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973732
ISA Server 2006 does not pass the last server cookie to the client computer when HTML form authentication is used in the Web-publishing rule
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973737
Description of the ISA Server 2006 hotfix package: July 19, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973738
ISA Server 2006 Management Console crashes when you click the Schedule tab of a firewall policy rule
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973734
The users cannot change the password when they use ISA Server 2006 Forms-Based authentication in an active directory forest with multiple domain trees
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974662
A user cannot send e-mail messages by using Outlook Web Access server that is published by ISA Server 2006 when the delegation is set to NTLM
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974663
Description of the ISA Server 2006 hotfix package: August 16, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974665
Forefront TMG and ISA Server
Blank page or page cannot be displayed when you view SSL sites through ISA Server or Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283284
News
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.”
This Magic Quadrant depicts Gartner's analysis of how data warehouse DBMS software-only vendors measure against specific criteria within the marketplace.
Forrester Research
New Independent Study Finds 162% Risk-Adjusted ROI for SQL Server 2008 Deployment in Total Economic Impact™ of SQL Server 2008 Upgrade study.
Gartner, Inc.
Microsoft is positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008.
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.
Technical RollUp
http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx
Documents
Other
Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight CTP2
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=a3faa562-b6dc-4702-90c6-bf8e08df3b8b
SQL 2000
Excel 2002/2003 Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services
The Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services has been removed to avoid customer confusion about support for this component.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=dae82128-9f21-475d-88a4-4b6e6c069ff0
SSABI
The Microsoft SQL Server™ Accelerator for Business Intelligence (SQL Server Accelerator for BI) has been removed to avoid customer confusion about support for this component.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=a370fbc9-98b1-4f5c-b09b-6f1bf08e9292
SQL 2005
Excel 2002/2003 Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services
The Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services has been removed to avoid customer confusion about support for this component.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=dae82128-9f21-475d-88a4-4b6e6c069ff0
Events/Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Business Intelligence: Finance and Cost Management (Level 100)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Join us for part two of our four-part Emerge Stronger webcast series to learn how a Microsoft total business intelligence solution can help you maximize your technology investment during the economic downturn. In this webcast, we build on the overview provided in the first webcast by providing a detailed look into how you can identify cost-cutting opportunities and improve your financial visibility.
Presenter: Dana Straw, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
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In addition to Momentum webcasts, Microsoft offers a complimentary e-newsletter with real-world examples of how to align IT with your business strategy. You get tips and techniques on using Microsoft technologies and straight talk about solutions that work for mid-sized businesses. If you would like to receive the Business Insights newsletter, click here.
Regardless of any contact preferences you might have previously made on this Microsoft site or on other Microsoft sites or services, by registering for this webcast or virtual lab, you consent and agree to allow Microsoft or one of its third-party agents to contact you no more than three (3) instances for the purpose of soliciting feedback on the webcast or virtual lab or to supply you with special discounts and offers related to products and services presented in the webcast or virtual lab. Any other use of the personal information in your Microsoft Passport profile is subject to the Microsoft Privacy Statement. You can learn more about the privacy and security of Microsoft Passport Network at www.Passport.net
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New KB's
Other
SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: Error message when an application inserts a value into a foreign key column in SQL Server Compact 3.5: "No key matching the described characteristics could be found within the current range"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974068/EN-US
SQL 2000
SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2000 EN: How to impede Windows NT administrators from administering a clustered instance of SQL Server (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263712/EN-US
SQL 2005
SQL Svr Express Edtn 2005 EN: Error message when you try to uninstall a SQL Server 2005 Express Edition hotfix package: "1731 The source installation package for the product [2] is out of sync with the client package" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955250/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A query that involves an outer join operation runs very slowly in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942444/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you perform an update operation by using a cursor in SQL Server 2005: "Transaction (Process ID <SPID>) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953948/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 2008
SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: INF: Understanding and resolving SQL Server blocking problems (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224453/EN-US
SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to configure an instance of SQL Server to listen on a specific TCP port or dynamic port (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823938/EN-US
SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to uninstall an instance of SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955499/EN-US
SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: When you delete maintenance plans on a server instance that is restored from a SQL Server 2008 MSDB database backup, maintenance plans are deleted from the server instance on which the MSDB database was backed up (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955800/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Support policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running in a hardware virtualization environment (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956893/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 memory usage of a SQL Server service increases quickly when you run a query that uses a linked server in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971622/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A performance issue in which SQL Server 2008 Management Studio checks the fragmentation data of an index in a large database
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972937/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A validation error is returned when you use the MSOLAP10 provider to connect to a SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services server and set the value of the SubQueries property to 2 in the connection string
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972939/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You cannot synchronize data for a peer-to-peer replication after you perform a dummy update operation in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973223/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you run a query that uses the MIN or MAX function against a partitioned view in SQL Server 2008, the query runs much slower than when you run the same query in SQL Server 2005
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973255/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you use Microsoft Connector 1.0 for SAP BI in a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package to extract data from SAP BW: "System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973292/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you resize a Chart control in the Report Designer in SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development Studio on a computer that is running Windows 7: "Chart Exception: Parameter is not valid."
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973300/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A query that uses the WITH CUBE aggregation incorrectly returns NULL values when you set the ANSI_WARNINGS option to "ON" in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973580/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive various error messages when you open a SQL Server Reporting Services report whose data source uses the HTTP protocol to connect to SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973588/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Cumulative update package 4 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973602/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Change tracking cleanup does not clean up the sys.syscommittab system table in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973696/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The Database Mirroring session is disconnected when you manually perform a failover in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973897/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A specified collation is displayed incorrectly when you use the Advanced/Enterprise installation mode to install a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster through the GUI
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974036/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you use the DTExec.exe or DTExecUi.exe utility to run a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package by specifying a configuration file: “The package path referenced an object that cannot be found”
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974076/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
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974231/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you preview a report in Report Builder 2.0 when the Report server uses Basic Authentication: "The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized."
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974276/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A subreport does not appear if you set the MergeTransactions property of the subreport to "True" in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974404/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you use the BCP utility with the -R option in SQL Server 2008 to load a file that contains the dates of the non-English format: "[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0]Invalid date format"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974712/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when two or more merge agents are trying to adjust a publisher identity range in parallel in SQL Server 2008: "Msg 548, The insert failed. It conflicted with an identity range check constraint"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975037/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you install SQL Server 2008 on a computer that is running Windows 7: "Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created."
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975055/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You cannot synchronize binary large object data by using a transactional replication when you set the SubscriptionStreams parameter of the Distribution Agent to a value that is larger than 1 in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975171/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An access violation occurs when you run a MDX query that involves a calculated member that uses the SUM({set of measures}) function where the set contains measures from different measure groups in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975272/EN-US
SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The connection information is incorrect after you use "Change Connection" to connect to another server before the initial connection is completed in SQL Server Management Studio in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975414/EN-US
News
Antigen & Forefront
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
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
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 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
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
Outlook
Other
Downloads
Antigen & Forefront
Forefront™ Codename "Stirling" VHDs
Forefront codename “Stirling” is an integrated security suite. This download comes as pre-configured VHDs. This download enables you to evaluate Microsoft Forefront Codename "Stirling". It includes Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for Sharepoint Server, The Central Management Server and Threat Management Gateway.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d4c3410f-11f0-42b8-9da7-b826d243536b
Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Unified Messaging Language Packs
This download contains pre-recorded prompts and text to speech data for languages supported by Exchange unified messaging.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9eb9725a-affc-4051-99c7-1936e8c21031
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Unified Messaging Language Packs
This download contains pre-recorded prompts and text to speech data for languages supported by Exchange unified messaging.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=735518c5-acb1-4f9d-a973-80695dd0913e
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Shell Help
This download contains the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) version of the Exchange Management Shell Help.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ab3523a9-d502-420d-9719-9373fa2427ba
Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting
Communicator Mobile for Java
Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile for Java is an enterprise client software for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 optimized for Java enabled cell phones. The client allows you to view colleagues availability using presence status, initiate single/multi-party IM sessions and get updated contact information from your company directory.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=dcb3ae06-ed5f-4430-943c-3445709c2801
Communicator Mobile for Java
Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile for Java is an enterprise client software for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 optimized for Java enabled cell phones. The client allows you to view colleagues availability using presence status, initiate single/multi-party IM sessions and get updated contact information from your company directory.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1feeab9b-02fc-44cf-99b4-75782c6e139a
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
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB973515)
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=63bf0d12-165b-4fee-ac96-9bad91ddb264
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB973514)
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=1586dc82-3422-4801-874b-e6c38868945c
Events/Webcasts
Antigen & Forefront
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Secure Messaging Solution (Level 200)
Thursday, October 08, 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.
Presenter: Cristian Mora, Solution Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Cristian Mora is the solution product manager within the Identity and Security Division at Microsoft. Before joining the Identity and Security Division, Cristian was a senior security consultant at the Microsoft Security Center of Excellence (SCOE) and had served in consulting roles in Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) for more than eight years, working primarily on Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and network security engagements. He is one of the authors of the AD RMS Offering solution.
View other sessions from Microsoft Forefront: Integrate and Simplify with Greater Protection and Control
If you have questions or feedback, contact us.
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Exchange
MSDN Webcast: Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 1 of 6): Migrating Applications to Exchange Web Services (Level 300)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 offers the most powerful platform Microsoft Exchange Server has ever provided to developers, further bolstering the capabilities of the Microsoft Exchange Web Services API. However, at the same release of Exchange 2010, several APIs (like WebDav, Store Events, Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) 3.0, and the Exchange OLE DB Provider) were removed, and others (like MAPI and CDO 1.2.1) were deemphasized and went into Extended Support. In this webcast, Jason Henderson, the lead program manager of the Exchange Web Services team, gives an overview of what to consider when migrating applications that rely on Exchange Server and highlights the resources that are available on the Web to help you.
To get an overview of the Exchange Web Services API and the Exchange Web Services Managed API, watch the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 session introducing the APIs.
Presenters: Jason Henderson, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Corporation and Albert Kooiman, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
View other sessions from: Unified Communications: Control Your Infrastructure
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MSDN Webcast: Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 2 of 6): A Deep Dive into Using Autodiscover Service in Exchange Web Services, (Level 400)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Microsoft Exchange Web Services offers an extremely powerful API and algorithm to easily let users log on to Microsoft Exchange Server. In this webcast, David Claux, the responsible program manager in the Exchange Web Services team, provides a deep dive into the Autodiscover service, explains how you—as a developer—can use it to your advantage for your custom Exchange Server application, and highlights the resources that are available on the Web to help you.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032427588&culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 3 of 6): A Deep Dive into Impersonation and Delegation in Exchange Web Services (Level 400)
Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
When your Microsoft Exchange Server application needs to act on behalf of users, you can either use Exchange Impersonation in Microsoft Exchange Web Services or let users set up delegation of permissions. In this webcast, Alice Tang, the responsible program manager in the Exchange Web Services team, provides a deep dive into which mechanism to use when, explains what to consider when implementing these features, and highlights the resources that are available on the Web to help you.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032427593&culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 4 of 6): A Deep Dive into Exchange Web Services Notifications (Push/Pull) (Level 400)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Many applications built on the Microsoft Exchange Server platform are depending on events that happen in the mailboxes. Microsoft Exchange Web Services includes an event notification subsystem to notify server and client applications of such events. In this webcast, the responsible program manager, Andrew Salamatov, gives an overview of your options to either implement push event notifications or pull notifications in a scalable fashion and highlights the resources that are available on the Web to help you.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032427597&culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 5 of 6): A Deep Dive into the Exchange Web Services Managed API (Level 300)
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
New in Microsoft Exchange Server is the Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API 1.0. In this webcast, David Claux, the responsible program manager in the Exchange Web Services team, provides a deep dive into the EWS Managed API and describes how it can help you, even if you develop applications that are not based on the Microsoft .NET Framework.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032427601&culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 6 of 6): Best Practices for Building Scalable Exchange Server Applications (Level 400)
Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 6 of 6): Best Practices for Building Scalable Exchange Server Applications
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032427605&culture=en-US
New KB's
Antigen & Forefront
Antigen 9.0 for Exchange AL: How to make sure that a high level of anti-spam detection occurs during Cloudmark Engine Updates in Antigen 9 with Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974883/EN-US
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: In Forefront Security for SharePoint, some default deletion messages may lead a user or an administrator to assume mistakenly that an error occurred or that a virus was found (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968268/EN-US
Exchange
Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Japanese DBCS characters are corrupted when you reply to a message or forward a message in an Exchange Server 2007 SP1 environment (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952583/EN-US
Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Event 9874 is logged frequently after you install Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967081/EN-US
Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Error message occurs on a server that is running Exchange Server 2007 and that has the mailbox server role installed (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970311/EN-US
Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Error message when a user who has View Only Administrator permissions runs commands on an Exchange server that has the Client Access Server (CAS) role installed: "Access is denied"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973620/EN-US
Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000 Server information store maintenance and online defragmentation (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324358/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
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958625/EN-US
Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: Exchange Server 2003 users cannot reply to an e-mail message sent from Lotus Notes when the Lotus Notes user's e-mail address contains 8-bit ASCII characters
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961892/EN-US
Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: E-mail message attachments are not viewable in Outlook 2003 if you use the AddProps method of the ITnef interface to add properties to the TNEF message that contains multiple embedded attachments
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961978/EN-US
Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: Storage Quota Warning messages that are sent to the user will bypass the restriction if a user configures an auto-forward rule or an auto-reply rule to send e-mail messages to a restricted distribution group (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967223/EN-US
Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: The "at" sign (@) in an RFC-822 address is sent from Exchange Server 2003 without being converted to another symbol (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971337/EN-US
Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: The received message on the next hop may not contain the changes that were made by the "IMailTransportOnPostCategorize::OnMessagePostCategorize" event sink in an RFC2822 P2 header on Exchange 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974604/EN-US
Exchange Svr Ent 2007 AL: Active Directory contacts based on SMTP addresses are not recognized when you use the Move-DominoGroup command to migrate from Lotus Domino to Exchange 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958777/EN-US
Exchange Svr Ent 2007 AL: Microsoft Transporter Suite for Exchange Server 2007 directory synchronization overwrites custom proxy addresses
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973483/EN-US
Exchange Svr Std 2003 EN: How to troubleshoot when the Microsoft Exchange Server database or transaction log grows too rapidly (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894966/EN-US
Exchange Svr Std 2003 EN: A stub object is left behind in the source database for certain users after a move mailbox operation is complete in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940012/EN-US
Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: You receive an NDR message when you send an e-mail message by using an Exchange Server 2007 Edge server (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945046/EN-US
Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: Users who use Outlook 2003 cannot publish their free/busy data in Exchange Server 2007 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945602/EN-US
Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: The Exchange Server 2007 installation fails during the PrepareSchema step, and you receive an error message in the Setup log (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949526/EN-US
Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting
Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: The delegate permissions feature in Office Communicator 2007 R2 is unavailable to non-unified communications users (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971845/EN-US
Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Network performance issues that are caused by Global address list (GAL) file downloads or by GAL delta file downloads in Office Communicator 2007 R2 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972403/EN-US
Office Communicator 2007 EN: The "Share Information Using Live Meeting" option is unavailable in Office Communicator 2007 and in Office Communicator 2007 R2 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971719/EN-US
Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: A local recording cannot capture audio from a telephone conference call when you create the local recording in Live Meeting 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975029/EN-US
Outlook
Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: A hotfix is available for Outlook 2003 that enables certain MAPI applications to create new items in a .pst file after the PstDisableGrow registry entry is configured (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953672/EN-US
Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter update: September, 08, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973515/EN-US
Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: You receive a "This distribution list has reached the maximum size for your network e-mail server" error message when you try to add many items to a contact distribution list in Outlook (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238569/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: A hotfix is available for Outlook 2007 that enables certain MAPI applications to create new items in a .pst file after the PstDisableGrow registry entry is configured (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954268/EN-US
Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-x-none.msp): August 25, 2009 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973404/EN-US
Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter update: September 08, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973514/EN-US
Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: When you reply to or forward a signed or an encrypted e-mail message, the message is sent without encryption in Outlook 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974334/EN-US
Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: When you delete a meeting request in Outlook 2007 without responding to the request, there is no message that states that the corresponding calendar item is deleted
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974370/EN-US
Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Read receipts are not related to sent messages when you use a draft message as a template to send e-mail messages in Outlook 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974413/EN-US
Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-en-us.msp, Outlook-x-none.msp): August 25, 2009 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974489/EN-US
News
TechNet Edge Video: Windows 7 Security Overview http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12348082&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
19 minutes
Paul Cooke discusses the core security features of Windows 7 and explores their usage scenarios. Businesses will benefit from enhancements that help protect sensitive information, that provide stronger protections against malware and that help secure anywhere access to corporate resources and data.
Security & Privacy Blogs: Latest Updates and Thoughts from Our Security Experts http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12348083&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Tap into the pool of security experience and knowledge from experts and peers throughout Microsoft and check out the latest information from our bloggers. Sort by keyword, follow by RSS, translate into a dozen languages, and share our findings and insights with your organization’s security team.
Protecting Your Data with Windows 7 BitLocker and BitLocker To Go (Level 300) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12348084&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
In this webcast, we examine BitLocker enhancements and capabilities. We set up and configure Trusted Module Management personal identification numbers (PINs) using Windows Platform Trusted Module Management, and we configure startup key storage.
How Windows Server 2008 R2 Affects Your IT Infrastructure (Level 300) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12348085&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
We will be covering many new features included in Windows Server 2008 R2 that improve the cost of ownership. We will be taking a closer look at specific technologies that will improve administration, data center, and branch office deployments.
Now Available! System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355498&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
With the System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP, Configuration Manager can consume Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) data streams, assess systems for compliance, and generate report results in SCAP format.
Introducing the Trustworthy Computing Security and Privacy Blog Aggregator http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355499&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Stay up to date with Microsoft Trustworthy Computing’s top bloggers. Read posts in different languages, search entries by keyword, and much more.
A Safer Internet Through Information Sharing http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355500&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
In this report, the Microsoft Security Response Center summarizes the progress on three security-related programs—the Microsoft Active Protections Program, the Microsoft Exploitability Index, and Microsoft Vulnerability Research—that have increased your access to more effective countermeasures and additional information to help you better evaluate risks.
Securing the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355501&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Gain an understanding of what cloud computing at Microsoft means today and how the company delivers a trustworthy cloud-computing infrastructure with this white paper from the Online Services Security and Compliance team, a part of the Global Foundation Services division that manages security for the Microsoft cloud infrastructure.
Learning Path: Improving Database Security with SQL Server 2008 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355513&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Use this learning path to find out about new tools and security features in SQL Server 2008 to help keep your databases more secure. For example, learn how to create a policy that defines the desired surface area settings, enforce the Windows password policy on your SQL Server accounts, and activate Web Service endpoint authentication.
Learning Path: Providing Security for an Evolving IT Infrastructure http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355514&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Use the resources in this learning path to better understand how to approach security issues like dissolving network perimeters, disrupted security models from new technologies like virtualization, and the evolving Web platform.
Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle Template: What It Means for Developers http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355515&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Find out more about the new process template for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, which is intended to ease adoption of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), in this Channel 9 interview with Microsoft SDL Program Manager Jeremy Dallman.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August, 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-aug.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 nonsecurity issues for all supported service packs
Forefront Edge Security
Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3
Get the latest beta of the new secure Web gateway, including new URL filtering capabilities.
Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is a comprehensive Secure Web Gateway solution that helps protect employees from Web-based threats. It also delivers simple, unified perimeter security with integrated firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, malware inspection and URL filtering. Forefront TMG Beta3 is available for download in both Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141234&clcid=0x409
Evaluate Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway Beta 2 today
Forefront Unified Access Gateway Beta 2 provides an easy and secure remote access solution with a focus on application intelligence and granular access control. Forefront UAG is the one solution to fit all of your remote access needs, as it provides centralized management and policy control across all users, devices, and network resources. When you download the latest beta software, you're automatically registered to access valuable beta resources assembled in one convenient location.
http://technet.microsoft.com/evalcenter/dd183100.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:
A Few Words on the TMG Firewall Client
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/05/29/a-few-words-on-the-tmg-firewall-client.aspx
IPSec Domain Isolation Using ISA Server Updated and Reposted
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/05/31/ipsec-domain-isolation-using-isa-server-updated-and-reposted.aspx
ISA BPA 7 and Forefront TMG for Windows Essential Business Server
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/04/isa-bpa-7-and-forefront-tmg-for-windows-essential-business-server.aspx
FWC Parser for Netmon 3.3 on CodePlex
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/04/fwc-parser-for-netmon-3-3-on-codeplex.aspx
Forefront TMG Beta 3 is Released
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/09/forefront-tmg-beta-3-is-released.aspx
URL Filtering is Here!
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/10/url-filtering-is-here.aspx
Troubleshooting Authentication Issues in ISA Server Using Net Logon Logging
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/12/troubleshooting-authentication-issues-in-isa-server-using-net-logon-logging.aspx
Introducing Forefront Network Inspection System (NIS) in TMG Beta 3 release
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/16/introducing-forefront-network-inspection-system-nis-in-tmg-beta-3-release.aspx
How to exclude specific computers from URL Filtering?
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/17/how-to-exclude-specific-computers-from-url-filtering.aspx
Bing Safe Search, ISA Server and Forefront TMG
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/19/bing-safe-search-isa-server-and-forefront-tmg.aspx
ISA Integrated NLB - Multicast with IGMP… ISA “blocks” IGMP packets
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/22/isa-integrated-nlb-multicast-with-igmp-isa-blocks-igmp-packets.aspx
Understand duplicate authentication prompts ISA 2006 publishing MOSS using FBA
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/23/understand-duplicate-authentication-prompts-isa-2006-publishing-moss-using-fba.aspx
Configuring Network Inspection System (NIS)
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/28/configuring-network-inspection-system-nis.aspx
TMG SCOM-Pack – Monitor TMG with System Center 2007 R2
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/29/tmg-scom-pack-monitor-tmg-with-system-center-2007-r2.aspx
New Forefront TMG Beta Documentation on TechNet
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/08/new-forefront-tmg-beta-documentation-on-technet.aspx
Joining Microsoft Telemetry community with Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Beta 3
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/12/joining-microsoft-telemetry-community-with-forefront-threat-management-gateway-tmg.aspx
MS09-031: ISA Server 2006 FBA and RADIUS OTP Bulletin
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/13/ms09-031-isa-server-2006-fba-and-radius-otp-bulletin.aspx
Office Web Components Advisory, ISA Server and Forefront TMG
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/16/office-web-components-advisory-isa-server-and-forefront-tmg.aspx
Update on the Office Web Components Advisory
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/22/update-on-the-office-web-components-advisory.aspx
Announcing the Availability of Forefront TMG Beta 3 Tools & SDK
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/26/announcing-the-availability-of-forefront-tmg-beta-3-tools-sdk.aspx
Excessive Authentication Traffic accessing an IIS site when using ISA Server 2006 as Forward Proxy
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/30/excessive-authentication-traffic-accessing-an-iis-site-when-using-isa-server-2006-as-forward-proxy.aspx
An Inside View: The Road From Beta to RTM
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/04/an-inside-view-the-road-from-beta-to-rtm.aspx
Announcing the Availability of Forefront TMG URL Filtering Telemetry Package
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/13/announcing-the-availability-of-forefront-tmg-url-filtering-telemetry-package.aspx
New Tales From the Edge Articles
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/15/new-tales-from-the-edge-articles.aspx
Another Case where Users are randomly prompt for Authentication while Browsing Internet through ISA Server 2006
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/18/another-case-where-users-are-randomly-prompt-for-authentication-while-browsing-internet-through-isa-server-2006.aspx
Redirection to OWA 2007 Directory in ISA 2004/2006
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/24/redirection-to-owa-2007-directory-in-isa-2004-2006.aspx
Side Effects of Incorrect DNS configuration on ISA Server: 10060 Connection Timeout Scenario
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/27/side-effects-of-incorrect-dns-configuration-on-isa-server-10060-connection-timeout-scenario.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:
Introducing the IAG/UAG public forum
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/07/introducing-the-iag-uag-public-forum.aspx
Forefront UAG Beta is Coming to Town
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/11/forefront-uag-beta-is-coming-to-town.aspx
Introducing Forefront Unified Access Gateway
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/16/introducing-forefront-unified-access-gateway.aspx
Remote Access Technologies of the World – Unite!
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/18/remote-access-technologies-of-the-world-unite.aspx
Introducing UAG DirectAccess solution
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/22/introducing-uag-directaccess-solution.aspx
UAG Array and Network Load Balancing
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/29/array-and-network-load-balancing.aspx
Adding the SSTP Magic to the UAG Charm
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/05/adding-the-sstp-magic-to-the-uag-charm.aspx
Ready, Set, Download! Forefront UAG Beta is here!
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/13/ready-set-download-forefront-uag-beta-is-here.aspx
Forefront UAG Beta 2 Docs
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/14/forefront-uag-beta-2-docs.aspx
What’s in UAG for the end-users
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/19/what-s-in-uag-for-the-end-users.aspx
New White Paper: Implementing an ADFS Solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM by Using Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG)
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/20/new-white-paper-implementing-an-adfs-solution-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm-by-using-intelligent-application-gateway-iag.aspx
Comparing UAG and TMG arrays
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/20/comparing-uag-and-tmg-arrays.aspx
Deep Dive Into DirectAccess - Part 1
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/27/deep-dive-into-directaccess-part-1.aspx
Faster, Higher, Stronger – UAG Performance
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/08/02/faster-higher-stronger-uag-performance.aspx
Considerations for Exchange Publishing
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/08/10/considerations-for-exchange-publishing.aspx
Deep Dive Into DirectAccess - Part 2
http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/08/27/deep-dive-into-directaccess-part-2.aspx
Documents
Common SQL Server Security Issues and Solutions http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355502&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Have you found yourself inadvertently in charge of a SQL Server database and don’t know all the best practices for making it secure? Get a quick overview of the top 10 security areas you should worry about, common problems, and solutions.
Securing SQL Server http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355503&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Securing SQL Server can be viewed as a series of steps, involving four areas: the platform, authentication, objects (including data), and applications that access the system. Get detailed, step-by-step guidance on how to create and implement an effective security plan.
SQL Server 2008 Replication Security http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355504&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Get guidance to help you protect the replication scenarios that you deploy in SQL Server 2008 from malicious attacks and improve the security of your data.
How Do I: Defend Against Truncation-Based SQL Injection Attacks? http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355505&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
This video demonstrates how this property of truncation may be used by an attacker to circumvent the above mentioned mitigation, resulting in a SQL injection attack. Various options for fixing SQL injection issues are also discussed.
Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355506&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
This static code analysis tool for finding SQL Injection vulnerabilities in ASP code will scan ASP source code and generate warnings related to first-order and second-order SQL Injection vulnerabilities. It will also provide annotation support that can be used to improve the analysis of the code.
Tuning Microsoft Forefront Client Security Database Components http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355507&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Microsoft Forefront Client Security uses SQL Server for collection and reporting databases. When you are choosing the SQL Server edition and the hardware on which it will run, take the topics discussed in this article into consideration.
Microsoft Security Update Guide http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355508&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Gain a better understanding of the Microsoft security release information, processes, communications, and tools—and how to manage organizational risk and develop a repeatable, effective deployment mechanism for security updates.
Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355509&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
The Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) is designed to help IT professionals quickly access practical, relevant information on how to connect service management principles to everyday IT tasks and activities, and to ensure alignment between IT and the business. Included in MOF 4.0 is guidance on how to use the framework to achieve the governance, risk, and compliance objectives defined in the COBIT and Val IT governance frameworks.
Firewall Client Basics: Introduction to the ISA Server Firewall Client and Forefront TMG Client
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee291341.aspx
Troubleshooting “Primary CSS down” scenario
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee388575.aspx
Understanding E-Mail Protection on Forefront TMG
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee338733.aspx
New Forefront TMG Beta Documentation on TechNet
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee207140.aspx
New Forefront UAG Beta 2 Documentation on TechNet
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd861463.aspx
White Paper: Implementing an ADFS Solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM by Using IAG
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=47ee7f73-6059-4b20-a305-1b8b2b23f0e9
Downloads
The Microsoft Office Visualization Tool (OffVis) Fact Sheet
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=19a1a252-c3af-4474-b33c-158c6e85115e
iDefense Review of Microsoft Exploitability Index
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=73773376-f70d-46ff-8550-77dc1c76bf99
Press Release - Black Hat 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=15bcec81-e0eb-42a8-9f26-f1f7705fb310
The 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
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007
This management pack monitors the performance and availability of ISA Server 2006.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c576fcdf-42f0-4eb5-990d-e8e7c7e9c07e
Building a Safer, More Trusted Internet through Information Sharing
Building a Safer, More Trusted Internet through Information Sharing: A report from the Microsoft Security Response Center on the progress of three initiatives that share information to foster deeper industry collaboration, increase community-based defenses, and better protect customers.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=db611a07-9454-4daf-b799-0843625b7b60
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/en/results.aspx?displaylang=en&period=30&nr=50&sortCriteria=Date&sortOrder=Ascending&stype=s_adv
Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0
MOF 4.0 is practical guidance for IT organizations. With the release of version 4.0, MOF now reflects a single, comprehensive IT service lifecycle—it helps IT professionals connect service management principles to everyday IT tasks and activities and ensures alignment between IT and the business.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=457ed61d-27b8-49d1-baca-b175e8f54c0c
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
Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Documentation
Forefront Server Security Management Console allows administrators to easily manage Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, and Microsoft Antigen.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1 Documentation
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=125efb1e-7ff8-4cc8-934a-28fc7c7e59f0
Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7d00160e-4d15-4459-98a3-89f393ac008e
Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with SP1 Documentation
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5cd4e36e-2dab-44d6-990e-3b8184b1cb1b
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007
This management pack monitors the performance and availability of ISA Server 2006.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c576fcdf-42f0-4eb5-990d-e8e7c7e9c07e
Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [August 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 [August 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
August 2009 Security Release ISO Image
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on August 11th, 2009.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4c9ed44e-6a3e-45ea-9830-0c23f37d77a4
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
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
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB972688)
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=44f8ad34-969a-4402-aa83-8a78941de573
Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB972691)
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=2b832213-f733-4e90-85ea-a086c671f891
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
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
URL Filtering Telemetry Package for Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is a comprehensive Secure Web Gateway solution that helps protect employees from Web-based threats. Microsoft URL filtering telemetry package can be installed on servers running Forefront TMG Beta3 to assist Microsoft with improving the quality of the URL filtering database and fine-tuning it for your specific business environment.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f7e5907d-60ae-4f39-8660-9a959db5a6e6
Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Network Companion Guide: Deploying Computer and User Certificates
This companion guide to the Core Network Guide provides instructions on how to deploy client computer and user certificates with Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and Group Policy.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3418ee02-1a6a-4286-8eec-49cacf8f8f6f
Microsoft SCEP Implementation Whitepaper.
This whitepaper provides an overview of Microsoft implementation for SCEP in the Windows Server 2008 R2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e11780de-819f-40d7-8b8e-10845bc8d446
Microsoft Forefront Server Security 2010 Privacy Statement
This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange and Microsoft Forefront Security 2010 for SharePoint.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=72d99943-8558-4b31-bcf8-bbc08e3a2ffa
Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange Server Release Candidate
Microsoft Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange Server 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 Security 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
Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141234&clcid=0x409
URL Filtering Telemetry Package for Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f7e5907d-60ae-4f39-8660-9a959db5a6e6&displaylang=en
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Beta 3 Tools & Software Development Kit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=dff77975-84bf-484f-a3bd-9d8dd800e220
ISA BPA 7 and Forefront TMG for Windows Essential Business Server
http://isabpa.com
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway Beta 2
http://technet.microsoft.com/evalcenter/dd183100.aspx
Events/WebCasts
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 September Security Bulletins (Level 200)
Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. Pacific Time
Momentum Webcast: Optimize Your Desktop Infrastructure with Windows 7 and MDOP (Level 100)
Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Pacific Time
On-Demand Security Webcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/ondemand.mspx
Security Awareness Materials http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11524381&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=11524382&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=11524383&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Visit TechNet Spotlight: www.microsoft.com/technetspotlight
Video on Demand, Video Downloads, PowerPoint Presentations, Audio and more
New or updated KB’s
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
FIX: A user is prompted to change the password although the account is configured as "Password never expires" when the user tries to log on to an intranet Web site published by using ISA Server 2006 FBA
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971142
Description of the ISA Server 2006 hotfix package: July 14, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971143
FIX: Outlook clients cannot access the Exchange Server that is running in a Windows server cluster and is published in ISA Server 2004 by using the Exchange RPC Server protocol
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970452
Description of the ISA Server 2004 hotfix package: June 2, 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970454
FIX: Incoming VPN connections are rejected by an ISA Server 2004 RADIUS server that is operating on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970451
FIX: The ISA Server Control service cannot start after you install the MS09-012 update on a computer that operates with more than 4 CPU cores
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970450
FIX: After you install an update for a non-English version of ISA Server 2004 with Service Pack 3, some English shortcuts are added to the Microsoft ISA Server submenu on the Start menu
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970903
Forefront TMG and ISA Server
An ISA server or Forefront Threat Management Gateway server requests credentials when client computers in the same domain use Internet Explorer to access Web sites that contain Java programs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925881
A.O.B
Microsoft SDL Pro Network Member: iSEC Partners http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355510&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
iSEC Partners is a full-service security consulting firm that offers a variety of mobile, Web application, and client/server security services. Services provided by iSEC Partners include penetration testing, secure systems development, security education, and software design verification.
Community Article of the Month: Hunting SQL Injection Bugs http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355512&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
In this article, Brad Hill and Geng Yang from iSEC Partners offer some tips and tricks to help you hunt down and eliminate SQL injection in your applications.
Security Help and Support for IT Professionals http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355518&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
TechNet Troubleshooting and Support Page http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355519&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Microsoft Security Glossary http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355520&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
TechNet Security Center http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355521&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
MSDN Security Developer Center http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355522&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Sign-Up for the Microsoft Security Notification Service http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355523&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Security Bulletin Search Page http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355524&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Home Users: Protect Your PC http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355525&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
MCSE/MCSA: Security Certifications http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355526&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Subscribe to TechNet http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355527&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
Register for TechNet Flash IT Newsletter http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355528&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
News
Biztalk Server
Arizona Department of Health Services - Arizona Health Agency Ups Quality and Security with Interoperable Exchange Solution
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005113
Plzen Region Government - Czech Region Citizen Portal Offers Access to 70 Public Service Online Transactions
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005057
Microsoft Internet Information Server
8 New Free ASP.NET and PHP Open Source Apps in the Web App Gallery
It's been four months since we launched the Windows Web Application Gallery, and we've been adding apps to the Gallery steadily. Today saw the arrival of SugarCRM Community Edition (CE) , a free customer relationship management PHP open source application...
http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2009/07/30/8-new-free-asp-net-and-php-open-source-apps-in-the-web-app-gallery.aspx
URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 – Beta
Today IIS team has released the URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 – Beta. This is an incremental release that includes all the features from version 1.1, and adds support for outbound response rewriting. More specifically, it can be used to: Replace...
http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2009/07/16/url-rewrite-module-2-0-for-iis-7-beta.aspx
Getting both FastCGI module and AppPool CPULimit to work
FastCGI module available in IIS 7.0 did not work when CPULimit for the application pool was enabled. This was because when CPULimit feature was enabled WAS uses job objects to track CPU usage of worker processes. WAS keeps a job object for each application...
http://blogs.iis.net/ksingla/archive/2009/07/02/getting-both-fastcgi-module-and-apppool-cpulimit-to-work.aspx
SharePoint Technologies
SharePoint in Plain English
This is a short video that explains in simple terms what SharePoint is, and why and how people use it.
August 19, 2009: Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog
http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/76e8d3af-c2bd-42a6-bb12-befcbd041bf1
Microsoft’s SharePoint Thrives in the Recession
While Microsoft’s Windows sales fell for the first time in history this year, its SharePoint sales have gone up. SharePoint broke the $1 billion revenue mark last year and continued to rise past that total this year, making it the hottest selling server-side product ever for the company.
August 12, 2009: New York Times
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/microsofts-sharepoint-thrives-in-the-recession/
Second largest Brazilian Airline Automates Web Content Management, Drives Agility, and Reduces Costs with “SharePoint For Internet Sites”
Gol migrated its Internet site infrastructure to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and integrated Web content publication workflows. In addition, the company reduced by three days the time it took employees to publish marketing promotions on the Web and is currently maximizing the value of its e-commerce portal with timely content that launches more quickly, reaches more people, and enables more sales. For Gol, this is a key business advantage to help it navigate a profitable course through turbulent economic times.
August 10, 2009: Microsoft Case Studies
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000004966
Documents
Biztalk Server
White paper - BizTalk Adapter Pack: Connecting LOB Systems and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd442475(BTS.10).aspx
White paper - BizTalk Server and WCF Support in Visual Studio 2008
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd443655(BTS.10).aspx
Downloads
Biztalk Server
Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Readme and Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Installation Guide
Download the latest readme and the installation instructions for the BizTalk Adapter Pack.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d9f588e9-fa3e-4b81-a598-ddd9f471f382
Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0
Documentation for the BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 in CHM format.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=58bd17c8-8efa-4b69-ab51-9f5b11a962dc
Installing UDDI Services 3.0
Guidance for installing and configuring UDDI Services 3.0
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9d1831cc-8146-486b-b489-a06a1aa2fb5b
BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer V1.2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=93d432fe-1370-4b6d-aaa8-a0c43c30f5ab
Microsoft Internet Information Server
Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x86)
The Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 helps you enable powerful publishing capabilities for your Web environment.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=b7f5b652-8c5c-447a-88b8-8cfc5c13f571
Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x64)
The Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 helps you enable powerful publishing capabilities for your Web environment.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ffb7c167-279e-48d3-8169-dea85784c4d1
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
Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Documentation
Forefront Server Security Management Console allows administrators to easily manage Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, and Microsoft Antigen.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107
Office SharePoint Server IT Pro content CHM
Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on TechNet.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ba006584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x86
The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=cd2d09a7-1159-4d40-be1c-8efab1345381
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x64
The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=665e98ea-5318-486d-aba2-2bfe46254357
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IT Pro content CHM
Downloadable CHM version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content on TechNet.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c9d6c8c5-8a62-4961-8c1b-df08b667b1c4
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x86
The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=cd2d09a7-1159-4d40-be1c-8efab1345381
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x64
The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=665e98ea-5318-486d-aba2-2bfe46254357
Migration Manager for SharePoint
Migration Manager 2.0 provides a solid migration project management framework on top of Microsoft Content Migration API and the stsadm utility that automates and streamlines content migration for SharePoint 2007 (both MOSS and WSS 3.0) deployments.
http://sharepointforall.com/blogs/team/archive/2009/06/11/sneak-preview-of-migration-manager-for-sharepoint-2-0-part-i.aspx
SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) Tool v1.0 for SharePoint Products and TechnologiesWhat does this tool do?
The SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) tool v1.0 greatly simplifies the process of gathering and analyzing troubleshooting data, and can significantly reduce the time needed to diagnose issues. SPDiag v1.0 provides administrators with a unified interface for troubleshooting SharePoint performance issues, and saves collected data and reports to a SQL Server database.
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x64: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142035
SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag) User Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=1C222804-51C7-4BB5-AE3D-89C68AD27A78&displaylang=en
SQLDiag and PSSDiag
PSSDIAG is also a diagnostics utility used to collect profiler trace, perfmon data for SQL Server. PSSDAIG was created to troubleshoot SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 issues. It evolved into SQL Server 2005 sqldiag.
http://sqlnexus.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=PSSDiag
Pre-upgrade scanning and reporting for future releases (Windows SharePoint Services)
The Upgrade Checker will scan your SharePoint Server 2007 deployment for many issues that could affect a future upgrade to SharePoint 2010, ships with SP2.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793607.aspx
Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007
To avoid common pitfalls and keep your Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment available and performing well, follow these best practices based on real-world experience from Microsoft Consulting Services and the product team.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx
SharePoint Disaster Recovery Advisor Tool Now Available as Freeware!
What does this tool do?
Reads your farm configuration from the database backup or from the live config database, Lists all the servers, databases and services in the farm. Verifies availability of all these components in real time, Verifies and re-creates appropriate SQL Server logins to enable SharePoint services access to the databases, In a DR situation, advises on the psconfig.exe commands needed to provision SharePoint front end, Central Administration, and application servers
http://sharepointforall.com/blogs/team/archive/2009/03/06/sharepoint-disaster-recovery-advisor-tool-now-available-as-freeware.aspx#143
Site Administrator Repository Query Tool
This tool allows you to run simple and quick queries from the Site Administrator repository, which includes information gathered about systems, as well as configuration information on Recovery Manager for SharePoint and Migration tools.
http://sharepointforall.com/media/p/8.aspx
SharePoint PowerShell PowerPack v1 Feb 2009
This download includes 4 PowerPacks.
SharePoint PowerPack - List the SharePoint Webs, folders, and List, and monitor the SharePoint usage.
SharePoint Farm PowerPack - Monitor your SharePoint farm servers, services, web services and web applications
SharePoint Remove Access PowerPack - PowerPack which connects to SharePoint over its webservices
SharePoint Navigator PowerPack - allows you to display the properties of the local farm, get a list of servers running in your farm, list SharePoint services and monitor the status and which services needs upgrade, and list the web services and web applications.
http://sharepointforall.com/media/p/38.aspx
SmartTools for SharePoint
The SmartTools for SharePoint project is a collection of SharePoint extensions to make your life as a SharePoint user, developer or administrator a little bit easier!
http://smarttools.codeplex.com/
Events/Webcasts
SharePoint Technologies
ICS Solutions presents Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Showcase 2009 - The very best of SharePoint products in a unique conference setting.
At this seminar you will hear our expert SharePoint Consultants explain the features and benefits of Microsoft SharePoint and gain an understanding of how your business can make the most of it either on Premise or in the new world of Software plus Services.
Presenters: ICS Solutions
Date: 08 September 2009 14:00 - 17:00 | Duration: Afternoon
Location: Microsoft Uk Ltd, 100 Victoria St, London SW1E 5JL, United Kingdom
Audience: Academic, Additional Information Worker, Architect, IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist and Non-Tech Influencing BD
Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows Server.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032422563&culture=en-GB
ICS Solutions presents Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Showcase 2009 - The very best of SharePoint products in a unique conference setting.
The very best of SharePoint products in a unique conference setting brings together a host of SharePoint products in the market under one roof.
The unique SharePoint conference setting makes it easy for you to find the information you need from the leading players in the UK SharePoint products market to make effective purchasing decisions direct.
Presenters: ICS Solutions
Date: 16 September 2009 09:30 - 16:30 | Duration: All Day
Location: ICS Solutions Ltd, Skippetts Lane Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 3HP, United Kingdom
Audience: Academic, Additional Information Worker, Architect, IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist and Non-Tech Influencing BD
Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows Server.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032422582
BSG Ltd presents Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Masterclass - an introduction to SharePoint 2007
Specifically designed for organisations new to Microsoft SharePoint 2007, the aim is to help you understand and get the most from Microsoft SharePoint 2007.
Presenters: ICS Solutions
Date: 24 September 2009 09:10 - 11:45 | Duration: Morning
Location: BSG, BSG House, 226-236 City Road London EC1V 2TT, United Kingdom
Audience: Architect, IT Decision Maker, Marketing - Partners, Non-Tech Influencing BDM and Pro Dev/Programmer.
Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032421828&culture=en-GB
Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009
The SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the first time Microsoft will publically share all of what SharePoint 2010 has to offer. Get to listen, talk and network with Microsoft Product experts, SharePoint MVPs, Customers, top Industry Analysts and over 140 SharePoint Partners.
http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx
All upcoming Events\Webcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/learning/events.mspx
New KB's
Biztalk Server
BizTalk Acc for SWIFT 3.0 EN: Describes a hotfix rollup package that is available for BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 3.0 Service Pack 1.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960914/EN-US
BizTalk Acc for SWIFT 3.0 EN: FIX: BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 3.0 Service Pack 1 support for the MT202COV and MT205COV message types of the SWIFT 2009 Standard
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972031/EN-US
BizTalk Adapter for mySAP 2.0 EN: BizTalk Editor cannot load schemas that are generated from Schema Generation Wizard of BizTalk Adapter 2.0 for mySAP Business Suite if the type attributes begin with numbers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959139/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: FIX: Orchestration instances continuously switch from Active to Dehydrated state and cause high CPU usage on servers that host BizTalk Server 2006 (954877.KB.EN-US.1.0)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954877/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: BizTalk Server Operators group members cannot terminate service instances successfully in the BizTalk Administration Console in BizTalk Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958083/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: Trailing white spaces are removed from a promoted property if tracking is disabled in BizTalk Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959529/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: Trailing spaces are truncated in an outgoing 278 EDI file when you use BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA 3.3 in BizTalk Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967212/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: An error message occurs when BizTalk Server receives an MDN that does not contain the Message-ID field in the HTTP header: "System.ArgumentException: Empty parameter string not allowed"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956916/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: You cannot select two or more maps that have source schemas the belong to the same multi-root schema file on the same send or on the same receive port in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957352/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: An HIPAA 837 document that has noncompliant NM108 and NM109 data elements is not validated as expected in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957512/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The HHMMSSd time format is now available for selection for the GS5 element when you configure EDI properties of BizTalk party in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960237/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: Invalid 997 functional acknowledgements are generated in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960473/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO EMS does not delete messages from the JMS queue after the adapter successfully receives the messages in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961346/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The BizTalk RFID service stops generating management events after you uninstall a BizTalk RFID hotfix in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972449/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The SE Segment delimiter/terminator is missing intermittently in outgoing 997 functional acknowledgements when you send and receive EDI messages in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972478/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: Some interchanges are suspended if you receive multiple interchanges that are included in a single EDI message by using the EDI receive pipeline in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972530/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Event ID 5740 is logged in the Application log when you use an FTP adapter in BizTalk Server to receive files from an empty directory on an FTP server
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=958235
Microsoft Internet Information Server
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Developer Tools & Platforms Performance
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974348/EN-US
SharePoint Technologies
Office SharePoint Designr 2007: Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - SharePoint Forms Based Auth Deployment
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974622/EN-US
Office SharePoint Designr 2007: Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - SharePoint SQL DB Migration
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974642/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: You cannot edit list items on existing SharePoint sites even if you already installed build 12.0.6336.5001 of the hotfix that is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article 961175
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971351/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: If you send a Rich Text