Technical RollUp

November 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - Unified Communications

conuktrm — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

November 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL Server

conuktrm — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1

SQL 2008

How to protect SAP with DPM 2007 sp1

This whitepaper discusses why and how to protect SAP environments running on Microsoft SQL Server with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=aa704f3e-aee5-418d-a63b-0e467b25b58f

Communications Server 2007 R2 Site Resiliency White Paper

This white paper provides guidelines and best practices for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 site resiliency.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c930febb-3a44-4bf3-969d-1c52675a7063

Events/Webcasts

Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Microsoft Business Intelligence (Level 100)

Monday, November 09, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Discover how a Microsoft total business intelligence solution can help your organization emerge stronger from the economic downturn. In this presentation, we discuss how to use your existing technologies to identify cost-cutting opportunities, streamline operations, and strengthen and grow your customer base in today's marketplace.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032429506&culture=en-US

Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Microsoft BI: Operational Improvement (Level 100)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join us for part three of our four-part Emerge Stronger series on how the total Microsoft Business Intelligence solution can enable you to maximize your technology during the economic downturn. This presentation builds on the overview in the first webcast by providing a detailed look into how you can free cash from operations while keeping and growing your operational strength.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428087&culture=en-US

New KB's

SQL 2000

SQL Svr 2000 Reporting Svcs EN: MS09-062: Description of the security update for GDI+ for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 2: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970899/EN-US

SQL 2005

Report Viewer Redistrib 2005 SP1: MS09-062: Description of the security update for Microsoft Report Viewer 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971117/EN-US

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-062: Description of the security update for GDI+ for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 GDR: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970895/EN-US

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-062: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 QFE: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970896/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: You cannot process an object when you change or delete another unrelated object at the same time in the same database in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975748/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run an MDX query against a dimension that has a parent/child relationship, and uses the unary operator after you install Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services SP3 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975783/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message after you perform a Process Update on a dimension used on a cube that contains a writeback partition: "Errors in the high-level relational engine. The data source view does not contain a definition for the <tablename> table or view"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976030/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 SP3 AL: MS09-062: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 GDR: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970892/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 SP3 AL: MS09-062: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 QFE: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970894/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to shrink the tempdb database in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307487/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to monitor blocking in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2000 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271509/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: SQL Server Agent jobs may fail after you change the SQL Server Agent service startup account by using the Windows Service Control Manager (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911305/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Tuning options for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 when running in high performance workloads (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920093/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message in the database mail log when you try to use the sp_send_dbmail stored procedure to send an e-mail in SQL Server 2005: "Invalid XML message format received on the ExternalMailQueue" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928789/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: On a computer that has a multicore processor, if the ratio of logical processors to physical sockets is not a power of 2, you cannot install SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954835/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The connection to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services catalog database encounters an error, and the connection is not reset

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972926/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You use the COUNT function on a column that is returned by a subquery that returns no rows in SQL Server 2005, and an incorrect result is returned

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974067/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A memory leak may occur if you use a linked server query to retrieve a sql_variant column from a remote server in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974130/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message in the SQL Server 2005 Errorlog file after the SQL Server service stops responding: “Timeout occurred while waiting for latch”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974205/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A deadlock occurs when you perform an operation that cleans up the security cache in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974296/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you use database mirroring in SQL Server 2005, and an assertion failure occurs intermittently: "SQL Server Assertion: File: <loglock.cpp>, line=823 Failed Assertion = 'result == LCK_OK'."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974319/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Database restore operation may fail during the recovery phase when the database uses query notification in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974777/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An API cursor plan that is created by a plan guide is not reused when the cursor is active

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974785/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A "DBCC CHECKDB" statement or a "DBCC CHECKTABLE" statement reports errors after you rebuild an XML index in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974985/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The restore operation takes a long time when you restore a database that has query notification enabled in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975089/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Deadlocks may occur when multiple concurrent query notification subscriptions are fired on same objects in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975090/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Capitalization and accent changes on a column of user-defined data type are not propagated in SQL Server 2005 merge replication

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975134/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: For SQL Server Compact Edition (CE) Subscribers, only schema without data is replicated for newly added articles to an existing Merge Publication using “ExchangeType.Upload” (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975159/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses a ranking function on a partitioned table in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975230/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A SELECT statement returns an incorrect result set if a linked server is being used in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975417/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The database mirroring session is suspended when you add more than one log transaction file to a folder on the principle server that does not exist on the mirror server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975681/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses a parallel execution plan in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976041/EN-US

SQL 2008

Report Viewer Redistrib 2008: MS09-062: Description of the security update for Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 Redistributable Package: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971118/EN-US

Report Viewer Redistrib 2008: MS09-062: Description of the security update for Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971119/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Error messages may be logged in the SQL Server error log after you run a DBCC command in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926070/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: List of known issues when you install SQL Server on Windows 7 or on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955725/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Updates to Microsoft SQL server 2008 will fail after an edition upgrade (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970608/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The performance decreases when you open the Report Builder (RB) ClickOnce application after you install SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974371/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The row count is incorrect after you run a "BULK INSERT" statement by using SQL Server JDBC driver 2.0 to insert data into a table

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975565/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: The SQL Server 2008 Books Online shortcuts and the SQL Server 2008 Books Online folder disappear from Start menu after you install the May 2009 version of SQL Server 2008 Books Online

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976115/EN-US

November 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - Security

conuktrm — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

November 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - Platforms

conuktrm — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

November 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - Manageability

conuktrm — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

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)

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)

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

November 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - Internet

conuktrm — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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: 19-21^st April 2010
Location: London, QEII

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

All upcoming Events\Webcasts

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

New KB's

Biztalk Server

BizTalk 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

October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail - Internet

conuktrm — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:01:00 GMT

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!

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**

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

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032395058

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

October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail - Manageability

conuktrm — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:01:00 GMT

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)

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

October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail - Platforms

conuktrm — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:01:00 GMT

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

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89

Infrastructure Planning and Design

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

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

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

October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail - Security

conuktrm — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:01:00 GMT

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail - SQL Server

conuktrm — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:01:00 GMT

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

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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http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032426069&culture=en-US

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

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