The future of security baseline management has arrived. The new Security Compliance Manager will enable you to plan, deploy, operate, and manage your organization’s security baselines for Windows® client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications.

Earlier this year the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team announced the beta release of this free new tool. They gathered feedback from IT pros and organizations around the globe, and they’re excited to share the result: a tool designed to help your organization efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.

The Security Compliance Manager will help you accelerate knowledge to merge best practices, customize once to centralize decision making, and export to multiple formats to enable monitoring, verification, and compliance. The tool will ultimately help to accelerate your organization’s ability to efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.

This end-to-end Solution Accelerator will help you plan, deploy, operate, and manage your security baselines for Windows® client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications. Access the complete database of Microsoft recommended security settings, customize your baselines, and then choose from multiple formats—including Desired Configuration Management (DCM) packs, Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), XLS, or Group Policy objects (GPOs)—to export the baselines to your environment to automate the security baseline compliance verification process.

Windows 7 security just got easier. 

Next steps:

· Download the Security Compliance Manager.

· Learn more about Security Compliance Manager.

· Help spread the word: Tell your friends about Security Compliance Manager.

· Thoughts? Favorite features? Feedback? Tell it to the dev team.

Want the facts straight from the development team? Check out this series of short videos! Better yet, post your own video response sharing your favorite feature.

Microsoft Office 2010 reaches RTM

For more information visit http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/04/15/office-2010-reaches-rtm.aspx

Yes you heard it right. Silverlight 4 is here.

For more info visit http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/

Hello Developers,

Join Pune User Group and Microsoft for the community launch of Visual Studio 2010!

We are very pleased to have Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson ,  Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation of  Team Foundation Server on this very special day.

Venue:
Bajaj Gallery,
MCCIA Trade Tower,
5th floor, International Conventional Center,
Senapati Bapat Road,
Pune

For more information visit http://www.puneusergroup.org/events/vs2010-launch/Venue.html

First of all, Thank YOU all for attending the Microsoft TechEd 2010 India. It was pleasure presenting in front of such a superb audience. I am extremely happy with the response for the TechEd 2010. I will talk about it in later posts.

Now, as I promised for today’s session few of the resources and links that I would like to share with you all.

Starting with the Best Practices for Hyper-V…

7 Best Practices for Physical Servers Hosting Hyper-V Roles
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd744830.aspx

Microsoft Virtualization for Business Critical Apps
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/solution-business-apps.aspx

Microsoft Virtualization Case Studies
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/case-studies-featured.aspx

Microsoft Integrated Virtualization ROI Tool
https://roianalyst.alinean.com/microsoft/virtualization/

Well, that is all from my end for now. Keep checking the space for much more happening discussions.

Update 0: Download this document that describes the best practices for SAP on Hyper-V and MS.COM Site operations in Hyper-V Environment

Best Practices for SAP on Hyper-V

MSDN & TechNet Powered by Hyper-V Whitepaper - Microsoft Corporation

Update 1: I received 1 more query during my session in MS Dynamics CRM & AX running in Virtualized mode.

Here is the link that gives detailed information on all the supported Microsoft products under Hyper-V

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-app-support.aspx

For more information visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006

List of Supported Applications…

Supported Applications

Support for the listed applications is provided for the applications running on Hyper-V and other validated virtualization platforms.

The following applications are supported on Hyper-V:

• Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 and later versions such as Management Server, Publishing Server, Sequencer, RDS Client, and Desktop Client are supported.

• Microsoft Commerce Server Service Pack 2 and later

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and later

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and later

• Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 SP2 and later

• Microsoft Forefront Client Security

• Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint (FSP) SP2 or later

• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server

• Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP2 or later

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 or later

• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 or later

• Microsoft Search Server

• Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 or later

• Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 or later

• Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 or later

• Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 and later

• Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SP2

• Windows Web Server 2008

• Windows Web Server 2008 R2

• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, 2006, 2006 R2, 2009 and later

• Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and later

• Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and later

• Microsoft Forefront Client Security

• Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange (FSE) SP1 or later

• Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006 or later

• Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 SP1 or later

• Microsoft Office Project Server SP1 or later

• Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 SP1 (Agents Only)

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008

• Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 and later

• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and later

• Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 SP3 (agents only)

• Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008

• Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.1 and later

• Windows Essential Business Server 2008 and later

• Windows Small Business Server 2008 and later