Well, that’s true. Hotmail team introduced this feature in the Hotmail. This feature can be really helpful to get back your friend’s hacked account.

At Hotmail, we know that account hijacking is a big problem, and we continue to work hard to prevent it. We’ve noticed a couple of things about hijacked accounts. First, many accounts have weak passwords that make them easy targets for hijackers. Second, when someone’s account gets hijacked, their friends often find out before they do, because the hijacker uses their account to send spam or phishing email to all their contacts.

These two observations led us to develop a couple of new features that help protect your accounts. The first lets you report a friend’s account as compromised – a feature unique to Hotmail – and the second prevents you from using common passwords that make your account easy to hack.

Getting spammed by a friend

Maybe you’ve had this happen to you: You sign in to Hotmail, and you see you’ve got new mail from one of your friends. You open the message only to discover that it’s spam! Maybe it’s obvious spam – like an ad for a product. Or maybe it’s a more involved story – like a plea for money, with an explanation that your friend is stuck in a foreign country and needs cash, when you know for sure that your friend is safe and sound at home.

Whatever the case, one thing is for sure: this email isn’t really from your friend at all. Instead, it’s from a spammer who has hijacked your friend’s account. When this happens, you probably call or text your friend or contact them on an alternate email address to let them know that their email account has been compromised. But you wish you could do more.

Now you can. Hotmail lets you report your friend’s account as compromised. It’s easy: When you get that spam message supposedly from your friend, you just click “My friend’s been hacked!” on the “Mark as” menu:

You can also report an account as compromised when you mark a message as junk or otherwise move a message to the Junk folder:

You can read the complete article over here…http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/07/14/hey-my-friend-s-account-was-hacked.aspx

Also, take a look at this page http://explore.live.com/windows-live-hotmail-security-checklist-faq

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Hear Forrester Research's Bob Cormier present findings from his total economic impact (TEI) study of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9. Forrester interviewed six Microsoft Technology Adoption Program (TAP) customers to discuss each organization's experience upgrading from Internet Explorer 8 to Internet Explorer 9. Then, Forrester created a TEI case study, in which it describes the costs and benefits of using a composite organization. Forrester concluded that the composite organization would achieve a risk-adjusted net savings of $3.3 million over three years as a result of upgrading to Internet Explorer 9. In this webcast, Cormier outlines the costs, benefits, and flexibility options of the composite organization. Find out how your company can save costs by upgrading to Internet Explorer 9.

Presenters: Bob Cormier, Vice President, Principle Consultant, Forrester Consulting, Hye Jun, Senior Marketing Manager, Microsoft Corporation, Anurag Pandit, Product Manager, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Corporation, and Tiffany Ashton, Digital Marketing Manager, Bridge Partners, LLC

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Well, here we go…SCVMM SSP 2.0 SP1 RTM.

Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1, you can respond more effectively—and at a lower cost—to the rapidly changing needs of your organization. Built on Windows Server® 2008 R2, Hyper-V™ technology, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, VMMSSP enables you to offer infrastructure as a service in your organization.

Download the VMMSSP:

• Microsoft Download Center
• Learn more

Some of additional VMMSSP features:

• Import virtual machines. Allows DCIT administrators to re-import virtual machines that were removed from the self-service portal and also import virtual machines created outside the portal but managed by VMM.
• Set virtual machine expiration dates. This feature lets the user set an expiration date for the virtual machines that are being created or imported so that the virtual machines auto-delete after the set date. This feature also provides users the flexibility (through role-based access) to set or change the expiration date for the virtual machine.
• Define and use custom virtual machine actions. A datacenter administrator can now create up to five custom virtual machine actions and make them available to users on the Virtual Machines tab of the self-service portal. For example, a database administrator can create a Create Checkpoint action and add it to the list of actions on the Virtual Machines tab.
• Use Opalis policies in virtual machine actions. In a datacenter that includes a deployment of Opalis Integration Server, a datacenter administrator can customize tasks in virtual machine actions to trigger Opalis policies instead of running scripts.
• Define and use custom virtual machine properties. A datacenter administrator can define custom properties to collect information from users in the Create Virtual Machine wizard, and use these properties in the tasks of the CreateVM virtual machine action. For example, if a datacenter administrator creates the properties RAM and CPU Count, the Create Virtual Machine wizard includes fields for RAM and CPU Count. When a user finishes the wizard, the wizard passes the RAM and CPU Count values that the user entered to the tasks in the CreateVM virtual machine action.
• Notify administrators. This feature provides functionality to notify BUIT or DCIT administrators via email about various events in the system (for example, Submit request, Approve request, and so on).
• Move infrastructures between business units. This feature allows DCIT administrators to move an infrastructure from one business unit to another when the system is in Maintenance Mode.
• VMMSSP Management Pack. This feature allows DCIT administrators to monitor the health of the self-service portal components.
• Localization. The VMMSSP is now localized in three languages: Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
• Manage virtual machine DVD drives and media. When working with virtual machines that have DVD drives, users can attach media such as ISO images to the virtual machines.
• Connect to VMware virtual machines. Users can now use the VMMSSP to manage and connect to virtual machines hosted by VMware host servers.

For more details visit http://blogs.technet.com/b/vmmssp/archive/2011/07/11/now-available-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-self-service-portal-2-0-sp1.aspx

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1 Overview and Quick Start
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg588340.aspx

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/virtual-machine-manager/vmm-self-service-portal.aspx

First of all, thank very much to all the IT Professionals who attended Microsoft TechEd on the Road – Bangalore. Bangalore User Group has a fantastic IT Pro Audience. This was my first event with Bangalore and I am looking forward to interact with you all again. Here, I will share some of the resources I presented during my session.

I presented on Windows XP to 7 Upgrade using P2V Migration for Software Assurance. Following are some of the tools I used during my demonstration.

You can visit this blog to get the behind story about this particular solution http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/springboard/archive/2010/09/09/p2v-migration-for-software-assurance-explained.aspx

P2V Migration for Software Assurance http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3896
Sysinternals Suite (All the Sysinternals Tools) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062

If you have any questions/queries or feedback. Feel free to write to me at aviraj@microsoft.com