With Windows Vista Ultimate you can download an Ultimate Extra, the Bitlocker Disk Preparation Tool (BDEHDCFG), which is very handsome. However, as an Enterprise customer - for Windows Vista Enterprise Edition, you can request the tool also through Premier Support or Customer Support:

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930063

To encrypt drives and to verify boot integrity, BitLocker requires at least two partitions. These two partitions make up a split-load configuration. A split-load configuration separates the main operating system partition from the active system partition from which the computer starts.

The BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool automates the following processes to make the computer ready for BitLocker:

•	Creating the second volume that BitLocker requires
•	Migrating the boot files to the new volume
•	Making the volume an active volume

When the tool finishes, you must restart the computer to change the system volume to the newly created volume. After you restart the computer, the drive will be configured correctly for BitLocker. You may also have to initialize the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) before you turn BitLocker on.

Urs

Ok, it's not brand new, but I want to share it with you anyway. I found it more or less by accident, so, probably many of you haven't seen this either...short and informational!

 A White Paper from the Microsoft Antimalware Team
This paper will provide examples of poignant social engineering ‘exploits’ over the past few years and attempt to construct a model, using telemetry from Microsoft’s Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, that can predict the prevalence of a specific social engineering threat based on its characteristics and appeal to the user.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0f27260-58da-40db-8785-689cf6a05c73&displaylang=en

Urs

Michael Howard has a funny entry on his blog that sounds really known to me, just the short excerpt out of it:
http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/archive/2007/02/08/uac-bs.aspx

Xx: What's new? Things going well with you?
Me: Excellent, we shipped Vista. Yay!
Xx: It’s ok.
Me: Waddya mean?
Xx: Too ‘noisy’?
Me: Waddya mean?
Xx: too many pop-ups.
Me: Like what?
Xx: UAC stuff
Me: When do you see the pop-ups?
Xx: all the time
Me: When?
Xx: When I do stuff
Me: Like what?
Xx: everything!
Me: like when? I probably get two prompts a day – and that’s only ‘coz I do geeky stuff. Gimme specifics
Xx: like right when I logon
Me: we suppress prompting on logon/startup, and fail the app load, you will see no prompts as you logon.
Xx: oh.
At this point Xx had a sheepish look...

Perception != Reality.

That's exactly what I hear a lot: Many complaints about UAC, but if I drill down on specific examples... nothing! 
I have the feeling that there is a lot more noise about UAC, then from UAC!
Of course this is a version 1.0 implementation, but we have done a lot of optimization just to get the right balance between security and usability.

Urs

This very good article describes and explains a very common scenario that I've seen a cuple of times in customer environments:

http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Advanced-ISA-Firewall-Configuration-Network-Behind-Network-Scenarios.html

Urs

A good introduction to the ISA Server 2006 HTTP application filter on the ISASERVER.ORG website:

http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Configuring-ISA-Server-2006-HTTP-Filter.html

Urs