Are you working on Office System 2007? Ever looked for a command, you knew in 2003 exactly where it is but you were unable to locate it? Well, do not get me wrong: Since I am used to the Ribbon, I love it – really. And my wife is all of a sudden able to work with Excel as she seems to find stuff…

Nevertheless, there is a new add-on to test called Search Commands. Search Commands adds a tab to your ribbon and gives you the option to look for a command in Office 2007 – it immediately gives you all the commands that relate to your search – really cool.

How did I find it? We have a site called Office Labs with this kind of trials on.

Give it a try

Roger

Cert.org published guidance on how to secure your browser. Here you would find them if you are interested: Securing Your Web Browser

I am just not clear, how the browsing experience for my mom and dad would be…

Roger

You might know Brian Komar. He wrote numerous books on PKI and Certificate Management and he is a well-known speaker at quite some events like TechEd and IT Forum. Now, nCipher organized a Webimar on Best Practices for Microsoft PKI & Certificate Management.

If you are interested, you might register at the link above.

Roger

As you probably realized, I stopped the series "How I secure my Infrastructure" as the hit rate on the corresponding posts have been pretty low. However, if I have something which I think is interesting and/or cool, I will still add a post. This one has close to nothing to do with security but much more with blogging – I simply would put it in the "cool" baskets.

Actually I was talking to somebody recently about my blog and that I see the highest hit rates whenever I blog on real technical stuff. As soon as I raise questions on policies/organizations, the hit rate drops significantly. During this discussion I realized that the problem might well be that the blog is on TechNet – and there you expect mainly technical stuff. Therefore I went out and started to think about running a second blog on a different URL. Finally I ended up using my SharePoint at home. So, what is cool on that – so far nothing. I started to play a little bit with a blog site on SharePoint but, well, it looked not really sexy and I did not want to invest a lot of time designing my blog. I started to search on the Internet (on http://search.live.com J) and found a site called Codeplex – if you are running SharePoint and do not know this site, it is great. This is our OpenSource project for SharePoint and they offer a project called Community Kit for Sharepoint: Extended Blog Edition. In addition they have Wiki, Discussion Boards, Intranets, …

It is: Downloading, installing, using. And they have a lot of functionality which can be easily configured or implemented like the Captchas for comments and stuff like that.

If you want to see a page running on that kit: http://www.halbheer.info/security

At the moment the Technet blog and the one above have the same posts in it. In the future I am thinking about separating the blogs: Having some joint posts, having the more technical stuff on TechNet and the more policy-related content on the new blog.

We will see, what the future brings

Roger