• Announcing the Microsoft Desktop Player

     

    Check out the Microsoft Desktop Player, now in beta, to find contextual content for IT professionals and developers based on your adoption lifecycle. The Desktop Player filters content by topic based on your role and where you are in your adoption lifecycle. It also surfaces local resources based on your zip code.


    Find videos, webcasts, podcasts, whitepapers and relevant links based on your specific criteria. And get a feed of the latest news for IT pros.

     

    You can also download the player directly to your desktop.

     

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  • Choose your next job role and chart your career

     

    On Microsoft’s career portal, you can chart your career. Select your IT Pro job role and get started with the training you need to land top jobs and advance your career. Earning Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) status opens the doors to great IT and software development jobs. Take advantage of special offers, free career guidance, and Learning Plans designed to get you to the next step.

     

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  • Notification of an out-of-band security bulletin

     

    Microsoft is intending to release an out-of-band security bulletin on March 30, 2010. The bulletin is being released to address attacks against customers of Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Users of Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7 are not vulnerable to these attacks. The vulnerability used in these attacks, along with workarounds, is described in Microsoft Security Advisory 981374. The out-of-band security bulletin is a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer and will also contain fixes for privately reported vulnerabilities rated Critical on all versions of Internet Explorer that are not related to this attack.

     

    This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the revised March bulletin summary on March 30, 2010. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.

     

    To receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft Security Bulletins are issued, subscribe to Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.

     

    Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on the out-of-band security bulletin on March 30, 2010, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register now for the March 30, 1:00 PM webcast. After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts.

     

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  • Install the Cumulative Security Update MS10-018 for Internet Explorer

     

    Security Update MS10-018 resolves nine privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The more severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using IE6 and IE7, and does not affect users of IE8.  We highly recommend customers to promptly install this update to help protect against these vulnerabilities, and upgrade to IE8 to benefit from significant security enhancements as well as reliability and performance improvements.

     

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  • More resources to bolster your FIM 2010 trial

    Along with last week’s release to manufacturing of Microsoft Forefront Identity Management 2010 and the availability of the Forefront Identity Manager 2010 trial, there is host of new and recent resources to help you with your evaluation and deployment:

     

    ·       Webcast: Forefront Identity Manager 2010: Technical Overview and Deployment

    ·       Webcast: Forefront Identity Manager 2010: Deploying FIM

    ·       TWebcast: Identity and Access Management Solution

    ·       Webcast: Forefront Identity Manager 2010 – Technical Overview and Feature drill-down

    ·       TechNet Edge Video: Forefront Identity Manager- Reducing cost of group management

    ·       TechNet Edge Video: Identity and Access Management Solution

    ·       Channel 9 Video: Alex Weinert on Forefront Identity Manager 2010

    ·       Identity and Access Management Datasheet

    FIM 2010 is the next evolution of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007 and builds on the core provisioning and synchronization services of ILM with a rich management environment with workflows and self service capabilities for end users.

     

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