Forefront IAG ISA Client Antigen Exchange Edge Security

posted by  techgeek (12)  11 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Confused yet?  I know that I was when I first started hearing this term Forefront...  Is "Forefront" just a client/server security product or something else?  

Forefront simply is a name that MS is branding onto our security related products.  Forefront is divided into three categories of

Microsoft early with public virtualization beta

posted by  techgeek (12)  7 months ago (www.networkworld.com)

Microsoft Thursday released the first public beta of its virtualization technology, shipping the bits ahead of its previously planned date in early 2008... more »

Web-browser rival goes after Microsoft in Europe

posted by  techgeek (12)  7 months ago (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

Web-browser developer Opera Software asked European regulators Thursday to force Microsoft to give users a choice of Internet software with..... more »

Microsoft Announces Support for Verizon Wireless Open Development Initiative

posted by  techgeek (12)  7 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Microsoft Corp. Senior Vice President of the Mobile Communications Business Pieter Knook issued the following statement today in support of the Any Apps, Any Device option announced by Verizon... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »

Work smarter using the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista

posted by  techgeek (12)  7 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

These simple, easy-to-use customizable job aids created by Microsoft IT help employees get started with something new, learn more about using a technology or product effectively, select the right product or service, or review best practices. .. more »

Client virtualization, blade PCs gain popularity

posted by  techgeek (12)  7 months ago (www.networkworld.com)

Client virtualization and blade PCs are gaining popularity, but server-based computing is still the most popular alternative PC technology... more »

DNS Server Survey Reveals Mixed Security Picture

posted by  techgeek (12)  8 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

Kurtz'sKompund writes in with word on the latest annual survey of the state of DNS on the Net. The survey, commissioned by infrastructure appliance vendor Infoblox, found that the use of Windows DNS Server in Internet-facing applications has fallen off dramatically as more users act on concerns about security. BIND 9, the latest version, gained .. more »

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) Redistributable Package

posted by  techgeek (12)  8 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

This redistributable package contains the runtime binaries needed to deploy your Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) based application.   The Visual Studio Shell (integrated mode)... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »

Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details

posted by  techgeek (12)  8 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

babyshiori writes "Users of Microsoft Windows Vista can rejoice in the fact that Microsoft just released a preview of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate! The build is the lead-up to the actual service pack, which will be made available to even more testers at a later date. 'In our early tests with the beta, we saw some small .. more »

Improving Proposal Processes at Microsoft

posted by  techgeek (12)  8 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Describes how Microsoft’s internal InfoWeb was created to become a centralized repository with powerful workflow management features to meet growing requests for an optimized publication and review process. .. more »

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition Readme

posted by  techgeek (12)  8 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

This release note assists you with late changes and minor issues .. more »

Oracle Is Latest To Take On VMware

posted by  techgeek (12)  8 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

BobB writes "Oracle is going after its piece of the hot virtualization market by introducing an open source Xen-based hypervisor to compete against those from Novell, Red Hat, and VMware. Oracle VM, unveiled Monday at the Oracle OpenWorld convention in San Francisco, enables virtualization on Oracle and non-Oracle software applications and on the .. more »

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. Transactions.

posted by  techgeek (12)  10 months ago (mtaulty.com)

How do transactions play with the Entity Framework? As a starting point, if I do something like;

Australian Citizenship Test

posted by  techgeek (12)  10 months ago (www.philiprichardson.org)

Could you pass the Australian citizenship test? Here are some of the proposed questions with answers in parentheses for my international readers. Via SMH. All were dead easy - except the

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector ya no es beta

posted by  techgeek (12)  10 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

¿Recuerdan cuando les charlé sobre este producto ? Pues bien, desde hace ya unos días, está disponible la versión final para que la descarguen y puedan controlar su correo electrónico Hotmail desde Outlook 2003 o desde Outlook 2007. Además, versión en español. Y sin costo alguno. ¿Cómo la ven, ah? Con este producto, puedes, desde ..... more »

Adjust buffer size in SSIS data flow task

posted by  techgeek (12)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

The data flow task in SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) sends data in series of buffers. How much data does one buffer hold? This is bounded by DefaultBufferMaxRows and DefaultBufferMaxSize, two Data Flow

Change the default fonts in Outlook, Word, Excel and IE

posted by  techgeek (12)  11 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

We recently had a debate on the internal bloggers distribution list about how MSDN bloggers need to play nice and not hard-code their font faces, colors and sizes. I admit that I'd been guilty of this myself, so I've since resolved to stop doing that, and I figured it was worth a blog post to talk about how you can get Outlook and IE to show you

Refresh that Ad without refreshing the page with ASP.NET Ajax and AdRotator Control

posted by  techgeek (12)  11 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

The ASP.NET AdRotator control is great for displaying random advertisements on your web site.  Recently I've been testing a mockup of this control inside an UpdatePanel on an ASP.NET AJAX page using the Beta 1 bits released October 20, 2006.

Here is the code inside my web form which pulls in ads

Configuring MOM 2005 to Manage Non-Windows Systems (by Darren Dillon)

posted by  techgeek (12)  11 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

A common misconception many people have about MOM
2005 is that it will only monitor Microsoft environments. This is not the case
– and the good news is that it is really easy to configure MOM to

Populating InfoPath 2007 Forms with data from Active Directory

posted by  techgeek (12)  11 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at

Download the Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 client!

posted by  techgeek (12)  11 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Lately I have been doing a lot of demo's and for this, I am using the new and improved Office Live Meeting 2007 Client. If you want to experience a better Live Meeting experience I strongly encourage you to download and upgrade!

You can download the client here:

WiX: Managed Custom Actions

posted by  techgeek (12)  11 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I've added WiX to my build process to automate the production of windows installer packages for my product. I'm not very proficient with Windows Installer technology, so I thought I might get by with what I've seen is already a "traditional" approach: dark an MSI created by a Visual Studio Setup Project. Well, I knew that this was not the right

Surface to help shoppers navigate at AT&T stores

posted by  techgeek (12)  3 months ago (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

Microsoft won genuine "wows" from technology enthusiasts when it unveiled a touch-controlled computer embedded in a sleek coffee table 10..... more »

Google Docs Aims At Microsoft Office Live

posted by  techgeek (12)  3 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

mikesd81 writes "Channel News reports that Google took an important step forward Monday in its rivalry with Microsoft Office Live, reporting that Google Docs will allow users to edit word processing documents offline. Google said users of its Google Docs word processing application can use Google Gears to save and then edit documents without being .. more »

Office 2007 winning converts, survey says

posted by  techgeek (12)  3 months ago (www.networkworld.com)

Microsoft's Office 2007 is seeing strong adoption by corporate users that will only pick up steam over the next 12 months, according to a Forrester Research survey released Tuesday... more »

Advancing AIDS Vaccine Research Through Open Approaches

posted by  techgeek (12)  3 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

This article describes how the Machine Learning and Applied Statistics group (part of Microsoft Research) released the source code for a set of four software tools developed to advance AIDS research. .. more »

Ray Tracing To Debut in DirectX 11

posted by  techgeek (12)  3 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

crazyeyes writes "This is breaking news. Microsoft has not only decided to support ray tracing in DirectX 11, but they will also be basing it on Intel's x86 ray-tracing technology and get this ... it will be out by the end of the year! In this article, we will examine what ray tracing is all about and why it would be superior to the current .. more »

HTTPREPLAY is a SOCKTRC plugin allowing to analyze and replay HTTP traffic 

posted by  techgeek (12)  3 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

HTTPREPLAY is a SOCKTRC plugin allowing to analyze and replay HTTP traffic .. more »

Murdoch's Hacker Speaks Out

posted by  techgeek (12)  3 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

This article from a Swiss newspaper recounts the appearance of Christopher Tarnovsky at the European Black Hat conference (link is to a Google translation of the French original). Next month Tarnovsky will testify in a lawsuit brought by a maker of satellite TV encryption systems (Kudeslki) against an Israeli company (NDS), for whom Tarnovsky .. more »

Could China Throw a Wrench in Microsoft’s Yahoo Deal?

posted by  techgeek (12)  3 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

If Yahoo agrees to Microsoft’s buyout offer, the deal would still have to be pass muster with antitrust regulators here in the U.S, in Europe, and in China. As John Markoff points out in the NYT, a new Chinese law that will go into effect in August gives the Chinese government regulatory oversight over [...].. more »