Monthly Archives: May 2009

Securing Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure

A lot of people and companies are talking about “the Cloud” today. I guess that there are not too many companies that share the same track record of running online services as Microsoft. 1994 we launched MSN and since then … Continue reading

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How we do IT: Direct Access

You might know that we have something we call the Microsoft IT Showcase, where our internal IT shows how they use our technology to run our environment. Now, we just published a new article, which might be interesting for you … Continue reading

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Patch Management, a key step towards compliance!

As you might have read, I recently blogged about my infrastructure and the future of a platform towards a better management of compliance – honestly, I actually played with our latest technology . I wrote about Deploying PKI Time Sync … Continue reading

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Security Development Lifecycle Template – Your next step to “Secure Development”

You might remember it: January 15th, 2002 Bill Gates wrote the famous memo on Trustworthy Computing to all the employees at Microsoft. This was probably one of the biggest initiatives at Microsoft and radically changed the way we develop software … Continue reading

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File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2

We recently revealed the File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2. This infrastructure can help you to classify files not only based on the location where it is stored but based on content as well. However, there is not … Continue reading

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MS09-017: An out-of-the-ordinary PowerPoint security update

Our Security Research and Defense team blogged on the PowerPoint security update we published on Tuesday. There are a few things which were not “business as usual”: The update for the Windows version of PowerPoint went out before the Mac … Continue reading

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Download Pirated Copies – and you will be banned from the Internet

This is a very tough legislation: France just agreed on a new Internet Piracy Bill. If you violate piracy laws three times, you will be banned from the Internet up to an year: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/05/12/france-approves-internet-piracy-bill Interesting approach Roger

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Google Chrome and Silent Patching

This morning I opened one of the Swiss Sunday newspapers and Google Chrome made it to the front-page with a “best practice approach” for deploying security updates. In the article itself it was claimed that Chrome is one of the … Continue reading

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DirectAccess and how it works

Republished with the fixed link (thank you for the one who told me via messenger) In my last blog post Direct Access – A Step by Step Guide I just linked to a paper showing how you can set it … Continue reading

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DirectAccess – a Step by Step Guide

Direct Access is one of the coolest features I used since a quite while. I am part of our internal pilot since months and it is absolutely great: You connect to the Internet and you are immediately connected to the … Continue reading

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