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  • Deploy Internet Explorer 8 for Better Security
    Don’t leave your company at a higher risk by using a competing browser or an older version of Internet Explorer.  Internet Explorer 8 is the best browser at protection from malware (based on NSS Labs Web Browser Security Report 3/12/2009). With the Smart Screen Filter, you can protect against evolving threats like type 1 "reflective" XSS attacks, one of the most common vulnerabilities. And with In Private Filtering your company will have an added level of control and choice about the information 3rd-party websites can potentially use to track browsing activity.

  • New Edge video: Improving Collaboration with SharePoint - Tech Focus December 2009, Part 1
    In this new 2-part video series hosted by Alan Le Marquand we’ll cover how deploying SharePoint into an organization provides capabilities that address the following requirements: extracting information from silos and making it more widely available and achieving this in a way that remains relevant to each department or team of employees, enabling people to share information widely, yet in a secure and controlled fashion and letting them search entire repositories quickly and efficiently.

  • Watch Steve Lipner talk on Client and Cloud Security
    Steve Lipner, Senior Director of Security Engineering Strategy for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group talks about client and cloud security.

  • Download Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8
    The Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 8 simplifies the creation, deployment, and management of customized Windows Internet Explorer 8 packages. IEAK 8 can be used to configure the out-of-box Internet Explorer 8 experience for your users to manage user settings after you deploy Internet Explorer 8. Download the Internet Explorer 8 Administration Kit (IEAK) to create, deploy or manage customized IE 8 packages.

  • Recommendations for increased browser security using Internet Explorer 8
    This whitepaper examines new features and settings that you can modify to provide a more "locked down" security configuration for Internet Explorer 8. This document discusses both the Windows Vista and Windows XP versions of Internet Explorer. Administrators and system owners can use the guidance in this paper to tighten security settings in the browser to meet their specific needs. The document is structured to provide a description and review of the settings and features the paper discusses. Microsoft recommendations for enhancing the default security settings in some common deployment scenarios are also provided.

 
  • How Do I: Configure SQL Azure Security?
    In this video, Max Adams introduces security within SQL Azure. The creation of Logins, Databases and Users is discussed and demonstrated. The views sys.sql_logins and sys.databases which allow the display of logins and databases from the master database are also discussed.
  • How Do I: Managing SSL Certificates With Azure ?
    In this video, Max Adams describes how to create and deploy SSL certificates to Windows Azure applications. An x509 certificate is also deployed to the Azure account for use with the Windows Azure Management API.
  • How Do I: Deploying With CS Pack ?
    There are times when using command line utilities instead of an IDE to deploy Azure applications just make sense. In this video, Max Adams introduces the Azure SDK’s command line utilities – CSPack and CSRun to do this type of packaging and deployment.
  • How Do I: Azure Deployment State Errors ?
    In this video, Max Adams discusses the most common errors that cause a deployment of a Windows Azure application to cycle between the Initializing, Busy, and Stopped statuses. The discussion includes assembly errors, configuration errors, and unhandled exceptions.