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Een kleine preview:

  • How we did it: Speeding up SharePoint.Microsoft.com
  • Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator
  • New and Improved AntiXss 3.1, Now With Sanitization
  • Application Security Street Fighting
  • Guidelines for add-on developers
  • Office Web Apps Coming to Windows Live
  • 77 Windows 7 Tips
  • Microsoft Planning Tools for Your Server Virtualization Projects
  • Looking deeper into SQL Server using Minidumps
  • Exchange ActiveSync and iPhone OS 3.1

 Microsoft news and product information from microsoft.com and product team blogs

 

Top News:

Security:

  • The Microsoft Security Update Guide This Guide was designed to help IT professionals better understand and use Microsoft security release information, processes, communications, and tools. Our goal is to help IT professionals manage organizational risk and develop a repeatable, effective deployment mechanism for security updates. In this Guide, you will find a convenient glossary of terms, an overview of the Microsoft Security Bulletin process, and a stage-by-stage review of Microsoft Security Updates.

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Microsoft Developer Information

  • Using VBA to Send Data to a Table from an Unbound Form Control This is a useful trick which gives the Access Developer additional flexibility when working with forms and data. It uses Access VBA and DAO.
  • The Visio 2010 Connectivity API Our previous post on AutoConnect in Visio 2010 discussed how Visio 2010 makes it simpler and faster for end users to create connected diagrams such as flowcharts. Many developers will be pleased to hear that Visio 2010 also brings greatly simplified utilities for working with connected diagrams programmatically. The Visio 2010 API contains new methods that let developers manipulate and traverse connected diagrams or graphs at a higher level of abstraction than previously, which can result in greater programmer productivity and more concise, readable code.
  • New and Improved AntiXss 3.1, Now With Sanitization As we’ve talked about on this blog many times in the past, the SDL requires the use of the Microsoft AntiXss library to defend against cross-site scripting attacks. However, we haven’t talked about the fact that until now, there have been two separate versions of AntiXss: one freely available to external users and one restricted to use only inside Microsoft hosted data centers. The internal version will be made available.
  • Two New Security Tools for your SDL tool belt (Bonus: a “7-easy-steps” whitepaper) Today we are making available BinScope Binary Analyzer and MiniFuzz File Fuzzer as no cost downloads.
  • Application Security Street Fighting As a developer, you are faced with an almost impossible task. Even small projects process hundreds of pieces of input data, provide access control to multiple users and interact with multiple systems like databases and browsers. If you make one mistake, one single SQL injection flaw, one function with insufficient access control, you lose. On the other hand, an attacker only has to find one single flaw in order to breach the application.
  • Supporting Web Standards Development with SuperPreview The Expression Web team recently shipped SuperPreview for Internet Explorer, a FREE tool for performing cross-browser debugging across Internet Explorer, including versions 6, 7, and 8.  This tool also helps developers and site owners in migrating their sites from earlier versions of Internet Explorer  to the standards-compliant Internet Explorer 8.
  • Guidelines for add-on developers We have published a full list of guidelines to help add-on developers create quality add-ons.  We created these guidelines to respond to demand from the developer community and to help share the thinking of the IE team, gathered from years of providing support to users and developers.   We strongly recommend that developers follow these guidelines when developing add-ons for IE users.

 

Windows Desktop and Server – 7 / 2008 / Vista / 2003 / XP

  • MDOP 2009 R2: What’s New in MDOP for Windows 7 Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2009 R2 will be released in late October 2009 and will add Windows 7 support for all components, except for MED-V. Server and management components will support Windows 2008 R2. Additionally, we are working to ensure that MED-V will support Windows 7, in the first quarter of calendar year 2010 via MED-V 1.0 SP1.
  • AGPM 4.0 and DaRT Technical Documentation Now Live To help you learn more about the cool new features and Win 7 support for AGPM 4.0 and DaRT 6.5 we have now posted the technical documentation online.
  • Mark Russinovich: Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles I’m going to go inside the implementation of handles to find and explain their limits. Handles are data structures that represent open instances of basic operating system objects applications interact with, such as files, registry keys, synchronization primitives, and shared memory. There are two limits related to the number of handles a process can create: the maximum number of handles the system sets for a process and the amount of memory available to store the handles and the objects the application is referencing with its handles.
  • Windows 7: The 10 Things to Do First for Windows 7 When you run your thumb down the list of new features and improvements in Windows 7 (see the feature comparison chart at tinyurl.com/win7featuregrid), you’re bound to wonder how you’re going to get your arms around all that new technology so that you can deliver it to your users without too much disruption.
  • 77 Windows 7 Tips Whether you’re upgrading from Vista or skipping it altogether and moving up from Windows XP, you’ll need to know how to make the most of Windows 7 in your environment. Here are 77 tips and tricks to get you there.
  • Performance: Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Upgrade Paths, Registry Enhancements, Crash Dumps and Page File Sizing It’s time to get started on our Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series.  Day One – let’s start at the very beginning, which is usually a very good place to start.  Today we’re covering Upgrade Paths, Registry Enhancements, Crash Dumps and Page File Sizing.
  • Directory Services: O’DFS Shares! Where Art Thou? – Part 1/3 We are here today to discuss one of the common customer issues where they are seeing a delay in accessing a DFS Namespace. (all three parts are posted n the blog).
  • What’s New in Group Policy for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Explore the new and updated Group Policy features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. System administrators will find plenty of goodies, from new Windows PowerShell functionality to updated power options, task scheduling and software restriction policies
  • So you have a slow logon…? (Part 1) I have put this two-part blog post together with hope that it will save you countless hours and a few aspirin when troubleshooting a slow logon.
  • ADFS – Federated WebSSO with Forest Trust Scenario and its Limitations Today I’d like to talk about an ADFS case I had recently where the customer ran into some limitations with their Federated WebSSO with Forest Trust setup.
  • Understanding LDAP Security Processing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an interface used to read from and write to the Active Directory database. Therefore, your Active Directory Administration tools (i.e. AD Users and Computers, AD Sites and Services, etc.) as well as third party tools are often going to use LDAP to bind to the database in order to manage your domain.
  • Cluster: Creating and Configuring a Generic Script Resource In this post I will talk about creating the third of our generic containers, Generic Scripts.
  • Failover Clustering Performance Counters In Windows Server 2008 R2 we have added performance counters for Failover Clustering. Some components in the cluster deal with lots of calls or traffic going through them and some buffer information in memory before it can get processed.  We have added performance counters to several such components.
  • Remote Desktop Services: Using Remote Desktop Easy Print in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 What’s new in Windows 7?
  • Control the Issuance of RDS CALs This post is for customers or administrators who want to control which Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) servers are issued Remote Desktop Services client access licenses (RDS CALs) and which version of RDS CAL is issued to the RD Session Host servers. See also: What’s the difference between a RDS CAL and a TS CAL?
  • What does 64-bit only change about Windows 2008 R2 RDS? As far as Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is concerned, only the x64 platform is supported. So the question really boils down to: “How does moving from x86 to x64 RDS platform affect me?”

Virtualization Technologies

SQL Server

Exchange Server

  • Introduction to Exchange 2007 Search Search in Exchange 2007 (Exchange Search) is completely different from earlier versions of Exchange. Improvements were made to performance, Content Indexing, and Search. New items are indexed almost immediately after their arrival into a mailbox giving end users a fast, reliable, and more stable search function. In Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003, indexing was not enabled by default.  In Exchange 2007, indexing is enabled by default on all mailbox databases and there is no initial setup or configuration required. See also: Exchange 2007 Search – Part 2: Content Indexing
  • Removing “Reply All” Functionality for Outlook Users Who Participate in Reply-All Storms, via Group Policy: what to do To be clear there are a number of different approaches for achieving the goal of disabling Reply-All in Outlook. The most common technique would appear to be the creation and deployment of custom Outlook toolbars. Far more infrequent are macros in Outlook as well as custom Group Policy Objects (the primary topic of this post). Additionally, while future versions of Exchange will include features to deal with this problem much better (read about Exchange 2010 Conversation View here) – I wanted something that people can use now, with versions of software they currently have.
  • Single Item Recovery in Exchange Server 2010 Exchange 2010 aims to reduce the complexity and administrative costs associated with single item recovery.
  • Exchange ActiveSync and iPhone OS 3.1 Many Exchange Server customers have reported issues logging on to Exchange using iPhone devices older than iPhone 3GS. iPhones support Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), the same protocol supported by Windows Mobile devices, and licensed by many other mobile device manufacturers.
  • What’s New in the Exchange Management Console for Exchange Server 2010 This series of articles will quickly skim through all the new administrative features surfaced via the EMC. Because of the sheer amount of things we wanted to show you, we broke this up into 3 separate blog posts that will follow each other. Future articles will drill into greater detail. (All three are available on the blog.)

System Center

Office SharePoint Technologies

  • Support end-user productivity with the Productivity Hub The Productivity Hub is a downloadable SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that is pre-populated with over 300 pieces of content about Office programs (including SharePoint Server!). The content includes videos, documents, and PowerPoint slides. It’s a great solution for organizations that block Internet access—including access to Office Online — but want to support end-user technology needs.
  • How we did it: Speeding up SharePoint.Microsoft.com SharePoint.Microsoft.com is a critical communications channel for SharePoint. We wanted to provide visitors with a rich and helpful experience and at the same time educate them on what SharePoint can do for their businesses. The site leverages our industry-leading web content management platform, and provides useful content and resources to the visitors. In addition, we also recognized that there were fundamental Internet challenges that needed to be overcome in order to improve page loading time, especially for our global visitors.
  • Patching a mirrored farm with minimal downtime For administrators of large SharePoint server farms, a newly-published article describes how to update server farms that use database mirroring, while incurring minimal perceived downtime for users. This solution is for enterprise customers who have high-availability needs and infrastructure.
  • Announcing the release of patterns and practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance Patterns and practices has released a new version of guidance for building collaborative applications that extend your LOB systems.  The guidance helps customers accelerate constructing advanced applications through examples and documentation.
  • Fast Tip: Add the Checked Out To column to your SharePoint library

Microsoft Office System

  • Trusted Documents This post will give you some insight to the Trusted Documents feature, a simple enhancement that improves the user experience when interacting with security features.
  • Office Web Apps Coming to Windows Live We are making available Excel, Word and PowerPoint Web Apps for a select group of Windows Live users as part of the Office Web Apps Technical Preview.
  • OCS: Released: OCS 2007 R2 Deploying Certificates document We have released a document that we believe many of you have wanted to see for quite some time. One document that covers the certificate requirements for Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
  • Access: Access 2007 hotfix package now available
  • Jump start new Access databases with a custom blank database template There are certain features that virtually every Access database application includes. Certain tables like people’s names and addresses, certain forms for managing lookup lists and many to many relationships, custom splash screens, and on and on.
  • Excel:  Performance Improvements in Excel 2010 In this release of Excel we spent dedicated research and development resources on improving performance. In addition to the usual optimizations and tuning efforts we make post “code complete”, we spent time during the development milestones researching, designing, and implementing performance features beyond algorithmic tuning. Follow up article here.
  • Easy (and Even Fun!) Data Exploration: Introducing Excel 2010 Slicers New to Excel 2010 are slicers, which are visual controls that allow you to quickly and easily filter your data in an interactive way. They float above the grid, like charts and shapes.
  • New and Improved Solver In Excel 2010, we have made a number of improvements to Solver that make it easy for beginners to get started and more advanced ones to find solutions to all types of problems.  The purpose of this post is to review the improvements to Solver, and so assumes some familiarity with the tool.
  • New Functions Bring New UI In this post I will describe the UI changes we have made to help users take advantage of these improvements in Excel 2010. In addition I will also talk about the backward compatibility experience for the new function library.
  • Outlook: Multiple Exchange Accounts in Outlook 2010 Connect to more than one Microsoft Exchange account simultaneously. If you’ve worked with more than one Exchange account in Outlook 2007 or earlier, you may have resorted to using multiple Outlook profiles to access your additional accounts. No more, as Outlook 2010 supports connecting to as many as three Exchange accounts from a single profile.
  • PowerPoint: Animation Painter In PowerPoint 2010 we’re introducing the Animation Painter. Just select an object with animations, select the “Animation Painter” button on the Animations tab, and with a single click you can transfer the all the animations and settings to another object. If you double-click the painter button, you’ll be in “Sticky Mode” so that you can paint multiple objects sequentially.
  • Project: Tips and Tricks: Create a report instantly with Project 2007
  • Project 2010: Introducing the Ribbon The Project 2010 user interface has been completely revamped this release based on the Office Fluent or “Ribbon” UI. The Office Fluent UI represents a dramatic departure from the overloaded menu and toolbar design model of previous Project releases. Project’s extensive capabilities are now organized into logical, easy to find groups that help you accomplish actions efficiently rather than choosing features.
  • Visio: Inserting and Deleting Shapes in Visio 2010 Diagram maintenance is a task that everyone performs, and many users spend much of their time in Visio maintaining existing diagrams.  We realize that a fair amount of the time you spend maintaining your diagrams is spent in the mechanics of the task, rather than achieving the goals of updating the concept the diagram represents.  There are some clear gains we can effect to make your life easier as you go about editing your diagrams.
  • Word: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010 In Word 2010, we’re working to make co-authoring as natural as solo-authoring. Here’s how…

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Recent Security Bulletins (Security Bulletin Archives) 

 

Last 5 Published or Updated Security Advisories:

 

Microsoft Security Advisory (975497)
Vulnerabilities in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Published or Last Updated: 9/23/2009

 

Microsoft Security Advisory (975191)
Vulnerabilities in the FTP Service in Internet Information Services
Published or Last Updated: 9/3/2009

 

Microsoft Security Advisory (973882)
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Published or Last Updated: 8/25/2009

 

Microsoft Security Advisory (967940)
Update for Windows Autorun
Published or Last Updated: 8/25/2009

 

Microsoft Security Advisory (973811)
Extended Protection for Authentication
Published or Last Updated: 8/11/2009
 

For the entire list of published Security Advisories, visit the Security Advisory Archive Web site.

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