Resources for IT Managers
The Microsoft Tech-Ed IT Professionals Conference will be held June 10-13, 2008, in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The four day conference will feature ways to learn how to architect, plan, deploy, manage and secure connected enterprise solutions. The program covers 20 technical tracks with over 770 learning opportunities. The keynote speaker [...]
Microsoft announced on April 15, 2008 that they had “inadvertently” published to WSUS servers the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) notifications update (KB949810) for 24 hours. Intended as a trial of an anti-piracy program, it was meant for a limited distribution to only to Chile, Italy, Spain and Turkey. The OGA program is intended to [...]
At the RSC Conference 2008, Microsoft announced the availability of the public beta release of their next-generation Microsoft Forefront security solution code-named “Stirling”. Forefront “Stirling” includes a central management console for security configuration and enterprise-wide visibility, combined with the next-generation Forefront products that span the client, server and network edge. They include Forefront Client Security, [...]
Today Microsoft gave advanced notification of eight security updates to be released on 4/8/08. Five are rated as critical and 3 as important. Critical patches include Windows, Microsoft Project, Internet Explorer and VBScript programming software. Two of the updates rated as important are for Windows and the third is for Microsoft Visio software. The 4/8/08 [...]