Microsoft Safety & Security Center has a good article for Family safety, where Teach your family members how to use the Internet more safely with these guidelines. Learn about family safety settings for Microsoft products.
Read the below articles.
Teach kids online security basics
Family safety settings for Microsoft products
This coming May 25th, Microsoft intends to unveil a more detailed and full roadmap for the Windows Phone 7 mobile line. Microsoft is working hard on the Mango update, which will contain IE9 and multitasking, its struggles to push out the comparatively modest NoDo update, which contains copy/paste capabilities, cast a somewhat dark cloud on the future upgrade cycles of the phone platform.
Article from winrumors: Microsoft to detail future Windows Phone roadmaps in May
Microsoft is still working on the release, codenamed “Mango”, the software giant is expected to brand it as Windows Phone 7.5 as an interim before the platform is aligned neatly into Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
May 25th Event details, which is on Microsoft tech.days 2011, United Kingdom.
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Microsoft has officially released Internet Explorer 9. Not a beta, not a release candidate, but the real deal. You’ll recall that a Mozilla rep had already spoken out against it a few weeks ago, saying that it was not a “modern browser.” GPU acceleration and a fancy new user interface would suggest otherwise, but there’s no need to get into a browser fight. Use what you like, I say. One of the big features of Internet Explorer 9 is the lack of Windows XP support. It’s a bold move, considering how many people still run that ancient operating system. (If XP still works for you then by all means enjoy yourself, but do you really expect Microsoft to continue to support a 10-year-old OS? Also the browser’s platform preview requires Direct2D, an API available only with Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. IE9 uses Direct2D to hardware-accelerate HTML5-based scrolling and 3D graphics, handing such processing to the machine’s GPU. Direct2D was introduced with Windows 7, and it was later rolled into Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server
2008 R2.
According to the team, Windows XP users have a fast, safe, reliable and private browser in Internet Explorer 8,” company representatives said in an emailed statement. “As the Web has continued to change in everything from security to the future HTML5 applications developers are starting to build today, browsers should require the modern graphics and security infrastructure that has come along since 2001. Internet Explorer 9 requires the modern graphics and security underpinnings that have come since 2001, and is intended to be run on a modern operating system in order to build on the latest hardware and operating system innovations.”
Also for your information, read this too Windows XP End Of Support
Dell’s new cloud integration division, Boomi, has introduced several new features to its enterprise platform, which helps companies move to cloud computing while not disturbing the production use of their existing IT.
AtomSphere Spring 11, launched April 26 as the latest incarnation of Dell Boomi’s cloud integration strategy, features new capabilities for middleware connectivity, large-scale data management and migration, and “anywhere-type” integration monitoring.
The AtomSphere SAAS (software as a service) application integration platform handles transfer of data between cloud-based and on-premises applications—and no appliances, software or coding is required.
Chris Preimesberger has a good article…click here
Social engineering has become the dominant method of distribution for fake antivirus software. And most modern browsers, with one exception, do a terrible job of dealing with this type of threat. Current builds of Chrome display a
terrible flaw that puts you at greater risk than its competitors. In my testing, a malware author was able to exploit Chrome in four easy clicks. In stark contrast, Internet Explorer 9 used some new technology to flag the exact same
sites and files as suspicious, providing unmistakable warnings that have been shown to stop 95% of these attacks in their tracks. Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report
Windows XP End of Support (EOS) in 2014. Microsoft has released a gadget for countdown.,click here to download it.
The Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 SP1 Feature Pack CTP1 is a collection of stand-alone packages which provide additional value for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2. It includes the latest versions of:
Note: Some components in the Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 SP1 CTP Feature Pack of SQL Server® have certain Internet-enabled features, including the Customer Experience Improvement Program and Error and Usage Reporting component, enabled by default to help us identify and address issues that you may encounter while using SQL Server®. For more information and instructions on how to disable these features, see the SQL Server® Privacy Statement
Note:Some components in the Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 SP1 CTP Feature Pack of SQL Server® have two different methods to complete the installation process:
More info click here
The Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administer and manage Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation 2010 and Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010. New in SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit 2.0, the SharePoint Diagnostic Studio 2010 (SPDiag 3.0) provides SharePoint administrators with a unified interface that can be used to gather relevant information from a farm, display the results in a meaningful way, identify performance issues, and share or export the collected data and reports for analysis by Microsoft support personnel. This tool is not supported for SharePoint Foundation 2010. Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) manifests, which add roles for SharePoint 2010 Products to Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 or to Windows Server 2008 R2.
More info and to download this, click here
If you ever face an issue of slowness (When internet explorer is working) after installing Windows 7 SP1, Reset the internet explorer settings to their default condition.
To do this, go to Tools->Internet Options->Advance-> at the bottom there is a button “Reset”
This will resolve the slowness.
Enjoy!!!
Another nice feature introduced in Exchange 2010 is Administrator Audit logging. Audit logging allows an organization to examine different policies. A second important benefit is the review of configuration changes made to the Exchange organization through the Exchange Management Console, Exchange Web Services, and Exchange Management Shell. Audit Logging is useful in tracking configuration changes made within an Exchange Organization, and help identifying any errors. In Exchange 2010 Microsoft introduced AdminAuditLogConfig.
Check out the following commands
Get-AdminAuditLogConfig: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298077.aspx
To enable if its disabled: Set-AdminAuditLogConfig -AdminAuditLogEnabled $true :http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298169.aspx
Search in the AdminAuditLog: Search-AdminAuditLog –Cmdlets New-Mailbox, Remove-Mailbox | FT :http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459250.aspx
Microsoft article about AdminAuditLog, Click here
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