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When will ISA 2006 be available for customers to buy & when will it be available for download by TechNet Plus subscribers

Many of you have asked me by email when ISA 2006 will be available for production use. ISA 2006 is due to hit the Microsoft universal price list on 1st Sept 2006 It will also be available for download by TechNet Plus subscribers in the next Read More
posted Friday, August 18, 2006 2:22 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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WiFi on my phone --> A whole world of possibilities both good and bad

I'm getting on really well with my new phone - the Orange M3100 I mentioned earlier this week. I won't bore you with the details. One noteworthy point is that the device has support for WiFi - this was a deciding factor in my choice of device. Being Read More
posted Friday, August 18, 2006 9:17 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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KUDOS to James for the nice intro to Taking Microsoft - I'd love to hear your suggestions for people you'd like us to interview

James wrote a great introduction to Talking Microsoft and I'm glad to see that folk out there in IT Pro land are starting to talk about this new resource which takes you behind the scenes at Microsoft Ltd. Our aim is to connect you to the Read More
posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:36 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
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I'm so sad - I'm going stir crazy as my mobile phone's been offline for nearly four hours!

This must say more about me than I perhaps intend and I dare say it's not good! Earlier this morning I happily received a brand new shiny phone with all kinds of bells and whistles including 3G and a touch screen. My new device is an Orange M3100. Paul's Read More
posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:11 PM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
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Where should you start when considering Information Security?

Ron's comment asking "if it's all about risk why do we call it Information Risk Management" has certainly made me think... It's all very well for "security thinkers" to tell you all about all kinds of weird and wonderful threats to your information and Read More
posted Friday, August 11, 2006 7:17 PM by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
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This month's (August) Security Update is particularly important

Full details of this month's security update can be found here. It's a significant update as it includes updates to address nine critical vulnerabilities and three important vulnerabilities. Ten of the vulnerabilities are for Microsoft Windows, two are Read More
posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:57 AM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
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What advice would you give to Chief Information Officers to improve the effectiveness of Information Security?

I was recently asked for suggestions to give to Chief Information Officers to improve their security posture. My suggestions were as follows - I'd love to hear your comments to see what you'd suggest: Here are my five tips for CIOs: Challenge everything. Read More
posted Monday, August 07, 2006 6:19 PM by Steve Lamb | 9 Comments
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Check out NxtGenUG's Security Podcast

Click on the image below or here to listen to a recent podcast where some chap from Microsoft speaks his mind about security posture and how to be proactive. The authors of the podcast (Rich and Dave) share their eclectic style and some rather specialist Read More
posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:41 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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Join Tim O'Reilly for a podcast discussing OpenSource, Architectures for Collaboration and Mashups

There's an interesting podcast (of approx 20 mins duration) hosted by Bill Hilf where Tim O'Reilly discusses where OpenSource is going and how Open Access to data is of principle importance. Tim talks about how the best applications are those that get Read More
posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:30 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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If you're going to BlackHat then you'll find plenty of Microsoft security specialists there

Microsoft are hosting an entire track giving technical insight and encouraging feedback at the Blackhat conference. For those of you who (like me) aren't able to go to Las Vegas for the conference it's worth watching out for both webcasts and the events Read More
posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:53 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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Good News - TechNet Plus subscribers can now dowload the latest versions of Windows Vista and Office

It's been a long time coming but finally TechNet Plus subscriber downloads provides online access to the latest CTP builds of Microsoft Infrastructure products including Windows Vista and 2007 Office System. I know that many of you have been frustrated Read More
posted Monday, July 31, 2006 12:28 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Thanks to everyone that took part in LUGRadio Live 2006 - a huge LINUX User Group event

It was brilliant to see over four hundred people taking part in the UK's largest LINUX User Group get together. As you'd imaging there was plenty of debating the finer points of all areas of Open Source development and applications. LUGRadio was billed Read More
posted Friday, July 28, 2006 6:07 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Another tweak to get Aero Glass working reliably

In addition to my earlier post detailing how to get Aero Glass working I've found that making a change to the BIOS on my machine has ensured that I can now reliably use an external monitor and also project. The setting in question specifies whether Read More
posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:53 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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Why are the "M" and "N" keys wearing out on my keyboard?

I'm using a couple of laptops - one is nearly three years old and for some bizarre reason only the "M" and "N" keys are loosing the symbols printed on the key. I could understand if the vowels were wearing out. Someone helpfully suggested that I Read More
posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 2:39 PM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
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I am NOT a Number but I'm not afraid of sharing my telephone number with all of you

Following Eileen's lead I've decided to post my mobile phone number on my blog. Bearing in mind that I disclose it to anyone who asks and I'd like to be contactable by anyone who's interested in the sames things as I am it seems like a good idea. I just Read More
posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:28 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
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