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December 2005 - Posts

Who do you go to for security advice?

Do you have experience of participating in User Groups? Which ones would you recommend? Are they free of charge? Are there particular people you go to for security advice? What about security blogs - which do you find most useful?   Read More
posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:58 PM by Steve Lamb | 8 Comments
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January's free Security Webcasts for IT Pros, Executives and Developers

There's a wealth of webcasts that are coming up in January - they're all free of course. If you're an IT Professional and would like to broaden your understanding of developer issues then I suggest viewing some of their sessions (listed @ the end of this Read More
posted Monday, December 19, 2005 5:48 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
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Windows Server 2003 and XP SP2 have achieved Common Criteria EAL4 - here's a measure of how secure Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP are

Moments ago this information hit the press in the form of a press release and white paper that you can read by clicking here. Please take a look at the white paper to view the full details of this announcement - here is a brief summary... To quote from Read More
posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:01 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments

Free webcast showing how to use Rights Management to stop information leaking from your organisation

I recently recorded a thiry minute webcast for a live TechNet audience. Please click here to view the replay - all you need is a Passport account to be able to view the session which includes a demonstration of how to use Rights Management in a production Read More
posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:57 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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Will my software break under Windows Server R2?

As John Howard mentions in his post Windows Server R2 is entirely based on Windows Server SP1 - it simply adds features and includes some code updates. The design goal of R2 was to bring additional features without changing the Kernel so as to ensure Read More
posted Monday, December 12, 2005 11:15 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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Enhanced Security in Visual Studio 2005

As you may already be aware there are a vast array of security features in Visual Studio 2005 which take the pain out of writing secure code - I'll explain more another time. Earlier this week I installed Visual Studio 2005 (Professional Edition) on Read More
posted Friday, December 09, 2005 5:47 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
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Running Virtual Server R2 on Windows Vista

This is not a supported configuration nor am I recommending you to try this at home/work HOWEVER I'm happily running Virtual Server R2 (pre-release version) on Windows Vista Beta 1 - I'm runnning the beta that's available from the MSDN subscriber centre. Read More
posted Friday, December 09, 2005 4:28 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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Windows Server Release 2 (R2) is available for download

The official launch of Windows Server 2003 R2 (Release 2) took place earlier this week (Tuesday 6th December) - we'd planned to make the software available for download immediately available though unfortunately there was a short delay in getting the Read More
posted Friday, December 09, 2005 3:51 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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What sessions would you like to see at TechNet?

We're planning next year's TechNet events at the moment and at present the following topics will be added to the security track: * An additional PKI session where we drill into secure email (S/MIME) in more depth * A session covering Quarantine for Read More
posted Friday, December 09, 2005 3:45 PM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
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Make sure you get your wireless security passphrase right on Windows Vista

This won't come as a surprise for those of you who've read many of my blog entries or who've discussed security with me directly but I have a somewhat obtuse Wireless Protected Access (WPA) passphrase and I've just mistyped it on my newly built Windows Read More
posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:41 PM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
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How to find your way around London - here's a free journey planner for bus train tube and boat

Anyone who's visited London is likely to have used many of the available transport options including the tube (underground), bus, train (over land) and possibly the river taxis too. If you visit as a tourist then you may have time to amble around and Read More
posted Friday, December 02, 2005 5:46 PM by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
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How to Secure wireless networks?

A good point of reference is http://www.microsoft.com/wifi as you'll find a wealth of best practise advice there. Another good source is the current TechNet Magazine which can be accessed both online (you can download the entire thing) and in print too Read More
posted Friday, December 02, 2005 11:08 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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XBox 360 Launch in the UK - it's here!

If you're reading this tonight (1st Dec) then it's not quite happened yet but XBox 360 launches in the UK tomorrow (2nd Dec) as you may be aware. I've been able to play a couple of pre-release games this week and can report that they're fantastic. Of Read More
posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:35 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
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Looking for advice on developing secure applications?

The MSDN UK Evangelist team have worked with the best practise experts throughout the company to bring you a developer-centric website which you can access by clicking here. There's some good content on the site and it's presented in an easily accessible Read More
posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 4:42 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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