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7/4/2009 Windows Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List - Version 1.3OverviewWindows Internet Explorer 8 is Microsoft’s latest web browser. Unlike previous versions, Internet Explorer 8 renders content in the most standards-compliant way possible. This means that web pages will be displayed in Internet Explorer 8’s standards mode by default. Through product feedback channels, our users have indicated that, during the beta period, some websites may not have been compatible with Internet Explorer 8 in its default, standards-based mode. As a result, these domains have been added to a list of sites that, for the short-term, are most likely to be displayed better in Compatibility View. All Internet Explorer 8 users are given the choice to use this list, and the subset that chooses to do so will see each listed domain automatically displayed in Compatibility View, without additional user interaction or notice. The sites on this list have high traffic volume (in their regions), and having a compatible website ensures a significant number of Internet Explorer 8 users will have a great experience. This list will be periodically updated and automatically downloaded to Internet Explorer 8 users who have opted-in to use Compatibility View updates from Microsoft. For more information on Compatibility View list updates, please see - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960321. For more information and to download theWindows Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List - Version 1.3, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b885e621-91b7-432d-8175-a745b87d2588]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 7/3/2009 Web Platform Installer - Version 1.0OverviewDevelopers and server administrators can use the Web Platform Installer 1.0 to more easily discover, download and install the Microsoft Web platform. Using the Web Platform Installer’s simple user interface, you can select specific components or install the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer easily and quickly. To help you stay up-to-date with product releases, the Web Platform Installer tool always contains the most current versions and new additions to the Microsoft Web Platform. Examples of products which can be downloaded and installed through Web Platform Installer include:
For more information and to download the Web Platform Installer - Version 1.0, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3a41fac1-ed06-4944-a24d-76c8da31cf7d]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 7/2/2009 Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 3 - Version 10.2OverviewMicrosoft Forefront Security for SharePoint integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading vendors and provides content controls to help protect your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments from documents that contain malicious code, confidential information, and inappropriate content. Forefront Security for SharePoint provides comprehensive protection against the latest threats to help ensure documents are safe before they are saved to or retrieved from the SharePoint document library. Features include antimalware engine amendments and rollup of software fixes Note:
For more information and to download the Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 3 - Version 10.2, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e06453b8-b2dd-4177-969c-2f89aa841e11]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies IT Manager: Platform Solution Blueprint – SecurityOverviewThis printable color poster illustrates where security technologies fit in the IT manager’s environment. With this poster IT managers can easily see the relative relationships of the critical solution patterns for security and how they fit together. IT managers also learn about the stages of security adoption as well as how a platform aligned solution contributes to the success of their IT infrastructure.
For more information and to download the poster IT Manager: Platform Solution Blueprint – Security, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e86e9575-a868-450b-92c9-23fe456efbe2]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 7/1/2009 Cumulative Blog Statistics - June 2009Blog Statistics Period: 1st June 2009 to 30th June 2009
Statistics Published on: 1st July 2009 at 22:45PM AEST
Total Blog Posts: 41
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Total Page Views: 12479
Cumulative Page Views: 341184 === 2009 ===
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October (52) September (38) August (53) July (32) June (18) May (32) April (30) March (32) February (47) January (19) === 2004 === December* (0) Thank you to everybody who have made this blog a great success!
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Category: Blog Statistics Australian Taxation Office e-tax 2009 is now available!The Australian Taxation Office [http://www.ato.gov.au] has released e-tax 2009.
e-tax from the Tax Office helps you prepare your income tax return, baby bonus claim or 30% child care tax rebate transfer advice electronically and then lodge online. It also allows you to download your Medicare financial tax statement details.
For more information and to download e-tax 2009, please visit [http://www.ato.gov.au/etax].
BEWARE OF PHISHING EMAILS!
Recently the Australian Taxation Office published a press release about an email scam [http://www.ato.gov.au/corporate/content.asp?doc=/content/00198056.htm] otherwise known within the IT industry as phishing. Now that we are in the Tax Time 2009 period (1st July to 30th October 2009), Australian taxpayers should remain vigilant about these types of emails.
As a first line of defense, users who have a genuine copy of Windows Vista with SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 should upgrade to Internet Explorer 8.0 to take advantage of the in-built phishing filter. To learn more about the IE8 phishing filter (SmartScreen), please visit [https://phishingfilter.microsoft.com/faq.aspx]. To learn how to recognise phishing scams and fradulent emails/hoaxes, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/australia/protect/yourself/phishing/default.mspx].
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Computers and Internet 6/30/2009 Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer DocumentsOverviewThe Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer (MSIA) is a free tool that can help with your software inventory. Using this tool, you can generate an inventory of core Microsoft products that are installed on your local computer or throughout a network. The MSIA is built specifically to be a starting point to working with Software Asset Management (SAM). To that end, the MSIA will work with networks that have 250 computers or fewer, and it will locate only Microsoft software. Also note: The results of the scan performed by the MSIA are completely confidential and not sent to Microsoft. For more information about the MSIA, see the MSIA Online User's Guide, or read our FAQ (frequently asked questions). For more information and to download the Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer Documents, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c25884f2-9ab6-419f-a22f-d39225eac339]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/29/2009 Office Document: SharePoint Products and Technologies (2007 release) Interoperability ArchiveOverviewIMPORTANT This download contains a historical copy of the SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation as published on June 1, 2009. Any modifications or changes will be documented in the current copy available from the related resources links on this page.
The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies to interoperate or communicate with Microsoft products. The documentation includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information. For more information and to download the Office Document: SharePoint Products and Technologies (2007 release) Interoperability Archive, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a15d4341-79bf-47ba-9bf4-d999281e86cf]
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Location: Sydney/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/28/2009 Microsoft Code Analysis Tool .NET (CAT.NET) v1 CTP - 32 bitOverviewCAT.NET is a snap-in to the Visual Studio IDE that helps you identify security flaws within a managed code (C#, Visual Basic .NET, J#) application you are developing. It does so by scanning the binary and/or assembly of the application, and tracing the data flow among its statements, methods, and assemblies. This includes indirect data types such as property assignments and instance tainting operations. The engine works by reading the target assembly and all reference assemblies used in the application -- module-by-module -- and then analyzing all of the methods contained within each. It finally displays the issues its finds in a list that you can use to jump directly to the places in your application's source code where those issues were found. The following rules are currently support by this version of the tool. - Cross Site Scripting - SQL Injection - Process Command Injection - File Canonicalization - Exception Information - LDAP Injection - XPATH Injection - Redirection to User Controlled Site
For more information and to download the Microsoft Code Analysis Tool .NET (CAT.NET) v1 CTP - 32 bit, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0178e2ef-9da8-445e-9348-c93f24cc9f9d]
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Location: Sydney/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/27/2009 MOSDAL (Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging) Support Toolkit - Version 2OverviewMOSDAL Support Toolkit collects system configuration, network configuration, service-based applications' configuration and logging data along with performing network diagnostics. MOSDAL Support Toolkit can be used by anyone having issues with the Microsoft Online services. A KB article about the tool can be found over here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960625 For more information and to download the MOSDAL (Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging) Support Toolkit - Version 2, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=457e0786-1bec-40a2-95ab-06428f53b5cc]
Posted by: Eric Lam
Location: Sydney/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/26/2009 Microsoft Sync Framework v2.0 CTP1OverviewAn updated version of Microsoft Sync Framework is available from the following Download Center location:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=89adbb1e-53ff-41b5-ba17-8e43a2e66254&displaylang=en For more information and to download the Microsoft Sync Framework v2.0 CTP1, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=109db36e-cdd0-4514-9fb5-b77d9cea37f6]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/25/2009 Windows 7 Upgrade Test MatrixFor more information and to download the Windows 7 Upgrade Test Matrix, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e170eba1-5bab-401f-bbf5-00f0ee7fe0fb]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/23/2009 Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008OverviewThis software is an optional supplement to Windows Server 2008. In Windows Server 2008, the Streaming Media Services role (which includes the latest version of Windows Media Services) and remote administration tools are not included in Server Manager. To obtain the new features and tools available in Windows Media Services for Windows Server 2008, such as the built-in WMS Cache/Proxy plug-in, you must obtain and run the appropriate Streaming Media Services role installer file on the updated platform. These Microsoft Update Standalone Package (MSU) files install either 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) versions (as noted in the file names) of:
For more information and to download the Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9ccf6312-723b-4577-be58-7caab2e1c5b7]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/22/2009 Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) - Version 4.0OverviewMicrosoft Operations Framework 4.0. MOF 4.0 is designed to help IT professionals quickly access useful, relevant content. It contains practical guidance—not just theory—and its streamlined approach makes it possible to use either the entire framework or one process from a particular service management function (SMF). Using MOF for ISO/IEC 20000. This guide will help IT management, staff, and service providers to understand ISO/IEC 20000 requirements and help them use MOF as a means to streamlined and efficient implementation. The guide enables users to take informed steps toward ISO/IEC implementation, make cost-reducing process improvements, and increase organizational efficiency and flexibility. Ultimately, the steps outlined in this guide will help an organization meet ISO/IEC 20000 requirements and deliver effective IT services. Cross Reference ITIL V3 and MOF 4.0. This guide compares the similarities and differences between two of the leading service management frameworks—the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Microsoft Operations Framework. In an environment where IT organizations are challenged as never before to deliver better IT services at lower costs, these service management frameworks offer best practice guidance for service improvement. This guide provides background information on IT Service Management (ITSM), introduces ITIL and MOF, and then discusses the two frameworks’ alignment, cross referencing, and application. It will enhance readers’ understanding of the main characteristics of these frameworks and how they align. Planning for Software-plus-Services: A MOF Companion Guide. This guide provides a framework for considering and planning a software-plus-service strategy, using concise guidance and strategies from MOF 4.0 core content. The steps in this guide can be used to evaluate how software-plus-services will best help an organization. This is the first of the MOF companion guides, which apply MOF 4.0 principles to specific activities—making MOF’s guidance even more practical and usable. MOF to COBIT/Val IT Comparison and Cross-Implementation Guide: How to Leverage MOF in a COBIT/Val IT Environment. This guide connects MOF, COBIT, and Val IT, enabling IT operations managers and professionals to understand how to best meet the mounting challenge of managing IT services in a way that appropriately demonstrates compliance. The guide describes the three frameworks, discusses their relationship to each other, and offers tips and techniques on how to use MOF to achieve the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) objectives defined in the COBIT and Val IT governance frameworks. This guide will ultimately help users understand how MOF aligns with and supports the governance frameworks as well as the vital role MOF plays in integrating GRC capabilities into the daily operations of delivering high-quality and reliable IT services. To launch the download of this guide, go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151989. MOF Job Aids. These templates, worksheets, and tools help IT pros apply MOF 4.0 guidance to specific scenarios and challenges. IT Pro Quick Start Kit. Save time and money by learning more about MOF 4.0. The IT Pro Quick Start Kit gives an overview of MOF 4.0 and provides the tools to start using it today. The kit includes links to presentations and data sheets, information on MOF, compliance, and training and certification, ready-to-use graphics, and supporting materials. To learn more, visit www.microsoft.com/MOF. Send questions or feedback to us directly at mof@microsoft.com. For more information and to download the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) - Version 4.0, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=457ed61d-27b8-49d1-baca-b175e8f54c0c]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/21/2009 Deep Zoom Composer - Version 0.9.000.8OverviewWe are pleased to present a technology preview of Deep Zoom Composer, a tool to allow the preparation of images for use with the Deep Zoom feature currently being previewed in Silverlight 2. The new Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight allows users to see images on the Web like they never have before. The smooth in-place zooming and panning that Deep Zoom allows is a true advancement and raises the bar on what image viewing should be. High resolution images need to be prepared for use with Deep Zoom and this tool allows the user to create Deep Zoom composition files that control the zooming experience and then export all the necessary files for deployment with Silverlight 2. For more information and to download the Deep Zoom Composer - Version 0.9.000.8, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=457b17b7-52bf-4bda-87a3-fa8a4673f8bf]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies Web Page Error Toolkit - Version 2.0OverviewCustomize your 404 error pages with the Web Page Error Toolkit
For large web sites with extensive amounts of content, 2 to 10 percent of traffic is looking for pages that either don’t exist or have been moved. Most web servers return a generic 404 error page or a sitemap when a user’s desired page cannot be found. These unhelpful pages often result in a dead end for users. With Microsoft’s Web Page Error Toolkit, you can create dynamic 404 pages that contain customized error messages along with search results seeded with relevant keywords to help your users move past the missing page and find the information they need. The Toolkit is a customizable ASP.net application that replaces the default error page on your IIS server. The Toolkit enables you to use Bing to return results for the specified domain and locale, control the number of results returned on your page, choose whether to offer spelling corrections, and customize your error message. You also have the option of choosing from several keyword extraction strategies that are included with the install, or providing your own implementation. For more information and to download the Web Page Error Toolkit - Version 2.0, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=deca3e03-4f93-46d1-affc-493c0e02eb63]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/20/2009 MSDN Community Distribution CD June 2009OverviewFor more information and to download the MSDN Community Distribution CD June 2009, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=052b7046-b8d0-47aa-b0af-d5f5a51944f2]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/18/2009 Windows 7 Walkthrough: BranchCacheOverviewThis screencast discusses a beta release of a Microsoft product. The information in this screencast is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice. The introduction of BranchCache in Windows 7 is the next step to improving end user productivity in branch offices. BranchCache caches content from remote file and Web servers in the branch location so that users can more quickly access this information. The cache can be hosted centrally on a server in the branch location, or can be distributed across user PCs. For more information and to download the video on Windows 7 Walkthrough: BranchCache, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fc9fbaab-008e-4748-96b6-6b683cab35c9]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Training 6/17/2009 IT Manager: Platform Solution Blueprint – Unified CommunicationsOverviewThis printable color poster illustrates where UC technologies fit in the IT manager’s environment. With this poster IT managers can easily see the relative relationships of the critical solution patterns for UC and how they fit together. IT managers also learn about the stages of UC adoption as well as how a platform aligned solution contributes to the success of their IT infrastructure.
For more information and to download the IT Manager: Platform Solution Blueprint – Unified Communications, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a691cba5-51cb-488a-8d08-4b12ce5b90dc]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/16/2009 IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling GuideOverviewThe IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide provides an easy-to-understand method that enables you to develop threat models that can help prioritize investments in IT infrastructure security. This Solution Accelerator consists of a release notes document Release Notes.rtf and a single compressed file, IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide.zip, which includes the following components:
For more information and to download the IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e1d53e3f-a512-4668-85b3-169a777fc58f]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/15/2009 Blog Free DayToday is a Blog Free Day. Please check back tomorrow for the latest blog entry on The Official Blog of Eric Lam.
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Category: Computers and Internet 6/14/2009 Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1OverviewThe Visual Studio 2010 SDK includes project templates that help developers create tool windows, menu commands, isolated shell projects, and editor extensions. The editor extensions include text adornments, colorizers, and margins. The Visual Studio 2010 SDK also includes build tasks that help developers build and debug extensions. Building and debugging are managed in a second instance of Visual Studio named the experimental instance. The experimental instance provides a test bed for extensions without changing the primary installation of Visual Studio. The SDK also puts shortcuts to online documentation, samples, and other developer resources on the Start menu. For more information and to download the Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d197feb6-ced5-40d4-949d-a51f02309ee8]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/13/2009 Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format - Version 6.0OverviewImportant, before you download:
This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web. For more information and to download the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format - Version 6.0, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ba006584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies 6/12/2009 Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters white paperOverviewFor more information and to download the Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters white paper, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b93cfee4-7dfb-40ae-a405-dfa269a33a18]
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Location: Canberra/Australia
Category: Microsoft Technologies Windows 7 Desktop Deployment OverviewOverviewFor more information and to download the document on Windows 7 Desktop Deployment Overview, please visit [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=038ac0f6-ded8-4f98-bb1a-8d8873098122]
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