http://www.networkworld.com/community/blogs/microsoft Subnet - Microsoft bloggers en http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57375 First of all, this isn't just another Microsoft security flaw. Microsoft has filed this with ICASI as a general security vulnerability affecting multiple implementations of TLS and SSL. Moreover, Microsoft has noted it affects every currently supported version of Microsoft operating systems from Windows 2000 to Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.  Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57375#comments Microsoft Microsoft OCS Office Communications Server security Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:28:49 +0000 Alex Lewis 57375 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57376 PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer is the design tool you will use to build key performance indicators (KPIs), indicators, scorecards, reports, filters, data sources, and dashboards. It also enables you to deploy your finished dashboards to SharePoint.Dashboard Designer is a .NET Framework ClickOnce application that requires the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. It also has a few other optional components that... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57376#comments Microsoft PerformancePoint PerformancePoint 2010 PPS SharePoint 2010 SPS 2010 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:42:45 +0000 Ola Ekdahl 57376 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57353 On March 1, users of the free, release candidate versions of Windows 7 will experience bi-hourly shut downs, Microsoft says. These shut downs will continue until June 1. On June 1, the RC version has officially expired. Microsoft will replace the wallpaper with a background that says the copy of Windows is not genuine. After June 1,those who haven't upgraded to a purchased copy of Windows 7, which... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57353#comments Microsoft Windows 7 Windows Genuine Advantage Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:36:01 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 57353 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57359 As expected, today's Patch Tuesday is a doozie. Microsoft released 13 bulletins to fix 26 vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office. This includes the first Hyper-V-specific patch. But wait, there's more. Microsoft also issued a security advisory (977377) over a publicly-known vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57359#comments Microsoft Security Hyper-V Microsoft security Microsoft Security alert Patch Tuesday SSL Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:18:39 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 57359 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57223 When looking to travel, I use Fodors.com for quick information about destinations. I’m a sucker for Fodors, having become used to the well-organized information in their hard-copy travel guides. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57223#comments Microsoft Bing Decision Engine Google Google Search search Yahoo Yahoo search Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:02:18 +0000 Alpa Agarwal 57223 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57213 The world is agog at the most obvious editorial published in the New York Times yesterday about Microsoft's lack of innovation. Today, Microsoft responded with equal predictability. The thing is, Microsoft has always been a follower. It hasn't got a roster of ground-breaking ideas to its credit. It has risen to success by noticing others' great technologies and building its own version that works... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57213#comments Microsoft innovation Microsoft financials Microsoft research Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:27:20 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 57213 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57200 Simple Time Period SpecificationA common requirement of clients is to allow end users to filter data from scorecards and reports on a dashboard based on a Time Intelligence formula. Time Intelligence formulas allow users to view data over time such as Year Over Year (YOY), Last Period, Rolling Average, and Year To Date (YTD). Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57200#comments Microsoft PerformancePoint PPS SharePoint SharePoint 2010 Time Intelligence Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:11:27 +0000 Ola Ekdahl 57200 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57152 On Wednesday a security researcher demonstrated a flaw in Internet Explorer at the Black Hat DC conference that could allow a hacker to remotely read files on the victim's local drive. The demonstration prompted a security advisory from Microsoft. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57152#comments Microsoft Security browser security IE Protected Mode Internet Explorer Microsoft security Microsoft Security alert Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:42:52 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 57152 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56986 The US Olympic Committee recently announced a new press site built on SharePoint 2010.  The new site, USOC PressBox, demonstrates the rich image capabilities available with SharePoint 2010's native Silverlight integration. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56986#comments Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:15:16 +0000 Susan Hanley 56986 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56834 Seems like Microsoft is determined to position SharePoint 2010 solidly in the "Enterprise 2.0" space.  Check out this really cool story about Microsoft's invitation to extend the SharePoint 2010 social platform and the winner of the SocialFest competition.  Now, the question is what will happen to these 2010 extensions - will they be incorporated into the product or be developed and marketed as third-party... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56834#comments Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 SocialFest social computing Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:06:04 +0000 Susan Hanley 56834 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56645 Calinda Software’s MindUP is a software-as-a-service solution that helps workgroups collaborate more efficiently, within the email environment, that most of us are used to. A user would set up a MindUP group, including identifying its members, and start by sending an email message to the group. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56645#comments Microsoft Calind Software collaboration email enterprise 2.0 MindUP SaaS software as a service Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:08:52 +0000 Alpa Agarwal 56645 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56639 There has always been an almost religious argument between DBA's over nullable columns. Should you use them or should you not? NULL means nothing is stored in a column. Not spaces, not zeroes, just nothing. NOT NULL means a value must be stored in the column. Using NULL may save space but causes aggravation for developers as they have to check the column for NULLs before using that column. Now with... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56639#comments Microsoft filtered indexes NOT NULL NULL sparse columns SQL Server SQL Server 2008 R2 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:21:09 +0000 Brian Egler 56639 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56638 Server Message Block security has two main components: user-level and share-level. The first is for accessing servers, and the second is for accessing files, folders, and printers if share-level authentication has been configured on the server. Most readers of this column already know about these aspects of SMB security, but you may not know about another feature called “SMB signing.” This is a... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56638#comments Microsoft man-in-the-middle server 2003 Server 2008 server message block SMB SMB signing Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:53:52 +0000 Glenn Weadock 56638 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56630 One of the questions I get frequently is “What’s the difference between the Windows SharePoint Services that comes with Windows Server and the Microsoft Office SharePoint Service (MOSS) that you pay extra for.  I pulled an excerpt from my book “Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed” where we clarify that exact question… Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56630#comments Microsoft Windows 2008 R2;SharePoint;WSS;Rand Morimoto Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:33:35 +0000 Rand Morimoto 56630 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56614 One new feature in SQL Server 2008 R2 is Unicode Compression. Unicode provides support for all the international character sets across the world including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese. The trade off is that unicode requires 2 bytes per character as opposed to standard character data types that use one byte per character. That's double the storage. R2 attempts to save most of this overhead... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56614#comments Microsoft compression CTP Data Compression SQL Server SQL Server 2008 R2 unicode Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:30:31 +0000 Brian Egler 56614 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56611 On Friday, Microsoft announced that Huddle was the winner of a weeklong, invitational contest, in which seven startups were challenged to build a social app for SharePoint 2010 in just one week. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56611#comments Microsoft Calinda collaboration Huddle Loq8 SharePoint 2010 social networking Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:13:41 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 56611 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56598 Well all good things must come to an end they say and so I have to say goodbye. Although I will not be posting regularly anymore I will drop by as a ‘guest blogger’ from time to time. I thought it would be great to end with my final update to the tools library. So here is the last library update all 198 tools I have blogged about ( good and bad) in the last 20 months. I just want to... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56598#comments General discussions LANs / WANs Microsoft Network Management Security SMB Software Wireless / Mobile free Windows software low-cost network management Open Source Software open source software for Windows Ron Barrett Windows tools Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:11:31 +0000 Ron Barrett 56598 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56583 Most of what is “new” in Group Policy enhancements in Windows 2008 R2 were actually in Windows 2008, however many organizations never migrated off Active Directory 2003 to Active Directory 2008, so this is all new to administrators who have basically gone from Active Directory straight to Active Directory 2008 R2.  What Microsoft has done with Group Policies in Windows 2008 (and 2008 R Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56583#comments Microsoft Windows 2008 R2;Group Policies;Policy Management;Rand Morimoto Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:46:18 +0000 Rand Morimoto 56583 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56581 One major part of SQL Server 2008 R2 is ReportBuilder 3.0 which allows you an alternative report editor in addition to the Report Designer in Visual Studio 2008. Some new features include Sparklines, Data Bars and Indicators. I have been testing them out with the SQL Server 2008 R2 Nov CTP. Let's take a look. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56581#comments Microsoft ReportBuilder 3.0 reporting services SQL Server SQL Server 2008 R2 ssrs Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:44:53 +0000 Brian Egler 56581 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56577 Nothing like being paid almost two million bucks for leaving a job and keeping your mouth shut -- one $950,000 check a month after you've left and another $950,000 six months later. That's the sweet deal Microsoft gave Chris Liddell, the company's former chief financial officer who officially resigned on November 24. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56577#comments Microsoft Chris Liddell Microsoft earnings Microsoft executives Microsoft financials Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:33:36 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 56577 at http://www.networkworld.com/community