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Oct

29

Now Available: Security Baselines for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8

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Now that Windows 7 is available, are you looking for some security baseline recommendations from the experts? Then here’s another timely release from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team! Today, new security baselines for Windows® 7 and Windows® Internet Explorer® 8 are available for download.

Over the past few months, the Solution Accelerators team collaborated with Microsoft security experts, multiple government agencies worldwide, and a large community of IT security professionals to develop and test these new security baselines.All of these baselines are free for you to use.

In case you are not familiar with all of the security baselines available for Microsoft products, they ship as part of the Security Compliance Management Toolkit (SCMT) Series. The SCMT helps you to plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines for Windows® operating systems, Internet Explorer, and 2007 Microsoft® Office applications. It contains background information about compliance, and planning advice about how to automate security compliance. It also refers you to other tools and guidance that you can use to establish and deploy a security baseline, and then monitor and maintain compliance with your established configuration.

Where do you start?

At a high level, security compliance consists of four basic steps:

  1. Plan how to meet security baseline requirements.
  2. Deploy security baseline configurations.
  3. Monitor security baseline configurations.
  4. Remediate security baseline configurations.

 

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The tools, guidance, and recommendations in the SCMT help you through each step of this process and give you the support to make key decisions about security baseline settings for your specific environment.

Here’s what you get:

What should you do next?

Oct

28

Get to know the Windows Home Server Team: Video interview with Jonas Svensson, Community Program Manager

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Many of the products that you use everyday are faceless and may be hard to identify with. We thought it would be interesting to put a face behind Windows Home Server and give you a chance meet some of the people that work on Windows Home Server day in and day out. I will be introducing you to different areas of the team, but we will start with our Community Program Manager, Jonas Svensson.

Jonas is someone that you may have already met. As our Community Program Manager, he participates in multiple events event throughout the year that you have possibly attended including SMB Nation and PDC. In this interview, you will find out how he contributes to the team and how Windows Home Server is a part of his daily life. Enjoy!

Oct

28

Windows 7 Early Adopter Panel at the Gartner Symposium

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This post was written by Devrim Iyigun, a Senior Product Manager here in Redmond.

I had a chance to attend Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 last week in Orlando, Florida. For those of you who are at the early stages of deploying Windows 7, looking for some insider information and did not have the opportunity to attend the conference, I have a great resource I would love to share with you.

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Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 is one of industry’s largest and most important annual gathering of CIOs and their senior IT leaders. This year’s event focused on how business technology can help customers return to growth by balancing cost optimization and risk mitigation. Microsoft was helping customers to understand how they can realize the benefits of Windows 7. With the general availability date for Windows 7 being October 22nd, this year’s event was quite special for the Microsoft team.

One of the Microsoft –sponsored sessions that took place is Windows 7 Early Adopter Customer Panel. In this highly visible discussion, featured Gartner Research VP & Distinguished Analyst Michael Silver facilitated the panel around Windows 7 planning, deployment and customer experience with Windows 7 Early Adopter Customers: ADP, BMW, Energizer and Pella.

The panel includes discussions about topics of importance for enterprises considering the move to Windows 7 such as application compatibility and deployment goals. ADP, BMW, Energizer and Pella share their perspective on business drivers to adopt Windows 7 and the benefits they expect to achieve with deploying Windows 7. These companies also share their deployment experience and recommendations for companies new to Windows 7 deployment.

This is your chance to get valuable insider information from Microsoft Customer industry leads.  Please click here for a replay of this webcast.

For more enterprise company case studies, information on Windows 7 cost savings or our webcast series just visit our Windows Enterprise site.

For all of your Windows 7 IT pro information, visit the Springboard Series on TechNet. The destination for Windows desktop IT professionals to Discover & Explore, Pilot & Deploy and Manage Windows 7.

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