Does integrating Silverlight or Popfly into a SharePoint solution add any value? This is the kind of question I have been asked a couple of times recently.... And actually this question has 2 answers. Popfly is a Silverlight-based web mashup...

Added another search macro --- the search scope covering Microsoft Surface technology .... Will certainly keep this one updated! Browse to http://search.live.com/macros/t/sf or add " macro:t.sf" in your live.com query. Btw., you can view the list...

Did you know you can customize our search engine at www.live.com ? There is this concept of so-called " search macros " which allows users to define some kind of very specific search scope: if you already have some kind of "link collection" for a certain...

A tool that we've all been waiting for a looong time, has finally been released: the SharePoint v3 Best Practices Analyzer ! No matter whether you're in the planning phase of your Office SharePoint Server 2007 (or WSS v3) deployment or you already...

Ever wondered what Microsoft Research works on in its many projects? Although one of the most prominent ones is " My Life Bits " (a lifetime store of "everything"), there's a lot of other (less prominent) projects which however may have more immediate...

Have a look at the latest MOSS2007 Visio drawings for IT admins, this is really cool stuff: SharePoint Database Administration http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101638931033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033 SharePoint...

Just came across an interesting web site by a US company called "Fred Cohen & Associates ". They designed a sophisticated security database with cross references between various attack/defense methods and related threat profiles... http://all.net...

In the event of a business critical disaster the following steps are essential to make a formal Root Cause Analysis (RCA) succeed: Start preparing for a Root Cause Analysis at the time of the disaster . In case of a Microsoft CritSit ask the...

Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 is all about effective internal controls - and when it comes to documenting these, Anthony Tarantino's "Manager's Guide to Compliance" recommends the use of Electronic work and approval flows (sounds like Windows Workflow...

Does your company have a privacy policy? Well, hopefully it has. So what happens when you receive customer data and you need to forward them to a colleague? Do you send the files as e-mail attachments? If yes then most likely you either use a very...

One of the Office 2007 products I'm most excited about is Groove. It's really team collaboration at its best. SharePoint users will love the Groove 12 SharePoint Files Tool (see: http://blogs.msdn.com/marco/archive/2005/11/10/491460.aspx ). And in general...

Finally version 2 of the Microsoft Threat Analysis & Modeling (aka MS "TAM") tool is available on our download pages..... Some of the things it helps you design in terms of application risk management include: - Data access control matrix - Component...

Now there's an easy way to assess some of the security policies and procedures in your organization: the Microsoft Security Assessment Tool is complementary to utilities like the Baseline Security Analyzer and helps you get an understanding of the most...

Although SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is primarily an intranet solution, you can use it for extranets, too. The SPS extranet white paper describes scenarios using ISA Server 2000/2004: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4c5bf9dd...

How do you migrate SharePoint Portal Server user accounts after a domain change? First of all, make sure that either the post-SP1 hot fixes mentioned in the KB articles below or even better, Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint...

Want to get a quick list of all users who have permissions on your SharePoint sites or areas? Just download SPUtil.... http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/3/c/33cd60dc-92da-411b-af0c-24923caaa28e/SPUtilSuite_Release2.zip It contains a powerful...

From now on you can also browse to this site via http://www.alexandersblog.net . Browsing to this domain will redirect you to the blogs.msdn.com domain....

Several Windows editions were awarded the Common Criteria EAL 4 certification..... "Common Criteria"...? You have most likely heard of the US TCSEC (Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria) or the European ITSEC evaluation criteria. However the...