Nick MacKechnie

Introducing the future of security baseline management: Accelerate, customize, deploy, and comply. The Solution Accelerators Team is pleased to announce the release of the Security Compliance Manager. This new tool is designed to help organizations plan...

We are really excited to announce the formation of some new Microsoft User groups (Auckland and Christchurch) in New Zealand.  Topic: Highlights from MMS2010 – the Microsoft Management Summit New Zealand is a long way from Las Vegas, so we thought...

We are doing a series of free Microsoft Virtualization TechNet Live Meetings in May . Each Live Meeting is scheduled to run for 90 mins and the target audience is IT Pros and IT Managers. Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V – Technical Overview and changes...

Here are some resources that may help with learning about Windows 7 and troubleshooting: TechNet - Windows 7: Troubleshooting and Support http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349347(WS.10).aspx Windows 7: A First Look for IT Pros http://technet...

  Microsoft has announced a revision to the Support Lifecycle Service Pack Support Policy, to provide customers with additional support options while they migrate to a supported Service Pack.    Under the former policy, when a Service Pack...

Hi All, McAfee has identified an issue where a specific DAT file version is causing a false positive detection of the w32/wecorl.a virus. When this false positive occurs, Svchost.exe is blocked and quarantined, which will cause the machine in question...

Hi All, Please visit http://www.microsoft.com/security/about/sir.aspx to view the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR), volume 8, and previous volumes. SIR Volume 8 covers July 2009 to December 2009. SIR provides in-depth perspective on...