Hi, Vineet Batta here. I’m a senior software developer on the Information Security Tools (IST) team. In my last blog I shared details on features of the Risk Tracker application focusing on the Risk Management module. Today, I will help customers who...

Hi, Aravindhan Rajagopal here. I am a developer on the Information Security Tools team. This post continues form my previous blog ( Part 1 here) on InfoPath form submission to SharePoint...Lets go through the web service creation and form submission methods...

Hi, Aravindhan Rajagopal here. I am a developer on the Information Security Tools team. In this blog, I will explain InfoPath form submission to SharePoint methods and some work-arounds for a specific scenarios explained below. I will begin with a sample...

Hello, I am Syam Pinnaka, I am a developer in Infosec tools team. In this blog post lets recap some information about C# Generics. One of the problems with OOP is “code bloat”. One type of code bloat occurs when a function or a set of methods in a class...

Hi, Gaurav Sharma here, I’m a developer with the Information Security Tools (IST) team. A few months ago I posted a blog, SQL Policy Based Management (PBM) and posted a follow up introductory “ How Do I” video on the same topic. Since then I’ve received...

Hi, Vineet Batta here. I’m a senior software developer on the Information Security Tools (IST) team. I’m excited to share the release of Risk Tracker version 1.0. In this blog post I will give you a quick overview of the features supported by this...

Hi, Randy Evans here. I’m a principal developer on the Information Security Tools team. On one of our projects we had a requirement to dynamically load different web parts into a web page at run time. The challenge was that the specific web part needing...

The Microsoft Information Security Tools (IST) team has released the latest Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting (Anti-XSS) Library version 3.1 .  Read more about Anti-XSS v3.1 on the Information Security blog and watch the video, “ Anti-XSS 3.0 Released...

The Microsoft Information Security Tools (IST) team has released the Connected Information Security Framework (CISF) , a software development framework comprises of API’s and reusable components that is designed to ‘create bespoke or custom information...

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Senior Program Manager (702519 -External) https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=7205&jlang=EN Job Category: IT Location: United States, WA, Redmond Job ID: 702519 7205 Division: IT The information security...

Syam Babu Pinnaka here. I am a developer on the Information Security Tools team. Later today well release our Community Technology Preview or CTP of the Connected Information Security Framework or CISF. This is an early preview so developers folks can...

Hi Vamsy here. I am an Operations Engineer in the Information Security  Team. In my previous post, I have described automating Windows Firewall Settings with C#. As promised in the previous post , I will describe the tool I call Windows Firewall...

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team. To carryout memory leaks testing for one of our applications, I have researched a lot and I thought I would share my experiences and approach I used to benefit everybody. Application...

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team. To carryout performance testing for one of our projects I need to have thousands of users for self hosted domain controller and active directory(AD). It is next to impossible...

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team. As a tester, apart from UI testing I test DB for integrity. Our boss is encouraging us to share tips that save us time on the team so here are a few of mine. In this blog post...

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team. In our team am responsible for setting up and maintaining test servers. At times the servers are remotely located and doesn’t respond and you need to restart them. You can contact...

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team. To test the tools which we develop on the team, at times I need to build a website and publish it. I use a simple way of publishing websites from the command line that saves...

RV here... For a while now, I have been talking about various types of encodings and how they protect web applications from cross site scripting attacks. In most cases input is simply passed through AntiXss.HtmlEncode or similar methods to transform it...

Hi Anil Chintala here. I am working on a requirement for a Portal, which is to share the look and feel of the portal by multiple web applications seamlessly and without any rework. I started doing some prototyping work and writing up some scenarios we...