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The seventh Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) describes the changing threat landscape including software vulnerability disclosures and exploits, malicious software (malware), and potentially unwanted software. The release of the SIR is the
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Experience The New Efficiency Microsoft launch event live from San Diego October 26 virtually. This online event is good way for IT Pros and developers to attend a launch event “virtually” if they could not get to one of the live events. You’ll learn
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As ISVs, you may want to extend your application into your customer SharePoint sites. The patterns & practices team has put together guidance to assist you building collaborative applications that extend your line-of-business (LOB) systems.
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Two new free testing tools can help Windows programmers build better security into their C and C++ applications. The tools enable implementation of Microsoft's SDL (Security Development Lifecycle) process, for injecting security and privacy provisions
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The Chief Technology Officers (CTO) of ISVs that I work with are asking me how they can set their applications apart from their competitors. One of the most visible ways is to show you are a thought leader and support the next generation technology, like
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Three Windows identity Foundation samples have been published to Code Gallery . The identity team published the release in its blog posting, Identity Samples available on Code Gallery : FabrikamShipping . This is a fairly complete example of how to use
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New names for Microsoft codename “Geneva” have been announced at Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) “Geneva” provides companies with simplified user access and single sign-on, for on-premises and cloud-based applications in the enterprise, across organizations,
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PHP developers can now use the July CTP of PHP SDK for Windows Azure to build your applications. As part of the announcement , our development partner Realdolmen has formally submitted the SDK to be included as part of Zend Framework which will enable
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The latest edition of Architecture journal share architecture strategies, IT behaviors, and-for sure-success stories. The issue responds to the challenge to make our architectures follow the pace of business that these days is particularly changeable
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For those of you looking for a demo that you can use to show both the vision and see the code behind Code Name “Geneva” identity frameworks , the identity team has announced FabrikamShipping. The team posted links to the demo and a walkthrough in
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Want to get started with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and want to learn the tricks of the trade? Here’s a list of presentations, demos, and training videos. The videos are aimed at ITPros so do not expect to see code. Many of these videos also
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Server Core is ideal for hosting your Web application on Windows Server 2008 R2. You manage IIS and your application through a command line interface. The biggest advantage is a reduced attack surface, but your customers are able to deploy applications
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Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Process Template and documentation version 4.1 is now available for download. The SDL Process Template is a downloadable template that leverages the technology of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and Team Foundation
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The product roadmaps for the coming year were announced at TechEd this past week. The products include lots of important technology for ISVs. Date not announced: Silverlight 3 . introducing more than 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight
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For those writing in C, you will be interested in a posting on The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) blog titled Please Join me in welcoming memcpy() to the SDL Rogues Gallery . Memcpy’s drawback comes when the source to be copied contains more bytes
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