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At PDC09, Paul Stubbs held a session where he showed off many features and capabilities of Sharepoint 2010 which allows it to support Silverlight development and controls,  and walked the audience through the process of how to utilize Silverlight from a Sharepoint website.

Enrique Saggese, a Microsoft Senior Consultant, presents an overview of Active Directory Rights Management Services.  In this video he presents “The Hierarchy of Certificates and How They Participate in the Protection Process.”

For more information about AD RMS, see the team blog (http:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=178247) or the AD RMS TechNet Library overview (http:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=178248).

Tags: ADRMS, document protection, information protection, rights management, RMS

This is a basic overview of the security bulletins released by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) in November 2009. For bulletin details, please visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security
or
http://www.microsoft.com/security
Other resources:
Microsoft Update: http://update.microsoft.com
Video on how to install updates on Vista >>
This video is brought to you by the Trustworthy Computing security response communications team.

Optimizing Your Business with Microsoft Application Platform
Less is more, simple is beautiful and complexity is bad. However, the modern best practices and benefits of adopting "a single unified Application Platform suite", as opposed to the legacy best practices of adopting many disparate “best of breed” point solutions have not been well understood and adopted in most enterprises today. Learn how the Microsoft Application Platform can help you create new efficiencies to reduce costs, find new opportunities to grow your business, and help all users increase their productivity.

CMMI Best Practice Sharing
CMMI is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance. CMMI can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. It helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes.

Managing Application Development and Quality
ALM is a solution for governing the process of planning, building, and managing applications over their life cycle. Learn how ALM solution enables you to manage projects, track project progress, manage requirements, streamline team collaboration, design and develop systems more effectively.

Part1: Managing Application Development

Part 2: Managing Application Quality

In this interview with Zhiming Xue at Microsoft, Mike Snell, VP Solution Services at CEI, Microsoft Regional Director and co-author of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed book, discusses five key issues that typically exist in the application lifecycle management (ALM) process – requirements tracking, code review, unit testing, automated testing (aka black box testing), and continuous integration.

Mike speaks each of these five issues from his extensive customer experience and offers his domain expert views and recommended practices, including use of Microsoft tools and systems such as VS 2008 Team System, Team Foundation Server, MSBuild and some non-Microsoft tools such as Ravenflow and RequisitePro for advanced requirements management. If you are interested in improving the ALM process at your organization or for your team, check out this video and let us know what you think.

Join James Brundage, Software Tester from the PowerShell Team, as he walks through how to write a multitouch finger paint in ~30 lines of Windows PowerShell script using WPK (WPF PowerShell Kit). 

You can download WPK and this example as part of the PowerShell Pack. (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack) .

Jason Buffington and Leslie Kitz get together for a brief parlay on what's new and exciting in the next version of System Center Data Protection Manager, due out in the spring of 2010.

After discussing how DPM 2010 stacks up, and how 2010 supports Exchange server installations, Jason goes into a demo that shows off DPM's new capabilities in protecting Exchange.

This video is the first of a series.

Adam recently sat down with David Mills and Edwin Yuen, who got together for a brief discussion of Microsoft’s IT management and virtualization solution for midsize businesses. With the release of public betas for System Center Essentials 2010 and Data Protection Manager 2010, customers will have the capability to easily manage, backup and restore their physical and virtual servers in an integrated way.

After discussing the benefits of using Hyper-v, SCE 2010 and DPM 2010, Edwin gives us a quick demo of SCE 2010’s integrated virtual and physical management capabilities.

For more information and to download public betas, go to:

SCE 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/sce
DPM 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/dpm

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is a comprehensive and wide-ranging study of the evolving threat landscape, and addresses such topics as software vulnerability disclosures and exploits, malicious software (malware), and potentially unwanted software.

Volume 7 of the Security Intelligence Report (SIR v7) covers the first half of 2009 (January through June). It includes data derived from more than 450 million computers worldwide, each running Windows. It also draws data from some of the busiest services on the Internet, such as Windows Live Hotmail and Bing.

The research is extensive and we encourage you to download the report.