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Add desktop sharing to your application by using the Lync 2013 API
Abstract: Have you ever wanted to add a desktop sharing feature to your application so users can share their desktop, monitor, or a process with another user with the click of a button? This blog post introduces you to a new feature of the Lync 2013 API...(read more)
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Mevade and Sefnit: Stealthy click fraud
Recently Trojan:Win32/Mevade made news for being the first large botnet to use Tor to anonymize and hide its network traffic. Within a few weeks, starting mid-August, the number of directly connecting Tor users increased by almost 600 percent - from about 500,000 users per day to more than 3,000,000.
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System Center Community/MVP Update
As many of you have probably seen today, I have announced my resignation from Microsoft to go to a System Center partner company. Friday will be my last official day at Microsoft, but I don’t plan on changing my personal level of commitment to the System Center community. I’ll still be blogging, answering questions on forums, presenting at conferences, and working very closely with Microsoft on channeling the feedback I see on the community into building great solutions.
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Announcing the release of the Lync Pre-call Diagnostic Tool for Windows 8
The Lync PreCall Diagnostic Tool (PCD) is a client-based application that allows you to see how the current state of your network might impact the audio quality in an upcoming Enterprise Voice call. The PCD tool was originally released for Office Communications...(read more)
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End of support for Java SE 6
If you’re running Java SE 6, we have some news for you: Oracle stopped providing public updates to it after February 2013.
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Script to delete SIP profile for multiple Lync 2013 users
Author: Edwin Joseph Publication date: September 24, 2013 Product version: Lync Server 2013 Introduction When a Lync 2013 desktop client for Windows signs-in, to minimize the bandwidth consumption the Lync client retrieves a lot of information...(read more)
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Lync 2013 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Client scenarios
Abstract: The Lync team is excited about the new Lync 2013 VDI landing page on our Lync Interop Programs, so we put together a set of scenarios to help identify Lync VDI scenario between Microsoft Lync and our partner software. Author: Kaushal Mehta...(read more)
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Deployment Details for the Lync VDI Plug-in
Abstract: It can be difficult to work with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 VDI-Plug-in. In this post we describe how to avoid some possible issues in a Virtual Desktop scenario with the deployment of the Lync VDI-Plugin. Author: Christian Schacht Publication...(read more)
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Announcing the Lync Server 2013 Demo VM Set - Public Test Drive Version
The Lync Server 2013 demo VM set is now available on the Microsoft Download Center. This VM set is pre-loaded with more than 200 contacts with photos, and is integrated with Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging (UM), SharePoint Server 2013, and a Unified...(read more)
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Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2887505
Today we released Security Advisory 2887505 regarding an issue that affects Internet Explorer. There are only reports of a limited number of targeted attacks specifically directed at Internet Explorer 8 and 9, although the issue could potentially affect all supported versions. This issue could allow remote code execution if an affected system browses to a website containing malicious content directed towards the specific browser type. This would typically occur when an attacker compromises the security of trusted websites regularly frequented, or convinces someone to click on a link in an email or instant message. Running modern versions of Internet Explorer ensures that customers receive the benefit of additional security features that can help prevent successful attacks.
While we are actively working to develop a security update to address this issue, we encourage Internet Explorer customers concerned with the risk associated with this vulnerability, to deploy the following workarounds and mitigations from the advisory: -
GigaOM Structure Europe Conference Kicks Off
By Adrienne Hall, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing
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New features in ARR (Application Request Routing) 3.0
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Happy Days are Here Again: Announcing the Release of the Lync Server 2013 Protocol Workloads Poster
Author: Greg Stemp Technical Review: Joe Davies Published: Sep. 16, 2013 Remember your last birthday, the one where you got the Rolex and the keys to the brand-new Lexus? Remember how you put on a brave face, smiled as best you could, and...(read more)
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September 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck
Today we’re publishing the September 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. The majority of questions focused on Office bulletins, especially SharePoint Server (MS13-067). We received multiple Office related questions that were very similar in nature, so the questions have been merged, as applicable, with consolidated answers provided. We were able to answer six questions on air, and those we did not have time for have been included on the Q&A page.
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Building a Resilient Organization
By David Bills, Chief Reliability Strategist, Trustworthy Computing
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MSRT September 2013 - Win32/Simda
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Lovely tokens and the September 2013 security updates
Helen Hunt Jackson famously wrote, “By all lovely tokens September is here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” I share Helen’s clear adoration for this time of year. As a sports fan, there are so many “lovely tokens” to enjoy. The baseball pennant race is heating up, college and pro football are underway, and various soccer leagues (real football to the rest of the world) continue. As a parent, there are the “lovely tokens” of my kids returning to school, which brings a reminder of summer’s passing and excitement for another year of learning, growing, and adjusting to a new routine. For me, the routine is set: the second Tuesday of the month is here and with it comes a round of “lovely tokens” to help protect our customers.
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CISO Perspectives on Compliance in the Cloud and Managing Risk
By Adrienne Hall, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing
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Advance Notification Service for September 2013 Security Bulletin Release
In celebration of kids heading back to school, today we’re providing advance notification for the release of 14 bulletins, four Critical and 10 Important, for September 2013. The Critical updates address issues in Internet Explorer, Outlook, SharePoint and Windows.
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Understanding HADR in Lync Server 2013
Abstract: With the introduction of new features in Lync Server 2013, IT administrators and partners can provide users a rich unified communications experience that is highly resilient to single points of failure. However, failures can – and do –...(read more)
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Certificates on the rebound
When Christopher Bullock wrote about the certainties in life in his book The Political History of the Devil, he probably should have added a 3rd certainty…that your certificates WILL expire and you’ll have to renew them. I think we can forgive that, as he wrote the book in 1726 and websites weren’t as popular as they are today. However, the topic of certificate renewal is one that certainly plagues the nightmares of every seasoned system administrator.
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【大阪】新しい BYOD シナリオ デモ を大阪で行います ～ ID&IT カンファレンス 2013 @大阪
以前、以下の投稿をしました。 【BYOD】デバイス認証ができるようになった WS 2012 R2 ADFS －テスト手順書公開 http://blogs.technet.com/b/junichia/archive/2013/08/29/3593415.aspx 上記の手順書にそってセットアップしていただければ、新しい Widows Server 2012 R2 と Windows 8.1 によるデバイス認証（Workplace Join）の環境を構築することができます。 とはいえ、実際に動いてるところを見てからだなぁ...(read more)