Top 10 Things to Try with Windows Vista (2/22/2007)
Here are just a few of the top things you can do to evaluate Windows Vista for your organization, plan your deployment, and make yourself more productive.

Step by Step: Configure the 2007 Office System for a Hard Disk Image (11/8/2006)
You can deploy the 2007 Microsoft Office system and other software products at the same time to all users by capturing and distributing an image of the hard disk to users' computers.

ISA Server network protection: protecting against floods and attacks (10/13/2006)
Businesses need to eliminate the damaging effects of malware and attackers by using comprehensive tools for scanning and blocking harmful content, files, and Web sites. Find out how ISA Server 2006 helps provide access protection with intrusion detection, flood mitigation, spoof detection, and other sophisticated attack detection features.

Deploy Internet Explorer 8 for Better Security (12/15/2009)
Don’t leave your company at a higher risk by using a competing browser or an older version of Internet Explorer.  Internet Explorer 8 is the best browser at protection from malware (based on NSS Labs Web Browser Security Report 3/12/2009). With the Smart Screen Filter, you can protect against evolving threats like type 1 "reflective" XSS attacks, one of the most common vulnerabilities. And with In Private Filtering your company will have an added level of control and choice about the information 3rd-party websites can potentially use to track browsing activity.

New Edge video: Improving Collaboration with SharePoint - Tech Focus December 2009, Part 1 (12/11/2009)
In this new 2-part video series hosted by Alan Le Marquand we’ll cover how deploying SharePoint into an organization provides capabilities that address the following requirements: extracting information from silos and making it more widely available and achieving this in a way that remains relevant to each department or team of employees, enabling people to share information widely, yet in a secure and controlled fashion and letting them search entire repositories quickly and efficiently.

Watch Steve Lipner talk on Client and Cloud Security (12/11/2009)
Steve Lipner, Senior Director of Security Engineering Strategy for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group talks about client and cloud security.

Download Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8 (12/11/2009)
The Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 8 simplifies the creation, deployment, and management of customized Windows Internet Explorer 8 packages. IEAK 8 can be used to configure the out-of-box Internet Explorer 8 experience for your users to manage user settings after you deploy Internet Explorer 8. Download the Internet Explorer 8 Administration Kit (IEAK) to create, deploy or manage customized IE 8 packages.

Recommendations for increased browser security using Internet Explorer 8 (12/8/2009)
This whitepaper examines new features and settings that you can modify to provide a more "locked down" security configuration for Internet Explorer 8. This document discusses both the Windows Vista and Windows XP versions of Internet Explorer. Administrators and system owners can use the guidance in this paper to tighten security settings in the browser to meet their specific needs. The document is structured to provide a description and review of the settings and features the paper discusses. Microsoft recommendations for enhancing the default security settings in some common deployment scenarios are also provided.

Download the Silverlight Deployment Guide v2 (12/8/2009)
Silverlight delivers the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for internet browsers.  More and more applications and sites are using Silverlight with penetration jumping from 33% to 45% since July 2009. Works with what you have by taking existing sites to next level providing simple integration with existing Web technologies and assets, such as ASP.NET and SharePoint services. Download the Silverlight Deployment Guide v2 to learn more about Silverlight deployment options.

Getting started with Business Intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010 (12/8/2009)
Discuss the business intelligence tools available in SharePoint Server 2010.

Deploy Internet Explorer 8 for Granular Management (12/4/2009)
IE is the only browser which gives you the complete control to lockdown and fine tune features via group policy. With over 1,400 group policy settings, you can easily control how you'd like to run Internet Explorer in your organization. 

Microsoft Forefront: Integrate and Simplify with Greater Protection and Control (12/4/2009)
In this tough economic climate, threats to sensitive data and the corporate infrastructure are increasing on an enormous scale; IT professionals have been charged with the complex challenge of maintaining a secure environment as cost efficiently as possible. Explore the Microsoft Forefront security suite of products through a series of free webcasts, podcasts, and virtual labs and arm yourself with the knowledge and tools to simplify your budget and security decisions.

ThriveLive! Virtualization Tour (12/4/2009)
Join our IT Professional Evangelists Dan Stolts, Blain Barton, Yung Chou and John Baker, as they bring you the highlights of Microsoft’s great virtualization solutions. They will go from the desktop to the enterprise, starting with VHD native boot - a new feature for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Next, they will move into Windows XP mode, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, and finish with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).