Microsoft Unleashes Five Service Packs for Its Enterprise Security Wares
In the past week, Microsoft has launched five service packs for its enterprise security wares including Geneva, Forefront, Antigen.
Redmond also launched Forefront Security for Exchange Server with SP2. New features include visibility of all actively published engines, alerts and notifications of new engine availability, and a rollup of other software fixes.
Plus Microsoft released a trial version of Antigen for Exchange with Antigen Spam Manager. This is akin to the predecessor of the Forefront Security family in that it is a spam manager for older environments, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2000. It includes the changes in the anti-malware engines and other features. Likewise, a new trial version of Antigen for SMTP Gateways with Antigen Spam Manager with SP2 is available with updated anti-malware engines.
If you are in need for some light bedtime reading, Microsoft has you covered with these seven new security technical papers for IT professionals.
- IT Manager: Platform Solution Blueprint – Security
- Security Audit Events for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- AppLocker Technical Documentation
- FSOCS performance analysis and capacity planning document
- "Geneva" Step by Step guides for Virtual Machines
And, although this isn't a security tool, I'll toss in a mention of it because this is Network World and this is Microsoft's newest network diagnostics tool: MOSDAL (Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging) Support Toolkit, which the company says performs network diagnostics and collects configuration and logging information.
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