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Posted by: Michael Baker
Recently, while working on a Microsoft Network Device Enrollment Services (NDES) deployment, a client asked a simple-enough question about the thumbprint for the Certificate Authority (CA) certificate that was displayed on the NDES admin enrollment GUI, “What is that hash? And why doesn’t it match any of the CA certificate thumbprint hashes in my chain-of-authority?”
Posted by: Sarah Duncan
One of the things we often run into while working on AD RMS deployments is customers who want to protect documents in formats other than those that are natively supported by AD RMS–Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InfoPath and XPS Viewer. Common asks include PDFs, graphics such as JPEGs, and Visio documents. There are third party solutions that can integrate with AD RMS to provide protections on additional document formats, but they represent additional expense and effort. For a customer with just a few other files that need protecting, bringing in a third party solution may not be worth it. Enter Microsoft’s Generic File Protection Explorer.
Posted by: CSS Marketing
The popularity of Apple’s iPads and iPhones among consumers are well documented, but recent findings from Forrester Research shows that these devices are gaining steam in the corporate world. The “Consumerization of IT” or BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) has become a common occurrence among all departments, and not surprisingly, Apple …
Posted by: Robertson Pimentel
Very often as sales engineers we are tasked to help the customer with assistance during a proof of concept, however, in the field; these types of engagements can be a source of challenges and frustrations. Ultimately, every SE’s goal should be to help the customer gain a high level of comfort with the product, meet their requirements, educate them and if possible, discuss the considerations for the real deployment.
Posted by: Andrew Plue
One of the best features of Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 was its easy to use server policy templates. In a nutshell, server policy templates let you quickly choose an optimized, preconfigured FEP policy for every- just about every- type of application server that Microsoft produces (Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, etc). So instead of painstakingly going through option by option and creating a policy for a server, you could simply select a server type from a drop down list and create a policy in seconds.
Posted by: Sami Van Vliet
I was recently helping someone new to FIM come to grips with the multivalued attribute (MVA) table. The MVA table can be used to populate a multi-valued attribute—in a common scenario, this would be the member attributes of a group object.
Although there are good write ups on how to do this for those familiar with FIM, step by step instructions seemed helpful for those just learning.
Posted by: Rick Delserone
In Part 1 of this blog series I presented an overview of the requirements for preparing a migration from Configuration Manager 2007 to 2012. With that information in hand I believe that you should have a general understanding of the pre-requisites necessary to begin your migration process.
Posted by: Benjamin Derr
Office365 is a cloud based solution that provides a hosted email, collaboration, and IM solution, enabling organizations to quickly implement these capabilities without needing to implement large, in-house infrastructures to support the products. However, as organizations look to move to cloud based solutions, and Office365 in particular, due diligence and planning should be given to preparing the internal security infrastructure, and the user experience aspect. There are 3 steps that you can start tackling to prepare for your deployment (we assume, of course, that the Office365 service itself is secured).
Posted by: CSS Marketing
This week we’ve seen the latest chapter in the Microsoft/Apple love/hate relationship… and it would seem that love is conquering all… at least for the time being. As CRN reports, Apple is reaching out to Microsoft partners that can help integrate iPhones and iPads into enterprise environments.
Posted by: Sarah Duncan
In most corporate environments, when you roll out RMS to the client machines you’re talking about domain-joined machines that you are configuring via group policy, SCCM and similar desktop deployment tools. But what if you have a few users who need to have access to RMS-protected content from non-domain-joined clients? What if they need to apply rights-protections to content as well? With your custom templates no less, then what?
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