With all the buzz currently in the industry about ‘cloud’ technology it’s worth keeping up to speed with industry certifications and, especially, ones which provide the core understanding for cloud based solutions.

Microsoft and its partner developers are gearing up for the release of the latest in their incarnation of web browser, Internet Explorer. This release, in the 15th year since IE 1, will be the 9th instalment of the much used (51% market share) browser.

As mentioned in the previous post on this months security bulletin releases, there are confirmed to be 14 security bulletins, addressing 34 vulnerabilities. Eight of those bulletins have a Critical severity rating, and four of those are considered to be high-priority deployments. Refer to this page for details on all updates released this month

This ‘Patch Tuesday’ – for August 2010 – sees the release of 14 bulletins addressing 34 vulnerabilities. 12 of the bulletins affect Windows; 4 carrying Critical severity rating.

On August 2nd 2010, Microsoft released MS10-046 – a windows update released outside of the normal update schedule.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is now available for download. MAP 5.0 is a tool designed to simplify IT infrastructure planning processes via automated discovery and assessments of network-wide devices. It performs an inventory of heterogeneous server environments and in addition will gather usage information for Windows operating systems, SQL Server and other [...]

Currently on Microsoft Windows 2003? Running IIS 6?

As mentioned in the previous post on this months security bulletin releases, there are confirmed to be 4 bulletins addressing 5 vulnerabilities.

This ‘Patch Tuesday’ – for July 2010 – sees the release of 4 bulletins addressing 5 vulnerabilities. Two of the bulletins affect Windows; both carrying Critical severity rating.

II’S Express’ No – not a revival of the 80′s British dance act but a new release from Microsoft …. IIS Express is a lightweight installable version of the popular web hosting platform Internet Information Services (IIS) 7, which can run on XP and above operating systems.  Features and benefits include: Lightweight and easy to [...]