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The MSAT is the revised version of the Microsoft Security Risk Self-Assessment Tool (MSRSAT), released in 2004.

This Risk Assessment is based on accepted standards and best practices for helping reduce risk in IT environments. It uses the "Defense-in-Depth" (DiD) concept, which refers to the implementation of layered defenses that include technical, organizational, and operational controls.After completing an Assessment, you will gain access to a detailed report of your results. You may also compare your results with those of your peers (by industry and company size), provided that you upload your results anonymously to the secure MSAT Web server. When you upload your data the application will simultaneously retrieve the most recent data available. To be able to provide this comparative data, we need customers such as you to upload their information. All information is kept strictly confidential and no personally identifiable information whatsoever will be sent.

Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (Beta)

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SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will upgrade all editions of SQL Server 2005 to SP2 except Express Edition. You must use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQL Server Express) SP2 to upgrade instances of SQL Server Express to SP2. SQL Server Express SP2 can also be used to install a new instance of SQL Server Express.

Readme Files for SQL Server 2005 SP2 and SQL Server 2005 SP2 Express Editions and Tools

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The Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Management Pack provides proactive monitoring of your Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 environment. It includes detection and monitoring of all SMS 2003 servers and dependent services, alert driven state, topology diagram, performance and backlog monitoring and configuration, performance and availability reports.

Feature Summary:
- Detects all SMS 2003 server computers and site systems.
- Monitors the starting and stopping of all SMS 2003 services, including critical dependent services such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Internet Information Server (IIS), and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Provides alerts for SMS service stops, service failures, performance thresholds, status messages, and site system status.
- Presents the state of all roles and computers in the SMS 2003 environment.
- Provides a topology diagram that displays site, site server and site system relationships along with health status.
- Monitors processing rates.
- Monitors backlogs of discovery data records (DDRs), software inventory, hardware inventory, status messages, and software metering on both primary site servers and management points.
- Monitors core system resource usage.
- Includes tasks that enable users of the Operations Manager Operations Console to diagnose and resolve problems on remote computers through the use of SMS Administrator Console.
- Configuration, availability and performance reports. Monitors the performance trends of many SMS performance counters.

Microsoft SMS 2003 Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

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In this Help Update, you'll find the following content:

Complete documentation for all BizTalk Server Line of Business Adapters, including new tutorials, one for each adapter. See the section Using Adapters.
Troubleshooting guidance for each of the native BizTalk adapters. See the sectionTroubleshooting Adapters.

Troubleshooting Instructions for how to capture a memory dump. See the section How to Capture a Memory Dump of a BizTalk Process.

Disaster recovery instructions for backing up and restoring your BizTalk Server and databases. See the section Backing Up and Restoring BizTalk Server

Updated Tutorials. See the section, BizTalk Server 2006 Tutorials

Information for improving fault tolerance. See the section Planning and Architecture

Updated Developer's Reference that now includes the BAM namespaces that were not included in the RTM documentation. See the section Developer's Reference

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Documentation Update

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Microsoft has released a new tool designed to help enterprises detect updates provided with the Microsoft Security Bulletins released May 082007. This tool is a command line scanning tool built for the sole purpose of helping customers determine systems that may need security updates provided with the released bulletins. Users of this tool should have experience in deploying software to corporate environments and with using command line tools.

More information on this tool can be found in the readme.rtf documentation packaged with the tool download.

May 08, 2007 Enterprise Update Scan Tool (standalone version)

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Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites are custom templates designed for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the My Site functionality and tailored to address the unique needs and requirements of specific roles within an organization. The templates extend the standard My Site functionality, providing a personal portal and dashboard with data relevant to your job role and displaying information in a way that is familiar, easy, and built around the way people in the company work.

The Sales Account Manager template helps managers streamline the process of analysis of sales and opportunity information for their overall decision making. The template assists in customer account tracking against a set of performance metrics, such as quarterly revenue, growth and opportunity. It also provides a graphical view of the geographical distribution of product sales and opportunities. The objective of this Role-Based My Site Template is to help the Sales Manager attain their goals of customer satisfaction and revenue augmentation.

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site for Sales Account Managers

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Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites are custom templates designed for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the My Site functionality and tailored to address the unique needs and requirements of specific roles within an organization. The templates extend the standard My Site functionality, providing a personal portal and dashboard with data relevant to your job role and displaying information in a way that is familiar, easy, and built around the way people in the company work.

The Controller-Financial Analyst template helps Controllers to automate the process of analyzing financial data and information, helping them in their overall decision making process. The template assists in tracking top performing products and opportunities at different geography levels. It also provides a graphical view of product sales and revenue. The objective design of this Role-Based My Site Template is to help the Controller achieve their goals of communicating overall corporate performance, budget and future growth projection to the management, investors and other stakeholders.

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site for Controllers-Financial Analysts

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This service release addresses the top issues that were found through feedback from customers and partners. This release includes the following features:

Cross-database references
By using this feature, you can refer to objects in different databases and reduce or eliminate related warnings for your database project.

Improved support for files and filegroups
If you install this release, you can define the files and filegroups as database project properties instead of within a pre-deployment script.

Variables
With this service release, you can also use database properties to define SETVAR variables for use in your deployment scripts.

In addition, this service release supports the Windows Vista operating system and Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (CTP2 of SR1)

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Synchronization Services lets you synchronize data from disparate sources over two-tier, N-tier, and service-based architectures. Instead of only replicating a database and its schema, the Synchronization Services application programming interface (API) provides a set of components to synchronize data between data services and a local store. Applications are increasingly used on mobile clients, such as portable computers and devices, that do not have a consistent or reliable network connection to a central server. It is important for these applications to work against a local copy of data on the client. Equally important is the need to synchronize the local copy of the data with a central server when a network connection is available. The Synchronization Services API is modeled after the ADO.NET data access APIs and gives you an intuitive way to synchronize data. It makes building applications for occasionally connected environments a logical extension of building applications where you can depend on a consistent network connection.

Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET Books Online Beta 1

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With this Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005 Add-In, you can use IBM Lotus Notes to perform Live Meeting tasks, such as scheduling meetings without logging into the Conference Center.

By using the Live Meeting Lotus Notes Add-In Pack, you can:

Schedule a Live Meeting from Lotus Notes.
Identify individual meeting participants as attendees or presenters.
Send separate invitations for attendees and for presenters.
Specify default meeting options and override those defaults for specific meetings.

Live Meeting 2005 Lotus Notes Add-In Pack

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Updated versions of Times New Roman (regular, bold, italic and bold italic), Arial (regular, bold, italic and bold italic) Trebuchet (regular, bold, italic and bold italic), and Verdana (regular, bold, italic and bold italic) that include six additional characters not available in the Windows XP versions of these fonts. The new added characters are Unicode code-points U+0218, U+0219, U+021A and U+021B used for Romanian and U+040D and U+045D used in Bulgarian.

For Windows Vista, the update will only upgrade the Verdana font family. The other font families do not need to be updated.

European Union Expansion Font Update

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Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 with Service Pack 3 (SP3) brings full Vista support to your organization beyond just OS Deployment, which is already available through the OS Deployment Feature Pack. Now, full lifecycle support of Microsoft's latest platform including software distribution, update services as well as inventory are available to the Vista Client. In addition, SP3 introduces X64 architecture support for your high performance platforms. SMS 2003 SP3 provides an option to augment existing SMS inventory capabilities with deeper asset intelligence, bringing knowledge driven management with over 400,000 software titles in the library.

If you use SMS 2003 Device Management Feature Pack, please install the SMS 2003 Device Management Feature Pack hotfix (DeviceMgmt-Magneto-KB934206-X86-ENU.exe) to correct the device file collection issue after applying SMS 2003 SP3. Please reference KB 934206 for more details (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934206/ )

Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 3 Upgrade