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• Do You Know Where Your 3rd Party Scripts Are?

  The UK's Register website recently posted an article on the security risks of 3rd party analytic code on your website. Specifically, they say Google Analytics — Yes, it is a security risk . You have a policy in place about placing external client... Posted Dec 03 2008, 11:44 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Plan Security

  The Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide has just been updated with information about security best practices (including AzMan) and backup: Planning for Hyper-V Security Planning for Backup Using Authorization Manager for Hyper-V Security Configure Hyper... Posted Nov 20 2008, 12:00 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Manually Patch Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

  By default, the free-as-in-beer Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is configured for manual updates. In other words, it is NOT configured out of the box to go fetch automatic updates. This is desired behavior for most installs. However, if there are critical... Posted Oct 24 2008, 11:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Make Hyper-V Install on Core Easier with HVCONFIG

  Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is out . Read about Hyper-V Server here: http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx . One of the differences between Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 core, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is that Hyper-V... Posted Oct 02 2008, 12:12 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Harden Your VM Security

  You should follow the best practice recommendations in the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide ,for hardening your W2K8 VMs. The GPO Accelerator can make this easier. The GPOAccelerator creates all the Group Policy objects (GPOs) that you need to deploy... Posted Sep 23 2008, 01:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V Attack Surface Reference

  The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide includes a spreadsheet you can download that lists all the attack surfaces for Windows Server 2008. This guide was initially published before Hyper-V role RTM. When the Security Guide is updated, a new worksheet... Posted Sep 19 2008, 12:16 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Plan for Hyper-V Security

  My article on Hyper-V Security best practices has been selected as September tip of the month. Check out Planning for Hyper-V Security . Kai Axford has a good article in the same newsletter issue: " Security in a Virtual World ." For videos... Posted Sep 15 2008, 03:30 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Share Resources

  In Virtual Server (and VPC) it was fairly easy to create a share and place resources on it that you want to share between Host and VM. Easy, not secure for enterprise use. You can;t do this anymore in Hyper-V. To move/copy.share files/resources between... Posted Sep 09 2008, 01:02 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV