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Office 12 – Finalising and Protecting Documents

Four main areas: Inspect the document, to make sure comments, review, meta-data etc is not left in by accident Mark as final Signatures Digital rights management Document inspector,  replaces the “remove hidden document” tool which is a free add-on and optionally removes the following: Comments and revisions Document information, document...

Office 12 Workflow

This post is being written as it happens at the Office System conference Workflow was essentially un-usable in WSS v2, for most real world business scenarios, so this session is key to positioning the role of Office System 12. This is the process they are trying to support: Create Edit/review Ready...

Standard Document Management in the Office System

This post is being written as it happens at the Office System conference because I won’t have any time to catch up with my note taking tonight, going out for a meal with the Partner Architecture group. Document management was essentially un-usable in WSS v2, for most real world business...

Blogging Office 12

It’s clear from the keynote today that the impact of Office 12 is, as expected, going to be considerable.  Here are some of the key points: The integrated value proposition “integrated innovation” is ever stronger with each release,  it is very impressive with Office 12.  There is no comparison between...

Branch offices and Longhorn

A few of the longhorn technologies seem great for branch offices which we can assume to lack physical security and the high levels of management required for enterprise class service integrity.  if we string together Secure Startup (lack of security), read-only Domain Controllers (lack of service integrity, but resiliance to network outages)...

Longhorn – network access protection – the shape of things to come

I have promoted the concept of standard corporate PC builds for over a decade,  in fact my first standard PC’s were in fact Unix workstations back in the late 1980’s.  However I have become increasingly unsure of the approach as we find more and more uncontrolled devices connecting to the network...

Longhorn stripped to the core

For years, in fact since the beginning,  Microsoft have been critisised over the complexity of their serviver operating system and recently over the resulting large attack service.  The response is Longhorn Server Core: Server Core is a new minimal server installation option for Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 1. Server Core...

Longhorn – secure startup – this looks important

Boot volume security has previously relied on third party products, that have a lot of limitations for example support for suspend and hibernation, and general concerns over stability and management.   Secure startup in Longhorn for the system volume combined with EFS for data volumes looks like a very promising solution...

Whats new in Longhorn Windows Desployment Services

WDS replaces RIS and adds the following: Windows Deployment Services for Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 1 includes several modifications to RIS features. These modifications support the deployment of Microsoft Windows Code Name “Longhorn” and Windows Server “Longhorn” operating systems. These changes include the following: ·      Native support for the Windows...