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The following post is from Roger Capriotti, senior director of product marketing, Microsoft. It was originally published on The Fire Hose.

You may discover that you cannot select the "Use the dedicated instance of SQL Server" option when you upgrade to Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (DPM 2012) because the option is unavailable. When you point the installer to an existing local installation of DPM, you receive the following error message:

By Adrienne Hall, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing

Igår, den 28 november, hade Microsofts fastighetschef Lotta Bergius det stora nöjet att ta emot priset för Sveriges Snyggaste Kontor 2013, på en prisutdelningsceremoni på Oscarsteatern i Stockholm. Priset består av, förutom äran och uppmärksamheten, en skulptur av Ernst Billgren som nu står i Microsofts reception.
 
Tidigare i år blev Microsoft Sverige utnämnt till Sveriges bästa arbetsplats av Great Place To Work. Båda dessa pris är tillsammans en bekräftelse på att vi tänker rätt, inte bara när det gäller tekniken, utan även när det de övriga två delarna  - platsen och personerna – som krävs för framgångsrika förändringsprojekt.

Today we released Security Advisory 2914486 regarding a local elevation of privilege (EoP) issue that affects customers using Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003. Windows Vista and later are not affected by this local EoP issue. A member of the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) found this issue being used on systems compromised by a third-party remote code execution vulnerability. These limited, targeted attacks require users to open a malicious PDF file. The issues described by the advisory cannot be used to gain access to a remote system alone.

Microsoft’s Application Request Router (ARR) IIS Extension is a complex piece of software which integrates with several other components to do its job. These components are URL Rewrite, Web Farm Framework and ARR’s External Cache module. For things to work correctly, not only do you need all components, but they must also be installed in a specific order, which can be confusing. Several years ago, Microsoft introduced the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) mechanism, which makes it easy to manage installed components. It’s used with many things nowadays, and is also a good way to install ARR and all its components properly and easily.

​Last month we introduced our monthly protection metrics and talked about our September results. Today, we’d like to talk about our results from October. If you want a refresh on the definition of the metrics we use in our monthly results, see our prior post: Our protection metrics – September results.