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By David Bills, Chief Reliability Strategist, Trustworthy Computing

Helen Hunt Jackson famously wrote, “By all lovely tokens September is here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” I share Helen’s clear adoration for this time of year. As a sports fan, there are so many “lovely tokens” to enjoy. The baseball pennant race is heating up, college and pro football are underway, and various soccer leagues (real football to the rest of the world) continue. As a parent, there are the “lovely tokens” of my kids returning to school, which brings a reminder of summer’s passing and excitement for another year of learning, growing, and adjusting to a new routine. For me, the routine is set: the second Tuesday of the month is here and with it comes a round of “lovely tokens” to help protect our customers.

By Adrienne Hall, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing

In celebration of kids heading back to school, today we’re providing advance notification for the release of 14 bulletins, four Critical and 10 Important, for September 2013. The Critical updates address issues in Internet Explorer, Outlook, SharePoint and Windows. 

Abstract: With the introduction of new features in Lync Server 2013, IT administrators and partners can provide users a rich unified communications experience that is highly resilient to single points of failure. However, failures can – and do –...(read more)

When Christopher Bullock wrote about the certainties in life in his book The Political History of the Devil, he probably should have added a 3^rd certainty…that your certificates WILL expire and you’ll have to renew them. I think we can forgive that, as he wrote the book in 1726 and websites weren’t as popular as they are today. However, the topic of certificate renewal is one that certainly plagues the nightmares of every seasoned system administrator.

以前、以下の投稿をしました。 【BYOD】デバイス認証ができるようになった WS 2012 R2 ADFS －テスト手順書公開 http://blogs.technet.com/b/junichia/archive/2013/08/29/3593415.aspx 上記の手順書にそってセットアップしていただければ、新しい Widows Server 2012 R2 と Windows 8.1 によるデバイス認証（Workplace Join）の環境を構築することができます。 とはいえ、実際に動いてるところを見てからだなぁ...(read more)