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	EFF Warns of Untrustworthy SSL, Undetectable Surveillance Ms. Smith: Many sites rely on a third-party certificate authority (CA) to issue a SSL certificate that guarantees the site is authentic. Browsers trust a very large number of these CAs, and unfortunately, the security of HTTPS is only as strong as the practices of the least trustworthy/competent CA. Read More WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More In this Issue Tiny, Word-Sized Charts in Excel 2010 IE 9 beta release date draws near Indexed Views are a good feature but in which Edition? Dashboarding with Excel 2010 Slicers and Multiple Pivot Tables Microsoft-Yahoo search alliance taking shape Big Brother's Creepy Little Brother Snoops as Productivity Tool Have you had a vendor troubleshooting nightmare? Bridging the gap between Windows Server and Azure Try these samples to learn Business Intelligence... Attribute Relationships in SSAS 2008 - Good thing or bad? Obtaining an OID for a Certificate Issuing Policy (CAPolicy.inf)... Visit the Microsoft Subnet home page for more Microsoft news WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Top Ten Web Threats and how to eliminat This paper raises real challenges for IT managers who have to protect the business against malware, keep internet bandwidth available for legitimate business needs and enforce acceptable use policies for the human resource department. Read Now. Tiny, Word-Sized Charts in Excel 2010 Bill Jelen: Small intense charts are called sparklines. In Excel 2010, Microsoft implemented three different types of sparklines. Read More IE 9 beta release date draws near Robert Mullins: Circle Sept. 15 on your calendars for the beta launch of Windows Internet Explorer 9, as Microsoft executives hop on a quick flight from Redmond down to San Francisco for a kickoff event. Read More Indexed Views are a good feature but in which Edition? Brian Egler: There has been a lot of confusion about Indexed Views in SQL Server. This is a great feature for Data Warehouses that captures complex number crunching into persisted storage. Read More Dashboarding with Excel 2010 Slicers and Multiple Pivot Tables Bill Jelen: One of the new features in Excel 2010 is a type of visual pivot table filter called a Slicer. In typical fashion, the most valuable setting for slicers is buried where most users will never find it. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Virtualize your end-to-end IT infrastructure A virtual storage infrastructure available only from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half with innovations that unlock trapped capacity in individual servers or in enterprise disk arrays. Learn how. Read Now Microsoft-Yahoo search alliance taking shape Robert Mullin: Packing boxes are being filled by Yahoo employees preparing to move to Microsoft offices in time for the fall launch of the search alliance between the two companies. About 400 Yahoo engineers are moving from Yahoo to Microsoft's campus in Mountain View. Read More Big Brother's Creepy Little Brother Snoops as Productivity Tool Ms. Smith: Screen blogging, a radical approach to privacy, is volunteering to be snooped upon in order to be more productive. Read More Have you had a vendor troubleshooting nightmare? Sean McCown: Ok, so I'm clearly still on my vendor kick. Last night I was lucky enough to sit on a troubleshooting call with one of our app teams and their vendor. They were having issues with DB performance. Read More Bridging the gap between Windows Server and Azure Robert Mullins: When Microsoft's Ryan Dunn mingled with attendees at the TechEd conference in New Orleans in June, he got several questions about how developing software applications for the cloud and monitoring them in production will differ from developing them for on-premise deployment. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateway This industry report covers the email gateway market. Gartner, Inc. positions Symantec Hosted Services in the Leaders quadrant in its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways (anti-spam, anti-virus, outbound content filtering, email encryption, intrusion prevention). Read the entire report. Read Now Try these samples to learn Business Intelligence... Brian Egler: One benefit of a two year beta program was not only a quality product but sample databases and code that were refined and accurate. Yes, we had to wait a long time for Yukon in 2005, but it was worth it! Read More Attribute Relationships in SSAS 2008 - Good thing or bad? Brian Egler: A new feature in Analysis Services 2008 is the Attribute Relationships tab in the Dimension Designer. This tool is part of the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) which is really Visual Studio in disguise. Read More Obtaining an OID for a Certificate Issuing Policy (CAPolicy.inf)... Tyson Kopczynski: In the happy fairly land that is PKI there comes a time when an OID is needed. Such a time is when you want to specify a Certificate Issuing Policy within a CAPolicy.inf for Microsoft's Certificates Services. 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