SCM v2

SCM 2 provides ready-to-deploy policies and DCM configuration packs that are tested and fully supported. Our product baselines are based on Microsoft Security Guide recommendations and industry best practices, allowing you to manage configuration drift, address compliance requirements, and reduce security threats.

Download Security Compliance Manager 2

Learn more about Security Compliance Manager 2

MVP Award

I received this in my mail yesterday:

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Dear Jimmy Andersson,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Directory Services technical communities during the past year.
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This is the 13th year in a row I got honored with this award, and I'm proud of it!

MVA - Microsoft Virtual Academy

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/GetStarted.aspx

MVA is a training portal that offers you (at present date) the following tracks:

Clustering
Hyper-V
IaaS
Office 365
PaaS
Private Cloud
Public Cloud
SaaS
Security
SQL Azure
System Center
VDI
Virtualization
VMware
Windows Azure

Windows 8 License Fun

When installing the Windows 8 Developer Preview with Tools, this funny license came up. Notice the second row, it's funny :)

More info on Windows 8

Mark Minasi have written an article about Windows 8:
http://www.minasi.com/newsletters/nws1109.htm

Windows 8

Are you curious about Windows 8?
Take a look at Sean Deuby's article in Windows IT Pro, I'm uncertain if I break NDA at this point so I will direct you to the official article on the Internet. When I'm certain about what I can blog without breaking NDA I will of course blog it :)

http://www.windowsitpro.com/author/5202540/SeanDeuby.aspx

Windows 8 Developer Preview

Here it is!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516

PowerShell Cheat Sheet

On the Windows PowerShell Blog you will find Cheat Sheets for PowerShell.

Kerberos authentication over external trust

Yes, it is possible! See Jorge's blog for details.

Nordic Infrastructure Conference

Welcome to NIC2012!


Our goal is to create the premier event for all IT-professionals in the Nordics, offering broad technical education on Microsoft and 3. party products, tools and services. Our two day event will focus on deep-dives and practical knowledge on the most used products. This means less slides, more hands-on. We will show you the good and the bad sides, we will show you how to solve the most common tasks and challenges, sharing all our experience from the real world, the tips & the tricks.

So if you are deploying, managing, securing and mobilizing Microsoft solutions, NIC is the place to be. We will focus on the key technologies within current and soon-to-be released products, helping you to better solve today's IT-challenges, and preparing for tomorrow's innovations.

http://www.nic2012.com/

Interviews

Just saw this one, and it is kind of spot on!

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/b0f33cc2-8ead-46e9-9737-16435efa7c2b