Today’s post is from Chris Hallum- Windows Security Product Manager Today’s an exciting day for us here at the annual Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas, as we just announced the general availability of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2013 for Software Assurance , which includes...

This post is from Chris Hallum, a Senior Product Marketing Manager on the Windows/MDOP team. I talk to customers, the press, and analysts every week about Windows security and as we approached the public release of Windows 8 on October 26th the frequency of these conversations increased dramatically...

This is part one of a three part series from Sr Product Manager, AJ Smith. A little while back, we announced that the Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) beta was available. You can read my blog post here . For those of you unfamiliar with MBAM, it builds on BitLocker Drive Encryption...

Since we announced that Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) was going to be added to the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) and I posted the  Q&A between A.J. Smith and I , we have gotten the chance to talk with a lot of organizations and IT Pro’s about how it can...

This morning Brandon LeBlanc on announced the availability of  the RTM for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 on his blog, Blogging Windows . In addition, Gavriella Schuster announced some great new business value motions as well as a new product beta, MBAM (Microsoft BitLocker Administration...

Today’s post is from AJ Smith, MDOP Product Manager Each time I go to the home improvement store, I look at the multifunction tools—you know, the all-in-one tools that have a screwdriver, pliers, a bottle opener, and everything else attached. It’s a strange obsession that I’m sure a therapist would be...

This part two of our three part series on MBAM from AJ Smith. In my last blog post, I described how Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) can simplify BitLocker Drive Encryption provisioning. In this blog post, I’ll describe how MBAM makes it easier to monitor your computers for compliance...

This part three of our three part series on MBAM from AJ Smith. In recent blog posts, I’ve described how Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Management (MBAM) simplifies BitLocker Drive Encryption provisioning and provides compliance reporting that can help you quickly determine the status of the...

Today on the Windows For Your Business blog, we announced the next release of Windows Intune is available. If you are already running Windows Intune, the best part is, in order to get the new features, you don’t need to do anything. The new features will automatically show up in your console.  What...