Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael J Wallent

Loren Kohnfelder

David C James

Rajeev Dujari

Anand Ramakrishna

Ray Sun

Sean L Flynn

Eric Robert Berman

Eric J Hennings

Sanjay G Shenoy

Brett Damon Alan Flegg

Bruno Ryuichi Yoshioka

Koen Van Der Hoeven

Lewis Geer

Techniques are described herein that are capable of selectively throttling an implementation of configuration changes in an enterprise. For instance, incremental phases of the implementation on respective subsets of clients are selectively throttled during respective periods of time by performing operations for each subset during a respective phase that precedes a respective next phase of the implementation. The operations include gathering information regarding the phase from the clients in the subset; generating a score that indicates an extent to which metrics associated with the implementation are satisfied during the phase based at least in part on the information; comparing the score to a reference score for the subset to determine whether the score is within a tolerance associated with the reference score; and selectively throttling the next phase of the implementation based at least in part on whether the score is within the tolerance.

Selectively throttling implementation of configuration changes in an enterprise

A system and method of saving a Web page from a Web site on an Internet to a computer-readable medium is disclosed. A Web page is downloaded from the Internet to the computer-readable medium. The Internet address for the Web page is stored on the computer-readable medium. When the Web page is opened from the computer-readable medium, the Internet address is used to identify a security context for the Web page. By using the Internet address to identify the security context for the Web page, the system and method of the present invention allows users to securely view and execute Web pages downloaded from the Internet.

Saved Web page security system and method

A computer based system and method of providing security when receiving digital data at a client computer from one or more Web sites is disclosed. The method includes receiving security configuration information that specifies multiple security zones, each zone corresponding to a set of Web sites. The security configuration information also includes information specifying a set of security settings corresponding to each security zone. A security setting is a specification indicating an action to perform when a Web page from one of the security zones requests a protected operation to be performed. During a Web browsing session, the mechanism of the invention determines the security zone corresponding to the Web site currently being browsed. Prior to performing the protected operation, the mechanism of the invention determines the action to perform, based on the current Web site's security zone, the requested operation, and the security setting corresponding to the requested operation and the Web site's zone. Depending upon the security setting, the Web browser may perform the requested operation, prevent the requested operation from being performed, or prompt the user of whether to perform the requested operation. During the browsing of a Web site, the Web browser visually indicates the security zone corresponding to the current Web site.

Network security zones

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