Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nirmal Rajesh Soy

David B Dehghan

Edward F Reus

Anil Francis Thomas

Michael Joseph Healy

Marc Shepard

Mazhar Naveed Mohammed

Daniel Joseph Giambalvo

Nicole Ashley Hamilton

Thottam Sriram

Anthony S Chavez

Kenneth A Showman

Varadarajan Thiruvillamalai

David Cris Hennessey

Jay Thaler

Carey Tanner

Jason J Roberts

Steve P Shih

Jianbo Hou

Yasufumi Shiraishi

Dennis Craig Marl

Xiang He

Rajive Kumar

Barbara Harder

Craig C Marl

Thomas Alan Sponheim

Christopher Samuel Green

Quan Wang

Vidyasankar Raman

Renan Jeffereis

Farhan Haleem Qureshi

Kristopher J Owens

Sucharit SenGupta

Lie Ma

Thanjavur V G Prabhu

Kwanjalit S Marok

Michael J Healy

Providing access to one or more resources to a user device. A method includes at a user device, registering with an identity service to obtain an identity credential. The method further includes at the user device, registering with a policy management service by presenting the identity credential. The method further includes at the user device, providing an indication of current state of the user device to the policy management service. The policy management service can then indicate to the identity service the compliance level of the user device. The method further includes the user device receiving a token from the identity service based on the policy management level of the user device as compared to a policy set.

Conditional access to services based on device claims

An application programming interface (API) for administering the distribution of software updates on an update service node is presented. The API provides a plurality of interface calls through which an administrator can establish rules by which software updates available to the update service node are distributed.

Application programming interface for administering the distribution of software updates in an update distribution system

A hierarchical software update distribution system and method for distributing software updates is presented. The update distribution system includes a root update service node and at least one update service node. In an update distribution system, each update service node, except the root update service node, has one parent update service node. Each update service node may function as a parent update service node to child update service nodes.

Update distribution system architecture and method for distributing software

A method of inventorying software and/or hardware. The method may be practiced for example in a network computing environment including at least one client and at least one server. The method includes requesting a rule file from the server. The rule file is received from the server. Information is gathered about the software and/or hardware at the client based on rules in the rule file. The results of gathering information about the software and/or hardware at the client is sent to the server.

Light weight software and hardware inventory

Methods and systems for backing up and restoring the state of a computer system are disclosed. Computer resource use is minimized by combining the backup methods of file copying and file logging. During backup, copies are stored of those files that are expected to change frequently. For other files, changes are noted in a change log and backup copies may be made if they would be useful when later restoring the files. Restoration proceeds by overwriting the frequently-changing files with stored copies and by undoing the changes to the logged files.

Restoration of a computer to a previous working state

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Nirmal Rajesh Soy