Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ralph Abdo

Theodore Ludovicus Michel

Darrin N Hatakeda

Cameron Stillion

Eric F Wong

Glenn L Frankel

Brian Joseph Tsang

Can Mehmet Comertoglu

Hans J Bjordahl

Zhenjun Zhu

Juraj Gottweis

Christophe Rene Loisey

Casey John Jacobs

Regis Denefle

Mark E McDaniel

William Jason Bell

Jeff Case

Chi-Ming Lin

John Wu

Aaron Tarzan

Jeffrey Allen Case

Vincent Chang

Thad Schwebke

Sugandha Sudeshkumar Kapoor

Selectively shared and filtered personal information collections are provided. Personal information collections include calendars, task lists, address books, and other collections of information that may be provided by personal information manager (PIM) software. Personal information collections published on a server may be limited on a user-by-user basis as to who may access the collections. Furthermore, collections may be automatically filtered based on a rolling window of dates, reducing file size and maintaining privacy of items outside the rolling window.

Secured and filtered personal information publishing

Setting options for publishing calendar

Sharing calendar information may be provided. Calendar information may be shared with individuals that may or may not be associated with a local exchange server in order to coordinate schedules. A determination is conducted to decide whether a sender is authorized to send calendar information to another by examining registration rights. Next, if the registration rights are valid, input may be received from the sender associated with sending the calendar information to another using one or more entry points. Next, calendar information settings are received from the sender, which are used when sending the calendar information to another. Next, calendar information is published to the Internet based on the calendar information settings established by the sender, and provided to others for viewing.

Sharing calendar information

A web server configuration is audited by selecting a configuration file and a set of target servers to be audited. The configuration file includes configuration settings to be audited for, and expected values for the configuration settings. The configuration file may be reconfigured by a user to include appropriate configuration settings and expected values. The configuration settings and expected values are compared to actual values of the configuration settings for the target server. Audit results are determined based on the comparison. The results are included in a report with the corresponding configuration settings.

System and method for auditing a network server configuration

Systems, computer-program-products, and methods for managing terminal services (TS) accounts and sessions for online utilization of hosted applications are provided. A system is operative to monitor a supply of available TS accounts and create TS accounts in response to detecting that the supply of available TS accounts is below a minimum number. When a request to access a TS session is detected, the system provisions a TS account for the user to immediately access the TS session without entering credentials. The provisioned TS account provides access and is associated with a unique profile. The system is also operative to receive the request to access the hosted application and decrypt credentials generated for the user. A method involves reading a username assigned to a user requesting access, locating the TS account associated with the username, identifying the language associated with the TS account, and launching the hosted application in that language.

Managing terminal services accounts and sessions for online utilization of a hosted application

A network is audited by running task programs and evaluating the results of the task programs. Task programs are tools that are configured to retrieve information about a particular network device. A service is arranged to coordinate the scheduling, execution, and data collection and aggregation of each task program over disparate networks such as multiple domains. Each task program executes at a scheduled time and provides results to a parser. The parser formats the results and provides the formatted data to the service. The service stores the collected data in a database. A client can schedule and/or review the results of audits by communicating with the service. The collected data can be compared and filtered according to rule-based templates that define acceptable network device configurations. Reports can be generated based on the templates such that a client can evaluate results from task programs executed over the entire network.

System and method for auditing a network

A system and method for allowing user access to software applications, data storage and retrieval, and electronic mail and messaging services in a networked computing environment are provided. The need for software installation, upgrade, and version control, and the need for certain hardware upgrades are eliminated by providing software and data storage and retrieval to a user or to groups of users from a remote terminal server via a networked computing environment. Software applications, data and electronic mail and messaging services are stored, maintained and operated at a remote terminal server and are provided to the user over the Internet or over an intranet of an organization such as a company or educational institution. Data is stored and secured at a remote file server, and web operations are provided by a remote web server. The backend of the system, including the terminal servers, file servers and web servers is managed and secured by a domain controller.

Provisioning computing services via an on-line networked computing environment

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