Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vishnu A Patankar

Kirk Soluk

Praerit Garg

Kedarnath Atmaram Dubhashi

John J Lambert

Robert P Reichel

Hitesh Raigandhi

Jin Huang

Nick Finco

Jim E Thatcher

Xiaohong Wu

The restriction of particular resources includes providing a digital signature for unauthorized resources based on a structure-related parameter of the resource. Thus, attempts at circumventing recognition of such resource will likely result in altering the overall functionality of the resource. Further, such digital signatures are encoded in a critical file required for loading of a resource, thus ensuring that the identity of the resource is considered before execution thereof. Enforcement of the resource restriction includes generating a verification signature for a resource that requests loading. The verification signature is compared to the signature coded into the critical file, and a positive match results in the resource being blocked from loading.

Application identification and license enforcement

A process determines a role that a target server will perform. The process also identifies at least one security policy associated with the role. The target server is then configured to implement the identified security policies.

Method and apparatus for configuring servers

A process identifies multiple server roles and stores the server roles in a knowledge base. For each of the multiple server roles, the process identifies at least one service used by the server role, at least one communication port used by the server role, and any web-related requirements of the server role. This identified information regarding each of the server roles is stored in the knowledge base.

Method and apparatus for configuring a server using a knowledge base that defines multiple server roles

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Vishnu A Patankar