Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

William James Whalen

Krishna Kumar Parthasarathy

Neelamadhaba Mahapatro

Wayne Merl Cranston

Piyush Gupta

Salil Kapoor

Faina Sigalov

Jonathan Sturgeon

Rahul Gupta

Ullattil Shaji

Carey Tanner

William Birkin Lees

Colin Harrison Brace

Nathan Daniel Muggli

Derek C Y Cheng

Matthew Wetmore

Wilbert De Graaf

David E Kays

William S Jack

Victor S Lee

Qi Cao

Gokay Hurmali

Khushru M Irani

Kenik Hassel

Umit Akkus

Collin H Brace

Mike A Treit, Jr

Greg Johnson

William P McDaniel

Nick Carlson

Rhynier Myburgh

Mingfeng Xiong

An electronic mail (email) message is received at in email transport infrastructure and has a traffic type identifier identifying a traffic type. Function processing logic in the email transport infrastructure conditionally processes the email message based on the traffic type.

Electronic mail (e-mail) system support for messages with different traffic types

Technologies are described herein for providing instant processing of email messages. In particular, instant processing of email messages is provided for sending emails to allow for instant communication and collaboration. According to one aspect presented herein, a method is provided for instant or near instant delivery of a message across multiple organizations. The method includes receiving the message from a client. Additionally, the method sends the message via email to multiple recipients across multiple organizations.

Instant delivery of messages

Technologies are described herein for altering message properties within a message to indicate acknowledgement. In particular, types of acknowledgment may include delivery receipts, read receipts and non-read receipts. According to one aspect presented herein, a method is provided for acknowledging a message. The method includes receiving a message from a client and attempting to send the message to a recipient mailbox. Additionally, the method alters properties of the message in response to attempting to send the message.

Enhanced acknowledgment for messages

Technologies are described herein for providing delivery optimization of email messages. In particular, direct delivery system is provided for sending emails to allow for instant communication and collaboration. According to one aspect presented herein, a method is provided for instant or near instant delivery of a message. The method includes receiving the message from a client. Additionally, the method analyzes the message to determine if it meets one or more factors for taking a direct path.

Conditional instant delivery of email messages

Technologies are described herein for providing post-processing of messages. In particular, the post-processing of messages occurs without any condition that the message was delivered. This post-processing of messages allows for system redundancy. A message to be sent is received and undergoes a subset of operations prior to being sent out. Currently, the processing operations are more extensive prior to sending off a message. After the message is sent for delivery, the message outgoes additional processing, even if the message is not successfully delivered.

Enhanced delivery of a message for multiple recipients

Accessing a data set with secret and non-secret data. A method includes accessing a data set image. The data set image comprises secret data. The data set image is derived from an authorized data set associated with a master key that authorizes access to the secret data. The master key is not provided with the data set image. The method further comprises restoring the data set image to a computing system to create a degraded data set. Data in the degraded data set other than the secret data is accessed without restoring the master key.

Secure seed media

A system and method for performing various operations on group policy objects, by manipulating group policy objects as a single entity to perform backup, restore, import and copy operations. The backup operation transfers the various subparts of a selected group policy object to a file system. A restore operation restores a backed-up group policy object to its domain, in the same state as when the backup was performed. An import operation transfers the settings within a backed-up source group policy object to a destination group policy object, erasing its previous settings. A copy operation transfers the settings from a source group policy object to a new group policy object. Copy and import operations can be cross-domain, and a migration table can be used to convert security group and UNC pathnames as appropriate for the destination domain. Backup management, rollback of incomplete operations, and support for application deployment are also provided.

Method and system for implementing group policy operations

A system and method for managing group policy objects in a network, including interfaces that allow access by programs or a user interface component to functions of a group policy management console that performs management tasks on group policy objects and other related objects. The interfaces abstract the underlying data storage and retrieval, thereby facilitating searching for objects, and providing the ability to delegate, view, change and permissions on those objects, and check and save those permissions. Modeling and other test simulations are facilitated by other interfaces. Other interfaces provide dynamic and interactive features, such as to convey progress and rich status messages, and allow canceling of an ongoing operation. Still other interfaces provide methods for operating on group policy related data, including group policy object backup, restore, import, copy and create methods, and methods for linking group policy objects to scope of management objects.

Interfaces and methods for group policy management

Dynamically associating an attribute and an associated value to an object includes dynamically associating attribute-value sets to an object, but is not so limited. An exemplary system includes a directory component that can be configured to dynamically assign different values, for a set attributes, to an object. An exemplary directory application can be configured to select an attribute-value set for an object based in part on a group membership determination, and a precedence parameter associated with an attribute-value, set, or other grouping. Other embodiments are available.

Dynamically associating attribute values with objects

Securing data set images

Provided are support mechanisms for a user interface mechanism that performs group policy management. The support mechanisms include a context menu map that provides a consistent and efficient way to generate interactive context menus for nodes using only straightforward declarations. The declarations are processed to invoke code with corresponding parameters that in turn generates a data structure corresponding to a context menu that is to be displayed. The data structure is processed into another data structure, from which data is extracted to meet the requirements of a hosting management application. An intermediary communications object is provided to separate the user interface into multiple components which each exchange data. A progress dialog is also provided to update the user as to the progress of lengthy operations performed on various managed objects, and to drive those operations. Refresh logic replicates changes made at one location in the user interface to other nodes.

Support mechanisms for improved group policy management user interface

A user interface is disclosed for representing group policy object topology and relationships, while allowing interaction to facilitate group policy management. Forests, sites and domains are hierarchically displayed in a treeview that reflects the network topology. The treeview also represents group policy objects, links, filters and other nodes. Administrators perform operations across forests, domains and sites, and perform operations on other nodes in the treeview. Administrators control which forests, sites and domains are viewable in the treeview, and the treeview state is persisted. Logic automatically reduces the topology's complexity by limiting the presentation of forests and/or domains to only those with which the administrator's forest and domain have a proper trust relationship. Also provided is a tabbed view in a result pane area that provides a rich display of complex data, and intelligent refresh logic to update changes in one user interface area to other user interface areas.

Method and system for representing group policy object topology and relationships

A system and method comprising a reporting mechanism for outputting an HMTL and XML document from a collection of hierarchically maintained settings such as group policy object settings or resultant set of policy data. The reporting mechanism provides a substantially complete view of which settings are configured (enabled) in a given group policy object, or a view for a resultant set of policy (that is applied to a given SOM), along with the values of the settings. The markup language format enables viewing a flat representation of the settings, and printing, saving and/or transporting of the settings. XML schemas describe a valid representation of group policy settings, and a valid representation of resultant set of policy.

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