The Vista Security Guide will be released to Beta on September 6^th exclusively through Microsoft Connect. It will be available to anyone who signs in at https://connect.microsoft.com/InvitationUse.aspx?ProgramID=820&InvitationID=VSG-P74P-BFTH&SiteID=14.

The Beta period will extend for just three weeks, during which we’ll be accepting and triaging bugs and comments.

To support this Beta release, the development and program management teams will deliver a LiveMeeting on Wednesday September 6^th. Details are below. We want to welcome as many customers and partners into the Beta as possible to gather the most feedback and ensure that we ship a customer-driven solution. With that in mind, feel free to forward this information to anyone you think might benefit from attending the session. We’ll be describing the guide, how we developed it, the best way to use it, and one really cool new tool that can save lots of time in the test and deployment phases. We will also take questions at the end of the presentation, so this is a great opportunity for customers to directly interact with the security guide team.

Livemeeting details:

Topic: Windows Vista Security Guide

Abstract: The Vista Security Guide in now in Beta! This session reviews the structure of the guide, discusses some of the old and new approaches for deploying security configuration, and demonstrates how the guide leverages some of the new security technologies built into Windows Vista.

Date and Time: September 6, 2006, 8 am – 10 am PT

To join this Live Meeting up to a half hour before the session starts, click here.

(https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=5TNM3W&role=attend&pw=6379)

Live Meeting FAQ

Installing Live Meeting

Install the Windows-based Meeting Console before your meeting:
http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidLiveMeeting?p1=7&p2=en_US&p3=LMInfo&p4=DownloadWindowsConsole