Of the total amount of security vulnerabilities put out by Microsoft in 2009, across all versions of Windows and Office, 64% are mitigated by removing administrator rights. Microsoft published 190 security vulnerabilities last year, and 121 of them are thwarted by running without administrator rights.

Read this excellent blog post…  64% of MS Vulnerabilities Mitigated by Removing Admin Rights

….and, then jump back to the Viewinifty web site to see how we can eliminate that 64%:

http://www.viewfinity.com/Products/PrivilegeManagement/Default.aspx

Most analysts covering the software space predict that 2010 will be the year of the cloud. There’s certainly no shortage of theories circulating about how quickly enterprise software organizations will adopt the cloud, and it’s notable that Salesforce.com passed a major milestone recently in hitting the $1 billion revenue mark.

Read more:  2010: Year of the Cloud

Viewfinity is a cloud and agent based privilege elevation program. It features a drop dead simple web based interface. Viewfinity doesn’t require active directory and changes you make with an easy to configure policies are applied near instantly.

Read the rest of what the IT Guy had to say: Privilege Elevation Made Simple… | My Life as an IT Guy

Great news!  We have extended our free offer for our fabulous User Migration utility for Windows 7 until the end of April!  The User Migration utility works with your Active Directory infrastructure to migrate user settings and personality preferences from a Windows XP or Vista computer directly to a connected Windows 7 computer. Quick, easy, and very intuitive.

OK…so, grab the user guide first! 

Viewfinity User Migration User Guide

http://www.viewfinity.com/Products/UserMigration/Default.aspx 

Definitely read the following, too, because you’ll need some components from Microsoft for this to work correctly…

Installation and Setup Requirements

• Viewfinity User Migration Manager can be installed on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 PC (AD member computers in your organization)
• You should be ready to provide user account which is member of the Domain Admin group
• Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 should be installed on the PC running Viewfinity User Migration Manager. Download here.
• You need to have the free Windows Automated Installation Kit AIK installed. Download here.
• A dedicated network share for storing collected user personality (data, OS and application settings)

As businesses grow, the issue of systems management for IT grows with them. Unfortunately, the need for IT management in SMBs is rarely addressed, because of the expense and expertise required to implement software management solutions that IT can use to simplify systems management. The SMB market (500 to 3,000 desktops), can greatly benefit from a comprehensive systems management program. But finding a way to implement such a program without breaking the budget can be daunting. This guide will help you with this process.

Download: Essential Guides: The Essential Guide: System Management Moves to the Cloud

After reviewing and *loving* the Viewfinity User Migration Tool, Frank Ohlhorst, industry renowned journalist, has posted some great information about the tool.

Thanks, Frank!

Read it on CTOEdge:  http://www.ctoedge.com/content/coping-windows-7-migrations

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Over the past 30 years, IT workers have built and maintained a pretty significant part of human history that really tends to get overlooked and underappreciated. Wifi connections have become commonplace. “Always on” Internet connections are now as much a daily requirement as eating food. And, as we Google over lunch, there’s a huge force working in the background to provide as close to 100% availability as possible.

While each single IT worker is just a speck in the crowd, together, over time, the mass of IT has been very industrious. The Chinese has their Great Wall, and when it comes right down to it, IT’s accomplishments over the past 30 years are just as significant. Maybe you can’t see our IT infrastructure from space (a misnomer about the Great Wall, btw), but it is a substantial part of human history and a huge accomplishment that has taken decades to build.

So…the Great Wall is now just a monument, showing how industrious the Chinese people were. There’s a lot about the Great Wall that we could go into, but this blog post isn’t really about the Great Wall. It’s really about how management of our IT infrastructure is changing. Some stats show that the IT workforce in the U.S. is aging, with no recovery in sight from the younger generations. In short, the youth are not interested in IT anymore. Their interests are elsewhere. If it turns out that there is no recovery for IT, then the IT infrastructure may someday become our monument – our testimony to a most industrious time in human history.

I ask you: is it technology to the rescue once again? And if yes, what is likely to be the technology that can help IT continue to deliver 100% availability in the face of an aging IT workforce? And, then, what will our technology infrastructure look like in 5 years? 10 years?

Our friends over at myITforum.com are hosting a poll about this topic for the next month or so. We’d appreciate it if you would participate in it, giving us your feedback on this topic. Once the poll is over, we’ll circle back here for recap and a follow-up blog post.

The poll: http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=15991&z=120