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TechNet Flash: SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 released

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Volume 12, Issue 20 | October 6, 2010
 
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A Secure Approach to Protecting the Endpoints

A secure desktop environment starts with a holistic approach to reduce the attack surface and enables devices to continue performing while under attack. Learn how to create the foundation that can evolve with your networks.

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SQL Server 2008 SP2 Available for Download

Both the Service Pack and Feature Pack updates are now ready for download on the Microsoft Download Center. Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008 includes new compatibility features with SQL Server 2008 R2, product improvements based on requests from the SQL Server community, and hotfix solutions provided in SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Updates 1 to 8.
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Mitch Irsfeld Editor's Note

TechNet Flash Editor
Mitch Irsfeld
Develop Your Approach to Desktop Security
The best way to achieve a secure desktop environment is to start with the fundamentals and develop an ongoing approach to build and evolve your security foundation.

To guide that thinking, the latest edition of TechNet ON looks at the best way to approach and then implement desktop security. We start with a security philosophy in Joshua Hoffman's TechNet Magazine article Take the "Defense in Depth" Approach, which looks at protecting the computing environment from as many different potential vectors of attack as possible, from malicious software installations to lost or stolen mobile devices....

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