The Office Update Inventory Tool allows administrators to inventory the state of updates across all of their Office installations and generate reports on the information.

Download Office Update Inventory Tool 1.0 for Windows 95 & 98 & 2000, Windows Me, Win XP

NeoWin When Microsoft launched Windows XP it also switched the way it sold software to students. Previously, if you bought software at savage discounts under the Student and Teacher License you had to provide some proof that you qualified, and then Microsoft would send you the software. This process has now been "simplified and improved" - you don't buy an empty box and send a note from your headmaster to Microsoft any more, you just buy the full working product, and install it.

Microsoft has released the Learning Resource Interchange (LRN) Toolkit. The LRN Toolkit provides the information and tools you need to get started working with LRN for your online learning content. See how simple and easy it is to build and develop online content that is fully IMS compliant. The toolkit also includes free sample LRN content to help you see how online learning content can help your organization.

Download LRN Toolkit 3.0 for windows 98 & 2000 & Windows Me, Win XP

In this episode of The .NET Show, filmed in front of a live studio audience at PDC 2001, we will be talking with Mark Lucovsky, Mark Anders, as well as Mark Boulter about their individual roles in forming the foundation of the .NET platform

Download The .Net Show: PDC 2001 115 mb u need Windows Media Player 6.x or greater

Activewin You've heard it first, here! The Internet Explorer Team is pleased to deliver the first beta release of Internet Explorer 6 SP 1. This build 1114 includes the following fixes/enhancements

Windows .NET Server Administration Tools Pack (adminpak.msi) provides server management tools that allow administrators to remotely manage Windows 2000 Servers from Windows XP Professional machines. This is the BETA 3 version of the adminpak.msi file - please read KnowledgeBase article Q304718 for more information on the beta release process of this file and known issues. Thanks to Neowin!

Download Windows XP Administration Tools Pack Beta 3

WinosCentral Who said the best stuff isn't free. Look about 3/4 of the way down the page and you'll see the links to the files there. **Note - The server is slow and remember this is for XP only! The files are quite small and come in an MSI package.

Get MP3 recording capability in WMP8

Get DVD Playback capabilities in WMP 8

Hey u got a shiny new Xbox and u want to play online S### u cant, cos u got no online support wtf u say, well warp2search are here to save the Day hit Read More if u want to take your Xbox online

Microsoft have released the .Net Passport sdk and boy is it a big download 2,339,176 kb file for WindowsXP/2K download time for this file is 184h 47min LOL

Download .Net Passport sdk

Windows Media Player .ASF Processor Contains Unchecked Buffer:
Date: 20 November 2001
Software: Windows Media Player
Impact: Run code of attacker's choice
Max Risk: Critical
Bulletin: MS01-056
All Media Player versions are affected! Read more for details...

Jeez, was this a weekend ;-) But anyway, here we go, a little bit late but not too late. I just received an mail from our buddies over @ NeoWin.
Here is what they say:
My mate Vla has let me know that as of now Beta 3 of Windows .NET Server has been made available to testers via WindowsBetaWeb. This build is numbered 3590 thats 2 builds higher than Paul Thurrott previewed earlier this week, no doubt he is downloading and will have it updated before the day is out, or tomorrow. We have no release notes or screens to go on, so if you are a Beta tester you'll have to go take a look see for yourself. So head over to Neowin by using the above link!

Mircosoft has realeased some Windows .NET Beta 3 bugfixes for Windows XP:

Mircosoft have released a Visual Studio 6.0 C Runtime Denial of Service Fix for NT4/W2K:

Download Q305601 NT4.EXE - 550 Kb

Download Q305601_W2K_SP3_X86_EN.exe - 533 Kb

If u didn't already know Microsoft has officially launched the XBox today in the states! Hey Mr Gates, what about europe? Looks like we got to wait.

Well here's a reminder of what you were missing out on. There's some Xbox movies and commercials too many to list.

Xbox movies and commercials

IIS Lockdown Wizard version 2.1 works by turning off unnecessary features, thus reducing attack surface available to attackers. To provide multiple layers of protection against attackers, URLscan, with customized templates for each supported server role, is integrated into the IIS Lockdown Wizard.

To keep the server completely secure, however, all hotfixes are required before and after applying IIS Lockdown Wizard to stay protected against known security vulnerabilities.

Download IIS Lockdown Tool version 2.1 for Windows NT 4.0 running IIS 4.0/2000 running IIS 5.0/

This update resolves the "Cookie Data in IE Can Be Exposed or Altered Through Script Injection" security vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.0 and Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2, and is discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-055. Download now to prevent a malicious user from reading the contents of cookies on your machine, which might contain personal information, or even altering the contents of the cookies on your machine, by hosting a Web page with a maliciously crafted URL. This URL can be hosted on a Web page or contained in an HTML e-mail.

Security Update, November 12, 2001

Well the patch is now ready for u to download

Did u ever want to know how to build a secure, scalable, highly available, and manageable Internet data center that is based on Microsoft products. !LOL i need a Beer

Use this tool to export a DHCP database and server configurations from a Windows NT Server 4.0 or Windows 2000 Server to a Windows 2000 DHCP server.

You can download and use DHCPExim.exe on any of the following platforms:

Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Datacenter

dhcpexim_setup.exe - 151 Kb

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 3 is available now.
Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 3 is designed to address specific customer suggestions and to ensure compatibility with Windows 2000.

Download Systems Management Server 2.0 SP3

Microsoft Producer is an add-on for PowerPoint 2002 that makes it easy for knowledge workers and enterprise media professionals to capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images. Use Producer to create engaging and effective rich-media presentations for viewing on demand in a browser.

Languages Supported: US English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish

Download PowerPoint 2002 Add-on: Producer 11-01-2001 24mb for Windows XP/2K