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How to block installing SharePoint Server 2010 using Group Policy

SharePoint 2010 is quickly being coming a very popular web platforms for many organisation for collaborating and sharing information. In some cases it is almost to popular in some medium to large organisation with many SharePoint server farms popping up all over the place as each department or business unit see’s a need. As a quote from a Microsoft article…

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How to mitigate the SharePoint XSS security issue with Group Policy – KB983438

There is currently a Cross Site Scripting issue with SharePoint 3.0 and 2007 which could allow someone to maliciously run an arbitrary script that could allow elevation of privilege in the SharePoint site. There is currently no hotfix out for this issues  however you can mitigate this issue by enabling the XSS Filter in Internet Explorer 8. Unfortunately this is…

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