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Crash Courses
| MONDAY, October 15 | ||
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| Crash Courses | ||
| 8:00 – 11:30am | CC1 | Windows Vista Security Crash Course |
| 8:00 – 11:30am | CC2 | VMware Virtual Infrastructure Crash Course |
| 8:00 – 11:30am | CC3 | Futuristic Desktop Management and Security Crash Course |
| FRIDAY, October 19 | ||
| 1:00 – 4:30pm | CC4 | Exchange Server 2007 Command-Line Management Crash Course |
| 1:00 – 4:30pm | CC5 | Network Monitor Crash Course: Full Visibility Into Your Network |
| 1:00 – 4:30pm | CC6 | Windows PowerShell: The Deep-Down, Hardcore, Amazing Stuff Crash Course |
Windows Vista Security Crash Course
8:00 – 11:30am
Mark Minasi
Add up all of the changes in Vista; guess where you'll see the most changes? It's not the new Aero Glass GUI, or in the new deployment tools, or the updates to group policies -- nope, it's in security. Most of the changes in security, however, aren't obvious -- even a keen-eyed techie might miss Windows Integrity Control, or the many changes to security defaults. Other security changes are obvious, like User Account Control, but irritating... until you understand them. Still others are useful, but not activated by default, like the new changes to physical security in Vista. Learn about them all fromMark Minasi, the author of <i>Administering Windows Vista Security: the Big Surprises</i>, and have a chuckle or two in the process.
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Crash Course
8:00 – 11:30am
Greg Shields
Heard all the virtualization hype, but haven’t had time to learn it? Now’s your chance. Focusing on VMware Virtual Infrastructure, Redmond columnist and TechMentor Track Lead Greg Shields will guide you through deploying, managing and troubleshooting virtual machines in your data center. You’ll discover the best ways to build and deploy server hosts, and rapidly deploy new virtual machines. You’ll analyze system sizing tricks and performance optimizations that prevent bottlenecks and resource overuse. You’ll leave with proven solutions for virtualizing your entire server infrastructure. You already know that virtualization tools can lower your costs in the data center and enhance your productivity through automation. Come to TechMentor a bit early and attend our VMware Virtual Infrastructure Crash Course to learn exactly how.
(BONUS: Sign up for this Crash Course and receive a free 90-day, 16-processor evaluation license for VMware's Virtual Infrastructure datacenter virtualization platform. You can break this special evaluation license into multiple physical hosts -- eight 2-processor machines or one big 16-processor machine.)
Futuristic Desktop Management and Security Crash Course
8:00 – 11:30am
Derek Melber
Stop and think about how you would prefer to manage desktops. Now save that mental picture. This course will take the concepts of desktop management and security to a whole new level, showing you how to use new technologies to strip away your image management, deploy applications with greater ease, configure desktops centrally, eliminate logon scripts, and much more. You’ll also learn how to remove those pesky user accounts from local administrators, and still be able to run their applications. Frustration and school of hard-knocks experience is required.
Exchange Server 2007 Command-Line Management Crash Course
1:00 – 4:30pm
Jeffery Hicks
Are you dreading Exchange 2007? Fearing you’ll have to learn an entire new way of administering your Exchange infrastructure? Well, purge that fear and dread. This session will demonstrate how easy it is to manage Exchange 2007 from the command line. Sure, we’ll briefly look at the GUI, but only so you can realize you don’t need it. This session isn’t designed to teach you about Exchange 2007 (we’ll assume you have some experience with Exchange and are familiar with Exchange 2007’s new features), but rather how to manage it. We’ll cover everything from creating users and mailboxes to automating a complete server provisioning. We’re going to crash through a lot of material, but by the end of the session, you should be able to perform basic Exchange management tasks from the command line, plus at least one or two “Wow, I didn’t know I could do that!” tasks. Experience with Windows PowerShell is helpful, but not required. This is not a hands-on workshop, but there will be a lot of demonstrations. Demonstrations (on video) and scripts will be available for download by attendees after the session.
Network Monitor Crash Course: Full Visibility Into Your Network
1:00 – 4:30pm
Rhonda Layfield
Heard of NetMon? As a network packet analyzer, Microsoft’s Network Monitor reveals all. In fact, it reveals so much that it may seem overwhelming at first glance. So, let noted author and speaker Rhonda Layfield be your guide through the learning curve.
In this deeply technical session, you will begin by capturing and viewing some basic DHCP, DNS, and Ping traffic. Then, you will move on to NetMon’s more advanced features like pre and post capture filtering, pattern matching and simultaneous traces. You’ll learn how to create event triggers that automatically start a network capture based on an Event Log trigger. Learning these Event triggers can help with those intermittent issues that occur irregularly or when no-one is around to start the NetMon capture. No matter what your experience with networking and network traffic analysis, you’ll walk away from this session with the tips and tricks you need to troubleshoot your network and network applications.
Windows PowerShell: The Deep-Down, Hardcore, Amazing Stuff Crash Course
1:00 – 4:30pm
Don Jones
This is an advanced post-con that shows you exactly how far you can go with Windows PowerShell. Learn to manipulate XML, retrieve data from the Web, create your own custom formatting views, extend PowerShell’s data types with your own functionality, universally access databases from PowerShell scripts, and even write simple cmdlets to extend PowerShell’s functionality. You’ll cover tasks and learn things available nowhere else—including many things not yet fully documented by Microsoft. The techniques will fly fast and furious as you learn key concepts about PowerShell’s under-the-hood operating, including how the pipelines (yes, there’s more than one) really work, how PowerShell’s command-line parser works, how PowerShell “adapts” complex data types into more administrator-friendly views, and more. To take full advantage of this session, you should either have a working knowledge of PowerShell’s basics, or have attended the PowerShell sessions during the main portion of the conference. This is not a hands-on workshop, although all samples will be available for download by attendees after the the session.
