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Hands-On Labs
Wednesday, October 15
TLW4Adding Network Access Protection to your Environment in a Few Easy Steps (HOL)
Greg Shields
Wednesday, October 15 - 9:30 a.m.
Network Access Protection (NAP) can prevent rogue or unhealthy laptops from infecting your network with viruses, trojans, and malware. It can ensure that any machine arriving on-net from the outside world meets a set of criteria before they’re given access: Anti-spyware installed? Check. Anti-virus up to date? Check. The right set of patches? Double-check. But NAP’s got a bad rap for being hard to use. Not if you attend this hands-on session. We’ll spend time installing and configuring a simple implementation of NAP that you can immediately deploy back in your network at the office. You’ll leave this session with the steps you need to add extra protection your network with little extra effort.
TLW11Group Policy Hands-On Deep Dive (HOL)
Derek Melber
Wednesday, October 15 - 1:45 p.m.
This hands-on lab will expose you to some of the most important, and yet unchartered waters for most Group Policy administrators. We will be performing labs that allow you to create, implement, and verify settings that are deployed with ADM templates, ADMX files, and custom Registry entries. We will also look into how to lock out USB flash drives, troubleshoot GPO application using GPLOGVIEW, and establishing a delegation model that can save you time in fixing errant GPO settings. Need hands-on? Want the Group Policy deep dive? It’s all right here…
Thursday, October 16
TLTH7Managing the Registry with Windows PowerShell (HOL)
Jeff Hicks
Thursday, October 16 - 9:45 a.m.
Managing the Windows registry can be a tedious, yet often necessary task. Fortunately, Windows PowerShell can make this easier. In this hands-on session with Windows PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks you'll learn to manage local and remote registries using a variety of Windows PowerShell techniques. You'll learn to enumerate registry keys, create and delete registry entries, export, import and much more. Some basic PowerShell experience is preferred but not required.
TLTH14Using System Center Essentials to Automate Every Facet of your Small Environment (HOL)
Rod Trent
Thursday, October 16 - 1:45 p.m.
Are you still deploying software through the “Next, Next, Finish” method? Still managing your desktop and server configurations one at a time? If so, you’re spending far too much time repeating tasks that can be automated, even in your small IT shop! Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a new management solution in Microsoft’s System Center family that is specifically designed for small to midsize businesses (up to 500 PCs and 30 servers). In this hands-on session, you’ll learn the right skills that work with tools like Essentials to enable monitoring and alert resolution for servers, clients, applications, hardware, and network devices. You’ll discover the secrets of software distribution, update management, and software and hardware inventory. Come to this lab session to learn the management tricks used by the large IT shops that you can take home today!
TechMentor’s Hands-On Labs (HOL) are a new experience where we combine the very best of the lectures you’re used to seeing along with a follow-along lab format. In these longer and more in-depth sessions you’ll get the opportunity to actually work with the technology as you hear about it. Best of all, with TechMentor’s HOLs you’ll use your own laptop as the platform for working through the demonstrations, giving you a finished product to take with you at the end of the conference. Bring Your Own Laptop Hands-On Labs…only at TechMentor
