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Becoming an IT Architect
Becoming an IT Architect sessions are related to high-level technology design for larger environments, including the tough decisions, compromises, recognition of political/business factors, etc. - with a minor emphasis on designs that support management frameworks such as ITIL, COBIT, and others.
Tuesday, October 14
TLT3Designing a Virtualization Architecture: A Best Practices Approach
Greg Shields
Tuesday, October 14 - 8:00 a.m.
CA reports that 44% of virtualization deployments ultimately fail. The biggest problems with those implementations relate to poor planning and bad expectations. If you’re considering making a move to virtualization, or even if you’ve already made the jump but into a less-than-stellar result, you need to attend this session with Virtual Architect Greg Shields. We’ll talk about the best practices for designing a world-class virtualization architecture that scales, meets your need, and ensures you get the best bang for your virtual dollar.
TLT14Designing a Highly Reliable Active Directory Architecture
Derek Melber
Tuesday, October 14 - 4:00 p.m.
Do you need to design and implement Active Directory? Have you ever done this before? If not, then before you slap in that “shiny DVD that says Windows Server” you need to attend this session. There are many aspects of AD design that require consideration to ensure success. This session will open up the floor to discussing design considerations with DNS, DHCP, branch offices, sites, Group Policy, security, and delegation. There is a saying: “Not planning for your AD design is planning for a failed AD design!” Don’t let this happen to you!
Wednesday, October 15
TLW1Designing a Bulletproof Exchange 2007 Architecture
Brien Posey
Wednesday, October 15 - 9:30 a.m.
The design aspect to Exchange is so essential in your deployment planning that a bad design almost always leads to a bad implementation. Combat this by coming to listen to the necessary concerns and caveats before you decide to undertake the task of deployment. Already deployed? Not to worry. We will review all the best practices to your design to ensure you can put in place the best Exchange environment you possibly could hope for. Part of this discussion includes storage architecture in Exchange, high availability design, server roles and their proper placement, preparing for anti-spam and anti-virus design, disaster recovery design, and much more.
TLW2Adding Change Control and Workflow to Active Directory
Don Jones
Wednesday, October 15 - 9:30 a.m.
In an ideal world, good Active Directory management requires good change processes and rules. Those roles hold true for everything from naming conventions, attribute population, account expiry, group membership, and more. But when granting rights in Active Directory there is no concept of approval based changes, business rules, or automation, and that can create chaos when admins make changes without approval. This process-oriented session will highlight how new change control and workflow technologies are integrated into Active Directory, enabling you to map to business processes, meet advanced compliance requirements, and adhere to management framework rules. You'll leave with a shopping list of change control and workflow capabilities for use when evaluating add-in products or building your own solution, and you'll see how new and free third-party solutions can build change control and workflow into Active Directory.
