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Windows Fundamentals
Windows Foundation sessions cover the basics of administering Windows - not necessarily for beginners, but also as a way to dig into long-forgotten fundamentals that are core building blocks for higher-level administration, design, and troubleshooting.
Tuesday, October 14
TLT1Understanding Group Policy Fundamentals
Derek Melber
Tuesday, October 14 - 8:00 a.m.
You say you want to use Group Policy? Well, before you do, come and listen to Derek Melber, Group Policy MVP and author of the Group Policy Resource Kit, talk about the fundamentals of Group Policy. You will leave understanding all of the complexities of elements like enforcement, blocking inheritance, security filtering, SOM, and Group Policy Preferences. You will learn about how GPOs are created, their structure, searching, and their amazingly powerful targeting ability.
Wednesday, October 15
TLW10Fundamentals of Implementing SharePoint Technologies
Wendy Henry
Wednesday, October 15 - 1:45 p.m.
Considering adding SharePoint to your environment? Don’t let the best laid plans for your collaboration solution fail. Guarantee a successful SharePoint deployment the first time! Join this session for definitive coverage of the “must have’s” and “have not’s” of a problem-free SharePoint implementation. Go beyond the Microsoft deployment guide for real-world pitfalls of capacity planning, storage performance optimization, and large enterprise service scaling. You’ll see a real-time demonstration of the SharePoint installation process that will explain the effect of each configurable setting to assure the right configuration right from the start.
Thursday, October 16
TLTH3IIS 7.0 Fundamentals
Bruce Rougeau
Thursday, October 16 - 8:30 a.m.
Everyone needs to know the basics of building a Web server using Windows 2008. IIS 7.0 has a robust architecture with a substantial set of changes and updates that you need to know. In this session, IIS expert Bruce Rougeau will run you through the basic, explaining the changes and what to expect. He’ll show you how to secure and limit IIS’s base install and how to add functionality by enabling Active-X and WebDAV. You’ll also learn the best ways to implement FTP and SFTP to keep your data secure.
TLTH9Encryption Fundamentals: Safely Using BitLocker and EFS
James Conrad
Thursday, October 16 - 11:15 a.m.
Seen your laptop? Wasn’t it on the coffeehouse table when you went to get another latte? Now it’s gone! What about its confidential documents and personal information? One offline attack later and a hacker can take ownership of every file you have. Though you never want a laptop lost or stolen, if the unthinkable happens, you can at least have peace of mind that Bitlocker permanently encrypts the hard drive, making it impossible to read your data. In this session you’ll learn how to use Bitlocker to lock out hackers while avoiding accidentally locking yourself out of your own system! Also, if you want a more targeted but also effective method for protecting data we’ll show you how to use the Encrypting File System to encrypt specific files that are most security sensitive to you. You will learn how to encrypt your documents and securely safeguard the EFS decryption keys. Your data is confidential. Attend this session to keep it that way!
TLTH10Network Monitor: Sniffing the Network
Bruce Rougeau
Thursday, October 16 - 11:15 a.m.
Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to inspect the actual data being sent over the wire. Other times you need to prove that data is indeed encrypted and not being sent in cleartext. In this session you will develop the skills to do just that. Microsoft has released a new version of the Network Monitor that’s worth the free download. You’ll learn the secrets of its new interface, and how best to plug it into your company network. Impress and amaze your friends and co-workers with your intimate knowledge of your network’s bits and bytes with Network Monitor.
TLTH12LDAP: The Query Language of Choice
Jeff Hicks
Thursday, October 16 - 1:45 p.m.
You’ve probably heard that Active Directory is based on LDAP. But what does that actually mean? LDAP is more than just architecture. Every Enterprise Windows administrator needs to know how to interact with Active Directory using LDAP’s built-in query language. Although overwhelming at first, learn the easy way with veteran TechMentor presenter Jeff Hicks. You’ll learn how to use a variety of tools, some script related and some not. You’ll leave with the skills to leverage LDAP for automating the management of your Active Directory.
TLTH13Active Directory Fundamentals
Bruce Rougeau
Thursday, October 16 - 1:45 p.m.
It is impossible to be a great system administrator without a thorough knowledge of Active Directory. And it’s impossible to get that thorough knowledge unless you learn it from Bruce. In this session, Master Active Directory Guru Bruce Rougeau presents the key concepts for Active Directory and explores the critical knowledge necessary for building and maintaining an AD infrastructure. Adding to that knowledge, this session will cover all the ways to manipulate objects via the user interface, LDIFDE, CSVDE, and VBScript. And no AD fundamentals session is complete without a full understanding of all the variety of groups and the different combinations for effectively using groups to manage permissions in a complex environment.
TLTH17System Recovery: The Good, the Bad, & the Lifesaving
Bruce Rougeau
Thursday, October 16 - 3:15 p.m.
Server down? What do you do? Without the right skills in place, your next action might be updating your resume. It is true that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This session prevents that Resume Producing Event by giving you the variety of techniques and settings for best backing up and recovering your servers. We will explore the various restore techniques including Safe Mode, the Recovery Console, ASR, as well as restoring an OS from NTBackup. Last but not least we will explore system state backups by restoring them to an alternate location. From NT to Server 2008, XP to Vista, you’ll leave with the knowledge you need to save your systems’ lives.
