Preview of the Belgian TechDays 2008 agenda
As promised during my previous post about the Launch experience here is a list of Topics covered in the IT Pro Track:
Active Directory Attacks and How to protect against them
Speaker: Jan Declercq
This session provides examples of attacks against Active Directory and shows how you can protect your enterprise directory against them. The attacks addressed in this presentation include password cracking-, elevation of privilege-, and denial-of-service-based attacks. The session will help you understand some of the inner details of the AD authentication and authorization systems – such as LM hashing and Kerberos pre-authentication, cached credentials, SIDHistory, and token bloat… – and how these can create attack opportunities. Most importantly, this session illustrates the need for organizations to have a rock-solid AD administrative delegation and auditing model and a proven AD disaster recovery plan.
Managing Windows Server 2008 with Server Manager and WinRM
Speaker: Daniel Van Soest
Windows Server 2008 makes significant improvements in server manageability with a one-stop administrative solution called Server Manager. This streamlined management tool allows IT administrators to complete setup of Windows Server using the Initial Configuration Tasks page, and configure and manage server roles and features with prescriptive wizards and a unified management console. WinRM is the new and improved WMI protocol for Windows Remote Management. This session will present and demonstrate the capabilities of Server Manager and how to extend this with the WinRM functionality and tools.
Network Access Protection (NAP) Architecture and Design
Speaker: Kevin Rhodes
This session will review the functionality and architecture of Network Access Protection (NAP), look at the pro’s and con’s of enforcement mechanisms and then discuss deployment design and execution. It will talk about the experiences from the Microsoft deployment of NAP and how those lessons learned can be applied in deployment planning.
Providing Remote Managed Services with Microsoft System Center Remote Operations Manager 2007
Speaker: Rory McCaw
This session will cover the new managed services solution Microsoft is building to enable partners to create a services-based business by delivering remote IT managed services to small and midsized businesses. Supported by System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Operations Manager 2007) and System Center Essentials 2007 (Essentials 2007) technology, this combined solution creates a powerful platform with which you can provide remote software update management, monitoring and troubleshooting of customer environments over a secure internet connection. In addition, you will be able to extend the service to show your customers the value of the services you provide.
Recovery Scenarios, High Availability and Site Resilience with Exchange Server 2007 SP1
Speaker: Scott Schnoll
This session covers the spectrum of recovery, availability and resiliency. It opens with an over of the recovery features in Exchange 2007 SP1, and how to use them to recover from small, medium and large scale failures. Then, we dive deep into high availability strategies and features, including load balancing, redundancy, failover clusters and continuous replication. The rest of the session covers datacenter resilience, including backup site preparation and activation, and resiliency strategies.
SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services – New Architecture, Visualisation and Tablix
Speaker: Steffen Krause
Reporting Services 2008 has much to offer. See the new architecture, which no longer needs Internet Information Server (IIS) and provides new features like better memory management and enhanced rendering. Learn about the new, completely flexible Tablix layout which enables you to combine fixed and dynamic columns and multiple parallel groupings in one report. And finally, take a look at the new chart and gauge controls and how you can create great looking visual reports.
What’s new in Windows PowerShell 2.0 for IT Pros?
Speaker: Bart De Smet
With PowerShell 1.0 being a huge success, we’re streaming forward for an even more impressive 2.0 release. We’ll focus on the various forms of remoting, improvements to the PowerShell language, the Universal Code Execution Model, restricted runspaces, script cmdlets, script internationalization, script debugging support, eventing, the graphical PowerShell, and much more. This is your chance to come and see Windows PowerShell 2.0 in action and to learn how it will help you being more productive in managing your IT infrastructure.
Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Speaker: Tony Krijnen
Microsoft Windows Vista has monitoring tools on board that look at the reliability of the operating system, drivers and applications. Windows Vista SP1 leverages that data and besides new updates it will improve reliability, Besides the improvements we also take a look at the deployment of Windows Vista SP1. What are the common problems you need to be aware of? What are the different ways to install Windows Vista SP1? performance, application compatibility, and device compatibility. In this breakout we will talk about the areas improved upon in Service Pack 1. What was changed for File copy, resume from hibernation and standby? What are the new tools for performance?
“Under the Hood” of System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Speaker: Edwin Yuen
Learn about the architecture and deeper technical details of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and how to use that knowledge to better manage your virtual machines. Topics to be covered are technical review of the physical to virtual migration process, using Powershell with SCVMM, advanced deployment topologies, SAN integration.
Note this is just a small part of the agenda, to see a more complete list check out this link: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/heroeshappenhere/abstracts.aspx?type=itpro
As mentioned earlier if you want to join now is the time as we are going to sell out very soon.
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