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TechNet Virtual Conference October

Deeps — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:55:00 GMT

TechNet Virtual Conference Friday 30 October
10.00am-11.00am IT Manager Session: Office and Exchange 2010
10.00am-11.00am IT Manager Session: Delivering the NextGen Desktop – Windows 7 (Citrix guest speaker)
11.30am-12.30pm Desktop/End User Specialist Session: Windows 7 – Improved Network Access
1.00pm-2.00pm LOB/Applications Specialist Session: Managing your storage for SQL Server 2008
2.30pm-3.30pm Infrastructure Specialist Session: Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: Technical Overview

If you missed the Virtual Conference in September you can still view the sessions On-Demand.

TechNet Virtual Conference September

Deeps — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:13:00 GMT

UPDATE: The sessions are available now On-Demand

We are starting the TechNet Virtual Conference series this month. These are sessions targeted at various IT Professionals, there should be something for everyone! Register today.

TechNet Virtual Conference Friday 25 September
10.00am-11.00am IT Manager Session: How Microsoft does IT: Save Time, Save Energy
11.30am-12.30pm Desktop/End User Specialist Session: Windows 7 Manageability Solutions
1.00pm-2.00pm Line of Business/Applications Specialist Session: SQL Server Consolidation/Virtualisation
2.30pm-3.30pm Infrastructure Specialist Session: Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Group Policy Changes

Live Meetings – Office 2007 Deployment Series

Deeps — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:46:00 GMT

We have the following Office 2007 Deployment Live Meetings sessions happening in June.

Office 2007 Deployment Series - Session 1: Get Started with your Office Deployment
Event Overview
With Service Pack 2 recently made available, it is a good time to update your desktop software to take advantage of the productivity improvements, server integration and collaboration capabilities. In this session, learn about the best approaches to Office 2007 deployment. Understand how to get started on the deployment journey and the tools and resources available to you.

Language(s): English.
Product(s): 2007 Microsoft Office suites. Audience(s): IT Manager,IT Professional. Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East)
Click here to Register

Office 2007 Deployment Series - Session 2: Office and Virtualisation
Event Overview
Application Virtualization solves many problems encountered in a traditional deployment. Mitigate application migration challenges by allowing users to run any version of Office without a maintenance overhead, reduce the amount of regression testing and stream Office to your users quickly through virtualization.

Language(s): English.
Product(s): 2007 Microsoft Office suites.
Audience(s): IT Manager,IT Professional.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East)
Click here to Register

Office 2007 Deployment Series - Session 3: Office Training and Readiness
Event Overview
Office 2007 introduced a new user interface. In this session you will travel back to the early planning stages of Office 2007 and get a look at how and why this happened. But more importantly, learn the tools, techniques and approaches to accelerate adoption and reduce resistance to change and make your Office deployment successful.

Language(s): English.
Product(s): 2007 Microsoft Office suites.
Audience(s): IT Manager,IT Professional.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East)
Click here to Register

Live Meeting – Beyond the Compete Microsoft vs VMware

Deeps — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:06:42 GMT

Event Overview
This session will focus on the key technologies within the Microsoft Product Family that address very real needs that any organisations adopting VWWare Technology has. We will focus on discussing how to manage VMWare and Hyper-V side by side.

Technologies covered include System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server 2008 R2

Beyond the compete - Microsoft vs VMware
Language(s): English.
Product(s): Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager,Windows Server 2008 R2.
Audience(s): IT Manager,IT Professional.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: Friday, 26 June 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East)

Speaker details
Amit Pawar has been with Microsoft Australia for nearly nine years in various roles from Support Engineer, Consultant to currently being the Technology Specialist for Windows Server and Virtualisation. Amit has been involved with many successful proof of concepts, pilots and production deployment of Microsoft virtualisation technologies in both enterprise and small medium business customers in Australia.

Click here to Register

Live Meeting – Exchange 2010 The Future of Collaboration

Deeps — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:49:00 GMT

Event Overview
The upcoming release of Exchange 2010 can help you achieve better business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration, and compliance. Exchange 2010 delivers the best end-user experience, the widest range of deployment options, integrated information leakage protection, and advanced compliance capabilities, that combine to form the best messaging and collaboration solution available. Learn more about it in this Live Meeting session.

Exchange 2010: The Future of Collaboration
Language(s): English.
Product(s): Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.
Audience(s): IT Manager,IT Professional.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East)

Speaker Details
Johann Kruse is a National Technology Specialist for Microsoft Australia, based in Sydney. Johann’s areas of speciality include Unified Communications, VoIP, Exchange Server and Office Communications Server. Johann works with enterprise and government customers assisting with the development and design of messaging and Unified Communications platforms and strategies.

Johann has a UC blog at http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse and you can usually find out what’s he doing at http://twitter.com/whassaname

Click here to Register

Live Meeting - Windows 7 Release Candidate – The Road to RTM – Changes since the Beta

Deeps — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:15:00 GMT

Event Overview
The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) features several changes and improvements since the Beta release in January. A lot of this was based on feedback we received directly from testers just like you! In this session, Jeff Alexander will take you through the changes in the Release Candidate including changes to the following technologies since the Windows 7 Beta: User Account Control, Bitlocker Drive Encryption, Direct Access, The Windows 7 Taskbar, Jump Lists, Aero Peek and a brand new virtualization feature called XP Mode!

Windows 7 Release Candidate - The Road to RTM - Changes since the Beta
Language(s): English.
Product(s): Windows 7.
Audience(s): IT Manager,IT Professional.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: Friday, June 12, 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East)

Speaker Details
Jeff Alexander is a IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft and travels across Australia speaking to customers and partners about the latest technologies. Jeff can be seen speaking at Security events, TechEd and other recognised Industry Tech events. Jeff started as employee number 27 at Microsoft Australia and has been with the company for 21 years. Jeff’s blog is http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36 and Twitter is http://www.twitter.com/jeffa36

If you have any questions prior to the event Twitter it with the hashtag #win7live

Click here to Register

What's New in Active Directory for Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Meeting 15th May

Deeps — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:45:16 GMT

Register for our next Live Meeting event which is on Friday 15th May at 11am.

Event Overview
Windows Server 2008 R2 delivers some highly anticipated features for Active Directory administrators. This session will provide an overview of the new features and also drill down on some of their aspects, which would enable you to better understand and evaluate their value. You will take away an understanding of AD Recycle Bin (easing recovery), Managed Service Accounts (easing Service Account lifecycle management), Authentication Assurance (enabling applications to authorize per two factor authentication), Offline Domain Join (easing large scale data center deployments), and the suite of manageability enhancing features like AD Power Shell, AD Best Practice Analyzer and AD Administrative Center.

Speaker – Philip Duff, Infrastructure Technical Specialist

Click here to register

Windows 7 Technical Update – On-Demand Live Meeting

Deeps — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:13:57 GMT

The Windows 7 Tech Update that we delivered a few weeks back is now ready as a On-Demand Live Meeting. Details below:

Title: Windows 7 – Technical Update
Abstract: The Windows 7 beta is here and everyone’s talking about it. In this session we’ll discuss what Windows 7 means for the IT Pro and enterprises and mid-market customers in general. Technologies covered include DirectAccess, BranchCache, Federated Search, Bitlocker to Go and the ways in which Windows 7 streamlines PC management. Demo’s include DirectAccess, BranchCache, Bitlocker to Go, User Account Control changes and many of the management changes.

Click here to view the On-Demand Live Meeting

Don't forget to register for the Windows 7 – The Security Story Live Meeting which is happening on April 3rd.

Windows 7 – The Security Story Live Meeting – Register today

Deeps — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:12:20 GMT

Registration for our next Live Meeting on Windows 7 is ready.

Language(s): English.
Product(s): Other,Security.
Audience(s): IT Manager,IT Professional.
Duration: 75 Minutes

Start Date: Friday, 3 April 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East)

Event Overview
Windows 7 has many features for the consumer, developer and IT Pro. But what about Security? In this session we’ll talk about and show some of the important security features that are coming as part of Windows 7. These include Applocker™, Bitlocker™ and Bitlocker To Go™, DirectAcess™, User Account Control and the security changes to Internet Explorer 8. There will be demo’s on all these technologies so you can see firsthand how Windows 7 security has been improved!

Speaker - Jeff Alexander, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft
Jeff Alexander is a IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft and travels across Australia speaking to customers and partners about the latest technologies. Jeff can be seen speaking at Security events, TechEd and other recognised Industry Tech events. Jeff started as employee number 27 at Microsoft Australia and has been with the company for 21 years. Jeff’s blog is http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36

Twitter Hashtag #win7live
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