John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft : Training

Hands-on Windows OS Internals and Advanced Troubleshooting

jhoward — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:26:00 GMT

I received an email from David Solomon - author of Windows Internals this morning. By amazing coincidence, I happened to have a copy of it open and reading it just as the email came in. David & his colleage, Mark Russinovich regularly give courses to folks in the Windows Core OS Division here in Redmond as part of a standard "getting up to speed" induction.

David just let me know that on 26th-30th June there will be a course running in London. Registration for that can be found here. From the people on campus I've spoken to who've been on this course, they highly recommend it.

Here's the full details:

Hands-on Windows OS Internals & Advanced Troubleshooting w/Russinovich and Solomon

If you like Sysinternals or the book Windows Internals, then you'll want to attend a hands-on (bring your own laptop) Windows internals & advanced troubleshooting class, taught by Mark Russinovich and David Solomon. Topics include: crash dump analysis, advanced process and thread troubleshooting, memory management internals, security internals, boot process and troubleshooting, I/O system. Now updated to cover (Windows) Vista!

Cheers
John.

Netware to Windows Server migration

jhoward — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:43:00 GMT

So, apart from being a great showcase for using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to run online labs, this provides a great opportunity to learn about how to migrate from Novell to Windows in this brand new online lab. To sign up and for more information, click here.

Virtual Server 2005 eLearning Course is now available

jhoward — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:03:00 GMT

A new self-paced on-line course (also available offline) is now available entitled "Using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005". The course takes around 5 hours to complete and prepares students to migrate legacy applications and consolidate server functions by using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.

The objectives of the course are to walkaway being able to
- Install and configure Virtual Server 2005.
- Configure virtual machines on Virtual Server 2005.
- Migrate applications and servers to virtual machines

Scripting Guys Webcast Week 2 - 24th January 2005

jhoward — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:55:00 GMT

The scripting guys did a great job with a series of webcasts under the banner of "Scripting Week 1" earlier this year. They included topics such as "WMI is not a Four-Letter Word" and "Scripting Files and Folders Makes Me Happy". The week 1 webcasts are archived and available for viewing here.

The really good news is that in the new year, they're back for Scripting Week 2 from 24th to 28th January 2005. Don't be scared off by thinking scripting is just for developers - it's not, IT Pro's can learn a lot to ease administrative burdens, or just to understand more about what's going on under the covers. A quick snippet from the scriptcenter explains about the week:

What Exactly is Scripting Week 2?
Let’s put it this way: you know you’re a true guru when your applications and systems bow to your every whim. Scripting Week 2 is your next step towards achieving this power. It’s not magic—just a few scripting tricks. Scripting is an easier, faster, less error-prone way of managing systems and applications. It enables you to automate procedures and relieve yourself of unnecessary busy work and the worry of human error. We compiled all this and more in our Scripting Webcast Series, which will teach you to:

• Create scripts that harness the power of Microsoft® Office
• Write ADSI scripts to manage Active Directory®
• Take advantage of new WMI capabilities
• Run scripts under alternate user credentials
• Make use of WMI events

NT4 Server and Windows Server 2003 Interoperability - Technet Evening Session

jhoward — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:58:00 GMT

I'm co-presenting a free Technet evening event with Dave Sayers tomorrow night (Tue 23rd Nov) at the Microsoft office in Reading, UK discussing "NT4 and Windows Server 2003 interoperability". The session starts at 18:30 with registration opening at 18:00. Click here for the registration site. Remember, it's FREE

If you are planning on attending, please take a moment to say hello during the break or afterwards - it's always nice to meet and chat to the audience and understand your pains/woes about Microsoft technologies. Sign-up now and enjoy the free beer and pizza...

Alternatively, if NT4 and Windows Server 2003 interop isn't your thing, you can always try out learning how to upgrade from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 being presented by my colleague Eileen Brown in the room next door.

Don't forget that there are many free training sessions throughout the UK. Check on the Microsoft UK Events Homepage