Windows Server 2008 Hosting Roadshow

"Learn it First > Deploy It First"

UPDATED!:

When? Tuesday 6 Nov 2007, 8.30am & Wednesday 7 Nov 2007 8:30am

Where? Sydney: Clifton and Associates - Sydney CBD, Level 2, 200 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2000

Link to Register: Click here to Register Online or register by phone: 132058 (event id 1032352020)

What? Hands-on technical labs for IT Professionals

Featuring IIS 7.0

Register Now for a City Near You!

(providing you are on the eastern seaboard for Australian customers :)

This is going to be an absolute cracker of a day with a Huge Agenda (see below) - Note the target audience is for our hosting customers - that include self hosters!

About the Training

IIS7 is our most ambitious Web server to date and has many features that directly benefit the hosting community. IIS7 will reduce total cost of ownership, improve manageability, and create new business opportunities.

Here are a few examples of what you can do with IIS7:

Scale Your Infrastructure:

• Easily sandbox thousands of Web sites on a single server.
• "Xcopy" deployment of sites and servers with the new, file-based configuration system.

Reduce Costs:

• Remote Web server administration tool allows site owners and developers to control delegated Web site features.
• Runtime Status and Control API provides rapid access to detailed diagnostic information.

Go to Market Faster:

• Extensible, modular architecture allows you to quickly bring new features to market.
• Deeply integrate IIS into your environment using public configuration and control APIs.
• World-class performance and reliability hosting of ASP, ASP.NET, and PHP applications.
• New, extensible FTP Server providing secure connections, improved site isolation and more.

This event goes beyond lectures and demonstrations. We've designed a series of hands-on labs to help you bring this game changing technology to market as quickly as possible. You can return to work informed, experienced, and armed to capitalize on the advances of Windows Server 2008.

Target Audience

This event is designed for IT professionals, architects, and managers who maintain/deploy Web servers or services in the hosting industry.

Prerequisites

This is a hands-on event that assumes operational understanding of server platforms.

Course Agenda

Installation and the New Modular Architecture:

• Automating installation of a streamlined server configuration
• Using Server Manager to control configuration
• Adding new features such as FTP7
• Extending the IIS Manager

Working with the New IIS Manager:

• New features and capabilities
• Relocated or renamed features
• Creating and managing thousands of sites in seconds
• Controlling the appearance of features in IIS Manager for remote users

The new IIS7 Configuration System:

• Xcopy deploying Web server configuration
• Delegating feature control to non-administrators
• Configuring and managing remote administration
• Sharing a single configuration between Web servers
• Troubleshooting configuration issues

Configuring Applications on IIS7:

• Enabling ASP and ASP.NET
• Installing and configuring FASTCGI on Server Core
• Migrating IIS6 applications to IIS7

Troubleshooting and Automated Administration:

• IIS7 and PowerShell
• IIS6 scripting compatibility
• Using APPCMD
• Viewing active requests
• Diagnosing slow performance
• Unloading an application domain
• Diagnosing authentication failures

Register Now for a City Near You!  - Seats are very limited!

UPDATE: looks like people are getting excited about this one.

UPDATE2: Venue added, Christian, Nick revving up ecosystem.

- jorke