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) 
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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) 
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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) 
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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.

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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

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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

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We had our first Windows 7 RC Loadfest up in Brissy this morning.  Jeffa and Jorke hosted the Brisbane Infrastructure Group in the Microsoft Brisbane office.

Check out the Flickr Group Pool for the latest photos. There were quite a few different installation options including Windows Deployment Services (WDS) off Jorke’s Hyper-V host, USB bootable keys and DVDs.  Average install time was around 25 minutes.

Remember we have more Loadfests happening around the country so make sure you come along.


Jeffa setting up

 
Happy IT Pro with his new Windows 7 RC Install