WIKEY1: Making the Tradeoff: Be Secure or Get Work Done
Steve Riley
Are you the kind of security person who enables a setting just because it's there? Do your users constantly seek ways to bypass all your fine-tuned security, just so they can do their jobs? Every security decision your organization makes ought to consider the security-usability (or even the security-usability-cost) tradeoff. While perfect security seems an admirable goal, in reality we must remember that usability often will trump our strongest desires. If people can't get work done, they'll either circumvent the security (without understanding they just created new attack vectors) or your company will simply lose out to your competitors. Steve Riley will discuss several examples of real-world tradeoffs and will help you learn how to navigate the tradeoff in your own organization.

KEYNOTE: Now That Longhorn's Here... How Did They Do?
Mark Minasi
After much waiting, testing, and at least one “throw the code away and start over,” Microsoft delivered the Longhorn Twins – Vista and Server 2008, as well as a first (and big!) service pack for Vista. They’re not done, of course – we’ll see Windows 7 in a few years – but for now, they’re what we’ve got. So how did Microsoft do? What did they miss? What cool things might you not have noticed yet? Join veteran Windows watcher Mark Minasi for a “it’s not beta any more, so it’s fair to give it a close look” examination of the current state of Windows.

VENDOR SESSION

VENDOR: Simplifying Exchange Management and Data Protection
Darren Miller
Daniel Curran
Exchange management and availability are the top priorities of Exchange administrators. Intelligent iSCSI SANs from Dell simplify the management of Exchange storage groups and help improve data protection and recovery of Microsoft Exchange Servers. Join this session to find out how Dell can help you eliminate storage management problems and deliver comprehensive data protection strategy for your Exchange deployments.
Food and beverage for vendor session attendees.

MICROSOFT DAY - OFFICE 2007

OMS301: Deploying Office Using Microsoft Application Virtualization (SoftGrid)
Mike Jorden
Abstract not available.

OMS302: Managing Application Compatability with Converter Technologies
Mike Jorden
In this session, learn how Converter Technologies can help simplify your deployment by helping understand and plan for application compatibility challenges for your deployment. We will also discuss the tools used to test legacy Office applications and documents for compatibility with next generation Office System products.

OMS303: New Tools and Techniques for Deploying the Office 2007 System
Eric Ellis
The 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system offers several new tools to speed and simplify the client deployment process. In this session, you are introduced to the new Setup and Customization technologies (only one tool now instead of all those wizards!). This presentation offers a drill down of each tool, guidance for their use, and suggestions for making your deployment a success.

OMS304: Office Migration Planning Manager
Mike Jorden
Use the Office Migration Planning Manager to help assess your customer’s document environment readiness for Office 2007. Topics include benefits and usage, scanning of documents with the provided file scanner, identifying possible document conversion issues with the new Office 2007 XML formats, and finding documents with VBA projects and macros. We’ll also cover the graphical Access 2007 front-end for doing SQL queries of the data collected.

SHAREPOINT -- ADMIN/IT TOPICS

WSH203: Creating Cost-effective Partner Sites in WSS
Scot Hillier
How to set up an Internet-facing site for collaborating with external partners using WSS. This session covers how to isolate and secure the server and set up forms-based authentication in a way that allows external users to manage their own passwords, receive e-mail alerts, and participate in workflows. It covers the hardware, licensing, and customization needs for partner sites with a focus on security and minimizing costs.

WEX201: MOSS 2007/Exchange 2007 Managed Folders
Melissa Fraser
The compliancy features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 are very compelling. With the use of MOSS 2007 and Exchange 2007 together, these compliancy features may be extended beyond traditional document libraries. E-mail messages stored on servers can also be included. In this session, we will discuss the ins and outs of including Exchange 2007 e-mail messages as part of records management. Session topics include: Planning e-mail retention policies; Configuring managed folders; Configuring information management policies on folders, and Implementing journaling.

WSH201: Say G'bye to File Shares: 21st Century Collaboration with WSS Document Libraries
Dan Holme
It's time to start moving your shared folders to SharePoint. Why? Because the features that we’ve all been missing—including document metadata, checkout, version control, and content approval—are now achievable using Windows SharePoint Services document libraries. Learn how to move forward into a new era of document management in this practical application of SharePoint.

WSH202: SharePoint, Business, and End-user Productivity: Office 2007 Apps as SharePoint Clients
Dan Holme
While SharePoint offers great functionality through its out-of-the-box Web interface, you really "kick it up a notch" when you add Microsoft Office 2007 applications to the mix. This session, appropriate for IT professionals, end users, and managers, will highlight some of the exciting ways you can integrate Office apps and SharePoint, including document libraries, Excel and Access integration, slide libraries, and taking files offline with Outlook. You'll also learn what to expect from different versions of Microsoft Office clients and of SharePoint. And you'll discover tricks and traps related to configuring SharePoint, even with forms-based authentication, for client integration.

WSH204: Troubleshooting SharePoint: When Good Servers Go Bad
Scot Hillier
How to detect, isolate, debug, and fix problems when they occur. This session walks through common issues and shows you how to run down the problem through the logging services that Windows, SharePoint, SQL, and IIS provide. It also covers how to fix the most common client-side and server-side issues and points you to resources to help resolve the obscure ones.

WSH205: WSS 3.0 Common Administration and Configuration
Melissa Fraser
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has many new features and enhancements that can help IT professionals deploy and maintain Windows SharePoint Services solutions. Together, these new features and enhancements provide IT organizations with better control over the WSS solution and help reduce administrative overhead by allowing IT administrators to work more efficiently and effectively. In this session, we will discuss the configuration and management of WSS servers and WSS sites. Specifically we will cover: Central administration for operations; Central administration for applications; Site collection management; and Site structure and feature management.

WSE202: WSS 3.0 Content Security
Melissa Fraser
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides security features that you as a site owner can use to help control access to your sites. By using these security features, site owners control who can access the site and site owners specify what permissions are assigned to users for particular securables. In this session, we will discuss configuring security for your WSS content. The session will cover: Planning and configuring site collection administrators and site administrators; Planning and configuring SharePoint security roles; Mapping Active Directory users to SharePoint roles, and Planning and configuring content permissions.

MICROSOFT DAY - UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS

EMU307: Conferencing Overview Office Communications Server 2007 and Live Meeting 2007
Harold Wong
Learn about Web conferencing technology provided by Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and the Office Live Meeting service. Microsoft’s Web conferencing technology helps businesses connect disconnected organizations with tools for online meetings, events, training, and collaboration while offering choices for deploying this functionality via on-premise server or hosted service. See demos of rich Web conferencing features, such as rich media, two-way audio, and live panoramic video with Microsoft Roundtable. Understand the differences at a feature level between the on-premise and the service offerings.

EMU301: Introducing Office Communication Server 2007 and Office Communicator
Kevin Remde
Software-powered VoIP will power the next generation of streamlined business communications. Without expensive infrastructure and network upgrades, Office Communications Server 2007 delivers software-powered VoIP, Web conferencing and enterprise instant messaging along with a rich Presence platform. See how Office Communications Server 2007 enables users to find and communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most whether at the office, at home, or on the road.

EMU304: Management and Troubleshooting OCS 2007
Kevin Remde
Office Communications Server 2007 offers an intuitive and an extensible management interface. Come and ask the experts how you can completely manage your Office Communications Server infrastructure with low overhead. In this interactive session we will take questions on the automation capabilities of the Office Communications Server management interface. Do you want to know how it integrates with Microsoft Operations Manager? Come and ask and how you can use it to monitor your Voice quality.

EMU302: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Architecture and Deployment
Kevin Remde
This session will describe the unified communications architecture behind Office Communications Server 2007 as well as the logical and physical deployment models for the servers. Join us for the session to hear about new capabilities delivered by Office Communications Server 2007. We will be discussing core architecture, server roles and decisions you have to make when planning and designing your Office Communications Server 2007 deployment. Sessions will include deployment best practices and demos. By the end of the session you should have enough background information to start thinking about your own deployment regardless of the size.

EMU310: Migrating from Microsoft Office Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 to Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007
Harold Wong
Migrating an LCS 2005 SP1 environment to Office Communications Server 2007 requires careful planning for server deployments and client deployments. The session will present the most important aspects that drive the deployment and migration strategies and provide recommendations on how to accomplish a successful migration.

EMU303: Planning Voice Architecture and Deployment in Office Communications Server 2007
Kevin Remde
This session will cover the different voice related components from an architectural perspective, dialplan and routing concepts with specific examples and guidelines, voice deployment scenarios that are supported in Office Communications Server 2007.

EMU319: Sofware Powered VOIP: Topology and Configuration
Harold Wong
In this session we will start with everything outside of the server, the wider environment to which Office Communications Server will integrate and planning for deployments of Office Communications Server (Office Communications Server) 2007. We will present the different enterprise environments that you will find on customer sites and the scenarios to integrate Office Communications Server 2007 with each of the different environments. You will learn about where to place Mediation Server and Gateways, which Gateways are supported, and how to provision the gateways for optimum capability. Following this you will also learn about everything inside the server, including Location profiles, Number Normalization rules, Reverse Number Lookup and how to configure routes on Office Communications Server 2007. You will learn how to restrict users from dialing unauthorized numbers by using phone usages and what you have to consider when you deploy in conjunction with existing PBX environments.

EMU318: Sourcing, Deploying and Managing Office Communicator Phone Edition and RoundTable
Harold Wong
In this session you will learn about how to deploy and manage UC Devices, that is Office Communicator Phone Edition (codename “Tanjay”) and Microsoft RoundTable. These devices are designed to be plug-and-play and they are, but there are a number of infrastructure requirements for it to work. You will learn about these infrastructure requirements (DHCP, DNS, NTP, Certificates, Exchange 2007) and we will explore in detail the OCS 2007 Software Update Service. This component is able to update UC Devices with new firmware and in  general includes a number of additional management features for UC Devices. After this session you will be able to understand what is needed to deploy UC Devices and you will know how to maintain the devices.

IT LEADERSHIP PANNEL

ITP01: Consumerization of IT
Mark Minasi
Vivek Bhaskaran
Joshua Hoffman
Romi Mahajan
As the pace of change increases in the world of Information Technology, job-roles, personas, affinities, and alliances change just as rapidly. Ultimately, lines of distinction blur between the roles of IT Professionals and Developers, between "work-related" technologies and "consumer" technologies, between work-time, play-time, and home-time. In addition, there is a strong relationship and even a causal link between what we think is cool and what we ultimately buy at home with what we think is relevant and what we ultimately buy to run our enterprises. As these lines blur, we find that we are in a world in which the old distinctions melt: the Fungible Future is upon us now! Please join a renowned panel discussing these trends and helping us all determine what are the next big trends that disrupt, the next steps in the creation of cool.