WINKEY2: Learn Your Future in 60 Minutes!
Steve Riley
Steve Riley just replaced the batteries in his crystal ball and is prepared to predict what's next in the turbulent world of information security. If you're looking for what you need to know to be ready to fight back against the bad guys, then you definitely don't want to miss this presentation. Zounds!

WINKEY: On the Eve of Vista
Mark Minasi
Windows Vista, better known to us geeks as NT Workstation 6.0, will include yet another all-new GUI, IPv6 networking whether you're ready or not, tools to let you more easily manage today's almost-terabyte discs, and, well, you can find out the rest by coming to the keynote! Veteran Windows pundit Mark Minasi tells you what's new, what's good, and what's not-so-good about the next Microsoft desktop OS. But that's just the start... because 2007 brings Longhorn Server, also known as NT Server version 6.1. It'll have all of the Vista goodies, and tons more. There's a new AD, increased 64 bitness, some nifty new Terminal Services and, well, you'll just have to go to the keynote to find out THAT stuff too. Anyone can tell you about the next Windows, but only Minasi can make you smile while he seeks to "explain the pane!"

VENDOR SESSION

VENDOR02: 64-bit Exchange Server 2007: HP Server and Storage Performance
Joe Sullivan
Microsoft Exchange Server has become a mission-critical, infrastructure staple in organizations of all sizes. As an application that demands high levels of availability, reliability, scalability, with stringent resource demands, the sizing process is critical to ensuring a healthy production environment. User/IT requirements, such as larger mailbox quotas, security, faster searching, remote access, and the need to achieve these goals with lower TCO, present challenges with the current Exchange architecture. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 will help address some of these key User/IT demands with some major architectural changes, thus radically changing how we think about sizing and architecting an Exchange solution.

- Get a brief summary of the resource demands of an Exchange 2003 messaging environment, including key pain points and architectural limitations of the 32-bit environment
- See how the architectural changes in Exchange Server 2007 will impact the sizing and configuration of Exchange servers and storage.
- Learn about key enabling hardware advancements, such as x64 architectures, blade servers, dual core processors, and SATA and SAS storage, and how these technologies will play a key role moving forward with Exchange Server 2007
- Review preliminary data results on the performance and sizing of an Exchange Server 2007 environment and discuss several baseline reference architectures to help form a foundation of what an Exchange Server 2007 deployment might look like.

VENDOR01: E-mail Archiving for E-Discovery: Optimize Storage and Enforce Retention
IT departments in all industries are being asked to prepare for strict requirements around the preservation of e-mail and files as a result of the New Federal Rules on E-Discovery effective December 1st. Without the proper tools and systems, one e-mail discovery request can divert your limited human resources and IT dollars trying to respond in a short period of time. Learn how companies have implemented Symantec Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator--e-mail archiving solutions to optimize e-mail management and proactively take control of e-discovery. You'll also learn the legal perspective on e-mail; how it impacts IT; and why proactive e-mail retention policies are critical for any company today to reduce business risks and lower costs.

Topics discussed:

- IT and Legal Challenges of Messaging Today
- Impact of New Federal Rules on E-Discovery
- What is E-mail Archiving and Enterprise Messaging Management?
- Symantec Enterprise Vault 6.0 and Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator 6.0
- Enforcing Consistent E-mail Retention and Preservation
- Securing Historical Data (Backups and PSTs)
- Customer Case Studies


ACTIVE DIRECTORY

WAD314: Changes in Delegating Active Directory in Longhorn
Guido Grillenmeier
Active Directory enables administrators to assign permissions to all directory objects at a very granular level. Enterprise environments need to leverage this capability to differentiate who can see or do what in which part of their directories. However, the granularity of permissions in Active Directory can be hugely overwhelming and needs to be applied and managed correctly. This session will describe the changes in Lonhhorn Security as they are relevant for delegating permissions in Active Directory. It will cover typical scenarios for management of Active Directory objects in large enterprises, answering such critical questions as: How can I differentiate between admins that can create objects and those that can manage or delete them? How do I best manage the new options to separate the admin role on read-only-DCs? How can I improve delegated management of DNS zones?

WAD309: Common Active Directory Attacks and How to Protect Against Them
Jan De Clercq
This session provides examples of common attacks against Active Directory and also shows how you can protect your enterprise directory against them. The attacks addressed in this presentation include password cracking-, elevation of privilege- and denial-of-service-based attacks.

WAD313: Distributing Your Data with DFS Namespaces
Sean Deuby
DFS Namespaces is one of the greatest features in Windows 2003 R2. A significant improvement in ease of use from the original Distributed File System, learn how to use it to quickly and easily build, manage, and delegate an easy-to-use enterprise virtual folder structure.

WAD303: Group Policy Toolkit Secrets
Jeremy Moskowitz
Microsoft offers a wealth of tools that each do a specific job to help you troubleshoot Group Policy problems. In this session, we’ll walk through a toolbox full of goodies you can use to streamline your processes, troubleshoot easier, and get to the heart of what’s ailing your systems. You’ll learn about the log files you can turn on in a pinch and the Group Policy resource kit tools like PolicySpy, GPMonitor, and GPInventory. You’ll also learn about some free add-on tools from third-party vendors to help round out your toolkit!

WAD211: Identity Management Fundamentals
Jan De Clercq
Identity Management Fundamentals provides an extensive introduction to identity management. It explains the concept of a digital identity and how it can be used in different contexts. The session pays special attention to the identity management components in the data repository, security, lifecycle, consumable value and management areas. It also introduces identity management related standards and looks at what solutions Microsoft can offer in this space.

WAD307: In-Depth Group Policy Troubleshooting
Darren Mar-Elia
Group Policy is complex with many moving parts. In this session, we'll look inside Group Policy to understand how it works and provide tips, tools, and techniques for making sure it always works!

WAD305: Password Management with MIIS
Gil Kirkpatrick
Managing user passwords across multiple applications is one of the IT world's biggest pains. MIIS can simplify the problem by providing your users a self-service password management portal and by synchronizing their Windows passwords across multiple applications. In this session, you'll learn how to set up password management and password sync in MIIS, and how to install and configure Password Change Notification Service (PCNS) to improve your user's password experience, and to reduce your own password management workload.

WAD302: Practical Solutions for Advanced Delegation in Active Directory
Dan Holme
There are good wizards. There are evil wizards. And there are deceptive wizards like the Delegation of Control Wizard, which lures you into its spell with some great tricks, but masks the real power of Active Directory’s granular delegation model. Understand when the Wizard is your friend and when you need to send it packing to effectively tackle Active Directory administration. Large enterprise implementations have provided lessons into the real-world needs of administrators, from the CIO to the front-line help desk. Dan will share these experiences with you, leading a think-tank toward the creation of an effective administrative hierarchy. You will learn the (surprisingly complex) steps required to enable administrators at various levels to reset a password, unlock an account, manage user accounts but not administrative accounts, and more. And you’ll discover simple script-based tricks and tools for ensuring standardized and efficient delegation.

WAD201: Practical Solutions for Designing and Implementing Role-Based Management
Dan Holme
Envision an enterprise in which users are defined by their business roles and where resource access and configuration are instantly, accurately, and auditably applied. This vision can be yours! Role-based management and role-based access control (RBAC) enable an enterprise to realize least-privilege and a documented, auditable structure for resource security and directory and asset management. The pieces are familiar: groups, ACLs, scripts, user rights and OUs. Putting the pieces together in just the right way is challenging. The payoff is tremendous. Cut your learning curve by "role"-ing in to this exciting, one-of-a-kind session. This session serves as a foundation for Dan's other Practical Solutions sessions.

WAD304: Regulatory Compliance and Active Directory
Gil Kirkpatrick
You managed to skate through your first SOX audit, but you know that the next time around the auditors aren't going to be so lenient (and they're going to know what to ask for!) This session will help you understand how Active Directory fits into your IT organization's regulatory compliance picture, and why reliance on "best practices" won't satisfy your auditors. You'll also learn how to perform a risk assessment on Active Directory, mitigate the risks with proper design, and how to operate your AD to guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your network resources.

WAD306: Sixteen Steps to a Healthier, Happier Active Directory
Gil Kirkpatrick
Slow logins, unusual event log messages, bizarre group policy behavior. Have you been ignoring these Active Directory warning signs? Everyone knows how important Active Directory is to a Windows network, but who has time to become an expert? This session outlines sixteen simple steps you can follow that will solve those nagging AD problems, improve security, and enhance performance so that you can get back to your real job.

WAD212: Supporting and Troubleshooting File Replication Service
Rhonda Layfield
Group Policies often contain security settings we would like for all of our workstations to receive. However, there are times when a handful of workstations do not receive the expected security settings and troubleshooting this can be difficult if you do not know where to start. Understand how group policies, logon scripts, and more are replicated between domain controllers and how to fix it when if fails.

WAD310: Understanding and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2003 Authentication
Jan De Clercq
This session focuses on the nuts and bolts of the Kerberos authentication protocol: the basic protocol exchanges, the protocol's strengths and its operation in a single- and multi-domain and multi-forest environment. The session also addresses the new key features of the Kerberos implementation in Windows Server 2003 and R2: these include the support for protocol transition, constrained delegation, and user-to-user authentication.

WAD308: Who is this ADAM guy? Understanding and Using AD Application Mode
Darren Mar-Elia
This session focuses on what ADAM is, how it works, and how you can manage it. You'll learn how it can integrate into your existing AD infrastructure, what value it provides, and how you can use it as an alternative to schema extensions in certain scenarios.

ALL-DAY SCRIPTING SPECIAL SESSION

WEXTR1: VBScript Basic Training (Bring your own Laptop) (SOLD OUT)
Don Jones
Scripting guru Don Jones takes you from "zero to scripting" in just one day. You’ll learn about the core VBScript language and how Windows Script Host can be used to automate Windows administrative tasks; you’ll also learn how to script with the two most useful technologies for Windows administration: Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI). Everything’s presented in Don’s time-tested, signature style that’s helped thousands of Windows administrators learn these key technologies: Clear explanations, a touch of humor, and tons of examples (which you’ll be able to download). You’ll learn to write logon scripts, inventory remote computers, bulk-create users, perform security audits, remotely manage networked computers, work with files and folders, and much more.

WEXTR2: Windows Automation Advanced Academy (Bring your own Laptop)
Don Jones
Take your scripting skills to new levels with leading-edge technologies You bring your existing VBScript skills (or attendance at the "Basic Training" course), and scripting guru Don Jones will "pump you up" with new technologies and techniques. Spend the morning learning advanced VBScript skills, including how to build your own command-line tools in VBScript, how to work with databases within your scripts, and many more advanced techniques. Then, spend the afternoon learning about the most leading-edge form of Windows scripting possible: Microsoft "Monad," the new shell included with Exchange 12 and released for Windows itself. You'll learn just enough of the Microsoft .NET Framework to put Monad through its paces, and you'll learn about every aspect of the Monad scripting language. You'll also meet dozens of Monad "cmdlets," which you'll use in your scripts to perform amazing administrative feats.

SECURITY

WSC301: Best Practices for Deploying a Public Key Infrastructure
Brian Komar
Ensure that you get your infrastructure right before you start deploying applications that require digital certificates. By taking the time to design the Public Key Infrastructure before the applications, you can ensure that your organization is ready for all future certificate-based applications. This sesion will provide detailed examples and guidance to deploy a PKI using Microsoft Certificate Services.

WSC303: Managing Your PKI with Certificate Lifecycle Manager
Brian Komar
Certificate Lifecycle Manger (CLM) allows you to manage software and smart card certificates in your network through the lifetime of the certificates. This session provides an overview of the product, how it integrates into your existing PKI, and identifies how the product will help you in your future certificate deployments.

WSC206: Mining Service Pack Security Gold: The Best Stuff You're STILL Not Using from XP SP2, 2003 SP1, and R2
Mark Minasi
SP Twins -- XP's Service Pack 2 and 2003 Server's Service Pack 1, as well as that giant service pack called "R2" -- have been out for quite a while, and most of us have deployed them for their fixes and greater security. But are you using EVERYTHING that SP1/SP2 offer? Well, unless "access-based enumeration," "IPsec bypass,""auditusr.exe,""binary behaviors" and "mime sniffing" have a place in your security vocabulary, then perhaps you're not getting the most out of your service packs! This session provides the step-by-step ways to squeeze all of the security juice out of the SPs, including clear and complete explanations of how to hide folders from unauthorized users, per-user auditing via AUDITUSR, how to create an ActiveX whitelist or blacklist for Internet Explorer, how to use Windows Firewall in combination with IPsec bypass to fine-tune access to a set of servers... and a lot more.  Attend this session and you will immediately learn how to secure your systems better... for free.

WSC205: Protecting Your Network from Unmanaged Clients Using Network Access Quarantine Control
CA Callahan
Do you have employees using the VPN to connect to your network from unmanaged computers? Has your network ever been compromised because of it? Is it just a matter of time? If this is a concern of yours then this session may be for you. Learn the ins and outs of Network Access Quarantine Control, and how to protect your network from client computers that are not normally managed by you or your company. Discover how to use NAQC to your advantage; its strengths and limitations, and close another security hole on your network.

WSC304: Who Needs Passwords? We Can Deploy Smart Cards
Brian Komar
The decision to enforce smart cards for authentication is a huge step for an organization. This session will look at the issues blocking smart card deployment in today's networks, help you plan a smart card deployment using Microsoft's Certificate Lifecycle Manager, and discuss a case study of a current implementation that Brian is working on.

WSC302: Wireless Security – WPA2 with Certificates
Alan Sugano
Wi-Fi Protected Access-2 (WPA2) has made significant advances in wireless security. It addresses the major weakness of Wired Equivalency Protocol’s (WEP) by making the encryption keys dynamic instead of static. This feature alone makes WPA2 significantly more difficult to crack than WEP.  WPA2 adds support for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with Counter Mode Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Protocol (CCMP) to encrypt wireless traffic. Most vendors support two methods for WPA2 authentication:  WPA-Preshared Key (WPA-PSK) and Certificates. Although a PSK is much easier to setup and configure, it is easy to compromise. This session will focus on the steps necessary to implement WPA2 wireless security using Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) and certificates to ensure your wireless users are using one of the most secure authentication methods available.

WINDOWS VISTA AND LONGHORN SERVER

WVS310: Deploying Windows Vista: Everything You Need in One Hour
Harold Wong
Keith Combs
This session is intended for IT professionals responsible for planning and executing Windows Vista deployment and migrations in organizations of all sizes. In this session, learn how and when to use the wealth of new deployment tools and technologies that are available with Windows Vista. Learn how tools like the WAIK and OPK can be leveraged. Learn when and where to implement BDD. Learn how new technologies such as WDS and WIM fit in. Learn how to leverage the power of Windows PE. By the end of this session, you will be ready to plan and execute a Windows Vista deployment.

WVS307: Managing Group Policy in a Windows Vista World
Darren Mar-Elia
This session will review the new features available for Group Policy in Windows Vista and will provide practical guidance on how you can implement them in your existing Windows 2003 Active Directory environment. This session will provide step-by-step guidance on elements such as the new ADMX format and management of ADMX files in the "central store" as well as discussion of interoperability issues when managing mixed Vista and Windows XP client environments.

WVS301: Network Access Protection: The Next Generation of Network Access Quarantine Control
CA Callahan
You know securing your network with a firewall isn't enough. Hardening your servers, installing antivirus and spyware programs on your managed clients isn't enough. Even strong passwords isn't enough when it comes to reining in unmanaged clients inside and outside of your network. Network Access Protection, available in Longhorn and Vista, is the next generation of client quarantine technologies. Evolving far past the concept of Network Access Quarantine Control, NAP can enforce policy compliance of the computers connected to your network via not just VPN enforcement but DHCP, IPsec, or 802.1x as well. Protect yourself from the visiting laptop inside your office or the unmanaged computer across your VPN. Learn about how Network Access Protection will work for you--it's components, settings, suggestions, and best practices.

WVS312: Next Generation Networking with Windows Vista and Windows Server Code-Named "Longhorn"
Harold Wong
Keith Combs
Learn more about the next generation networking features coming in Windows Vista and Windows Server code named "Longhorn." Dubbed the "Next Generation TCP/IP" stack, these new Windows networking investments and innovations represents the most significant update since the 1990s. Receive guidance on how to prepare for the enhanced performance, scalability, and manageability capabilities coming in the next releases of Windows. This includes receive window auto-tuning, TCP Chimney, IPsec, policy-based Quality of Servic,e and full support for IPv6. These new innovations mean a better customer experience, lowered operational costs, and faster, more reliable Windows networking.

WVS305: Where We’re Headed: Longhorn Server
Sean Deuby
Longhorn Server is the next major release of the Windows Server operating system. Here’s your chance to get a peek under the covers at some of the enhancements and new features Microsoft is building into the OS that you’ll need to be expert on.

WVS303: Windows Vista Networking, Firewall, and IPsec Improvements
Steve Riley
Bored with Windows networking? Haven't seen anything new in, like, forever? Well, just wait until you see what Windows Vista packs. Its networking components are all-new from the ground up. The TCP/IP stack has been rebuilt for performance and security, with routing compartments that prevent unwanted forwarding of traffic between the Internet and a VPN (for example), support for the strong end-system model, a completely redesigned filtering engine, improved automatic performance fine-tuning, increased resiliency against TCP/IP-based denial-of-service attacks, and full IPv6 support. The firewall includes all Windows XP Service Pack 2 functionality plus outbound filtering, enforcement of service hardening communications, an automatic no-exceptions mode for unpatched systems, additional management capabilities, and many new audit events. IPsec's wealth of enhancements include simplified policies to speed connection time, a completely redesigned user interface (integrated with the firewall), user-based policies, application-aware policies, more troubleshooting and diagnostic tools, AES support, and support for secure client-to-domain controller traffic. Whew! There's a lot here, and Steve Riley will help you fall in love with Windows networking all over again.

WVS311: Windows Vista Security Tidbits
Harold Wong
Keith Combs
So have you played with Windows Vista yet? Of course you have. You probably have that sinking feeling of, "Oh man, another completely new OS to learn. This is daunting. I don't want this." Yeah right! You're chomping at the bit to get started aren't you? This is why we are propeller heads in the first place -- to play with new cool technology. Well, Windows Vista introduces a lot of sweeping changes to security, like User Account Protection, and the process isolation things that you have already heard about. However, as with any new OS, Vista also brings a lot of smaller, subtle, but often very significant changes to the system. This session will take you on a guided tour through Windows Vista, highlighting some of these changes. They include new or changed default security settings, new ACLs, new groups and accounts, and a number of other minor changes that could be very important as you evaluate deploying Windows Vista.

WVS308: Windows Vista Security: The Hidden Truth
Mark Minasi
Vista's more than just a pretty face. Its security innerds have been ripped out and replaced with a new and almost completely different security engine. But it's not just security geek internals, friends:  it's some whole new paradigms. For example, what's going on with those User Access Control dialog boxes behind the scenes? Think you know what's in a SID? Not any more... and get ready for a whole new layer of security, the Mandatory Integrity Controls. MIC's the thing that could make it nearly impossible for you to delete any file in System32, even if you're an administrator. Ah, have we got your attention now? Then don't miss this session!

WVS302: Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies
Steve Riley
For most of the history of computing, operating systems have lived in their own little bubbles of trust. Every part of an operating system pretty much assumed that every other part was exactly what it claimed to be and performed only what it claimed it could do. Recent attacks, though, have shown that such implicit trust is no longer suitable for computers that connect to hostile environments. A far more trustworthy operating system is one where the principle of least privilege is enforced throughout and where all operations are verified before taking action--seriously reducing the chances of malware taking over the operating system and thereby improving the operating system's integrity. Windows Vista will ship with several new system integrity technologies, including code integrity, secure startup, service hardening, mandatory integrity control, and Internet Explorer protected mode. Steve Riley will explore how these technologies work to thwart malware's attempts to take over your computer.

WVS309: XP to Vista in 60 Minutes: A Quick Tour of the Vista Things That You USED to Know How to do in XP
Mark Minasi
Windows Vista will soon be on new desktops in your office with a bunch of cool new features Cool, eh? Vista ALSO features a new interface... so get ready for another round of "Just HOW do I do this thing I used to be able to do in two clicks In this session, Mark Minasi helps you get past "fear of flying" -- flying off the handle, that is, when it first takes you a half hour to find the Properties page for your network adapter You'll find this session is the fastest way to translate your "XPertise" to the newest windows so that you can, well, sit back and, well, enjoy the Vista!

WINDOWS TECHNOLOGIES

WWT208: Create a Test Environment…Virtually and Inexpensively
Rhonda Layfield
Why don't you have a test environment? All too often it is because it is just too expensive or too time consuming to create. Most network administrators spend a good portion of their time troubeshooting issues and patching known issues. But they don't actually test the "fixes" and instead implement them in a production world and cross their fingers. Learn what your options are for creating a test environment, and some of the cool features that will make you the hero of your network.

WWT303: DFS-R: the Good, the Bad and the Non-replicated
Rhonda Layfield
Windows Server 2003 delivers a new mechanism for replicating data in DFS Namespaces called DFS-Replication or DFS-R. DFS Namespaces are incredibly easy to set up and they seem to just magically replicate from one server to another. But what happens when the magic wears off, or when replication fails? In this session, you will learn how to monitor and troubleshoot the new DFS-R to keep the magic alive in your enterprise. Rhonda will share useful command-line tools that configure the client to fail-over to a specific server. She will also dig deep into the replication mechanism to expose the inner workings of cross-file RDC. You'll discover how DFS-R determines what has changed in a file and replicates only the changes--not the entire file--conserving network bandwidth utilization.

WWT306: How Microsoft Deploys Windows Mobile
Steve Riley
Learn how Microsoft IT has deployed, managed, and dogfoods 20,000 Windows Mobile devices. This session will share how Microsoft IT: Builds enterprise images on Windows Mobile; serves the entire customer base with few Exchange servers; protects the corporate Wireless LAN via device-based certificates; accesses line-of-business and corporate data securely; helps the product team identify and correct issues; and much more. Join Steve Riley as he helps you learn how you, too, can have a secure and useful mobile environment.

WWT312: Leveraging Windows Server 2003 R2
Sean Deuby
R2 is the final feature release for Windows 2003. What’s in it and why should you care? Learn about how new file and quota management will allow you to restrict growth and content on your servers, and how new utilities allow you to synchronize your test environments with your production schema. Hear how ADFS can allow you to extend AD’s influence beyond just your intranet, and learn about the File Server Workload role and how it can make operations easier for you.

WWT209: Microsoft's Groove Server 2007 and Groove Service
Douglas R. Spindler
Have ever worked as a team member in a workgroup in which documents were e-mailed to the members of the team for review? If so you will quickly realize tracking all of the changes and knowing which team member has the most up-to-date document is quite confusing. This is where Groove fits in.

In this session, we will take a look at real-world solutions where we have used Groove Service and Groove Server to provide document management solutions for team members of company workgroups. We will show you how large corporations are using Groove Server and how midsize law firms, advertising agencies, and non-profits are using Groove Service. With Office 2007 and Groove Server 2007 due shortly, this is a good time to see how they are tightly integrated and what they can do for you.

WWT313: Moving to 64-bit Windows
Guido Grillenmeier
2006 is the year in which 64-bit computing has gone mainstream. The availability of a powerful x64 processor architecture that is backward compatible with the prevailing x86 architecture and the availability of Windows Server x64 editions that leverage this architecture allow a smooth migration path for customers into the new 64-bit world of computing. This session describes the most important things to know about 64-bit and the related Windows Server 2003 operating system versions. It differentiates the two 64-bit architectures supported by Windows (x64 and Itanium) and describes appropriate business cases for leveraging 64-bit today. Special focus will be put on 32-bit compatibility challenges and solutions as well as discussing deployment scenarios for the Windows 64-bit versions and the support of well known server applications when executed on a Windows x64 server operating system.

WWT304: Practical Solutions for Managing User and Business Data
Dan Holme
Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 offer important functionality to ensure that data is available and secure. But until you start managing the intricacies of the technologies, your organization's data is difficult to access or take offline, challenging to protect, and intellectual property is exposed. In a worst-case scenario, critical user data is stored only on users’ machines and is exposed to complete loss. In this session, you will explore, in-depth, the guts and nuances of old-school home directories and roaming profiles, new-school folder redirection, encryption, offline files, and backup strategies so that you can ensure that the data that is here today is where it needs to be tomorrow. As this is a practical, solutions-focused, applied technology session, you should already be familiar with Group Policy. You will take away ready-to-implement, useful solutions to corralling, securing, and managing corporate data.

WWT211: Protect Your Data the NEW Way with Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) and an iSCSI Storage Area Network
Douglas R. Spindler
This session is about two separate technologies, which, when used in combination, will make you rethink how you are protecting your data. Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a software application designed for protecting file servers using disk-based backup and recovery technology or near line storage. iSCSI is an Internet Protocol used to carry SCSI command and "disk" data over Ethernet. Combining iSCSI with DPM is the foundation for quickly, reliably, and economically protecting data. But it doesn't stop there. iSCSI support is found in Windows XP and Server 2003. When your servers or users need additional disk space iSCSI provides the solutions. Have you been wanting to cluster your servers but don't have the budget? An iSCSI SAN will allow you to cluster for a fraction of the cost of a traditional SAN. In this session, you will learn how to integrate DPM into your data protection plan and how near line storage substantially reduces the time needed to back-up/restore data. You'll learn how about iSCSI works, the advantages and disadvantages, how to configure it in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, and how to secure it and cluster servers with it.

WWT301: Total Desktop Smackdown with the Shared Computer Toolkit
Jeremy Moskowitz
Libraries, cafeterias, shop floors, kiosk machines. They're a giant security hazard. You need to lock them down to prevent transient users from logging on, being bad and infecting your network and potentially downloading and installing harmful software. So, how do you get the job done using only free tools? Microsoft's new Shared Computer Toolkit to the rescue. In this session, you'll learn how to lock down just one machine or one hundred. The Toolkit is in 1.0 release, but if you're willing to work though the rough spots, the payoff is tremendous. Take control of those machines and get back to real work, instead of playing "repairman."

WWT305: Virtual Server Technology Overview
Alan Sugano
Virtual server technology allows you to run multiple virtual servers on one physical host machine, with each virtual server in its own separate environment. Virtual server technology is really starting to catch on for network lab simulations and even in a production environment. Every server in your organization may not be a good candidate for server consolidation, but there’s a very good chance you can consolidate at least some of your servers onto some robust virtual server hosts. Virtual servers can save significant hardware costs, co-location charges, speed disaster recovery, make more efficient use of server hardware, and simplify the bare metal restore process. This session will help you evaluate if virtual server technology is right for your company with suggested guidelines for server hardware configuration, virtual server software, backup, and management of virtual servers.

WWT210: Windows 2003 R2 Branch Office Support
Alan Sugano
Branch Office network support has always been problematic because of the lack of local IT support, untrained users, server backup, and remote troublshooting. With improved Distributed File System (DFS) with Remote Differential Compression, Print Management Console, and the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM), Windows 2003 R2 has greatly improved support for the Branch Office Server. The Branch Office Infrastructure Support (BOIS) allows administrators to setup a Branch Office Server and have it replicate information with a Central Office Server. Windows XP and Windows 2003 clients can automatically fail over to the Central Office in the event of a Branch Office Server crash. Because data are replicated in two places, the Branch Office Server does not need to be backed up, reducing administrative costs to maintain remote servers.

WWT307: Windows Power Tools: Command-Line Gems
Mark Minasi
If you’re still doing administration from the GUI, you should take another look at the command line. While GUIs are nice for now-and-then tasks, you can get a lot more accomplished from the command line. Even better, you can stuff your favorite command lines into Notepad to create the world’s simplest administration tool. The hard part, of course, is getting started. Mark Minasi, author of Windows IT Pro’s "This Old Resource Kit" and "Windows Power Tools" columns will explain the best Microsoft command-line administration tools.

ADDITIONAL TOPICS

WDD201: Breaking into the Writing Business: Tips and Tricks from an Editor
Joshua Trupin
Do you wish that you too can be a published author? Well you can! Like any new task that you try, there are good methods and better methods, and the Executive Editor of TechNet Magazine and MSDN Magazine offers you greats tips, methods, and ideas from many years of experience in the technical publishing business.

MICROSOFT DAY DEMO TRACK: MICROSOFT EXCHANGE, MICROSOFT OFFICE, AND WINDOWS VISTA

DEMO16: Business Intelligence with SQL Server and the 2007 Office System
Kristina Kerr
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DEMO14: Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management
Michael Jordan
You'll see how you can use a single console for administering all server settings, including a solution's users and groups, the data cubes, views and manages the server's transactional queue, and creates event handlers for workflow. We'll also show you how can you use the EPM Solution to manage their own projects. You'll see how to track project time in Outlook, generate a proposed project on the Web in Windows SharePoint Services and Project Web Access, build out a project in Project Professional, and analyze work for reporting. Finally, you'll see how an executive evaluates the optimal set of proposals for next year's portfolio leveraging the Business Alignment Framework to align projects to business objectives as well as configurable workflow to comply with an IT Governance Process.

DEMO01: Exchange Server 2007 Deployment
Ray Mohrman
This demonstration will walk through deploying an Exchange Server. You'll see the entire process in action, starting with installation, then moving on to configuration, and finally validation. While Exchange will be the main emphasis of this demonstration, you'll see how LCS and Windows Mobile also play a role in configuring and validating Exchange. Come join us for this Exchange baking show!

DEMO02: Exchange Server 2007 Operational Efficiency
Ray Mohrman
This demonstration will expose you to the improved management experience in Exchange Server 2007. We will walk through new wizards, explore PowerShell, and implement new functionality such as Local Continuous Replication. You will leave with a sense that the new administration model is more organized and simplified, while actually offering more functionality and control.

DEMO08: Infrastructure Protection
Mike Chan
Help secure your computing infrastructure end-to-end against the latest malware threats with the latest technologies from Microsoft including Windows Vista, Network Access Protection, Exchange Hosted Services, Antigen, Outlook, and Forefront Client. You will see how to achieve protection from viruses, spyware, spam and phishing attacks across your company from clients to servers to hosted messaging services.

DEMO05: Office SharePoint 2007 Management
Joel Oleson
This demonstration will walk through the three-tiered structure of management in SharePoint showing off the power and delegation providing levers for the IT Pro to control and govern the environment. The first tier shows off the power that a Site Administrator has in auditing and controlling content. The second tier shows off administration of profiles and audience management with the ability to delegate this to a business or department. The third tier shows off the central administration interface of the powerful SharePoint site with tasks, topologies, events, and reports.

DEMO04: Office SharePoint 2007 Post-Installation Configuration
Joel Oleson
This demonstration will walk the you through installation of a single server, connecting the server to a farm, and some simple post installation configuration steps. We will show how the flexibility of the software's topology requirements allows you to deploy SharePoint to fit the needs of your company's intranets, extranets, and Internet sites for a variety of needs.

DEMO07: Optimizing Windows Vista and Office 2007 Deployments
Manu Namboordiri
This session will show the end-to-end deployment process of a combined Windows Vista/2007 Office rollout. It will highlight the significant improvements we've made in all of the phases of a combined deployment, and show how the Business Desktop Deployment accelerator makes the whole deployment process easier.

We will have two major streams--one will be a full upgrade and migration of an XP desktop running Office 2003 to Vista running 2007 Office system. In parallel we will also show how Office 2003 gets upgraded to 2007 Office System on an XP system. We will start the live upgrade/migration process at the beginning of the demo and then (while the process is happening) walk through the different steps such as application compatibility, document compatibility, migration scripts, engineering the desktop, creating a task sequencer, and finally deployment.

DEMO11: Protecting Your Company's Intellectual Property
Rob Curry
Due to a recent leak of sensitive data, the CIO of a company has been asked to "tighten security and control" around access to and distribution of the company's IP. The CIO asks the IT Pro to investigate a solution and administer policies that ensure their users are not able to make mistakes that jeopardize the company's assets. In the first half of the demo, our hero, the IT Pro, uses our technology to create restrictions and protection so that users cannot unwittingly or purposefully access information or forward it without authorization. In the second half of the demo, an employee tries to go around the system using different methods both at their desk and remotely to achieve the breach without success.

DEMO03: Records Management in Exchange Server 2007 and the 2007 Office System
Diane Prescott
This session will demonstrate how the new releases of Office and Exchange will simplify compliance needs. We will begin with tracking e-mail flow within Exchange and sending it to a SharePoint site where additional meta-data can be added to the message allowing compliance officers to review the e-mail and take actions on them. We will also show how Managed E-mail Folders and retention rules allow administrators to enforce retention policies within their organizations as well as give their users a way to archive their e-mail outside of using PST files. Lastly, we will walk through a legal discovery scenario by showing collaboration solutions with SharePoint and the ability to search in Exchange, place the results in SharePoint, and search them.

DEMO06: Search in the 2007 Office System and Windows Vista
Matt Fangman
This demonstration shows off the vast improvements made to search in Vista, SharePoint, Outlook, and Live. You'll see how the end user experience has improved with WDS and Live Search, giving power and consistency to the end user while providing them with relevant information when they need it.

DEMO12: Secure Mobile Productivity
Dan Arildson
In this demonstration, you'll see how you can protect your infrastructure while sill enabling great mobile productivity. You'll see how Windows Mobile lets you enforce security policies and remotely wipe devices. You'll also see how Windows Vista includes greater Network Access protection and you'll see how BitLocker can protect the data on your mobile laptops.

DEMO15: Unified Communications
Kintan Brahmbhatt
This demo will show how Communications Server 2007 can easily be deployed within your existing corporate infrastructure to control various modes of real-time communications (e.g. IM, web conferencing, audio/video conferencing, VoIP). It will highlight the new guided deployment experience for Communications Server, ease of user management with a single identity (using Active Directory) for all types of communications. The demo will also show how administrators can archive messages and content to support compliance initiatives, as well as extract call detail records and usage information for generating reports for server planning, cost attribution, and ROI analysis. The end user experience will also be highlighted to convey how presence is incorporated into various applications to improve workplace productivity.

DEMO09: Windows Vista Operational Efficiency
David Zipkin
This demonstration will show how Windows Vista is the most manageable and supportable version of Windows yet. We'll demonstrate the various new management capabilities, which allow more configuration tasks to be done remotely and create opportunities for organizations to save money. Finally, we'll show off new reliability and support features that help reduce the number of calls to the help desk and simplify assisted-support, so users can be more productive and support costs stay low.

EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE

EXECKEY: Get Ready for a New Day: Microsoft, Office, Windows Vista & Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Ron Markezich
Learn how Vista, Office and Exchange work together better than ever! We'll show how you, as a developer and IT professional, can drive more value to your businesses by deploying these fantastic products. You'll see how Vista, Office and Exchange will help protect and manage content while reducing IT costs and improve security. You'll also learn how they'll enable you to simplify how people work together in your organization and how these products will help your business find information and improve insight. Join us for this keynote presentation, delivered by Ron Markezich - Microsoft's own CIO!