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IT Manager Connections: Build business and careers on the Microsoft platform
Tune in as industry and Microsoft experts share insights, frameworks, and proven best practices that address many of the challenges IT managers face. Discover how you can optimize your application platform's contribution to innovation and growth. Attend the 22-part Application Platform miniseries, as well as other live and on-demand webcasts, to see how you can evaluate platforms, align IT with business goals, and stay abreast of hot industry topics, such as security and compliance.
- IT Manager Webcast: Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services (Level 300)
The Windows Server 2008 operating system contains a lot of changes to core file services components that dramatically increase availability, scalability, and performance. Some of these components are new, others are significantly enhanced. In this webcast, we provide an overview of the changes in Distributed File System (DFS), Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), and storage management in Windows Server 2008. We also take a close look at some the most significant and valuable improvements to Windows Server 2008, including Transactional NTFS, Self-Healing NTFS, and the Server Message Block (SMB) 2.0 protocol. So, bring your wet suit and join us for a webcast full of demonstrations and deep technical insight.Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 - IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft does IT: Deployment Planning for BitLocker Drive Encryption for Windows Vista (Level 200)
To increase data security on laptop and desktop PCs, the Microsoft Information Security team is deploying functionality within Windows Vista called BitLocker Drive Encryption. Join this webcast to find out more about BitLocker. It is a new hardware-enhanced security feature in the Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate operating systems that provides better off-line data protection.Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Developed a Business Case for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Level 300)
Learn how Microsoft IT plans to implement System Center Configuration Manager in a data center to enable reduced costs through optimized IT resources, improve efficiency, and allow the data center to meet its data and computing needs.Original Broadcast Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Executes with its IT Lifecycle (Level 200)
Join this webcast to find out how the Microsoft IT Lifecycle (ITLC) drives consistency and simplicity with a single set of standardized processes based on the Microsoft Solutions Framework and Microsoft Operations Framework, provides a structured approach that fosters cross-team collaboration, and establishes a framework for standardized, repeatable process solutions, and governance. Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008, 11:00 AM Pacific - IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses the IT Lifecycle Framework (Level 100)
Join this session to learn how the Microsoft IT Lifecycle Framework can help you drive consistency and simplicity with a single set of standardized processes. We explain how the IT Lifecycle Framework provides a structured approach to help you foster cross-team collaboration and establish a framework for standardized, repeatable process solutions and governance. Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008, 11:00 AM Pacific - IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Secures Mobile Devices (Level 200)
Join this webcast and find out how Microsoft IT is empowering the mobile workforce via the deployment of the Windows Mobile platform. Microsoft IT fully integrates Windows Mobile features and applications, with both established hardware and infrastructure, and future plans support master security policy migrations, such as complete two-factor authentication operations.Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008, 9:30 AM Pacific - IT Manager Webcast: Microsoft IT Compliance: Policy, HBI, SOX, and PCI (Level 200)
Disclosure of High Business Impact (HBI) information might cause severe material loss to Microsoft, the information asset owner, or relying parties. Join this webcast to learn how Microsoft developed HBI policy that complies with SOX and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. Learn how the PCI standards are implemented, reviewed, and managed at Microsoft and understand what technologies and processes are used to safeguard against disclosure of customer and consumer information.Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, April 03, 2008, 11:00 AM Pacific - IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health (Level 200)
In this webcast you will learn how Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 ensures that computers connecting or communicating on the network meet the organization's requirements for system health. By Implementing it, Microsoft IT is able to enforce security and compliance, as well as target policies to specific forest and domains within Microsoft.Original Broadcast Date: Wednesday, April 02, 2008, 11:00 AM Pacific - IT Manager Webcast: Real-World SOA Governance: Augmenting Your Control with Value (Level 200)
Governance can mean different things to different organizations when it comes to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In this webcast, we explore the role of governance and what it can mean to your organization. We discuss how governance can be as much a carrot as a stick by providing value to all the different roles in your organization, and by providing efficiency and increased visibility to attain greater buy in across the enterprise. Also, learn about the role of runtime policy and how an effective implementation can provide even greater returns on your investment in SOA.Original Broadcast Date: Friday, March 28, 2008, 11:00 AM Pacific - IT Manager Webcast: Windows Server 2008 Editions and Licensing (Level 100)
Tune in for an overview of Windows Server 2008 editions and to learn which edition may best fit your company's needs. We cover how the editions of Windows Server 2008 compare in terms of server roles, high-level features, and pricing. We also provide an overview of Windows Server 2008 licensing, including a discussion of licensing in a virtualized environment.Original Broadcast Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 11:00 AM Pacific - IT Manager Webcast: Deploying SharePoint Server with Project Server 2007 (Level 200)
Out of the box, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 is deployed on top of Windows SharePoint Services. In this session, we explain why customers are deploying Project Server 2007 with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as well, and we describe how together these products offer the best combination of collaboration, project, and portfolio management. We review and demonstrate the added benefits of Report Center, Excel Services, key performance indicators (KPI), InfoPath Forms Services, Business Data Catalog, and Enterprise Search in the context of a Project Server deployment.Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, March 20, 2008, 11:00 AM Pacific - IT Manager Webcast: How Windows Server 2008 Delivers Business Value (Level 200)
Many new capabilities have been added to the Windows Server 2008 operating system to help enterprises trim costs and optimize resources. Tune in for this webcast as we cover the top five new features in Windows Server 2008, and how those features provide a highly productive platform for virtualizing workloads, powering applications, and protecting networks.Original Broadcast Date: Monday, March 17, 2008, 12:00 PM Pacific - IT Manager Webcast: Jump-Start Your Virtualization Projects with Microsoft Solution Accelerators (Level 200)
Microsoft has released a series of virtualization solution accelerators that can help you confidently assess, plan, and deploy Microsoft virtualization technologies securely. Attend this webcast to learn how these free tools and resources, s