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Learn the less common Active Directory implementations such as multiple forests connected by trusts, organizational domain structures, and site design. This webcast goes through the reasons why you might need these more complex designs, explains how to plan effectively, what pitfalls to avoid, and recommendations that will help make these complex deployments successful and cost-effective. Presenter: Chris Henley, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation Chris Henley is a member of the TechNet...

TechNet Webcast: Best Practices for Designing the Active Directory Structure (Level 200)

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This six-part series presents a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services for developers. The first webcast provided you an overview of Reporting Services. This second webcast looks in depth at techniques for delivering canned reports to end users, including URL access, subscriptions, and the Web service. These provide both a push model of report delivery, where a report is automatically delivered, and a pull model, where a user gets a report on an as-needed b...

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Part 2 of 6) (Level 200)

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Be among the first to review this new product offering for your small business clients. This webcast, intended for accounting firm professionals, takes a look at Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006, a solid financial management tool designed for businesses with less than 25 employees. Learn about the wide range of methods that Small Business Accounting offers for financial data analysis, including forecasting tools and customizable reports.Presenter: Lynnette Spanola Eastlake, Mar...

Small Business Webcast: Small Business Accounting 2006 Overview for Accounting Firm Professionals (Level 100)

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* This event was Recorded on September 29th, 2005, 1:00 PM Central * Hosted by: Orlando Software Group, Inc.For organizations contemplating, just beginning or looking to take Lean to the next level. Please join this executive webcast to hear Orlando Software Group, Inc (OSGi) share their closed-loop Lean transformation solution that enhance and standardize Lean transformation processes to enable companies of all types and sizes to create efficient, cost-effective methods for improving their...

Enabling & Sustaining Enterprise Lean Transformations

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Learn how the Microsoft information technology group deployed the Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 client. Communicator raised the bar for internal collaboration at Microsoft by building upon previous Microsoft Windows Messenger features to enable telephony integration and richer presence. This webcast highlights Communicator enhancements such as better integration with the Microsoft Exchange Server messaging system, improved public space instant messaging connectivity, and multi-party applic...

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deployed Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Level 300)

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* This event was Recorded on September 29th, 2005, 1:00 PM Central * Hosted by: Orlando Software Group, Inc.For organizations contemplating, just beginning or looking to take Lean to the next level. Please join this executive webcast to hear Orlando Software Group, Inc (OSGi) share their closed-loop Lean transformation solution that enhance and standardize Lean transformation processes to enable companies of all types and sizes to create efficient, cost-effective methods for improving their...

Enabling & Sustaining Enterprise Lean Transformations

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The practice of physically isolating computers and networks to protect data or communications from being compromised has been used for many years. The problem with physical isolation is that the information technology infrastructures of many enterprise organizations cannot easily be protected behind hard physical boundaries. This webcast shows how to use domain and server isolation techniques to create a layer of security to achieve logical isolation of the network traffic that moves between ...

TechNet Webcast: Server and Domain Isolation Using IPsec and Group Policies (Level 300)

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Your assemblies contain your genius, and the unique intellectual property that is hidden in your source code might not be as safe as you think. This webcast walks you though the tools and technologies that help you prevent hackers from stealing your hard work and the intellectual property your organization has invested in.Presenter: Joe Stagner, MSDN Developer Community Champion, Microsoft CorporationJoe Stagner joined Microsoft in 2001 as a technical evangelist and is now a developer community...

MSDN Webcast: Security Best Practices: Protecting Your Intellectual Property (Level 200)

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It is helpful to think of activities as controls within a workflow, similar to controls used with Microsoft ASP.NET Pages or Microsoft Windows Forms. You can use activities to encapsulate execution logic, communicate with the host and decompose a workflow into reusable components. This session examines the simple process of creating custom activities. If you want to expose activities to other developers designing workflows, you are likely to find this session valuable.Presenter: Dennis Pilari...

MSDN Webcast: Extending Workflow Capabilities with Custom Activities (Part 6 of 7) (Level 300)

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This webcast compares the new modeling tools in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development with UML 2.0 and the Rational Unified Process (RUP). We describe top-down system decomposition using the System Diagram, as well as modeling of systems using the Application and Logical Datacenter Diagrams. These diagrams are contrasted against the new diagrams in UML 2.0. A use case approach is compared to the persona/scenario approach use...

MSDN Architecture Webcast: RUP vs. MSF UML vs. DSLs What's the Difference Anyway (Level 200)

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A wireless local area network (WLAN) presents its own special set of security problems. Are you confident that you have this aspect of your information technology infrastructure covered? In this webcast, you learn about security concerns and solution options for implementing a WLAN. Specifically, the session provides recommendations for implementing, configuring and troubleshooting security in a wireless network and how to implement more secure authentication mechanisms.Presenter: Keith Combs...

TechNet Webcast: Implementing Security for Wireless Networks (Level 200)

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The Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool (ExBPA) is an automated health check and troubleshooting tool. ExBPA collects configuration settings and performs network and protocol tests in an Exchange topology. Join this webcast to learn about the new version of the tool that was released in March 2005. We discuss enhancements such as scheduling and baseline support. See how to use ExBPA with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. At the end of the presentation, we talk about future e...

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Best Practice Analyzer (Level 300)

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Web service technologies have typically taken a "do-it-yourself" approach to maintaining the interoperation state of services. Using workflow, developers now have tools that allow them to describe the long-running state of their services and delegate much of the state management to the underlying platform. Managing this state correctly becomes even more challenging in applications that coordinate work across multiple services either within an organization or at an Internet scale. This session...

MSDN Webcast: Workflow, Messaging, and Services: Developing Distributed Applications with Workflows (Part 4 of 7) (Level 300)

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Managing projects in the corporate portfolio is difficult at best. How do you track multiple resources? How do you set priorities? Portfolio management is a discipline that enables you to evaluate and prioritize projects to ensure that you invest your resources where they are needed most. This informative webcast outlines best practices for portfolio management, and shows you tips on how to define a process framework. Learn about the tools you need to succeed, find out how to ensure that your p...

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Juggling the Project Portfolio: Best Practices for Portfolio Management

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Buffer overflows are never a good sign. This webcast describes what they are, and shows you how to identify the big dangers associated with buffer overflows, as well as how to fix them.Presenter: Joe Stagner, MSDN Developer Community Champion, Microsoft CorporationJoe Stagner joined Microsoft in 2001 as a technical evangelist and is now a developer community champion with the Microsoft Developers Network. He began his career as a part-time robotics control programmer and has worked with virtual...

MSDN Webcast: Security Best Practices: Finding and Fixing Buffer Overflows (Level 200)

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Organizations of every size rely on employee teams to achieve success in the marketplace, but not all teams are equipped to deliver results. Join Microsoft Office System Work Essentials and Lonnie Pacelli for an interactive webcast. We share strategies for motivating and managing teams of all sizes to achieve success. Learn how to engage project team members in their work and how to ensure that they are working toward a common goal. We discuss techniques for enforcing accountability with team m...

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Developing Team Strategies that Deliver Results with Work Essentials (Level 100)

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The session looks at options for hosting workflow applications. We cover managing events, instance tracking, and persistence, and provide a close look at the simple communications mechanisms that are available for you to use in your workflow applications.Presenter: Israel Hilerio, Program Manager, Microsoft CorporationView other sessions from Microsoft Architecture: Design enterprise-class systems with .NET Framework 2.0. To avoid possible problems, we suggest you temporarily disable pop-up ...

MSDN Webcast: Hosting and Communications Options in Workflow Scenarios (Part 3 of 7) (Level 300)

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Microsoft Software Asset Management (SAM) is a concept that is important for companies seeking to optimize technology investments and ensure better corporate governance. SAM can put the people, processes and technology in place that allow you to effectively manage and control software assets within your organization. This webcast helps you gain a better understanding of SAM, how it can benefit your business, and the tools available to implement it. We show you how SAM helps to optimize your tec...

Momentum Webcast: An Introduction to Software Asset Management: Optimize, Secure, Build (Level 100)

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This is the third webcast in our series on designing desktop applications with the Microsoft .NET Framework. This webcast focuses on the architecture and design of dynamic and configurable applications. Topics include proper use of .NET configuration files, storing connection strings and user settings, the Microsoft patterns & practices Enterprise Library Configuration Application Block, and building applications whose user interface is dynamically configurable.    Presenter: Joe Hummel, As...

MSDN Webcast: Creating Dynamic and Configurable Applications (Part 3 of 15) (Level 300)

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The connection string is the key to your database, so how do you keep it from prying eyes? Where do you put it, how do you encrypt in, and what do you do with the encryption keys? This webcast will guide you though the options and help you choose the best methods for your data-driven applications.Presenter: Joe Stagner, MSDN Developer Community Champion, Microsoft CorporationJoe Stagner joined Microsoft in 2001 as a technical evangelist and is now a developer community champion with the Microso...

MSDN Webcast: Security Best Practices: Protecting Your Connection String (Level 200)

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Use Microsoft Office Excel 2003 to analyze, communicate, and share your results. Improve the way you turn data into information. Excel 2003 offers new technologies and features while improving upon existing and familiar tools. Join us for this informative webcast to learn some of our favorite tips and tricks for getting the most out of Excel 2003. Learn how to use the improved tools of Excel 2003 to facilitate effective and efficient collaboration and information sharing.  Presenter: Evan Arch...

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top 10 Tips to Save Time in Excel (Level 100)

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Are you experiencing major trouble in scaling your direct-attach storage for your applications running in a Microsoft Windows environment? Are you being pressed by a backup window that is constantly shrinking? Today, new storage area network (SAN) technology developed on the Microsoft Windows Server platform makes it easy for partners to develop a SAN that is simple for customers to deploy and configure in the Windows environment. This webcast describes how to integrate Microsoft Windows Server...

TechNet Webcast: Simplifying SANs on Windows Server 2003 (Level 200)

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Developers and information technology professionals everywhere are starting weblogs (blogs), by the droves. You can use blogging and associated technologies (such as Really Simple Syndication) to expand your knowledge by keeping up on the latest news, information, and views from other developers. In this webcast, find out how to build your own blog presence, brand, and traffic, and see demonstrations of new services coming out that can help you blog effectively.    Presenters: Robert Scoble...

MSDN Webcast: Blogging from the Developer's Perspective (Level 100)

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects includes powerful visual modeling tools for designing classes and service-oriented applications. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Software Development Kit offers a new toolkit that allows you to define, generate and customize your own visual modeling tools using the same modeling infrastructure as the tools in Visual Studio. This webcast focuses on building graphical design tools for Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) with the ne...

MSDN Webcast: Domain-Specific Language Tools for Model-Driven Development in Visual Studio 2005 (Level 200)

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Have you been thinking about installing or deploying Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005? Could you benefit from the guidance of people who have worked with Live Communications Server 2005? If so, we have the webcast for you. Attend this highly technical discussion to learn from the experts about how to set up Live Communications Server certificates, potential problems you may encounter, and the tools and strategies you can use to resolve them. Presenters: Joe Schurman, Cofounder,...

TechNet Webcast: Managing Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Certificates (Level 300)

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Use this link to attend on day of event: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=64BCJG&role=attend&pw=8%5CC5rx9X8   October 27th 8:30 am Ć¢ā‚¬ā€œ 9:30 am Selling to the Financial Marketplace During this presentation you will learn what the top issues are for the financial market, how to best market to them, the typical structure of banking, insurance, and capital market organizations, areas of growth & opportunity, which products fit best, objections to Microsoft technology and compet...

Selling to the Financial Marketplace

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This seventh webcast in our series on Microsoft SQL Server development focuses on ways you can optimize your stored procedures and how to make the most of the resources you have available. What happens when you execute a statement? If a plan is used, how long does it stay in cache? Can you control caching. or the length of time a plan is kept in cache, or even what plan is placed in cache? We compare and contrast dynamic string execution, sp_executesql, and stored procedures, and examine how ...

MSDN Webcast: A Primer to Proper SQL Server Development (Part 7 of 10): Understanding Plan Caching and Optimizing Procedure Performance (Level 200)

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Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 comes with many great controls out of the box, and even more are available from Microsoft partners. Sometimes, though, you need something special. In this webcast, we show you how to build a custom ASP.NET control for easy distribution and reuse in ASP.NET 2.0 Web sites.Presenter: Joe Stagner, MSDN Developer Community Champion, Microsoft CorporationJoe Stagner joined Microsoft in 2001 as a technical evangelist and is now a developer community champion with the Microsoft ...

MSDN Architecture Webcast: Building a Custom Web Control in ASP.NET (Level 200)

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Are you encountering problems with Microsoft Exchange Server failures, database corruption, site failures or LAN/WAN failures? To deal with these and similar problems, join Rand Morimoto as he presents best practices for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 clustering, dial tone Exchange recovery strategies, non-Microsoft software replication utilities, snapshot Storage Area Network solutions and geo-clusters. Learn how to determine the best recovery solution for your needs. Gain tips, tricks, and be...

TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2003 Disaster Recovery Solutions (Level 300)

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Securing corporate assets is a top concern to us all and is critical when exchanging messages with partners and customers over the Internet. In this webcast, we cover the security capabilities and features of the core Microsoft BizTalk Server engine, including how we achieve minimal privileges, how to set up a secure Microsoft BizTalk Server deployment, and how to securely exchange messages over the Internet.Presenter: Eldar Musayev, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation   Eldar A. Musayev...

MSDN Architecture Webcast: BizTalk Server Security Revealed (Level 300)

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Have you been thinking about installing or deploying Microsoft Office Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005? Could you benefit from the guidance of people who have worked with LCS 2005? If so, we have the webcast for you. Attend this highly technical discussion to learn from the experts about how to set up LCS certificates, potential problems you may encounter, and the tools and strategies you can use to resolve them. Presenters: Joe Schurman, Co-Founder, Connected InnovationJoe Schurman is th...

TechNet Webcast: Managing Live Communications Server 2005 Certificates (Level 300)

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While automated Web application vulnerability assessment tools are excellent productivity tools for developers and security professionals, these tools often yield some false-positive results. Would you like to know what you're looking at? This webcast will examine how to interpret the results of the following types of Web attacks: Cross-site scripting, SQL injection, blink SQL injection, HTTP response splitting and other forms of parameter tampering.Presenter: Victor Bonic, Director of Security...

MSDN Webcast: Results Interpretation of Automated Web Attacking: Tips and Tricks (Level 200)

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Process improvement methodologies such as the lean manufacturing, the Capability Maturity Model and Six Sigma optimize people, processes and technology. Using these methodologies, businesses can operate more efficiently and effectively. The Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Process Improvement is designed specifically for organizations utilizing process improvement methodologies and techniques. This webcast shows how this solution can help your organization effectively manage tools and ...

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Enhancing the Success of Your Business with the Microsoft Accelerator for Process Improvement

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Think your IT infrastructure is secure against the latest viruses and malware? Think again. The rules keep changing. Join Mike Nash and his panel of experts for this session of Security360 as we discuss the evolving nature of malicious software. Learn how you can respond to emerging threats and better protect your organization from viruses. This presentation redefines malware and points out what companies can do to identify, prevent, and control this pernicious threat. Help your company towards...

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Security 360 with Mike Nash: Beyond Viruses: The Progression of Malicious Software

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In a professional services organization, effective use of resources can mean the difference between success and failure. Is your organization using resources to its fullest potential? Designed expressly for service organizations, this webcast presents an end-to-end solution that can drive efficiency benefits straight to your bottom line. Find out how you can use Web-based technology and the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management solution to reduce the resources necessary to win business, staff...

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Driving Profitability in Professional Services Organizations

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The success of your projects depends on your ability to plan, organize and control project activities. Optimizing the work breakdown structure (WBS) in Microsoft Office Project 2003 is an effective way to meet these project expectations. In this webcast, we show you how to easily optimize your WBS to manage multiple activities and tasks. We demonstrate how you can develop realistic timelines, manage expectations around key deliverables, track progress, identify problems, and manage scope creep ...

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Optimizing Work Breakdown Structures Using Microsoft Office Project 2003 (Level 100)

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects introduces new distributed system designers that assist you in creating and deploying distributed, service-oriented systems. This session focuses on these application and system design tools, with special emphasis on the Web services design features. Learn how to use the tools for both architectural design and validation prior to code generation, and how to visualize extensions of an existing solution. The discussion also touch...

MSDN Architecture Webcast: Developing Service-Oriented Systems with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects (Level 300)

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A LEAN transformation requires a common understanding of opportunities, metrics and action plans. The preferred approach is to document this information visually in a set of value stream maps. How do you create effective maps? This webcast shows you step-by-step how to use Microsoft Office Visio 2003 to create an integrated value stream map complete with flow, metrics, analysis and an action plan. The map we create is based on best practices from experienced transformation professionals. Learn ...

TechNet Webcast: Visualize, Analyze, and Manage a LEAN Transformation Using Value Stream Maps (Level 200)

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Do you know which operational gains will have the largest impact on the financial performance of your business? Determining and measuring the performance metrics that connect production and financial goals are the key to improving overall performance. In many instances relatively small production performance gains can be amplified into substantial profit and growth gains. Are you confident that your manufacturing performance metrics achieve your production and financial improvement goals? This ...

Momentum Webcast: Uncovering Manufacturing Performance and Growth Opportunities with the Right Performance Metrics (Level 100)

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Are you aware of rootkits, the new silent threat to your information technology infrastructure? Rootkits are a special class of malware. They are special because they are nearly undetectable, almost impossible to remove and their ongoing processes are difficult to track. This technical webcast helps you know your enemy. We focus on the latest methods used by rootkit developers to hide their tools on computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems. The session demonstrates how rootkits w...

TechNet Webcast: Rootkits in Windows (Level 300)

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Protect data and restrict access to sensitive information by learning how to enhance security for applications and Microsoft Windows Server System components. Join us for an in-depth discussion of the technologies you need to master to implement more effective application and data security. This session covers security best practices for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Windows Small Business Server.    Presenter: Michael Murphy, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Cor...

TechNet Webcast: Implementing Application and Data Security (Level 200)

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Microsoft is making it easy for developers to integrate location-based services into Microsoft Windows Mobile applications with the Microsoft MapPoint Web Service. Whether you're looking to get the real-time location of a mobile device or integrate maps and driving directions into your Windows Mobile solution, MapPoint provides you the tools to do it. In this webcast, members of the Mobile Experience Product Development team examine performance and usability, and design best practices for bui...

MSDN Webcast: Developing Mobile Solutions with Microsoft MapPoint (Level 200)

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Every enterprise needs inter-site communication, but it opens conduits for everything from bandwidth-gobbling spam to malicious attacks that can cripple your organization. This webcast shows how to use Sybari Antigen and Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server to protect Microsoft Exchange Server from viruses, worms, spam and external attacks. Product managers from the ISA Server and Antigen teams discuss best practices for common Exchange deployment types, emphasizing confi...

TechNet Webcast: Securing Your Exchange Server with Antigen and ISA Server (Level 200)

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Do to a known technical issue; the audio portion of this webcast is not playing back correctly. We are working to correct this problem and hope to have the repaired audio online in the near future. We apologize for the inconvenience.Do you consider it a challenge to monitor a configuration across a messaging service? This webcast presents a new solution: the Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) Solution Accelerator, which will be released in September. Learn about the DCM Solution Accelerator...

TechNet Webcast: Defining and Monitoring Desired Configuration Across a Messaging Service (Level 300)

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Did you know that you can isolate your corporate network with the standard features of Microsoft Windows server Active Directory? Join this webcast to learn how. By using Active Directory and Domain membership, you can prevent unauthorized access (external and internal) to trusted assets. The result is a more secure, segmented network of trusted zones with a higher security standard than other methods deployed today. This webcast will detail how this capability can be leveraged using Microsof...

TechNet Webcast: Protecting Critical Systems and Data with Server and Domain Isolation (Level 300)

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System is a suite of extensible lifecycle tools that significantly expands the Microsoft Visual Studio platform. Visual Studio Team System helps software teams collaborate to reduce the complexity of delivering modern service-oriented solutions. This session provides an overview of the suite, looks at the tools and features included, and shows practical examples of how this can reduce the complexity of delivering modern service-oriented solutions from start t...

MSDN Architecture Webcast: Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Managing the Software Lifecycle (Level 200)

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As enterprises grow, firewalls get more complicated. Do you know which elements of a firewall are best implemented by software, and which elements are more secure when controlled by dedicated firewall hardware? In this session, you learn how to use hardware and software firewalls for network and application filtering, and how to implement intrusion detection mechanisms. We show you how technologies such as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004, Microsoft Windows Firewall, I...

TechNet Webcast: Implementing Network and Perimeter Security (Level 200)

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Whether you are an executive or a worker in the trenches, you have probably taken time off from work for personal needs. Employers are recognizing that happy employees benefit the bottom line. Join Work Essentials and work-life expert Susan Seitel to learn about the fast-growing work-life movement. Find out what successful companies are doing to create a flexible, supportive workplace, and how you can transform your workplace into an employee friendly organization.  Presenter: Susan Seitel, Pr...

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Using Work Essentials and Flexibility to Live the Good Life (Level 100)