Session Abstracts

Exchange Session Abstracts

Following is a sampling of the sessions that will be offered at The Experts Conference for Exchange 2011. We will be adding additional sessions and abstracts as speakers are selected.

Exchange Workshop

Exchange Virtualization Bootcamp
Speaker: Jaap Wesselius

Join us for this hands-on post-conference workshop and learn everything you need to know about setting up a high availability, high throughput virtual Exchange 2010 SP1 environment .
Workshop is 13:30 to 17:30 Wednesday. All equipment will be provided.

Exchange Keynote:

Why Microsoft’s Head is in the Cloud and What This means to you
Speaker: Tony Redmond

The Microsoft Exchange Development group takes care of both on-premises (Exchange 2010) and cloud (Office 365) versions of Exchange. Given all the hype around the announcement of Office 365, there’s some reasonable concern that Microsoft might be focused on developing its cloud software to the detriment of the traditional on-premises version. This session will explore why Microsoft has a focus on the cloud and what this means for future versions of Exchange, how the role of an administrator might change in the future, and what positive and productive steps you can take to prepare for a world when organizations can choose between on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployments.

General Sessions:

Archiving and Discovery with Exchange 2010 and Office 365
Speaker: Nathan Winters

A growing number of businesses face some regulatory pressures to retain and retrieve business data. This session will look at the features available in Exchange 2010 to manage, maintain and retrieve large quantities of data. You will learn about your options for storing data either in large mailboxes, using the archive functionality of Exchange on premises or through archiving to Office 365. We will discuss where and when the different approaches make sense and cover what your options are if you already have a vast amount of data stored in an existing archiving platform.

Built-in Exchange Server Functions to Control and Monitor Important Mailboxes
Speaker: Juergen Hasslauer

Let‘s assume you have a few mailboxes that are important to your business. You have to monitor access to these mailboxes and be able to track mails received and sent by these mailboxes for legal purposes. In this session we will discuss Exchange Server 2010 built-in features that you can use to achieve these requirements. We will explain how you can use Role Based Access Control to enforce that only a subset of your administrators can manage these important mailboxes. You will learn using mailbox access auditing and administrator audit logging. We will discuss litigation hold and journaling. This session explains the Exchange Server 2010 built-in functions and highlights their limitations.

Cure Your CAS Headaches – How To Design and Build A Multi-Site, Multi-Version, Multi-Server, Multi-Dimensional Exchange 2010 CAS Infrastructure
Speaker: Greg Taylor

Let’s face it, CAS can be quite hard to figure out in the real world. Working out what names you need on those certificates, what all those URL’s should be set to, how multiple versions of Exchange in multiple AD sites work together, is all quite hard. During this session we’ll work through some basic theory and then walk through a real world example showing you how all the different pieces fit together, and giving you practical tips you can take away and use.

Designing Exchange 2010 for Site Resilience (It’s more than just technology!)
Speaker: Nathan Winters

Exchange 2010 brings great technical wealth in its ability to be deployed in a site resilient way. However do you really need this level of complexity. This session will discuss the business drivers which drive site resilient design. We will then dive into the technical elements which make enable us to make Exchange deployments site resilient, including CAs, Mailflow, Load Balancers, and of course the DAG. You should come away from this session with a clear idea of whether Site Resilience is sensible for you, and how to weight up the various design decisions needed to deploy, and more importantly operate a site resilient model successfully.

Designing Exchange 2010 High Availability for Failure Domains
Speaker: Ross Smith IV

Exchange 2010 deployments often encounter teams wanting to share resources (such as storage, a hypervisor layer, network infrastructure, etc…). Learn about the concept of failure domains and how to apply them to planning Exchange 2010 in a shared resource scenario. Discuss the concept of specifying requirements/specs and working with other teams. Understand how to properly test and validate Exchange 2010 in a shared resource scenario.

Exchange 2010 Delegation
Speaker: Walter Steinsdorfer

In earlier Exchange – Version it was really a problem to delegate rights to other parts of your organization. With the power of exchange 2010 Sp1 it is now possible to delegate exactly the right you want, for example view only admin and change personal settings for the service desk plus switch on or of protocols like active sync. This presentation will show you how effective rights can be delegated and how more people can be involved in the administration of exchange.

Exchange 2010 Native Data Protection
Speaker: Ross Smith IV

This session will explain how Exchange 2010 can protect data with features such as mailbox resiliency, single item recovery, and the lagged copy. We will demonstrate how to use Single Item Recovery and Lagged Copies, and look at how these features can replace traditional point-in-time backups for customers, while lowering costs.

Exchange Server 2010 SP2 Address Book Policies – A Deep Dive
Speaker: Greg Taylor

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 brings several new features to the product. This session will focus on just one of them – Address Book Policies. Come and learn not just what this new feature is about, but how it really works and how you can effectively use the feature to provide separate logical views of your Address Lists to users. The session will show several examples of how policies should be designed to meet your requirements, how to avoid common pitfalls, and also make sure you know what these policies can, and cannot do.

Experts Panel Discussion: Everything Exchange
Speaker: David Sengupta

Bring your toughest questions to our panel of some of the deepest technical and most experienced Exchange experts from around the globe. Anything Exchange-related is fair game – deployment planning, migrations, transport & routing, mailbox & storage, disaster recovery, Exchange Online, high availability, archiving & e-discovery, encryption and certificates, setup & installation, you  name it!  This will be your chance to ask all of the Exchange questions you have been wanting to ask … and to engage in some great dialog around Exchange. You won’t want to miss this panel!

Link Server Notes from the Field: Options for Deployment
Speaker: Ilse Van Criekinge

In this session we will share best practices when investigating your deployment options for Microsoft Lync 2010. You will be shown what questions you should answer to decide if you should go online, on premises, or go for rich coexistence. In addition you will be given an overview of what additional components require configuration when deploying Lync, like firewall settings, reverse proxy requirements, certificate needs and more.

Microsoft LYNC 2010 and the Updated Voice Story
Speaker: Lee Mackey

This session will go over design changes, interoperability, and information needed for a proper voice deployment with Microsoft LYNC.  We’ll go through connectivity to your current voice infrastructure, talk about voice routing, and decisions that should be considered when deploying voice through Microsoft’s LYNC Server.

Microsoft LYNC Server 2010: What’s New and Improved
Speaker: Lee Mackey

This session will walk you through the various versions of LYNC 2010 Server starting with Live Communications Server 2005, through OCS 2007 and R2.  We’ll talk about what’s new and improved for Microsoft LYNC, design considerations, changes from current hardware required, and through the new pieces that will help build a better ROI for your organization.  We’ll also talk through the various partners you might want to work with to leverage your organization and improve your overall cost to deploy and support an environment running Microsoft LYNC.

Notes from the Field: Common Mistakes in Deploying Exchange 2010
Speaker: Frank Carius

Concepts for large enterprises do not always fit for the European customers. Companies are smaller, more distributed and run 50-1000 Seats on their own Servers. How can they fulfill the CEOs request for availability, management, functionality with smaller budget and limited personal resources? It must work, must be safe, stable and still easy to maintain without to many tools. Listen to a mixture of best practices and get some technical insights about Active Directory, load balancers, options for smaller DAGs and how to route messages in your company.

OWA Cross-Site Silent Redirection in Exchange 2010 SP2
Speaker: Ross Smith IV

Today your users are nagged with annoying redirection page if they access the wrong OWA URL.  Come learn about the new silent redirection experiencing we are offering in Exchange 2010 SP2.

Upgrade Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010
Speaker: Jaap Wesselius

Upgrading from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 looks relatively simple, but there are many caveats. Think about the coexistence timeframe where Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 coexist in one scenario, where the Exchange 2007 servers do not communicate with Exchange 2010, or the namespace planning for example. In this presention, we will explain explain in detail about the upgrade to Exchange 2010, how to do the namespace planning, how to work with autodiscover in a mixed environment and what a mixed environment means for proxying and redirection of Client Access Server traffic.

Preventing Information Leakage with Exchange Server 2010 Information Rights Management
Speaker: Juergen Hasslauer

In this session you will learn how you can use Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) to apply persistent protection to messages and attachments. We compare the features of RMS with traditional solutions such as Transport Layer Security or S/MIME. We will explain how to setup RMS and configure the integration with Exchange Server 2010. We will discuss how you can use Outlook, OWA, and Windows Mobile to apply Information Rights Management (IRM) protection to messages. You will learn how you can enforce the usage of RMS with Transport Roles and Outlook Protection Rules. This will help you to safeguard your sensitive business information.

Signing and Encryption – DE-Mail, ePost, and S/MIME
Speaker: Frank Carius

Many companies are using emails instead of mail and fax to save money and to speed up processes and increase customer satisfaction. But how can the recipient be sure, that the sender is the real sender? Spoofing and spam are real and false positives can also block your business. SMIME is one way to make sure, that you are the sender. The German government started an initiative to offer a secure and trustworthy messaging infrastructure called De-Mail. Learn how it works technically and how you can connect your company to it. The German post started a competitive system called ePost. How does that work? But don’t forget, that PGP and SMIME have been here for many years and are easy to use. Learn about solutions for companies. Expect technical and logical answers but I’m not a lawyer.

Troubleshoot Your Exchange 2010 Environment
Speaker: Walter Steinsdorfer

People in Newsgroups, mailing lists and forums often run into errors in their Exchange environments and don´t know how to cope with these errors. In Exchange 2010, there are many log files and PowerShell – comandlets which can be used to find and fix the problems in Exchange. This presentation will show which of the logs you can use easily to get an intact and robust Exchange environment.

Using the Power of PowerShell to Manage Your Exchange On Premises and Exchange Online Environment
Speaker: Ilse Van Criekinge

In this session you will see how easy it is to use the power of Shell to create scripts and manage your Exchange environment, if it’s an on premises deployment, or an Exchange Online deployment.

Virtualizing Exchange 2010, the Do’s and Dont’s
Speaker: Jaap Wesselius

This presentation will explain more on the Hyper-V architecture and how Exchange can benefit from it, but at the same time explain how a virtualized Exchange Server can suffer due to configuration errors. Hyper-V CSV clusters, Live Migration, Database Availability Group (DAG) and Network Load Balancing (NLB) can be used to increase the availability, but what’s the best solution in which situation? In this presentation you’ll learn the do’s and don’ts about running Exchange Server 2010 on a Hyper-V platform.