The Experts Conference 2010 Hands-On Workshops
TEC 2010 offers hands-on pre-conference workshops given by experts from the Microsoft community who know your daily grind, inside and out. They’ll help you drill-down into the technical details you crave, then implement your newfound know-how back at the office to give your company the edge it needs.
Directory & Identity Workshops
Best Practices for Deploying Windows Server 2008 R2 PKI
Speaker: Brian Komar
Get ready for a hands-on best practices installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 PKI. This half-day workshop will include:
- Discussions on private key protection for offline and issuing CAs
- Planning your revocation checking infrastructure
- Deploying an offline root CA
- Deploying an online issuing CA
- Publishing PKI information to Active Directory
- Using Group Policy to facilitate certificate distribution
All equipment will be provided.
Masters of Disaster – Data Recovery in Active Directory
Speaker: Jorge de Almeida Pinto, Guido Grillenmeier, Gil Kirkpatrick
After replacing a failed domain controller, the most common recovery task in Active Directory involves restoring deleted or altered data. The process for recovering Active Directory data varies from version to version of Active Directory, and can be surprisingly complicated. In this workshop Jorge de Almeida Pinto, Guido Grillenmeier, and Gil Kirkpatrick will explain the way data is stored in Active Directory, how to properly recover object data from backup, how to reanimate deleted objects, and how to leverage the new Active Directory recycle bin. Equipment for this workshop will be provided.
Masters of Disaster – Service Recovery in Active Directory
Speaker: Jorge de Almeida Pinto, Guido Grillenmeier, Gil Kirkpatrick
Active Directory is the most critical piece of Windows infrastructure in your environment, and is by design highly reliable and robust. But there are situations that can put your entire Active Directory out of commission and render your Windows network inoperable. How do you recover your entire Active Directory quickly and reliably? Learn from the Masters the different kinds of service failures that can occur in Active Directory, how service recovery works in Active Directory, how to develop an effective backup and recovery plan, and how to restore an entire Active Directory domain and forest from backup. Equipment for this workshop will be provided.
Exchange Workshops
Exchange 2010 High Availability: Hands-on Workshop
Speaker: Michael B. Smith
In this workshop we will cover what high-availability (HA) and site resilience mean from an IT Professional’s perspective and compare/contrast that to the perspective of a CxO. The various levels of HA available to Exchange Server 2010 will be examined in detail, including HA for Edge Servers, Client Access Servers (CAS), Hub Transport (HT)Servers, and Mailbox servers. This workshop will also delve into the infrastructure requirements to provide a truly HA and resilient solution, including a discussion on load balancers, routing protocols, switches, and teamed NICs. We will also look at how HA and Disaster Recovery (DR) differ and how to build DR into an Exchange Server 2010 solution. Participants will gain hands-on experience building — in a virtual environment, a 4-server Exchange infrastructure that provides a good level of HA for the CAS/HT and mailbox roles of Exchange 2010. All equipment will be provided.
Migrating Exchange 2007 to Exchange Online via Microsoft Online Services (BPOS) – 4 Hour Workshop
Speaker: Justin Hiedeman
Microsoft Exchange is available both as on-premise software and as a hosted service, and you can now choose the right deployment option for your organization, whether you deploy Exchange Server on-premises or host your mailboxes with Exchange Online. Exchange Online services help enterprise IT departments effectively reduce management and capital cost while still maintianing the ease of adminstration and providing users with a robust enterprise mail platform.
In this hands-on lab, you will configure directory synchronization services for a mock enterprise to sync user information to the Microsoft Cloud (BPOS/Exchange Online). Administrators will experience the intricacies of migrating on premise users the the cloud (BPOS). Lastly, administrators will learn the basics of managing users in the online-cloud environment and what the end user experience will be.
SharePoint Workshops
Guiding your SharePoint Developers to 2010 Bliss
Speaker: Eric Harlan and Zlatan Dzinic
The paradigm is still shifting. With each new release of SharePoint, the rules, the process and the outcomes all change. There is no shortage of said change in the new release of SharePoint 2010. With the new version out, there are better and more secure methods in which to bring together the connected functionality from the full spectrum of available application investments to the enterprise user. In this lab we will talk about and show different integration methods that are now in the developer’s arsenal. We will also cover how to manage development environments, and the solutions created from the Architects level. 2010 is here, it’s time your life got just a bit easier.
We will discuss application and limitations of the new SandBox Solutions model and how to set up and utilize this new technology for your enterprise. We will also explore Claims based Authentication Providers and how they affect the set up of Farms and integration between systems. All delegates are expected to bring their own laptops to this workshop.
SharePoint 2010 Security End-To-End Workshop
Speaker: Richard Taylor
This will NOT be death by PowerPoint but will be demo rich. This workshop will take the attendee from A to Z, Soup to Nuts, Beginning to End configuring security in a SharePoint 2010 environment. We will cover such topics as NAP, LoopbackCheck, IAG, as well as permissions. You won’t be disappointed! All delegates are expected to bring their own laptops to this workshop.
