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Session Descriptions
Exchange 2010
Jaime Rodriguez, Technical Instructor
Session Level: 200-Intemediate
Audience: This session will be of interest to personnel who serve as technical decision makers in evaluating new software and assessing software capabilities.
Microsoft Exchange, the cornerstone of Microsoft’s unified communications solution, has long been the choice of organizations to enable rich and productive collaboration among its users. In this session, we'll take a look at how Exchange Server 2010 gives people the freedom of greater mobility and flexible access from virtually any platform, Web browser, or device.
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and New Virtualization Features
Victor Treat, Technical Instructor
Session Level: 200–Intermediate
Audience: This session will be of interest to personnel who are directly responsible for building and maintaining Windows Server 2008 R2 configurations for specific environment such as Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services.
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 provides several new capabilities, the two major ones being Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX. Dynamic Memory enables memory to be dynamically added/removed to running virtual Machines — the VMs will actually use only the memory they need and they do it without operator intervention. This ensures optimal use of physical memory while increasing VM density. RemoteFX allows remote workers to enjoy the same rich user experience over a network as with a locally executing desktop. Other, smaller improvements (depending on your viewpoint) to things like cluster storage and managed service accounts will also be explained.
Microsoft Office 2010: New Features
Natalie Green & Debra Smith, Applications Instructor
Session Level: 100– Beginner
Audience: Anyone who is considering upgrading to or already using Microsoft Office 2010.
Microsoft Office 2010 gives you powerful new tools to express your ideas, solve problems, and connect with people. This session will take an in-depth look at the newest features and capabilities in PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Excel, and OneNote 2010.
SharePoint and Workflow – What's New in 2010?
Jaime Rodriguez, Technical Instructor
Session Level: 100–Beginner
Audience: This session is beneficial to people at all levels of experience and job roles including Administrator, Developer and End User.
See what’s new in SharePoint 2010 and workflow. In this session, you will receive an overview of the new design tools for workflow in SharePoint 2010. Also, learn how to encompass all aspects of MOSS including sites, lists, document libraries, reports, InfoPath and Workflow to automate business applications. See an example of how an IT change request following Microsoft’s Operations Frameworks uses many artifacts within MOSS to bring together a cohesive application. Areas of focus will be workspaces and security, document search, as well as InfoPath Form Services.
SharePoint for End Users
Jaime Rodriguez, Technical Instructor
Session Level: 100–Beginner
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Windows 7: Why Migrate?
Victor Treat, Technical Instructor
Session Level: 200–Intermediate
This session will discuss major features and improvements in the Windows 7 desktop solution. The focus of this session centers on technologies that increase performance, usability and manageability in a corporate environment. Terry will look at DirectAccess, BranchCache and Aero as provided in the Windows 7 product line.
ITIL: Establishing Processes
Victor Treat, Technical Instructor
Session Level: 100-Beginner
With the integration of IT into the business world, the capabilities of the IT services offered are increasing perceived as mission critical. ITIL is an industry accepted framework describing best practice guidelines for establishing processes covering the 5 phases of the IT Lifecycle, to assist organizations in the successful delivery and support of IT services, for both internal and external customers, and maximize value to both the customer and IT Service provider.
Discover the Answers to the Myths of the Cloud
Joey Snow, Microsoft, DPE IT PRO Evangelist
Session Level: 200– Intermedite
Cloud computing represents the next major shift in the way that IT will be delivered to companies large and small. Cloud computing is a career-defining opportunity to add real business value through strategic and tactical understanding of the cloud’s relationship with organizational goals. This session will address the misconceptions surrounding the cloud and what it has to offer. It will give you a better understanding of the next steps to take to enable your organization to reap the benefits of cloud computing. It can provide much more than savings, creating a foundation for new competitive advantages.
Project Management: Ensuring Your Projects Succeed
Jewel London, Applications Instructor
Session Level: 100– Beginner
Audience: This session is intended for anyone interested in maximizing project success rates and anyone interested in keeping projects on-time and under-budget.
Project management processes and techniques are used to coordinate resources to achieve predictable results. However, having good project management skills doesn’t mean that you don’t have problems or surprises, rather it puts in place strategies to deal with these contingencies. In this session Andrea will discuss the features and benefits of project management and the strategic business value of having trained project managers on your staff.
Citrix: The Power of One
Jon Shackelford, Virtualization Architect at ThinOps Consulting, Inc
This session focuses on simplification--how to leverage Citrix product architecture to streamline IT administration and reduce support costs with single image management.
An Overview of Business Project Management: Delivering The Right Solution At The Right Time
Jeff Hilton, President and CEO of KnowledgeCircles
Many business projects are completed late, if at all, or don’t deliver all the intended functionality. The result is frustrating to all involved and a costly barrier to business success. In this session, Jeff Hilton will leverage over 25 years of business experience and discuss proven techniques and principles of Software Development Project Management that help business projects could be successful and deliver the desired results on time.
Self-Service Bi with PowerPivot for Excel
Cheryl Hambacher, Project Manager and BI Technical Lead, Antares
Session Level: 100 - Beginner
PowerPivot is a new Microsoft technology aimed at providing self-service Business Intelligence. This session will demonstrate how PowerPivot provides the power needed to perform complex analysis of data without requiring the assistance of IT/BI staff. This tool implements a powerful in-memory database that can organize data and provide a quick way to browse information. PowerPivot has some unique characteristics that make it appealing to both the Excel user and the BI analyst.
IT Easy Button: Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Rich Bruklis, VP Marketing, Cloud Replica
For many years, high end Disaster Recovery technology was only available for companies with deep pockets. Today, the cloud has changed that and makes those solutions affordable for small and medium companies. In this session, learn how the Cloud has helped drive down the cost of protection, how to combine backup, clustering, and snapshots into an automated bullet-proof, protection solution, and the metrics used in the industry to define recovery.