Attend this seminar to learn:

Session 1: Windows Server 2008 overview: Sixteen gigabytes in 75 minutes

Installing Windows Server 2008 for the first time and seeing that it refuses to install in a hard drive smaller than 16 gigabytes might make you homesick for Windows Server 2003 -- but wait, don't give up just yet! Windows Server 2008 may be a bit hefty in comparison  to Windows Server 2003, but that new size comes with a handful of neat new features. In this first session, Minasi summarizes the good and the bad new aspects of Windows Server 2008. Topics covered will include:

• The new Server Core
• An overview of the Network Access Protection quarantine system
• And Windows Server 2008's best (and worst) new features

Session 2: Is it virtual or real? Only you’ll know for sure

Virtual machine managers may be the single most important, useful and fun new computing technology to hit the business in the past seven years. But the question remains how much Microsoft’s much-anticipated virtualization products will chip away at VMWare's commanding market lead. Get a quick overview on the state of virtualization, what's new in Microsoft's Hyper-V and Virtual Server and recent changes in processor architecture in this session aimed at both beginners and experts! This session will help you:

• Learn where virtualization fits in the Windows world
• Understand how Microsoft's products and licenses support virtualization
• Know how Hyper-V works -- what it can and what it can't do
• And anticipate future changes to Hyper-V in post-2008 releases

Session 3: Active Directory upgrades and more: How Windows Server 2008 improves disaster recovery and directory services

With every new version of Windows server comes changes to Active Directory, and Windows Server 2008 is no exception. Server 2008 has a new kind of domain controller called a Read-Only DC, two new kinds of backups and a whole new way of controlling password policies to allow for more flexible variation in "who's got to change her password and how often." Of course, it's not ALL good news, as Mark will reveal in this session. Topics covered will include:

• Where can Windows Server 2008's new Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODCs) help secure and even streamline your Active Directory?
• How Windows Server 2008 allows far more flexible, group-by-group (and even user-by-user) password policies
• And Windows Server 2008's new "bare-metal restore" backup and disaster recovery tool and how to evaluate where it fits in your enterprise's business continuity plan
  
  
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