TechDays 2012 Belgium – Sponsoring and partnerships at the technology conference for developers and IT Professionals

Total workstation lockdown isn't for every machine in your organization, but some machines require it. It's usually those "public walk up" machines that we need to manage a little bit differently; the machines that are in the cafeterias, the lobby and the library. The more we think about it, these kinds of machines are everywhere in our organization - inviting attack and ruining our day. Who knows what crazy things people are doing ON these machines - visiting strange web sites and installing evil software. The good news is that Microsoft has a slew of solutions to help you with this very specific problem. And it doesn't mean you need to turn the thumbscrews and go from 0 - 100% lockdown either. Microsoft has a variety of technologies you can choose (and mix and match) to make sure your workstations as locked down only as much as they need to be. In this session, Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz will demonstrate a myriad of ways to make your public desktops more secure. You will also learn about some non-Microsoft tools to help enhance your control of this notoriously difficult situation.

The changes in Windows 7 mean you need to update your troubleshooting skills. Jeremy Moskowitz, Group Policy MVP of GPanswers.com and author of ‘Group Policy Fundamentals, Security and the Managed Desktop’ is just the guy to bring you the know-how. In this session you’ll learn why you can no longer just run gpresult.exe to get the results you want. You’ll discover what happens if you reconnect to network after a long absence. You’ll learn how to crack open the Windows 7 event log and trace Group Policy flow to figure out what might be going on. You’ll learn how to troubleshoot the new Group Policy Preference Extensions. You’ll learn how other areas, such as Offline Files and Group Policy Software Installation, can be tweaked to give you just the information you need to fix what ails you. If you’re looking for Group Policy answers to your troubleshooting questions, this is the session for you.

For years we have been striving towards Single-Sign-On (SSO) for our users when they access corporate resources. However, as organizations move applications to the Cloud and have requirements for their users to access applications that reside within partner organizations, secure SSO authentication and authorization presents major challenges. The solution to these challenges is Federated Identity and claims based applications. Come to this two part session and learn how to build Federated Identity solutions for the future. Part 1, introduces the challenges facing administrators and developers and show you how to implement Federation using Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) v2. You will learn how to build SSO solutions allowing your users to access on-premise, Cloud and partner based applications. Part 2, delves deeper and looks at enhanced options for Federation including the user of Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) SP1 and ADFS v2. Both part 1 and part 2 contain extensive demos which will accelerate your understanding of Federation and what it can bring to your organisation. Although we don’t delve into code, developers will gain invaluable knowledge on claims based identity. Federated identity is the Hot Topic for 2011. Make sure you are riding the wave.

Active Directory is one of the areas where administrators spend the most time: Adding users, changing users, managing computer accounts, removing users, managing organizational units, and more. Learn to automate many of these common tasks using Windows PowerShell, and both the new Active Directory cmdlets in Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as third-party Active Directory cmdlets. You’ll learn from one of the world’s most popular and respected PowerShell trainers, Don Jones, and you’ll have full access to Don’s sample scripts to use as starting points in your own environment. No scripting experience is necessary!

Security analysis has become an important tool in our overall security strategies. Often we are unsure whether or not we have too many security dependencies in our Microsoft Network. We don’t how many Admin accounts are exposed on clients and servers, if the latest patches really are installed, and so on. During this session, Marcus Murray will demonstrate how you can perform a security analysis on your internal clients & servers and, using a step-by-step approach, identify common security issues. You will learn about the tools needed and how to use them, how to interpret the output, and what to do with the result. This session is very valuable if you want to be able to perform effective security analysis in your own Microsoft Network.

In this session you will be provided with guidance on how you can provide secure remote access to your ocs/lync deployment. The edge server role will be highlighted, and you will get acquainted with the ports that need to be opened on your firewalls to provide secure IM and conferencing services.

Role-Based Management Extreme Makeover for Active Directory Get out of the business of managing individual changes in your environment and unleash the power of role-based management. If you've ever asked, or been asked, "What can [name of user] do?" or "Who is able to get to [name of resource or application]?", this session is for you! Learn how to implement role-based management, in which users are defined by their business roles and where resource access and configuration are instantly, accurately, and auditably applied. Empower your enterprise to enable a documented, auditable structure for resource security, asset management, and more. Take away methodologies, scripts, tools, and guidance that are proven successful in the real world.

During this session we will take a birds eye view on UAG and how this product can help you make your internal resources available to your users in a Hybride cloud networking world. We will explore the world of portal publishing making any app you have available for you mobile workforce and seamless networking. Where does this product differ from TMG and why is it a perfect fit for the cloud of tomorrow?