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The Microsoft Hosting Days 2008 Webcast Series

Missed our Hosting Days? Here’s a second chance for you to access the content we presented in five cities as well as new content that we couldn’t fit into the agenda. These 60 minute webcasts will give you the knowledge and tools you need to expand your business. If you are a Pure Play Hoster, Telco, Independent Software Vendor (ISV), Resellers (VARs), or a System Integrator these sessions are targeted at helping you introduce or expand Software as a Service offerings.

This webcast series is about:

Leveraging the Windows Server 2008 for next-generation Windows-Based Hosting Solutions
Turning the growing opportunities for SaaS on Windows technology into business advantage
Capitalizing on the wide range of business opportunities available with Microsoft Windows-based Hosting Solutions, including Windows-based Hosting for Applications, Hosted Messaging & Collaboration, Hosted CRM, and Hosted Dynamics
Aligning your business with Microsoft’s product roadmap to maximize benefits from the planned testing, release and availability of Microsoft products and services, especially with SharePoint 3.0 and IIS 7.0
Sell Business-Class Email to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using Exchange and the Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) solution.

Attend just one session or as many as you like:

Business Track:

For all audiences not familiar with the Microsoft Hosting solutions and the Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) will learn:

Next Generation Hosting
Microsoft Hosting vision and overview of solutions.
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  Duration: 60 Minutes
Licensing under the Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA)
Do you have questions about the licensing under the Service Provider Licensing Agreement? This session will review the fundamentals and cover the most common scenarios that hosters will encounter. It will also review changes with Windows Server 2008.
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  Duration: 60 Minutes
Selling Business E-mail to Small Business (HMC and Exchange)
Hosted Exchange is a fast growing offering that delivers business class e-mail to SMBs. This presentation showcases the solution, the opportunity for service providers and the deployment options to consider.
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  Duration: 60 Minutes
Software + Services - Marketing Best Practices - New!
Increase revenue by improving sales performance for online, direct, and indirect channels while lowering your cost of acquisition by implementing best-practices for Software+Services sales & marketing.
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  Duration: 60 Minutes
Hosting Opportunities with CRM 4.0
Gain a better understanding of the CRM Market. Learn about new features and pricing and how partners are successfully going to market.
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  Duration: 60 Minutes

Technical Track:

Offering an insight into the technical aspects of Microsoft Hosting solutions, including:

IIS 7 for Hosters
See how Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 help you to deliver a robust, scalable, manageable hosting platform. We will demonstrate how IIS7 will change the way you think about windows hosting.
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  Duration: 60 Minutes
Hosted Exchange
Today, delivering rich Software +Services depends on two core component, compelling features that can be hosted and delivered effectively to any device over the internet and a rock solid security. Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2007 is one of the TRUE Software plus services applications that provides these two requirements for rich hosted email and collaboration out of the box. Come to this session and learn just how the Client Access Server (CAS), Edge Server, CRR Mailbox Server, Unified Messaging (UM) Server Hub Transport Server can deliver these rich hosted services to the hosted customer, SMB or mid-market customer!
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  Duration: 60 Minutes
Silverlight for Hosters
Silverlight, Microsoft's new cross-platform web browser technology for media playback and rich internet applications (RIAs) represents a great opportunity for Web Hosting companies to differentiate themselves and provider new services to their customers. Since Silverlight is a browser technology, it is server-agnostic and can be hosted on a variety of server platforms: LAMP, UNIX, and IIS. This talk will focus on the specific needs of Web Hosting vendors and how they can take advantage of this new technology. Topics addressed: Integrating with Web Analytics; MIME Types; Media Types; Streaming vs. Progressive download; Integrating with Content Delivery Networks; Additional Services around RIA construction.
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  Duration: 60 Minutes
Windows Server Virtualization
Virtualization Solution - How Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager can be leveraged by Service Providers.
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  Duration: 60 Minutes
Windows Server 2008 - Technical Features and Benefits
A high level overview of Windows Server 2008, our next generation server operating system for the hosting industry. With the fantastic new features such as dramatic improvements in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, Powershell, Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Hyper-V(Windows Virtualization) and Terminal Services, Windows Server 2008 is not only the best server OS Microsoft has ever shipped it is Hosting Ready out of the box!
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  Duration: 60 Minutes
PHP on Windows
Windows Server® 2008 featuring Internet Information Services 7.0 is a powerful Web application and services platform that delivers rich Web-based experiences. With the addition of FastCGI support, it is now possible to run PHP applications in a fast and stable manner in IIS. In this session, learn how to configure FastCGI and run PHP applications on IIS 7. In addition, see demonstrations during this webcast that highlight how a PHP application can take advantage of other services available in IIS 7.
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  Duration: 60 Minutes