 |  |  | Business Intelligence | Using the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-Ins for the 2007 Microsoft Office System | The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-Ins enables organizations make predictive analysis accessible to any business user, empowering them to harness the sophisticated data mining capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services within the familiar environment of Office.
This lab walks you through the usage of the three add-ins covering the tasks of
1) performing common analysis on spreadsheet data,
2) managing the full data mining model building and usage lifecycle within Office Excel, and
3) visualizing annotating your data mining models using Office Visio. |
| Business Planning with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
| Office PerformancePoint Server is a performance management solution that allows for continuous business improvement through planning, monitoring, and analyzing your organization. The planning for PerformancePoint Server provides the ability to examine what will happen and what you want to happen by allowing analysts to take past and present information to plan for the future.
In this lab, get hands-on experience on using planning to:
- Create a model Use the rule builder to create a financial calculation
- Publish view to Excel for use Input values to create a plan
- Refresh plan to review results |
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| Office System | What's New in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Feature Walkthrough | Learn about the new features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, including integration points with 2007 Microsoft Office system programs. |
| Understanding the 2007 Microsoft Office System User Experience and Interface Design
| The objective of this lab is to become familiar with the new 2007 Microsoft Office system programs' user interface. |
| | Understanding the Structure and Solution Capabilities of the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats | The objective of this lab is to help you become familiar with the new 2007 Microsoft Office system programs' file formats. During this lab, examine sample documents for each of the 2007 Office system programs that implement the Microsoft Office Open XML Format. Also, learn how you can edit documents by directly manipulating files without the use of the Microsoft Office programs. |
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| Management and Operations | Introduction to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 | Learn how System Center Operations Manager 2007 allows you to monitor individual components such as Web sites and how you can combine these individual components in the Operations Manager 2007 Service Designer to monitor your line-of-business service. We introduce you to some of the new Operations Manager concepts and how they provide a smarter management system to manage your line-of-business applications. |
| Microsoft SoftGrid: Sequence It for Yourself
| This session covers the process required to transform installed applications into Virtual Applications. During the lab, learn how to sequence an application using best practices. |
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| Security | Microsoft Forefront Client Security | Microsoft Forefront Client Security is a new security product that Microsoft is releasing to help protect business desktops, laptops, and servers from emerging threats such as spyware and rootkits, as well as viruses and other traditional attacks. This session gives you the ability to get hands-on with the new product. Learn how to deploy a client side policy, get signature updates, vew alerts, and run reports. |
| Protecting Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Forefront Security for SharePoint
| In this lab, learn how to use Forefront Security for SharePoint to protect Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 against viruses and inappropriate content. The lab covers scanning document libraries for viruses, file and keyword filtering, updating scan engines, and managing and configuring Forefront Security for SharePiont in real-world scenarios. |
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| Unified Communication | Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication | In this lab, learn how to use Exchange Server 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication. Gain hands-on experience by configuring Windows Server 2003 Cluster Services Exercise, installing and configuring Active and Passive Exchange Server 2007, and moving Exchange Server 2007 resources between cluster nodes. |
| Using Microsoft Operations Manager in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Environment
| In this lab, learn how to use Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) in an Exchange Server 2007 environment. Gain hands-on experience by configuring MOM 2005 for Exchange Server 2007 operations tasks, using the MOM 2005 Operator Console, and configuring alert notifications. |
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| Web Development and Infrastructure | Introduction to Silverlight | Silverlight is a cross platform UI framework for creating compelling Web experiences. Come learn the high-level architecture of Silverlight and the tools that are available to build Silverlight applications. |
| Building Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 Extensions
| IIS7 introduces an unprecedented degree of extensibility allowing developers to customize not only the HTTP runtime, but the IIS configuration schema and management interfaces as well. Furthermore, developers can build extensions quickly with public APIs for both .NET and Visual C/C++ development. This lab demonstrates the end-to-end extensibility of IIS7 with a .NET extension to the IIS7 request processing pipeline. |
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| Windows Client | Managing Microsoft Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" and Windows Vista Using Group Policy | In this lab, learn how to use new Group Policy features and settings introduced in Windows Vista and Windows Server codename "Longhorn". First, configure multiple local group policy objects on a Windows Vista client computer, then investigate the format of ADMX and ADML files. Next, create a group policy central store. Finally, configure some of the new settings that can be use to manage Windows Vista and Windows Server codename "Longhorn." |
| Managing Microsoft Windows Vista Using New Management Technologies
| In this lab, use a Windows Vista client computer to manage a Windows Server codename "Longhorn" computer using new Windows Vista management technologies. From your Windows Vista client, use event log views and event log subscriptions to identify problems occurring on your server. Then, create custom tasks to alert you when specific problems occur on the server. Finally, review server performance and reliability data using custom reports. |
| | Writing Gadgets for Microsoft Windows SideShow (C#) | Learn how to use the new Windows SideShow APIs in Windows Vista to display data from the PC on connected devices. The lab walks you through the introductory steps of getting started using the APIs and tools, including the provided software simulator. The lab shows you how to install and register your gadget for Windows SideShow to then be able to take data from the PC and send and manage this data on devices. By the end of this lab, you should be able to write a simple stand alone gadget to pull data from any source and send it down to devices compatible with Windows SideShow. |
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| Windows Server Infrastructure | Introduction to Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" Core | For many businesses, maintaining remote locations generates significant operational costs and administrative challenges. Although businesses are well aware of these issues, they are often constrained by one simple prerequisite distributed networks. Ultimately, the inherent limitations of distributed network architectures WANs have an undesirable effect on the efficient operation of branch offices. This scenario focuses on the security, management, and communication improvements that will mitigate these issues for branch offices where Windows Server codename “Longhorn” is deployed. |
| Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
| Join this session to learn with hands-on exercises how to set-up a Windows Compute Cluster Server with a head node and compute nodes. Learn to integrate into existing Windows infrastructure such as Active Directory. And, learn how to integrate Microsoft Message Passing Interface and Job Scheduler to your application. |
| | Information Protection with Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) | Use RMS to protect business confidential information. In this lab, learn to set up the RMS infrastructure, leverage best practices, provision and deprovision users, and use the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. |
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| SOA and web services | Microsoft BizTalk Server: Creating an Orchestration | In this lab, use BizTalk Orchestration Designer to create and test a simple orchestration. Then, add additional shapes to the orchestration to add correlation and parallel actions. Finally, build and test the application. After completing this lab, you will be able to:
- Add a schema and a map to an existing project
- Create an orchestration
- Add correlation and parallel actions to the orchestration
- Start and test the orchestration
- Build and deploy the orchestration project
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| Workflow Enabled Services and Other New Features in the .NET Framework 3.5
| This lab introduces you to new features in the .NET Framework 3.5 for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). The lab uses a pre-release version of Visual Studio codename “Orcas” and a pre-release version of the .NET Framework 3.5 and you are guided through the developer experience of working with the newest parts of these technologies for the first time. |
| | Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Introductory Lab | This lab introduces you to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and how you can use it for messaging and other distributed communications in a .NET Framework application. The lab assumes you have six months of .NET Framework development experience and walks you through a simple scenario for using Windows Communication Foundation |
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