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From the Editor
Gain Insight at the IT Connections Event
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Define Strategies, Master Technologies, and Drive Change at IT Connections, October 6 - 8, 2008, San Francisco
This innovative conference for IT management features sessions, panel discussions, Q&A with IT experts, and one-of-a-kind group sessions that will help you and your staff of IT professionals align technologies to best support your strategic objectives.
IT Connections features over 30 sessions and panels with Microsoft and other industry experts addressing the challenges facing IT leadership. Bring your team of IT professional staff and get all of your team heading in the same direction. Attend two days of tracks covering a broad range of new trends and technologies from both strategic and technical perspectives. Then, on day three, interactive sessions unite managers and IT professionals across enterprises to tackle the issues that enable an agile, dynamic enterprise.
The IT Management track will feature sessions including:
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Microsoft IT Compliance: Policy, HBI, SOX, and PCI.
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Understanding and comparing virtualization technologies.
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What does cloud computing mean for your enterprise?
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Understanding the business value of Terminal Services in Windows Services 2008.
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Implementing disaster recovery in virtualization environments.
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Using Microsoft SharePoint Product and Technologies to reduce the burden on IT and empower your business.
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System Center essentials: Why you need it.
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The upcoming IT Connections conference is a unique event in one of America’s most vibrant locations. You won’t find a similar conference anywhere. Visit www.ITProConnections.com to review sessions, download our brochure, or register.
P.S. Speaking of unique gatherings for IT management, we have exciting news coming about developments of the newest online community on Microsoft based on your feedback and concerns and created especially for IT Managers here on TechNet. Stay tuned.
Best Regards,
Shawn TNG, Editor
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Optimize Platform Value
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Likewise Identity uses the Active Directory service from Microsoft to connect Windows and other systems like Linux and UNIX, with a common authentication infrastructure.
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STRATO wanted to offer its customers powerful IT outsourcing solutions and the professional environment of a high-performance computer center and became the world's first dedicated Web server hosting service to use Windows Server 2008.
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Bidding on new contracts requires drawing on millions of rows of accounting and inventory data, which had been stored on an IBM 3090 mainframe computer that was difficult and expensive to maintain.
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Caja Segovia replaces its Linux Red Hat - based e-mail system with Microsoft Exchange Server to lower management costs and improve productivity.
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IT and Business Alignment
Let’s talk more about how to control costs, while also enhancing security and compliance, and still drive agility. Take a moment to review this white paper on best practices to simplify and streamline your enterprise server infrastructure. The paper presents pillars of data center management, information protection and secure access, and secure messaging and collaboration. Complete with customer evidence and useful indicators.
Learn about how one company with 1,300 remote users applied new software to improve the overall security of their PCs, with more viruses being detected faster. At the same time, the management tools available helped to streamline IT tasks, reducing the overall cost of ownership for the security solution. See this case study on how Australia’s Travelers’ Organization Gains 90 Percent in IT Efficiency with New Antivirus Solution.
Governance and Compliance
In today’s IT environment, the ability to comply with regulations and industry standards, such as the Sarbanes Oxley Act, is a source of deep concern for many organizations. In addition, organizations need to manage risks resulting from emerging threats and changing conditions within their IT infrastructures. As a result, organizations need sound methods that they can count on to understand the state of the security settings in their IT infrastructures, assess the compliance of a security baseline, and demonstrate that compliance requirements have been met. To help organizations address these challenges, the Microsoft Security Compliance Management Toolkit was created. The toolkit provides best practices from Microsoft about how to plan, deploy, and monitor a security baseline. In addition, the toolkit provides remediation recommendations to address security baseline issues. The toolkit also offers a proven method that your organization can use to effectively monitor the compliance state of recommended security baselines for Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and Windows Server 2003 SP2.
Events
You’re Invited to the Launch of New Virtualization Products from Microsoft on September 8.
Attend the launch event and find out how Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center -- including Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Microsoft Desktop and Application Virtualization -- allow you to virtualize from the data center to the desktop, and manage with the same tools you’re already using for your physical infrastructure.
For more information or to register, visit www.microsoft.com/virtualization. Please use VIRTVIP when prompted for a registration code. Space is limited.
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Issue 45  August 5, 2008 |
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Resources
Recommended live webcasts:
Popular on-demand webcasts:
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Use the resources in this learning path to find out how to collaborate more securely |
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