Events/WebCasts

1 May 2007, Leeds: Windows Vista After Hours
You may be familiar with Windows Vista at work - whether you have deployed it, or are evaluating it - but have you ever thought about the possibilities of Vista outside of work? This session, aimed at IT professionals, explores not only the built-in elements of Vista, such as Search, Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker and the Networking & Sharing Center, but also how you can extend your Windows Vista Experience, with Windows Media Center, Xbox 360 and specific applications to open up a new world of gaming and home entertainment.
01 May 2007, Leeds: An Introduction and Overview of Microsoft Licensing

Licensing can be confusing - but it needn't be. Attend this course to understand Microsoft Licensing and how to best apply it in your company to fit in with your business needs. This session is aimed at IT professionals who wish to gain a better understanding of Microsoft's Software Licensing. The briefing assumes no previous in-depth or technical licensing experience.
3 May 2007, Reading: Windows Vista After Hours

You may be familiar with Windows Vista at work - whether you have deployed it, or are evaluating it, but have you ever thought about the possibilities of Vista outside of work? This session, aimed at IT professionals, explores not only the built in elements of Vista, such as Search, Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, and the Networking & Sharing Center, but also how you can extend your Windows Vista Experience, with Windows Media Center, Xbox 360 and specific applications to open up a new world of gaming and home entertainment.           

22 May 2007, Edinburgh: Vista Deployment Using BitLocker Encryption to Protect Mobile Data - How to Keep Secrets

Windows Vista's BitLocker feature provides the means for you to secure data and ensure the integrity of your mobile systems like never before. In a lab it's a wonderful thing. This session will show you how to take advantage of BitLocker in a production environment.
22 May 2007, Reading: Windows Powershell for IT Administrators

In this session, we'll introduce you to Windows Powershell: what it is and what you can do with it. We'll take a look at how you can use the shell to perform day-to-day administrative tasks. We'll start with a basic overview of shell concepts, commands, cmdlets and how to construct them, then move on to build more complex scripts, before rounding up with ways to administer windows using some of the reporting facilities available in the shell.

29 May 2007, Manchester: Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies

Windows Vista features new system integrity technologies including code integrity, secure start-up, service hardening, mandatory integrity control and Internet Explorer protected mode. In this session, Steve Lamb explains how these technologies work.

31 May 2007, Reading: Vista Deployment Using Group Policy in Windows Vista to Control User Behaviour and Network Security
Ever feel that your existing operating system just didn't have enough Group Policy Objects? For your delectation we've added a whole host more. During this session we'll take a look at the new XML based Administrative Templates and how to gain control of your environment using the powerful new features of Windows Vista.

20 June 2007, Manchester: Everything you Wanted to Know About Imaging Vista But Were Afraid to Ask
At this TechNet event you'll find out how to deploy Windows Vista. We'll look at the new installation processes and tools, and show you how to capture an image, modify it and deploy it onto client computers. Come along and find out just how powerful Windows Vista can be for you.

12 June 2007, Reading: An Overview of Windows Server codename "Longhorn"

In this session, we will look at the new Windows Server operating system, code named 'Longhorn'. Right now this product is in the beta phase, with many of the final features and components present and functional. We'll look at some of the new core operating system features, and see how they enhance productivity and enhance performance. We'll look at some new security improvements. We will also discuss a new feature called Network Access Protection and explain its uses. Finally we will look at the changes Terminal Services has undergone with some significant changes and improvements over previous versions of Windows.

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David