Infrastructure
Windows 7: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
8:15 - 9:45 Don Donais, Benchmark Learning
Session Level: 200–Intermediate
Audience: This session will benefit those who are experienced with how Windows XP works and IT Managers. It's a must-see presentation for Support personnel.
Is your organization moving to Windows 7? This session looks at some of the major changes that have happened in the client based OS since Windows XP. Topics include information on the User Interface, Performance, Support and Security. Make sure to catch this session since it will give you the inside scoop of what is happening with the latest and greatest Microsoft Client.
Unified Communications
10:00 - 11:15 Doug Splinter, Convergent Solutions
Session Level: 100–Beginner
Audience: Anyone interested in learning more about Unified Communications
Douglas Splinter will show how Microsoft, with the release of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Exchange 2010, can make software-powered VOIP and collaboration easy for your users. Exchange 2010 is now available for businesses worldwide and is already helping organizations reduce costs, protect communications and delight email users. Streamline your communications with the ability to connect with the right person, right now and manage information overload. Microsoft Unified Communications can help you increase operational flexibility and reliability.
Getting to Know Your Indexes
1:45 - 3:00 Jason Strate, Digineer
Session Level: 300–Advanced
Audience: Anyone with an understanding of performance tuning needs and experience with database design
Without proper indexing, SQL Server can be hard pressed to create efficient and performance execution plans. Dynamic Management Views (DMV) and system views provide a slew of information about indexes that can be used to analyze indexes within SQL Server. In this session, we’ll go under the hood of SQL Server to look at DMVs and system views to know what indexes you have — should have — and how they feel about the way applications are treating them.
Goals:
1. Identify methods to analyze current and potential indexes
2. Learn how to alleviate stress found on indexes
3. Demonstrate methods for tuning indexes
Exchange 2010 Migration Best Practices
3:15 - 4:30 Mike Schwantes and
Eric Van Heel, Inetium
Session Level: 200–Intermediate
Audience: Individuals with Exchange administration and deployment skills
With the release of Exchange 2010, many organizations are preparing to migrate their existing email environment to this new solution. This session will educate and provide steps necessary to build a reliable and stable migration path into Exchange 2010. We will focus on best practices approaches, tools and the benefits of utilizing Exchange Deployment Planning Services to help propel an organization's migration.
