TechNet Webcast Schedule - 2005 10

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New Webcasts: Exchange Server 2003 In Depth: Master concepts and optimize your server environment Live and on-demand webcasts available now

SP2 Week October 17-21

Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) brings a host of new enhancements for even better protection, reliability, easier administration, and significantly improved mobile messaging. Join us for this week of webcasts as our technical experts explain these enhancements in detail and show you how Exchange Server 2003 SP2 can reduce your administrative burden, up-level protection against e-mail attacks and offer a richer mobile messaging solution. Attend all four webcasts in this series by October 31 (live or on demand) and you will receive a certificate of attendance*.

14-part in-depth series starts October 26

Are you looking to get the most out of your messaging environment? Then join us for this in-depth 14-part series as we show you the ins-and-outs of Exchange Server 2003. Through the use of live product demonstrations, interactive presentations, "pop" quizzes and weekly homework assignments, our subject matter experts will help you understand key concepts which are critical for any Exchange Administrator or IT Professional to understand. Topics covered will include Managing Recipient objects, SMTP, Exchange Server Security, Troubleshooting, Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Administrative Best Practices and more!

NEW Series: A More Secure and Well-Managed Enterprise: Liberate your infrastructure Attend this series and learn how to become a dynamic IT organization and achieve operational effectiveness through delivering higher quality of service, email availability, and a more secure Windows environment. Our technical experts will help guide you through step by step instructions on how to install, configure, automate and mange a more secure and well managed infrastructure. Bonus: attend four of the five webcasts (live or on demand) in this series during the month of October and you will receive a “geek” t-shirt**.

NEW Webcasts: Scripting Week 3: Script it up a Notch

Live webcasts available October 24-28; On-demand webcasts available nowDuring Scripting Week 3, the Scripting Guys will show you how to kick your scripts up a notch (and sometimes 2 or 3 notches). Learn how to quickly modify your scripts so they run against all the computers in an OU or all the computers listed in a text file. Learn how to create output that not only has aesthetic appeal but is much easier to read and understand. Learn how to craft graphical user interfaces that feature checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdown lists, and all the other GUI controls you know and love. Learn all these things, and have a chance to win some great prizes as well. Scripting Week 3: it’s the answer to all of life’s problems. (Legal disclaimer: Scripting Week 3 is not the answer to all of life’s problems. But it can’t hurt.)

SQL Server 2005: Get ready!

Live and on-demand webcasts available nowLearn how Microsoft SQL Server 2005 can help you leverage your existing investment in business intelligence without sacrificing the ability to extend and add cutting-edge functionality. Through the use of interactive presentations and live product demos, we will step you through all the major enhancements in SQL Server 2005 to give you a head start in your plans to bring these benefits to your organization.

Master Administrative Scripting with Don Jones

Second Tuesday of every month; on-demand webcasts available now

Join us as Scripting guru Don Jones—Microsoft MVP, creator of ScriptingAnswers.com, MCSE, author, speaker, consultant, scripting geek, and all-around Windows administrator—presents timely topics targeted at administrators, helping you script better, faster, and more.

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BONUS: Attend any live webcast through November and you could win a Portable Media Center.See official rules for more details. Offer open to residents of the U.S. and Canada only.

Additional Live & On-Demand Webcast Series Available Now :

§ Active Directory

§ Ask the Security Experts

§ Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005

§ Desktop Deployment

§ Group Policy

§ IIS

§ ISA Server 2004