MMCUG meeting tomorrow

Tomorrow is a Midwest Messaging and collaboration User's Group meeting.  Stop by if you have time!

Tuesday, April 15th
12:30 - 5:00 pm
Microsoft Downers Grove

Registration & Lunch (provided by PLA) 12:30-1:00 pm

1:00 – 1:15 pm

Exchange Capacity Planner Tool Demo

Jeff Rosen, Senior Consultant/Certified Architect (Ranger), Microsoft

System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) 2007 is a pre-deployment capacity planning and post-deployment change analysis solution that provides IT professionals with the guidance required to plan a new deployment in the most efficient manner, while also delivering "what-if" analysis to optimize existing implementations and plan for change.

1:15-2:30 pm
Storage Design Deep Dive for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Ross Smith, Technology Architect, Microsoft

This session provides advanced training and tools to help you design the right storage architecture for your Exchange 2007 deployment, with an emphasis on the Mailbox server role.  Expand your knowledge of ESE architecture.  Learn how to properly balance disk performance and capacity.  See the Exchange 2007 Mailbox Storage Requirements Calculator in action.  Understand Microsoft’s best practices for designing, testing, and monitoring your storage solution.  

Objectives:

Explore architectural changes in Exchange 2007 (RTM and SP1) that affect storage design

· Learn how to calculate storage requirements based on business needs and craft solutions to meet these requirements

· Understand what tools are needed to properly design, test, and monitor Exchange storage architectures

Break 2:30-2:45

2:45-3:45 pm

Microsoft SharePoint Tools for the Enterprise
Scott Jenkins, Pre-Sales System Consultant, Quest Software

SharePoint is redefining our current understanding of collaboration.  It is time to utilize SharePoint as a central interface to front-end Line of Business applications, and act as a repository for data that was formally stored in file shares, public folders and Notes databases.  Join Scott Jenkins of Quest Software as he walks through the tools available today to migrate your critical data from across the organization to SharePoint.

3:45 – 4:30 pm

Certificates and Exchange 2007 and ISA 2006
Mark Myers, Senior Consultant, Project Leadership Associates

Exchange 2007 requires certificates for authenticating and encrypting critical messaging services. The default certificate configuration with Microsoft’s Exchange 2007 is only a very basic start that is inadequate for nearly all real-world configurations. Come learn the Microsoft best-practice certificate design and real-world design and configurations from PLA. We will also cover how your certificate design and configuration will change when protecting your Exchange servers with Microsoft’s ISA 2006 reverse proxy server. In this session we will also discuss private and public-CA issued certificates and how you can design your certificates to maximize on functionality while minimizing costs to outside public Certificate Authorities (CAs).

4:30 - 4:45 pm Wrap-up and Giveaways

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