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Day One
Classes
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Cloud Computing Essentials for IT Pros
Instructor: Kevin Remde, Microsoft
Cloud computing is emerging as a promising IT service delivery vehicle.
But is the question “To cloud or not to cloud”?
For IT professionals and your IT organizations, it is
crucial to recognize the opportunities and play a key role in the
transformation from existing infrastructure-focused IT into a
service-oriented, user-centric, and IT-as-a-Service environment. Are you
ready for the challenge to lead and transform your IT organization?
This session will clarify the myths and provide
pertinent information on cloud computing from a business and IT
professional’s viewpoint. We will review the architectures and examine the
service delivery models of cloud computing while stepping through business
scenarios and operations of employing public cloud and private cloud. |
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Exchange 2010
Instructors: Brian Lewis, Microsoft
Learn about Exchange Server and what changes have been made to
support your users. We will take a look at the changes that have been made
to both the server and the Outlook client to understand what productivity
changes have been made for both users and administrators. |
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Google Apps
Instructors: Mike Moutray, Midland School District
Google Apps' advanced collaboration and communication tools make it
easy to help your students and employees acquire the skills that will help
them soar, in their education, in the workplace, and out in the world. |
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HP Imaging and Printing: Innovation and Reliability from
the World's Number One Business Printers
Instructors: Todd Meyer, HP
HP Imaging and Printing, Innovation and reliability from the World's
number one business printers.
A technical overview of Hp's unmatched line of printing and imaging
products. Learn how to save money on printing and utilize HP's print
management solutions to create greater efficiency in your printing
environment. Learn about green initiatives and printing consolidation with
multifunction solutions |
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HP Systems: A Technical Review of Desktop, Mobile
Computing and Workstations
Instructors: Dave Schaffer, Sal Imami, HP
A technical discussion with HP product experts of new an existing
offerings from HP, notebooks, tablets, monitors as well as desktop and
workstation solutions for education, government and business. |
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Introduction to Virtualization Technologies
Instructors: Dave Zolnier, Heartland Business Systems
What are your school district’s virtualization strategies? Come join
David Zolnier and Heartland Business Systems for a special learning event
focused on Virtualization strategies and best practices. David most recently
spent the past 3 years as the CIO in Indian Prairie School District #204 and
will share his insight and experience with virtualizing servers and
deploying virtual desktops into a K-12 environment.
In addition, this session will educate you on all aspects of what
virtualization practices can do to help school districts from an automation,
efficiency, manageability, and long-term ROI perspective. David will also
share strategies around utilizing these solutions to increase response time
and customer service, even in an environment of challenged budgets and
overworked staff. |
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Microsoft's Cloud Offerings - Business Productivity
Online Suite & Office 365
Instructors: Jeff Khan, Leapfrog Technology Partners
What’s all this talk about cloud solutions? Join us for an
understanding of what it means, how it works, and see if it’s right for your
organization.
Say hello to the next generation of cloud services from Microsoft. You now
have the power to enable your people to work from virtually anywhere,
anytime, and on any device with simple solutions, with little infrastructure
of your own. Already 40 million people use Microsoft Online Services to give
them a quick path to leveraging enterprise caliber services, without the
enterprise infrastructure. We will cover the current products offered in
BPOS, the plans, and we’ll show you how simple it is to setup new users,
configure email, corporate instant messaging, Live Meeting for web
conferences, as well as how to quickly create internal company websites
using SharePoint. We will also offer any attendees a 30 day trial of the
BPOS solution for those who would like to dive in and be hands on. |
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Next Generation Desktop Management
Instructors: Joshua Chase, Sedona Technologies
This class will focus on taking the next steps in desktop
management; from centralized desktop virtualization to proactive management
of existing desktop infrastructures. |
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Open Lines of Communication with the Everything HelpDesk
Instructors: Shea Miller, GroupLink
Is there a lack of communication between you and your end users?
Attend this session to learn how everything HelpDesk can open the
communication lines between your IT department and your end users. It gives
the end users an easy online form to fill out for help desk requests that
allows them to follow the progress of their help desk ticket and receive
automated updates. Also, learn how you can simplify your help desk
technician's workload by automating the routine tasks of updating, tracking,
and closing help desk tickets. Come see how this fully web-based solution
can benefit you! |
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SQL Performance Tuning
Instructors: Laszlo Acs, Novanis
More and more organizations rely on SQL databases. Inadequate
performance can have a significant cost impact on your business. But trying
to tune a Microsoft SQL Server can be a daunting task.
The default settings of an SQL Server
database instance may not be good enough for your environment. But there are
best practices that could make your database scream.
Get the latest hardware and memory
recommendations. Learn about SQL statement optimization. Find out how to
configure your database to perform well at peak loads. |
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System Center Essentials: Stop Putting Out Fires and
Take Proactive Control
Instructors: Jeff Khan, Leapfrog Technology Partners
Integrated Management for Small-to-Medium-Size Enterprises
If you’re responsible for managing less than 500 clients and 50 servers,
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 is the ideal solution for your
organization. In this session, you’ll learn how to proactively and
efficiently oversee your complete IT environment.
We’ll also take a comprehensive look at the capabilities Essentials 2010
provides for more effective infrastructure management. Whether it’s
monitoring, troubleshooting, asset tracking or distributing software that’s
causing on-the-job headaches, join us and see how Essentials 2010 can help.
This session will change the way you monitor your environment. With Systems
Center Essentials you can have a unified solution with a single console for
managing your entire environment. Systems Center enables you to proactively
manage your IT environment, helping keep your systems up-to-date with a
solution that accelerates problem resolution.
If you want to quickly learn how to properly and efficiently run your
environment, don't miss this session! |
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Tablet PC Depoloyment Strategies
Instructors: Mark Mulliner, School Technology Services
With tablet PC's becoming more common in the work place, how do you
deploy and manage those devices? This session will demonstrate the
deployment and management of tablet PC's in the work place. In the mobile
iOS world there is a need to be concerned with Inventory, Configuration,
Security and Application Distribution. We will also show how to deal with
each of these areas. |
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Ubuntu Linux
Instructors: Mike Moutray, Midland School District
Ubuntu is a Linux Computer Operating system that is a powerful
alternative to Windows operating systems. The workshop will introduce the
capabilities and advantages of Ubuntu. You will also be instructed on how to
acquire and install the operating system. Best of all Ubuntu and thousands
of software programs are free! |
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Instructors: Scott Armstrong, Kishwaukee College
Virtualization and thin clients to simplify desktop application
delivery and reduce costs. VDI solutions considered by Kishwaukee College,
benefits, surprises, and if we could do it all over again now that
technologies have changed. |
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Windows 7: Tips and Best Practices for Migration
Instructors: Brian Lewis, Microsoft
With Windows XP already in the extended support stage, and many
organizations choosing to skip Vista as an interim step, Windows 7 is the
next move for many organizations. Migrating to a new operating system can
hold as many questions and challenges as it does potential rewards. This
session outlines the new features of Windows 7, reveals the potential
deployment challenges, and can help the transition run smoothly. |
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Windows Azure
Instructors: Kevin Remde, Microsoft
The Windows Azure Platform is an internet-scale cloud services
platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating
system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or
together. Windows Azure however is not only for developers writing globally
scalable cloud applications.
There are IT decisions to make for integrating, virtualizing, and optimizing
existing and deployed resources. For IT professionals, Windows Azure
presents a unique opportunity to substantiate existing infrastructure
investments with PaaS, i.e. Platform as a Service, and extend enterprise
computing securely into public cloud.
The purpose of this session is to bring experienced IT professionals on
board with Windows Azure by examining its key components including:
architecture, computing model, deployment, and VM Role from an IT
professional's viewpoint. |
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Day Two Classes
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Data Protection with Dell/Equallogic Storage
Instructor: Brian Bogel, VR6 Systems
Both Physical and Virtual environments share the same concern for data
availability and protection. The use of snapshot technology can improve
backup and recovery processes. This session will demonstrate a live iSCSI
SAN deployment and techniques for backing up and restoring VMware and
Windows specific environments. |
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Free Mail for Students
Instructor: Scott Armstrong, Kishwaukee College
Google and Microsoft both offer free, hosted E-mail solutions for .edu
environments. Find out how to implement these in your school. |
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HP Networking: Innovative Networking Solutions from HP
Instructor: Jeff Szczerbinski, HP
A presentation of HP's combined networking product portfolio, Procurve,
3com, H3C and TippingPoint. HP offers and expanded line of networking
capabilities which offer solutions from the core to the edge as well as
solutions for Mobility and Wireless and security solutions from Tippingpoint. |
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HP Servers
Instructor: Dan Molnar, HP
Drive business innovation and eliminate sprawl with HP's industry leading
server solutions. |
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HP Storage: Improve Flexibility, Efficiency and Business
Continuity
Instructor: Alan Croft, Bill Patzner, HP
Discover solutions that allow you to Improve storage performance, Increase
storage efficiency and Enhance storage resources as well as Manage
multivendor environments and prepare for data protection and disaster
recovery. HP offers a full line of storage products that address your
business continuity and availability needs. |
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Lync 2010
Instructor: Brian Lewis, Microsoft
The latest version of Office Communication Server is a best in class
communication and collaboration service. Come see what the office of the
future is today and what it take to get this technology up and running. |
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Practical Aspects of Virtualization
Instructor: Randall Sayles, Cybernetics
We will go over practical aspects of virtualizing a 24 server environment
considering equipment, configuration, best practices and system/software
features. We will do a case study of a 24 server environment. This will not
be an infomercial. |
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Small Business Server 2011: Enterprise Reliability with
a Small Business Price Tag
Instructor: Jeff Khan, Leapfrog Technology Partners
Learn How SBS 2011 Will Run Your Environment Efficiently
Find out why Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 is perfect
for medium businesses with less than 75 users. This session examines and
debunks some of the common myths regarding the reliability and scalability
of Small Business Server environments.
We discuss scenarios that use SBS for the most complex
server workloads such as multi-server environments, line of business
applications, Exchange, SharePoint, Terminal Services, remote web workplace,
server and client backups, administrative alerts, and mobile device support.
We’ll explain the differences between Standard and Premium Edition as well
as how to configure and setup the product. We want to provide you an
opportunity to hear more about this product, how customers are using it, and
how you can implement successful SMB solutions. |
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Windows 7 Lite Touch Deployment
Instructor: Jeff Khan, Leapfrog Technology Partners
Learn how we’ve deployed 1000 machines in under ten minutes with free
Microsoft solutions!Every organization from 5
machines to 5000 machines should be using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
to deploy Windows 7. We will also talk about leveraging the same technology
to deploy new server operating systems as well. MDT 2010 is the latest
solution accelerator supporting Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 deployment.
In this session, we will walk you through all the
tasks required to create a customized Windows 7 based image and then to use
the MDT 2010 to deploy this image to a small to medium sized company
environment. Learn how to use Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) to
create a Windows PE boot image with all of the necessary drivers and
applications. We will cover installation, configuration of the tools, and
we’ll do a live deployment of our completed Windows 7 image, including
Office 2010, Acrobat Reader, Flash, and more.
Do not miss this session even if you already have
started your Windows 7 deployments – what we cover in this session will give
you a step by step path to deploy Windows 7 now and to re image them as
needed. Throughout this session, we’ll cover a case study on how we used
this method to deploy 987 machines in 31 minutes, for a total of over 2,000
machines in one day. |
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Windows Phone 7 for IT Pros
Instructor: Brian Lewis, Microsoft
Windows Phone 7 is an excellent mobile platform for applications and
supporting your knowledge workers remotely. Come see what Windows Phone 7
has to offer and what it takes to manage your users phones in the
enterprise. Further we will look at the product roadmap for Windows Phone
and see some of what we can expect in the future. |
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Your PRIVATE Cloud: What, Why and How
Instructor: Kevin Remde (Microsoft)
Cloud computing - with its attributes such as pooled computing resources,
automated management, scalability, and on-demand provisioning - is a unique
and powerful opportunity to transform enterprise IT from a device-dependent
and infrastructure-focused deployment into more of a business-user-centric,
service-oriented delivery vehicle. For enterprises, the roadmap of truly
dynamic IT-as-a-Service is by means of a common management framework and a
private cloud.
This session presents the criteria, examines
strategies, and walks through the processes of assessing and constructing
your own private cloud, with demonstrations on delivering and managing
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in an enterprise setting. |
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Your PUBLIC Cloud: What, Why and How
Instructor: Kevin Remde (Microsoft)
Instead of having to worry about the plumbing, the public cloud gives IT
the power to focus on the business, and gives you ability to scale up or
down resource capacities based upon business demands. With a
pay-just-for-what-you-use business model, IT won’t be wasting money on
providing services you once thought you might need but never got around to
using.
This session demonstrates employing the public cloud;
allowing your information workers to do their jobs while IT is realizing
benefits on a daily basis. |
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Online Registration is
closed.
On-Site Registration is still available. |
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Anyone interested can contact : IVNUA
President |
