MOM & SMS Webcasts for December
Microsoft Webcast: Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup with Data Protection Manager and CommVault
Thursday, December 08, 2005 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Randy De Meno, Director of Advanced Applications & Microsoft Partnership, CommVault
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006 is a server software application designed from the ground up to optimize disk-based backup and recovery. With DPM, recovering information is as simple as browsing a share and copying directly from the DPM to the production server. DPM provides several unique capabilities, including rapid and reliable recovery, efficient and near-continuous protection, and operational simplicity. In this webcast, learn how Microsoft is partnering with CommVault to deliver an integrated disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery solution, extending the traditional disk-to-disk-to-tape scenario by offering freedom to recover the data regardless of media type and where it originated.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032284685&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: A More Secure and Well-Managed Infrastructure (Part 14 of 18): SMS 2003 Software and Patch Management (Level 300)
Friday, December 2, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
John Baker, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Continuing on from the points addressed in our previous webcast, this webcast session shows how to use Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS 2003) for patch management and software management. Learn how to use this product and how SMS 2003 can help you deploy software and patches to numerous locations.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032282175&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: A More Secure and Well-Managed Infrastructure (Part 15 of 18): Automating Desktop Configuration with SMS 2003 OSD (Level 300)
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
John Baker, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Open Software Description (OSD) is an Extensible Markup Language technology that describes software components and their relationships to other components. The OSD vocabulary is a standardized way to describe software components, their versions, their underlying structures and their dependence on other components. Concluding this series-within-a-series about Microsoft Systems Management Server, this webcast shows how to use the OSD to enable organizations to deploy a standard set of desktop operating systems.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032282177&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: A More Secure and Well-Managed Infrastructure (Part 16 of 18): Using MOM to Monitor Your Environment (Level 300)
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
John Baker, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Adding servers to an environment to add business value might seem easy, but you must consider the costs of keeping all those servers running, secure and up to date. This webcast presents an example organization that has chosen Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) to help manage a rapidly growing network. This webcast and the one to follow examine how our example organization leveraged MOM and the MOM Management packs to reduce management overhead. See how our example organization monitors its servers worldwide, how the design points for deploying MOM were chosen, how the server locations were decided and how all servers were monitored.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032282180&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Planning and Deploying Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 (Level 200)
Monday, December 12, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Chris Avis, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Planning and deploying your Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 environment helps to ensure that your installation is a success. This webcast presents the best practices for deployment and introduces the tools available to assist you with your SMS 2003 installation. This webcast demonstrates the Capacity Planner tool in SMS 2003 that can help model the topology of your proposed SMS site and suggest appropriate configurations for your SMS site systems.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032285708&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: A More Secure and Well-Managed Infrastructure (Part 17 of 18): Using MOM Management Packs to Monitor Your Environment (Level 300)
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
John Baker, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Continuing from the previous webcast, this webcast shows how our example organization used Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) to manage its environment. This installment examines a variety of management packs to monitor Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration, Sybari Antigen and third-party servers.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032282182&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Planning and Deploying Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 (Level 200)
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Pacific Time
Chris Avis, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Join this webcast for a complete look at Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, whether you are upgrading or newly installing a MOM 2005 management solution. Learn about MOM 2005 features and components, deployment topologies and scenarios, planning considerations, upgrade tips, and security settings.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032285727&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Troubleshooting Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 (Level 200)
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Chris Avis, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Troubleshooting Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 installations can be a difficult task unless you know where to look and what to look for. This webcast examines some of the common problems you are likely to encounter in SMS 2003 environments and provides straightforward solutions with practical demonstrations. We cover issues involving both management points and Advanced Clients, including troubleshooting steps you can use to identify specific problems and techniques for resolving the issues you find.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032285730&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: System Center Capacity Planner 2006 Overview (Level 200)
Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time
Chris Avis, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2006 provides you with state-of-the-art tools and guidance to help you create a system architecture model for deploying a Microsoft server application, such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. Tune in to this webcast to learn more about the capabilities and features of System Center Capacity Planner 2006, and find out how it can help you plan and implement a successful deployment.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032285733&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 for Active Directory (Level 200)
Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Pacific Time
Kevin Remde, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
This webcast presents the Active Directory Management Pack in Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, a valuable tool for monitoring events that are placed in the Application, System, and Directory Service event logs by various components and subsystems of Microsoft Active Directory directory services. This management pack provides important information in the areas of trending, user account problems, configuration, and service level availability. It also monitors the overall health of Active Directory and alerts you to critical performance issues. The Active Directory Management Pack is designed to provide monitoring information for most implementations of Active Directory. Join this webcast to explore the various monitoring scenarios.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032285738&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Performance and Sizing (Level 200)
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Pacific Time
Chris Avis, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
This webcast explains how the configuration of key components in the Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 architecture affects the performance of the monitoring environment as a whole. Join us to find out what the support limits are for MOM 2005 configurations and understand the reasons behind them. We conclude by showing common MOM problems that affect performance and the solutions to these problems.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032285743&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Securing Your Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Environment (Level 200)
Monday, December 19, 2005 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Pacific Time
Chris Avis, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Get an overview of security management and learn about the new security features that have been added to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. In particular, this webcast introduces you to an important new scenario in MOM 2005, trusted monitoring. Discover how to secure your MOM 2005 deployments from the MOM management (server-side) and the MOM agent (client-side) perspectives.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032285801&Culture=en-US