Sydney - Wednesday 21 July 2010 (9am) - Theatre in Microsoft Sydney Office, North Ryde
Canberra - Thursday 22 July 2010 (9am) - Theatre in Microsoft Canberra Office, Barton
Melbourne - Friday 23 July 2010 (9am) - Exhibition in Microsoft Melbourne Office, Southbank

Synopsis:

Email and security is vital for organizations today.
In our global online economy, email is ubiquitous and often mission-critical.
Security is also paramount.

Managing Active Directory and Exchange becomes more challenging as the organizational and infrastructure requirements evolve and change.

For example do you have the following requirements within Microsoft Exchange?
- Pre-Post Migrations and Upgrades Planning, Preparation, Review
- Compliance (Admin, permissions, access, security) “Who's in Who's Mailbox”
- Metrics and Mail Flow
- Capacity Planning (Token Bloat-2003, storage growth, validate archive policies)
- Operations & Diagnostics (overall health and availability )
- Chargebacks (billing)
- Distribution list management (stale, nested, hidden)
- Public Folder management
- Correlation and auditing (baselines and configurations, O/S and AD settings)

 Do you have the following requirements within Microsoft Active Directory?
- Monitor changes (AD accounts, groups, passwords) “Who Made The Change”
- Correlation of Ownership Recertification/Entitlement Reviews
- Domain Consolidation, Maintenance and Upgrading  (identify stale and aging users, groups)
- Computer/User Domain Logons
- Group Policy Object (GPO) configuration
- Daily Operations (response time, server availability, disk space)

Now you can learn from a leading world specialist the best practices for management, diagnosis, correlation, migration, and other advanced administrative requirements and deployment architecture in Active Directory and Exchange.

The workshop includes many examples of using Active Directory, Exchange, and third-party tools such as StealthAudit to implement best practices for managing and securing these environments.

Agenda: 

9.00am - 12.30pm with coffee break

Part 1: Active Directory with Windows 2003 and 2008
1.1  Active Directory Administration Best Practices
1.2  Who can make changes to Active Directory Accounts, Groups, and Passwords?
1.3  Active Directory Architecture - Schema, Forests, Trees, Domains, Sites
1.4  Management of Group Policy, Organizational Units, Objects, Users and Groups
1.5  Advanced Security Rights, Security Practices
1.6  DNS, WINS, DHCP, LDAP Services
1.7  Active Directory Database, FSMO Roles, Global Catalog Servers
1.8  Event Logs, Registry and File System  Backup, Recovery, Management
1.9  Active Directory Provisioning, Clean-up and Maintenance
1.10  Using Native Microsoft Tools and Third-Party Tools
1.11  Preparation for AD Migration after Reorgs, Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures
1.12  Events, Alerts, Notifications, Reports

Part 2:  Exchange 2007 and  2010
2.1  Exchange Administration Best Practices
2.2  Who can make changes to Exchange Mailboxes, Storage Groups, Databases and Servers?
2.3  Exchange 2007/2010 Roles  CAS, HTS, MBX, UM, ETS
2.4  Major New Features in Exchange 2010
2.5  Exchange Clustering SCC, CCR, LCR, SCR in Exchange 2007, DAGs in Exchange 2010
2.6  Exchange Storage Groups, Databases, Mailboxes, Public Folders and Distribution Lists
2.7  Compliance:  Permissions Control, Journaling and Third-Party Archiving Validation
2.8  Exchange ActiveSync Outlook Anywhere / OMA, OWA
2.9  Exchange Operations including Health Checks and Preventative Diagnostics
2.10  Configuration Baseline and “Golden Images” 
2.11  Preparation for Exchange Migration after Reorgs, Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures
2.12  Events, Alerts, Notifications, Reports
2.13  Email Attachment Offloading especially for large or very large attachments

About the Speaker:

Charles Gafford, Senior Solutions Architect for LeadThem Consulting USA, has extensive Exchange and AD design, migration, consolidation, virtualization, and systems management experience, including the design, deployment and migration of multiple enterprise messaging systems. Technical lead, project manager, and architect lead for many complex projects for large USA and global Fortune 500 companies as well as all levels of USA Government. Experienced with many types of email systems, numerous operating systems, numerous storage systems. MCT. Numerous Microsoft, et.al. certifications.  For more details see LinkedIn.