Entries tagged with technet radio - TechNet Edge

TechNet Radio: System Center Integrates IT Management to Support Rapid Customer Growth

erickingfrog — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:14:00 GMT

Listen to how Total Wine took advantage of Microsoft System Center solutions to automate server imaging, application and update deployment, server monitoring, and backup, relieving the need for the IT staff to manually manage store and data center servers. We also cover the Microsoft October Security Bulletins.

TechNet Radio: Mitigating Application Compatibility Issues on Windows Vista Using Shims

erickingfrog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:26:00 GMT

In this episode of TechNet Radio, we explore many of the compatibility issues that the Windows team has experienced at customer sites in the context of what we can fix without updating the application, and how to fix it. The Windows Application Compatibility Infrastructure (Shim Infrastructure) is a powerful tool for resolving compatibility issues and unblocking Windows Vista deployments, but understanding where and how to leverage and configure shims can be daunting until you learn some of the tricks and subtleties, many of which we expose! Plus, we feature another installment of our ‘tip of the week’ with Chris Avis.

TechNet Radio: Windows Essential Business Server: Deployment and Migration Best Practices

erickingfrog — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:13:00 GMT

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 is a new multi-server solution designed to meet the IT infrastructure needs of mid-size businesses. It is built on the Windows Server 2008 technologies and including key workloads of Messaging, Security, and Management. This TechNet Radio session covers best practices for deploying Windows Essential Business Server in the most common deployment and migration scenarios. We will also go into the differences between the Essential Business Server and Small Business Server platforms. Plus, we feature another installment of our ‘tip of the week’ with Chris Avis.

TechNet Radio: User Group Community

erickingfrog — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:48:00 GMT

Join this TechNet Radio session to hear about the user group community. Find out how you can get involved, and also get some tips for starting a user group in your area.

TechNet Radio: How Microsoft IT Uses Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to Improve IT Processes

erickingfrog — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:18:00 GMT

Join this TechNet Radio session to hear about the tools and benefits of using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Foundation Server for the IT engineering process. We describe the Microsoft IT long-term vision to adopt Team Foundation Server, a suite of engineering tools to facilitate planning, development, and project management activities.

TechNet Radio: September 2008 Security Bulletins

erickingfrog — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:58:00 GMT

In this episode of TechNet Radio, we feature the September 2008 Security Bulletins. We also have our 'Tip of the Week' with Chris Avis, and we introduce a new monthly segment—The TechNet Webcast Series Calendar with Shomik Ghosh.

TechNet Radio: What to look for at the PASS Community Summit 2008

erickingfrog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:58:00 GMT

The PASS Community Summit 2008 is the single largest gathering of Microsoft SQL Server professionals in the world, bringing together the entire community - from the brightest and the best, to the newest SQL Server users. Attendees receive top-rated industry advice and expertise on the best ways to develop, deploy and manage their entire SQL Server environment and will walk away with an in-depth and hands-on look at all things SQL Server. SQL CAT’s Paul Mestemaker talks with SQL Marketing Manager Roni Karassik to find out what to look for at this exciting conference.

TechNet Radio: Performance Improvements in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

erickingfrog — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:10:00 GMT

On this episode of TechNet Radio, we’ll be discussing the performance improvements in SQL Server Analysis Services, the architecture behind it, what people should expect and potential gotchas. We will also feature our first installment of a new segment on TechNet Radio – our “Tip of the Week.” Listen in for a special promo code for the upcoming SQL PASS Community Summit.

TechNet Radio: How Microsoft IT upgraded a multi-terabyte database from Yukon to Katmai

erickingfrog — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:07:00 GMT

Learn how Microsoft IT upgraded ICE 3.0, which is a 30-terabyte database, from SQL Server 2005 to a pre-release version of SQL Server 2008, code named Katmai. ICE, which stands for Information Security Consolidated Event Management System, is used by the Microsoft Information Security team to analyze network utilization events captured by various sources including over 100 proxy servers, Mail servers, Net logon servers, etc. The ICE database processes approximately 1TB of log data each day and has become a key component in the incident response process as well as forensics investigations.

The upgrade was part of Microsoft's internal Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for Katmai. The upgrade helped Microsoft become its first and best customer by using the product internally before releasing it to the outside world. Upgrading the database to Katmai enabled the Katmai product team to flush more bugs out of the product and ensure that the product will perform as intended. Hear how the multi-terabyte database upgrade was planned, tested and implemented without a database backup by following a structured, organized and methodical approach.

TechNet Radio: What’s new with Zune

erickingfrog — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:02:00 GMT

On this episode of TechNet Radio, we learn about some of the exciting new features in Zune. We talk with Rob Greenlee, Zune’s Podcast Programming Lead, about support for wireless, recommended video encoding specifications and where Zune is headed in the future.

TechNet Radio: Persistent Group Chat

erickingfrog — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:51:00 GMT

In this episode of TechNet Radio, Kevin Remde talks with Ken Ewert about what’s new in Persistent Group Chat. Persistent Group Chat is a part of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. In Persistent Group Chat, attendees can enter and exit a chat room and information remains persistent over time, which allows users to revisit a thread later to pick up information they might have missed, or use as a reference. Listen in to hear about the exciting new features of this product.

TechNet Radio: What’s new in IE8

erickingfrog — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:06:00 GMT

In this episode of TechNet Radio, Internet Explorer Program Manager Jane Maliouta answers questions about what’s new in IE8 for consumers, businesses and web developers.

TechNet Radio: Hyper-V

erickingfrog — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:58:00 GMT

In this episode of TechNet Radio, we learn about Hyper-V with Senior Product Managers Rajiv Arunkundram and Arun Jayendran. We also have our July 2008 Security Bulletin.

TechNet Radio: Microsoft Forefront Client Security

erickingfrog — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:23:00 GMT

Listen to this episode of TechNet Radio and learn more about Microsoft Forefront Client Security. We discuss how Forefront Client Security improves overall performance and also talk about support for Hyper-V.

TechNet Radio: NAP Deployment from a Customer Perspective

erickingfrog — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:40:00 GMT

Hear Microsoft customers talk about how they deployed Network Access Protection (NAP) within their organizations. In this TechNet Radio session, Kevin Remde and Jeff Sigman talk with Chris Boscolo of Napera Networks, Alex Chalmers of Ball State University, and Pattabhi Attaluri of Avenda Systems.

TechNet Radio: Microsoft Forefront Codename “Stirling” Overview (Part 2 of 2)

erickingfrog — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:06:00 GMT

In the second part of our overview on Microsoft Forefront codename “Stirling,” we cover the next-generation versions of Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, and Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server (ISA), which is to be renamed the Forefront Threat Management Gateway. We also have our June 2008 Security Bulletin.

TechNet Radio: Microsoft Forefront Codename “Stirling” Overview (Part 1 of 2)

erickingfrog — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:56:00 GMT

Microsoft Forefront codename “Stirling” is an integrated security system that delivers comprehensive, coordinated protection across endpoints, messaging, and collaboration applications. It also provide the network edge that is easier to manage and control. By delivering simplified management and providing critical visibility into threats, vulnerabilities, and configuration risks, “Stirling” helps you reduce costs and achieve greater insight into your enterprise security state. Attend this session to get an overview of this new security system from Microsoft.

TechNet Radio: How Microsoft IT Approached the Deployment of Microsoft Application Virtualization v4

erickingfrog — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:16:00 GMT

Learn how Microsoft IT implemented Microsoft Application Virtualization version 4.5, formerly known as SoftGrid Application Virtualization. Hear the benefits of application virtualization within our environment, as well as some of the technical limitations of the product, from a software deployment perspective.

TechNet Radio: How Microsoft IT Leverages SQL Server 2008 SSIS Dataflow Engine Enhancements

erickingfrog — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:48:00 GMT

The Information Security Consolidated Event Management (ICE) system is a more than 30-terabyte data warehouse used by the Microsoft Information Security team to analyze network utilization events captured by various sources, including over 100 proxy servers, mail servers, Net logon servers, etc. The ICE database processes approximately 1 terabyte of log data each day and it has become a key component in the incident response process, in addition to forensics investigations. Analysis of the proxy data has empowered the Microsoft Information Security team to identify and remediate numerous security issues that would have gone undetected otherwise.

ICE version 4.0 is an ambitious project set to deliver almost real-time data and high-query performance to the security team using Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Moreover, ICE 4.0 is also designed to perform all sorts of data filtering and transformation during the data-loading process, so the schema of data stored in ICE is tailored for investigation analysis/reporting needs. An Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube is built on top of the ICE data warehouse to facilitate aggregated queries. Join this session to learn how enhancements to the Microsoft SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) 2008 dataflow engine have significantly improved the performance of loading, filtering and transforming 1 terabyte of network log data into the ICE data warehouse.

TechNet Radio: Leveraging the Windows Live Platform for Your Organization

erickingfrog — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:27:00 GMT

Listen to TechNet Radio and learn how you can leverage the benefits of the Windows Live platform for your organization. We discuss Windows Live ID; Microsoft Silverlight Streaming; and the Windows Live Admin Center, which allows you to manage a slice of Windows Live. We also have our May 2008 Security Bulletin.

TechNet Radio: Get More Security and Control with Mobile Device Manager

erickingfrog — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:55:00 GMT

In this TechNet Radio session, learn how you can improve secure access to corporate data and line-of-business (LOB) applications and simplify management of Windows Mobile powered devices with Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager. We explain how System Center Mobile Device Manager provides integration into Active Directory, rich inventory and reporting tools, secure virtual private network (VPN) access, and more.

TechNet Radio: How Microsoft IT Uses System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Hea

erickingfrog — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:21:00 GMT

In this TechNet Radio session, you learn how Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 ensures that computers connecting to or communicating on the network meet the organization's requirements for system health. By implementing System Center Operations Manager 2007, Microsoft IT is able to enforce security and compliance, as well as target policies to specific forest and domains within Microsoft.

TechNet Radio: Extend Network Access Protection Using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

erickingfrog — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:02:00 GMT

Learn how Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager can extend the capabilities of the Network Access Protection (NAP) feature in Windows Server 2008. Jeff Wettlaufer, System Center technical product manager, interviews Jeff Sigman, senior program manager for NAP, in this episode of TechNet Radio.

TechNet Radio: System Center and the Data Center

erickingfrog — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:49:00 GMT

Learn more about how the Microsoft System Center Family of products can integrate into typical data center-centric tasks such as: planning, consolidation, deployment automation, updating and patch management, health and performance monitoring, data backup and protection, and regulatory compliance, as well as more about the role of virtualization. Dave Morehouse, Sr. Product Manager System Center Marketing interviews Jeff Wettlaufer, Technical Product Manager System Center Marketing.

TechNet Radio: Heroes Happen Here Launch in Seattle Part Two

erickingfrog — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:08:00 GMT

On this episode of TechNet Radio, we talk with customers at the April 1 Heroes Happen Here launch event in Seattle, WA. Tune in and hear what attendees are excited about and what you can expect at a launch event in your area. We also have our April 2008 Security Bulletin.