Insight Workshops
Microsoft IT Showcase proudly presents Insight Workshops.Offered world-wide, this fee-based offering is delivered in collaboration between Microsoft Services and Microsoft IT. Workshops provide IT professionals an opportunity to engage in peer-to-peer technology sharing in a multiple-day workshop environment, providing a unique inside view into Microsoft's process of developing, deploying and managing Microsoft enterprise solutions. Learn about the challenges Microsoft IT faces in managing its large, globally distributed environment. Through Insight Workshops, we help accelerate deployment and adoption of Microsoft technologies, share best practices around productivity gains. Register today! Who should attend?
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Workshop PortfolioUnlike training programs, Insight Workshops are interactive, offering customers the opportunity for one-on-one discussions with Microsoft IT professionals who provide a rare insider perspective into Microsoft IT, and answer customer questions in a conversational, intimate format. Workshops available now
Collaboration and Knowledge Management at MicrosoftDuration: 2-day workshops You will engage in peer-to-peer discussions with Microsoft® IT and Services professionals. In a series of guided discussions, you will receive key insights about how Microsoft enables communication and collaboration across the organization. You will also learn how Microsoft uses cross team and enterprise-wide knowledge management to make information easier to find, easier to use and easier to keep updated. The agenda includes:
Microsoft is a world-wide organization with offices and staff spanning the globe. This structure provides real challenges for staff that need to communicate, discuss and share information with their peers all over the world. Microsoft has addressed these challenges by developing products and processes that allow employees to communicate easily and share knowledge with their co-workers, no matter where they may be. By integrating Office Communications Server (OCS), Exchange 2007, and SharePoint 2007 into its daily operational practices, Microsoft is able to create a proactive environment that provides:
Top of page Desktop Deployment at MicrosoftDuration: 2-day workshops In this two-day workshop, you will engage in peer-to-peer discussions with Microsoft IT and Services professionals. In a series of guided discussions, you will receive key insights into how Microsoft planned for and executed the migration from Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Office 2003 to Windows Vista and Office Enterprise 2007. This workshop differs from other Insight Workshops because it focuses on the process to deploy new technology, instead of exploring the new technology itself. You will also learn how Microsoft manages deployment preparation, communications, support, and adoption. Workshop topics include:
Deploying a new operating system or global application across an enterprise is a challenging project, not only for those who perform the work of the organization, but also for the IT personnel who perform the task. Microsoft completed this process in early 2007 when it concurrently rolled out Windows Vista and Office Enterprise 2007 to 90,000 computers within the Microsoft organization. Hear firsthand experiences from the roll out, complete with case studies from a variety of user and technical environments. Top of page Enterprise Security & Directory Services Insight WorkshopDuration: 2-day workshops This workshop covers how Microsoft secures the enterprise through the use of enterprise directory services and key technologies, and applies robust processes and policies to manage its IT environment and identity information. Agenda includes:
Microsoft has made information access and network security primary tenets, guiding everything that the company does, both inside the organization and out. Like any enterprise, Microsoft is faced with increased demands for information in combination with more frequent and more sophisticated attacks. Microsoft IT is therefore tasked with establishing and maintaining an IT environment that is productive for customers, business partners, and its own employees and delivers maximum access while simultaneously increasing protection of both information and privacy. By using directory services and security across the enterprise, Microsoft IT is able to create a proactive IT environment that:
Top of page High Availability Messaging Insight WorkshopDuration: 2-day and 3-day workshops This workshop covers how Microsoft manages messaging and communications, uses a service-oriented approach offering availability SLAs, and ensures high security to deliver its vision of unified communications. The agenda includes:
Like any enterprise, Microsoft business relies heavily on enterprise messaging. Not only is it essential for collaboration and knowledge sharing within Microsoft, but it plays a critical role in keeping Microsoft employees connected with partners and customers. Therefore, ensuring the reliability, availability, supportability, and manageability of the messaging platform is mission critical. Proven processes around Microsoft Operations Framework helps Microsoft IT achieve these goals in a messaging environment characterized by:
Top of page Manageability Insight WorkshopDuration: 2-day workshops This workshop covers how Microsoft IT implements SMS and MOM to improve operational efficiencies and to reduce costs. Agenda includes:
Like any enterprise, Microsoft continues to demand increasing value from its IT infrastructure and investments. Using its own management products and the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF), Microsoft IT is tasked with establishing and maintaining a productive IT environment for employees that delivers effectiveness and impact, while at the same time reducing complexity and cost. Microsoft IT uses Microsoft management products such as SMS and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 running on Windows Server 2003 and the Microsoft Windows Vista™ operating system along with virtualization technologies, Service Level Agreement (SLA), and Operational Level Agreement (OLA) processes to:
Top of page New! Virtualization at MicrosoftDuration: 2-day workshops This workshop offers key insights into Microsoft's virtualization efforts and how Microsoft IT plans and executes deployment, management, and leverage of virtualization in its environment (including datacenters, branch offices, and test/development scenarios). Attendees will also participate in discussions about how virtualization is changing the way IT is managed and delivered, with specific examples and case studies drawn from Microsoft's own experiences with implementing virtualization. The agenda includes:
This workshop goes beyond a discussion of theories on how to implement and use virtualization. Attendees will hear about actual experiences from the IT managers at the cutting edge of implementing and managing virtualization in the real world. Gain key insights into:
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