TechNet Webcast Series: Agility Now
Tune into a special webcast series detailing steps on how you can grow your
IT organization into a more flexible and integrated system. As IT
organizations have become more geographically dispersed and individual roles
more specialized, some IT professionals have found it increasingly difficult
to collaborate across roles and conduct typical management and maintenance
tasks in areas such as deployment, user management, messaging, and security.
Hear from subject matter experts as they provide scenario-based solutions for
infrastructure management, identity and access management, data protection,
and client consistency, and answer your questions about improving your
organization’s infrastructure.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/takecontrol.mspx

TechNet Webcast: Agility Now (Part 02 of 10): Making Identity and Access
Management a Reality (Level 200)
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
9:30 A.M.–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
As network structures expand, IT administrators and managers face an
increasing danger of losing control over their IT environments. Each server
and resource that appears on the network must be managed by an individual,
which can result in many different accounts that follow different password
standards. This second webcast in our series looks at an example scenario at
a fictional company in which some departments rely upon computers running
Linux to provide certain services, and need a central platform for single
sign-on to maintain them. Learn how Active Directory can be ful in
addressing these challenges, and see how to design and implement an Active
Directory environment that meets the company's needs. We also show how to use
a security template and other useful tools to achieve a "Standardized" level
of infrastructure optimization

TechNet Webcast: Agility Now (Part 03 of 10): Making Identity and Access
Management a Reality with Successful Implementation (Level 200)
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
9:30 A.M.–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
In part three, we expand on the concepts presented in the previous webcast
by showing how to move from a "standardized" to a "dynamic" infrastructure.
Continuing with our example scenario, we show how a fictional company,
Contoso, achieves the single sign-on (SSO) requirement with minimal
complexity and cost. We illustrate several key objectives of the dynamic
infrastructure, such as applying Group Policy and enabling enhanced control
of desktops. Learn how to implement Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS)
for inventory, security, and patch management, and how to deploy Microsoft
Identity Integration Server (MIIS) to integrate computers running the Linux
operating system with SSO.


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Demorie Crowe
Core Infrastructure Optimization
www.microsoft.com/io