Add the Most Anticipated TechMentor Sessions to Your SF Agenda

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Your peers are already saving their spots for TechMentor San Francisco (March 30-April 3 at the Moscone Center West). Check out the top twenty sessions—the ones most visited on our conference Web site—then, add these interesting topics to your agenda for SF.

Don’t forget, our Early Bird Deadline of March 5th is right around the corner—it’s the last day to save $200 AND claim your free Ultimate USB Security Stick. Register online today at www.techmentorevents.com/sf or call (800) 280-6218 to speak to a customer service representative. To take advantage of this special San Francisco deal, be sure to mention Priority Code TMTOP.

• Top 20 San Francisco Sessions
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Top 20 SF Sessions Chosen by Your Peers

Windows Server Technologies – Top Picks

Managing DNS in a Server 2008 Active Directory Environment
Rhonda Layfield
DNS is possibly the most important technology in your environment, without it bad things happen to Active Directory and just try to access the Internet. In this session Rhonda will start with basic concepts such as DNS zone types, resource records and how to secure them. [More]

Unveiling What’s New & Exciting in Server 2008’s Terminal Services
Greg Shields
Terminal Services may well be one of the biggest reasons why you move to Server 2008.  Its new capabilities for deploying applications, its new Web interface, much improved printing, and new security features all make Terminal Services a real winner. [More]

SYSVOL in Server 2008 — Know your Options
Rhonda Layfield
SYSVOL now has choices for the replication engine used. In the past we all used the File Replication Service (FRS) regardless of how well it worked. FRS had its limitations and problem areas such as: journal wraps and morphed files and folders. [More]

Active Directory in Windows Server 2008 — Designing, Integrating, and Implementing
Derek Melber
Active Directory is more than user and group accounts. There are many moving parts that need to be designed for a successful AD implementation. In this session, we will look at all of the key aspects of your AD design and implementation. All areas need to be evaluated and designed, such as forest and domain structure, namespace, domain controllers… [More]

Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting – Top Picks

Tips You Should Know for Preventing an Active Directory Failure
Greg Shields
Is your Active Directory configuration a ticking time bomb? Prevent that Resume-Producing Event by attending this fast-paced session. We’ll go over the overlooked settings in your AD that could someday cause a major failure. Gleaned from real-world experience through countless AD assessments, you’ll hear about the top Active Directory mistakes and how to avoid them.

Windows Server Backups:  New Tricks for an Old Need
James Conrad
In this session you’ll learn how to recover deleted Active Directory objects without taking the server offline to boot into Directory Services Restore mode.  You’ll also learn the best ways to restore a server from the bare metal. And in the end, you’ll get the secrets you need to keep your data safe. [More]

Tips & Tricks for the Windows Firewall:  You Can Turn it On Now!
Greg Shields
When Microsoft released the Windows Firewall in XP Service Pack 2, what did you do with it?  Turn it off?  Admittedly, that first attempt at forcing a firewall down our throats wasn’t the best, but the Windows Firewall has gotten a lot better over the years. Learn how to manage it with Group Policy, easily protect your laptops when off the domain while not causing problems while on the domain. [More]

Troubleshooting Group Policy
Derek Melber
Group Policy ain’t easy! And troubleshooting Group Policy is harder still! This session focuses on how to troubleshoot all aspects of Group Policy. Let MVP and author of The Group Policy Resource Kit, Derek Melber, solve all of your GPO issues. Whether it is processing, application, configuration, security, or restoration, Derek will tackle it in this session. You will be exposed to all of the new tools by Microsoft and other vendors to solve any Group Policy issue!

Foundations for Windows Administration – Top Picks

Fundamentals of Failover and Load Balancing Clusters
Bruce Mackenzie-Low
In today’s business environment, downtime equals lost productivity and revenue. To guard against a single point of failure, Microsoft has embraced several clustering technologies. This session will cover the fundamental principles of Failover and Network Load Balancing clusters. [More]

System Recovery: The Good, the Bad, the Lifesaving
Bruce Rougeau
How would you fix a server that will not boot due to a corrupted registry? If you haven’t encountered this, chances are you will — and probably soon. The old saying, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is just as true for servers as it is for medicine. [More]

What’s New in Vista/Server 2008 Administration
Mark Minasi
The latest desktop and server versions of Windows bring a host of new administrative tools, from new Group Policy settings to better system performance monitoring to vastly improved scheduling tools and more.  Join Windows expert Mark Minasi in an in-depth look at Vista and 2008’s new admin goodies — including a few items that you won’t see covered anywhere else.

IIS 7.0 Fundamentals
Bruce Rougeau
Every IT professional should know how to build a Web server and create a Web application using Windows Server. But even if you thought you knew it all, Microsoft has significantly changed the IIS architecture, which now deserves a complete review.  [More]

Practical Security – Top Picks

Current Wireless Attacks and Countermeasures
Keith Parsons
Based on the popular Wireless LAN Security Assessment Toolkit course – this session shows some of the current wireless attacks and what you can do to counteract them in your organization. Come and explore the ‘dark side’ of WLAN hacker tools. We’ll also look ahead to next-generation security methods so you can make well-informed decisions about WLAN security policies. Take the plunge into Wireless LAN Security!

Intro to Hacking and Countermeasures
Todd Lammle
Clean networks and a clean Internet don’t have to be futurist – you can have a clean network and PC today! However, very few people have them. So how do you get one? One way is to understand hacking and the hackers themselves. [More]

Intro to USB Stick: Remote Communications and Portable Applications
Todd Lammle & Keith Parsons
This unique session will show you how to connect to PCs and hunt down problems using tools hosted on the Ultimate USB Security Stick. The USB memory stick is loaded with powerful security, hacking, and forensic programs--everything you need to help troubleshoot and secure client PCs, even if you lack Administrative rights. [More]

Inside Windows Logons
Mark Minasi
Let veteran Windows explicator Mark Minasi show you how logins work, how they sometimes don’t work (and how you can fix them) as well as how to better secure them -- as well as giving you the tools to understand where Microsoft's login protocols are and aren't so secure. [More]

Windows Powershell and Windows Automation – Top Picks

Managing Remote Systems the Windows PowerShell V2 Way
Marco Shaw
In this session, MVP Marco Shaw will discuss the new remoting features that will be available in the next version of Windows PowerShell currently being offered as a Community Technology Preview (CTP). This session will focus on the usage of: the new functionality that comes with the Invoke-Expression cmdlet and the usage of the new *-PSJob and *-Runspace cmdlets. [More]

Automating Remote Systems Management with PowerShell v1 and WMI
Jeff Hicks
Although PowerShell is an incredibly valuable administrative tool, a major feature is its support for Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). In this session led by PowerShell MVP and automation guru Jeffery Hicks, you'll learn how to access remote system information, build management reports, monitor WMI events and more all with PowerShell. This will be a demo-rich session with many real-world and practical examples you can take home and use immediately.

Building a GUI in Windows PowerShell
Marco Shaw
In this session, MVP Marco Shaw will guide you through using Windows Forms from the .NET Framework to build lightweight, fully functional graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that run within Windows PowerShell scripts.  You will be guided through the Windows Forms hierarchy and be shown practical and effective examples for creating, fine-tuning and using your using your own customized GUIs directly from within Windows PowerShell. [More]

Creating Killer Management Reports in Windows PowerShell
Don Jones
Learn to control PowerShell's formatting subsystem in this "under the hood" session, with a goal of creating great-looking management reports using PowerShell's automation capabilities. You'll also learn about PowerShell's output mechanisms, including the ability to automatically create great-looking, HTML-based reports. [More]

Want more content to choose from? You can view the complete conference agenda online.

Special San Francisco Hotel Offers

All TechMentor San Francisco sessions and events will take place at the Moscone Center West in downtown San Francisco. We have partnered with 3 of San Francisco’s top hotels, just steps away from the conference.

Intercontinental Hotel San Francisco 888 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (adjacent to the Moscone Convention Center) Special attendee rate: $225 when booked by March 12th Call 888-811-4273 to make a reservation	San Francisco Marriott 55 Fourth Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (across the street from the Moscone Convention Center) Special attendee rate: $219 when booked by March 11th Call 415-896-1600 to make a reservation
Parc 55 55 Cyril Magnin Street San Francisco, CA 94102 (Three blocks from the Moscone Convention Center) Special attendee rate: $169 when booked by March 7th Call 800-595-0507 to make a reservation

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