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Live Web Seminars
Realizing Mission Critical Unified Communications
Realizing Mission Critical Unified Communications This webcast discusses how Exchange 2007 can benefit your organization and how to develop and deploy a Microsoft-based Unified Communications (UC) strategy. This event provides you with an understanding of the features and functionality a UC infrastructure requires and technologies needed to build a robust infrastructure and practical knowledge on the architectural considerations needed for a successful implementation. Learn how to address all of the important challenges you’ll face as you migrate to a unified messaging infrastructure.
Event Date: Thursday, July 24 at 12 Noon EDT/9:00 am PDT
Software Piracy Strategies: Targeting Unlicensed Customers and Lost Revenue
Software Piracy Strategies: Targeting Unlicensed Customers and Lost Revenue Join us and go behind the scenes of software piracy to reveal how corporations are using unlicensed software at your expense. You'll get strategies, best practices, and specific recommendations on how to identify corporate pirates and convert them into paying customers. Learn how to choose the best anti-piracy strategy for your company.
Event Date: Tuesday, July 29 at 2:00 pm EDT/11:00 am PDT
5 Steps for a Fast, Easy and Affordable Exchange Migration
5 Steps for a Fast, Easy and Affordable Exchange Migration Don't learn the hard way. Tune into this webcast for the five steps you should take for a quick and painless Exchange 2007 migration.
Event Date: Wednesday, July 30 at 11:00 am EDT/8:00 am PDT
How E-mail Monitoring Can Dramatically Improve E-mail Server Performance
How E-mail Monitoring Can Dramatically Improve E-mail Server Performance By understanding the activity within their e-mail system, administrators can make e-mail systems run more smoothly, plan more efficiently, improve service levels, postpone or even eliminate storage and bandwidth upgrades, and reduce their TCO. Learn how in this free webcast.
Event Date: Thursday, July 31 at 2:00 pm EDT/11:00 am PDT


On Demand Web Seminars
Manage, Monitor and Log VMware and ZEN Environments
Manage, Monitor and Log VMware and ZEN Environments Explore why virtualization cannot be managed or secured with traditional management systems and how to overcome these challenges. Learn how to implement best practices in managing multiple virtual guest systems, monitor and manage a virtual hypervisor or guest problem, diagnose problems and gather performance data for VMware and XEN applications, and more. Find out how to monitor all aspects of the virtual machine -- from the time a virtual machine is started, through the OS boot process, to a planned shutdown or an unexpected failure.
Original Broadcast Date: June 24. See and listen on-demand!
Worldwide Partner Conference Wrap-up
Worldwide Partner Conference Wrap-up Join RCP editors for this video webcast roundup of all the news from the 2008 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. They analyze the major stories and show interviews with senior Microsoft executives and partners.
Original Broadcast Date: July 22. See and listen now on-demand!
Embracing IT Automation
Embracing IT Automation In this FREE webcast, Greg Shields will show you which admin tasks you absolutely must automate, freeing you from the confines of manual activities.
Original Broadcast Date: July 16. Get it now on-demand!
Business-Savvy Continuity Planning
Business-Savvy Continuity Planning In this webcast, DR planning expert, Jon Toigo, discussed ways to enhance the value perception of continuity planning by framing its full business value properly and by leveraging technologies such as CA XOsoft to derive added value from recovery provisions.
Original Broadcast Date: June 25. Now available on-demand.
Botnets: Battling the Borg of the Internet
Botnets: Battling the Borg of the Internet You've heard of bots and botnets, but have you ever actually seen a bot, bot source code, or a bot herder's Command and Control center in action? View this free webcast and see real bots in action and learn how to defend against them.
Original Broadcast Date: June 24. Get it now on-demand!
Leveraging Web 2.0 Securely
Leveraging Web 2.0 Securely This free webcast puts the focus on Web 2.0 technologies, understanding the risks involved, and steps to eliminate or mitigate the risks and securely leverage Web 2.0.
Original Broadcast Date: June 19. Now available on-demand.
Avoid the Top 10 Exchange Migration Headaches
Avoid the Top 10 Exchange Migration Headaches What's stopping you from migrating to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007? Do you lack the staff and resources to make the move? Check out this free webcast and find out how you can migrate to one of the most innovative messaging and collaboration platforms in the marketplace with less staff and less chaos than you ever imagined.
Original Broadcast Date: June 18. Now available on-demand.
Fixing the Pain in Fax and Mail Automation
Fixing the Pain in Fax and Mail Automation Watch Redmond magazine Contributing Editor Greg Shields in this business- and technology-forward conversation on the time and cost savings gained through fax and mail automation, with a focus on integration with ERPs, such as Microsoft Dynamics.
Original Broadcast Date: June 4. Now available on-demand!
Data Modeling for Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server: Modeling a Data Warehouse
Data Modeling for Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server: Modeling a Data Warehouse This webcast explores how to leverage SQL Server Analysis Services to create compelling business intelligence applications through the use of data modeling tools, such as CA ERwin Data Modeler. Learn about: technologies, such as data warehouses, that hold the source data; processes to extract source data; calculations and manipulations to reveal trends within data; and reports and interactive tools that display data to users throughout the company.
Original Broadcast Date: June 4. Get it now on-demand!
Managing the Impact of Virtualization on Applications and End Users
Managing the Impact of Virtualization on Applications and End Users See and listen to this webcast and delve into how the virtual environment impacts applications and what you can do to optimize the gains of virtualization.
Original Broadcast Date: May 29. Now available on-demand!
Like Stealing Candy
Like Stealing Candy Two factor authentication is a key technology in fighting malware where you have no control, such as public wireless networks and Internet terminals. Learn how two factor authentication methods help you lower the risk in an IT environment where everyone uses the Internet.
Original Broadcast Date: May 29. See and listen on-demand now.
Using Single Sign-On to Improve Security, Lower Costs and Improve Productivity
Using Single Sign-On to Improve Security, Lower Costs and Improve Productivity Single Sign-On offers many benefits, including easier access to systems and applications, greater control, lower costs and better security. Quest Enterprise Single Sign-On uses Active Directory for a complete sign-on capability. It allows users to access a wide range of applications, Web sites and other resources using a single set of credentials. Learn more in this free webcast.
Original Broadcast Date: May 28. See and listen on-demand now.
Mainframe Reality Check
Mainframe Reality Check Join software industry authority, Capers Jones, and Relativity Technologies as they discuss how you can align your mainframe-based software assets with business goals and optimize your application development budget. This event will help you choose development best practices, uncover the business and technical reality of your existing mainframe applications, and discover how this reality matches corporate goals like cost reduction.
Original Broadcast Date: May 22. See and listen now on-demand.
Profit by Partnering with SAP
Profit by Partnering with SAP SAP is seeking growth oriented resellers who want to expand their practice or create a new business unit by partnering with the leader in ERP software applications. See and listen to this free webcast and hear directly from the SAP Director of Channel Development.
Original Broadcast Date: May 21. Now available on-demand!
Failover on a Budget: Using Your Own Branch Offices for Business Continuity
Failover on a Budget: Using Your Own Branch Offices for Business Continuity A cost-effective solution for business continuity may be no further than your branch office network. Watch this free webcast and learn the merits of inter-branch failover and a checklist of prerequisites for making it viable; techniques for coordinating and managing the data protection processes; cost-effective methods for replicating data and establishing failover scenarios; and how an inter-branch failover strategy will improve the efficiency of testing.
Original Broadcast Date: May 20. Get on-demand now!
How Have BC/DR Solutions Changed in the Last 12 Months?
How Have BC/DR Solutions Changed in the Last 12 Months? Watch this free webcast to hear industry veteran Denny Kalaf provide a comprehensive look at why the new best practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery actually drive down cost while improving reliability, eliminating backup windows and minimizing recovery times and lost data.
Original Broadcast Date: May 15. See and Listen now on-demand.
Building an Effective File Management Infrastructure
Building an Effective File Management Infrastructure This webcast explores how businesses are successfully using file area networks (FAN) to reduce the costs and complexity of managing their rapidly growing volumes of file data. It also discusses the key benefits of a file management infrastructure, including enterprise-wide control of file information, establishment of file visibility and access rights, non-disruptive movement of file data, and consolidation of redundant file resources.
Original Broadcast Date: May 15. Now available on-demand.
Citrix and Microsoft: The Future of Virtualization
Citrix and Microsoft: The Future of Virtualization See and listen to top virtualization executives at Citrix and Microsoft as they discuss virtualization industry trends in this webcast. You’ll find out how to drive greater IT operating efficiency through integrated end-to-end virtualization to reduce costs, maximize system availability and drive operational agility.
Original Broadcast Date: May 15. Now available on-demand.
Accelerating SOA Adoption in Windows Desktop Environments
Accelerating SOA Adoption in Windows Desktop Environments One of the most difficult challenges for organizations deploying SOA is being able to integrate new services rapidly into users' existing environments which still include legacy and desktop applications. This webcast explores how to accelerate the deployment and integration of services into Windows desktop environments. You also see a new solution from OpenSpan that enables you to more quickly roll out Web services to business users.
Original Broadcast Date: Wednesday, May 14 -- see and listen now on-demand!
Botnets: Battling the Borg of the Internet
Botnets: Battling the Borg of the Internet You've heard of bots and botnets, but have you ever actually seen a bot, bot source code or a bot herder's Command and Control center in action? See and listen to this free webcast and see real bots in action and learn how to defend against them.
Original Broadcast Date: April 29. Get it now on-demand.
Keeping Your Email Legal: What You Need to Know About eDiscovery, Retention and Recovery of Email
Keeping Your Email Legal: What You Need to Know About eDiscovery, Retention and Recovery of Email Whether you are an IT executive or Exchange administrator, your email retention and recovery policies can have far-reaching consequences. This free webinar will help you understand what steps you can take to mitigate growing legal as well as regulatory risks associated with electronic records management.
Original Broadcast Date: March 31. Get it now on-demand!
The Top Twelve Most Difficult Active Directory Management Tasks (and How to Make them Easier)
The Top Twelve Most Difficult Active Directory Management Tasks (and How to Make them Easier) In this free webcast, Greg Shields will discuss the top 12 most difficult Active Directory management tasks. He’ll show you why they’re challenging, and talk about the best ways many of your fellow administrators have found to resolve them easily. Join us and leave with a new set of ideas about how to best manage your AD environment.
Original Broadcast Date: March 25. Watch it now on-demand!




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Register for and listen to any live or on-demand web seminar and you will be automatically entered into a drawing for one free iPod Nano (a $199 value). One entry per person, per event is allowed. One winner will be selected based on a random drawing from among all valid registrations received by July 31, 2008. Only valid e-mail addresses will be considered. The winner will be notified by e-mail. No substitutions allowed. False and/or deceptive entries or acts shall render entrants ineligible. No purchase necessary. Chances of winning depend on the number of respondents. This offer is not valid where prohibited by law.