Windows Server 2003 R2 Webcasts

Take a tour of the new Windows Server 2003 R2 software, covering the Windows Server release cycle, product roadmap, and business benefits of Windows Server 2003 R2. The discussion includes a look at the new Windows Server 2003 R2 scenarios: branch management, identity access and management, and storage management.

Learn how Windows Server 2003 R2 extends Windows Server 2003, providing the most efficient way to manage and control access to local and remote resources while easily integrating into your existing Windows Server 2003 environment.

Attend this session to get an overview of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Active Directory Federation Services, a component that enables Extranet Single Sign-On (SSO) and Identity Federation.

Learn best practices for planning, deploying, and managing an ADFS deployment. This webcast will cover deployment best practices and show how to configure your federation servers, federation server proxies, and ADFS Web agents for optimal performance.

Learn about the architecture of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) in detail. We will explore how federated identity and access management are enabled by tracing the flow of claims through the system, via a demonstration of ADFS administration in conjunction with a representative end-to-end line of business application.

Learn how technologies such as the Distributed File System and Print Management Console enable efficient Wide Area Network file replication and enhanced remote management.

A Wide Area File Services (WAFS) solution that is fully compatible with Windows Server 2003 R2 offers a long list of benefits for both branch office users and IT teams. Tune in to this webcast to learn how to use Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) Namespaces for WAFS transparency and resiliency, plan for wide area network (WAN) outages, and enable WAFS security technologies.

Explore the essential elements that you must include in your planning and implementation of a branch office deployment. Learn to identify the key requirements that can influence your design through usage scenarios and an emphasis on the most effective ways to apply the branch office technologies in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2.

Join this session to explore new tools that simplify many of the tasks necessary to set up an efficient storage environment for the Windows platform.

This webcast highlights how two storage management features of Windows Server 2003 R2—File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) and Storage Manager for SANs (SMfS)—coupled with EqualLogic hardware, address the business and IT challenges in a case study of Mesirow Financial in Chicago, Illinois.

Take a tour of new capabilities in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 that facilitate the implementation and management of storage area networks (SANs) and other features that improve the performance and manageability of files that are shared across networks.

Watch this webcast to learn the twelve things everyone should know about authentication and authorization when using the new capabilities in Windows Server 2003 R2 to implement UNIX interoperability.

Learn how Web technologies delivered in Windows Server 2003 R2 enable collaboration across organizational boundaries, fast development of rich line of business applications, and efficient administration of web infrastructure.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 provides a powerful Web platform that can support business-critical Web sites and applications at a high level of performance and scale. It also comes with an arsenal of security features and tools to ensure a highly fortified Web platform. This valuable webcast presents best practices for using these features to implement essential defense-in-depth measures for your Web.

View this Webcast to get an overview of the best practices for implementing WSS solutions of any size on IIS 6.0. We will dive deep into how to install, build, deploy, secure and manage your WSS intranet/extranet solution.

To ensure admins and developers alike are managing ASP.NET 2.0 apps on IIS 6.0 efficiently, we cover key concepts such as the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), Web.config settings and the ASP.NET 2.0 MMC snap-in for IIS Manager.

Experience Windows Server 2003 firsthand with our online hands-on labs.

These webcasts tell you more about the Microsoft approach to branch office infrastructure, including how to plan, deploy, and maintain a branch office solutions efficiently.