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Quickstart’s got a ton of Sharepoint Server 2007 training coming for those of you who need it.

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***Hands-On End User/Information Worker Training***

SP2007EU – Introduction to SharePoint 2007 Information Management
Duration: 1 day
Retail Price: $495
This QuickStart exclusive course is the ideal starting point whether you are using Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
In one day students will learn the basic skills to use standard elements of SharePoint, explore SharePoint Team Sites, manage content, understand how SharePoint integrates with Office, and set-up and manage workspaces.
For complete details and dates visit http://www.quickstart.com/courses/course.asp?cat=SharePoint%20&type=77&course=MOSS201FD.

Upcoming Dates:

• QuickStart Brea – April 16, May 29, July 30
• QuickStart Irvine – May 29, July 30
• QuickStart Los Angeles – May 14, June 11
• QuickStart Woodland Hills – June 11

MOSS201FD- Fundamentals of SharePoint 2007 Information Management
Duration: 2 days
Retail Price: $995
This QuickStart exclusive course teaches SharePoint users how to implement and customize a SharePoint Team site, configure and manage content security, manage social networking features, use search and index, manage documents and records, manage web publishing elements, implement electronic form elements, and use business intelligence portals.
For complete details and dates visit http://www.quickstart.com/courses/course.asp?cat=SharePoint%20&type=77&course=SP2007EU.

Upcoming Dates:

• QuickStart Brea – April 17-18, May 30-31, July 31-August 1
• QuickStart Irvine – May 30-31, July 31-August 1
• QuickStart Los Angeles – May 15-16, June 12-13
• QuickStart Woodland Hills – June 12-13

***Hand-On IT Professional Training***

Implementing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Duration: 2 days
Retail Price: $995
In 2 days learn how to plan, upgrade/install, deploy, configure, and manage Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
For complete details and dates visit http://www.quickstart.com/courses/course.asp?cat=SharePoint%202007&type=96&course=5061.

Upcoming Dates:

• QuickStart Brea – April 23-24, August 6-7
• QuickStart Irvine – May 21-22, July 16-17
• QuickStart Los Angeles – June 25-26, September 10-11
• QuickStart Woodland Hills – May 21-22, August 6-7

Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Duration: 3 days
Retail Price: $1495
In 3 days learn how to administer, configure, manage business intelligence and search, set-up content management and business forms, and deploy/upgrade Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
For complete details and dates visit http://www.quickstart.com/courses/course.asp?cat=SharePoint%202007&type=96&course=5061.

Upcoming Dates:

• QuickStart Brea – April 25-27, August 8-10
• QuickStart Irvine – May 23-25, July 18-20
• QuickStart Los Angeles – June 27-29, September 12-14
• QuickStart Woodland Hills – May 23-25, August 8-10

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Hands-On Lab – FREE Workshop

Los Angeles, CA:  5/1/07
Irvine, CA:  5/3/07

Make better decisions, faster. Share information, search and manage data, documents, and web content across your organization with Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server 2007. Join us for this one-day hands-on lab to learn about:

Features Overview: Learn about design goals and features of Office SharePoint Server® 2007, including overviews of administration and security requirements.  

Hands-on exercises include:  Office SharePoint Server 2007 Features, Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administration Overview, Office SharePoint Server 2007 Security Overview

Enterprise Content Management: Create and configure web sites and use Workflows to manage documents and web content.

Hands-on exercises include:  Using Content Types, Using Out-of-the-Box Workflows, Using Records Management Features, Creating and Configuring Web Sites, Creating Web Pages, Using Content Variations

Organize and Find Resources: Use the Office SharePoint Server 2007 features for organizing, searching and finding data.

Hands-on exercises include:  Managing Portals, Audience Targeting, Building Personal SharePoint Sites, Using the Colleagues Web Part, Managing Search, Search Relevance

Business Solutions: Implement business solutions by using Business Data Catalog, Forms Server and Report Center.

Hands-on exercises include:  Using Business Data Catalog, Using Forms Server, Publishing a Microsoft Office Excel Spreadsheet, Using Report Center

Who Should Attend:
This course is for IT Professionals and Technical Decision Makers who are experienced with Windows® operating system and Office technologies that want an overview of what Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is, and why to deploy it in their organization.

Prerequisites:

To get the most from this course, you will need:

• Experience with Microsoft Windows client and server operating systems.
• Experience installing, configuring and supporting Microsoft Office System technologies.

To register for one of the sessions below, please contact me, assuming you are a customer of mine.  No unauthorized attendees will be permitted to register for the class.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Microsoft Corporation
Los Angeles, CA

Thursday, May 3, 2007
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Microsoft Corporation
Irvine, CA

Join us for the first-ever Worldwide
Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference
This exciting and informative conference for customers and partners will showcase Microsoft’s market-leading BI products, solution expertise and customer successes. The event will feature keynote addresses by Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, and Jeff Raikes, President, Microsoft Business Division, and is designed to educate customers and partners on every aspect of Microsoft’s BI offering. You can also expect educational tracks, customer best practices sessions, the first-ever Microsoft BI Awards presentation, hands-on labs, and much more! The Conference will be held at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington.

What you will learn

You and your colleagues should plan to attend — You’ll gain insight from industry thought leaders, learn about the success of other Microsoft BI customers from your peers, discover best practices and gain valuable product knowledge from Microsoft’s product experts.
Visit the Tracks page now to see a sample of breakout sessions by Track.

Why you should attend

CIOs and CTOs, and IT Professionals as well as business decision makers, analysts, seasoned BI professionals or users new to business intelligence should attend this 3-day conference to see how Microsoft Business Intelligence can help you drive increased business performance at strategic, tactical and organizational levels. You’ll learn best practices from industry thought leaders and other Microsoft BI customers for designing, building and deploying robust Business Intelligence applications for everyone in your organization, while controlling costs. It’s one of the smartest investments you’ll make all year!
For more information about Microsoft Business Intelligence products and offerings, please visit www.microsoft.com/bi.

WEBSITE:  http://www.microsoftbiconference.com/?src=esig

REGISTRATION:  http://www.microsoftbiconference.com/registration.aspx

Microsoft is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Microsoft Office Project Conference 2007 to be held from October 28-31, 2007 in Seattle, WA. The conference aims to enable individuals and organizations develop better understanding of end-to end capabilities of Microsoft 2007 family of products and help them further advance their Project Management Potential. Participants can:

1. Learn about the end-to end capabilities of Microsoft Project 2007 family of products and develop deeper understanding of project management techniques and strategies using Microsoft Project 2007.

2. Connect with the Microsoft technologists who design our market-leading Project and Portfolio management applications as well as network and interact with Microsoft solution partners and other project managers.

3. Grow your Project Management potential and investments by leveraging best practices and business solutions developed on Microsoft EPM platform through discussions and sessions led by Microsoft professionals, industry leaders and project practitioners.

What You Can Expect:

1. Keynote sessions by Senior Microsoft Executives including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

2. Learn about the key solutions offered by Microsoft partners on Microsoft Project and EPM platform to power your business to the next level

3. Technical how-to’s for administration, deployment and configuration of Microsoft Project Server 2007 and Microsoft Project Portfolio Server 2007.

4. 90+ sessions across several business and technical/developer  tracks

5. Hands-on and Instructor led labs.

REGISTER:  https://dynamicevents.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/websitev2.asp?mmnno=230&pagename=SITE52841

Registration for the US Microsoft Project Conference is now OPEN! Take advantage of early bird special discounts on registration for the first 1000 participants! To learn more and to get started with registration, please visit www.msprojectconference.com.

Application compatibility is one the most important challenges faced by organizations when deploying new operating systems.  With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft provides the tools and resources to reduce the time, cost, and complexity of addressing application compatibility.

Microsoft has provided new features in Windows Vista such as the Program Compatibility Assistant and the Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 to help with deploying Windows Vista; in this session, we’ll cover the new tools and best practices for testing and deploying  applications with Windows Vista along with an interactive Q&A session.

Date/Time:
5/4/07, Friday 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – LiveMeeting

Presented by:
Bobby Bliven, Windows Client Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Audience: 
IT Managers and Professionals, desktop engineers responsible for desktop management and deployment

Registration URL:  
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032335341&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Event ID:  1032335341

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) has been introduced to provide customers with additional tools and technologies to help ease desktop deployment and management.  At this session, we will include an overview of key new features in MDOP, with a focus on Microsoft SoftGrid, which enables application virtualization along with an interactive Q&A session.

Date/Time:
4/27/07, Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – LiveMeeting

Presented by:
Jeff Asis, Microsoft SoftGrid Solution Specialist, Microsoft

Audience: 
IT Managers and Professionals, desktop engineers responsible for desktop management and deployment

Registration URL:  
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032334977&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Event ID:  1032334977

With the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft has made changes and improvements to the mechanisms for activation. The recent activation changes will help with better managing deployment and product usage.  In this session, we’ll cover the changes in Volume Activation 2.0, and options available for activation along with an interactive Q&A session.

Date/Time: 
4/17/07, Tuesday, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – LiveMeeting

Presented by: 
Gretchen Rivas, Windows Client Solution Specialist, Microsoft

Audience: 
IT Managers and Professionals, desktop engineers responsible for desktop management and deployment

Registration URL: 
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032334967&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Event ID:  1032334967

Knowledge@Wharton:  You’ve been a Microsoft employee now for roughly two years. What has surprised you most about the company?

Ozzie:  I can’t say that anything has surprised me. I knew what the company was like because I had been doing business in one way, shape, or form with it since the early 1980s.
What is breathtaking to me, once inside, is the scope and the number of initiatives that are being undertaken in parallel by all of [Microsoft’s product] groups. It’s a much more nuanced business than I had appreciated. You can know something intellectually, but when you actually see it and get a chance to interact with the groups, it’s [quite] interesting.

Knowledge@Wharton: About a year ago you were made chief software architect, the title Bill Gates formerly held. What do you do in that role?

Ozzie: It’s a fascinating role, which Bill created after he stepped down as CEO some years back. It serves a unique function that’s necessitated by the breadth of the company. The first task is to bridge the different groups [within Microsoft]. I might see something going on within one group that another group might be able to take advantage of that [might not be visible] from their vantage point within a division. So, in essence, it’s an architect one level up.

The same thing pertains to market strategy and business strategy. I may be able to see these different products and how they could come together to solve an opportunity in the market that [the individual product groups] might not otherwise recognize. It’s a role that sits at the juncture of technology and market and business strategy — all put together.

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This is a very large article.  Read more of it at:
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1698

Return from MMS 2007 – Microsoft Los Angeles
April 10, 2007

The Microsoft Management Summit 2007 was held in San Diego on March 26-30, 2007.  To those of you that were unable to join us, we are excited to announce that we are holding a special session: “Return from MMS” at Microsoft’s Offices in Los Angeles (lecture and hands-on lab).

This session will present how Microsoft and partner solutions, along with the many exciting announcements at MMS, will enable you to proactively manage your IT environment. The solutions explored during the event will include the management services running on Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms, as well as best practices in managing the Windows IT environment.

Chris Tillier, Management Specialist for Southern California, Microsoft, will be conducting these sessions. Chris will explore the latest Windows management solutions, review best practices and demonstrate latest technologies.  

Agenda:

• SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Management
• MOM 2005 SLA Scorecard for Exchange Management Technologies
• Windows Server Update Services
• Windows Server 2003 R2 Management Technologies
• Group Policy
• WS-Management
• WMI
• Microsoft Windows PowerShell
• …. And much more!

Date:
April 10, 2007

Time:
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Registration begins at 8:30 AM

Location:
Microsoft Corporation
333 South Grand Avenue
Suite 3300
Los Angeles, Ca. 90071
(Breakfast, lunch and parking included)

Registration:
If you are a customer of mine, please contact me (if you know me, you’ll know how) and I’ll show you how to register.  Only approved individuals will be permitted to attend this even because of high demand and the level of investment that will be made to execute this training.

You’re invited to the Microsoft® Forefront™ and Microsoft System Center launch event.

The Beverly Hilton
Beverly Hills, CA
May 2nd, 2007

Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and experience how the integration of security and IT management software from Microsoft can give you more control over your IT environment!

Attend the You’re In Control launch event and:

• Learn about Microsoft’s roadmap and vision for integrated security and management solutions
• Receive free software* valued at over $3000, including Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition and other Microsoft infrastructure software!
• Test drive the latest products in the solutions showcase
• Evaluate solutions in the deep-dive technical breakout sessions and hands-on labs
• Network with leading technology experts and peers
• Celebrate the launch at the closing party

See how the new security and infrastructure management solutions from Microsoft can help empower your business.  Attend the event where we bring the experts to you!

FEATURED SPEAKER: BOB MUGLIA.
SENIOR VP, MICROSOFT SERVER & TOOLS BUSINESS

Who should attend:
The “You’re In Control” launch event at the Beverly Hilton has been designed for IT implementers and decision makers from mid-sized and enterprise companies

REGISTER FOR THE YOU’RE IN CONTROL LAUNCH TODAY
(http://r.email.microsoft.com/r/r?2.1.Gb.Gf.1MISLc.C8VRII.1.N.DKMW.1%2avA.DPBUEWM0)

When you attend you will:

• Learn about Forefront & System Center
• Try new products
• Get free software* ($3000+ value)
• Attend technical breakout sessions and get free training
• Meet with technology partners, your peers and experts

Attendance at this event is free, however space is limited and will be filled on a first come basis.  Don’t miss your chance to participate!

*Offer good only to the first 1,200 registered attendees on a first come first received basis. Limit one gift per person, while supplies last. Recipients must attend the May 2nd event at the Beverly Hilton to claim their gift.  Recipients must be US citizens or residents.  This offer is not transferable and is not redeemable for cash.  Taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the recipient.  Recipients will be required to complete a gift acceptance form for tax purposes. Restrictions may apply.