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Microsoft Invites You to Design & Build Business Process & Integration Solutions with BizTalk Server 2004 Hands-On Training

Please join us for the BizTalk Server 2004 Developer Workshop. This free-of-charge 5 day workshop is structured to address the myriad of questions clients have before acquiring a Microsoft Enterprise Integration, Business Processes Automation and/or an Information Worker solution. BTS 2004 enables companies to quickly and efficiently connect systems, people and trading partners through manageable business process.

This Developer Workshop utilizes a holistic approach aimed at the core groups involved in implementing such solution. From decision makers, IT Managers and Business Analysts, to the integrators and developers, our goal is to assist your enterprise by providing well structured content covering all aspects of planning and implementation. Knowledge is power and equipping each team member with the right information is a key success factor in selecting the appropriate solution.

Benefits

Attending this Developer Workshop has significant synergistic benefits for the teams. The depth and breadth of knowledge the teams will collectively possess will enable them to work more effectively together, be better resources for one another, and equip them to do their role.

• Rapid knowledge transfer needed by business and IT managers to use the BTS solution to solve business integration and process issues
• Educate team members to fully utilize BTS solution tools
• Facilitate collaboration between business managers, partners and the technical team
• Quickly and Effectively get teams up to speed
• Increase the effectiveness and timeliness of client evaluation process

Ultimately this Developer Workshop addresses the core cycles for an enterprise’s solution integration evaluation process, arming each team with relevant and strategic information as well as developing invaluable experience and team skills. The result will be more knowledgeable and productive team members capable of implementing application integration faster and easier to maintain solution.

Additionally, many of us need to leverage and extend existing investments in line-of-business applications running on mainframe and midrange systems to offer new products and services. Today, this means modernizing existing applications as part of move towards a Services Oriented Architecture. Unfortunately, mainframe and midrange development tools and runtime environments are not well-designed for efficiently delivering XML-based or Web-based solutions. These components enable network, security, messaging, data and application integration of host-based systems with Microsoft Windows-based and .NET Framework-enabled solutions.

What:  Demonstration/Presentation/Lecture, as well as 15 to 20 Hands-On Labs, and one-on-one mixed format workshop. 

This course is designed for Architects and Integration developers.  There is no fee for this 5 Day course.

Date: February 28 – March 4, 2005
Time:: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. each day
Location:       Vortex Data Systems
7480 Mission Valley Rd., Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92108
T: 619.497.6400
http://www.vortexdata.com 

Attendee Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of the .NET Framework
• Familiarity with Visual Studio .NET (samples are written in C#)
• Basic understanding of SQL Server 2000
• Basic understanding Web Services (XML Schema, SOAP, WSDL)

Course Content:

This instructor-led course will provide the knowledge and skills required by BizTalk Server application developers for building the next generation of e-business integration solutions using BizTalk Server 2004 and Host Integration Server 2004. Training content will include instructor presentations and lecture, feature and task demonstrations and, a hands-on lab environment.  Content will include concepts and hands-on labs for the following topics:

• The BizTalk Server 2004 architecture
• The BizTalk development environment
• Designing and planning a BizTalk solution
• Working with BizTalk project system
• Creating and configuring Schemas and Envelopes
• Creating a schema map
• Defining the business process (orchestration)
• Advanced Orchestration principles such as Correlation, Transactions and Exceptions
• Processing messages using publish and subscribe
• Creating pipeline components
• Installing and configuring adapters
• Encryption and Encoding
• Creating a BizTalk hosting environment
• Monitoring the hosting environment
• Securing the hosting environment
• Consuming and publishing Web services
• Integrating business rules into an orchestration
• Enabling business activity monitoring
• Enabling human workflow services
• Integrating with trading partners

Agenda:

Day 1

• Welcome and Introduction
• How BizTalk uses XML, Web Services and .Net
• BizTalk and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
• BizTalk fundamentals
• BizTalk Features and Benefits
• BizTalk Orchestration and Messaging
• BizTalk Schemas and Maps

Day 2

• Developing Pipelines for data translation and encryption
• Flat files and Batch processing
• Health and Activity Tracking (Excellent tool for monitoring and troubleshooting) 
• Creating Deployment Packages
• Debugging Business processes
• Building Business processes with Orchestrations and Transactions

Day 3

• Web Service Publishing and Consuming
• BizTalk Rules and Policies (Control your business processes externally!)
• Business Activity Services (Manage successfully your Business Partners)
• BizTalk Human Workflow Services Have your personnel better control the business process)
• Single Sign-On (Powerful feature for a heterogeneous environment)
• Adapter Framework (For connecting systems and processes together)

 
Day 4 & Day 5

• Business Activity Monitoring (Invaluable for Business Analysts)
• Advanced Orchestration (Convoys, Nested Orchestration, Transactions, Exception and Compensation Handling)
• Architecting and Operating a Secure and Scaleable BizTalk Server Environment
• Multi-Server BizTalk Farm, Security, Single Sign-On (SSO), Operations Monitoring, and Performance Turning
• Deployment (Learn how to scale, secure, deploy and maintain your solution)
• Installation and Configuration (Steps and available Options during the installation process)
• Project Planning (Includes BizTalk Project specific content – recommended to anyone planning a BizTalk solution)
• Workshop Review (Opportunity to have your specific questions answered)
• Breakout session 

Register:
Please visit www.microsoft.com/usa/events  or call 877.673.8368 and use Event ID code: 1032268797 to register. 

Please register by Wednesday, February 23, 2005. Seating is limited.

*Computers for hands on lab will be provided.  Lunch and parking will be hosted. Day of Registration begins at 8:00AM on Monday, February 28, 2005.

This is the reschedule of the original Virtual Server 2005 event that was postponed due to the speaker’s illness.

REGISTRATION: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032268650&x=13&y=9

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"Virtualization and Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005"

Join us for an informal, informative session which will provide you with valuable information on optimizing your Windows Server infrastructure. Led by Southern California-based technical experts, this session will cover methodologies and tools to help you design and manage a more reliable, more manageable infrastructure, and help you speed up day-to-day management and deployment processes.

At this session, we will provide you with a technical overview of virtualization, and with an overview of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. In this session, you’ll gain information on:

Virtualization Overview:

Key components and terms
Virtualization and hardware management
Guest / host integration
Performance drivers
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Overview:

Target usage scenarios
Architecture and Key Features
Resource Management
Usage and deployment examples
Deployment and configuration tips
Lance Lillie, Principal Technology Specialist from Microsoft will present at this informative, information-packed session.

Local Microsoft technical experts will be on hand to answer questions and provide information on optimizing your Windows Server infrastructure.

Tuesday, February 15, 2005
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
8:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

Microsoft Corporation, Irvine, CA
3 Park Plaza, Suite 1800
Irvine, California 92614
949.263.3000

Event Code: 1032268650

REGISTRATION: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032268650&x=13&y=9

Microsoft Security Training Onsites

You’re invited to a FREE 2 day training session that will provide information about what we can do to better protect our IT infrastructure and applications against security threats — both today and in the future.

This seminar will be led by one of Microsoft’s top security consulting partners, and will cover topics critical to enterprise security, including: security patch management, server security on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, network and perimeter security, client security on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, application and data security, and more. There will also be live demonstrations designed to illustrate how we can help address real-world security problems with Microsoft security solutions. The agenda for this seminar is below:

Day 1:
9:00:00 AM – 11:30 AM- Essentials of Security
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM – Implementing Security Patch Management
2:45 PM – 4:45 PM – Implementing Application Security

Day 2:
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Implementing Perimeter and Network Security
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Implementing Security for Wireless Networks
2:15 PM – 4:15 PM – Deploying and Managing Windows XP Service Pack 2

To register for this event, please click the link below:
http://www.asentus.net/event_registration/microsoft/securityonsite
and enter the course code for your selected session, below.

March 8-9, 2005
(Tuesday and Wednesday)
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
Microsoft Corporation,
Santa Monica, CA 
2700 Colorado Ave., Suite 300
Santa Monica, CA  90404  92614
310.449.7300
Enter course code:  r2bNw67WpW

On-line registration for MMS 2005 is open, and can be accessed from the event web site at www.mms2005.com.  This site also provides an overview of the event, the facilities at the venue and information about the schedule and receptions.

This year’s summit will be held at The Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.  Two different registration options are available for MMS 2005 attendees – they may either purchase their MMS 2005 Registration and hotel accommodation separately, or as a package.  Details are provided on the registration page at www.mms2005.com/registration.htm. 

“Knowledge” is this year’s conference theme and the event will be packed with useful information about how to optimize Windows®-based client and server networks. Attendees will learn about smart solutions for deployment and management of services and security, as well as how to seamlessly incorporate the latest innovations into their enterprise.

With all of this detailed content and the usual expert speakers the Microsoft Management Summit will clearly be the top management event of 2005.  Visit the conference web site at www.mms2005.com for more details and registration information.

With all of this detailed content and the usual expert speakers the Microsoft Management Summit will clearly be the top management event of 2005.  Visit the conference web site at http://www.mms2005.com for more details and registration information.

If you’re using Siebel (and you know who you are), this is a webcast on using Siebel with SQL Server 2000.  We should know – we use Siebel as our enterprise CRM product on SQL Server 2000… so much so that we have a LOT of custom web services interfaces into Siebel.  We even have our own custom add-on to Outlook 2003 that allows us to work with Siebel sales information and do opportunity entry DIRECTLY into Outlook 2003.  It also synchronizes Siebel CRM customer data locally to our laptops so that we can work with Siebel off line.  I certainly hope they go over the things that we, MICROSOFT, have down with Siebel internally because I think that that’s the most amazing and fascinating stuff not to mention a huge statement about the extensibility of Siebel.  I ain’t going to lie to you – we’re on a fairly old version of Siebel so the client components are fairly old the latest but I can say that the stuff that we’ve done to extend Siebel through web services has been super-cool.  I should know – I use it weekly!

To register, individuals may go to www.siebelonmicrosoft.com, click on the Events tab, and then choose the Feb 4th webcast, or they can go directly to registration page at: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032268342&Culture=en-US

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Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Improve TCO by Migrating Your Siebel Applications to Microsoft SQL Server

Start Time:  Friday, February 04, 2005 8:00 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
End Time:  Friday, February 04, 2005 9:00 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) 

Have you realized the total cost of ownership (TCO) you expected on your Siebel CRM investment? It is more than likely that you are carrying forward an expensive and inflexible infrastructure with your deployment that requires a very high IT budget. Are you interested in doing more with less? In this TECHNICAL webcast series we will discuss tools, techniques and resources for successfully and logically migrating your Siebel CRM applications to Microsoft® Windows® and Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000. Join us as we speak with REAL customers that have migrated their Siebel applications to SQL Server, reducing hardware and software support related costs while enjoying the benefits of a highly available and scalable enterprise CRM application.

Presenters:  Anu Chawla, Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation & Frank McBath, Technologist, Microsoft Corporation

The famed Motorola MPX, "convertible" Pocket PC Phone device has been released and is available for purchase. 

The MPX provides a full keyboard in a "flip device" form factor similar to the old Motorola paging devices of lore while being able to "convert" itself into a flip phone that works and operates just like a standard flip phone.

It’s a GSM/GPRS phone that runs on 1900mhz networks making it particularly good for T-Mobile users.  It has 802.11b wireless Ethernet and it also has Bluetooth for wireless headsets.  It appears to be $870 retail without a new cell plan. 

Take a look at it.

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