I'm sure most people know that Microsoft holds free quarterly TechNet IT events but if you don't, now you do. I had the opportunity to attend the Microsoft TechNet Spring Event last Thursday and found it to be very informative. This TechNet event covered Vista reliability and security, Server 2008 Core and Read-Only Domain Controller, and an introduction to Forefront Client Security, Microsoft's new enterprise desktop antivirus and spyware solution. Keith Combs was the presenter and he did a great job of presenting the material. If you can't make the Spring Event in your area, Keith has a screen casts of some of the material on his blog.
All of the topics are technologies that I will deploy or evaluate in the next 12 months, so this was time well spent.
This event also included a paperback copy of the Windows Vista Security Guide, it can be found in an online copy at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/security/guide.mspx. I've read through half of the book and it looks like a must read before deploying Vista. It provides recommendations that will make Vista more secure, in an Active Directory, Group Policy environment. In an added bonus, I won one of the Office 2007 Professional door prizes!
If you haven't been to a TechNet event, check it out. The current topics will run through June 2007 and there will be a series of topics this fall.
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