Quest Connect 2008
On demand
The live event has concluded.
However, you can access webcasts, white papers and other resources on demand.
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All webcasts will be on demand two hours after the live presentation, so you won’t miss any of the content. Please see the full schedule below.
Do Not Fear the Command Line: PowerShell Made Easy
Speakers:
Dmitry Sotnikov – Manager, New Product Research, Quest Software
Darin Pendergraft – Senior Product Manager, Quest Software
PowerShell, the command line interface for Microsoft’s technology platforms, is here. Are you ready? During this session, PowerShell MVP Dmitry Sotnikov will discuss PowerShell and its implications on the future of IT. In addition, Darin Pendergraft will demonstrate PowerGUI, Quest’s free graphical user interface (and command line-hiding interface) for PowerShell.
A New View on Application Management
Speaker: Hugh McEvoy – Manager, Product Management, Quest Software
Given how critical applications are to businesses today, IT should step back from time to time and think about how important application performance really is to the business and what it means to have application visibility. A new view on applications and the tools required to manage them will be a must for IT organizations that are expected to move from technology provider to service provider.
In this webcast, you’ll learn:
- Five key challenges to maintaining application visibility in light of new disruptive technologies, advances in best practice processes and process maturity
- Ten must have requirements for management tools that can meet the visibility challenge
- An introduction to Foglight® Application Management Software and how it can help you address the five key challenges
A Simple Game Plan to Master SharePoint Recovery
Speaker: Doug Davis – Product Director, SharePoint Solutions, Quest Software
More data than ever before resides in SharePoint. To ensure your business operates smoothly, you must understand your SharePoint environment and ensure that you can efficiently recover your critical data quickly and easily. Attend this webcast to learn best practices for managing and recovering data in SharePoint. You’ll also learn how tools can help streamline these tasks through automation.
Change and Configuration Management: Bring Order to Chaos with System Center
Speaker: Charles Clarke – Senior Consultant, Quest Software
Are you responsible for assessing, deploying and updating your organization’s servers, clients and devices across physical, virtual, distributed and mobile environments?
If so, you won’t want to miss this webcast. You’ll gain an understanding of Microsoft’s Core Infrastructure Optimization strategy and System Center suite of solutions. Learn how they help IT professionals manage the physical and virtual IT environments across data centers, desktops, and devices.
Additionally, you’ll see how Quest enables System Center Configuration Manager to be the authoritative change and configuration management solution for the entire enterprise. Manage software and patch distribution, hardware and software inventory, software metering, system discovery, patch, and reporting capabilities for Window and non-Windows systems, clients and devices.
Active Directory as the Enterprise Identity Store: Are you Crazy?
Speaker: Joe Baguley – Windows Management Global Product Director, Quest Software
Active Directory as the enterprise identity store?!?!? It’s possible! Active Directory is one of the most reliable and secure identity stores and admit it, you already have Active Directory. During this session, Quest’s CTO for Europe will show you the advantages of and how to use Active Directory as the primary identity store for your organization to improve efficiency, enhance security and achieve compliance.
Worth the Wait – Why SQL Server 2008 is Great
Speakers:
Kevin Kline – Director of SQL Server Technology, Quest Software
Brent Ozar – SQL Server Domain Expert, Quest Software
Join Kevin Kline, SQL Server MVP and SQL Server Technology Strategist for Quest Software and Brent Ozar, SQL Server Domain Expert for Quest Software as they introduce the top ten features and capabilities in SQL Server 2008 that they find to be the most exciting and valuable.
Highlights include:
- SQL improvements
- Compression
- Security
The E-Discovery Easy Button: Finding it and Using it
Speaker: Keri Farrell – Product Manager, E-Discovery, Quest Software
The challenges of e-discovery for the IT organization are numerous and include risk, cost, capture, access and dealing with multiple, competing interests. Between understanding the issues, knowing where data resides, and preparing for meet and confer, your IT teams will have to implement retention policies, control access to ESI, and ensure that data can be located and accessed in a timely manner. This session will explain different e-discovery technologies for Unified Communications, show where the technology gaps exist and will provide the closest thing to an E-Discovery Easy Button you’ll ever see.
Achieving Optimal Performance from your Virtual Infrastructure through Management and Automation
Speaker: Scott Herold, Lead Architect, Vizioncore
Server virtualization has brought significant efficiencies to IT operations, but at the cost of new challenges in monitoring the health of virtual machines, analyzing data, alerting staff of incidents and problems, and performing standard and special administrative tasks. These challenges are growing as virtualization takes an increasingly central role in IT, forcing administrators to invest more time and effort into ensuring the proper operation and health of the virtual infrastructure.
Join Scott Herold as he describes how the growing complexity and lack of resources necessitates changing the way IT operations are commonly performed. As a best-selling author, Herold shares expert guidance on how organizations can:
- Optimize your infrastructure to reduce server sprawl, energy usage and management costs
- Improve performance and increase availability with greater visibility into your virtual infrastructure
- Automate storage optimization procedures to increase performance and efficiency of VMs while reducing enterprise storage costs
- Quickly recover from service disruptions and minimize both downtime and data loss
AD, SOX, JSOX, SoD, PCI, Attestation: Someone, Stop the Insanity!
Speaker: Michael Tweddle – Technical Director, Active Directory and Identity and Access Management, Quest Software
Your organization has likely made considerable investments in Active Directory – from management applications to recovery tools. Now you are being asked to make sense of the jumble of compliance mandates from all over the world. During this session, our North American CTO will explore methods for using the information you already have in Active Directory to eliminate the stress of your next compliance milestone.
Managing the Impact of Virtualization on Applications and End Users
Speakers:
Scott Herold – Lead Architect, Virtualization Solutions, Quest Software
Marc Stitt – Manager, Product Marketing, Application Management and Virtualization Solutions, Quest Software
Virtualization offers a wealth of benefits. However, the gains you make in greater resource utilization, improved flexibility and reduced costs could be lost on poorly performing applications that fail to meet service levels and the needs of end users.
Join this pragmatic discussion about the key challenges that organizations face when trying to manage a virtual infrastructure. Learn solutions to achieve application performance and availability objectives.
This informative webcast will help you:
- Bring clarity to the multiple layers of the IT infrastructure through improved visualization and architectural awareness
- Gain the expertise to know there is a problem, why it’s a problem, and recommendations for how to resolve it
- Turn data into meaningful information to help IT understand the correlation between infrastructure, host and virtual machine issues
- Assess the impact of changes on the performance and availability of the virtual infrastructure and on applications
- Become more predictive and automated in managing your data center while preventing future problems
UPDATED TOPIC!
Get More From SharePoint! Best Practices for Migrating SharePoint 2003
to 2007
Speaker: Doug Davis – Product Director, SharePoint Solutions, Quest Software
Many organizations made an early commitment to SharePoint and rely on SharePoint 2003, but SharePoint 2007 is a natural upgrade and has many advanced features not found in earlier versions. To take advantage of the 2007 features, moving information from SharePoint 2003 makes sense. But upgrading natively can be challenging, and it limits the new features that you can use. Attend this webcast to learn best practices for migrating your information from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007 seamlessly, while greatly reducing the impact on end users.
End-to-End Service Management: System Center is Left Standing When the Talking is Done!
Speaker: Rob Mallicoat – Senior Solutions Architect, Quest Software
In this webcast you will get an understanding of Microsoft’s Core Infrastructure Optimization strategy and System Center suite of solutions that help IT professionals manage the physical and virtual IT environments across data centers, desktops, and devices.
Additionally, you will learn how Quest enables System Center Operations Manager 2007 to be the authoritative end-to-end IT service management solution for your entire enterprise— helping you ensure service levels are maintained for both Windows and non-Windows systems, clients and devices alike.
If you are responsible for performance management across physical, virtual, distributed or mobile environments in your organization, you won’t want to miss this webcast!
Shouldn’t Single Sign-on be Child’s Play?
Speaker: Jackson Shaw – Senior Director of Product Management, Active Directory and Identity and Access Management, Quest Software
Single sign-on has long been considered the “Holy Grail” of computing — elusive, but if you can find it, it has magical properties. But what is single sign-on — hint, it’s a number of things—and how can you actually implement it for maximum benefit? These topics will be addressed and your questions answered during this detailed, technical session presented by Quest Identity and Access Management expert, Jackson Shaw.
Checking Under the Hood of SQL Server 2008
Speakers:
Denny Cherry – Sr. Database Administrator and Architect, Awareness Technologies
Jason Hall – Solutions Architect, Quest Software
Join Jason Hall, Systems Consultant at Quest Software and Denny Cherry, Senior Database Administrator and Architect at Awareness Technologies, as they discuss strategies for successfully diagnosing performance of SQL Server 2008.
In this webcast, Jason and Denny discuss how to:
- Identify challenges in seeing exactly what is happening in SQL Server (including the upcoming 2008 version)
- Address these challenges with native tools or other utilities
- Use Spotlight® on SQL Server Enterprise to help find and resolve issues fast
Notes Transition to Microsoft? No Problem.
Speaker: Keith Ridings – Product Manager, Exchange Migration, Quest Software
For organizations looking to migrate from Lotus Notes, Quest Software offers an end-to-end solution set to simplify and accelerate your deployment of Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. Join us for this informative webcast and learn how Quest can make your Notes transition seamless with little or no impact on your end-users.
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