Live Webcasts

The following webcasts are recordings from the live event. Additionally, Quest Connect has 50 on-demand webcasts available for viewing throughout the archive period. For a list of these topics, click here.

What's All This Talk about PowerShell Anyway?

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Dmitry Sotnikov, PowerShell MVP and Kirk Munro, PowerShell MVP - Quest Software

So what exactly is PowerShell? How does it make life as an Admin easier? Join this session conducted by Quest's PowerShell MVPs, Dmitry Sotnikov and Kirk Munro, to learn more about PowerShell and see some real life examples of how PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI make managing your Microsoft infrastructure (Active Directory, Exchange, Hyper-V and more) easier!

Unlocking the Secrets behind Effective Incident Management for Application Services

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Hugh McEvoy - Manager, Product Management - Quest Software

The goal of improving incident and problem management is an ongoing effort for any IT organization. One step towards this goal is to change the way IT views and manages the various hardware and software resources that support the business operations. This webcast focuses on the challenges facing IT organizations as it relates to finding the source of application service-related incidents and communications between different levels of IT support (NOC, application administrators, development support, etc). We will introduce a new view on incident management - from the application services perspective - and will discuss a recommended methodology that helps:

1. Prioritize a given incident;
2. Better understand impact on end-users;
3. Identify the root cause of the incident;
4. Escalate to the appropriate personnel for further action and resolution

Exchange 2010 and the Cloud - Migration and Management Best Practices

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Keith Ridings, Product Manager, Exchange Migration; and Rob Sargent, Product Manager, Exchange Management - Quest Software

Exchange 2010 and the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) are designed to help organizations achieve better business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration, and compliance. But adopting these innovative Microsoft technologies can be one of the most complex, labor-intensive projects an organization can undertake. However, it does not have to be. With the proper planning and execution, you can successfully migrate to and proactively manage Exchange 2010 and BPOS and minimize the impact on your users and your help desk. Join Quest product managers Keith Ridings and Rob Sargent as they share best practices for maximizing the value of your next-generation Exchange investment.

Single Sign-on: Separating Fact from Fiction and Making SSO work in the Real World

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Jackson Shaw - Sr Director, Product Management - Quest Software

Single Sign-on has long been considered the "holy grail" of identity and access management, but the promise of SSO has been riddled with roadblocks, limited technology, and prohibitive costs. Not any more. Learn from the directory "rock star" and industry veteran Jackson Shaw how an intelligent approach to SSO that builds on existing investments to deliver the very best SSO for your entire enterprise is achievable today.

Finally A Pain-Free Way to Take Your SharePoint Sites to the Next Level

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Doug Davis, Product Director, SharePoint Solutions - Quest Software

SharePoint makes it simple for business owners to create new sites and rapidly add information. But taking those sites to the next level - through creating even simple menus, dashboards and applications -- can be incredibly frustrating and seemingly impossible. Attend this webcast to learn best practices for easily enhancing SharePoint. You'll also learn how Quest Web Parts for SharePoint can enable your organization to quickly build navigation, menus, and collaborative applications using data from anywhere in the enterprise.

A Sysadmin's Guide to SQL Server

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Brent Ozar, SQL Server expert; Tim Ford, Senior DBA for Spectrum Health Hospital System; Tom LaRock, DBA at an international investment company

Scared to touch that SQL Server database? You can do it, and we can help. In this webcast, our SQL Server experts will show Windows administrators how to manage SQL Server with confidence. The experts will cover the basics of backup and restore, security and permissions, and performance tuning. Plus, they will show how a favorite Windows performance tool can help manage SQL Server.

Keynote Address by Doug Garn, CEO and President, Quest Software

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Doug Garn, Chief Operating Officer and President - Quest Software
Carol Fawcett, VP, Information Services - Quest Software

Now, more than ever, organizations are expected to drive business productivity and cut costs. But how can you do more with less? Join us for this unique opportunity to hear directly from Quest executive leadership. Doug and Carol will discuss the Quest story, the challenges of managing IT in a down economy, new market trends and more. Carol will also share how her team uses Quest products in house. You won’t want to miss this informative keynote address!

How to Win with the Microsoft and Quest Partnership

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Phil Simpson, Senior Business Development Manager, Microsoft

This session will give an overview of the Microsoft Partner program and how Quest fits into this program. It will provide highlights of the Quest/Microsoft relationship and commitments. Phil will also give a good review of how our mutual customers benefit from the partnership and answer questions.

Reach for the Cloud: Seamlessly Migrate to Microsoft BPOS

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Keith Ridings, Product Manager, Notes and GroupWise Migration - Quest Software
Matt Fangman, Director, Unified Communications - Microsoft

In a time of diminishing IT budgets and headcounts, hosted e-mail and collaboration services are an increasingly attractive alternative to on-premises platforms, offering reduced costs, increased protection from outside threats, and enhanced operational efficiency. Many organizations are choosing Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS): a set of hosted messaging and collaboration solutions including Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Office Communications Online. In this webcast, experts from Microsoft and Quest will discuss how to ensure a fast and seamless migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.

Quest's Virtualization Management Overview

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Tyler Jewell, General Manager of Storage Solutions - Quest Software

Virtualization is changing the IT landscape and introducing a whole new level of complexity that must be properly managed in order to meet SLAs. Quest is uniquely positioned as the only third-party management vendor who can manage both the hypervisors as well as what's in them (databases, applications and Windows infrastructure). Come to this live Webcast to receive an overview of the management challenges created by a virtual environment, how Quest can help you manage those today, and also some exciting news about where we are going in the future.

Windows Server 2008: What's new in R2

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Val Vasquez, Sales Evangelist - Quest Software

Let Val Vazquez, Quest's Active Directory evangelist teach you about the embarrassing wealth of new features: a new Recycle Bin, a new AD Administrative Center, and an updated Best Practices Analyzer. Find out what it all means to you!

Managing User Quality of Experience is a WIN-WIN for IT and the Business

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John Spirko, Product Management Director - Quest Software

Managing the Quality of Experience (QoE) application users receive is key to maintaining customer loyalty, productivity and revenue growth. QoE is one of the most cost effective investments you can make. Join us as we share the stage with some of our customers to talk about how they have been able to improve User QoE by actively managing from 3 different perspectives:

1. Measuring and managing service levels being delivered to users;
2. Measuring End User performance and efficiency by capturing and storing every user transaction;
3. Analyzing End User data to uncover hidden patterns for business planning and improved application effectiveness

Storage Makes a Difference: How NetApp Storage Enhances Quest Software Solutions

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Zev Rubenstein, ISV Alliances Manager, NetApp

Think storage doesn’t matter? Think again! Whether it’s Archive Manager or Desktop Virtualization, using NetApp storage in your infrastructure will save you money and increase your system uptime. See how integrated solutions from Quest and NetApp can provide cost savings via reduced management costs and deduplication of redundant data. Learn how NetApp data protection and disaster recovery solutions can provide you with vastly improved Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives. Support archival and compliance as well – in the same storage device! A primary focus will be on leveraging Quest and NetApp to create a virtualized messaging infrastructure that is highly efficient in every respect: resilient, flexible, easy to manage and cost-effective.

Making Friends with your Identity and Access Management Framework

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Jonathan Sander, IAM & Security Analyst - Quest Software

Traditionally deploying an identity and access management framework has been fraught with delays, hidden expense, and un-met expectations. Learn from Quest Security and Identity Analyst Jonathan Sander how to get the most from your framework while actually simplifying its deployment, reducing costs, and achieving everything you bought it for in the first place.

Exchange Server 2010 and Archiving: Taking the Next Step to a Compliant Archive

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Ron Robbins, Product Manager, Specializing in Archiving and Compliance

Exchange 2010 makes its debut soon with advanced features for email archiving, providing a familiar interface for users, an integrated search component, and management and control of what's in the archive. For some organizations, these capabilities will satisfy their requirements but there is a need for third-party tools to complement this native functionality. Additional functionality is needed in the areas of offline access, single instance storage, tamperproof content, automatic classification and tag-based retention. Join Quest product manager Ron Robbins as he reviews Exchange Server 2010 and additional tools required for a complaint archive.

Dell's Perspective of Exchange 2010

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Dustin Johnson, Sr. Global Solution Architect, Dell

Dell is one of Quest’s top partners globally. Our strategic relationship goes back almost 6 years. Dell is Quests #1 Global Partner and largest distribution of Quest software. Dell will share an overview of their Messaging offerings and how we leverage Quest to assist customers in simplifying their IT infrastructures.

A Complete Notes-to-Microsoft Migration

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Tim Fountain, Systems Consultant, Notes Migration Solutions - Quest Software

For organizations looking to migrate from the IBM Lotus platform, Quest offers the industry's most complete set of transition solutions for seamless, cost-effective migrations of Notes mailboxes to Microsoft Exchange/Exchange Online, application content to SharePoint/SharePoint Online, and Sametime users to Office Communication Server. Learn from experts at Quest and Microsoft the best ways to analyze the Lotus environment, rapidly rebuild complex applications and allow the Notes and Microsoft environments to coexist throughout the migration.

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