The things that are better left unspoken : TechEd

Stay up to date with TechEd North America (Orlando)

Sander Berkouwer — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:40:02 GMT

This week, Microsoft organizes TechEd North America. With lots of announcements and other product news, it’s worthwhile to keep up to date with this event. No wonder this event sold out…

If you’re not able to make it, the following resources will help you keep up to date:

Official website
http://northamerica.msteched.com

Blog
http://northamerica.msteched.com/blog

Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/TechEd_NA and tag #teched

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/TechEd

YouTube
www.youtube.com/TechEd

LinkedIn
http://msft.it/TechEd_LIGrp

I will be staffing at TechEd Europe (Amsterdam)

Sander Berkouwer — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:40:03 GMT

As a TechEd Alumni and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), sometimes interesting opportunities cross your path. To staff at Microsoft Europe 2012 and this event being hosted in my own country, is a privilege.

If you want to say Hi or discuss Active Directory and Dynamic Access Control, be sure to visit the “Windows Server 2012 Active Directory and Dynamic Access Control”-booth in the Technical Learning Center (TLC) at the TechExpo on:

Tuesday June 26, 5:45PM – 7:30PM (during the Welcome Reception)
Wednesday June 27, 9:45AM - 12:30 PM
Thursday June 28, 12:30PM - 3:00PM

Even if you’re not interested in meeting, you might want to pay attention to the people staffing the booth, since gurus and speakers like Brian Puhl, Mark Parris, Paul Loonen, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner and Ralf Wigand are also scheduled to staff the same booth.

See you there!

I will be staffing at TechEd North America (Orlando)

Sander Berkouwer — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:23:00 GMT

As a TechEd Alumni and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), sometimes interesting opportunities cross your path. When the opportunity presented itself to staff at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012, I didn’t need to think twice.

As a consequence, I will be travelling to Orlando, FL on June 9 and returning to the Netherlands on June 16. These flights take me to Boston and New York, too, which is an added bonus.

Monday June 11, 5:30PM – 7:30PM (during the Welcome Reception)
Wednesday June 13, 10:30AM - 1:00 PM
Thursday June 14, 10:30AM - 12:30PM

The booth itself isn’t hard to find. It is the booth facing the Red Hat booth.

Even if you’re not interested in meeting, you might want to pay attention to the people staffing the booth, since gurus and speakers like Brian Puhl, Darren Mar-Elia, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner, Siddharth Bai, Ralf Wigand, Dean Wells and Jeremy Moskowitz are also scheduled to staff the same booth.

See you there!

Interviewed at Tech·Ed Europe for TechNet

Sander Berkouwer — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:54:00 GMT

While I was at Tech·Ed Europe, last month, I ran into Philip Weitnauer, who was shooting interviews for TechNet Edge. He asked me a couple of questions on TechNet, namely the TechNet Forums, TechNet TechCenters, TechNet Edge and the TechNet Wiki.

Philip posted the (edited) video on TechNet Edge, earlier this week.

Sander Berkouwer–TechNet Edge, the Way to Success: Know Where to Find Things

In this video, after introducing myself, I tell the story of a customer coming from a Novell environment and looking where to find information on his spanking new Microsoft environment.

The video is only 5 minutes long, so it’s not a terrible waste of your time.

Videos of Active Directory-related sessions at Tech·Ed Europe 2010

Sander Berkouwer — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:48:00 GMT

Below you’ll find links to the videos of all Active Directory-related sessions of Tech·Ed Europe 2010:

Note:
These videos and related materials, like PowerPoint slides, are available free.

SIA321 Explore Secure Collaboration Using Identity Federation in Forefront UAG
Speaker(s): Michel Biton

SIA320 Impact of Cloning and Virtualization on Active Directory Domain Services
Speaker(s): Dean Wells Tip!

SIA301 Attack & Defence: Authentication and Passwords!
Speaker(s): Marcus Murray

SIA303-LNC Common Identity Across On-premises, Private and Public Cloud
Speaker(s): Brjann Brekkan

WCL319 MDOP: Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0
Speaker(s): Brad McCabe, Ken Rosen

SIA304 Information Protection for Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online using AD RMS
Speaker(s): Tejas Patel

OFS308 Deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with Claims Authentication
Speaker(s): Wouter van Vugt

SIA306 A Dozen Years AD – Discuss Previous and Future Design Decisions
Speaker(s): Ulf B. Simon-Weidner DS MVP Session!

SIA305 Windows Identity Foundation and Windows Azure for Developers
Speaker(s): Vittorio Bertocci

WCL313 Troubleshooting Group Policy
Speaker(s): Jeremy Moskowitz

SIA312 All You Need to Know about Extending Active Directory rights Management Services (AD RMS) Protected Content to External Parties
Speaker(s): Tejas Patel

SIA402 Active Directory Federation Services – How do they really work
Speaker(s): John Craddock

SIA313 Cloud Security: The Practical Meaning of Security, Identity and Access Revealed!
Speaker(s): Brjann Brekkan, Paula Januszkiewicz, Tomasz Onyszko
Featuring a DirTeam blogger as speaker!

SIA318 Windows Identity Framework in the Real World
Speaker(s): Jesus Rodriguez

SIA401 All You Need to Know about Certificates from Templates to Revocation
Speaker(s): John Craddock

SIA403 How to (un)Destroy your Active Directory
Speaker(s): Ralf Wigand DS MVP Session!

TEE2010 in Pictures: Where there’s smoke…

Sander Berkouwer — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:49:00 GMT

Tonight is our last night in Berlin. Dave and I enjoyed a nice dinner (no Remy Martin XO, this time!) and enjoying cigars on the way back to the hotel.

This has been a fun week!

TEE2010 in Pictures: Get to ze klauwd!

Sander Berkouwer — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:39:00 GMT

Contrary to popular believe, I’ve been attending a couple of sessions at Tech·Ed. While my calendar was filled with dinners and parties every night and I haven’t seen my hotel bed before 3 AM, I did attend a couple of 9 AM sessions.

Most of my sessions revolved around identity, identity federation and more mainstream Active Directory topics. With sessions hosted by German speakers and a friend linking to 160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes on Facebook, no wonder I had to think about ‘ze klauwd’.

I can actually hear him say it in my head.

TEE2010 in Pictures: Jamaican Country Drinks

Sander Berkouwer — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:24:00 GMT

Today I got invited to the Swedish Country Drinks at Club Solar. Of course, to throw people off even more, I’m wearing my typical Country Drinks outfit: my Jamaican Cardigan (sweater).

I wonder how many conversations it will stir up!

TEE2010 in Pictures: I am a DC

Sander Berkouwer — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:08:00 GMT

This year, at Tech·Ed Europe, I feel I’m hanging out at the MVP booth a lot, helping out Evelyn Ruf, Katrin Letzel and William Jansen. That’s a lot of fun.

Evelyn asked me to sign the MVP wall. With pleasure!

TEE2010 in Pictures: Sandy’s Handy list

Sander Berkouwer — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:01:00 GMT

(title by William Jansen)

Since this is not my first Tech·Ed and not my first conference, by now, I come prepared. Since being an MVP is about sharing, in this post I’ll share the stuff that I take with me in my bag and the choices I make, whenever I go to a convention. You may benefit from this information when you go to your first Tech·Ed or MVP Summit…

Choices

Room sharing

Last year during Tech·Ed I wrote:

“Next time your boss tells you to share a room, don’t get mad. Get drunk. ;-)”

Every year, this opinion grows stronger. At every conference I try to do something fun every night. Whether it’s having dinner with some Microsoft Product Team guys, a Tech·Ed Country Drinks or just hanging out with my local Microsoft DPE guys. I tend to drink. Wine, beer, cognac, champagne…

But, after a night out, I need to find a bed. I need to be able to get to my hotel room and for that I typically need to operate an elevator, open a hotel door, get off my shoes, etc. Some times, I can’t really do that anymore. And that’s when the concept of room sharing steps in.

This year, as an experiment, I’m sharing a room with two colleagues. Not one, two. So far I’m liking the concept. Of course, the amount of guys in one room in their underpants doubles, but at least this year I have a redundant ‘get me to the hotel’ service.

Equipment

Wireless router

European hotel rooms tend to offer Internet Access. Most hotels offer Wi-Fi nowadays and some offer both a wireless and wired connection. In most cases you will need to provide a cryptic username and password combination to gain access to the Internet. This access, typically, is then bound to the MAC address of the device you entered the credentials on. This way, you cannot share and reuse the key on another computer. The binding often only lasts five minutes when you’re inactive, after which you can enter the credentials on another computer.

I bring a wireless router with me. It’s an old piece of hardware, but at least it’s capable of WPA encryption. I typically connect this device and use it to share Internet Access. Since it’s a NAT device it will make the credentials bind to its MAC address. I’ve been to many conventions, and this device always made me and my roommate(s) happy.

RFID card

You know those hotel rooms that need the hotel room key (a card) stuck into a wall mount next to the door to be able to turn on lights and get power? These things usually just rely on the RFID tag inside the card. But, honestly, the outlet itself does not read the RFID tag, it merely detects it. You can plug in any RFID card and have power while you’re gone. This year we used Dave’s Dutch Dynabyte Customer card. A Dutch Public Transportation card will also do nicely.

Power strip

I also, always, bring a power strip or Power Distribution Unit (PDU). I found one in a local shop with ten power outlets. Typically in a hotel room there’s only a couple of power outlets. Being a geek, I bring two laptops, two mobile phones, and of course, the wireless router. When these things need to charge, It takes up to five power outlets. That’s even without the equipment my room mate(s) want to charge and use!

Especially, when travelling outside Europe, the power outlet layout changes. In the US power outlets look like a little face, and European stuff can’t be plugged in. Luckily, though, all my equipment is capable of operating on 110V. All I need to do to be able to get some power, is plug in the power bar, using one converter. This eliminates the hassle of bringing a lot of converters with me.

My power strip also features an on/off switch with a nice light when it’s switched on. This allows me to see in a glance whether the power is still on in the room.

TEE2010 in Pictures: Windows Phone 7

Sander Berkouwer — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:35:00 GMT

While at Tech·Ed, Windows Phone 7 has launched here in Germany. I had the opportunity to get in touch with a HTC Mozart device in one of the many T-Mobile stores.

The picture above doesn’t do justice to how I feel about it.

TEE2010 in Pictures: Ready for L(a)unch

Sander Berkouwer — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 09:02:00 GMT

I’m at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport at the moment, getting ready to board flight KL1823 to Berlin Tegel Airport. Together with Dave Stork and Roland Zenhorst (two colleagues from OGD), I’m heading for a week of fun, related to Tech·Ed Europe 2010.

We were scheduled to depart at 0945 (that’s 9:45 AM), but boarding has been delayed, because one of the wheels of the plane (PH-EZ0) needed replacing. This delay, and a quick triple espresso, present a moment to blog. I hope to be as lucky the rest of the week, but I’m sure I’ll be busy enough travelling and partying.

In between parties I’ll try and attend some sessions. In my last post I already mentioned Active Directory sessions of interest, so you’re bound to meet me there.

Now, it’s time for launch… and lunch

Active Directory-related sessions at Tech·Ed Europe 2010
I’m attending Tech·Ed Europe 2010, are you?

Active Directory-related sessions at Tech·Ed Europe 2010

Sander Berkouwer — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:55:53 GMT

Tech·Ed Europe 2010 is only a few weeks away and many of us have begun filling their session builder with interesting sessions, corresponding to their interests and knowledge.

Following Hans’ example, I decided to compile a list of the Active Directory and Group Policy related sessions at Tech·Ed Europe 2010.

I’ve compiled the list below, divided per Tech·Ed session type and arranged by date:

Breakout Sessions

When your goal at Tech·Ed is to learn about the different Active Directory technologies and Group Policy topics, breakout sessions offer the most bang for your buck. In one hour time Speakers will show these technologies with presentations and demos. Lunchtime sessions are a special kind of breakout sessions; they are shorter in time. (45 minutes)

SIA321 Explore Secure Collaboration Using Identity Federation in Forefront UAG Tuesday, November 9 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Michel Biton

Supercharge your federation solution with Forefront UAG SP1! Learn how UAG can simplify migration to a claims-aware environment, enabling secure, seamless access to all your applications. Demonstrating secure collaboration scenarios using AD FS 2.0 and new capabilities built into Forefront UAG SP1.

SIA320 Impact of Cloning and Virtualization on Active Directory Domain Services
Tip! Tuesday, November 9 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Dean Wells

Customers are looking to further virtualize their environments: file servers, web servers, DNS servers and even their domain controllers. It is clear that virtualization provides many benefits in areas such as deployment, disaster-recovery and lowering TCO. However, while virtualization offers many powerful capabilities and greatly simplifies repetitive tasks, it is a technology that must be handled with care when used in conjunction with Active Directory. In this session we will review fundamental concepts within Active Directory and the impact of cloning & virtualization upon domain controllers, domain members and Windows in general. We will also discuss how to best leverage virtualization, and how to both mitigate problems and to avoid occurrences in the first place.

SIA301 Attack & Defence: Authentication and Passwords!
Tuesday, November 9 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Marcus Murray

During this session Marcus Murray will use live demonstrations to give you an insight into the way hackers attack authentication mechanisms in your company, and how you can defend yourself. In the attack demos, we will look at various weaknesses and how they can be exploited using common hacker tools and techniques. In the defense section, we will look at password strategies, smart cards, network transports, new features in Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 like Authentication Mechanism Assurance, Restrict NTLM, and more. This session is an evolution of the No. 1 Top Session at Tech·Ed North America 2010

SIA301-LNC Common Identity Across On-premises, Private and Public Cloud
Lunch Tuesday, November 9 | 1:20 PM - 2:05 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Brjann Brekkan

See how Forefront Identity Manager is used to provide self-service delegated management of on-premises and private cloud datacenter resources. You will learn how Forefront Identity Manager, Active Directory Federation Services and Windows Identity Foundation are being integrated to provision users and provide access to application services in the cloud (Azure and BPOS), and also how to configure FIM to ensure that quality identity data is available to these applications, and how users can perform self-service claims management.

WCL319 MDOP: Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0
Tuesday, November 9 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM, Track: Windows Client
Speaker(s): Brad McCabe, Ken Rosen

Get more from Group Policy with Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM). AGPM is part of the suite of MDOP products, and delivers change management and advanced reporting to Group Policy management. This high-energy session demonstrates all the cool features you've been missing from Group Policy like auditing, difference reporting, workflow, and role delegation. Plus, you will see all the new features of 4.0: multi forest functionality, Windows 7 support and search.

SIA304 Information Protection for Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online using AD RMS
Tuesday, November 9 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Tejas Patel

Learn about new Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online IRM capabilities that protect content on premises and in the cloud, using AD RMS.

OFS308 Deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with Claims Authentication
Wednesday, November 10 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, Track: Office & SharePoint
Speaker(s): Wouter van Vugt

This session will walk you step-by-step through the process of configuring a SharePoint web application to use SAML claims and ADFS v2. It will cover some basic usage scenarios, and describe specifically how they impact sites using SAML claims and how to implement common changes in a SAML claims environment. The session will also include some basic troubleshooting steps to help you understand why users may not be able to log on to a SAML claims site.

SIA306 A Dozen Years AD – Discuss Previous and Future Design Decisions
Wednesday, November 10 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Ulf B. Simon-Weidner DS MVP Session!

Active Directory has evolved over the years, along with security recommendations and best practices. But has our corporate design changed that much? Is it required? What should we change, and what should we retain? Ulf B. Simon-Weidner is a long standing, internationally recognized expert in Active Directory, and in this session he will discuss Active Directory Designs of the past, present and future.

SIA305 Windows Identity Foundation and Windows Azure for Developers
Wednesday, November 10 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Vittorio Bertocci

Claims-based identity provides an open and interoperable approach to identity and access control that can be applied consistently, both on-premises and in the cloud. Come to this session to learn about how Windows Identity Foundation can be used to secure your Web Roles hosted in Windows Azure, how you can take advantage of existing on-premises identities, and how to make the best of features in our cloud offering, such as certificate management and staged environments. This is an ideal session for developers.

WCL313 Troubleshooting Group Policy
Wednesday, November 10 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM, Track: Windows Client
Speaker(s): Jeremy Moskowitz

The changes in Windows 7 mean you need to update your troubleshooting skills. Jeremy Moskowitz, Group Policy MVP of GPanswers.com and author of ‘Group Policy Fundamentals, Security and the Managed Desktop’ is just the guy to bring you the know-how. In this session you’ll learn why you can no longer just run gpresult.exe to get the results you want. You’ll discover what happens if you reconnect to network after a long absence. You’ll learn how to crack open the Windows 7 event log and trace Group Policy flow to figure out what might be going on. You’ll learn how to troubleshoot the new Group Policy Preference Extensions. You’ll learn how other areas, such as Offline Files and Group Policy Software Installation, can be tweaked to give you just the information you need to fix what ails you. If you’re looking for Group Policy answers to your troubleshooting questions, this is the session for you.

SIA312 All You Need to Know about Extending AD RMS Protected Content to External Parties
Wednesday, November 10 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Tejas Patel

Learn best practices and the pros and cons of deploying different kinds of Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) trusts with external partners, using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), MFG (a new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 feature), TUD and WLID.

SIA402 Active Directory Federation Services – How do they really work
Thursday, November 11 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): John Craddock

Secure applications must be able to “trust” the identity of users who are accessing the resources. It is simple to establish that trust when Active Directory Windows authentication is used. And if the application needs further identity information about the user in order to qualify its response, the additional properties can be read from the Active Directory.
When the application resides outside your realm, maybe in the Cloud or within a partner organization, how do we establish trust? This is where Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) provides a method of linking trust between disparate parties. One organization authenticates the user and creates an industry standard token that contains the Identity of the user in the form of claims. The receiving organization accepts the user’s identity and responds with the appropriate resources because of the established trust. Come to this deep dive, demo rich session and learn how to setup and leverage the true power of ADFS v2.

SIA313 Cloud Security: The Practical Meaning of Security, Identity and Access Revealed!
Thursday, November 11 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Brjann Brekkan, Paula Januszkiewicz, Tomasz Onyszko
Featuring a DirTeam blogger as speaker!

The CLOUD is coming. But let’s face it, you must have asked yourself if it possible to hack the claims? How can we prevent this? One thing is sure: moving from on-premises applications to the cloud is like moving from a home generator to the electricity grid. We put our trust in the external identity providers, but are we really sure that all of the security issues have been addressed? We focus on the application in the cloud, but is this really the application that we need to protect? New solutions bring new possible attack vectors, and not only from the outside! Come and see what can happen when the users, or even the administrators, become the bad guys. During this intensive and extremely practical session, presenters will guide you through the threats and challenges related to the industry standard- based services delivered by ADFS v2. Only real-life scenarios! Many practical demos!

SIA318 Windows Identity Framework in the Real World
Thursday, November 11 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Jesus Rodriguez

Are you wondering how customers are adopting Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) in the real world? What challenges do they face? What solutions are they implementing? This session presents a series of best practices collected, and lessons learned, during the implementation of large WIF solutions in the real world.
We have included a series of practical demonstrations that illustrate how to address important aspects of WIF-based solutions, such as monitoring, scalability, testing, and claim and record management, among many others. Additionally, we will present three case studies that demonstrate how customers are leveraging these solutions to facilitate the implementation of WIF in the enterprise.

SIA401 All You Need to Know about Certificates from Templates to Revocation
Friday, November 12 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): John Craddock

As the requirement for certificates proliferates with the introduction of smartcards, HTTPS, IPSec, NAP and DirectAccess, customers are suffering through a lack of understanding of PKI, certificate templates, deployment and revocation.
This highly pragmatic session, based on field experience, will alleviate the pain! If you don’t currently have a Public Key Infrastructure, or have one in place and are not completely comfortable with how certificates really work, then this demo rich session is for you. You will learn how to build a PKI, create and issue appropriate templates, publish certificates, and build the infrastructure to support revocation checking.

SIA403 How to (un)Destroy your Active Directory
Friday, November 12 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Ralf Wigand DS MVP Session!

As a consultant with 10 years of experience in troubleshooting ADDS and as MVP for Directory Services, I prepared an ADDS with the top 10 errors - all at the same time. During this session we will fix it step-by-step, while explaining the reason why this happened and how it can be avoided next time.

Interactive Sessions

If going head-to-head with Microsoft Program Managers instead of listening to a speaker unfolding his or her presentations, Interactive sessions might be more your thing. (Perhaps becoming an MVP is also a valid option for you)

SIA305-IS - Enable Secure Access using Forefront UAG Service Pack 1
Wednesday, November 10 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Ben Bernstein , Michel Biton

Access using Federation and DirectAccess has never been so easy! Learn what service pack 1 of Forefront UAG has to offer, enabling secure access to corporate resources with AD FS and DirectAccess. This session will focus on scenario-enablers we have built onto SP1 of the Unified Access Gateway.

SIA203-IS Interactive Discussion on Identity Futures with Microsoft Program Managers
Wednesday, November 10 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Dean Wells, Robert DeLuca

What does Identity mean to you? Do you want to influence the future of Microsoft's Identity offerings? This highly interactive, discussion-based session provides a unique opportunity to share real-world requirements and understand how your priorities align with those of other Tech·Ed attendees. Members of Microsoft's Identity and Access product team will be on hand to absorb your feedback first-hand, and to guide participants through a fast-paced discussion covering a wide range of topics.

SIA301-IS Under the hood: What Really Happens During Critical AD Operations
Thursday, November 11 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Ulf B. Simon-Weidner DS MVP Session!

Come and discuss critical Active Directory-Operations.
Are you fully aware what “critical” operations in AD really do? In this interactive session we will talk about those operations, understanding what they are doing and how to distinguish whether operations are critical to your environment or not. Ulf has been working in the field for more than 13 years, and has a lot of notes and examples to share. We will talk about how to approach challenges, and study scenarios that show how other companies managed the associated risks and prepared for rollbacks. We have some common scenarios for everyone but please bring your own questions as well, as we want this talk to be as interactive as possible.

WCL302-IS Your Group Policy Troubleshooting Clinic
Thursday, November 11 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Track: Windows Client
Speaker(s): Jeremy Moskowitz

In this informal chalk talk session, Group Policy MVP and bestselling author Jeremy Moskowitz of GPanswers.com will be helping YOU troubleshoot your Group Policy issues. This is Jeremy's last session at TechEd, and it is your opportunity to ask questions about anything you saw in his three "formal" talks - or about anything else for that matter. If something in your company network's Group Policy is weird, mysterious, acting funny, confusing or just "not working”, come to this informal "friends helping friends" chalk-talk session. Available seating is limited, so maybe come a little early to beat the crowds and claim your seat.

Hands-on Labs

Exploring Active Directory and Group Policy topics through the use of a keyboard and mouse might be most rewarding for you. If you have an empty slot in your session builder, why not squeeze in one of these:

SIA02-HOL Cross Organization Collaboration using MOSS 2010 and AD FS
Track: Security, Identity & Access

Learn how to simplify access to collaboration solutions like SharePoint 2010 using Active Directory Federation Services 2.0.

WCL08-HOL Advanced Group Policy Management
Track: Windows Client

This lab gives you hands-on access to the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) and Change node control, helping you regain control of how Group Policy objects (GPO) are created, using the workflow capabilities of Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM), and rolling back a wrongly deployed GPO. The goal of this lab is to allow you to evaluate the tool and/or prepare you to roll out AGPM in your own environment.

WSV06-HOL What’s New in Active Directory (v3.0)
Track: Windows Server

A lab for IT Professionals who administer large or complex Active Directory implementations. Learn how to use the new tools and features that are included in Windows Server 2008 R2 to manage Active Directory. Explore the new Active Directory Administrative Center and the Active Directory PowerShell provider; enable and test the Active Directory Recycle Bin; and provision a computer account for offline domain join.

Early information on Tech·Ed Europe 2010
I’m attending Tech·Ed Europe 2010, are you?

I’m attending Tech·Ed Europe 2010, are you?

Sander Berkouwer — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:34:24 GMT

Since I’ve shared some key information on Tech·Ed Europe 2010 earlier, I guess you’ve already concluded I’ll be attending Tech·Ed Europe this year.

Together with two colleagues (Roland Zenhorst and Dave Stork) I’ll be staying in a triple room at the abba Berlin hotel ****. We’re flying in on Sunday November 7, and flying back home to Amsterdam Airport on Saturday November 13.

Just like previous years, I’m eager to meet you all, so leave a comment or send me a contact note/mail when you want to meet up.

Early information on Tech·Ed Europe 2010

Sander Berkouwer — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:22:18 GMT

Tech·Ed is the annual Microsoft event, where IT Pros and developers meet with Microsoft representatives and Microsoft MVPs to learn and exchange information. Tech·Ed events are organized all over the world and Tech·Ed Europe is the event for IT Pros and developers from the European continent and the UK.

As a Tech·Ed veteran of sorts, I’m looking forward to another year of Tech·Ed Europe. So here’s the information that’s available so far:

Event title	Microsoft Tech·Ed Europe 2010
Dates	November 8, 2010 – November 12, 2010
Venue	Messe Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
Registration opening	July 5, 2010
Twitter hashtag	#tee10

If you want to receive notifications, join the Tech·Ed Europe mailing list for the latest news on upcoming Tech·Ed Europe events and special offers here.

I hope to see a lot of you in Berlin!

The things that are better left unspoken : TechEd

Stay up to date with TechEd North America (Orlando)

I will be staffing at TechEd Europe (Amsterdam)

I will be staffing at TechEd North America (Orlando)

Interviewed at Tech·Ed Europe for TechNet

Videos of Active Directory-related sessions at Tech·Ed Europe 2010

TEE2010 in Pictures: Where there’s smoke…

TEE2010 in Pictures: Get to ze klauwd!

TEE2010 in Pictures: Jamaican Country Drinks

TEE2010 in Pictures: I am a DC

TEE2010 in Pictures: Sandy’s Handy list

Choices

Room sharing

Equipment

Wireless router

RFID card

Power strip

TEE2010 in Pictures: Windows Phone 7

TEE2010 in Pictures: Ready for L(a)unch

Related posts

Active Directory-related sessions at Tech·Ed Europe 2010

Breakout Sessions

Interactive Sessions

SIA305-IS - Enable Secure Access using Forefront UAG Service Pack 1
Wednesday, November 10 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Ben Bernstein , Michel Biton

Access using Federation and DirectAccess has never been so easy! Learn what service pack 1 of Forefront UAG has to offer, enabling secure access to corporate resources with AD FS and DirectAccess. This session will focus on scenario-enablers we have built onto SP1 of the Unified Access Gateway.

Hands-on Labs

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Further reading

I’m attending Tech·Ed Europe 2010, are you?

Early information on Tech·Ed Europe 2010

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Tech·Ed Europe 2009

Tech·Ed EMEA 2008

The things that are better left unspoken : TechEd

Stay up to date with TechEd North America (Orlando)

I will be staffing at TechEd Europe (Amsterdam)

I will be staffing at TechEd North America (Orlando)

Interviewed at Tech·Ed Europe for TechNet

Videos of Active Directory-related sessions at Tech·Ed Europe 2010

TEE2010 in Pictures: Where there’s smoke…

TEE2010 in Pictures: Get to ze klauwd!

TEE2010 in Pictures: Jamaican Country Drinks

TEE2010 in Pictures: I am a DC

TEE2010 in Pictures: Sandy’s Handy list

Choices

Room sharing

Equipment

Wireless router

RFID card

Power strip

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Active Directory-related sessions at Tech·Ed Europe 2010

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SIA305-IS - Enable Secure Access using Forefront UAG Service Pack 1 Wednesday, November 10 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access Speaker(s): Ben Bernstein , Michel Biton

Access using Federation and DirectAccess has never been so easy! Learn what service pack 1 of Forefront UAG has to offer, enabling secure access to corporate resources with AD FS and DirectAccess. This session will focus on scenario-enablers we have built onto SP1 of the Unified Access Gateway.

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SIA305-IS - Enable Secure Access using Forefront UAG Service Pack 1
Wednesday, November 10 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Track: Security, Identity & Access
Speaker(s): Ben Bernstein , Michel Biton