April 3). If you've never been to a Techmentor conference you're missing a great opportunity to hear and see your favorite IT speakers. Plus it's a lot of fun to meet your peers, swap war stories and even some strategy and tips.
Although PowerShell is an incredibly valuable administrative tool, a major feature is its support for Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). In this session you'll learn how to access remote system information, build management reports, monitor WMI events and more all with PowerShell. This will be a demo-rich session with many real-world and practical examples you can take home and use immediately.
Come see how easy it is to manage your Exchange 2007 servers from the PowerShell console. I'll guide you through common Exchange management tasks including managing mailboxes, users, contacts, databases and more. You may know how to accomplish these tasks in Exchange 2003 or from the Exchange 2007 management GUI, but the real power is at the console. If you are evaluating Exchange 2007, you'll be very excited and eager to deploy it when we're finished. This will be a demo-heavy session with many real-world and practical examples you can take home and use immediately.
In this session I'll open up my bag of tricks and tools for managing Windows servers and desktops. From mass password changes to event log management to security Mr. Roboto will show how to keep on top of your environment with free or low-cost alternatives. You'll leave with plenty of tools you can begin using immediately to make your job easier and maybe even a little fun.
Do you have logon scripts for your users? Do you still need them? Do they do what you want them to do? What good are logon scripts anyway? You'll learn the best way to leverage logon scripts and integrate them into Group Policy. You'll also see how to create logon scripts with no scripting required. In fact, no scripting experience is required at all for this session.
Finally, if that's not enough I'm also doing a half-day post-conference workshop. This is separate from the main conference.
Windows 2003 domain controller. The virtual machine should be running PowerShell v1.0 and the current versions of the PowerShell Community Extensions and the Quest Active Directory Management console.
And this is just what I'm doing. Check out the full schedule and register today. You won't be disappointed. I often hear at conferences from attendees that they often learn something or pickup some tip that more than justifies the conference expense. Something that solves a prickly problem and they leave happy and eager. I hope to see you there.