Webcasts - December 2005

TechNet Webcast: Deciphering the Tools of the Trade: A Review of IIS Stress Testing Toolsets (Level 200)
Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Are you new to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)? Have you been assigned to deploy 200 Web servers in the next year, but you don't want to configure all of those servers individually? You can easily use IIS Manager to create a set of sites and virtual directories, as well as enable security for all of them. In the past, the Microsoft Web Application Stress tool was used to apply load to a Web server to simulate the true usage of Web applications. This webcast outlines how IIS Manager tools work and helps administrators and developers determine the right tool for a given environment.

TechNet Webcast: A Technical Introduction to the Microsoft Solutions for Hosting
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Learn how to grow your business quickly and cost-efficiently with the Microsoft Solutions for Hosting!  The solutions provide a set of tools, scripts, code samples and tested recommended architectures to help you efficiently deploy and operate hosted services on the Windows platform.  They were developed to deal with the operational challenges faced daily by hosting companies, and take into account best practices and learnings acquired from across the industry. 

TechNet Webcast: Using the Security Configuration Wizard Effectively with IIS 6.0 and Windows Server 2003 and Service Pack 1 (Part 1 of 2) (Level 200)
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
In this two-part series, you learn about the updated Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) that ships as part of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. This first session describes SCW's built-in capability to tighten security across all Web sites on a single server. The discussion highlights how the SCW is designed and how to use it to reduce the attack surface of your Web server. This configuration, which can be stored for later use, is vital for helping Web application servers achieve higher availability with less opportunity for service failures.

TechNet Webcast: Using the Security Configuration Wizard Effectively with IIS 6.0 and Windows Server 2003 and Service Pack 1 (Part 2 of 2) (Level 200)
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
This second half of our webcast series shows how the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) stores the configuration used to tighten security on the Web server. The SCW can help Web administrators and developers ensure that Internet Information Server Web servers start with a similar configuration. This session shows how to create a standard SCW configuration file and extend it to make other Web servers behave the same. This presentation also explains how to roll back changes introduced by the SCW to ensure safe recovery.