Webcasts - April 2006

TechNet Webcast: IIS Logs and SQL Reporting Services IIS Log Pack: Digging into Your Data One Step at a Time! (Level 200)
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:30 AM Pacific Time
On servers running Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0 or 6.0, it can be difficult to obtain details about how clients use a Web site. This webcast explains how to mine your site’s log files and react accordingly. Focusing on the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for IIS Logs (a free download), we provide step-by-step guidance on how to use Log Parser 2.2 to extract data from IIS log files and push the data to your SQL Server database. From there, we show you how to build graphical reports that display bandwidth statistics and site statistics by the day, hour, or minute, and highlight other data about the clients themselves, including which browsers your visitors are using.

TechNet Webcast: Managing IIS 6.0 Servers in an Enterprise Environment: A Handful of Tips and Tricks (Level 200)
Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:30 AM Pacific Time
As an IT professional, you just received distress signals from your company’s Human Resources (HR) and Purchasing departments: HR's Web-based application is hanging, and Purchasing needs to deploy 3.3 bits to their 28 servers in four Virtual IPs (VIPs). What is the most efficient technique for managing this scenario? This webcast presents some tools for simplifying your life with HR and Purchasing. We show you how to ensure that deployments “just work,” and explain new techniques and avenues for managing Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 servers. This essential webcast answers the key questions related to management, performance, and deployment for IIS 6.0 Web-based applications in a complex environment. Whether it involves the user interface (UI), scripting, or Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), this webcast covers what you need to know.