This seminar, led by industry insider, Rand Morimoto, President of Convergent Computing and author of over a dozen best selling books on Microsoft technologies, clarified Microsoft's current server and desktop product line, as well as provided a 3-5 year roadmap on what to expect upcoming.

Rand covers topics such as:

• how organizations are leveraging Windows Server 2003 SP1 (released Apr/05) and what’s new in the Windows 2003 “R2” release due this Fall
• what’s the roadmap for Windows Server including Windows Longhorn Server that might be important for an organization to plan or anticipate
• how does Exchange 2003 with SP1 (released Summer/04) fit into an organization’s secured messaging strategy, and what’s new in Exchange 2003 SP2 (due to release Fall/05)
• what’s to expect in Exchange “E12” due to release late 2006 or early 2007
• how does Office Systems 2003 (Word, Excel, Project, Visio, InfoPath, etc) fit in to the overall desktop and mobile user application access needs and requirements, and what’ll be new in “Office 12” due out early 2007
• what’s involved in upgrading to SQL/2005 and is it significantly better than SQL/2000 or SQL 7
• how are organizations using Live Communication Server for instant messaging and “presence”, and is there a benefit in employee functionality and productivity
• how are organization leveraging SMS/2003 and MOM/2005 for a managed server and desktop infrastructure?
• what to expect with SMS v4 and System Center in the managed systems environment
• what’s the next release of SharePoint technologies, and how does that fit into an organizations information and data management strategy
• how does Data Protection Management Server (DPM) fit in to an organization’s disaster recovery and fault tolerance strategy
• and lastly to answer the question “if I migrate to all these current products, will I have to upgrade again soon” (Rand will provide a roadmap of the product lines so you know when future releases are anticipated to be released (and what’s in the future releases that may or may not interest you)

You should download and print the slide deck that will be used throughout this session

Video #1 (1-hour, 19-minutes): Covers Windows Server roadmap, Windows Desktop roadmap, and Office roadmap

Video #2 (59-minutes): Covers encryption technologies, Exchange roadmap, SQL roadmap, LCS roadmap, SMS/MOM roadmap, and ISA roadmap.

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