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Name the single most important aspect of any computer network, from the smallest office to the largest multi-national corporation. Name the one thing that each of us use every day, that we don’t even think about. This is DNS.

DNS is a complex protocol that is required for daily operation of your networks. DNS is often set up behind the scenes and has little maintenance and configuration. But what do you do if its not working? How do you troubleshoot and verify its operation? Can you be certain that you have your DNS set up and configured according to best practices?

An overview of DNS and how it works, with an emphasis on ‘WHY’ it matters, how to troubleshoot, and what tools to use to verify its operation. I will go over the different types of DNS servers, split scopes, DNS replication, and other terms that you may have heard. DNS is a practical solution to an everyday problem, that we do not nearly spend enough time on, assuming that it will just work. The intricacies and mysteries of DNS will be explained to you.

It’s time to shed some light on a seriously neglected aspect of networking. Proper DNS configuration gets even more critical as your clients app move to the cloud and you provide more remote access capabilities to the network.

Remember, register to reserve your space. Last year we sold out. www.thirdtier.net/registration

Because of some happy coincidences I have a couple of announcements.

• The cocktail party is back! We’ll be having a welcome reception on Wednesday evening before the big event 6:00-8:30pm. (Yes, that does say FREE BEER.)
• Our SMB friendly vendors have bestowed upon us some cool products to give-away to the attendees of the Brain Explosion. (Yes we’re talkin’ product, not swag)
•  Configuring and Using Remote Desktop Services Remote Apps – A Love Story will be broadcast LIVE! So if you missed getting the hottest ticket in Vegas you can still get a sample of the Brain Explosion.

We will post more information on each of these exciting developments soon. Keep tuned into the blog for the details and we’ll see you in Vegas.

We’d especially like to thank our corporate sponsors, HP, Symform, and StorageCraft for their assistance in making this event possible!

Wayne Small, SBS, Hyper-V, Trend, Storagecraft and all-around SBS-FAQ guy says…

Hyper-V is the best solution for SMB clients wanting to have their servers virtualised.  However there are a lot of myths about how to configure it and how not to configure it.  Come to this session to learn about not only the basics of good Hyper-V configuration, but how to get the best performance out of your Hyper-V solutions for your clients.  We’ll bust myths such as “Is RAID 10 really better than RAID 5?” and “What’s the best way to configure my CPUs in Hyper-V”. 

If you attended Wayne’s Third Tier webinar on Hyper-V you’ll have a leg up because his content here will build and expand upon that webinar.

Join Third Tier in Las Vegas for an all day training on the day prior to SMBNation. See other content details elsewhere in our blog. Thanks to our sponsors, Hewlett Packard, Symform and Storagecraft we are able to keep the cost down to only $50. So head on over to the store and reserve your space for this all-day training session! Seats are limited for this event and we expect to sell out. So register early. http://www.thirdtier.net/store Training takes place October 21st.

StorageCraft snares Microsoft expert as technical services manager

"This is a major coup for us," StorageCraft Asia-Pacific vice-president Richard Giddey said. "Wayne brings with him a wealth of diverse knowledge and is a highly respected industry expert who will be instrumental in helping us to accelerate our expansion in the Asia-Pacific market."

Wayne will be presenting at our brain exploding all day training event in Las Vegas. He’s presenting Hyper-V Mythbusters: Don’t Try This…EVER! I have a feeling that along side the his disk and CPU performance studies that there might be a little bit about disaster recovery and back scenarios. You can register at www.thirdtier.net/store. 

Third Tier is really proud of Wayne, we know just how lucky Storagecraft is to land him. He’s brings a lot more to the table than technical expertise.

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Cliff Galiher SBS, DNS and Exchange guru says…

The mobile landscape has changed. What was in the office, is now in the hands of your clients. They expect it to work and they expect you to make it secure. Mobile devices communicate with Exchange in their own unique way. We’ll take a deep look at how devices communicate with Exchange and get technical about the protocols. This will cover activesync AND autodiscover at a protocol level. Then we’ll walk through the process of setting up different devices and visually tie the steps back to the theory. So now the mobile device works and you understand why it works, how are you going to secure it? Cliff will cover controls IT can have on activesync devices such as remote encryption and remote wipe, how to use and how to configure it.

Join Third Tier in Las Vegas for an all day training on the day prior to SMBNation. See other content details elsewhere in our blog. Thanks to our sponsors, Hewlett Packard, Symform and Storagecraft we are able to keep the cost down to only $50. So head on over to the store and reserve your space for this all-day training session! Seats are limited for this event and we expect to sell out. So register early. http://www.thirdtier.net/store Training takes place October 21st.

Exchange Powershell Essentials and Certificate Handling

If you’ve been working a bit with Exchange 2007, you’ve probably used just enough PowerShell to get by. In this session I’d like to take you further by showing you a few key PowerShell procedures that will make Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 administration and troubleshooting easier. We’re not going to go deep into PowerShell programming, what this session will do is give you some valuable but simple tools to increase your value when working with Exchange. Some of what we’ll cover includes:

- Working with single and multi-name certificates (including a cool new downloadable tool!)

- Refreshing Exchange virtual directories quickly to resolve CAS issues

- Easy quota administration

- Displaying mailbox size information in a user-friendly format

- Quick bulk-creation of users and mailboxes from a simple CSV file

Participants will be emailed a document with copy\pasteable scripts from this session to ensure that you can immediately put this content to use.

Check out the rest of our blog for more content details and don’t forget to register.

Content? Yes, we have content.

Eriq Neale: Configuring and Using Remote Desktop Services Remote Apps – A Love Story

Dave Shackelford: Things you didn’t know were in Exchange 2007

Cliff Galiher: AutoDiscovery, DNS and ActiveSync in depth. Like seriously deep

Wayne Small: Hyper-V R2, yes is does make a difference. Configuring Disk subsystems and effects on performance

Thanks to our sponsors, Hewlett Packard, Symform and Storagecraft we are able to keep the cost down to only $50. So head on over to the store and reserve your space for this all-day training session! http://www.thirdtier.net/store Training takes place October 21st.

Speakers are our own fabulous staff: Dave Shackelford, Cliff Galiher, Eriq Neale and Wayne Small

Our content has been selected by the guys to reflect the growing concern over compliance, business continuity, manageability and issues surrounding these that our customers are contacting us for help with. Case studies and examples will abound and they guys will show you how to configure the products they will be working with which including Exchange, Sharepoint, Terminal Services and Hyper-V. Expect the sessions to be intense with advanced material. Your brain will be exploding by the end of the day.

I’ll be posting more and more specifics about the content as the event gets closer. Let’s have a look at what Eriq is going to cover first:

Configuring and Using Remote Desktop Services Remote Apps – A Love Story

Many people have heard of Remote Desktop Services Remote Apps (formerly Terminal Server Remote Apps) but either haven’t had an opportunity to implement the solution or just are not sure how to. In this session, Eriq Neale will show how to configure RDS Remote Apps on a Remote Desktop Server and then go over several real-world deployment scenarios. We will also go over how to set up RDS Remote Apps to work with Remote Web Workplace on an SBS Server. Eriq will include case studies on when and why this technology is used.

Configuring RDS Remote Apps

Publishing an Application through RDS Remote Apps

Publishing an Application with multiple configuration options through RDS Remote Apps

Publishing an RDS Remote App through Remote Web Workplace

Please make your flights accordingly and plan to join us for a full day of intense training on October 21st.

Shout Out to Hewlett Packard, Symform and Storagecraft. Without awesome vendors that get the small business space and are willing to invest in partner education, this event would not be possible.

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Steve will be moderating and leading a discussion on “right-sizing” servers Friday afternoon from 3:00-4:15pm.

Eriq will be doing a demonstration of the Kerio Connect group collaboration solution Saturday morning from 9:15-9:45, then leading a panel discussion on monitoring and remote access form 9:45-10:45. Eriq will also be posting summaries of the various conference sessions over at his MVP Blog.

If you’re at the conference, be sure to stop them and introduce yourself!