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Date(s): March 22-26, 2010
Duration: 5 days
Format: Instructor-led, Classroom training

KnowledgeWave is pleased to introduce MS6419: Configuring, Managing and Maintaining Windows Server 2008 Servers. This five-day instructor-led course combines five days worth of instructor-led training content from the Network Infrastructure Technology Specialist, Active Directory Technology Specialist, and IT Professional Server Administrator courses of Windows Server 2008 to provide students with the knowledge and skills that are required to manage accounts and resources, maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data in a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 environment. This course covers the core skills required by anyone working with Windows Server 2008 Servers. Hurry, seating is limited! 800.831.8449.

Location: 30 Community Drive, Suite 5, South Burlington VT 05403
To register: Click here or call 800.831.8449

Objectives:

Module 1: Introduction to Managing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Environment
Module 2: Creating Active Directory Domain Services User and Computer Objects
Module 3: Creating Groups and Organizational Units
Module 4: Managing Access to Resources in Active Directory Domain Services
Module 5: Configuring Active Directory Objects and Trusts
Module 6: Creating and Configuring Group Policy
Module 7: Configuring User and Computer Environments Using Group Policy
Module 8: Implementing Security Using Group Policy
Module 9: Configuring Server Security Compliance
Module 10: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Module 11: Configuring and Managing Distributed File System
Module 12: Configuring Network Access Protection
Module 13: Configuring Availability of Network Resources
Module 14: Monitoring and Maintaining Windows Server 2008 Servers
Module 15: Managing Windows Server 2008 Backup and Restore

Microsoft Word 2007: I Can’t Insert Text Before a Table

Symptoms

You can’t insert text before a table that is located on the first line of the first page in a document.
Resolution

1. Click in the first cell in the first row of the table.
* Note: If text in that cell contains text, position the insertion point before the text.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Type the text that you want.

KnowledgeWave is pleased to introduce VMware vSphere: Fast Track: the intensive, extended-hours training course focusing on installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting VMware® vSphere™. It combines the content of the VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.  See below for a complete course outline and call us today to reserve your spot - hurry, seating is limited! 800.831.8449.

Date(s): March 15-19, 2010
Duration: 5 days
Format: Instructor-led, Classroom training
Location: 30 Community Drive, Suite 5, South Burlington VT 05403
To register: Click here or call 800.831.8449  

Objectives:

• Install and configure VMware ESX™/ESXi, vCenter™ Server, and the vSphere
• Management Assistant
• Configure, manage, and troubleshoot ESX/ESXi networking and storage
• Create, configure, migrate, manage, convert, and monitor virtual machines and virtual
• appliances
• Scale the vSphere virtual infrastructure
• Implement business continuity solutions
• Manage changes to the vSphere environment

Module 1: Course Introduction
Module 2: Introduction to VMware Virtualization

• Discuss virtualization and vSphere components

Module 3: Configuring VMware ESX/ESXi

• Configure ESX/ESXi settings and view system logs

Module 4: Installing and Using VMware vCenter Server

• Install and configure vCenter Server and vSphere Management Assistant

• Manage vCenter Server inventory hierarchies

Module 5: Networking

• Configure and troubleshoot vNetwork components

Module 6: Storage

• Review storage management technologies

• Analyze and troubleshoot storage-related issues

Module 7: Virtual Machines

• Deploy virtual machines using templates, VMware vCenter Converter, and Guided
• Consolidation
• Modify and manage virtual machines

Module 8: Access Control

• Control user access through roles and permissions

Module 9: Resource Monitoring

• Assess workloads and monitor resources through the GUI interfaces and CLI

Module 10: Scalability

• Scale resource management
• Manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
• Perform VMware VMotion™ migrations
• Configure clusters for VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler and VMware Distributed
• Power Management

Module 11: High Availability and Data Protection

• Review business continuity products and features
• Follow best practices to configure VMware High Availability clusters and VMware Fault
• Tolerance
• Install and configure VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
• Deploy VMware Data Recovery to back up virtual machines

Module 12: Configuration Management

• Manage change in the vSphere environment with Host Profiles and VMware vCenter
• Update Manager

Module 13: Installing ESX

• Perform manual (ESX/ESXi) and scripted (ESX) installations

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007: Inserting, playing, and modifying movies

Sometimes the best way to ensure that your audience understands your message is to show a video or animation, collectively referred to in PowerPoint as movies. For example, if your company has developed a short advertising video, it makes more sense to include the video in a presentation about marketing plans than to try and describe it with bullet points or even still pictures. You can insert the following types of movies in slides:

* Video clips. You can insert a digital video file in one of two ways: If a slide’s layout includes a content placeholder, you can click the Insert Movie button in the placeholder. You can also click the Movie button in the Media Clips group on the Insert tab. Either way, the Insert Movie dialog box opens so that you can select the file. Before PowerPoint inserts the file, you specify whether the video should play automatically when the slide containing it appears or whether you will start the video manually.
* Animated clips. PowerPoint comes with several animated graphics. You insert these animated objects by clicking the Movie arrow in the Media Clips group on the Insert tab, and then clicking Movie From Clip Organizer to display the Clip Art task pane, where you can select the clip you want. If you are connected to the Internet, clicking the Clip Art On Office Online link in the task pane takes you to the Office Online Clip Art and Media Web site, from which you can download hundreds of clip art images, photos, sounds, and animated clips.

Videos and animated clips both appear on the slide as objects represented by icons that you can size and move to meet your needs. When you select an animated clip object, PowerPoint adds a Format contextual tab to the Ribbon so that you can adjust the way it looks on the slide. When you select a movie object, PowerPoint also adds an Options contextual tab so that you can adjust the object’s size and position, its volume, how it is displayed on the slide, and how it is activated.

In Normal view, you can preview a video by double-clicking its icon or by clicking the Preview button in the Play group on the Options contextual tab. You can preview the action of an animated clip by clicking the arrow that appears when you select it in the Clip Art task pane and then clicking Preview/Properties. In Slide Show view, a video plays either automatically or when you click its icon, depending on your specifications, whereas an animated clip always plays automatically.

Microsoft Outlook 2007: Change your Calendar Work Days

By default in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, the work week is set from Monday through Friday with a work day extending from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M.. The first day of the week in Calendar is Sunday.

You can choose the days of the week that are a part of your work week, the time when your work day starts and ends, and the day of the week that you want to be the start of your week.

Change your Calendar work days

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click Calendar Options.
3. Under Calendar work week, select the check boxes for the days that are a part of your work week. Clear the check boxes for the days that are not a part of the work week.

Date(s): March 1-5, 2010
Duration: 5 days
Format: Instructor-led, Classroom training

KnowledgeWave is pleased to introduce MS6231: Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Database.  This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server 2008 product features and tools related to maintaining a database. Hurry, seating is limited! 800.831.8449.

Location: 30 Community Drive, Suite 5, South Burlington VT 05403
To register: Click here or call 800.831.8449

Objectives:

Module 1: Installing and Configuring SQL Server
Module 2: Managing Databases and Files
Module 3: Disaster Recovery
Module 4: Managing Security
Module 5: Transferring Data
Module 6: Automating Administrative Tasks
Module 7: Implementing Replication
Module 8: Maintaining High Availability
Module 9: Monitoring SQL Server
Module 10: Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning

Microsoft Outlook 2007: Add Holidays to Calendar

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click Calendar Options.
2. Under Calendar options, click Add Holidays.
3. Select the check box next to each country/region whose holidays you want to add to your calendar, and then click OK.

Note   Your own country/region is automatically selected.

If you already added a country’s or region’s holidays to your calendar, the check box for that country/region is selected in the Add Holidays to Calendar dialog box. If you try to add the same items again, you receive the following message:

Holidays for country/region are already installed. Do you want to install them again?

If you click Yes, the holidays and events are installed a second time, and you see duplicate holiday and event entries.

Note   The holiday information that is provided with Outlook includes items during calendar years 2006 through 2012. If you are using a non-Gregorian calendar, items that occur during the same time period are included.

Date(s): March 22-26, 2010
Duration: 5 days
Format: Instructor-led, Classroom training

KnowledgeWave is pleased to introduce MS6294: Planning and Managing Windows 7 Desktop Deployments and Environments. This five-day instructor-led course is intended for desktop administrators who want to specialize in desktop deployment, configuration, and management . In this course, students will learn how to plan and deploy Windows 7 desktops in large organizations . They will also learn how to design, configure, and manage the Windows 7 client environment. This course helps students prepare for the Exam 70-686, Pro: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator. Hurry, seating is limited! 800.831.8449.

Location: 30 Community Drive, Suite 5, South Burlington VT 05403
To register: Click here or call 800.831.8449

Objectives:

Module 1: Preparing to Deploy Windows 7 Business Desktops
Module 2: Assessing Application Compatibility in Windows 7
Module 3: Evaluating Windows 7 Deployment Methods
Module 4: Designing Standard Windows 7 Images
Module 5: Deploying Windows 7 by Using WAIK
Module 6: Deploying Windows 7 by Using Windows Deployment Services
Module 7: Deploying Windows 7 by Using Lite Touch Installation
Module 8: Deploying Windows 7 by Using Zero Touch Installation
Module 9: Migrating User State by Using WET and USMT 4.0
Module 10: Designing, Configuring, and Managing the Client Environment
Module 11: Planning and Deploying Applications and Updates to Windows 7 Clients
Module 12: Planning and Deploying Windows 7 by Using LTI

Microsoft Outlook 2007: Prevent meeting request replies

In Microsoft Office Outlook, you can send a meeting request and not track the attendees’ responses. Not tracking the responses can be useful when you send a meeting request to a large number of attendees but do not want to know who can and cannot attend.
Turn off meeting request responses

In a new meeting request, do the following:

1. On the Meeting tab, in the Attendees group, click Responses.

Note   For recurring meetings, the Meeting tab appears as the Recurring Meeting tab.
2. Click Request Responses to clear the Request Responses and Allow New Time Proposal check boxes.

Note   If you turn off the Request Responses option, you will not be able to track whether attendees have accepted, tentatively accepted, or declined. For instance, when you open the meeting in your calendar, click the Meeting tab, and then click Tracking in the Show group, the Response column will display None for all of the attendees.

Office 2010: Preview the Future

Product(s): Microsoft Office 2010
Audience(s): Business Professional.
Date(s): Friday, February 12 2010, 1:00PM (EST) U.S.
Duration: 30 Minutes  

Event Overview:
It seems like just yesterday Microsoft launched Office 2007. However, it’s been three years and it’s time for a new version of the application suite. Office 2010 is built off the Office 2007 design, but don’t let that fool you. This is a new set of applications with new tools. If you’re looking to make the move to 2010, have already purchased the suite, or just curious about the new features, let us be your guide to the future of Microsoft Office.

* Interface Changes
* What’s New in Word
* What’s New in Excel
* What’s New in Outlook

To Register: Click Here.  Fee: $0.00