Microsoft Cluster Center

Events, Webcasts & Chats

 

Microsoft Executive Circle Presents: Delivering World-Class Microsoft Exchange Availability in a Resource-Constrained Environment
Live Event: April 16, 2003 - 11:30am to 1:00pm Pacific Time / 2:30pm Eastern Time.
Event Description: The launch of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 increases focus on the compelling economics of the Microsoft-based environment. This presentation will examine Exchange and some architectural solutions for simultaneously increasing availability and reducing costs. Participants will gain insights into best practices of high-performance, low-cost Exchange, as well as evaluation points for their own organization.

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server High Availability: The Good, The Bad, and The Challenging
Live Event: May 2, 2003 - 10:00am to 11:30am Pacific Time / 1:00pm Eastern Time.
Event Description: Making your SQL Servers highly available cannot be achieved by only clicking through a series of Wizards. This session will take you through the good, the bad, and the challenging of planning for and implementing highly available SQL Servers using technologies such as failover clustering, log shipping, and replication.

TechNet Webcast: 0 to Cluster in 60 Minutes - Clustering Windows and SQL Server
Live Event: May 14, 2003 - 10:30am to 12:00pm Pacific Time / 1:30pm Eastern Time.
Event Description: In this session we’ll rapidly discuss the MSCS clustering architecture and deploying the system into your environment. We’ll then jump into a demo where we actually cluster a Windows and SQL Server system in under 60 minutes. We’ll discuss the administration tools and best practices on clustering and walk you through completing a cluster and fixing problems along the way. After this session, you should have just enough information to build you own SQL Server that is highly available.

TechNet Webcast: Solutions for SQL Availability in Enterprise Environments
Live Event: June 13, 2003 - 10:00am to 11:30am Pacific Time / 1:00pm Eastern Time.
Event Description: How do you keep your SQL server available in the enterprise environment?This presentation will revolve around local and wide area clustering, wide area replication for the purpose of disaster recovery, backing up and restoring SQL databases, mirroring for the purpose of quick recovery of hardware and software and the recovery times and processes that each one of the technologies take in a failure mode. It will focus on information that all SQL users need to keep their data available for those people that are counting on it being there.