You’re not too late for TechMentor Orlando, March 14 - 18, 2011 at Disney’s Yacht Club.

TechMentor is offering Mind of Root listeners the best discount so far - $400 discount off the 5 Day Best Value Conference Pass (discount applies to the Standard rate and new registrations only)!

Register at http://bit.ly/TMReg with the code UGTM3 for the discount.If you’ve never attended it, TechMentor is 5 intensive and informative days of immediately-applicable training on today’s critical IT topics - everything from Active Directory to Virtualization - with a specific track and several sessions on PowerShell.Go to http://bit.ly/TMPwrShl if you want to know more about sessions and speakers.

Microsoft offer a BFFValidator…  Need I say more?

Actually, I do.. what this unfortunately abbreviated product does is validate binary file formats for doc, xls, and ppt files.

April 29-30 is the Professional IT Community Conference in New Brunswick, NJ.  They’ve recently posted the talks and training sessions available. 

I’ll be teaching a four hour PowerShell Fundamentals class and you’ll find other training like "Grokking Python", "Over the Edge System Administration", "Advanced Time Management: Team Efficiency" and many more…

Recorded: February 10, 2011

Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:01:45

Topics/Links:

• PowerShell Deep Dive Conference
• CredSSP and PowerShell Remoting
• Exchange Server Cert problem
• Sharepoint Credentials Hiccup
• Migrating Sharepoint Content
• SPDeploymentWizard Tool
• WinSXS folder in Windows Vista and 7
• Discussion on PC/Laptop hardware & OS standard builds from manufacturers

Read the full show notes here.

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Keith - http://parrygripp.com/ - Funny songs for viral videos

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The sixth installment of our Mind Of Root Book Club will be covering Chapter 7 in The Practice of Systems and Network Administration.We’ll review Chapter 7 on February 24th, so post your comments or send in your feedback!Chapter 7 covers Networking, in all it’s glory.  Some questions to focus our review are:

1. Do you have a network diagram?  (physical and logical)
2. What redundancy does your network design provide?
3. How do you label your network cables and endpoints?
4. Where do you do your routing? (Static routes on hosts, routers, layer 3 switches, etc..) And where do you do your access control lists (ACLs)?
5. Do you segment your network with VLANs?
6. How do you monitor your network?

Feel free to comment on any aspect of the chapter though.

Recorded: February 3, 2011

Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:12:30

Topics/Links:

• MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.)
  • We discuss Chapter 5 - Services
  • What qualifies as a service?
  • Dependencies
  • Architecting for reliability

Read the full show notes here.

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Steve - imo.im - Free web-based chat client

Keith - join.me - Free web-based screen sharing app from LogMeIn

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