TechMentor 2015 DirectAccess Deep Dive Training Session

I’m excited to announce that I’ll once again be participating in this year’s TechMentor conference in Redmond, WA! The event takes place August 3-7, 2015 and will be held on the Microsoft campus in building 33. This is a great event at an incredible venue! I’ll be delivering a 3 hour Windows Server 2012 R2 DirectAccess deep drive technical training session on Thursday, August 6. The conference covers a wide range of topics from many noted industry experts like Don Jones, Greg Shields, Jeff Hicks, Orin Thomas, and many more. Don’t miss out. Register today and use priority code TMRSK05 to save $500!

TechMentor Conference 2014

Windows Server 2012 R2 DirectAccess Deep Dive Session at TechMentor 2014

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been invited to participate in this year’s TechMentor event! The event will be held at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA from August 11-15, 2014. I’ll be presenting a 3 hour deep-dive session on Windows Server 2012 R2 DirectAccess. Join me as I’ll discuss in detail how to plan, design, implement, and support DirectAccess in your environment. Topics will include infrastructure requirement gathering and preparation, network configuration, high availability and geographic redundancy, supporting Windows 7 clients, and more. Throughout the session I’ll provide valuable insight, tips and tricks, and implementation best practices to ensure that you have the highest level of success for your DirectAccess deployment. Register before June 4 to save $300.00. Hope to see you there!

TechMentor Conference 2014

Forefront UAG 2010 Video Training Course Now Available

I’m happy to announce that my latest Trainsignal video training course is now available! This new video training course is on Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010. It is an introductory course on Forefront UAG designed to teach network engineers and security administrators the basic essentials of planning, preparing, installing, configuring, monitoring, and maintain a Forefront UAG 2010 remote access solution. In the course I demonstrate how to publish popular Microsoft on-premises applications like SharePoint and Exchange Outlook Web App (OWA). In addition I cover publishing Remote Desktop Services and VPN remote access. I also provide a high level explanation of endpoint detection and endpoint policy enforcement and demonstrate how to provide high availability for the solution. Here is the entire course outline:

Lesson 1 – Introduction and Course Outline
Lesson 2 – Forefront UAG 2010 Overview
Lesson 3 – Planning to Deploy Forefront UAG 2010
Lesson 4 – Installing and Configuring Forefront UAG 2010
Lesson 5 – Configuring a Portal
Lesson 6 – Publishing Exchange Outlook Web App
Lesson 7 – Publishing SharePoint
Lesson 8 – Publishing Remote Desktop Services
Lesson 9 – Configuring VPN Remote Access
Lesson 10 – Enabling Endpoint Detection
Lesson 11 – Configuring High Availability
Lesson 12 – Web Monitor Overview
Lesson 13 – Forefront UAG Backups

Once again I had the opportunity to work with my good friend and fellow Microsoft MVP Jordan Krause on this course. As he did in my previous Trainsignal video training course on Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess, Jordan served as the technical reviewer and provided valuable insight that ultimately made the course better. If you’re planning to implement Forefront UAG 2010 to provide secure remote access to both managed and non-managed systems and devices, be sure to sign up for a subscription at Trainsignal.com today! Not only will you have access to this video training course on Forefront UAG 2010, you will gain access to the entire Trainsignal library of content, including my course on Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess, all for just $49.00 per month!

TrainSignal Windows Server 2012 DirectAcess Video Training Course