Brief Overview:

This seminar will discuss the stepping stones and road blocks that I.T. infrastructures will face through their Quest to transition to Windows 7. As many of today's organizations seek to capture the benefits of the Windows 7 Operating system, we must ask ourselves "are we actually prepared". New features and utilities are great for the transitioning business to capitalize on, but what about the "Behind the Scenes" features that may have been overlooked. This Seminar will introduce you to two sets of new features that Windows 7 provides in the way of Security and Application support.

Outline:

• Introduction to the Windows 7 Kernel
• Introduction to the Windows 7 Versions
• Windows 7 Security features
  • User Account Control
  • Local Security Policy
  • Windows 7 Data Execution Prevention
  • Windows Firewall with advanced security
  • Service Hardening
  • Registry Protection
  • File and Registry Virtualization
  • New IP stack supports IPV6
    • Direct Access
    • Data Encryption
    • Remote Desktop Security: Network Level Authentication
• Windows 7 Application Compatibility issues and tools
  • Issues with Windows 7 installed applications
  • Third Party Support
  • UAC
  • File and registry Virtualization
• Application Compatibility Tools
  • Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5
  • Standard User Analyzer
  • Standard User Analyzer Wizard
  • Application Compatibility Administrator
  • Mitigating application issues with SHIMS.
  • Mitigating Application issues with SDBINST.EXE
  • Application compatibility wizard and Executable dialog box
  • Session 0 and Session 1 mechanism
  • Windows Virtual POC 2007 with XP Mode Virtualization
  • Hardware Assisted Virtualization
• Wrap up and Question