The following webcasts and/or chats will occur this week:

(All chats and webcasts are shown on the Calendar at Networking Community Discussions)

Branch Office Solutions in Windows Server 2003 R2 (Level 200) - (Monday, July 10, 2006 @ 11:30 AM Pacific Time)

The Distributed File System (DFS) solution in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 helps branch office network administrators address key challenges through two technologies: DFS Namespaces, a technology that enables administrators to create a virtual view of shared folders in an organization; and DFS Replication, a new state-based, multimaster replication engine that supports replication, scheduling, and bandwidth throttling. This webcast explains the DFS solution in detail, and describes how DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication work together to provide simplified, fault-tolerant access to files, load sharing, and wide area network (WAN)-friendly replication. Find out how you can use the DFS solution in Windows Server 2003 R2 in your branch office environment to manage file server resources efficiently while keeping them available and secure for users.

Administering and Maintaining the Branch Office Technologies in R2 Server (Wednesday, July 12, 2006 @ 11:30 AM Pacific Time) 

This webcast focuses on the day-to-day operations that Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 administrators must perform after deploying a branch office solution. We cover configuration, delegation, determining the state of replication, monitoring, and best practices that help administrators keep branch users happy and productive.

Do It Yourself: Install a wireless home network (Thursday, July 13, 2006 @ 10:00 AM Pacific Time)

This Expert Zone Support WebCast gives you a brief overview of why someone would want to install a wireless home network. We will discuss the pros and cons of hubs, switches, and routers, how to choose them, and how to physically install the network. This presentation includes diagrams and describes the network setup wizard and related tools in Microsoft Windows XP.

Executive Chat - Windows Server “Longhorn” Networking Unveiled (July 18, 2006 @ 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time)

What under-the-hood improvements to networking have we made in Longhorn Server? How will these changes impact you? Join Jawad Khaki, Corporate Vice President of the Networking and Devices Technologies division, and his executive team to talk about networking in Windows Server Longhorn. Ask tough questions, give us feedback, and learn how you can prepare for the enhanced performance, scalability and manageability capabilities coming in the next releases of Windows. This includes receive window auto-tuning, TCP Chimney Offload, IPsec, policy-based Quality of Service and full support for IPv6.

There are also a few Longhorn/Vista beta chats this week that you can find on Connect.  If you know of any other networking related chats/webcasts, let me know and I’ll post them here and on the calendar at Networking Community Discussions (which is still in a state of building right now).