Webcasts on Hosting Exchange and other Microsoft Applications

Microsoft is going to be putting on some premier "Meet-the-Experts" Hosting Webcasts.  From the looks of it they have recruited the most knowledgeable individuals to give the webcasts as well.  See the whole list here:

http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/webhosting/webcasts/default.asp

Here is a list of ones that I thought were most relevant:

Active Directory Guidance for Hosting Service Providers
Product Expert: Mike Kostersitz, Program Manager, Hosting Solutions Unit

Centralized management scenarios take advantage of support for centralized change and configuration. Services providers should consider a centralized management deployment when they have many servers and manage these servers local user accounts having no overall change and configuration control, anticipate growth and must better manage their servers to reduce maintenance cost and efforts, currently use manual processes to provision and configure their systems and services, or are seeking a centralized approach to monitoring, managing, and reducing cost and effort of overall operations.

Tuesday, December 14th

• Session 1 - 8:00am PST, 11:00am New York, 4:00pm London, 5:00pm Paris
• Session 2 - 11:00am PST, 2:00pm New York
• Session 3 - 5:00pm PST, 10:00am Tokyo (12/01), 12:00pm Sydney (12/01)

Automated Service Provisioning using MPS
Product Expert: Mike Kostersitz, Program Manager, Hosting Solutions Unit

This Webcast will provide information on how to use, manage, and extend the Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS). Topics will include deployment of MPS within a variety of hosting environments, using either basic or advanced MPS configurations, and features that are new to the latest version of MPS.

Tuesday, February 8th

• Session 1 - 8:00am PST, 11:00am New York, 4:00pm London, 5:00pm Paris
• Session 2 - 11:00am PST, 2:00pm New York
• Session 3 - 5:00pm PST, 10:00am Tokyo (2/09), 12:00pm Sydney (2/09)

Exchange 2003 Hosting
Product Expert: Chris Vandenberg, Group Program Manager, Hosting Solutions Unit

Tuesday, February 22nd

• Session 1 - 8:00am PST, 11:00am New York, 4:00pm London, 5:00pm Paris
• Session 2 - 11:00am PST, 2:00pm New York
• Session 3 - 5:00pm PST, 10:00am Tokyo (2/23), 12:00pm Sydney (2/23)