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Monthly Chat with the Internet Information Server Team - November
Wednesday, November 10, 1999 10 AM - 11 AM PST, (6 PM - 7 PM GMT)
This month's topic is Server Extensions. Come join the IIS team for a chat on the second Wednesday of every month.
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Upcoming Chats
Windows 2000 Chat - Intellimirror, Group Policy and AD Design
Thursday, November 11, 1999 10 AM - 11 AM PST, (6 PM - 7 PM GMT)
Members of the Windows 2000 team will join Eric Cone, author of Planning for Windows 2000 (New Riders).
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Commerce Chat: Best Practices and Scaling up Sites for End-of-Year Sales
Tuesday, November 16, 1999 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST (6:00 PM GMT)
Members of the Site Server Commerce team will be here to answer your questions about Commerce Best Practices, including getting your site ready for End-of-Year sales.
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Configuring Active Directory
Wednesday, November 17, 1999 10 AM - 11 AM PST (6 PM - 7 PM GMT)
Microsoft Windows 2000 Product Managers will join us for a chat with Curt Simmons, author of Configuring Windows 2000 Server (Prentice Hall)
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SQL Server Chat -- SQL Server Hardware, Performance, Tweaks
Wednesday, November 24, 1999 10 AM - 11 AM PST, (6 PM - 7 PM GMT)
Sponsored by PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server), this chat will be hosted by Neil Pike MVP/MCSE, Protech Computing Ltd.
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Monthly Chat with the Internet Information Server Team - December
Wednesday, December 8, 1999 10 AM - 11 AM PST, (6 PM - 7 PM GMT)
Topic to be determined. Come join the IIS team for a chat on the second Wednesday of every month.
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Transcripts of the Most Recent TechNet Chats
IIS Monthly Chat - October
Wednesday, October 13, 1999
The Internet Information Server Team discusses a variety of topics, including the Web Application Stress Tool.

Introduction to Active Directory
Wednesday, October 6, 1999
Members of the Windows 2000 Team discuss Active Directory and what you need to know to be prepared for an upgrade.

Security Best Practices
Thursday, September 16, 1999
Live from N + I in Atlanta, Doreen Galli, author of Distributed Operating Systems discusses how to keep your organization secure.

IP Security
Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Dan Harkins, author of IPSec and William Dixon, a Program Manager for IPSec at at Microsoft, discuss the impact of IP Security at the N + I conference in Atlanta.

Migrating to Windows 2000
Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Mark Minasi, MCSE and a contributing editor for Windows NT Magazine, discusses what you need to know about Migrating to Windows 2000.

IIS Monthly chat - ASP Performance Tuning
Wednesday, September 8, 1999
The Internet Information Server Team discusses ASP Performance Tuning and other IIS topics in their monthly chat. These chats occur the 2nd Wednesday of every month.

Internet Information Server - Planning Ahead for Web Site Growth
Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Designing Web applications and the systems that host them to scale up as your Web site grows.

Complete Listing of all the Transcripts from Previous TechNet Chats
Comments from participants in TechNet's first chat, "Rich Kaplan Discusses Year 2000 Issues":
Thanks for the advice and for the new forum! It's nice to be able to talk to Microsoft directly.
Definitely more of these!
ChrisPenn
Thank you Rich and everyone for your time today. It was very enlightening. I look forward to more TechChat's in the future.
AndrewHart
I got here late bit I did enjoy what I saw. Please do these more often.
AMDG2
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