Avoiding Nervousness when Presenting

I have a meeting at one of my really large clients, and for some reason I was a little nervous.  I found a some helpful links related to being a better presenter.  Basically they say to not try to avoid nervousness, but to work with it and accept it for what it is:

http://presenting2007.blogspot.com/2007/02/notes-on-being-nervous.html

http://www.professionalspeakers.org/cgi-bin/allegro.pl?article115

http://www.thepublicspeakingsite.com/

http://eirikso.com/2008/06/04/what-to-do-if-you-are-nervous-when-presenting/ 

Helpful Links related to Configuring Outlook Anywhere nee ‘RPC over HTTPS’

I had a client who wanted some helpful links to articles about Outlook Anywhere.  Here is what i found:

Configuring Outlook Anywhere

http://exchange-genie.blogspot.com/2008/02/configuring-outlook-anywhere-for.html

 

How to Configure Outlook Anywhere in Exchange 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179036(TechNet.10).aspx

 

Tutorial on Setting Up Outlook Anywhere with ISA (ignore the ISA part)

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Outlook-Anywhere-2007-ISA-Server-2006.html

 

Configuring an Outlook 2003 Client:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/outlookrpchttp.html

You for any client not running outlook 2007, you will have to manually configure the rpc over http settings.  Outlook 2007 will automatically configure itself using the autodiscover feature

 

System Center Capacity Planner Download

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sccp/bb969059.aspx

 

Technet Articles:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123741.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7f885b45-cbd4-4349-bdd2-bc1f30fbe1b4.aspx

MCTS: Operations Manager 2007. Test 70-400 Notes

 

Last week, I took 70-400 to get my MCTS:Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring.
The test was harder than I thought; I got an 860 but had expected I would do better than that.

 

Here is what I remember about the test:

· 47 total questions, 2 hours long

· All multiple choice with four answers

· There weren’t any “All of These” or “None of these” answer possibilities

· About 5 questions that allow multiple answers, but all specify the total number of answers that you choose, ie “choose two of the following.”

· There weren’t any definition questions

· All the questions were task-based and follow the format: You would like to <do something>.  In order to accomplish this you must <choose answer>.

· Several questions related to backup/restore.  Study different backup/restore scenarios, especially related to the loss of an RMS

· Know how to replicate an environment in a lab by copying the databases and restoring the encryption key

· Know which roles to which restore the encryption key

· Study SecureStorageBackup.exe syntax

· Study ManagementServerConfigTool.exe PromoteRMS syntax

· Study the export-managementpack cmdlet syntax

·  Know how to install a Gateway server to monitor servers in a DMZ

· Know how to authenticate agents using certificates in a DMZ, and how to use MOMcertimport.exe

· Study Audit Collection Services know how to turn it on and off on agents, and how to install on the server.  Also remember that you cant install on a server that is clustered.

· Study Agentless Exception Monitoring, know how to filter the results so not all exceptions are sent to MS

· Know how to use overrides to target a MP to a specific type of target (like all Server 2003 domain controllers for example)

· Remember that to discover cluster resources, you have to turn on agent proxying on the physical nodes

· Remember that to see reports related to specific MP’s, you have to import the MP’s

· Know the basic steps for creating a distributed application

· Know how to monitor a web site using synthetic transactions, and remember what situations would be appropriate for monitoring a site using synthetic transactions

· Know when to create a diagnostic task vs. a recovery task

· Know the difference between a console task an agent task

VBscript to Determine if Outlook is installed

I am writing a script that will do one thing if outlook is installed, and do another if outlook isn’t installed.  I tried all kinds of logical file checks etc to see if the outlook binaries existed, but it got complicated. 

I decided to see if the outlook object would successfully initialize.  If I cannot connect to the outlook application, then I can probably assume that outlook is not installed:

on error resume next
Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
If objOutlook Is Nothing Then
    wscript.echo "Outlook 2007 is NOT installed, or is not installed correctly!"
else
wscript.echo "Outlook 2007 is installed on this PC."
end if