Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's conference, it was an excellent event.� We will post copies of the higher education presentations shortly.�

Date: April 24-27, 2005 (Sunday the 24th will be an optional evening 'meet and greet' event)
Location: Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington
Cost: No registration fee, breakfast and lunch will be provided - attendees are responsible for airfare and hotel
Attendees: Higher education IT staff from anywhere (max of 75 attendees)
Hotel: Hyatt in Bellevue with a conference rate of $165/night not including internet access

Please use the 'Conference Registration' link on the left side of the page to register for the conference. Each attendee must fill out this form. After registering you will receive information on reserving a hotel room in the block we have arranged for the conference.

The conference provides three days of discussion, presentations and networking with colleagues from dozens of schools.  About half of the presentations will be by peers in higher education and half by Microsoft staff.  Every day will include birds of a feather style sessions for hot topics and collaboration opportunities. 

Planned topics from higher education presenters:

• Setting up a branch campus from scratch in a foreign country
• Account Provisioning using MIIS 2003
  
• Sharepoint Portal Server
  
• NetReg and the automated Virus Cleaning and Security Patching Process
  
• Using IIS, C#, ASP.net and FrontPage 2003 to build a simple website management system
  
• Patch Management Panel
  
• Log Monitoring Panel
  
• Terminal Services

Planned topics from Microsoft presenters (subject to change):

• Licensing
• Product/Technology Roadmaps
• Patch Management
• Web Services/Sharepoint
• Forest Level Federation
  
• Identity Management and Privacy
  
• File Service over HTTP
• Network Access Protocol (Quarantine)
• Anti-spam in Microsoft Products
• GPO Futures
• How Microsoft works with Security Consultants to find Vulnerabilities
• Enterprise Server Security