After eight (8) years of experience and multiple upgrades with Xtender we have developed tools, tips, tricks and various degrees of customizations, many will be highlighted here. We successfully manage 5300+ users, 70 secure-groups, 16 applications, 16.3 million objects representing 819GB of space with 1 fulltime administrator and 1 application support expert. This class will focus on the philosophy, technology, basic SQL and the best practices we implemented to keep Xtender running virtually error free.